Fried the old PC, so off to Best Buy and their liberal zero percent financing plan.

Get the new tower home, and lo and behold, this bad boy plays PAL encoded DVDs.

Now, you might ask, why does this matter to our ol' pal Billzebub? Well, sit back, and I'll tell ya's.

I've been sitting on two Flying Nun compilation DVD's, that I'm now playing for the first time. Two DVD's, 81 whopping videos from Flying Nun. "Very Short Films" and "Second Season" are the DVD titles, for those intereted, and they're available for not a whole lot of moolah from Smoke in NZ.

There's great older 80's stuff, like The Chills "Pink Frost" and "Love My Leather Jacket", a couple of Bats vids, Jean Paul Sartre Experience, Verlaines, The Clean, Snapper, Straightjacket Fits...as well as kickin' newer stuff from The D4 (sorry splates, I likes 'em and the video for "Exit To The City" is a blast), Superette, and Pan Am. Oh yeah, there's a pretty swell Malkmus video for a cover of The Verlaines "Death And The Maiden" (the Verlaines' original is also included).

Grade AAA.

Awesome. I might have to get those. I love Flying Nun.

be careful, most dvd drives have limits to the number of foreign dvds they will play. there are tools you can use to get around that, however.

Dude those DVDS are fantastic! I watched second season like 2 days ago. Most people would disagree with me, but Second Season>The First One - the first one has the more obvious choices.

best buy is part of the left wing conspiracy?!?!?!

Don't know about any conspiracy, but I got decent deal on an open box computer, and I've got a year to pay the thing off with no interest.

Nice score on the DVD's.

Be careful about BB's "No Interest" deal...I did that about 6 years ago & bought about $1000 worth of stuff ( new TV, DVD player, etc. ) . They enrolled me in one of those "insurance" things that covers yer bills if something happens to you. I NEVER authorized them to enroll me in ANYTHING. After a couple months I just paid the thing off & told 'em to stick their financing up their ass.

Hopefully that won't happen to you, but make sure to look over those bills carefully.