Consider this post your confessional as well as my own. You see, I can't resist a cheap DVD. Even if the film isn't something I'd even put on a top 10 or 20 list, if I see it for $10.00 or less, I must own it.

This week's guilty grab was Australia, a film I was very disappointed in, and planned never to see again unless I stumbled on it while flipping through cable channels. But there it was on half.com, "watched once, brand new" for $5.00. I thought about how very nice "the bucket scene" is, and how it's chock full of beautiful sunsets and rugged Australian landscapes (several that aren't named Hugh Jackman) and I caved. It's really the perfect movie for knitting to, because I can just concentrate on turning my sock heel, and look at the pretty cinematography. My DVD shelf is chock full of such films. Kate and Leopold, The Long Kiss Goodnight (worth far more than whatever I paid), my entire Mel Gibson collection, Marie Antoinette, The Wedding Singer, and so on. The list is long and not very illustrious (Vanishing Point remake, anyone?), but at least I can say I didn't go out of my way for most of them. I just threw them into the Target cart while shopping for flip flops. I'm always on the hunt for more. I saw The Transporter in a hologram box awfully cheap, and it's begging to come home with me for those awkward Sunday nights when I need something short before heading back to the grind.

So while Scott Weinberg was positively crowing about the fact that I'd willingly purchased Australia with my own money, I see nothing wrong in it. I can spend $5.00 on a lot sillier things, like a magazine that ultimately ends up in my recycle bin, or an enormous Starbucks espresso that is gone in a matter of minutes. But Hugh Jackman's tight shirt? That lasts forever.

I said in my Geek Beat this week that I never receive swag -- but apparently being the authoress of so many "geek" tagged posts gets you a copy of this: a little pocket book called Geeky Dreamboats that's basically a hardcover Teen Beat. I found it in my mailbox yesterday, and after a bit of initial disappointment that it wasn't a pocket sized copy of Clint Eastwood: A Life in Pictures, I gave it the time of day.

I'm actually a little perplexed by it. I thought it was meant as a joke, what with the hearts and lipstick marks and all, but it seems to be fairly sincere. But the selections are bizarre! Some of them seem to be geeky dreamboats purely because they played a character with glasses. Others, like Zac Efron and Shia LaBeouf, seem to be exactly the kind of pretty boy the authoresses rail against. In what universe are Luke and Owen Wilson geeks? And surely guys from geek movies should figure into this? Most geek chicks I know consider their "geek crush" to be the likes of Robert Downey Jr., Hugh Jackman, or Christian Bale.

Seeing as it was a slow news day (and they did go to the trouble of sending me a copy), I thought I'd show it off to the girls out there and we could get all girly about it in the comments. It is kind of interesting because it's one of the first geek things I've seen geared towards women, and acknowledges them as part of this trend. I just wish it reflected our tastes a little better, and wasn't plasted with hearts!