Video Hell....
What exactly is my problem with taping TV programs? I would really, really love to know. Maybe a great deal of therapy would help me tape TV programs without causing the next apocalypse, but maybe not. In the light of ordering Buffy DVDs, I thought I’d check just how disorganised my video tapes really are – the results are not pretty. I have 14 video tapes that seem to contain Buffy episodes in some form or another. They also have any amount of other miscellaneous junk. Sometimes with maybe one really good hour of keep-worthy TV bang in the middle of 6 hours of crap. I’ve just found the Brad Pitt episode of Friends. Aaaagghhh! I have two, yes, *two* versions of Harsh Light of Day, one with ads, one without. Both are censored versions, which I hate, with no B/S snark in the final fight scene. Why, why, oh why do I have this twice? Why have I kept episodes of West Wing that are all fuzzy looking and crappy quality? Why?

Worst of all, why in the whole of my life have I never kept a record of what I put on each tape? Each is labelled, sure. It’s labelled with one word, usually referring to the first thing on the tape, sometimes to whatever used to be the first thing on the tape but was long, long ago taped over with something even more useless. Why, oh lord? Roll on the DVDs.

Ultimately, I’ve reached the decision that no, I don’t need to invest in new tapes any time soon!