Ziplist (It’s a Canadian version of Netflix, a mail based DVD rental service).

Threesome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 27, 2007
The Devil Wears Prada . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 22, 2007
Art School Confidential . . . . . . . . . . Feb 21, 2007
Diner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 15, 2007
Nacho Libre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 14, 2007
Bonnie And Clyde  . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 14, 2007
In The Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 13, 2007
Girlhood  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 5, 2007
Gremlins  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 31, 2007
Rockets Redglare! . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 31, 2007
Straight To Hell  . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 31, 2007
Freaky Friday (2003)  . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 26, 2007
Riding In Cars With Boys  . . . . . . . . . Jan 17, 2007
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made . . . . Jan 11, 2007
A License to Remember: Je me souviens . . . Jan 9, 2007
Chappelle's Show: Season 2 (Uncensored) . . Jan 8, 2007
Please Teach Me English . . . . . . . . . . Jan 4, 2007
24 Hour Party People  . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 27, 2006
Sling Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 20, 2006
Bad Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 20, 2006
The Station Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 12, 2006
Dave Chappelle's Block Party  . . . . . . . Dec 12, 2006
High School Confidential! . . . . . . . . . Dec 12, 2006
Niagara Motel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 7, 2006
Hustle & Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 5, 2006
Thumbsucker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 5, 2006
Happy Endings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 30, 2006
Day Of The Jackal, The  . . . . . . . . . . Nov 29, 2006
Batman Begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 28, 2006
Big Shot's Funeral  . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 27, 2006
Happy Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 22, 2006
After Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 17, 2006
Shopgirl  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 15, 2006
Hiroshima Mon Amour . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 14, 2006
The Iron Giant  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 14, 2006
Zhou Yu's Train . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 14, 2006
Pickpocket  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 27, 2006
Jarhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 27, 2006
Syriana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 24, 2006
Rocky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 24, 2006
Rick  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 19, 2006
Conceiving Ada  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 17, 2006
Alphaville  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 17, 2006
Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise . . . Oct 13, 2006
Take the Money and Run (Full Frame) . . . . Oct 6, 2006
Cop Land (Director's Cut) . . . . . . . . . Oct 6, 2006
Deadwood: Season 2  . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 5, 2006
Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly . . . . Sep 28, 2006
Deadwood: Season 2  . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 26, 2006
Deadwood: Season 2  . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 22, 2006
Zelig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 21, 2006
Deadwood: Season 2  . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 21, 2006
Deadwood: Season 2  . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 15, 2006
Raging Bull (Special Edition) . . . . . . . Sep 11, 2006
Crimes And Misdemeanors . . . . . . . . . . Sep 8, 2006
Kung Fu Hustle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 8, 2006
Saved!  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 5, 2006
Bomb the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 25, 2006
100 Girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 21, 2006
Les Bougon: Saison 1  . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 18, 2006
Les Bougon: Saison 1  . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 17, 2006
Les Bougon: Saison 1  . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 14, 2006
Horloge biologique (Dodging the Clock)  . . Aug 14, 2006
Red Lights (Feux Rouges)  . . . . . . . . . Aug 9, 2006
City Of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 8, 2006
Chappelle's Show: Season 2 (Uncensored) . . Aug 4, 2006
Smoke Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 3, 2006
A History of Violence . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 1, 2006
Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) . . . . . Jul 28, 2006
The Weather Underground . . . . . . . . . . Jul 27, 2006
Steamboy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul 25, 2006
Strictly Ballroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul 6, 2006
The White Diamond . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul 5, 2006
Incident At Loch Ness . . . . . . . . . . . Jul 4, 2006
Gosford Park  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 30, 2006
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead  . . . . . . . . . Jun 28, 2006
After Dark, My Sweet  . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 22, 2006
The Innocents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 20, 2006
Dog Day Afternoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 16, 2006
Seducing Doctor Lewis (La grande seduction) Jun 16, 2006
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill  . . . . Jun 2, 2006
Father Ted: Series 1  . . . . . . . . . . . May 31, 2006
Monsieur Ibrahim  . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 29, 2006
Kalifornia  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 29, 2006
Croupier  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 24, 2006
A Man and a Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 18, 2006
Touchez pas au grisbi . . . . . . . . . . . May 16, 2006
The Decline of the American Empire  . . . . May 16, 2006
To Catch A Thief  . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 10, 2006
Belle de Jour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 8, 2006
Cronicas  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 8, 2006
Look at Me (Comme une image)  . . . . . . . May 5, 2006
City Of Lost Children . . . . . . . . . . . May 2, 2006
Intimate Strangers  . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 27, 2006
Swingers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 25, 2006
Baise Moi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 21, 2006
Elizabethtown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 21, 2006
C.R.A.Z.Y. (Crazy)  . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 21, 2006
Maria Full Of Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 12, 2006
The Chorus (Les Choristes)  . . . . . . . . Apr 11, 2006
Deliverance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 5, 2006
The Red Violin  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 28, 2006
8 Women (8 Femmes)  . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 28, 2006
Sunset Boulevard  . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 24, 2006
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . . . . . Mar 23, 2006
2046  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 18, 2006
Lifeboat  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 15, 2006
High Tension (Haute Tension)  . . . . . . . Mar 13, 2006
Kagemusha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 13, 2006
Broken Flowers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 7, 2006
Ringu: Anthology Of Terror  . . . . . . . . Feb 23, 2006
Ringu: Anthology Of Terror  . . . . . . . . Feb 15, 2006
Duck Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 8, 2006
Osama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 7, 2006
The 40-Year-Old Virgin  . . . . . . . . . . Feb 4, 2006
Amelie  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 4, 2006
Young Adam  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 28, 2006
Bon Voyage  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 27, 2006
The Motorcycle Diaries  . . . . . . . . . . Jan 18, 2006
Manhunter: Restored Director's Cut  . . . . Jan 14, 2006
3-Iron (Bin-jip)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 10, 2006
Crazed Fruit (Kurutta kajitsu)  . . . . . . Jan 9, 2006
Charade (Criterion) . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 7, 2006
The Manchurian Candidate (Special Edition)  Jan 5, 2006
Odd Couple, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 29, 200
All Quiet On The Western Front  . . . . . . Dec 23, 2005
Bollywood Hollywood . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 23, 2005
Band Of The Hand  . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 20, 2005
Layer Cake  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 17, 2005
J.S.A.: Joint Security Area . . . . . . . . Dec 16, 2005
Au hasard Balthazar . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 14, 2005
Tanner '88  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 8, 2005
Tanner '88  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 6, 2005
Undeclared: The Complete Series . . . . . . Dec 1, 2005
Thief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 30, 2005
Ed Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 23, 2005
The League Of Gentlemen: Complete Series 1  Nov 22, 2005
Le Notti Bianche  . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 22, 2005
Undeclared: The Complete Series . . . . . . Nov 17, 2005
Good Bye, Lenin!  . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 10, 2005
Be Cool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 10, 2005
Arsenic And Old Lace  . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 8, 2005
The Browning Version  . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 27, 2005
Distant (Uzak)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 27, 2005
The Awful Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 25, 2005
Black October . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 24, 2005
The Insider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 19, 2005
Patton  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 17, 2005
The Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 17, 2005
Million Dollar Baby . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 12, 2005
American Splendor . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct 3, 2005
Gates Of Heaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 26, 2005
Clueless  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 29, 2005
The War of the Roses  . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 16, 2005
Da Ali G Show: Season 1 . . . . . . . . . . Sep 14, 2005
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster . . . . . . Sep 9, 2005
Sideways  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 9, 2005
WarGames  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 7, 2005
Meet the Fockers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 6, 2005
Da Ali G Show: Season 1 . . . . . . . . . . Sep 2, 2005
Deadwood: Season 1  . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 29, 2005
Deadwood: Season 1  . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 26, 2005
Spanglish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 24, 2005
Deadwood: Season 1  . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 24, 2005
Deadwood: Season 1  . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 24, 2005
Deadwood: Season 1  . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 16, 2005
Shall We Dance? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 11, 2005
I Heart Huckabees . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 9, 2005
The Third Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 5, 2005
Carnivale: Season 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 3, 2005
Carnivale: Season 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 2, 2005
Collateral  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 2, 2005
Carnivale: Season 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 2, 2005
Carnivale: Season 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul 28, 2005
Carnivale: Season 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul 19, 2005
Walking Tall  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul 19, 2005
Carnivale: Season 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul 15, 2005
Friday Night Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul 15, 2005
The Office Special (U.K. Series)  . . . . . Jul 11, 2005
The Delicate Art of Parking . . . . . . . . Jul 7, 2005
Pulp Fiction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jul 6, 2005
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier . . . . . . Jul 6, 2005
American Experience: New York . . . . . . . Jul 4, 2005
101 Reykjavik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 22, 2005
American Experience: New York . . . . . . . Jun 22, 2005
The Philadelphia Story  . . . . . . . . . . Jun 20, 2005
His Girl Friday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 13, 2005
The Wicker Man  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 8, 2005
American Experience: New York . . . . . . . Jun 6, 2005
The Manchurian Candidate  . . . . . . . . . May 25, 2005
A Day Without a Mexican . . . . . . . . . . May 25, 2005
American Experience: New York . . . . . . . May 16, 2005
American Experience: New York . . . . . . . May 16, 2005
American Experience: New York . . . . . . . May 13, 2005
American Experience: New York . . . . . . . May 9, 2005
Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t! - Season 1 . . . . May 5, 2005
Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t! - Season 1 . . . . May 5, 2005
Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t! - Season 1 . . . . Apr 28, 2005
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind . . . Apr 27, 2005
My Neighbor Totoro  . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 21, 2005
Roadkill  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 18, 2005
American Experience: New York . . . . . . . Apr 18, 2005
Shaun of the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 11, 2005
I, Robot  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 1, 2005
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage . . . . . Mar 31, 2005
Ju-On: The Grudge . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 28, 2005
Animal Crackers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 18, 2005
Velvet Goldmine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 17, 2005
Kissing Jessica Stein . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 17, 2005
Garden State  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mar 7, 2005
The Maltese Falcon  . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 23, 2005
The Office: Season 2 (U.K. Series)  . . . . Feb 9, 2005
Batman Superman Movie, The  . . . . . . . . Feb 9, 2005
Pi  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 8, 2005
Blade Runner  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 21, 2005
Cube  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 20, 2005
The Birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 7, 2005
Gambling, Gods and LSD  . . . . . . . . . . Dec 31, 2004
The Big Sleep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 23, 2004
The Barbarian Invasions (Extended Version)  Dec 22, 2004
The Office: Season 1 (U.K. Series)  . . . . Dec 10, 2004
The Office: Season 1 (U.K. Series)  . . . . Dec 6, 2004
42 Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 30, 2004
Dawn of the Dead  . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 26, 2004
Capturing the Friedmans . . . . . . . . . . Nov 15, 2004
Mean Girls  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 10, 2004
21 Grams  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 10, 2004
House Of Sand And Fog . . . . . . . . . . . Nov 10, 2004
Gambling, Gods and LSD  . . . . . . . . . . Oct 20, 2004
A Mighty Wind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 9, 2004
The Player  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 8, 2004
Elephant  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 1, 2004
Girl With a Pearl Earring . . . . . . . . . Aug 25, 2004
Gandhi  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug 16, 2004
And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself  . . . Aug 11, 2004
Freaks And Geeks - The Complete Series  . . Aug 3, 2004
Freaks And Geeks - The Complete Series  . . Jul 22, 2004
Freaks And Geeks - The Complete Series  . . Jul 22, 2004
Freaks And Geeks - The Complete Series  . . Jul 15, 2004
Freaks And Geeks - The Complete Series  . . Jul 15, 2004
Freaks And Geeks - The Complete Series  . . Jul 8, 2004
Alias: Season 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 28, 2004
Alias: Season 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 24, 2004
Alias: Season 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 24, 2004
Alias: Season 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 11, 2004
Alias: Season 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 7, 2004
Alias: Season 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun 7, 2004
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington  . . . . . . . Jun 1, 2004
The Cooler  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 21, 2004
The Fog Of War  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 21, 2004
Nurse Betty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 19, 2004
All About My Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . May 19, 2004

When I was 22, I had only been on a plane once. It was for my family’s pilgrimage to Orlando. Most likely it was Winnipeg -> Minneapolis -> Orlando; I remember that the carrier was Northwest. I had only previously seen airports depicted on movies. In traditional storytelling, there are only three plots to choose from: Man versus Nature, Man versus Man, and Man versus Clerk With Big Hair Who Refuses to Rent You a Car. In movies, airports are places where the scene is either 5 seconds of someone crossing their legs while reading, a place to say good bye, or a crucial plot development where an employee hinders the protagonist in some way.

I remember several things. I was amazed when they said the word Detroit over the PA system. I’m one flight away from Detroit! Amazing! There were more people in one wing of waiting lounges than there were in my hometown. There was a discarded Minneapolis Star-Tribune on the seat beside me. There was coffee, people running with briefcases, well stocked arcades, and a constant sense of novelty. I didn’t know it at the time, but it was my first taste of ‘city’ in the Walt Whitman sense.

I didn’t fly again for another ten years. I was a poor university student, and a plane ticket was an unfathomable expense. I then flew to Toronto for a sporting event, and I reflected back on my first trip to Orlando. The new feelings were somewhat tempered by adulthood I understood that, yes, this is boring. I understood that the pantomimes required in the interests of security were dehumanizing. I understood that I wasn’t sitting on a couch watching TV. The original feelings were present, and have remained after the 50+ flights since then. Seeing Parisians buying french fries at McDonalds, seeing immigrant families with full suitcases, seeing the flight from Narita to Minneapolis emptying out and its occupants going to the nearby Chinese noodle restaurant, and reading the newspapers of the world are all wonderful things to me.

There’s another thing I like about airports — the reason I’m there. Flying to a another city in less than a day’s time in astounding. No more on that topic, though, for that would be another entry in this blog.