so i joined netflix this weekend. i've avoided it for years because i like to pick movies the moment the mood strikes and i have specific moods on different days. additionally, i love my local video store, gramophone, and i enjoy browsing through. but lately i've been wishing i could utilize a search engine, like netflix has, to track and find movies i've been wanting to watch and either can't find or haven't had the right mood for while browsing at the last minute. i spend hours browsing at gramophone which i sometimes enjoy but mostly i end up too tired to actually watch anything after the browsing is over. i feel really bad that i'm hurting my neighborhood store by going online, but i do still plan to shop there and pick up movies on the day of. all that said, i'm enjoying my dabbles on the netflix website and having a great time searching and rating and queuing. we'll see how this goes, but i have a feeling it'll be a new regular part of my life.