A movie a day? Really?? Well, almost.

So when I moved into my apartment after college I decided that cable was a luxury I didn't need. Growing up without it made moving from college (and cable) to my own place and an antenna was fairly easy. Then in June 2009 the country switched to digital TV. I bought the converter box and then a digital antenna, but never quite got around to setting it all up. "It's summer," I thought, "I may as well just not watch TV. I'll set it up when the fall season starts."

Well, the fall season is about to start, and I still haven't set anything up. I've been enjoying actually doing things with my evenings, like reading or watching movies (or taking Zumba classes, going to meetings, working late... I'm sooo not home enough to really miss TV).

I was reorganizing my living room about a week or two ago, however, and realized that I have a bunch of movies I haven't watched in forever, and actually a few that I've never watched at all. I keep putting off signing up for Netflix (why, I have no idea), but it hit me suddenly that I should watch all of my movies one more time (or a first time) before I start catching up on the rest of the movies out there.

I currently have 154 movies in my apartment (not a super-huge collection). 82 are DVD, and 72 are VHS. Oh yes, I still have VHS. My TV has a built-in VCR, so I still use it. I'm a bit worried about how well it's gonna hold up so I'm not going to rewind any of them unless they're already at the end. I figure it's a farewell showing... hopefully soon I can replace them all with DVDs.

Going through movies that I've owned for years and years made me realize how much of my life has been tied up with film. I've sung along with the musicals, pretended I was the princess, and imagined I was the one kissing all those gorgeous, beautiful men. So the point of this blog is to not give a movie review so much as reminisce about how each movie has affected me while I've grown up, or for the new ones, how they affect me now. So, this is pretty much a diary, using a movie as the starting point. I probably won't watch every day, even though this is the "Daily Movie Marthon" blog--but my plan is to do 4-5 a week.

I hope you enjoy my movie selections. Please leave your own comments too. And when I start Netflix, I'll take suggestions. :)

Let the Marathon Begin!