I was in the mood to watch a movie this morning, so I browsed the new arrivals in NetFlix's Watch Instantly section. Since I wanted something light, I settled on The Ramen Girl. Added it to my queue, hit Play, and nothing. NetFlix had the movie listed as available for streaming, but then it gave me a message of "unavailable" when I tried to play it. Grrr!
Once I saw that I couldn't watch the movie, suddenly I really wanted to watch it. The same thing happened a few months ago when I wanted to watch The House Bunny. Why do I get so obsessive about these B movies? It's not really the movies themselves; it's just being told I can't watch what I want when I want to. As soon as something is withheld, it rises in importance and becomes more desirable. I guess the old adage is true: you always want what you can't have.
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Great two more movies I have to add to my TiVo list. Just saw Faris in Just Friends I enjoyed it she channels Britney Spears nicely.
I heard a rumor that Amazon has stop their affiliate program in N.C. Is it true?
They said they don't want to end up like NY with sales tax.
Yes, it's true, Man. Amazon canceled my affiliate account yesterday, and I pulled the Amazon links off of my book blog. I can't say that I am sorry to see them go, though, because I never made any money on them. Not that I'm making a fortune with the Google ads, but $7 from Google is more than $0 from Amazon.
Amazon is much slower but I only got one $10 gift certificate in the last 4 years.
Hopefully this will make Google a better pay-off.
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