{"id":78,"date":"2005-04-22T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/wordpress\/?p=78"},"modified":"2005-04-22T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T15:23:13","slug":"the-zip-ca-roulette-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"The Zip.ca Roulette Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since November, when one of our two local video stores closed (ahh, the vagaries of living in a town of 1500 people), we’ve subscribed to Zip.ca,<\/a> A Canadian answer to Netflix<\/a>.
\nCost-wise, it works out to be a little cheaper than renting from a video store. And, you can usually keep a fairly steady flow of movies coming and going.
\nBut the best part of Zip’s service is the randomness of the titles that arrive. You can specify two titles at a time for “ASAP” delivery, but the rest come from your list of titles. Frances and I spent an evening going through and playing our own version of six degrees of separation, picking over 200 titles to put on the list. And they include movies that are everything from “I really should see this, but haven’t bothered yet” titles, to “The terrible movie that I can’t resist renting” titles. Zip has removed the barrier for renting ridiculous nostalgia titles like Summer Rental — just for the hell of it.
\nHere’s what we’ve seen since November. Notice the prediliction towards Buffy. Man, I wish we’d watched the show when it was running — we both love it now:
\nShark Tale
\nBuffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 2 Disc 3
\nShaun of the Dead
\nMatchstick Men
\nEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
\nBuffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 2 Disc 2
\nProject Greenlight’s Stolen Summer
\nBuffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 2 Disc 1
\nThe Day After Tomorrow
\nScooby-Doo
\nBuffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 1 Disc 3
\nThe Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville)
\nShrek (Full Frame)
\nEscape From New York: Special Edition
\n61*
\nStuck On You
\nBuffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 1 Disc 2
\nBuffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 1 Disc 1
\nMona Lisa Smile
\nStuck On You
\nAnger Management
\nClifford’s Really Big Movie
\nSomething’s Gotta Give
\nThe Cooler
\nArthur’s Snow Day
\nDodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
\nPieces Of April
\nClifford: Clifford Saves The Day!
\nMax & Ruby’s Christmas
\nCare Bears: Adventures in Care-a-lot
\nHoneymoon In Vegas
\nA Charlie Brown Christmas
\nAladdin
\nV: The Final Battle Disc 1
\nBulletproof Monk
\nMemphis Belle
\nSuper Size Me
\nHellboy
\nThe Man With One Red Shoe
\nThe Incredible Adventures Of Wallace & Gromit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since November, when one of our two local video stores closed (ahh, the vagaries of living in a town of 1500 people), we’ve subscribed to Zip.ca, A Canadian answer to Netflix. Cost-wise, it works out to be a little cheaper than renting from a video store. And, you can usually keep a fairly steady flow… Continue reading The Zip.ca Roulette Wheel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}