Mini-Regina Piles: Late April Edition

Two months in a row I have given myself the Mini-Regina Pile Challenge: make a small but manageable pile of pop cultural matter and try to burn through it in a month. The point of this exercise is twofold. First of all, it was supposed to get me to actually watch, read, and consume my way through my vast bought-but-untouched collections. Second of all, it was supposed to kick-start my writing again by making reviews and blog entries.

The first part of the challenge is going pretty well, I must say, with a couple of small hiccups. While there is some room for improvement, I am ploughing my way through over 75% of the stuff on in my pile. The writing thing? Not so much. I don't think I wrote a single review on an external site, and NOTHING on this here blog. But I keep telling myself: baby steps. Keep making the lists, making tiny improvements, and things will turn around. So, let's look at what I actually made it through last month, shall I?

Through March 31, I managed to consume the following movies, comics, and TV series:

• Kelly's Heroes
• Three The Hard Way
• Angels With Dirty Faces
• Bones, Season 2
• Showcase Presents: The Haunted Tank, Volume 1
• Superman: Escape from Bizarro World
• R.E.B.E.L.S., Volume 1: The Coming of Starro
• Put The Book Back On The Shelf: A Belle & Sebastian Anthology
• 20th Century Boys Vol. 3
• Awesome: The Indie Spinner Rack Anthology
• Marvel Boy
• Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (Volume 2)

I also made some progress on The Dick Van Dyke Show and Homicide: Life on the Street, although my Alfred Hitchcock Presents remained untouched. And I made a decision about my Star Trek box set. Even though I put it on my first list, I realized that it's the kind of show I want to savour, not gorge on. Particularly as I only have the one season right now. That's not the kind of thing I want to burn through. So I replaced it with Doctor Who: Season Two. Which isn't as long but I felt good about it (and had a LOT of fun watching it). Plus there were a couple of my DVDs that I didn't put on the list that I watched, for one reason or another (Highlander, The Marx Brothers' Room Service, Alfred Hitchcock's Number 17), which would have EVENTUALLY made it on a future pile...so it's about even.

For April I want to accomplish two main things: get rid of all the stuff that's left over from my previous two lists, and make at least one update entry every week. I also want to switch out Star Trek: Season One for something thematically appropriate and with a similar time commitment. It's going to take a little more effort, but it's all part of my process. My nerdy, nerdy process. Here's the pile for this week.

• Essential Super-Villain Team-Up, Volume 1
• Incredible Hercules: Assault on Mount Olympus
• Samurai Executioner Volume 1
• Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Volume 2
• Love And Capes Volume 1
  
• Why I Hate Saturn
  
• No Hero TPB
  
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents, S1 *
  
• The Dick Van Dyke Show, S1 *
  
• Homicide: Life On The Street, S3 **
  
• Bones, S3
  
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, S1
  
• The Aviator *
  
• For a Few Dollars More **
  
• The Godfather, Part III
  
• Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster
  
• Dark Passage
  
• The Circus

* Continued from February
** Continued from March

So here's hoping for more reviews, more blogging, and a higher success rate for the first month of Spring! (And yes, I know it's already 10 days into April. I am nothing if not tardy.)