{"id":1039,"date":"2006-09-14T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T16:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2006-09-14T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T16:12:32","slug":"free-movies-and-some-wedding-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2006\/09\/free-movies-and-some-wedding-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Free movies (and some wedding notes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Michael and I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063350\/\">Night of the Living Dead (1968)<\/a>. I downloaded it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/feature_films\">Archive.org&#8217;s directory of feature films<\/a> &#8211; a resource that I found via <a href=\"http:\/\/timelady.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/12\/a-film-is-never-really-good\">Romana&#8217;s blog entry mentioning it<\/a>. This is a really great site. Lots of old classics that I haven&#8217;t seen are available for streaming or direct download, Night of the Living Dead was available for direct download in three quality levels:<\/p>\n<p>64Kb MPEG4 (109 MB)<br \/>\n256Kb MPEG4 (247 MB)<br \/>\nMPEG2 (4.1 GB)<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed the 247 MB one, the quality was pretty decent, but I still might grab the 4.1 GB one and re-encode it. The download speed was decent too, last night I was grabbing the movies at between 150-200 KBPS.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly I&#8217;m looking forward to going through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/search.php?query=subject%3A%22horror%22%20AND%20mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collection%3Amoviesandfilms\">their horror films<\/a>. I love watching old horror movies around Halloween, and since getting rid of cable I&#8217;ve really missed this yearly tradition. Now I can do it again! Hurrah! Although I think we might skip hosting a Halloween party with friends this year, with the whole wedding thing happening the weekend before.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the wedding, we&#8217;ve made some progress with plans and things. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Confirmed that our friend Juliana can do the photography (she went to school for it)<\/li>\n<li>Received new camera, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.canon.com\/consumer\/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&#038;fcategoryid=139&#038;modelid=11154\">Canon Digital Rebel XL 8MP EOS Digital SLR<\/a> (it&#8217;s very nice)<\/li>\n<li>Received wedding invitations we ordered (they look great!)<\/li>\n<li>Made final payments on location (we&#8217;ve also secured the 3 room Cottage for Saturday night)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/time3.livejournal.com\/76988.html\">Made the Wedding Celebration Ale<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> We need to send out the invitations, finish buying wedding clothes (this is stressing me out a bit, we REALLY need to get this done ASAP so alterations can be made if needed), pick\/write our vows and tend to other details of the ceremony itself. Still, I&#8217;m pleased with where we are right now in planning, I haven&#8217;t freaked out too much about anything yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Michael and I watched Night of the Living Dead (1968). I downloaded it from Archive.org&#8217;s directory of feature films &#8211; a resource that I found via Romana&#8217;s blog entry mentioning it. This is a really great site. Lots of old classics that I haven&#8217;t seen are available for streaming or direct download, Night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}