the youth is out there

maybe it's the influence of big brother and stuff like that, but for the last couple of month i seem to have started turning more and more to dvd box sets for entertainment. with the selection consisting mostly of this life and x-files, it's like being right back in the 90s. we finished with this life a couple of weeks ago and i'd forgotten how fab it was. my memories of it turned out the the fairly vague so in a way in was like watching it for the first time. shame that the +10 reunion a couple of months ago wasn't much good. x-files was virtually something of an obsession in my formative years and with each series only £15 on play i've been starting that one from the beginning. i know it really tailed off in the last few series (though i never actually watched them to be honest, i suspect the curiosity might get the better of me on dvd) but for the first few years it was actually a pretty ace tv show and for the most part stands the test of time. we'll see how i get as we get further into it when it all starts getting silly. this life's place i think is going to be taken by six feet under from the beginning, which i suppose is probably the last show that i was hooked on. that won't have quite the same degree if reminiscence about it, but should still keep me out of trouble for a while.