Pirate 2

Yesterday, I felt really cranky. No amount of caffeine or nicotine could fix me so I decided to get out and engaged myself in an unbridled pirated DVD buying.

Thank god for piracy. I can buy all the movies and TV series I failed to watch. Tonight I will have an OSCAR movies marathon. For days I will be a couch camote; I will grow roots.

How dare I for patronizing piracy? Well I tell you why:I was able to buy the entire first season of Rome, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Angels in America for a measly 50 pesos each. And get ready for this: I have found treasures there like Akira Kurusawa’s Rashomon, Stray Dog, his adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s the Idiot, Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Monty Python’s The Holy Grail and Peter Greenaway’s The Pillow Book for only 25 pesos each. Do you think only well- off cineastes can afford such collection of oeuvres?

I think piracy is a great equalizer. The poor like me can afford to watch movies in the confines of their own home. If only greedy movie producers would stop being greedy and cut down the prices of the originals, then piracy would be minimized. Hey, I don’t buy Filipino pirated DVDs. So that means I only rob Hollywood…

So I went home happy, my bag was filled with stacks of pirated DVD’s. When the guard at the MRT station checked my bag, I didn’t realize that my bag was full of contrabands. I told him what they were and he just smiled at my sack of loot. I bet he is a fan as well.