who watches the watches?

i am, by nature, a collector. one thing that i collected, for a short time, was watches. i've had a ton of them over the years, and here are some of the most memorable, everything from mickey to star trek! most of them i never wore, but i still loved to collect them.

i am the pumpkin king!

one of my absolutely favorite movies growing up was 'nightmare before christmas'. i would watch it all the time, i had the soundtrack and can still sing along with all the words, and have seen it in the theater 4 times (twice in the past couple years when it is rereleased each season in 3-D). the movie is just so much fun!
back when it first came out, burger king did a promotional deal with the film and sold these cool watches. i loved this one so much that i made sure to keep its original box and packaging! its even still got the bubble wrap it came with...

tickle. amy.

sometimes bad movies can be good. case in point: congo. the movie is really lame, its about a gorilla who talks through sign language being returned to the wild where they come across a lost city that is defended by killer silver monkeys. its even worse than it sounds, if that is possible...
but on the other hand, its soo good!!! and at the time it came out i was pretty young and had recently read and loved the book. the film is nowhere near as good as the book, but i totally loved it anyway! i saw it twice in the theater and even dragged my dad along once (sorry dad...). in connection with the film release, burger king was selling watches based on the movie. i'm always a sucker for movie merch, so i had to get it. again, i'm pretty sure i never wore it, but it was proudly displayed on the wall of my bedroom. how my mom allowed me to put so much junk up on the walls i'll never know...

lost time

back in the day burger king used to sell watches that were tied into movie promotions. at the time i was really into watches, so i picked one up almost every time they offered them. this particular one was for the movie 'jurassic park: the lost world'. the 'special feature' of this watch was that the face was filled with water and had dino bones floating around in it. wow, quite special! about as lame as the movie itself... i dont think i ever wore it, but i did display it in my room with the rest of my watch collection.

mickey watches

my dad has always loved watches. slowly but surely i grew to enjoy them as well, but i had to be convinced of their coolness. what finally convinced me? mickey mouse. for a long time i would only wear mickey watches, so i accrued quite a collection of them. these four are the only remaining ones that i have. each of them were worn for quite a while- the one on the left even played 'its a small world after all'!
i guess my fascination didnt last very long, because i havent worn a watch, even a mickey one, in about 8 years...

boldly go

now, i must admit something: i was a trekkie. when i was growing up i really loved star trek. my dad enjoyed it, so he would watch it every once in a while, and my friend adam and i were really into it. we actually attended a star trek convention. actually, two of them.
one year my parents surprised me with this watch, they had gotten it out of a catalog, special order! it kept the time, and the seconds were counted out by an enterprise flying around the face of the watch! oh, and the best part: it had a button you could press and it would play the original star trek tv theme! i wore it often.
sorry to break hearts ladies, but i am off the market...

roger, roger.

another thing i collected for a while was watches. this particular one a couple friends and i spotted at the mall and thought it was terribly stupid. its from star wars: the phantom menace, and its the head of a droid. you push a little button at the bottom and the droid head pops up to reveal the time. there were a couple other ones as well, all of them equally retarded. we saw them and laughed about how dumb they were. then we saw that they were price reduced and we laughed again- 'they're so lame, no one would buy them!' we had such fun mocking them that we realized that we would, in fact, have to buy them! they were only like a buck fifty, so we each got them and wore them for the rest of the day, laughing hysterically every time we would ask each other what time it was.