TITLE: FRENCH HARBOR
MANUFACTURER: MILTON BRADLEY
PIECES: 1000
MOVIE: JOHNNY BE GOOD
PIECES: 1000
MOVIE: JOHNNY BE GOOD
October 20th, 2016
If there's one thing I partake in more obsessively than putting together jigsaw puzzles, it's watching movies. While I admit that it's impossible to dedicate your absolute undivided attention to a movie while also working on puzzle, I don't have too much of a problem being able to enjoy a movie or TV show while mostly looking down at my coffee table. Unfortunately, foreign film watching is not really a good idea, and some of the more quieter, visual aspects of a film are sometimes missed. Its preferable to getting distracted by the internet at least.
One thing I do enjoy about it, is the association with the puzzle and the movie. I think it helps me remember both aspects better when I have the connection between the two. Like when you hear a song and it brings you back to a particular time and place in your past. Since I watch a ton of movies, it helps me retain memories of it when I have something else to look at that calls back to it.
This association helped when in late 2017 I decided to try to tag all the photos with a movie or movies I was watching when working on the puzzle. Obviously I wasn't able to retain all that much the past years movies, but I did remember a surprising amount of movies and what I was working on while watching it. Thankfully, I was also helped out a lot by the greatest store on the planet (aka Scarecrow Video). One of their employees was nice enough to email me a complete list of my rentals going back to late 2014. I was able to use this least to cross reference rentals with my photographs and was able to fill in the blanks.
I did not do a full transposing of all movies I rented to each puzzle though. Part of the fun of this is the association I feel when thinking about the movie or puzzle, so I only wrote down movies where my memory is jogged when looking at the list. Therefore, the information will be a little spotty for quite a while.
