My +/-600 album collection (vinyl to the younglings) and JVC turntable hoot in your general direction. Earlier this year I bought a 6 disc CD changer to replace the 5 disc player from the 80s that finally failed. And very recently I replaced an equally old failed DVD player with a new one. Each was under $100. I'm thinking if they last half as long as the old ones they'll outlive me, after which the collection(s) are someone else's problem. When they stop making DVDs/CDs is when they'll stop making the players. For a time I guess. Also: My equally old RCA VHS player still works and you should ditch the Mac and get a Dell.
And I digress:
I just read somewhere that for whatever reason, tape cassettes are making a comeback. A whole new generation of smurfs and smurfettes are having to learn a new use for the common pencil (you're not an expert until you can visually fast forward to the song you want to hear). Anyway, one of my favorite Neato T-shirts has a black caped cassette holding a red-tipped bic pen and saying to an I-pod "I am your father!". Amazing the number of people who don't get it. Woot!
I'm still building a DVD collection (physical media can't be disappeared from online sources).
Good for you. Me too. Disappointing, but not surprising to see all the "content" slowly disappearing from the streaming sites. And who in their right mind would actually pay Amazon Prime to "buy" a movie they will eventually lose access to? I'm always picking up the odd fondly remembered classic to add to my collection. Recent stuff not too much but two notable exceptions: First trip to the theater in a couple of years to see Twisters (I was kinda of dragged). Formulaic but surprisingly good really fun movie. Godzilla Minus 1 - best Godzilla movie ever and patiently waiting for its September release.
Liquid Ass: #2 in Gags and Practical Joke Toys: Top critical review: "Doesn’t smell like a fart. It smells like roadkill, but it still did the job". I could spend all day reading the reviews which are mostly a summary of pranks played.
Nice try but nope. There are no "rich thematics" in this movie and it really is terrible, which, as noted in the article is why it's so good. I really like it. If you ever get a chance, SF Sketchfest did a table read of Plan 9 a few years back featuring Bobcat Goldthwait, and Laraine Newman among others. It was featured on TCM so perhaps it will show up again.
Van Johnson spent a lot of time trying to cook some eggs in the movie Battleground. Comic relief during the Battle of the Bulge. Of course it's old and in black and white so maybe it wouldn't fit.
We just had a quicksand "incident" at Popham Beach State Park. Oi. It quickly went viral and was picked up by the usual flagship clickbait news organizations like the New York Post and Fox News. Poor woman, who was with her husband at one of the most popular (and beautiful) parks in the State. Thought I was going to die! What if it had been a child!? We need more signs! Absolutely straight out of the movies. Park rangers did a great job of patiently explaining that everyone needed to calm down,
Summer camp horror [is] a product of the Reagan era, representing “a reassertion of conservative values” and “Old Testament draconian beliefs.”
That, pardon my French, is a bunch of merde. Using the 12 Friday the 13th movies as an example. The first was pretty good. It was a horror story about a vengeful mother whose son was dead and not a killer. Its success spawned 11 more. The directors, writers, and producers were all diferent but had one thing in common: they all had a long history in horror. The only agenda here was to make money. And that they did. And Hollywood being Hollywood, it was soon all about the Benjamins big time.
It's not just you. It's indeed everywhere and it's (been for a while) a major complaint from a lot of people who either really like cinema or make their living writing about it. No one's listening apparently.
What a delightful read.