During this ordeal of fitting new furniture into our already cluttered apartment, I had the opportunity to go through a bunch of stuff that was hiding/not getting used. I put all our movies into one bookcase already, and it turns out that I didn't have as many as I thought we did - only about three shelves worth! Gone are the days of Savannah where I would buy a new shitty movie every other day because the video rental place (Home Run Video, if anyone is interested) was super creepy. But now with Locust Moon Comics and Netflix, I only have to buy the movies I actually enjoy. Which is still a lot. I do not have high standards. Hell yeah, Cobra!
I also got to dig through all our VHS movies. We have a real gold mine of tapes - such Oscar-worthy titles include: 976-Evil, The Dentist and the Dentist 2, Freddy vs. Jason, and Jason X. We unfortunately do not have a VCR with which to watch these awesome films. Our amazing friend A gave us a great surround sound DVD-VCR combo for our wedding, but the VCR doesn't seem to want to work. Even with the skilled mastery of Ladyface Cleverbrain we couldn't get anything but a reverse color picture on the screen. Which, admittedly, is pretty cool as well.
We could, of course, just buy a VCR from any thrift shop or flea market, because now they're only worth about $5. But I am wary, because the last cheap thrift store VCR I got came complete with a tape already in it, a tape called "Glory Holes 2", which amazingly I did not realize was a porn until after I had watched about a minute of it. Also, it broke after a month or so. A piece snapped off, which I didn't realize until I looked up the 15 year old manual and took the entire thing apart piece by piece.
Disenchantment with old technology not withstanding, Husband and I are determined to be able to watch 976-Evil whenever we damn well please. Maybe we'll build a VCR from scratch. Or maybe I'll remember to check the "insert tape" slot before I go and buy another cheap one. Only time will tell.
