i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that’s a poem already what’s the point
you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling
The Chippendales dancers are facing pretty disgusting retaliation from their employers because of their desire to unionize. Sign the petition and show your support for these workers!
A lot of FAKE CATS FANS who were NONBELIEVERS having an amazing time at the gay ballroom cats. It’s like…. Girl I’ve been locked in to the mystical divinity of unashamed felicity this whole time
i will never be against piracy ever but i also need physical media to remain
the average blockbuster carried about 3x as many films than that that are streaming on Netflix or any other streaming service, physical media along with piracy is more important than ever.
I thought this wasn’t true, because how could it be true? How could one small store have more movies than an online database? So I googled it.
I am surprised and depressed to learn it’s 100% true, according to google. A Blockbuster store was required to have a minimum of 7000 titles, but most averaged about 10,000. Netflix has 4000 movies. (And 1800 tv shows if you want to count those, but even included, it’s still less)
Now I’m even more depressed about the collapse of physical rental stores.
BONUS: They weren’t beholden to Who Owns What IP Right Now. They got videos from everyone. You didn’t have to pay separately for the rights to rent from the Disney Shelves and the WB Shelves and bler bler bler, and they only STOPPED having those movies when the tapes broke or someone never returned ‘em.
friendly reminder that your local library will have lots of physical media and if they don’t have what you’re looking for you can most likely ask them to purchase it or order it from another library through interlibrary loan
Shoutout to Scarecrow Video- they have over 148,000 titles, most of which you can rent by mail. Rentals have been down in the last few years so they’re asking for support!
Do young people realize you had to pay each time you rented a movie from Blockbuster? It wasn’t the Netflix model of a monthly membership gets you access to all you can watch.
Do you also know that today you can rent individual titles from Apple or Amazon or Google/YouTube or wherever for more or less the same price it cost to rent a video from Blockbuster 25 years ago, only now you don’t need to leave your house to pick it up or return it, and it doesn’t matter if someone else wanted to watch the same movie at the same time you did?
I mean, I am a physical media guy with more than 2,000 discs in my collection, but Netflix is not the beginning and the end of the streaming conversation.
Interestingly, the Muppets’ “Mah-na Mah-na” song actually predates the Muppet show itself, as it was originally one of the numbers Jim Henson performed on the Ed Sullivan Show, back when the Muppets were an occasional variety act.
However, the “Mah-na Mah-na” song was not original to the Muppets, as it was originally composed for an Italian movie about lurid sex in Sweden, entitled “Sweden: Heaven or Hell?” The documentary focused on lesbianism, swingers clubs, and porn theaters, for the more conservative Italian audience. It was originally written on the fly to show some girls enjoying a key part of life in Sweden, the sauna, which the composer, Italian jazz great Pietro Umiliani, improvised with just three notes.
Before Henson did the song on Ed Sullivan, he did a different version on Sesame Street during the show’s first season.
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