The Early Years… Viewing movies at home is hardly a new thing; the technology has been commonplace for around 40 years now. But I’m old enough to remember when it wasn’t common at all. In fact, for most of my childhood, up until about age of 16 or so (circa 1983), television was, in my…
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1998’s Free Enterprise: “Don’t you understand? This is MY movie…”
The year I got married (the same year the moon was supposed to be blown out of Earth’s orbit in “Space: 1999”), I discovered a film that captured both my own bachelor years in the mid-1990s as well as my own experiences as a lifelong aficionado of all things geek. As I was thumbing through an…
Still crazy after all these years; why I continue to collect physical media…
… and the answer to the title question is: I have no idea. But I can explain the symptoms of the madness, if not the reason. It began with audio. As a kid, seemingly millions of years ago, I remember buying my first album; John Williams’ stirring soundtrack to “Star Wars.” It was a beauty,…