• 14Apr 09

  TV on DVD sets (and what horks me off about them)

  As any one who has read my profile knows, I am a Tapehead. If you don't know what a Tapehead is, I'll fill you in. A Tapehead is a person who tapes things as a hobbie. With me it started with mix tapes and making my own long versions of songs (a friend of mine made a 45 min version of Slow Ride by Foghat). With the advent of the VCR, I started collecting TV shows. This turned into a 500+ collection of tapes. A couple of years ago I got a DVR so I could transfer these tapes to DVD.

  I had already started buying TV on DVD sets, The first one was the first season of the Simpsons, over the years I have compiled a respectible collection, which includes The complete series for Futurama, Carnivale, and Twin Peaks as well as others.

  So, on to my rant. This weekend I'm at Best Buy. browsing the DVD section when I discovered a new box set. The Sopranos complete series along with 3.5 hours of unreleased features. I was furious. It had taken me almost 4 years to build up my Sopranos collection, buying them second hand or on sale (I refuse to pay 70+ dollars for a season) and still missing the last two releases. Now setting before me is the complete series at a price equal to what I paid with more stuff. The same thing has happened with Twin Peaks.

  This is the DVD equavalant of recording artist releasing a greatest hits album and then adding a couple of crappy new songs, or a track or two from old recording sessions that at the time weren't thought much of or they'd be on an album already. Why do they do this? It makes no sence.

  The thing I love about buying a season of TV show is the extras. Yes, I am one of those geeks that pours over everything. Deleted scenes, audio commentaries, storyboard workups: These are the things I, the Uberfan, live for. But I feel like I'm being punished by the man. I spent roughly $100 on my two seasons of Twin Peaks, and now there is a complete series set with axtra features that aren't on the seson sets I purchased. You see my delema.

  I wish the would release just the feature disc even if it was online so fans like me could get ahold of that stuff with get bent over.

  • Posted Apr 14, 2009 5:28 am PT
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• 4Mar 09

  Do you want real change in our government?

  Do you want real change in our government? I'm not talking about the change that Obama spoke of this past election cycle. I'm talking about real change. A government that pays attention to you and not Exxon, a government that cares about your family and not ACORN, A government that pays attention to all the people not just the ones rich enough to contribute to their campaigns. I have an answer.

  STOP VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  I'm not sure all of you heard that, so I'll say it again: STOP VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Did you know that there are at least 51 political parties in the good ol' USA. I bet most of you reading this can't name more than six. Personlly I thought that there were 10 at the most. Only TWO of them get any money from the government. Talk about taxation without representaion.

  The Dems. and Reps. have rigged the system. In our country a political party HAS to garner at least 10% of the vote in the previous presidential election to receive elections funds from the federal government. The only party in recent history to achieve this goal was Ross Perot's Reform party and that only lasted from 1992 to 1996.

  In Great Britain, there are at least 158 recognized parties for a populas of about 59 million That is ruffly the population of California and Texas combined. We have nearly 304 million people in the USA, and TWO parties that have a stranglehold on American politics.

  I'm sure that some of you are asking yourselves how do we change this? The answer is simple. STOP VOTING REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT!!! Personally I have only voted for three major party candidates in the last 28 years (Reagan, G.H Bush, and McCain). Every time I have voted I pulled the lever for the person I thought most closely represented my beliefs. I have voted form Reformers, Libritarians, and even one independent.

  Vote for one of the other 49. Do a little research and vote for the man or woman that represents YOU, I don't care if it's the Libritarian Party, the Pot party, the American Nazi Party, the Democrats or Republicans. Just find out which one represents you. It dosen't mater if your candidate wins, what matters is that all of our populas are represented and that won't happen till all the parties get federal funding and the playing field is leveled.

  If you want more info on the choices you have I found this website very helpful. www.politics1.com/parties.htm

  • Posted Mar 4, 2009 9:15 am PT
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• 1Mar 09

  RIP Paul Harvey

  Paul Harvey passed friday in his home in AZ, he was 90 years old.

  I have listen to Paul Harvey since I was a kid. His sister and brother-in-law lived up the street from my family in Imperial MO. In fact, If you ever heard Mr. Harvey mention his home in the ozarks, he was speaking of the guest house on his sisters "ranch".

  I feel that I have lost a role model and a neighbor.

  RIP Paul

  Godspeed

  • Posted Mar 1, 2009 6:48 am PT
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