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Eccentric Vinyl
A few weeks before Christmas I was in Bristol and I made a stop into Ceremonial Sound. While I was flipping through the records one cover, in particular, stood out to me. It was a record I had been thinking about getting for a couple of months but had yet to have seen it in […]
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Thingness
When Adele released her newest album it was announced that she had asked streaming music giant Spotify to remove the option to listen to her album on shuffle play. Spotify complied with her request, much to my shock some people seemed to be angry at the idea of not being able to shuffle play the […]
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The Red Shoes
When The Criterion Collection, those crafters some of the finest home video editions of the best movies ever made—going on for almost 40 years now–announced a few months back they would debut their first-ever titles on 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray by year’s end, there was much celebration. Most of the titles Criterion would debut in […]
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Inducing Festivity
Christmas is this weekend and I have been struggling. Struggling with feeling festive, struggling with if there are things to feel good about. I know I’m not alone in this. Many others my age branded with the bizarre descriptor “elder millennial” are feeling it too. To be blunt, a year ago I wouldn’t have believed […]
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Angels with Dirty Faces
I have a confession to make. I haven’t seen a lot of James Cagney movies. This may surprise you, considering what a buff I am of the classic Hollywood era. The truth is that I’m not a huge fan of gangster movies, so outside of some of his latter roles and “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” I’ve […]
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The Holiday Lull
We have survived Thanksgiving, we survived Black Friday, and here we are now into the first full week of December and I am feeling a familiar lull. We all know how it goes at this time of the year. Right after Halloween Christmas ads begin on the TV, we bemoan how it’s not Thanksgiving yet. […]
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The Thin Man Goes Sheila
Warner Archive brings a pair of mysteries to blu-ray for the first time this month. For about a year now Warner Archive has slowly been releasing each film in the beloved “Thin Man” franchise on blu-ray. Though earlier this year I predicted we might get the whole series out by the end of the year, […]
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A Metaphorical Thanksgiving
When November 2020 rolled around I was worn out. This year I find myself feeling burnt out. They are two different feelings. Worn out is more of exhaustion, whereas burnout is exhaustion times ten with a strong lack of optimism attached to it. So what of Thanksgiving 2020? Not many family members would be over, […]
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Catching Up With The Archive, Part Two
Last week I looked at the first half of some new blu-ray releases that came out last month from Warner Archive. This week I’ll finish up looking at a significant part of their October slate with three movies, all new to blu-ray like last week’s titles. These three films feature brand new 2K transfers that […]
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Catching up with the Archive, Part One
Last month, your favorite major studio boutique and mine, Warner Archive, released a large number of fantastic goodies on blu-ray for the first time. All of these October titles were, appropriately, seasonally themed to come out just before Halloween. Six movies in total, on five new blu-ray discs, one of which is a double feature. […]
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On Being Famous
Sometimes it’s tasking being known as the number one outdoors expert in the Tri-Cities. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for it. Lord knows I never would have thought my book “Hiking the Trails of Erwin” would become a number one bestseller on the Bristol Herald booklist. The follow-up, “Campings spots of Elizabethton” did just […]
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
By the mid-1950s most of Universal’s classic monsters had been retired. The Mummy was trotted out for a team-up with Abbott and Costello in 1955, and the Creature From The Black Lagoon was soon to debut as the last of the studio’s famed monsters. Horror thrillers were starting to slant more towards sci-fi, the “atomic […]
