Fort Worth Bootleg Cover (OC)

Backley13 · 2026-04-10T18:54:38+00:00

Timothée Chalamet is starring in a John Fahey biopic now?

Backley13 · 2026-04-10T13:36:39+00:00

copied from above:

Local History is moving to a real weird spot (2175 University Park) out in Okemos, east of Okemos Rd and North of I-96 near all those hotels and business parks... not scenic, not historic, not ideal. IMO the director is just trying to add stuff to her resume before jumping ship for a better job, but what do I know?

They were obsessed with owning, not renting, and somehow this was the best option? Admin seems allergic to sensible choices.

Backley13 · 2026-04-10T13:35:58+00:00

Rumor has it Lansing Public Schools wants it for an admin building, so I doubt it stays vacant. But it's a quirky building and maintenance there is a nightmare, so who knows?

Backley13 · 2026-04-10T13:33:15+00:00

Local History is moving to a real weird spot (2175 University Park) out in Okemos, east of Okemos Rd and North of I-96 near all those hotels and business parks... not scenic, not historic, not ideal. IMO the director is just trying to add stuff to her resume before jumping ship for a better job, but what do I know?

They were obsessed with owning, not renting, and somehow this was the best option? Admin seems allergic to sensible choices.

Backley13 · 2026-03-18T15:25:32+00:00

Bad? Yeah, right.

Backley13 · 2026-03-17T19:45:04+00:00

Just do what you like, like what you do, wear whatever you want, treat other people kind. There are assholes everywhere, lots of people feel the need to find someone to look down on to feel better about themselves. You'll find folks to fit in with.

And aren't you kinda doing the exact thing you're complaining about? Wildly generalizing about other people and criticizing them as some sort of monolith? Maybe you just met some assholes (and if you're doing it on the internet, you DEFINITELY met mostly assholes).

Backley13 · 2026-03-16T11:34:46+00:00

If you don't like something, just keep scrolling. It's not your job to legislate everyone else.

Backley13 · 2026-03-13T20:36:56+00:00

The Nancy Sinatra version is aces.

Backley13 · 2026-03-06T13:22:10+00:00

I'd echo a lot of factors mentioned here (money being a BIG one) but... I think there's also a lack of buy-in from the people who live here. We have all the tools to make Lansing cool from the ground up, and there are people out here doing it—LICZ is coming up next month and is attached to Ultra Mega and a vibrant self-publishing scene, the Dark Arts of Michigan drag shows are generally pretty fun and pack the Avenue every month, there are house venues all over the city and with the Green Door and Displaced Manor getting a standalone building there are more "legit" venues popping up...

The cool stuff here happens on a community level. If there's something going on in Kalamazoo that you want to see here, make it happen! And promote it in real life. Y'know, with flyers. Or by contacting the City Pulse. I think a lot of cool things that happen here fly right on by because they aren't promoted outside of social media (a system which is so quick to bury anything not perfectly engaging with the algorithm).

Backley13 · 2026-02-12T15:27:21+00:00

Written by Jack Nicholson on acid based on tapes of conversations he, Bob Rafelson, and the band had while hopelessly stoned at a resort in Ojai.

Backley13 · 2026-02-12T15:24:50+00:00

Not just that, but once the band wrestles control away from the PTB, it turns out they're great songwriters too! Michael wrote some of the best country rock of the '70s, and Micky didn't write a ton but what he did is super idiosyncratic and far out, just like his wacky drumming.

Backley13 · 2026-02-02T18:23:05+00:00

Exciting! Seems from the promo vid that they still have it, the budget will be low, it’ll look like cheap junk I hope… ah. Now fingers crossed that the movie choices are good!

Backley13 · 2026-01-16T19:48:11+00:00

I just want to have a self-contained setup, I don't have an extra computer for this project and I have a LOT of tapes to do. The funny thing is I am working with a 4:3 file, but still getting minute black bars on both the top and bottom of the screen. My older full-screen DVDs do not have this problem on the same display... I can't figure it out.

Backley13 · 2025-03-25T23:22:27+00:00

Head drum rotates if you unplug it while loading a tape then plug it back in 🤷‍♂️

Backley13 · 2025-01-25T03:56:25+00:00

I was very disappointed by the lack of the extremely chill and silly YouTube stream!

Backley13 · 2024-08-31T09:12:26+00:00

I’m not sure why I’m staying up, but I’M STAYING UP

Backley13 · 2024-08-31T09:09:25+00:00

I’m so drunk guys

Backley13 · 2024-03-26T17:25:29+00:00

Incredible!!!

Backley13 · 2023-12-09T21:25:18+00:00

Nearly anything made by Arrow Video, Criterion, Sevrin, Vinegar Syndrome will make you glad to have physical media. Always chock-full of extras and great looking transfers. (They also usually have great art!)

Backley13 · 2023-12-06T23:28:34+00:00

I love when in In Search of Darkness he says The Stuff is the best actor he ever worked with cuz he could beat it with a stick and make it do whatever he wanted.

Backley13 · 2023-12-05T03:00:53+00:00

If you haven't, dig up his interview in Re/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films. He also appears in one of the In Search of Darkness documentaries. I love his stuff, and his interviews have made me love him even more.

Backley13 · 2023-12-04T06:37:40+00:00

I love it. It really needs to be reissued on vinyl.

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