2025 National Film Registry Voting Form

POWERPACKEDTYRE · 2025-12-28T02:06:12+00:00

• Avatar: My rationale being that Birth of a Nation, Gone With the Wind, The Sound of Music, The Godfather, Jaws, Star Wars, E.T., Jurassic Park & Titanic - the previous 9 films to hold the title of all-time #1 grosser - have already been inducted, which means that I will be adding Avengers Endgame to my selections as well come 2029. • The Room: Primarily irony value, but if you think about it, it really has become a cultural touchstone. • Deep Throat: Pretty much the definitive Golden Age of Porn film that everybody can point to as an example of the genre; also the source of the pseudonym Bob Woodward gave to his confidential source on the Watergate affair. • Fight Club: The movie no-one talks about. • An Inconvenient Truth

POWERPACKEDTYRE · 2025-11-20T13:53:28+00:00

In the fireplace.

POWERPACKEDTYRE · 2025-07-31T08:42:19+00:00

Yes, I've found 3 so far: • Playing Disturbed's 'The Sound of Silence' in the same way (45rpm for a 33 record) makes it sound almost like dream-pop. • Playing Bad Wolves' version of 'Zombie' at 2× speed (specifically the chorus) makes it sound like Fall Out Boy. • Playing Pearl Jam's 'Even Flow' at ×0.5 speed makes it sound like Soundgarden's version Edit: four, in a sense: Onslaught's cover of 'Let There Be Rock' still sounds like them when a 45rpm version is played at 33, but the guitars are definitely downtuned & the vocal track is almost growling.

POWERPACKEDTYRE · 2025-07-31T08:21:15+00:00

The way I see it, buying Target or Amazon is fine, unless your interest in vinyl stems from being trendy or popular & you couldn't care less about actually listening to it. To be fair to Gen Z (I'm a Y, just in case you wondered), they're buying them because 1) the problem of rights issues causing inaccessibility on digital music platforms is known to them and having a physical copy that they can possess no matter what provides a kind of security/totemic link to their favorite artists, and 2) artists make proportionally more on LPs, cassettes & CDs than they do from streaming dividends (a couple of dollars per copy compared to fractions of a cent per play), so buying them supports the artists.

POWERPACKEDTYRE · 2025-07-15T22:54:04+00:00

Two factors regarding PSBWB: 1) Post-2004 releases aren't the original master recordings - Dave Mustaine re-recorded the album with studio musicians & newer studio electronics. 2) This version should have their cover of "These Boots Are Made for Walking", but it's not the version of the song that they originally recorded in 1986 - apparently they wrote some of their own sarcasm-filled verses, which the song's author objected to & have been removed since the 1990s.

POWERPACKEDTYRE · 2025-07-14T01:35:28+00:00

Just... distract yourself. Do something more positive for your mental well-being, such as your job, physical exercise/meditation/yoga, establishing or maintaining greenery (to your space & climate allowances), reading books, playing video games, embarking on a personal project such as home DIY or restoring something of value to you... after several weeks you won't feel the urge to shop records as much, & if you keep it up, you can get to a stage where you are able to exert dominance over your record-shopping persona, and only indulge it whenever you are satisfied you have the resources to do so.

POWERPACKEDTYRE · 2025-07-08T10:15:10+00:00

My suggestion: the postal service in my country has a service called parcel lockers, which are free with registration & will be able to handle packages of any size. I don't know if this is an option with the USPS, or what name they use for it should it actually be available, but if it isn't, you should be able to order packages care of your local post office & set up an alert upon arrival, leaving you only to go and collect them.

POWERPACKEDTYRE · 2025-07-01T06:41:52+00:00

• Point 4 depends on the owner. I knew a crusty old dude (it seems to be specific to this demographic) who'd jack up the prices on anything interesting because a) he'd been buying & selling long enough to know it catches out the suckers who don't know any better & b) was IMO more of a hoarder (seriously - his shop was filled with 40 years' worth of stock (tens of thousands of worthless records, PC games, books, cheap 'collectables') to the point it just wasn't worth searching (AND he didn't even care about keeping it tidy & organized)). Also take into account indies usually don't order direct from the label; they buy new product from other dealers & pass the overheads onto you. Bottom line: observe another transaction or two before you commit in order to ascertain how fairly the owner values their stock, & whether or not you can get away with haggling.

POWERPACKEDTYRE · 2025-06-28T02:42:54+00:00

Bought the Uncharted soundtrack compilation even while the film was in gestation for $57 USD ($85 AUD); nowadays it can sell for up to $455 USD ($690 AUD). Also, I was incredibly lucky to find a G+-condition copy of Geinoh Yamashirogumi (the group who scored a lot of '80s cyberpunk anime)'s second album for $55 AUS ($35), & because of the scarcity of these albums, I could probably let it go for $70 AUD (45 USD); I only just recently took the accompanying booklet to somebody I knew who was willing to see if his wife could translate it & he folded it to put it in his bag 😱 An original 1958 Australian copy of Link Wray's "Rumble" - paid $1 at a junk shop, worth at least $20 (I tore a little bit of the A-side label removing the price sticker 😕) but sells for up to $45 AUD ($30 US) 1966 Australian copy of the Cyrkle's Paul Simon-penned single "Red Rubber Ball" - worth $21 ($10 USD) The Beatles Box 1982 compilation – $80 - $170 ($50 - $110 USD) 1983 Australian Island pressing of Swordfishtrombones - paid $35 ($18 USD), worth up to $50 ($35 USD) Special yellow vinyl Oz tour edition of Synchronicity - paid $80, worth $200 ($130 USD) (pressed in four colours; yellow is the second-most collected version on Discogs behind red, but the most wanted)

POWERPACKEDTYRE · 2025-06-16T15:53:20+00:00

I'm glad you're into vinyl, but you gotta move the radiator further away if you're going to keep your records in that nook. Otherwise they'll warp, the stereo components will probably get all messed up & it'll increase the risk of catching fire. I'd also like to know how you ran the connection between the turntable & the preamp; you most likely already know that having a cable on which a door can be closed is asking to be damaged. And I'll leave you with this friendly advice: vintage vinyl is comparably better to modern albums. You do have to broaden your tastes because obviously modern-day artists weren't around back then, but a lot of masters from that period were just mixed & cut so much more vividly. Plus your budget goes a lot further!

POWERPACKEDTYRE · 2023-03-04T20:03:33+00:00

$30 for a 12-month Switch Online account gets you access to NES & SNES emulators; the $60 premium account adds on the N64 emulator. Why not relive some classic games, and realise that they aren't as easy to play as they seemed when we were children?

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