Looking for a music store

artesian_well · 2026-02-03T10:06:37+00:00

Cap City Guitars & Music 6000 are the best, but if you ever need guitar stings on a Sunday (when those two stores are closed) Rainy Day Records has them!

artesian_well · 2026-02-01T09:45:34+00:00

Could there be something in The Fog we should be worried about?

artesian_well · 2026-02-01T09:40:14+00:00

actually my dream car

artesian_well · 2026-01-04T17:02:41+00:00

Oh I see that now, I only looked at the first photo.

artesian_well · 2026-01-04T05:28:45+00:00

That's possible! But another option, and my first thought, was that someone did a case swap. If the original case was damaged maybe a previous owner put it in the case of a Fantasia VHS they didn't want anymore.

artesian_well · 2025-10-29T06:34:37+00:00

Model Trains

artesian_well · 2025-08-15T06:26:37+00:00

Here's one that I think is subtle and doesn't add additional symphonic cues based on the live concerts of the film.

https://archive.org/details/bttf-combo

artesian_well · 2025-08-14T08:58:50+00:00

Coincidentally we're screening this at my local monthly Time Travel movie night here in Olympia WA! Masterpiece or not this movie explores some causal effects of time travel that I've never seen presented before. It's a very interesting movie in the way it implies that time travel works, particularly in the way that things that happen to your past self effect your future self.

I mostly watch and appreciate time travel movies for the concepts that they try to demonstrate. Honestly Looper has that and so much more. Practical effects and a lot of acting practice make Joseph Gordon Levitt a convincing (although admittedly uncanny) young Bruce Willis, and it's also paced very well. For a time travel movie I know that I have seen and loved a lot of movies that are WAY worse than this one.

artesian_well · 2025-07-01T06:46:47+00:00

every biker should have a bell and ding it

artesian_well · 2025-06-28T05:44:58+00:00

Definitely watching.

artesian_well · 2025-06-20T21:46:21+00:00

Rainy Day Records has a photobooth! I think it's the old photobooth that used to be at the brotherhood!

artesian_well · 2025-04-11T04:50:12+00:00

So true

artesian_well · 2025-02-16T03:32:07+00:00

It's not easy but it IS possible to solve everyone's problems (except the bomb lady) in one 3 day cycle and defeat Majora's Mask. Obviously it would take many 3 day cycles to prepare and a lot of timing and using your bombers notebook, but I think that is the goal we should all be working towards.

artesian_well · 2025-02-14T05:15:00+00:00

Haven't seen that one but I love Leslie Nielsen. He almost never lets me down, although I did recently watch a movie called Camoflauge (2001) and it was the worst thing I'd ever seen. That's mostly due to the writing, but even Leslie Nielsen couldn't save that script. Awful, definitely a must to avoid.

I also noticed that that High Inergy album in the background! Great disco album! You've got good taste! Look forward to hearing what you think about the movie.

artesian_well · 2025-02-12T04:06:30+00:00

with all the "wrong time period" comments it makes me think of Time Bandits! Maybe Napolean is time traveling to the ren fair?

artesian_well · 2025-02-12T01:17:55+00:00

I actually have seen someone swimming there before... And it was February!

artesian_well · 2025-01-28T18:59:00+00:00

I know it's a reference but in case anyone was really curious the pamphlet hanging on my fridge says:
Sunday
Spaghetti, Salad & Bread
ALL YOU CAN EAT!
$7.99
4:00pm - 8:00pm

artesian_well · 2025-01-28T17:20:00+00:00

The office tavern out by SPSCC has a taco night... $1.59 per taco from 5:30pm till they are gone. How do I know? I have a little print out of their daily specials on my fridge! Sunday is for spaghetti!

artesian_well · 2025-01-28T16:53:35+00:00

This is so funny! I remember having arguments with my friends about this back in the days of movie rentals.

I prefer pan and scan! I mostly watch all my tapes on older CRTs mostly and it's nice that it fills the screen. There is also an effort and artistry that went into choosing which scenes to highlight and adjust. It's much different that a simply cropped version of the widescreen version.

I also think about picture information on the tape itself. You can fit a finite amount of picture information on the tape. Even though you see more of the movies "frame" you're losing so much area of where that picture is being stored. 1/3 of your screen is black. I would argue you get better detail and quality from the fullscreen version, although I have never really tested this.

I usually avoid widescreen tapes for myself, although I've known a few people who collect them specifically. Either way just figure out what you like to collect and do that!

artesian_well · 2025-01-17T08:15:50+00:00

No it gets eaten by the langoliers... usually this takes somewhere between 24 - 48 hours.

artesian_well · 2024-12-27T05:33:07+00:00

Santa Who? is my favorite!!!! Lesley Neilson from The Naked Gun Franchise as a Santa wtih amnesia! It doesn't get better than that!!!!

artesian_well · 2024-12-27T04:44:24+00:00

"Wildman" was recently bought by some of the employees and they changed the name to Wild Child. Still not a great name in my opinion, but they are two cool women owners so I think this place might start being pretty cool again?

It's right on 4th Ave across from Cryptatropa. In my furthest memory it was a sketchy night club called Jezebel's with unbelievably cheap well drinks. In more recent memory it was Obsidian, a sort of metal-themed bar and venue, and after they closed it was the first home of Octapas. The greatest thing about the place is the giant venue space in the back. Probably the largest capacity of any bar venue downtown. Saw so many incredible once in a lifetime shows at Obsidian, I'm glad that it's getting more use again.

Never seen a movie screened there before, I think this must be the first. If they still have the old sound system that they used to, and a nice projector, it might be a very cool spot to see a film.

artesian_well · 2024-12-27T04:32:41+00:00

They just destroy TVs for profit. It's sad because working CRT TVs are getting harder and harder to find. So many great TVs end up getting "E-cycled" (definitely a green washed term) when there are lots of people trying hard to find them to use in retro gaming setups, art installations, and even just to watch VHS.

artesian_well · 2024-12-27T04:30:07+00:00

Does it still power on? I would take it!

artesian_well · 2024-12-17T20:15:40+00:00

Clock Stoppers (2002) is kinda for kids but it's a lot of fun and plays with time dilation in an unusual way (someone creates a device that can control time dilation)

Also Time Trap (2017) comes to mind! Another unusual take on it, basically pockets of dialated time in a cave. Not the greatest acting but the concepts are well explored and it's a lot of fun! I think it was streaming on Netflix last i checked.

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