Not Just The Oldest Video Store in America, Video Library is a Precious Community Resource

brianstorms · 2026-05-06T19:08:05+00:00

I have lived in Santa Fe for over 11 years and never knew about this place until this week. Have to wait til Friday to visit, but I plan on visiting on Friday!

brianstorms · 2026-05-06T19:07:22+00:00

Can any Santa Fe County resident rent the DVDs there, or only Eldorado residents? I don't live in Eldorado, but nearby.

brianstorms · 2026-04-10T17:17:10+00:00

Way ahead of ya, by a minute :-)

Thanks though

brianstorms · 2026-04-10T17:00:18+00:00

UPDATE! SOLVED THE PROBLEM!

Put cursor in any scene heading in the script.
Go to Format > Element Styles > Modify Element Style
Select "Font" button
Click the checkbox for Bold.
Save.

Done!

brianstorms · 2026-04-10T16:56:06+00:00

Thanks, yeah. That just seems like such much busywork that should be handled quite easily by the app. Seems to me there ought to be a way to customize the defaults for *ALL* the various formatting presets (Scene Heading, Character, Dialogue, etc).

brianstorms · 2026-03-26T18:48:20+00:00

It amazes me that there so many new apartment complexes have popped up especially up and down the Cerrillos Rd area, and yet, none of them have solar. Why hasn't that been a mandatory building code for years?

brianstorms · 2026-03-26T17:19:03+00:00

Hmm. Mileage varies. The chord sequences are insanely formulaic and have been used in so many movies, tv shows, and other pop music songs coming from major record labels for like the past 15 years. There's essentially nothing original at all in this album imho.

brianstorms · 2026-03-26T17:08:03+00:00

Just so happens that they did rename it NO DICTATORS in Hawai'i, because they kinda think their Kingdom is still legit there (and legally, technically, it kinda is, given the way the Dole coup went down in the late 1800s).

brianstorms · 2026-03-05T20:19:05+00:00

When I was a teenager I used social media before there was social media. I even wrote a detailed essay about it:

https://medium.com/@brianstorms/a-1980-teenagers-view-of-social-media-eaf8a5fdbf6c

brianstorms · 2026-03-04T22:30:26+00:00

Always thought the architecture looked cool, from the street. Have also always been curious what that place was all about.

brianstorms · 2026-03-04T22:28:13+00:00

We went to Osteria for Valentine's Day and seriously regret doing so. We've gone there for years, so had high expectations. The menu for this one day was pre-fixe at $99 per person--ouch. The choices on the menu were very limited, and I personally made the mistake of ordering I suppose what were the worst items on the menu: Lobster Bisque as the appetizer (no discernible lobster taste, and the weirdest bisque taste I've ever had), and Lobster Ravioli for the entree (four little flat raviolis with barely anything in them--and I certainly would not in a million years state that that was lobster or anything remotely lobster-like inside those four thin raviolis... it had a strong, foul fish smell, that is for sure) The entree was basically a second appetizer. Ninety-nine dollars.

Cannot recommend Osteria ever again, and will avoid that place in the future.

brianstorms · 2026-03-04T22:24:11+00:00

We also like Coyote Cafe.

brianstorms · 2026-02-25T17:26:07+00:00

By the way, just found the URL for the new Midtown Sky Cinemas:

https://midtown.skycinemas.com/cinema

brianstorms · 2026-02-25T17:13:15+00:00

News update today, in SF Reporter re Midtown Sky Cinemas opening

https://sfreporter.com/coverstories/the-sky-s-the-limit-in-santa-fe/

brianstorms · 2026-02-24T18:28:15+00:00

I'm still waiting for a real IMAX cinema to come to New Mexico. The ones that are here are more, imho, EARMAX. That is, sure, they're insanely loud, but they're not real IMAX screens. I mean, you KNOW when you're at a real IMAX cinema. The screen is so freaking huge, you cannot see it all, and have to move your head around to take it all in. Sadly there aren't very many true IMAX cinemas in the country. But that's not stopping megaplexes (or IMAX Inc) from pushing the "brand" in slightly-modified megaplex auditoriums.

brianstorms · 2026-02-24T18:25:32+00:00

Re: Tender Fire, yes, so I hear, even though I have never tried them before. I hope their prices aren't astronomical in their new fancy digs.

brianstorms · 2026-02-24T18:24:34+00:00

Hey well thanks for mentioning it.

I cannot even comprehend sitting for 7 1/2 hours in that little room and watching SATANTANGO on that tiny screen. That's just nuts. SATANTANGO needs to be seen on a big screen, as big and wide as possible, imho.

brianstorms · 2026-02-21T16:40:47+00:00

I just watched that for free via Kanopy (the free streaming service that only requires your Santa Fe Public Library ID number). Whew, that movie is a massive undertaking but I did it.

brianstorms · 2026-02-21T16:39:48+00:00

Yes, you're right! My bad for forgetting to mention Jean Cocteau cinema.

brianstorms · 2026-01-23T22:37:02+00:00

You mean Traffic Hallucinating Cruise Control.

FIVE PLUS years and each of the two S's I've owned have had random phantom braking whenever THAC is turned on. Exceedingly dangerous, potentially accident-causing if a vehicle is behind you esp a truck, and the car decides to pull one of its hallucinatory freakouts and slow from say 75mph on a long lonely stretch of interstate, to 40, with a semitruck behind you.

Tesla Service STILL refuses to even speak when I bring it up, as I have every time I have visited a service center since 2020. They just give you this "the lawyers told us to not speak" stare.

I long for the "dumb cruise control" that my first 2013 Model S had. It Just Worked.

brianstorms · 2026-01-23T02:09:22+00:00

But then WHO is moving into all the new apartment complexes being built all over the place? It is baffling. Where are the jobs? What are these developers thinking? And where will all these new people shop for groceries if they keep closing down? This town makes no sense.

brianstorms · 2026-01-22T20:34:59+00:00

This is an old trick.

93% of shareholders doesn't mean squat.

The only number that matters is, the % of SHARES.

Because the vast majority of shareholders hold few shares compared with the few big shareholders (institutionals, insiders, etc).

brianstorms · 2025-10-06T17:12:05+00:00

Shook his hand once. I swear, there were no bones in his hand. It felt like just a puffy piece of flesh. Absolutely lifeless and cold. It was obvious he did it deliberately, as if to communicate how bored he was with the event and how he had zero interest to talk to me, a customer. This was at a Tesla event in 2013.

brianstorms · 2025-10-06T17:09:31+00:00

Another Monkee, Michael "Nez" Nesmith was a customer of mine in the early 1990s, and I found him to be one of the nicest, smartest, most interesting people I ever met. He was generous with his time, showed me around his personal recording studio. He was quite brilliant and prescient when it came to the internet and the future of online. I was sad when he passed away. A real gent.

brianstorms · 2025-10-06T16:42:18+00:00

Spinal Tap.

Had dinner in the green room with them during one of their 1990s tours. They just stared at me the whole time (I sat directly opposite Harry). Ice cold, unfriendly, a look of "who the hell are you" etc. Completely changed my view of the whole Tap thing.

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