Paid about $4.50 per book so just under $15 for the lot! Pretty thrilled with the No Country, I don’t have any McCarthy that aren’t trade paperbacks.
Almost every single tape here was found at a thrift store for $1.29 or less over the last year. The only ones not acquired that way were the Alien box set I got for $5 on fb marketplace and a few like Apocalypse Now and Evil Dead were traded for with a fellow Redditor. The Late Night With the Devil was an anniversary gift, idk where my wife got that from, id assume Etsy. Unfortunately the Drake and Josh is just the sleeve, the movie inside is actually Godzilla. Everything else is as pictured.
How many kills did our new Jigsaw rack up in Saw IV?
I’m currently following the Talking Scared reading order for The Dark Tower series so just finished Salems Lot and I’m back into Wizard and Glass after. I’m not sure exactly yet how Salems Lot connects to DT (there’s a line about the “wheels of fate” that felt DT esque) so I’ll guess we see at some point!
I’m going for Overboard tonight as I’ve never seen it and I’ve been looking for the VHS for months. Finally snagged it the other day so it’s time to see why it’s on this sub so often.
Did end up having to leave it behind because it was cracking in places :(
My wife is over the moon (lol) about the Sailor Moon set!
I went back to the thrift store today and there was even more horror grails!! I’m not usually this lucky but holy shit some of these titles! Absolutely dumbfounded at this point. I included a photo of one with the price tag on it just to show these really were sitting in a thrift store and I’m not just posting my collection. I’m almost dead sure now a collector died and someone’s just donating their collection.
Denver had a surprise snowstorm today so everyone stayed home. The thrift stores were empty, I was the only customer at a few shops.
Walked into one as they wheeled out three tubs of tapes and this is everything I found. Absolutely massive finds! I should’ve bought a lottery ticket! Thrilled with my first Lynch find!
Also I’m actually really excited to see Going Overboard. I hear it blows haha
I found this 1st printing for like $3 at my local thrift a few months ago and picked it up as my favorite horror lit podcast (Talking Scared) interviewed the author and recommended it. I didn’t even know it was in the running for a Pulitzer. But now that it’s won it’s interesting to see the demand change. I remember seeing this book on clearance at Barnes and now people are paying decent money for it.
I’ll keep my copy in good condition and see if I can’t meet the author at a signing at some point. I thought the book was really fun, some great religious horror/iconography and a great scene of megalophobia as well. The structure of the entire book being essentially one sentence doesn’t make it as hard to read as it would seem.
Here’s the post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DX2Pz6PD9hR/?igsh=MXY1dGg1cWtwZnN4Nw==
The AI is pretty blatant but if you need proof, check out the hands in the bottom right; there’s a detached hand blending into the wrist with extra fingers, no arm attached.
Personally, I think it’s a bad move to use AI at all, especially on purpose, and then to double down when called out on it. Hot Mulligan accidentally used AI once and I think their response was perfect: they got a refund from the “creator”, apologized for the AI use, and then reposted a handmade poster instead.
I know there’s a minority of people that don’t really care about AI, but as supporters of music and art, I think it’s a responsibility on the parts of those of us who DO care about the use of AI to call it out. It’s easy to dismiss this because “it’s not that serious” or “it’s funny” but once we start letting artists get away with AI on promo posters, merch, and social media posts, it’s a very small slippery slope before it starts showing up in the music itself. I don’t want to listen to music made by people who don’t respect real artists enough to use AI and then double down on it.
I’ve seen Belmont twice and had fun at both shows, but I definitely won’t see them again unless they change this kind of behavior. Otherwise there’s plenty of other acts to discover and see.
Got most of these from recent concerts I went to. Drain/No Pressure/Haywire was a killer show! Also saw Bilmuri recently but this album isn’t my favorite release by them, I’m still more of a fan of the Taco-Goblin Hours era. The Sworn In was one I’d see posted sometimes as many people’s grail album so I gave it a listen and liked it but definitely wasn’t gonna drop multiple hundreds on it. So when they announced the repress I was happy to pick it up for retail.
My favorite of the bunch is probably the Drain. It’s my first zoetrope record and it’s just a fun time. They’re a deeply unserious band and if you get a chance to see them live it’s just mayhem and fun.
I’ve been working with a personal coach for three months and when I arrived today I was surprised to see another client in attendance. Turns out my coach had picked today as my first ever spar.
I thought I was ready to try it, I’d even been commenting to friends lately that I was a surprised I hadn’t sparred yet. But when the actual moment came, when I had the gloves on and mouth guard in and head piece on… I just completely crumbled.
My legs went wobbly, my vision blurred, and I had one of the worst panic attacks I’d ever had in my life. I wasn’t even able to step up to the ring, I just actually folded to the ground and shook.
My opponent was a teenager, we were a similar size, so it wasn’t even that it was some behemoth that was about to knock me into the next century. It was just that when the moment actually came to DO boxing, I wasn’t mentally able to do it. I felt less fear the time I got robbed at gunpoint.
If I had just sparred and been bad at it, well that’s fine I should be bad at it, it’s my first time. I could’ve laughed that off and grew from there. But to find out deep inside that I’m the kind of person that has a panic attack and crumbles the moment I’d have to actually fight made me feel like a child. Any shred of masculinity I thought I had just disappeared. It felt heartbreaking to learn at my core I’m a coward.
What do I do to get over this? I started boxing so I could learn some discipline, get in shape, and be able to protect myself or loved ones in a dire emergency. All I learned here was that if a real emergency had happened, I’d have been less than worthless.
Has anyone else ever had ring anxiety like this? How did you overcome it? I don’t want to quit whatsoever, but I also lost the small confidence I did have and I’m not sure how to proceed with training mentally knowing that’s my default.
My coach says I’m not the first timid person he’s trained and that they worked through it too, but I feel like this needs mental work outside the studio on my behalf.
The Craft I grabbed for another Redditor who said it was one of their most wanted tapes. The X-files is for my wife who’s a huge fan, we’re building up a small set of them now. The Howling IV looks metal as hell, but unsure if I need to see the first three first.
Pure Luck is actually the big find for me today. When I was a kid, my dad mentioned this movie off hand and said we should watch it because it was really fun. We ended up calling like a dozen blockbusters until one finally had it in stock. We drove across town to pick it up, then snagged a pizza, went home and had a movie night. Because of that, this movie along with The Rugrats Movie are the two tapes I most associate with the medium and my childhood. Was happy to finally find it.
Found this and couldn’t originally find it online but snagged it since it was a local band. Gave it a listen and it’s pretty cool but Ska isn’t my thing, I’m more of a straight pop punk guy. It’s very well mixed and produced imo, but not knowing this genre much I couldn’t tell you how good they are relative to other acts. The only other post I can find about this band is from this sub 8 years ago where the drummer hopped on and gave some band history.
I was going to dump it on the internet archive but found the whole album on YouTube so it exists online already. Since I no longer need to upload it, I figure maybe someone here collects scarce Ska CDs and may want this for their collection. Let me know, I’m down to just send it to whoever wants to cover shipping or even more fun, would totally do a CD swap.