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| DATE | 2013-01-23 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] 50th
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On 01/23/2013 10:28 PM, Ron Guerin wrote:
> On 01/23/2013 10:03 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>> On 01/23/2013 05:35 PM, Ron Guerin wrote:
>>> On 01/23/2013 01:12 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>>>> This cold weather is reminding me that my 50th birthday is coming up
>>>> fast...
>>>
>>> That, and the blinking red crystal in your palm.
>>
>>
>> which in itself is proof of an aging postmodern sense of pop-culture.
>
> I had started doing "Movie Night" when I was living in Brooklyn, and I
> quickly discovered nobody wanted to watch recent movies; they'd seen
> them all already. So I switched tactics and started showing
> "Forbidden Planet" and "The Forbin Project" and Movie Night turned
> into easy wins. Pretty much any movie that's older than your guests
> are seems to work. First time I ever saw the Andromeda Strain was in
> Brooklyn.
>
> *shift* Hollywood's been pretty bad about preserving its past. The
> Internet isn't looking a whole lot better, other than what the
> Internet Archive is doing. How much of our media is still going to be
> playable 50 years from now? I've already got media files from the
> Interweb Bubble Era that won't play properly or at all on anything.
>
> - Ron
>
See DVDs or rips of "Before Sunrise" and then the sequel, "Before
Sunset", done 9 years apart.
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