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| DATE | 2013-01-23 |
| FROM | Ron Guerin
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] 50th
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On 01/23/2013 10:43 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
>
> See DVDs or rips of "Before Sunrise" and then the sequel, "Before
> Sunset", done 9 years apart.
I need to find my way back to Brooklyn too.
- Ron
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