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hollybrooke ([personal profile] hollybrooke) wrote2010-09-11 07:54 am

and now, the randomness of it all!

....Zero actually sent me a message on Facebook?! What the hell is this about?

Z Daniel Esgate
Z Daniel EsgateSeptember 10, 2010 at 3:31am
Thanks for posting this, Ed!

Fuck Yeah! Support your scene!

The Wilmette is a nice, small theater. The atmosphere's more personal than what you'd expect at the Art or the Music Box. In my personal opinion, that's the funnest way to watch a show!

It'd be a first time exposure to another cast, for many of you. I can't stress strongly enough how important it is to the community as a whole to show that Rocky love.


....Oh. I see what u did thar. Nice effort, though, as long as it's for Rocky Horror.

Even though I'm not doing cast anymore, the interactions I had with him at the Art were civil, to say the least. One of the last shows I did, I kept a ladder from falling over on him backstage. He didn't thank me or anything. I expected as much. Bastard.


*tangent* Well, either my adapter for my TV/DVD player has take a crap, or I need to call DirecTV to do something about my service. The other night, I was re-adjusting wiring for the DVD player and the Blu-Ray player, and I don't know if I knocked something out of place, but now all I get is static. Like I have no DirecTV signal at all. But neither the DVD player nor the Blu-Ray player are working when I turn them on, so I suspect it's the adapter. I'll be making a trip to WalMart in about a half hour to see if I can get a new one.

Why do I need an adapter, you ask? I have an old-ish TV with a weird way of hooking up in the back that's not exactly compatible with current DVD players or my DirecTV wire. I could probably use a new digital TV, but I don't have the money for it right now. But I never bothered setting up my digital converter box because I've been making do with my DirecTV for the time being.

And why do I have a DVD player and a Blu-Ray player? The DVD player has a VCR attached to it. Why do I still bother with a VCR? Because I still have a shit-ton of VHS tapes, that's why.


*tangent* It's Kevin's birthday today. :) I still gotta make him his cookies.

[identity profile] ericadawn16.livejournal.com 2010-09-11 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes...I got a DVR in spring 2009. I had a 1997 television so there was an adapter for the dvd player plus two VCRs. The DirectTV guy just looks at it and goes, Well, that's not going to work.
The DVR didn't have a COAX output at all and we were using the adapter for the dvd player so we had to buy a new tv. Now we use the old tv for the dvd and VCR...one of the VCRs had to go after it chewed Can't Hardly Wait.

Now Disney is trying to make it impossible not to have BluRay, too.

[identity profile] promisemewings.livejournal.com 2010-09-11 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, Disney's been putting out those DVD/Blu-Ray bundle packs, but who knows how much longer they'll do that.

But yeah. If anything, I'll just be looking into getting a new TV when they go on sale Black Friday. I've got about two months, LOL.

[identity profile] ericadawn16.livejournal.com 2010-09-11 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I love the combo packs BUT have you seen the two newest announced DVDs, Toy Story 3 and The Sorcerer's Apprentice?

Toy Story 3
DVD: 10 special features
BluRay: Over 13, including commentary, the animated short and the Lotso commercials

The Sorcerer's Apprentice
DVD: 1 deleted scene and one Making Of special feature
BluRay: 17 special features including 5 deleted scenes

It seems clear Disney is taking an ax to the dvd. If the playstation had a Kinect or Wii stuff, I'd probably get that. As it is...I don't know.