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Heads up to all the Videovores of Allentown, PA and surrounding areas! The home video history preservation and archival initiative THE MUSEUM OF VHS will be on display at The Alternative Gallery located at 707 N 4th St, Allentown, PA 18102 this coming Thursday, December 29th from 6 P.M. – 10 P.M. This is a totally FREE EVENT! LUNCHMEAT will be on hand and supplying a few choice pieces for this installation, so if you’re in the area, be sure to groove on out and enjoy some most excellent home video history including, but not limited to rare VHS, obscure...

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Blood Video, Blood Video Special Edition, Category_Collecting, Category_Groovy Stuff, Category_Horror, Category_Screenings, Category_VHS, Charles Pinion, Horror Boobs, Mike Hunchback, Twisted Issues VHS, VHS screening, We Await VHS -

Heads up, Videovores! Those rewind-inclined, indie-publishing bra-busters at Horror Boobs have just unleashed a brand-spankin’ new issue of their VHS culture and cinema zine BLOOD VIDEO, and it’s all ready to groove straight into your mailbox! This first-ever special edition BV publication features a whopping 32-page interview with cult underground filmmaker Charles Pinion (Twisted Issues; We Await) conducted by the one-and-only Mike Hunchback, and comes jam-packed with images, illustrations and incredible insight on the entirety of Pinion’s career. Here’s a peek at the cover, which features a full-color illustration from the hand of Charles Pinion himself!     A stack...

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Independently organized VHS swaps and screenings seem to be spreading like rewind-inclined wildfire, Tapeheads. Events like the annual Severed Horror VHS Collector’s Unite convention, Lo-Fi Video’s Buy or Die VHSwaps in L.A., the influence of Tape Eaters in the mid-west, and most recently, the Night of 1000 VHS hosted by Horror Boobs in Brooklyn, all indicate exciting and important times for modern day tape trading and VHS collecting culture. Cue the Pacific Northwest’s answer to the burgeoning presence of tape swap and VHS-centric events: THE SWAPPING DEAD. Come Sunday August 28th, the SD crew will be launching their 5th installment...

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Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn Fire Proof Summer Screenings, Category_Cartoons, Category_Collecting, Category_Groovy Stuff, Category_Horror, Category_Screenings, Category_VHS, Category_Weirdness, Horror Boobs, Night of 1000 VHS Tapes, VHS, VHS Event, VHS swap, VHS Swap NY -

If you’re going to be in the Brooklyn, NY area on Friday, August 19th and are looking for an incredible explosion of analog excitement, look no further, Tapeheads. The video vindicators at Horror Boobs are teaming up with the Brooklyn Fire Proof Summer Screening series to host a monumental rewind-inclined event entitled “Night of 1000 VHS” which will offer a 1000+ tape VHS Swap and a selection of eye-popping analog-era clips, trailers with a secret feature, all screened from genuine VHS sources! No digital on this night, Videovores! Lunchmeat will also be live in the flesh ready with all the...

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Aaron Pratt, Category_Collecting, Category_Groovy Stuff, Category_Horror, Category_Screenings, Category_VHS, Category_Weirdness, David Gary, Library Journal, Library Journal VHS, VHS preservation, Yale University, Yale VHS -

Most of the more up-to-date and in-the-know Tapeheads are probably familiar with the tremendous VHS preservation project that has been underway for the past year or so over at Yale University, spearheaded by a rewind-inclined academic fellow by the name of David J. Gary with the assistance and support of his colleague Aaron Pratt. If you aren’t clued in on all of this home video history-in-the-making, be sure to check out this complete rundown of the entire project as it was covered here on LM featuring an exclusive and extensive interview with both Gary and Pratt. Be sure to also...

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