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No Sleep Til Brooklyn: All Roads Lead to VHS

Let me start by saying that I have promoted, performed, & hosted many a music event in my day – too many to even try to count. Before joining Lunchmeat, I toured the underground hip-hop circuit and it took me all over the world; I’ve been DJ’ing in a crew with friends since I was 15 years old & alongside some really great artists – I even opened for some amazing bands, like glassJaw at Brixton Academy in London, in front of 5,000+ screaming fans one awesome evening back in 2007. I spent most of my younger years religiously attending...

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The Hunt for Perpetual October: An Interview with VHS Collector & Preservationist Earl Kessler

Interview by Josh Schafer (7.19.11) Earl Kessler sure is one voracious Videovore. He eats, sleeps, breathes and (of course) watches VHS every day of his life. His fervor for the format, while extreme in comparison to most, isn’t becoming more of rarity these days; quite the opposite - it seems that more and more people are entering the fold, getting chewed up by the collector bug and grabbing every tape they can, by all means necessary. What does this mean for the average tape collector? Does it mean tapes are going to be harder to come by? Yes. Does it...

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Pulp Mill Presents: Golden Age Ads Week 2: America at War

In Lunchmeat #5 I ran a satirical review of a 1943 issue of Startling Stories that captured America at the peak of World War II in a way that I had never really wrapped my mind around before. Now I know America post 9/11 felt like a pretty war crazy place. Startling amounts of Americans were gung-ho about taking out Iraq, wiping their ass with Bin-Laden toilet paper, and WMD could be used as justification for just about everything. Well, all that was nothing compared to the pride Americans felt for the country and their soldiers during World War II....

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VHSculpture for the Ages: MONOLITH by David Herbert!

  Crafted in 2005 by David Herbert, here is an amazing (and huge!) sculpture entitled Monolith, which recreates the cassette for the MGM / UA video release of Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. What an extremely appropriate title for this piece, right?   Made using foam, plexiglass and latex paint, this bad boy measures a whopping 2x4x8 feet! Imagine this thing your living room! What a conversation starter! The attention to detail is outstanding, and the fact that he hand painted all of the lettering on the front of the cassette is too cool.   One thing I did...

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Lucky in Love (with VHS)

Gimmicks encourage sales. That’s a solid fact when it comes to marketing. And VHS video releases were no exception as they employed everything from 3D covers with light up eyes (Imperial Entertainment’s The Dead Pit and Metamorphosis), talking boxes (Shapiro - Glickenhaus’ Frankenhooker), and of course, that natural allure of the almighty big box (see Lunchmeat issue #4 for my write-up on these and a slew of other gimmicky vids!). But I had recently been sent a tape (thanks to Rob from Wild Eye Releasing!) with one of the most amusing (and well-conceived) gimmicks I’ve come across: a flick called...

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