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    When video revolutionized home entertainment in the 80s and 90s, the message and mission was clear: Watch What You Want When You Want.       Today in Lunchmeat Land we’re going to examine and explore the origin of this official slogan and ephemeral icon, created by the Video Software Dealers Association.   The VSDA was an entity founded in 1981, created to support independent video distribution and rental rights. They’re a huge part of home video history, and I do encourage you to look more at what they did.          I had seen this WWYWWYW...

Yo, Tapeheads! It’s time to announce the most rewind-radical party of the year! Drive-In VHS Fest 9 IS ALIVE!! GRAB TICKETS HERE!    Let’s put reality in the rewinder and get ready for another stack of sizzling slabs on the big, BIG screen when The Mahoning Drive-In Theater, Lunchmeat, and Saturn’s Core present the most awesomely analog event of the year, Drive-In VHS Fest 9! THREE nights of boffo big box beauties and clamshell classics from the hazy ‘n crazy glory days of the video store, projected onto the massive Mahoning screen from original VHS tapes! From Friday, July 11th...

By Billups Allen Once a month, we turn The Lamplighter Lounge in Memphis, Tennessee into a 30-seat movie theater for the purposes of showing director/distro-approved documentaries, psychotronic, horror, sci-fi, and repertory movies under the banner of OFF THE MARQUEE.  Recently we showed the 1985 low-budget masterpiece Savannah Electric, a movie I first heard about through Lunchmeat. ED NOTE: the LUNCHMEAT Savannah Electric VHS release is available HERE. Savannah Electric is a lost classic of low-budget sci-fi. The story involves a bounty hunter tracking an escaped worker across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The escaped worker is part of a factory run by The...

By Josh Schafer   Tapeheads who frequent Lunchmeat Land are surely familiar with the classic mold removal tactics we’ve published in the past, but nascent rewind-inclined entity VHS IS LIFE is ready to revolutionize that process with a machine made expressly to eliminate mold from our favorite format.         Here are the basics you need to know about the VHS IS LIFE mold removal machine:   The cost is $100 per machine. There is also a vacuum attachment (recommended) that will minimize any mold or dirt particles escaping into the air – that vacuum attachment is available...

Yo, Tapeheads! We are wildly VHStoked to team up with author and illustrator extraordinaire Tony Rodriguez to bring you VIDEO FOREVER – an incredibly vibrant and dynamic art book curating a collection of the most colorful video store fronts in the world. VIDEO FOREVER blends art, storytelling, education, and the enduring charm of the video store era.   VIDEO FOREVER Drops SAT, 6/15 at 12PM EST on LUNCHMEATVHS.COM!    This hardcover edition is strictly limited to 100 copies. The first 30 orders receive a signed, high-quality print featuring one of the video stores in the book!       Presented...