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The fresh VHS train continues to roll on, Tapeheads, and there’s little else we love more than some homegrown home video insanity. Cue Brewce Longo and the new curation of his animation creations titled HEADLESS EYES CLAYMATION. Produced on videocassette by VIDEO ARENA, the elusive analog-only imprint that brought you MONSTER JUNGLE and other VHStrange mix-tape slabs. The HEC tape is limited to 50 copies exclusively on VHS, and is available and ready to invade your VCR by visiting HERE.         Here’s a little background on Longo’s journey through his self-taught artistry: “I started animating about 4...

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  If you’re looking for the most bodacious gathering of Tapeheads on the planet, you just hit pay dirt, dudes. Presented by LUNCHMEAT, SATURN’S CORE AUDIO & VIDEO, and THE MAHONING DRIVE-IN THEATER, we are totally VHStoked to offer two days and nights of ultimate VHS ecstasy, featuring six video era classics on the big screen projected from VHS, rewind-inclined vendors slingin’ dope rarities and essential analog gems, and late night VHSocializing (from a safe distance, dudes!).  You in? Dig it. Tickets are available HERE.         We press play on September 18th and 19th at Mahoning Drive-In...

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It’s the most common complication in the current state of our world: you’re VHStuck at home, and in dire need of some weird, wild, and wonderfully ridiculous entertainment… but your last VCR just went on the fritz, or even worse: you’re completely VCR-less. Not to worry, dudes: we got you. LUNCHMEAT is super VHStoked to team up with Alamo Drafthouse and curate a rewind-radical six-pack of VHS-driven flicks for Alamo On Demand!   Here’s all the details on this exclusive LUNCHMEAT collection now available on Alamo On Demand. Crack open this six pack of VHS-fueled entertainment and take a rewind-radical...

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The rewind-inclined regulars here at Lunchmeat are well aware that the preservation of home video history and culture is the main objective in our overall mission. So, when Video Sanctum main-brain Benny Junko approached us with the intention of using our channel as a platform to share the hidden yet impossibly complete history of Audio/Video Plus, we were all aboard, dude. But first, a bit of information and contextualization is in order, just to get everyone up to VHSpeed.     The AVP Storefront, now vacant, after many years of video excellence. Photo by Jack Lawrence.     Established in...

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Tonight, June 15th 2020 at 10PM marks the online premiere of what is likely the most fascinating and historically significant document of videotape culture ever recorded. Sound bold? Consider this: In 1979, alarmed by the amount of misinformation that television was consistently spewing forth, a Philadelphia-based activist named Marion Stokes began taping TV news programs 24 hours a day, and did so for over 30 years. At her passing in 2012, Stokes’ massive collection totaled to over 70,000 tapes, capturing everything from catastrophes to commercials, resulting in a videotaped time capsule of what television looked and sounded like for over...

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