In Support Of VHS
I’m an old soul. I like hot rods, I buy music on vinyl (and I did long before it suddenly got cool again), I smoke a pipe (though I’ve cut way back). My point is that I often dismiss the modern comforts of technology in favor of nostalgic methods. The same goes for the way I watch certain films. Don’t get me wrong–I have a library full of Blu-rays and DVDs–but I simply prefer to watch some films on VHS. I think it goes back to my experiences in the Video Rental Store as a kid. There was just something about walking into a store full of movies and looking at all of those giant clamshell cassette cases on the shelves. Back then, the cover art on those boxes were truly works of art. Nowadays, it seems like every DVD you see in the store was packaged in a cheap, photoshopped rush-job. Some of those classic box images are ingrained
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