@connrrr I wouldāve had to probably
Les Pee Wees du Pop
Les Pee Wees du Pop!!
I might go back for it
@connrrr Love the grammatical error in āSi jāetait un hommeā
Tangentially-related record I picked up a few months ago:
I went to Goodwill today and got two light jazz cds and a copy of Microsoft office lol
Not pictured, LPS of David Sanborn and an heifetz album that includes his performance of ziguenerweisen
OH YEAH also we got the holiday hero himself. We donāt buy Christmas trees so we decorated a monsteraā
I bought this plug and play for $4 at Goodwill last week. The batteries had exploded which seems to be the norm for most of these I find in the wild. I brought it home and with a little white vinegar and a toothbrush I was able to clean up the battery contacts and get it working again.
Crackpots was pretty fun.
Also I love thrift shopping so Iām glad I have a place to show off all the weird stuff I come across.
@Toph I believe this to be one of those nes on a chip consoles frank is always on about (quite a few atari/intellivision collections like this are just āemulatedā on an nes one-chip)
@exodus Hot damn, dude. I hope HPB didnāt charge too much! Theyāre so hit or miss on that stuff. Granted, I think I paid $80 for my copy of that widescreen LD of The Keep two years ago at the Alās in the university district a block up from Pink Gorilla. That was a tough price to swallow but Iād been hunting for that disc for so long that I talked myself into it, for better or for worse. My old VHS copy is really showing its wear, needed an upgrade. There was that DVD release from New Zealand or what-have-you as well, but Iāve also got that 1080p scan of the original 35mm print that was finally found not too long ago. I assume you already have a copy of that but if you or anyone else on the forum wants to check it out, shoot me a DM and Iāll send it over. The Keep is so dumb, I love it so much. I wish Mann had gotten to release his original 3.5 hour cut, that would have been so gloriously stupid. Iād sit down for three and a half hours of that movie, if only once.
@andrewelmore nah, it was more than I ever wanted to spend on a laserdisc but it was like 25 bucks. these days you can get it on blu-ray and thereās an SD version of the movie with the original soundtrack on streaming services too. It was still a bargain even with all that stuff though.
I do wish I could watch that long version! make those dreamy corridor sequences 3x as long, heck if I care!
@exodus oh weird, looks like people took that 1080p scan and started selling bootleg blu-rays lol. I guess I shouldnāt be surprised, I just hadnāt even considered that before. Either way, if thatās their source itāll have the original soundtrack since it was from the original reels. You can even tell when the reels change because the outside layers were more damaged and degraded so they look extra crunchy for a little bit, itās pretty good.
Also, wow, twenty five bucks for that one is a steal these days, congrats! Thatās still overall the best way to watch that movie imo. Just feels right.
Classic Venice Beach Groundscore moment
You know, Iāve found a lot of random stuff out in the world over the years of being outsidfe all the time. But it still never ceases to amaze me the sheer frequency, the material metabolism of venice beach and the coincidences I encounter.
On any given day there are 5-100 people of various circumstance doing their runs, checking every garbage bin in town, up and down the boardwalk and through all the alleys. Yet I tend to stumble upon weird rare random junk every time I get up and walk down to the beach one block away.
Two thing which were on my list of things I would like to fall into my lap:
- Nintendo RF adapter, mainly for use with my original PC engine, when I want to limit myself just to hucards and not my SuperSD3System
- A second Wii Nunchuck
And whatayaknow, I was walking through the parking lot at the end of my street to hit the beach shower to rinse some junk off my boot, and sitting in a bin atop the parking lot garbage bin was those two items. The Wii nunchuk is completely unused, with the factory twist-tie still on. Any damage is just from floating around between tweaker camps. Totally Surreal:
Stuff Iāve stumbled upon in this town over the years:
- while dumpster diving I found a reversible officially license white N64 / black Shadows of the empire scrunchie-back cap from the 90ās.
- delivering for postmates on my bicycle I saw a āFREEā bag in someoneās front yard with over 500 dollars of cib clamshell SEGA genesis and european mega drive games with bilingual french manuals printed out over 25 years ago. MEGA BOMBERMAN was the best game in there
- a PS3 slim in the alley behind my buddyās apartment. Which I now use as a DAYTONA USA machine.
- Two original XBOX consoles in excellent condition just sitting on the corner in front of my van.
It makes me get to thinking that I need to hand out business cards like I used to or start doing business telling beach dwellers Iāll pay cash for any video game findings. Because with how rarely I go outside sometimes I know that Iām only seeing 3% of the video games which enter the material metabolism of my ten-block area.
The best way was when I was doing postmates, just being out and riding my bicycle through the neighborhoods is when I would come upon stuff the most. College kids moving out, failed yard sales, the proximity to rich people is a buff. With the tweaker trade, stuff could pass many hands before I stumble upon it, discarded at the beach.
This kinda stuff is absolutely one of the top cool things about living in/near a large city. Thereās less ācurb tradingā where I live now, but I used to see a lot of stuff in north Oakland. Hereās one from sf that was a total fluke
https://twitter.com/necrosofty/status/952336462615166976?t=hF1NR4CI-jqz3qCDwPgxOQ&s=19
Back in my old place you could leave anything (of some value) outside and it'd disappear in 24 hours. Since more people started to figure that out, more people put stuff out. I've gotten lamps, chairs, dinner plates - heck my JVC D-series CRT came from the curb around the corner. my 13" crt came from right outside my house. Good times. Nowadays I put something cool outside and it stays for a week because people assume it's junked!! dang it.
@exodus that reminds me, I left some of my gamer gear on the curb in Oakland before &;
the last time I visited Oakland, I was running out of space and ditched this licensed PlayStation 2 carrying case backpack on a corner across from my buddies apartment near Jefferson street.
I think it was like this, the backpack straps clipped on are missing in this photo. I remember they clipped on weird
āPS2 carrying caseā is the new āstate of kansas jell-o moldā - I do love a good rectangle!
I never leave home without a bag because I always need to be ready in case I find something cool. I definitely in pandemic years took a walk through the graveyard just to clear my head and on the way home found a complete Wii system which I right away hacked to play CPS2 games on a CRT. Shoot I have 5 Xbox Ones and only paid for one of them, the rest were street finds that just needed a HDD or fan replacement.
I got these huge weaponizeable scissors. Theyāre for fabric but I like their comical oversized-ness
@exodus wow, rare clock tower merch!!!
hoo I love thrifting/ garage sales, the best find Iāve gotten in recent memory was at a book sale at the local community centre where all DVDs and games were a dollar. I picked up Railfan cause it just looked neat, but it was apparently an amazing deal since the last one that sold on ebay went for $120 (Canadian prices). Alf is more prominent in the picture cause at the time I thought a japanese alf DVD was the better of the two pick-ups lmao. I didnāt know this thread existed til now, when I get the chance I'll take photos of more of my cool finds over the years.