Comments on: Memories of VHS

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:18:22 +0000

I remember on starwars episode IV that when darth vadar was chasing luke, when luke was in the x wing trying to blow up the death star, he said “The force is strong with this one”
But for years, I thought he said “What a strong swinger”
If you listen to it, you can totally hear him say that. I think the quality of the vhs tape, taping starwars off channel 7 back in the early 90s might have augmented the unintelligible line. I bet my neighbour my best ‘stonka’ marble, and my best ‘snott’ green marble that the line was ‘what a strong swinger’ and he brought a script to school showing I was wrong, to claim his prize.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:24:38 +0000

very awesome! without a DVR, we have been taping shows when we are gonna be late from getting food. sooo ghetto!

By: VHS

VHS — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:42:59 +0000

I still have the Gold Star War The Original Trilogy boxset around my house. My older brother taped over a few tapes just to record music videos, now I don’t know were those are.

By: fingers

fingers — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:25:05 +0000

Will, I like your blog a lot and I like you’re style, so I’m going to let you and the other readers in on a little secret of my past in appreciation for this post:

In my curious days of adolescence, which predated both having my own computer and having high-speed internet, the closest thing I had to pornography at my disposal was the sex scene with Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas from Desperado, which my brother had taped on VHS one day. I used to fish out that tape, fast forward to that scene, watch it a bunch of times, yadda yadda yadda when I was finished I would rewind it to an arbitrary point in the video and bury it deep within the video cabinet because I was terrified of being found out.

By the end of it, I had the exact time of that scene, as well as the rest of the whole sick process memorized like my multiplication tables.

I’ve never told anyone about it, but surely other kids did stuff like this too. Uh, right?

Anyway, great topic for a great post!