[geeks] Smokey and the Bandit

[Dave Fischer]

lionel4287 at verizon.net writes:

>Watching the movie now an AMC (East Coast), and after the fourth or fifth 
>"revised" line, I decided I need to get the DVD.

>Amazon had $10 DVD of the first movie, or $15 for all three on one DVD - I 
>opted for the latter, since I, along with most of the civilized world, never 
>saw the second or third version...

>I hear they get progressively worse...

That's hard to imagine.

>To round out my order, and get free shipping, I bought a couple books on 
>Kraftwerk - I'm nothing if not Ecclectic ;^) My last few books were (in 
>reverse order):

There's a lot of heavily Kraftwerk influenced bands popping up recently.
The whole "electroclash" thing, etc. The local band along those lines in
Providence is Mahi-Mahi. They're great.

>Men in Black (analysis of the Supreme Court)
>What the Dormouse Said (how the counterculture influenced the personal 
>computer industry)
>(Some book about Vanevar Bush - wrote "As We May Think", I can't remember the 
>title ;^)

Nice.

My online DVD purchases are generally silent classics (Metropolis,
Nosferatu, Caligari, etc.), Tarkovsky (the GREATEST DIRECTOR OF ALL
TIME... ahem.), or Jodorowsky (possibly the weirdest director of
all time).

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