and so on to (another) new year. not sure, to be honest, if i actually have the will, stamina or interest to keep doing updates here. but let me try and plod on, look you see, for what else would i do with what little time i have. quite possibly getting a new keyboard might make writing more interesting, as i really do not care for the one i am presently using.
oddly i have had (considerably) more time than i would be used to having "off", as in not being at verk. taken annual leave, as it were, or on "holiday". mostly i have spent this kind of laid up doing little, feeling the rather unpleasant affects (or effects if that is right) of a nasty bout of ebola laced man flu, which is the worst kind.
still, i have at the least tried to watch some of the videos (discs) i have amassed over the year. a problem with doing this was becoming aware of just how many i had picked up, and thus wondering where to start with them all. it might be the case that i don't need to get any new ones for a while, although i very much will be purchasing the video (disc) of The Substance when it comes out.
in the mean time i watched the one above, called (as it is) The Agfa Horror Trailer Show. my assumption was that the "agfa" part there was something to do with a camera film company (and possibly cameras too) that i can vaguely recall from the 80s. not so, i believe it is initials, or an acronym since (to be fair) it is a kind of pronounceable word, for "American Genre Film Archive" or something like that.
my purchase of this, as part of some "2 for £15" deal, was purely based on the idea that it was highly likely some of the trailers on the disc would feature an agreeable level of nudies. bit hit and miss on this front, really, as there are a few moments of very pleasant nudies, but perhaps not quite so much as i would have liked for the money. a friend and colleague who was with me when i purchased it commented that it was "f*****g ridiculous", the idea of paying for what essentially amounted to watching some adverts, may well have had a good point.
there are a few points of interest on the disc. certainly an unexpected highlight was a (brief) advert for cigarettes, as pictured above. yes, indeed i have had the chance to try a few of them, some quite frequently. unlikely that i will play the disc again, though. although who knows. the kind of grainy, rough "real" film feel was most enjoyable compared to the usual smooth, sickly and quite nauseating sense one gets from new "digital" film. but that said the "extras", a set of trailers for films made on video directly for the video market (and featuring far too many Nigerian films) was awful.
likely it shall just sit as yet another eccentric, off the beaten track volume in my video (disc) collection. perhaps it would have been a bit better if there was some sort of thematic link to the films for which the trailers are included here (if that sentence makes sense), or if there was an idea that the trailers were all set out in some specific order. just randomly taped together and shoved on a disc appears to have been what they went for.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
