Maybe you could have fun like that, too, David.
Impossible (smile). Dressing up in costume outside of Halloween? I can't even enjoy a sunset. Do you know why? Because ten seconds into enjoying it, I'm conscious of those awful wordless scenes in movies where the actor looks reflectively into the sunset, "contemplating his very being." I start to feel pretentious about it.
It's like that scene by Larry David in "Curb Your Enthusiasm" on HBO. He's at the beach with his wife. He's looking at the ocean, befuddled, confused. And he says something like, "You know, I don't get it. I don't understand the fascination people have about beautiful sunsets and the ocean. But I'm afraid I'm missing out on something everyone else gets." So he keeps looking, searching for something that's not there. He keeps shaking his head because he DOES NOT get it. It's actually funny.
Boy, it's obvious I have a lot of hang ups. I'm cursed.
-d.
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From: Yafet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Kusumoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MOPO] "Real" Movie Poster Collectors Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 01:14:23 -0500
David and MoPo-
I thought I was too tired to answer any of these posts tonight, but your last line triggered a recent memory. My husband, Steven, and I went to a restored movie palace a few weeks ago to see Forbidden Planet and Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. All well and good, but the friends we were meeting assured us that they would cobble together some kind of Halloween costumes, too. So, we show up in our genuine tupas (actually used in Defending Your Life) and the only other costumes in the whole place were on the screen. Weren't we charming? Then, the first person I see when we walk in is someone I know from being one the board of education in his town (I am on the board in my town - same county as the person I saw) and his wife. Nice intro, right?
Maybe you could have fun like that, too, David.
Nathalie
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From: David Kusumoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: David Kusumoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "Real" Movie Poster Collectors Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:48:57 -0800
Loved your post; no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't shake the image others have always had about paper and book collecting as being high on the "geek factor" thermometer. I may not have looked like a geek, but the tag stuck. Pimply faced, too cerebral, editor of school paper, no girlfriend; a social loser, in otherwords. Flash forward many decades later; things turned out OK, considering no one believed I'd ever make it as a broadcast journalist. I do draw the line, however. I won't dress up like a "in character" at those Trek-fests or comic-conventions.
-d.
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From: Greg Douglass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Greg Douglass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "Real" Movie Poster Collectors Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:12:12 -0800
Look...it's very simple....a movie poster collector is someone who amasses
original cinema advertising material on an ongoing basis. "Real movie poster
collector" is a ridiculously subjective term. I have been a poster collector
since 1963; that's 41 years of buying and selling vintage material, almost
all of it pre 1970. I spend several thousand dollars a year on movie
material. That makes me no more of a "real" collector than Amanda, whose
tastes run to modern movies and modern stars. Remember...when I started
collecting, "modern" films were AIP's THE RAVEN, KING KONG VS GODZILLA, and
PIT & THE PENDULUM, and the "uppity-ups" back in the Sixties thought getting
those titles was kind of silly. Even the 50's AIP posters...junk like ATTACK
OF THE 50 FT WOMAN.... were frowned upon as valueless crap by the "real"
collectors I dealt with as a kid. Screw 'em then, and screw 'em now.
Collectors should collect what makes them resonate emotionally; heck, I'll
bet
anything that whoever won the BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN lobby card loved the
movie as a kid. (For forty big ones, I would hope so....).
Phillip, relax and enjoy the diversity that is MOPO. Granted, you and
I have similar tastes, we both spend too goddamned much money on paper every
year, and we're pretty snobby in my own way about what I put into our mutual
little Stashes of Trash every year. But remember...in
the eyes of the rest of the world, we are ALL Poster Geeks. There are
well-to-do Poster Geeks, like Claude, there is Bruce Hershenson, (the Bill
Gates of Poster Geeks), there's Amanda, the Gen X-Alternative Poster
Geekette...we're all Geeks on this bus. That's what makes MOPO, and Style B,
so doggoned interesting.
Let us wave our geek flags high and save the pissing contests for things
other than our shared obsession.
Greg Douglass Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
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