Finally! Good idea, Greg. I owe you.
I started innocently enough by visiting this shop full of neat stuff
where I had once bought records. Anyway, the guy had some posters
and one for Kansas City Bomber caught my eye because Raquel Welch as
a rollerderby girl just has a certain profound effect on me. Anyway,
that was my entry and then a few months later, I finally got online
and while looking up movies to buy, I came across posters that were
priced, at times, similarly and at other times they were even
cheaper. I think it was 'Wise Blood' that I was initially looking
for and found the poster. Then I started buying more due to my big
interest in movies and, as I learned, a bigger interest developed.
Odd. So, I also remember, at one point, deciding that I was going to
buy 100 film posters. Maybe I'd trade one off to get a new one or
whatever but I had this idea about having exactly 100. Well, it's
over 2000 pieces now and I still don't have a one sheet for Wise
Blood but I am thrilled about the DVD being just newly released and I
am ordering it very soon.
Take care,
Michael
On 2-Jun-09, at 10:02 PM, jbirddouglass wrote:
OK, OK, perhaps I'm being biased and presumptuous again, but,
yeah, maybe it's time to take a break from the American Idol talk.
I think I'm starting to grow a uterus.
I'm sure this has been discussed here before, but I'm really
curious; what was it that drove you to become a collector of movie
paper? Obviously, we all love films, but where did you find that
first piece that set the hook? did you come across it by chance, or
did you seek it out? Who sold it to you? This ain't exactly a
mainstream hobby like stamp collecting, so what beaten path did you
step off of to become a hopeless poster geek? There's a treasure
trove of old-time collectors on this list, plus a fair amount of
new blood (those guys under 70), and I'm sure there's some
fascinating tales out there. I always enjoyed Bruce H's collector
profiles...now I'd like to hear about some of my MOPO mates. I'll
chime in later; after months of lurking, I've suddenly developed
explosive MOPO diarrhea, so I'll give you guys a break and listen.
Greg Douglass
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