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Gone Fission wrote:Brings up a mini obsession of mine: Obsolete tech that wasn't obsolete when the song lyric was written. Examples: the Replacements' Answering Machine, the Campfire Girls' Motorola Casanova [as in the pager]. In Pyschedelic Furs' All of the Law "and they're taking it down / written in silver" I've always taken to be about the old silver emulsion camera film, now a throw back.

Jim Croce's Operator is so heartbreaking and confusing that way.

One of the things I got for Christmas last year was a ColecoVision Flashback. I've been playing it more than my PS4...

D.o.S. wrote:Almost all of my favorite stories/films are set in an era before cell phones.

oh my god yes, this is absolutely ruinous now, like the existence of cell phones is almost a kind of catch 22 for storytelling.
like i can't fucking stand it on the show Bates Motel when young angsty Norman hears that same damn text sound we hear IRL and reaches for his iPhone..
but at the same time it's weird when movies and shows just decide to conveniently ignore the existence of cell phone technology, putting suspension of disbelief at risk.

I really like the movie The Ring. Especially in retrospect as it was totally a time capsule for late-90's/early 2000's
when VCRs, CRT TVs, and Regular Telephones were still much more widely common. It had already started to turn but only subtly at that time.
Another good example of this is Scream. 1997 i think it was. "What are you boys doing with a cellular phone?" "We cloned the cellular!" etc.

Maybe i'll make a shirt depicting the scene where Stu gets his head crushed by that big ass blue-screened Tv. As like, a statement... man...

And how Infinite Jest totally failed to predict Netflix...

I saw a 60's Sony portable record player yesterday in new condition in a Preachers garage being used as a plant holder and I has a sad...