Peeved at Lucas
Dec. 12th, 2005 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melcharSo what else is new?
OK, so I'm disappointed with the 'episodes 1-3' Star Wars flicks. Fine. But I discovered a new depth of annoyance.
My momn is another Luddite. She has a VCR and does not want a DVD player. One of the gifts she DID ask for was 'Revenge of the Sith'. AHA! thought I - since -everything- else she wanted is exacting, specific and takes visiting a half-dozen stores to find.
And then I learned that Lucas has -refused- to allow 'Ep3' to be released on VHS. WTF? What sort of twisted mind -does- that?
So the ONLY way I can get my mom a prezzie she actually wants is to get the DVD, finds someone with a DVD/VCR player that can -tape- from DVD and do a copy for her that way. And it is thus highly unlikely that I'll be able to give her 'Sith' for Xmas. [sighs]
And DON'T get me started about trying to find 60"x90" rectangular, ivory-colored, all plastic tablecloths [not cloth-backed]!
OK, so I'm disappointed with the 'episodes 1-3' Star Wars flicks. Fine. But I discovered a new depth of annoyance.
My momn is another Luddite. She has a VCR and does not want a DVD player. One of the gifts she DID ask for was 'Revenge of the Sith'. AHA! thought I - since -everything- else she wanted is exacting, specific and takes visiting a half-dozen stores to find.
And then I learned that Lucas has -refused- to allow 'Ep3' to be released on VHS. WTF? What sort of twisted mind -does- that?
So the ONLY way I can get my mom a prezzie she actually wants is to get the DVD, finds someone with a DVD/VCR player that can -tape- from DVD and do a copy for her that way. And it is thus highly unlikely that I'll be able to give her 'Sith' for Xmas. [sighs]
And DON'T get me started about trying to find 60"x90" rectangular, ivory-colored, all plastic tablecloths [not cloth-backed]!
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Date: 2005-12-13 07:27 am (UTC)She has an Admiral TV that is more than 20 years old and that she will not replace because it matches the decor of her living room.
She has a VCR that is almost 10 years old that she has NO idea how it works [other than tape goes in here, push this to start/stop] - and any adjustment to both IT and the TV are demanded of Trey when we go 'down to So.Cal' 2x year. But she will not allow it to be replaced as long as it works.
I've asked - offered to get her a new VCR, DVD player [or combination of the pair].
Of course, far be it for me to complain about someone -else- being stubborn - but .... maybe I can see where I get it from