Back From the Rot

Earlier this week I realized how I missed blogs and so I put out a call on my super niche microblog network for blogs to add to my RSS feeder. In return folks were all "where's your blog?" I didn't want to disappoint the *mumbles an incredibly small number under my breath* amount of people that wanted to hear more from me so I have revived the LaserDisc Rot blog. I'll still post thoughts on media here. Sometimes. Maybe. 🤷 But I'll at least do this weekly (and maybe more depending on how loquacious I'm feeling).

The big project in my life right now is the Appalachia Cinema Preservation Society. It spawned from my old dream to open a LaserDisc Museum and Theater - and that dream still smolders in my heart. But I had a friend on my super niche microblog network also putting serious consideration into wanting a theater - specifically one of the three derelict historical theaters in his township. The theater that I was once looking at for a potential site for the LDM&T was first opened in 1925 - a 100 year old building that is now just sitting empty. It got me thinking that if on this super niche microblog network there were two people in the Appalachian region with dreams of revitalizing theaters... that might be a thing.

So the Appalachia Cinema Preservation Society is now a thing. We have a website and everything, which I'm still tinkering on. Best believe I'll be promoting that here once its ready.

As for media, I guess my most interesting story is how last month I was wrapping up a rewatch of the old Avatar: The Last Airbender show. I still believe it's one of the best written shows ever. I then tried a rewatch of The Legend of Korra and it doesn't age as well. All that is a build up to the recently announced Avatar: Aang, the Last Airbender film that was going to just be released for streaming in a few months. And it apparently leaked in its entirety. So I watched it!

It was pretty entertaining, more akin to the writing of Avatar than Korra but some of the pacing felt rushed at times. I read somewhere it was meant to have a theatrical release at some point but then it got kicked to streaming instead. It just made the wounds of how poorly Nickelodeon and Paramount have treated Avatar over the years. So I felt some joy in reading how the execs were grumpy it leaked.

Hope you have a good day. I'm gonna get back to building a website for ACPS. 💜

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