Thursday, September 17, 2020

TBT, What the heck's a DVD?


Yes, there were a few imagined perks to seeing everything that came into the library first (second, after Acquisitions). Like getting to check out kid books from TLC (later TRC) for my son for a whole year (he thought they were his by the time they came due.) And getting early dibs on new DVDs. Not. 

"Thirty feet from stardom" is about under-celebrated female backup singers, thus "the chicks will reappear." And my former name rhymed easily so there it is.  Hmm, put this one to music perhaps? BTW, I still want to be a backup singer when I grow up.

As you see, the next week, "Thirty feet" was still wrongly deemed "available" so I wrote another DVD doggerel. Dogged doggerel dame.

 DVD paranoia       (2/27/14)

I'm sad, I'm mad, I'm all put out;

I've lost my bit of clout.

my film's not ever on the shelf;

"Avail'ble"??! I looked, myself!


So many Feet from Stardom sits

somewhere on someone's desk.

The greedy so and so and so's 

aren't letting me be next!


[      (Interlude)

Am quite annoyed, am being toyed

with, no, just paranoid (says Freud).

No clout, it's out and yet I doubt...

it wouldn't help to pout (says Stout).  ]


Just check again, just wait some more.

The chicks will reappear


(Oh no, they won't, it's very clear:

they're stuck in someone's drawer!!)


[     (Finale)

Mad, sad, clout, Stout, all you do is mope.

Wait, fate, check, heck, there really is no hope.  ]


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Another DVD pome!      (3/3/14)


The weather's going to get real cold,

oh yes, this is becoming old.

We'll need a fire and films to view;

the one we want's still out and due.


I scanned the shelves of comedy

and found two good ones, can't have three.

The one with Dreyfuss, Gandolfin(i),

other one that Amber's seen.


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