Ps. This post has nothing to do with the title.

Last night I was telling Adam about how when I was a kid my Dad used to always eject VHS tapes from the VCR with the remote and wouldn’t tell me how it was done. Said it was magic. I was bound and determined to figure out HOW he was doing this, my mission started with the remote. Being that this was well before DVDs the remotes had WAY less buttons and there was NOT an eject button, I inspected it repeatedly I had myself convinced I was missing ‘it’ like how sometimes you walk by the same place 100 times and it isn’t until the 101st time that you notice the front door has a small window in it that was always there but you SWEAR it is a brand new window and you probably feel like you are going crazy but it is only a window and it really was always there so I figured I HAD to be missing something. The remote having failed me I took to spying on my dad or basically just watching him when a movie would end and I saw it I SAW the button he was pressing.

Face/off was at the end because we watched it in our VHS machine which is attached to our DVD player. A month or so back the urge hit us both to watch Face/Off and I KNEW I had it on VHS still because I LOVE IT. I’M CASTOR TROY, I’M CASTOR TROY, YAY! But we went to look for it and it was GONE! If you are reading this and have it please return it, I have no idea who I lent it to and so we were sad but forgot about it until Adam mentioned it to Dvo and Dvo lent us his VHS copy of it.

We were then able to revel in the cheesy splendor of this John Woo circa 1997 classic. We both LOVE the part where Nicolas Cage is totally wasted on drugs and says he wants to take John Travolta’s characters’ FACE OFF! FACCCCCCCCE OFFFFFFFFF. Classic. Just another ‘thing’ that shows how meant to be Adam and I are that we are both HUGE fans of Face/Off probably one of the worst movies of 1997 and not only that we love the same parts. Awesome. I want it on DVD so that we can view the extra features.

So, I pressed Record on the remote and out popped the VHS but I realized that I had not rewound it and I still live by ‘be kind please rewind’ and so I popped it back in and while it was rewinding told Adam the story of how I learned that when you press record the tape ejects and holy shit he didn’t KNOW. I told him “yeah TOTALLY it doesn’t work with recordable tapes but all store bought movies THAT is how you get it out with the remote having NO eject button.” He high fived me, you seriously learn something new everyday. I have no idea how my dad figured it out and VCRs are almost nothing but a memory now.

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