Scifirenegade's Trash Can

They found a whole episode of Suncoast Digest featuring Christine Chubbuck! Months ago, but still.

YouTube link here, the original upload is also in the description.

Like how many people only remember Van Gogh by the ear incident, people only remember Chubbuck by her last appearance on television (search for it at your own risk). It saddens me, she truly was passionate about journalism, and hated how sensationalist it got. I'm glad there are others out there who see her as a human being. It's all about compassion.

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On a nicer, more comical note, on Christmas Eve, I rewatched The Passing of the Third Floor Back, which is always a heartwarming thing to do, albeit bittersweet.

I also rewatched Escape, because I thought the Oberaertz I was wriring in my Very Indulgent Thing was a bit too Von Kolb-ey. And I was right, he feels very Von Kolb-ey. Terrifying.

Also I had to stop to do something, and came back to this.



Truly the most eyebrow to ever eyebrow.

(Learnt that Cukor did some uncredited work here too. Maybe he should've directed the whole film.)

Yesterday, I found Conrad Veidt: My Life in random Russian site. Very Windows Movie Maker. Also, My Life my arse, it's random opinions about films and mostly random opinions about people. The narrator is doing the worst German accent (get it, 'cause it's Connie telling the story hahaha).

I knew it was gonna be bad, since I read chiaroscuros' thoughts, but gee. Nobody really knows how to do a decent biographical work on Herr Veidt??

(Apparently that 80s German documentary is factually decent, and very well written, with lots of lyrical word usage. I don't know.)

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I have yet to snoop the Yuletide entries. I have to snoop a lot of exchange entries this year.

The Internet Archive was forced to delete half a million books due to that lawsuit. It's still ongoing. We live in the darkest timeline.

The Internet Archive is a godsend, it helped me immensely throughout my uni life. My local libraries don't always have the books I need (and for those not in the know, I've been living a nightmare related to interlibrary loans). It's not just an essential tool, it's an essential place, a library; albeit not a physical one.

Copywright must die. It destroys the preservation and availability of media. It's because of it that a whole bunch of film restorations never see the light of day besides special screenings.

Or How I Learnt To Stop Clicking and Love Reading

This doesn't make any sense, now does it?

It all starts with an alternative application for Youtube on Android: Newpipe! It's great because you can listen to music while the phone is locked, there's no ads and you can get rid of the recommendation system.

It also let's you download videos, audio and captions.

So, when I am on my phone and find something on Youtube that shouldn't be there because of copyright, I immediately download it, and later put it on my PC or on an external drive. One of those things, was a certain episode from a soap called Angels.

( On Angels and Jacqueline Hill's work, for it got rambly )

Angels was always elusive. So when the lovelies Katie and Claire posted that picspam, I yelled and snatched it with Newpipe. And had it on my phone for months.

Then Network decided to release the legendary Maigret TV series with Rupert Davies on DVD amd Bluray. Awesome! Jackie was in an ep there too, and the show seems right up my alley. But the price was too much for me.

A few weeks ago, The Trap gets posted on Youtube. I do the same as I did with the Angels ep: snatched it immediately. Her performance is fan-tas-tic! Jacqueline Hill is a master of subtlety, and I loved looking at all the little gestures she made. Pretty good ep too, a bit dated maybe, but it threw me off the loop.

Oh Newpipe, my little friend. If only your user interface did not suck. Because as I was trying to clean up my downloaded videos history, you delete all the videos I downloaded.

All of them.

The good news is that I got almost them all back. It was a pain, but I managed it. The bad news is that it was almost all of them. Bye bye Angels.

Why is deleting all video files even an option? I'm assuming it's a techbro thing, but it's stupid. Even more stupid is the lack of "Are you sure?" prompts. And even more stupid is that the prompt is like

"Would you like to delete your downloaded video history or your downloaded video files?"

And they reverse the options, so the first option is to delete the video files. I'm not a UI expert, but I don't think that's how you do it.

So now I'm praying to Yetaxa hoping that the episode gets uploaded somewhere again that isn't a scam site.

I have a data hoarder mind. My fear of some sort of media getting lost forever is really big, so I love archiving!

When I heard that Sega's 7th Dragon websites were going down... I had to do something. So I'm saving them using the Wayback Machine + saving the .swfs (those sites are filled with Flash files, it's not even funny).

I'm not familiar with the franchise at all, but some people are, and it is for them I'm doing this :D

Since Photobucket is shite and tinypic is... nonexistant?? Also shite?? I'm saving a bunch of LJ icons. Cept they are mostly Doctor Who related. Classic Who related. Yeah.

I have more than 1000 now. And I'm doing these manually because Photobucket, as I said, is shite and is making me save them as .webp or whatever instead of .jpg or .png or .gif.