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August 17th, 2013 Metalocalypse heritage post

[image description: nine photos of cats laying curled up into perfectly round orbs, arranged in a 3x3 grid.]

Remembering the almost imperceptible high pitched buzzing that let you know the tv was still on even when nothing was on the screen. Also putting your forearm near the screen and watching the hairs stand up

The little crackle if you touched the screen to wipe it...

Omg no one's even talking about the smell of the screen

This is both horrifying to read and nostalgic

I liked to turn the back of my hand to the screen, right after it was turned off, and pet the static with the little hairs on the backs of my fingers. It felt soft and fluffy.

one of the reasons CRTs are such a hotbed of glitch videography is that unlike modern monitors that block irregular signals, CRTs don't have an opinion about the signal you feed into them. they will display anything. and if you've ever done glitch work with a video modulator or such, you know what it's like negotiating with a living beast. the images you can get are often unpredictable and impossible to reproduce even with the same settings on your hardware, because it's just electricity. there is something magical and strange about the cathode ray tube and when you play with them enough you really remember why The Ring fucked people up so bad. samara climbing out of an HD flat screen is a laughable image; but her climbing out of an old school boob tube? yeah man, i believe it. there's fucking demons in that thing

The craziest part of this trailer. Is that it looks really good. Chat, I have to be honest, it does look good so far. I know being a hater is popular, and a lot of us aren't a fan of VivziePop's original projects, and we're also currently in a community crisis because Gio dropped that stupid attempt at a nuke yesterday, but like... The trailer looks good. This looks good. I'm tentatively hopeful. I need a win. Perhaps this is too optimistic but. Hm.