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The Blockbuster Video franchise has fallen like a butterfly's powerful hand held net-friendly rental like Netflix, making the trip to the video store a dinosaur in its own right. This dinosaur is not CGI, or a practice effect; .. it is a social event that is spelling disaster for the Conglomerates big video rental Yet the phenomenon is growing loyal devotees back to theater chains owned and managed and the return could not be sweeter. Years ago, Blockbuster was stealing their business. The ability fashionable to rent movies more upscale attracted families commuter tote their outfits, like Wal-Mart, etc.. Why not be able to rent two movies Olsen twins while putting a new version waiting for Dad. Your only commitment is back. Mom and pop shops feel the pressure and to pray for a change of custody of celluloid, so to speak. And it came as a double-Bes Internet while stealing customers away from Louisiana underestimated large video chain, Blockbuster has in fact killed. Now the playing field was even and local consumers were not fooled or coerced into going to the membership card more acceptable, but trying to fill the void of hard to find the titles of their neighbors. The video geek is risen from the ashes and they all came to this oasis of beauty located on Veterans Highway in Metairie, LA, allied with two other locations in the French Quarter.Major Video is the only video store the state-probably the South as a whole, which offers a section Cult Movies. Not only do they offer it for your enjoyment, but it overlooks the entrance to the space. Over 400 titles alone litter the shelves, from John Waters' "Polyester" with more favorable tariff general public as "Bad Taste", directed. facilitated by Peter Jackson's eyes, you will not find "Runaway Bride" It is the house of their securities as if they were protecting precious works of art;. forgotten masterpieces by the "Pretty Woman" crowd, still recalled by time. Meeting the contents shifted and the value of production of these bad movies as brilliant as the host church worships the Sistine Chapel.Its exclusively for students of film, pleading with nostalgia for the strange and bizarre, in fact, an operation elitist. They are such purists that they refuse to wave the Cult haven with any form of VHS DVD. "Now the time of these films ... they look bad on purpose and if it does not look the way proposed by Todd Haynes 'Superstar: Karen Carpenter Story'. I do not regard an employee ...", comments They are all anonymous geeks video closet, wearing their desire to third or fourth generation tapes of quality as a badge of honor under them in the suburbs. They openly criticize the choices of customers to checkout and debate on the romantic connotations of E. Elias Merhige "Son" when they restock. They are my heroes and my months peers.After desperate attempts to Blockbuster to find their clients with "end of late fees" of the pseudo campaign staff Major video has no fears for their business. They expect high returns when 'Sin City' hits the shelves in the coming weeks and prepare to start making Atari, Nintendo, and their respective retro games available to the public through weekly rentals fans of all types:. evil, strange, rare, and the rest should sleep a little better come at night, knowing they are not alone in their local economy. Geeks have replaced mom and dad, has defended the borders of the "Big Easy" against Blockbuster, and welcomed the allied relationship Netflix. They will continue to offer gems to discover the history of cinema and defend their right to treat fans like Julia Roberts dangerous invaders from their children. As it does not go to fists, they go on and debate, not complain, and over-theorizing about anyone who dares try to question their heart of what society has deemed "bad movies . Their products have earned a lifetime, and so they have.

Five years ago, I went for my yearly mammogram as I had been doing for over a decade. As usual, I thought nothing of it until I received a phone call from my doctor advised me that there was "something suspicious" on a x-ray and that I should come immediately to talk about it because I needed to take a closer look close to it. Fear seized me immediately as I began to imagine all the worst situations that could evoke in my mind. I kept hearing his voice over and over again in my saying, "You have breast cancer." However gripped by fear I went to the doctor's office, where he proceeded to explain his suspicions and told me I had to a biopsy. Even in crowds of fear programmed for the procedure performed. His suspicions were confirmed. Had breast cancer. My treatment was a lumpectomy and 8 weeks of radiation therapy. I refused oral chemotherapy, which means I have increased my success rate at 10 percent. When I found my general health and side effects of chemotherapy, she knew she had made the right decision for me at that time. Which brings me to the most important things I learned as a survivor of breast cancer: 1) I had to take responsibility and be involved in my treatment and care, and 2) could not return to life as usual . I had changed. I felt like I had faced the enemy called death and lived to tell. This may sound melodramatic and / or delusional, but has given me a different perspective on my life and what really matters. It was impossible for me to continue with life as usual after facing and surviving the "Big C." Although I felt vulnerable, sometimes I was also encouraged to take another giant who had been around for over 30 years : I was a high school dropout. I decided to return to school, first for my GED and then for my associate degree. Immediately enrolled in school that would take me to a degree GED in one fell swoop. I dived into the school as full-day students, while receiving radiotherapy. My counselor was the only person who committed at school. I knew I was in school all day and rushed to the hospital for radiation. For everyone else it was just another student trying to pass. I managed to get through my first semester in honor to the list of the President. Within a year he had completed the study needed to get my GED and two years who had earned my associate degree. Those two years were the first five years of pain during which I faced my greatest fears and giants. My health was in decline. It seemed like every time I went to the doctor that there was something wrong. All you need to be low was high and what should be high was low. I felt miserable. I had no income, no money and then my mother died, I totally devastated. There I was, a breast cancer survivor and feeling deprived of love and life. I was diagnosed and treated for depression. The cancer had gone away from my body, but the fact that I was a cancer survivor was a constant source of encouragement and empowerment subconscious that kept me even when he succumbed to depression as a means of temporary escape after an old injury fired and unable to me a while. I switched to a school that offers an independent study program that allowed me to study at my own pace at home. I've done my four years of college and got my Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Meanwhile, writing school papers had awakened the writer in me and I wrote a manuscript, which is then submitted to a publisher. It was accepted and published this year under the title "State dropped -.. It is not a character flaw last but certainly not lease, which just celebrated five years as a breast cancer survivor My life has taken a new direction. I feel like I have given a new lease on life. I am a college graduate, a breast cancer survivor and author on the path to a new life and new beginnings.