The Thousands

For most kids, being at grandma’s for the weekend sucked. Not me. Cause I had Nonna. Nonna couldn’t read English, so anything was on the cards when renting 15 weeklies for $7 at Midland Video City. "Bambino, your mama let you watch this one?" she would say, waving an R18+ rated Children Of The Corn VHS at an 8-year-old me. "Sure, Nonna! I’ve seen it, like, a million times before!"

Issue IV of I Am Still In Yesterday’s Clothes (subtitled: ‘At The Movies, In The Cinema Lobby, At The Video Store…’) is an A5-sized, 64-page, B&W, errantly-typeset booklet that makes me glad I lied to my trusting Nonna. I can totally identify with Tetsuo Dudikoff’s "utterly spastic" film choices made as a 13 year old, or Tristan Fidler’s depiction of the boredom of watching Spawn sans a hot date to maul.**On top of that, IASIYCIV has video store challenges, supporting actor identification guides, fake ex-rental posters, a dissection of Premiere‘s slightly insane interview techniques in the late 90s, film-noir-how-to-hairdos, and more. I even bought my Nonna one. Just to say thanks.