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Yes, it's true and I've finally decided to embrace it: I'm obsessed with VHS tapes. Okay, well, I'm obsessed with films and tracking down hard-to-find ones and especially those that are only available via VHS tape. Why VHS? Well, there are still (as of early 2014) a lot of interesting, yet sadly forgotten, films (mostly foreign ones) that remain accessible only via the VHS format (at least here in Region 1). Moreover, I find I have a fondness for VHS because it reminds me of younger, more carefree times (for me personally) in the early to mid-1980s, when this format dominated the home video market and I still had my whole life in front of me (as well as a lot of hair on my head, no house payment to worry over, very few bills, etc). So, one of my current favorite activities is to trawl the Web looking for 1980s videocassettes of now-forgotten film gems, still shrink-wrapped, that can be had at a reasonable price. And since I'm doing this as a hobby, I figure why not create a film journal of sorts, in which I list the flickers I watch and my impressions of them. Hence, Obsessed with VHS....