We have to be honest: We were slightly annoyed when we read the email promoting Seattle School's (of Motel fame) latest event. Anything that calls an organization "insanely exuberant" and says that it is putting on one of the "craziest film events in the history of the city" is trying pretty hard to sound zany and exciting. But as we told Seattlest Audrey, we're a sucker for weird (you should have seen us in college)......

What it is ain't exactly clear, however. Back on December 2, PopMatters published "So Long, Something Weird," which made it sound like locally based exploitation/sexploitation distributor Something Weird Video was going out of business. It’s time to call out the carnal color guard and get the bugler to blow a rather trashy and tawdry Taps. After nearly seven years celebrating the best of exploitation, Something Weird Video has parted ways with chief home theater......

Nothing ages as poorly as sketch comedy television. You remember it being it hilarious, but when you sit someone down in front of a "Mr. Show" or "Kids in the Hall" or "Ben Stiller Show" DVD, invariably, the first episode passes in uncomfortable silence before you have to admit that, at the time, it was hilarious, but maybe it would have made more sense to watch a few clips on YouTube instead of buying the......

We don't have a lot of parenting pet peeves. Little Miss Seattlest has already picked up our usual response to a lot of great debates: "Whatever." But we've never cared for Baby Einstein videos. We're not one of those evangelistic no-television people -- we own a television, and we're not afraid to watch it. But we figure our daughter has several decades to interact with video screens, so why start early? The American Academy of......

SHOPPING: Scarecrow is having a used DVD sale right now that will be running through the end of the month (or "until the shelves are bare"), but don't wait until everyone else goes through and takes all the good stuff. Scarecrow Video // DVDs for $5 or less and laserdiscs for a buck MOVIE: There were mountain movies before the book Into Thin Air or, more recently, the film Cliff Hanger. The German's were doing......

On the heels of the old news about Amazon and dynamic pricing comes some old news about Amazon's 30-day price guarantee. That's right. Amazon will refund your money if their price on something you buy drops within 30 days of your purchase. We hadn't heard that, either. There's some new news to go with the old news, though. Using Your Accounts, you could manually check on everything you ordered in the last month. Or, this......

As it should be, it's quiet this week in Seattle, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to do -- especially the closer we get to New Year's Eve. So without further ado, Seattlest's belated gift to you -- some shows: Thursday, December 28 >>> Vicci Martinez, Kym Tuvim, Jonatha King, and Danny Godinez at The Tractor. Singer/songwriter Vicci Martinez is not only an immensely talented artist with impressive stage presence, she's also cute as......

MUSIC: Criminally underrated British singer-songwriter Jim Noir delivers his psych-pop twice tonight: first an acoustic set at Sonic Boom in Ballard, and then rocking out at the Croc as part of the Sub Pop/Barsuk Winter Celebration and Holiday Party Extravaganza. 6pm // Sonic Boom Ballard // Free 8pm // Croc // $10 SINGIN': Have a very piratey Christmas at this month's Northwest Seaport sing-along, full of shanties and featuring a recitation of "A Visit from......

--Only in Seattle would our leading dominatrix want Mystery Science 3000 DVDs for her birthday. God, we are so unsexy. --For one week only Seattlest isn't the only blog in town. --The Weekly wouldn't mind seeing all the billionaires rounded up and launched into space. --Ground is broken on the soon-to-be-nation's-largest biodiesel plant in Grays Harbor. Can we quit chasing oil yet? --Condo developers are having a rough time in Seattle. Meanwhile, Kirkland residents......

Mark your calendars: starting November 1, the Seattle Public Library will be extending its DVD checkout period from one week (boo!) to two weeks. The Seattle Public Library will extend its loan period for DVDs from one week to two weeks beginning Wednesday, Nov. 1. The change also applies to DVD sets, such as television series and multi-part travel and history collections. A DVD may be renewed twice if there are no holds on the......

Today's PI has an article about a new social networking site founded by a couple of ex-Real employees. Shelfari is a place to show off and discuss your favorite books. Founded by former RealNetworks employees Josh Hug and Kevin Beukelman, the three-person company plans today to unveil a Web site that allows people to list book titles, write reviews, recommend books to friends and find like-minded bibliophiles. Shelfari plans to make money by passing leads......

Due to the high volume of suggestions received, we are not able to notify you when items are not selected for purchase. If an item is selected for purchase, a hold will be placed for you, usually within two weeks. So declares the library's Suggestion for Purchase of DVDs, CDs and Audio Books page. We can probably assume, then, that the library has decided not to purchase Weeds: Season One on DVD, as we requested......

The Port of Seattle just knocked on Seattlest's inbox with news that six computer disks that contain information on over six thousand airport workers are missing. First of all, who the hell still stores information on "computer disks?" Hopefully, that means "DVDs," but still. When are we going to hear the first report of a thumb drive containing critical homeland security data being stolen? The disks were from the Airport I.D. Badging office, and had......

International travel is a challenge for a book whore like Seattlest--how many titles can we cram into our carry-on and still have room for at least a few necessary items? (Our journey began before the foiling of the London plot, when we liked to carry toiletries with us in case our checked luggage got lost.) True, we have an iPod and we did load a few goodies of the bookish variety onto it, but in......

Amazon launched its grocery service recently and it's got us all nostalgic for a bygone age. Back in the day our ass never had to lift out of the Aeron to get produce, DVDs, books, clothes, art, exotic pets, and a human toe delivered right to our office by a scooter messenger. A six pack of Oly and a head of lettuce please. Because we fucking can! Then we were all fired and a few......

Deadwood's back, starting Sunday night. We're feverishly working through our season 2 DVDs to get ready in time, 'cause we know we're not going remain spoiler-free. Haven't seen either season? Never fear -- Matt Zoller Seitz, king of the Deadheads, has the rundown on all you need to know to plunge in to season 3. Seitz, and his blog The House Next Door, have been Deadwood central for the past week, celebrating "Deadweek" with character......

Hate the library's new one-week checkout period for DVDs? Love the new self-checkout capability? Tired of trying to figure out how to escape from the shiny Seattle Central Library when your meter's going to expire in five minutes and you're somewhere called the "mixing room"? Think the new Douglass-Truth branch's extension "promises to be the second addition to Seattle’s library system from a mind that has an understanding of what constitutes and what doesn’t constitute......

In between obsessively checking their progress in various NCAA tournament pools, here's how Seattlest types will spend their weekends. David S. will be watching college basketball. And planning this year's family camping trip. Editor Dan will spend all weekend working on his Enemies List, but he may take a break at dusk on Saturday to drive down to Green Lake and run over rabbits with his car. Matt Silvie may or may not make it......

After we discovered the library's new "1 week for DVDs" policy, Seattlest sent feedback expressing our displeasure and requesting that multi-disc DVD sets, at least, be left with a 3-week checkout period. Tamara from Borrower Services responded: Unfortunately at this time the catalog records for DVD sets (multiple discs) in the system are not coded in such a way as to allow for the assignment of varying loan periods. This means that everything classified as......

This morning, Seattlest received a "Notice from the Seattle Public Library." Before telling us that Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong is now available for us to pick up at the North East Branch, the email said: Starting April 1, 2006, the check-out period for all DVDs is ONE WEEK. A DVD may be renewed twice if there are no holds on the item. A shorter loan period brings DVDs back sooner for the......

Seattlest is a huge fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Well, we never actually watched the show all that much. We're fans of the idea of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, maybe. We continue to have trouble sitting still for an hour (or two, or three - damn you DVDs) but we'll probably eventually get it sorted and have ourselves a Buffy marathon for the ages. Now, Angel -- to Buffy what Joanie Loves Chachi......

Poor porn. It's like the creative and hilarious ugly kid who kinda smells in high school. Behind closed doors it's fine to let him bring his zine collection and some records over to your mom's house and you can kick it with him in the basement for hours even though he sucks at Nintendo, but he's never going to get invited to the table in the cafeteria or shown any similar public displays of acceptance.......

Obviously the streets of the Emerald City will be empty between 1-5pm on Saturday, when the Seahawks play, but what are people doing the rest of the weekend? Seth is going to a UW gymnastics meet tonight, then possibly to lesbian night at the War Room (don't ask--there are wheels within wheels, as Jeeves would say) and to the King Classic high school basketball jamboree at Key Arena Saturday night. Matt Silvie will be checking......

It's difficult to be bleeding edge all the time. Sometimes by the time Seattlest gets around to posting an item, we suspect maybe it's long ago scabbed over and there's just that faint white line and memories of itchiness. However, in the hope that there are people out there (probably pressing Next Program on their 8-Track player) who haven't heard about their local video store's online database, here goes. Take Control Video has put together......

Seattlest loves the Seattle Public Library system. So what if the downtown library can, from certain perspectives, be compared to a smushed cheese grater? We hardly ever make it through the front doors, and we'll tell you why -- in a bit. But first, if you have $1 to spare, we want to tell you about the Friends of the Library Freeway Park Book Sale (which is a bit of a misnomer, since they also......

Usually, when we're sick we like to curl up at home and watch reruns of The Golden Girls. Something about Betty White's cheery disposition makes us feel better, even when we can't keep down solid food. Sure, we'll whine and complain a lot, but usually in a day or two feel feel better. Recently, we read John M. Barry's The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History which has put......