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Videodrome
The name of this chapter comes from the 1983 movie of
the same name starring Debbie Harry, lead singer of the
'80s band Blondie, in what I can only imagine was her film
debut and simultaneous film career exit, since I never heard
of Debbie Harry starring in any other movies. Now, in all
honesty, I might be jumping the gun on this one, so in all
fairness to Ms. Harry, I'm pausing this chapter intro right
now to go and check the official online source for anything
to do with movies, and that is, of course,
www.homedepot
.com
(okay, not really, but I gotta tell ya, they had a pretty
sweet deal on a DeWalt 18-Volt ½ in. Cordless Impact
Wrench). Anyway, instead, I went and checked IMDb (the
Internet Movie Database), and I have to tell you, I was pretty
shocked to find out that Debbie Harry was actually listed
as an actress in 53 movies and TV shows. 53! Digging a
little deeper (not really), I learned that none of those were
put together using Photoshop's built-in video capabilities,
because prior to CS6, Photoshop barely had any serious
video editing capabilities. I mean, you could do a few things,
but nothing like the complexity you see in Debbie Harry's
2011 (pre-CS6) movie short
Pipe Dreams
, where she played
Iris, a young undocumented worker from Ecuador. (Oh, I can
see where this is going. They never have their documenta-
tion, now, do they?) According to IMBb, the movie pretty
much takes place in an aging smoking-pipe manufacturing
plant. Geesh—not that tired old scenario again. I can prob-
ably tell you the ending already. Let me guess: she gets
hooked on tobacco products and winds up hitch-hiking to
North Carolina, where she meets an aging nicotine salesman
from Raleigh who convinces her to become a documented
worker, and then the two open a small pet bakery/mobile
spray-tanning business in Jacksonville, against the wishes
of her controlling Canadian rebel-fighting parents and
Kreshnik, her half-blind Albanian ex-fiancé and father
of their illegitimate teacup schnauzer, Mr. Buttersticks.
Tell me you didn't see that one coming, right?
