90210? You Know You Love It.



So thanks to private bittorrent trackers, I'm now the proud owner of precious tvrips of the first six seasons of Beverly Hills 90210. "But Mason," you say, "there are twenty plus episodes a season, isn't that quite a bit of disk space?" Yes it is, friends. 61 Gigabytes of teen soap ecstasy. 144 episodes. 108 full hours. I had to find something to replace ER, as we just finished Season 8 of the 10 I have. (I need to find quality rips of 11-14, but I haven't really taken the time to look for them.)

I love 90210. About three years ago I was watching it religiously on SoapNet every afternoon, but then my schedule changed and I stopped. The tvrips are the only acceptable versions to watch because the crappy new dvd rips don't have any licensed music, so they went through and replaced all the terrible early 90's dance and r&b with stock music. Unpalatable. If you're in the tail end of generation x like we are, much of your life revolved around 90210 for a number of years. Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Grade. (And then secretly in Eighth grade.) It was thrilling. It was like there was some vast adult conspiracy to prevent us from watching it (at least FOX made it seem that way) which made it all the more enticing. Watching it now, it's pathetically tame, preachy and overly simplistic, but at the time it was totally revolutionary to us. Then Nirvana came along and I stopped caring about it.

So if you want copies you can mail me an external hard drive and I'd be happy to copy it off for you. If you want it burned off (16 DVDs is going to take a while) then you'd better mail me a 24 pack of discs. 16 discs to copy it off, and the other eight full of bad ass stuff you burned for me. I like action movies and entire series of network dramas. Oh, and if someone could mail Cody Jack some burned dvds full of porn, he'd really appreciate it.
- posted by Mason @ 10:30 PM