Consider Donating to Pleasant Street Video

If you're a member of the Western MA community you've no doubt heard the sad news that local fixture Pleasant Street Video is closing its doors for good. But their invaluable library of films, many rare or out of print, is not lost. In a brilliant move they're currently accepting donations from the public to move them over to the Forbes Public Library just down the street. You can even pick the specific title you'd like to donate. left-click did our part for the geeks by donating the entire series of Robot Chicken, and also dabbled in cultural preservation by donating a number of important musical films- Lou Reed's Berlin, The Monkees' Head and Frank Zappa's 200 Motels. So please consider doing a good deed and becoming a part of local history by donating. There's lots of good stuff left (CQ, Louis CK's Shameless and the 1966 Batman film, some of my absolute favorites, are all still available as of this writing), and PSV is still adding new films to their database.

Here are some videos of what we donated!

The iconic (to nerds) opening segment of Robot Chicken:

You'll never look at The Monkees the same way again after seeing the trailer for their trippy, often overlooked film Head:

We're reasonably sure that this is a trailer for the version of Lou Reed's Berlin that we donated?

And good luck maintaining your status as a square after watching the trailer for Frank Zappa's 200 Motels:

We'll miss you Pleasant Street Video!