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Convention: More DVDs,
videos appear each year
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in the Northwest" Finneran said. "And
Eugene really is a great music town.
The diversity of what people want is
incredible. We get teenagers to people
who are 80 years old. One person is
looking for punk 45s, another for
yodeling cowboys. It's really eclectic."
The dealers are mostly collectors
out to sell the excess of their collec
tions, some are making a living
through dealing and a feware selling
records to benefit local causes.
Along with records, dealers also sell
bootleg concert videos, CDs,
posters, T-shirts, sheet music and
even reel-to-reel tapes. Pretty much
anything to do with music is up for
grabs, according to Finneran. Over
the years some interesting sales
have been made atthe convention.
"One year a local radio station de
cided to sell off all of its 45s," Finneran
said. "They didn't even make itthrough
the door. A guy caught them outside
and started bargaining with them until
he bought everything."
Dealers aren'tthe only ones with an
opportunity to sell. Forthe $2 admission
cost, anyone can bring in whatever
they can carry in one trip and sell it
from whereverthere is free space.
Not everyone in town is satisfied
with the direction the convention is
going, however. Some local music
dealers say the prices are going up
and the focus of the convention has
been moving further and further away
from records.
"There are so many more CDs and
tapes than there used to be," House
of Records music buyer Greg Suther
land said. "And the prices are getting
pretty high. Actually, it's great for our
business because it brings in out
of-towners who end up coming here
and finding things cheaper. It's harder
for me personally to find good
records there, but I have kind of a
special 'in' with records. For others
it's quite a potpourri. There are lots
of great dollar records though."
Other dealers have similar
sentiments.
"Each year it becomes more about
DVDs, videos and equipment and less
about hard-core record buying,"
CD/Game Exchange manager Ben
Terrell said. "A lot of the dealers now
are also the kind of people who said to
themselves 'Oh, records are back in
style; I bet I could make some money.'
You can tell they aren't really record
collectors, since collectors are a pretty
specific group of people."
Regardless of howthe convention
has changed overthe years, it still
brings together a wide range of
people selling a wide range of music.
And that, according to Finneran, is
the real attraction.
"Everybody knows someone who
found something big for next to noth
ing," Finneran said. "When you are
dealing with records, it's impossible to
know everything. Even experienced
dealers don't always knowthe value of
whattheyare selling."
ryannyburg@dailyemerald.coni
Hustle: Bannick heightens
racial relations with diversity
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increased their budget by raising
money from friends and family.
"Nothing is harder than what
we did," Bannick said. "We
i. started with a $15,000 budget, and
' that's like a catering budgetforthe
l cast of 'CSI.'"
I The film stars Sarnia Doumit of
"The Hot Chick," Efrin Ramirez of
"Napoleon Dynamite" and Marissa
Tait of "The Bold and the Beautiful."
* Bannick said he was able to use
Hollywood actors because in show
business, actors help each other
whenever possible.
"I've been an actor for years, and
actors develop tight relationships
with each other," he said. "A lot of
the actors came in just to help us out,
to see friends succeed and to look
out for new parts. It's such a hard
business to break into, and we help
each other out whenever we can."
Bernstein said the actors were able
to play enjoyable roles, tackle a chal
lenge and communicate closely with
everyone who worked on the film.
"All the actors had tons of fun and
gotto play characters they wanted to,"
he said. "They had to nail it in two or
threetakes because as soon asthe
sun set, the day was over, so there was
a lot of pressure on them, And there
wasn't a bunch of crew around, so
there was lots of communication, and
they liked that."
Bannick added that he wants to rep
resent many ethnicities in his films and
emphasize racial relations.
"I wantto heighten the relation
ships between different races,"
he said. "I'm interested in how
people relate to each other. In 'Just
Hustle,' I have every region and
ethnicity represented, and that's
rare for Hollywood, which is very
cookie-cutter. We want as much
diversity as possible."
Bijou Art Cinemas manager Louise
Thomas said independent filmmakers
often produce successful works even
on a tight budget
"It seems as though with tech
nology as accessible as it is, folks
can express their creativity without
spending too much money," Thomas
said. "People can come up with
great stuff. I think the filmmakers are
so excited that they can do all the
legwork and get people in. (Bijou Art
Cinemas) is the vehicle for it."
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