The Hippie Preacher Documentary The Church Doesn't Want You To See
So last night I went to finally watch Frisbee: The Life And Death Of A Hippie Preacher, the 2005 documentary that came out on Netflix a few weeks ago that I was really excited to see because it's about how this hippie guy named Lonnie Frisbee started the Jesus Movement and then was kicked out for being gay and the evangelicals tried to cover up his existence. But a funny thing happened: the DVD didn't work. That happens with Netflix movies about 20% of the time, but when I examined the disc, it was scratched in a way I've never seen a DVD scratched: it has a perfectly straight, perfectly smooth deep scratch as if someone had deliberately vandalized it with a razor blade. Suspicious:
Okay, so I admit it's really unlikely that The Megachurch Industrial Complex is razoring Netflix copies of the movie that reveals their secret origins, but this didn't happen (unfortunately) with P.S. I Love You. It happened with a movie that has this tagline:
What do you do when the Jesus freak who starts your church dies from AIDS?Simple. Erase him from history.
I'm going to Netflix Frisbee again, and if it's scratched again I swear to god, I'm going to blow the lid off this huge gigantic DaVinci Code-like conspiracy.
Posted by Lindsay at 4:20 PM in Documentaries
Tags: Conspiracy | Frisbee | Frisbee: The Life And Death Of A Hippie Preacher | Lonnie Frisbee | Weed
I've been wanting to watch this since you first mentioned it. But first I'll have to get a Netflix account (which I've been wanting for a long time). Which means first I'll have to get a job. How lame.
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I hate to burst your bubble, but having worked in stores that sell and rent DVDs, I've got to tell you, that's a pretty common defect. I've had many a return where a customer pulled a brand new DVD out of it's packaging with that very scratch [or split, depending on how deep]. It must be something that happens during manufacturing.
Evangelicals are still crazy though.
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I used scratch CDs seconds after I realized buying them was a mistake. Of course, this stopped working once stores only made same-CD exchanges.
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Seems highly likely if it looks like a razor blade and not just a clean crack. You can usually tell... a clean crack will be, well, clean. A razor blade cut looks like pressure was involved and you'll get some edge wear and slight uneveness. Look at me, I'm all CSI on CDs.
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