His friends don’t seem to mind, and his status as a budding film aficionado has rubbed off on some of his peers. “My friends have taken like a big influence, and we're mainly into the same kind of stuff, obscure, rare, not your typical mainstream movies."
Tennent remains a pretty normal kid despite being exposed to so much pop culture. His mom recalled a time when he was about 3 years old and a teacher asked him what color Barney was, referring to the dinosaur, but the only “Barney” Tennent knew was Barney Fife from “The Andy Griffith Show.”
“I only go to the movies when there's something totally killer to watch, like ‘Grindhouse.’" The recent double-feature by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez is one of the few films that have managed to get the family to an actual theater.
"Most Hollywood stuff is pretty boring these days," said Jim, who prefers today's independent movies over what most mainstream moviemakers are churning out.
“We don't go to the theaters all that much, I mean we'll be buying [the film] in three months," said Jane, who doesn’t watch much television. "I never was one to schedule my life around a television show, I didn't like that idea." One of the few programs she remembers watching was “Hart to Hart,” which aired from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. “If we do [watch TV],” she says, “it's usually movies or sports."
Regardless, the store does carry DVD and tape versions of many television shows; it even boasts a section dedicated solely to Stephen King made-for-TV adaptations. And the best part is the staff has probably watched them all, or knows enough about them to be able to recommend the good ones.
Video Vault is located off 113 S. Columbus Street, on the bottom floor. You can place orders by calling 1-800-VAULT-66.
To find out more about Video Vault's origins, check out my Interview With Jim McCabe!