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There was this movie I saw once, a friend bought it on VHS at a video store going-out-of-business sale, and it was called Interface. It's from the 80s and it's really low budget but it's really cool. A kind of mystery movie with hacker elements and weird vocoder voice effects and silly synthesizer soundtrack. And as low budget as it was, it was a damn entertaining movie, and I remember thinking the lead actress did a great job taking the material seriously and making it fun at the same time.

I've been looking for this ever since, on DVD, on torrents, on AVI rip, etc. To no avail. Please, if you have a digital copy of this movie email me at adam (dot) bruneau (at) gmail (dot) com...

My library has about a million giallo movies without subtitles. The world is so big!

When I was little, there was a children's video that was either titled or featured a song called "Windjammer Way", and it was about this little girl who was like on her way to a birthday party or some shit, and she ended up at a playground, and there was some animation with a penguin. If anyone has seen this or knows what it's called or has a copy I will pay lots of money for it.

whether the keyboard riff in Salt N Pepa's "Push It" is a sample, and if so where from.

That weird picture of Marilyn Manson standing next to a cardigan-wearing Will Smith, while a guy that looks suspiciously like Steve Lamacq lurks in the background. There was a whole thread about this on ILX once, but WHERE DID IT GO?

ALSO the sample in the chorus of "Fight the Power" that sounds like a little girl singing/saying "hug and kiss"

whether the keyboard riff in Salt N Pepa's "Push It" is a sample, and if so where from.

It sounds like a rather typical electro influenced keyboard riff of that era, why would you think it's a sample? Plus in 1987 sampling wasn't yet that common in rap, I think. Or do you mean if the melody played on the keyboard is borrowed from somewhere?

i'm pretty sure that the keyboard riff for "push it" was NOT a sample.

a video i saw on some blog, made in the early 90s(?) to promote a club in Ibiza. featured a snippet of Kid Creole & the Coconuts.

There used to be a site which listed vintage musical instruments, and what they were currently going for on eBay... Can't for the life of me find it now. Anyone remember what it was called?

I've been unable to find out who directed the video to the Specials song Ghost Town

recorded it themselves while driving round, maybe?

whether the keyboard riff in Salt N Pepa's "Push It" is a sample, and if so where from.

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, May 29, 2010 9:26 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

some people say it samples the cars' 'moving in stereo'... there's a similarity but i don't think it's a sample

the lyrics to 'supergirl' by the fugs

stupid question, but I'm having trouble figuring out the answer:

let's say you break your foot. you go to the doctor and get crutches. when your foot heals, what do you do with the crutches? do they get returned to the doctor? are they yours to keep? what do people do with crutches?

You give them back when you're better.

I can't find the name of a kids tv programme from the 80s that featured a Bungle-style big brown dog riding around on a quad bike.

I'm pretty sure you can keep the crutches. Your insurance company has already paid for them. I have crutches in my attic from when I broke my leg in 1999.

I think this depends if you live in a country with free public health care or not. If it's the former, you probably have to return to them; at least in Finland I think you have to.

But ZS is American, right? So in there I guess you or your insurance company will have to pay for them, so you'll probably keep them then.

In Australia you take them back to the doc/hospital, but we have the free public health care.

The original bitty background jpg of the Birdman Records Japan studio with glaring sun.

You guys never come through for me!

what's the name of that film that was made by the guy whose sole knowledge of english & dramaturgy was distilled from soap operas? i might be overstating. there's an ilx thread about how insane it is.

"The Room"?

that's it!, thank you. i don't think any of my subsequent actions towards seeing or learning about this film will have anywhere near as satisfying a result.

the video for "he believes" by wet picnic. like, when I was seeing it on ON TV in the 80s, I sort of couldn't believe it existed, but I can confirm via google that it did...but the actual video, which was extremely creepy soft porn of the sort that sends acts like the Skaters into ecstasies of reference, remains elusive.

pic of a baby looking concerned about the presence of a huge yellow plastic duck?

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn213/staceylala/n648410425_207380_9674.jpg

In the '80s there was some thing that was a sweepstakes or contest of some sort that involved a unicorn or maybe a hedge maze or labyrinth. I remember seeing ads for it on TV and maybe in print as well. It was either a TV show or some kind of book or book series. Maybe a mystery, choose your own adventure, solve the puzzle kind of thing? But something that was kind of big and advertised on TV. But somehow not for kids. Or I imagined the whole thing.

what was that show in the late 90's early 2000's that involved people racing around a grocery store trying to find certain items on a list? and i think the reward was that they got to keep all their groceries? it was on daily, on upn or something.

supermarket sweep. my family was obsessed with this show at one point in the early 90's.

fuck ya law!

actually i thought it read 'fuck yeah', but either way... "excitement"!!!

i prefer to say "excitement!" over "fuck yeah!" irl.

what i'm looking for

supermarket sweep. my family was obsessed with this show at one point in the early 90's.

It was on Lifetime, not UPN.

Good work aimless!

Supermarket Sweep! I remember watching on cable it as teen and thinking, "Only in America...".

"watching it on cable"

the lyrics to "idi amin" by black randy and the metrosquad

wk - is this what you mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book)

Thanks, Aimless!

Supermarket Sweep! I remember watching on cable it as teen and thinking, "Only in America...".

can't be sure, but did it start in the UK?

certainly existed there in the mid 90's. you don't forget dale winton in a hurry

The American version must've been around in the early 90s, because I remember watching it when I was like 13.

According to Wikipedia:

The original show was broadcast on ABC (December 1965-July 1967), with revivals airing on Lifetime (February 1990-May 1995, reran until August 1998) and later PAX (April 2000-May 2003, reran until March 2004).

So it was 1990-95 version that I saw. The UK version started in 1993.

this feels so wrong

wk - is this what you mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book)

Aha, thanks! I don't think that's exactly it, but it may have been one of the other ones they mention there. I didn't realize this was a whole genre and was starting to think it was a false childhood memory.

Finally found it. thanks again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure:_In_Search_of_the_Golden_Horse

no wonder this thing haunted me as a kid http://www.njcomputerguys.com/treasure/supplemental.mp4

Thing I can't find:

A feature article about a working-class black teenager who would weasel/con his way into the lives of wealthy folks by hanging around Upper East Side cellphone stores, charming young people, and presenting himself as part of their social scene. Constructed various amazing identities and wound up in prison.

I'm 90% positive this feature was either in the New York Press or the Village Voice, but I could be wrong.

Ah, never mind, I turned it up!

http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-02-27/news/the-blackberry-trickster/