What Can't You Find On The Internet?

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/

didn't the wayons brothers do a movie something along those lines?!

The article actually makes parts of it sound more like Woody Allen's Zelig

Manual for casio f91 watch. This should be easy surely?

Gravel did you try this ting? No idea whether it'll work, as one needs the actual watch to use it.

I have trouble finding scripts for plays. even just samples (although Google has made that easier with that one feature they have). Mostly I find it useful when trying to prepare for an audition but not having time to go to the library first, or if it is after business hours.

Someone here should be able to help with this.

looking fot that quote about Sonic Youth (think it was Xgau) that "record collectors shouldn't form bands" or something to that effect

I know this is months late, but the video for "Ghost Town" was directed by Barney Bubbles. 

Advice needed: there's a book which is incredibly difficult to find (none 2nd-hand anywhere, for example), but it's just sitting on the LA public library shelves. I'm in Australia. How would one go about getting someone to photocopy/scan this sucker, and how would one pay them securely from the other side of the world, while being sure you'd get the scans? Seems like this is something other people must have done.

Can't you just email the library staff, surely they know if/how it can be done?

^I don't think library staff aren't going to assist you in copyright theft

*are

I'm pretty sure it isn't theft/violation of copyright law if you're a student. If not, it'd be a bit more dodgy. Is there no Australian equivalent of the British Library, i.e. a central repository of all books published in the country?