What Can't You Find On The Internet?

"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?

There is, but presumably the book has not been published in Australia?

try http://www.worldcat.org/

also, have you asked about arranging an interlibrary loan? its a long way, but ppl keep telling us the world's getting smaller

just out of curiosity, what's the book?

trying to find some kind of gif/jpeg of an internet toughguy typing out something he thinks is all barbed searing charlie brooker style criticism, but everyone else sees richard littlejohn. dunno if this exists but my facebook feed is getting cluttered with this kind of numbnut so desperately seeking handy gifbomb

It's 'Monday Morning', by Patrick Hamilton. And yes, doesn't seem to have had an Aus publication, only UK and US, and Worldcat tells me my nearest copy is Los Angeles!

If you want to pay somebody to do this, you could probably find someone on freelancer.com. I don't know what the going rate would be, though.

Will it actually be under copyright? Published 1925, author died 1962 - that's a long time ago.

And doesn't Ned live in LA and work in a library? He's an amiable fellow and might know someone who could help. (I may be making this up entirely)

Maybe try to contact Faber Finds (http://www.faber.co.uk/faberfinds/)?

They were maybe planning to republish it, according to one of the comments here: http://jonathanfryer.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/patrick-hamilton-revisited/

trying to find some kind of gif/jpeg of an internet toughguy typing out something he thinks is all barbed searing charlie brooker style criticism, but everyone else sees richard littlejohn.

Sorry was this directed at me?

My comment wasn't supposed to be a "barbed searing charlie brooker style criticism" at all. The impression I got from the query was that the poster wanted to find someone to wholesale copy and scan a book for him from a library. In Britain at least, copying more that 5% of a book or one chapter is generally seen as copyright theft irrespective of whether or not you are student, so I don't think contacting library staff to ask to do this would be a smart move. I realise its LA and not the UK, but presumably the law isn't that different in the US.

I apologise if it is - sheesh.

james m. i would actually start with your local library (if you haven't already)--tell them your situation and ask them if they could reach out to some places that have this and do an interlibrary loan.

would be vastly easier if you were a student, but librarians do love a challenge.

xpost, eh? no not at all, like i said in my post its a cpl of folks off 'my facebook feed'. there is a lot of that shite on ilx tho obv but your comment seemed fairly legit

And I think Tuomas was rightly suggesting that the best people to ask in the first instance - which maybe James had already done - are librarians to see if they can help with getting it, perhaps through some kind of inter-library loan.

If he then finds that the copyright issue is the obstacle, he can make his own decision about whether to try to go ahead with another route.