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I might have it on a hd at home, will look

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:49 (nine years ago)

a video clip that went viral circa '02-'03 that was a digitized rip of an instructional VHS tape from the late 80's or early 90's that presumably came packaged with a penis pump.

the video featured a late 80's/early 90's pornstar bro sitting on a wood crate in the middle of a studio set made to look like the cliche "street" or "alley" scene with brick, chain link fence, oil drums, graffiti, and unnatural pastel lighting.

pornstar bro graphically demonstrated the steps required for proper use of the penis pump while extolling the device's benefits and candidly sharing with the viewers how it made him feel, in a manner that could be described as unexpectedly charming. at one point he discloses that he likes to think about sex with beautiful women while using the device- it's unclear if this is an attempt to forbear any homoerotic tension, the guy just being in his zone, or both. the whole thing was probably less than six minutes and the overall tone was sublime - an instructional video gone beautifully wrong; a high-budget porn film gone terribly right.

pretty sure my first (and likely only) exposure would have been on the makeoutclub main page and/or a thread on their forums. this was pre-youtube era so it was probably in some crude 200px .wma player.

gr8080, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 15:07 (nine years ago)

@écorché: I did find 'Pancake Day' in this nice 'n odd mix. It starts around 47m23 in the mp3 here

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 16:02 (nine years ago)

today:

james beard's tv commercial for heckers flour
bill aitken's 1972 "friday night is boogie night" jingle for john peel

increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Sunday, 12 March 2017 00:01 (nine years ago)

Roland Rat being interviewed on some kids TV show and a kid asks what music he likes and tells them 'minimalism, Philip Glass, Steve Reich...' to the bafflement of the child and the show's host.

― Dan Worsley, Sunday, January 8, 2017 9:05 PM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think I remember this, wasn't it on Mike Read's Saturday Superstore?

Mark G, Sunday, 12 March 2017 00:37 (nine years ago)

Anyway, one for/from me..

'Overture, Camera, Lights
This it it, we'll hit the heights
No more rehearsing and nursing the part
We know every part by heart
Overture, Camera, Lights
This it it, we'll hit the heights
And oh what heights we'll hit...
On with the show, this it!'

Mark G, Monday, 13 March 2017 07:37 (nine years ago)

Can't find a clip of the Rosie O'Donnell Show with Emilio Estevez as guest, where Rosie starts talking about how they were both baked on the set of Another Stakeout.

Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Monday, 13 March 2017 08:12 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

The Sharafnama, a book about the history of the Kurds. (And I mean the book, not a pdf, so technically cheating on this thread, needle in the hay, but I need to try). I so, so want to find a copy of this book. Tried Amazon, Abe, Alibris etc: no dice.

If you know where to find it, or happen to stumble across it, I'll make it worth your while, promised.

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:19 (nine years ago)

No matter how often or fervently I tell myself this was highly, highly improbable, I swear to god I remember watching the Arsenio Hall Show after the L.A. riots, and seeing a bit that featured a newspaper photo of GHW Bush walking around surveying the destruction while wearing a Malcolm X hat. The improbability comes from its not being played as a joke -- though there was certainly laughter at it. I've searched google, youtube, LA/NY Times scan archives... I so want it to be real.

If it wasn't an outright hallucination it'll turn out to be something from an EPMD or 3rd Bass video that I've somehow attached Arsenio Hall to.

Devilock, Thursday, 30 March 2017 08:22 (nine years ago)

A movie from the '90s about a young woman going to NYC, maybe trying to go to Cooper Union, winds up in a shitty apartment with a junkie boyfriend (or an abusive boyfriend), I think does PCP on the beach. I may be combining two movies about similar situations. Or I may have made it all up.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 30 March 2017 08:39 (nine years ago)

hey LBI, I don't suppose a Turkish edition of that book is much use to you?

Django Chutney (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 March 2017 08:39 (nine years ago)

oh shit, I think it is two movies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F_teBHE4E8 feels right for the Cooper Union part

so the other one is abusive/junkie boyfriend hitting the protagonist in a stairwell or her crying in a stairwell after? Just remember a very dingy blue light shot in a rundown stairwell

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 30 March 2017 08:43 (nine years ago)

Sorry NV, no it's not. It's meant to be a special gift for someone.

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 30 March 2017 09:08 (nine years ago)

yeah, Turkish versions seem to be the only ones readily available

Django Chutney (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 March 2017 09:16 (nine years ago)

No big surprise there harhar. Thanks for looking tho.

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 30 March 2017 10:40 (nine years ago)

In the original 2001 broadcast, Agent Deborah Ciccerone was played by actress Fairuza Balk. However, due to scheduling conflicts, she was not able to return for season four. For the repeats and DVD releases, Balk was replaced by Lola Glaudini, who went on to play the role permanently in 2002.

Also this episode is a period piece; when the parents are arguing about sending AJ to military school, one of them (Tony?) says "The US military doesn't even go to war anymore."

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, March 20, 2017 1:41 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

One of my "things you can't find on the internet" is any screenshot or clip of Fairuza Balk playing the agent.

― pplains, Monday, March 20, 2017 1:51 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pplains, Thursday, 30 March 2017 13:30 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

I completely blanked on the term for those one-off records where people send in some lyric text and a check to a studio and then some session musicians would make it into a generic country song or whatever.

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 1 May 2017 18:55 (nine years ago)

song-poem anthology?!

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 1 May 2017 19:00 (nine years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_poem

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 1 May 2017 19:00 (nine years ago)

YES THANK YOU

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 1 May 2017 20:00 (nine years ago)

god that's been bothering me for like three days

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 1 May 2017 20:00 (nine years ago)

i had the same experience recently and i asked the person who told me about them, ilx user ez snappin, and he reminded me
glad to be of service :)

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 1 May 2017 20:11 (nine years ago)

this is why I can't quit ilx

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:58 (nine years ago)

we got hot dog threads too

j., Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:15 (nine years ago)

An English subtitled version of Remake Remix Rip-Off; director has said it'll never come out on DVD and has encouraged people to pirate it so why is there only a version with German subs?

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 09:57 (nine years ago)

there is this restaurant called "Chinese Buddha" that is in midtown Atlanta. it was a 24 hour staple of late nights when i lived there 10 years ago (maybe more). back then it was in a different location and sort of connected to an older hotel just off the highway. this place was legendary. they had this huge photo at the entrance of Mick Jagger with the owner. it was easy to notice because he had gone in and put in sticky letters M I C K J A G G E R on the glass. i think the last time i went to the old location the M had fallen off and it just said I C K J A G G E R.

i want to find a photo of that photo. somebody must have taken it. GIS "Chinese Buddha" and "Mick Jagger" is a funny, if pointless search.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 5 May 2017 00:50 (nine years ago)

years ago i recall my friend telling me about some insane sounding british game show called "THE CRUSHER"... in the opening sequence the host would grab an audience member's glasses off their face and say "WELCOME TO THE CRUSHER!!" as he crushed their glasses in his hands.

not sure if this really exists or if it's a sketch or what

brimstead, Saturday, 6 May 2017 00:47 (nine years ago)

glasses crushing sequence starts around 2:23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLgCVeUymHA

soref, Saturday, 6 May 2017 01:04 (nine years ago)

wow thank you!!!

brimstead, Saturday, 6 May 2017 01:18 (nine years ago)

AB I found a commenter on canadian yelp who also misses the giant poster of mick jagger and the owner, and a shitload of pictures of the new location, but I've given up. any clue what the old address was?

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Saturday, 6 May 2017 02:05 (nine years ago)

lol thanks i saw the same commenter! no idea of the old address

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 6 May 2017 23:49 (nine years ago)

OMG <3 this is making my day

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 7 May 2017 00:17 (nine years ago)

I bow before new noise's google fu

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Sunday, 7 May 2017 02:58 (nine years ago)

Yeah that is pretty next-level.
A minor cleanup of the full-res:
http://i.imgur.com/TkRGV4H.jpg

attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 7 May 2017 03:16 (nine years ago)

i did a GIS for "Chinese Buddha" "Jagger" and "Atlanta" and there it was.

new noise, Sunday, 7 May 2017 03:38 (nine years ago)

yeah no doesn't work for me. specific query syntax!!!! plz +plz "plz"

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Sunday, 7 May 2017 03:41 (nine years ago)

you'll need to scroll down a little bit.

new noise, Sunday, 7 May 2017 03:45 (nine years ago)

actually https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=%22ick%20jagger%22%20buddha&tbs=imgo:1

first page. first line, even, on a laptop.
failure is how you improve.

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Sunday, 7 May 2017 03:54 (nine years ago)

a video clip that went viral circa '02-'03 that was a digitized rip of an instructional VHS tape from the late 80's or early 90's that presumably came packaged with a penis pump.

the video featured a late 80's/early 90's pornstar bro sitting on a wood crate in the middle of a studio set made to look like the cliche "street" or "alley" scene with brick, chain link fence, oil drums, graffiti, and unnatural pastel lighting.

pornstar bro graphically demonstrated the steps required for proper use of the penis pump while extolling the device's benefits and candidly sharing with the viewers how it made him feel, in a manner that could be described as unexpectedly charming. at one point he discloses that he likes to think about sex with beautiful women while using the device- it's unclear if this is an attempt to forbear any homoerotic tension, the guy just being in his zone, or both. the whole thing was probably less than six minutes and the overall tone was sublime - an instructional video gone beautifully wrong; a high-budget porn film gone terribly right.

pretty sure my first (and likely only) exposure would have been on the makeoutclub main page and/or a thread on their forums. this was pre-youtube era so it was probably in some crude 200px .wma player.

― gr8080, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 9:07 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i definitely misremembered a lot of the details, and i also think the version i saw ~15 years ago was heavily edited, but behold:

very very NSFW obv:

https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=687942303

gr8080, Sunday, 7 May 2017 15:49 (nine years ago)

quote about fiscally conservative socially liberal ppl that's something like i think these things are very bad but i love the things that make them bad

Mordy, Monday, 8 May 2017 20:32 (nine years ago)

http://www.scoopnest.com/user/crushingbort/463132110006784000

ogmor, Monday, 8 May 2017 21:46 (nine years ago)

lol thx

Mordy, Monday, 8 May 2017 21:47 (nine years ago)

that appears in my twitter feed at least once a week

kinder, Monday, 8 May 2017 21:55 (nine years ago)

Not the perfect thread for it, but is anyone here subscribed to Time mag or time.com? I need the full version of this one article: https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,430697,00.html . If anyone has access to this, a copy would be greatly appreciated.

On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 15 May 2017 23:10 (nine years ago)

http://egunkaria.info/international/?page_id=52
http://txikilike.blogspot.com/2003/03/kidnap-and-torture-messenger.html

the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Monday, 15 May 2017 23:34 (nine years ago)

Eskerrik asko, thank you! <3

On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 07:46 (nine years ago)

there was a t-shirt & sweatshirt company in the early 80s - I think they'd been around since the 70s - called Historical Products. The shirts were uniform in appearance - a portrait, usually a photograph, of an iconic author or composer: Kafka, Bach, Mozart, Mahler, Camus, Faulkner - and the name of the person portrayed underneath it. I wore a Faulkner one in high school, as well as the Mahler sweatshirt my friend outgrew. They advertised in iirc Rolling Stone and the Atlantic...but I can't find any evidence they ever existed!

People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 00:03 (nine years ago)

any visual confirmation anywhere of the ramen-spaghetti product Suddenly Spaghetti which as a child I considered the height of cuisine

I cannot offer you visual confirmation but only personal corroboration-- I (b.1970) fucking LOVED suddenly spaghetti and can vividly remember the taste even now.

For awhile in the 90s maruchan or top was making a 'tomato' flavor that was hard to find but ticked the old sud spag box nicely.

Since then as far as I know, this niche remains vacant. </3

twink peas it is happening again (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 00:17 (nine years ago)

T'was on ILX.

Alec Baldwin gary oldman "this is dog" "Bram Stoker's Dracula"

?

Mark G, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 14:52 (nine years ago)


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