What Can't You Find On The Internet?

not grunge, but Wendt is in the Replacements doc, Color Me Obsessed. also showed up in a Soul Asylum video.

I remember seeing an interview with Wendt on UK tv back in the 90s where he mentioned liking Wayne Kramer.

not grunge, but Wendt also showed up in a Ray Parker Jr. video.

A clip of Garrett Morris saying "beisbol has been berry, berry good to me"

Is it in here somewhere?

Bill Murray reports for SNL from the 1979 New York Mets' spring training camp in the first of three reports on the baseball comeback of Chico Escuela, April 7, 1979. pic.twitter.com/J0z4MoLqiv

— New York Mammoths (@NYMammoths) December 9, 2021

incredible! thank you!

not grunge, but Wendt also showed up in a Ray Parker Jr. video

If there's somethin' plaid, and it don't look bad,

Who ya gonna call... MUD!HONEY!

If ya feel depressed, and your life's a mess,

Who can ya call... SOUND!GARDEN!

A way to watch this movie (stream, rent, download, buy) online without ordering a DVD from France.

Destins (1946)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139152/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

From a 20-years-old post on the Associates thread:

i still have that "the 80s" thing that the late show did (3 hours on new years eve 1989) which was a fun retrospective of 80s music.

Radio Times listing

what's that one album that has the liner notes (or back cover?) that is packed with a bunch of really cool/influential/relatively little known punk/experimental recordings? there's a thread on it, but i can't recall which band recorded the album.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_with_Wound_list ?

yes! thank you adam!

beware of the freaky euro prog lurking in that list, harsh a mellow fast ime

Does anyone have Hunter Age 3

it has been found ty

there's a specific awkward ESL instructional video shot in Korea that got excerpted into short clips so that the ESL aspect and setting wasn't apparent, so it was just American ex-pat kids behaving like they're in a David Lynch movie, but I can't recall any scenarios that would make it easily searchable.

but awkward ESL instructional videos are also a genre that's hard to search for lately -- this appears way down a list of search results:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaKgwx6gZXc

an oldish video on youtube about the processes that take place in the UK in the event of a nuclear attack - letters of last resort, government bunkers, the processes designed to enable ongoing government etc.

actually maybe it was this but put on youtube

The Human Button

Tuesday 2 December 2008 20:00-20:40 (Radio 4 FM)

Repeated: Sunday 7 December 2008 17:00-17:40 (Radio 4 FM)


Historian Prof Peter Hennessy speaks to the people who have operated Britain's nuclear deterrent over the years and today, including military commanders, politicians and former Vulcan bomber crew members. He visits Northwood, the headquarters from which the order to fire would come today, and Corsham, the secret nuclear bunker which, in the 1960s, would have been the location for an alternative government in the event of all-out war.

and lo, i find it. that was a rollercoaster ride. as you were

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNV1q82OZ58

(genuinely periodically but fruitlessly been trying to find this on and off for a few years now, maybe coming to ilxor unblocked it for me)

so here's what bugging me today. vanishingly little from the 1973 "doraemon" series circulates online. one of the only clips existing is a scene from a japanese pink film where the episode "love love this camera" is playing in the background. the clip is pretty well-circulated, but what i haven't been able to find is the _name_ of the pink film in question. i'm not super interested in pink films, i just think the idea of a pink film that people are primarily interested in because there's an eight-second clip of doraemon playing in the background is fucking _hilarious_.

A quick search found me this:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2364356

Features
Doraemon (TV Series 1973)
A clip of the anime was shown on a TV

oh that was quick, thanks!

Viral video about 2012/2013. A cartoon bunny crops up repeatedly and tells people to put their 3d glasses on in an increasingly sinister/wacky way. GLASSES ON!!!!

Also, the name of a movie, fairly recent, about a woman pitching the idea of making a movie about getting away with murder, then doing several murders, including one where she kills her best friend/crush with sesame seed bagels when she knows he's allergic to them.

Most things I want to Google based on a small recollection are literally unGoogleable now.

I Blame Society?

Yes!! thank you!!

it doesn't even have a Wikipedia page!

It was the second google hit for: imdb "sesame seed" murder

fuck the literal hours I have spent googling "murder" "sesame" "bagel" "movie" woman making movie murders etc etc

Now do the glasses on bunny!

pre swap-shop, so before 1976, bbc1 children's programmes on Saturday morning used to include a show about fencing. what was it called? "cut and parry", "cut and thrust"?

(there was another about gymkhana iirc. and stuff like Flashing Blade and Heidi, although i think that may've been summer programming)

"Some of Dias's original material was recorded on a 1999 CD called Matter of Time, with Lisa Jason (Vocals) and Andy Bergsten (Bass) as the core of the band."

Allmusic is able to confirm that this is an actual record, that Denny Dias did not play on? but wrote some of the material, however I cannot find anyplace online to listen to any of it

Wow that is a tough one. Maybe this is a lead? https://m.facebook.com/events/261366957388486

Cut and Thrust

oh, thank you. so after SS had started, but in the same slot.

glad to see the bbc catering for the working classes

thanks matttkkkk for spurring me along to one more deeper dive into the lost music of Denny Dias

have found that the bass player mentioned has a YouTube channel containing three Dias originals performed live, one in particular is a highlight though it doesn't appear on the record I guess, unless they renamed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ajTUKO5Tps

kind of remarkable I think, sounds very much all of a piece with the last two steely dan records, plus something extra, the dennyness perhaps

glad to see the bbc catering for the working classes

How very patronising of you to assume that fencing cannot be enjoyed by the working classes. There's actually a great tradition of working-class fencing etc etc [tails off into the void]

can't find any further info on an mp3 release by "Rene" called "Starship" apparently from 2009, from what i can tell i only have about a third of the tracks - it is great fun. silly plunderphonic vignettes. likely culprits goodiepal, wobbly, gobby, shitcluster, matt brinkmann. it could of course just be some guy called "Rene". most googleable track titles are "cloak medley" & "bleary championship" only turn up the "Sonichits" website where the links only link to random youtube vids.
any ideas?
thx :-)

That's a Gobby alias but I don't see that release on his discogs:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/2840069-Gobby

Rene Netherlands - Starship

Gabby Sugrue is a good friend of ours, and though normally people assume that you have a positive bias towards your friends material, everything about this sleepy, stubborn, un-reachable joker is points off. And he’s still the best. When we were stuck on drones and walls of noise Gabby was releasing party jams. Both in terms of recorded material as well as live performance, Gabby/Rene/Guatemala City/Playboy Stunna Productions is constantly setting a bar for the rest of us to meet. Starship was the first release that had live drums on it and in all honesty, we had been anticipating it for years. To say that this album “genre-hops” is inaccurate. It puts everything in a big sandwich that gets jammed in a photocopier and comes out as polyrhythmic booty-shaking thrash. Few bands have tracks that shift as quickly or develop ideas as uniquely as this guy. No amount of cigarettes that this kid owes us can trump the fact that he is the best drummer ever. And he has very soft hands.

https://www.imposemagazine.com/features/eric-farber-of-truman-peyote

thank you!

When I started at university in 1998 I was involved in the student record label, and my gang of friends, a rock band, recorded a track in their studio, which was included on a compilation CD they put out in early 1999. The CD was available in shops, was reviewed middlingly in one of the music papers, and definitely had online publicity.

now in 2023, I can find no evidence that the record label existed (the wikipedia page for the university only mentions the student radio station), let alone that they released this CD. It isn't on discogs, there are no reviews, of course it isn't available for sale anywhere. literally the only thing I can find is this amazon placeholder page, which is almost entirely incorrect, but at least has the CD cover

https://www.amazon.in/stroll-wrap-up/dp/B002289O0K

The university was called Southampton Institute at the time, it's now called Solent University. The record label was called 1st Degree Records. The CD was called, and this is not a great name, "Wrap Up: Stroll On"

Can anyone find anything else?

A review in a fanzine

Various, Wrap Up; Stroll On (First Degree) CD

Organised by the Southampton Institute, "Wrap Up; Stroll On" aims to promote both student and local bands on the Institute's First Degree label. As you'd expect from a compilation with this kind of background, there's a broad spectrum of musical styles on display and, as you'd also suspect, some of it is a whole lot better than the rest. On the right side of the fence, Reeve; McDade; Foot ply an admirably wild brand of weird jazz on their "No Reported Incidents"; Mainliner's "Better Breathe" develops from overlaid shuffles into a groove and treated guitar wah halfway to Loop and Ace Whole's 50-second speed metal and drum solo rush "Bill.. This One's For You" is just about perfect. The usual compilation result, in fact, but nicely done all the same. 1✧✧.deg✧✧✧@sol✧✧✧.a✧.u✧

Thanks Alba, think I remember seeing that before, and searches for the free jazz trio named have brought up some things.
If a single one of the acts had gone on to any level of success then it would be a collector's item, or at least be listed on discogs.

toe robotron 2084 wikipedia page says:

"In the summer of 2012, Eugene Jarvis wrote a comprehensive evaluation of the Robotron Enemy Dynamics"

but there's no reference link and nothing i've thought to search for brings back anything. oh, perhaps the keywords quark, electrode, enforcer, spheroid, grunt, prog might help

(actually that did bring up useful things, not least that my remake gets the names wrong)

The wiki page links to an archived video page that itself cites Robotron2084GuideBook.com

That site is currently in "check back later" mode but there are several archive.org snapshots of when it was up, eg:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130607195419/http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/

This seems to be the specific page you want:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130615073848/http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/gameplay/startingjourney/enemydynamics/

oh, have see that site before, via the wayback machine, but not that part of it.

"Spark balls are shot toward the player with a random spread about the players coordinate, and a certain percentage of sparks are shot where the player is predicted to be when the spark hits, not where the player currently is. This is accomplished by adding the current player’s velocity to the spark’s velocity upon firing. Additionally, a random acceleration is computed upon firing, and then is added to the sparks velocity each video frame."

this is gold. thank you Alba.

I literally just listened to a recent two part interview with Eugene Jarvis a couple of days ago. He talks about the creation of Defender, Robotron, etc. and the gameplay dynamics.

What I can't find: clip from the episode of COPS where an inebriated Jack Nitzsche exclaims that he has an academy award.

some guy on reddit says it's S7E1 but idk if that's right