What Can't You Find On The Internet?

I think there's a good chance Soozin is Soozin Kazik. Her name features on this rather wonderful resource:

https://www.1970smusicindustrymemories.com/do-you-remember-these-people-page-21.html

posted this on wrong thread:

anybody have any scans of Zavtone magazine (gorgeous 90s cyberdelic rave magazine from sf / japan)?

Declaring defeat on this (after somewhat more than three minutes). However, in the course of looking I did find this pretty great search engine, https://filmot.com – which lets you search subtitles of YouTube videos. I found from this that there are an awful lot of people on YouTube saying "that is made of awesome", and only one saying ilxor, in a video about some Simpsons mystery that somehow spends 1m20s scrolling through Oh boy, ILX! That's where I'm a viking!..?)

ha, I'm not sure whether I should thank you for searching for that horror or thank you for failing to dig it up. that's a very interesting tool though! I haven't played around with it much, but I was a little shocked to find that google had mis-transcribed things people said ("and I drag it" and the like) as "Ned Raggett" over 100 times

https://i.imgur.com/gmmVXY7.png

fwiw Ned's Captain Kangaroo appearance also pops up in the results, so it isn't all noise

I have a bunch of issues of the Spanish magazine Mundo Joven, from the late ‘60s/early ‘70s, which covered pop music and youth culture. Interesting among other reasons in that it was basically documenting the last years of the Franco era in Spain. I see that issues of Mundo Joven pop up on eBay but I have a LOT of them.

since i share my deadname with a celebrity, i am cursed never to know if anybody has ever talked about me on the internet.

(i don't share my name with a celebrity, because there are no famous women, but since nobody knows my name i just assume that any matches for my name in youtube are typos or refer to some other non-famous woman with my name.)

why is Alexander Berkman holding a fishing pole in this photo of him and Emma Goldman surrendering to the U.S. Marshal?

https://media.gettyimages.com/id/515219814/photo/1918-new-york-ny-emma-goldman-and-alexander-berkman-anarchists-after-surrendering-themselves.jpg

zoinks

https://photos.com/featured/emma-goldman-and-alexander-berkman-bettmann.html

do you mean that diagonal line across the whole image?

lol @ the similar images

apparently it’s an artifact of the print, a fold or a score or something

Sure is! I assumed you were joking

Just dumb. I was looking at it on my phone and I swear I could see a tackle reel near his hand and also where the pole was bending at the top.

circa 1989 MTV news segment on the global spread of hip hop that featured an Italian dj/rapper who delivers the opening lines of "Bring the Noise" as best he can

was it Jovanotti?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRZr612-nUo

(ok that wasn't what you asked for but it may help?)

Osama thumbs up anyone?

quebecois band le volume etait aux maximum pulled their videos for "teenage gluesniffer" and "les princesses" for whatever reason, but I suspect they might still be floating around in some mandatory canadian music video archive.

please help me and Jimmy The Mod find legendary Subway ad starring Joe Torre and Willie Randolph that contains the immortal line “that’s alotta meat”

istr they have a playful tug of war with a footlong in the closing image

Playful tug of war with a footlong

Osama thumbs up anyone?

https://i.imgur.com/N1LzcVI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EKiq9Pp.png

yes thank u

There was an album cover I used to see posted on ILX sometimes with a picture of a weird-looking dude with a big red beard which covered a larger percentage of his face than a beard would normally cover. Any ideas?

― peace, man, Monday, January 31, 2022 2:53 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

― Karl Malone, Monday, January 31, 2022 2:58 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

maybe try https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/

― Bill Kristol Meth (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, January 31, 2022 3:07 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

xp: Hatcat forever.

― peace, man, Monday, January 31, 2022 3:10 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Gentle Giant debut perhaps?

― Dan Worsley, Monday, January 31, 2022 3:12 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

No, it was an actual photograph, but I do think that it was progressive rock of some kind.

― peace, man, Monday, January 31, 2022 3:13 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

probably the Simply Red album after Mick's head shrunk

― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, January 31, 2022 3:13 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Julie's 16th Birthday? They Only Come Out at Night?

― adam t. (abanana), Monday, January 31, 2022 4:48 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Gary Higgins Red Hash?

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, January 31, 2022 5:03 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.discogs.com/release/3581939-Jonathon-Round-Jonathon-Round

― JacobSanders, Monday, January 31, 2022 6:20 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Red Hash is what came to mind for me too!

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, January 31, 2022 6:25 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

These were all good answers, by the way, even if none of them were what I was looking for. I was reminded of my problem this morning when I came across this picture of Roy Wood, which is the closest I've found, but is still not quite right.

https://i.imgur.com/PyaXHr3.png

I feel like the picture I'm looking for might also have been backlit, so you could see light coming through the subject's hair. In the picture I'm thinking of, the guy was definitely a ginger though. I'm wondering if he actually had a full beard, or if it was more like EXTREME 70s mutton chops (a la Ray Dorset, but definitely not Ray Dorset). He also did not have facepaint, but it's possible that he had eyeliner. The guy definitely looked more feral than Wood does here. That is to say that, despite his weird appearance, Wood has a serene look on his face. The guy I'm thinking of had a more wide-eyed intense look on his face, like he was surprised, or possibly peaking on acid.

There's also the chance that I'm not thinking of an album cover at all, and it was instead a promo shot.

in glorious black & white, but ginger geezer viv stanshall?

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/560x315_b/p03mbfps.jpg

Feels like a slim chance, but: Leon Russell?

Possibly Jethro Tull circa War Child or the Nuge on Cat Scratch Fever?

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTMzOTIzNTg1Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODIyMzYwNQ@@._V1_FMjpg_UX1024_.jpg

El Topo

Viv Stanshall is pretty darn close! Something familiar about the tufts of face fur climbing up his cheeks. Maybe I will try to track down some alternate pictures of him.

It's amazing that people are coming up with so many different possible answers.

HOLY SHIT HIDEOUS LUMP! THAT'S IT!

Thank you.

looks like a Jack Mitchell photo lol

this was a journey. made me think of this for some reason.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gw5nh3_rq6g/maxresdefault.jpg

Men used to be so much more fearless in their fashion.

Hey all, so there is lurking in ILX somewhere a reference and YT link to a TV play originating from perhaps Poland or Germany, I'm guessing late 70s/Early 80s.

It was a futuristic society story, 1984/Brave New World kinda thing, very minimal low-budget stage set, lotsa perspex and chrome iirc and I'm fairly certain it had a one-word title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T9qh4Z46FE

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Amazing, thanks budo!

cheers! good thing i reorganized my bookmarks recently

I seem to remember sometime in the past year, someone posted (probably on ILM) about a website that archived liner notes, LP and CD booklet scans, etc. Anyone know the site? (I've already found albumlinernotes.com, not sure if there are any other such sites.)

This? The Liner Notes Project

Pretty sure that was it, thanks!

Hey all, so there is lurking in ILX somewhere a reference and YT link to a TV play originating from perhaps Poland or Germany, I'm guessing late 70s/Early 80s.

It was a futuristic society story, 1984/Brave New World kinda thing, very minimal low-budget stage set, lotsa perspex and chrome iirc and I'm fairly certain it had a one-word title.

― MaresNest, Monday, 25 December 2023 00:07 bookmarkflaglink

Love the look of this - fwiw MN, this is an adaptation of the Yevgeny Zamyatin book 'We'.

in fairness budo jeru had already got that one

oh yeah, sure, i was just boosting the original novel as well, which is v good.

is there a particular translation into English that---we---should look for?

I once caught an episode of German pop show Formel Eins. There was a ridiculously OTT new romantic group debuting their single, a protest song against the cold war. I remember there was a background with a cowboy and a cossack playing chess - not sure whether this was a music video or just how Formel Eins chose to illustrate the performance - and I strongly remember the line "why did the Russians invade Afghanistan?", for its literalness and out of placeness in a synth pop bop.

This was decades ago (at which point ofc it was already a decades old rerun) and I may have exaggerated some or all aspects in my mind since.

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

any help?

This it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B77ZophoD-U

that is it jaymc! great work.

XP to Fizzles, a friend lent me his copy of the book!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoO53l0fUZ0