What Can't You Find On The Internet?

is there a website where you can input chords and then it will play said chords?

this seems to work pretty well: https://www.apronus.com/music/onlineguitar.htm

Thank you my dear burrito.

not 100% sure this wasn’t from a dream but

I saw an Instagram ad recently for these tiny pants that you use to glove your index and middle finger while preparing food... like teeny raw denim, corduroys, tan chinos... did I dream this?

i don’t have any idea what you’re talking about

it’s impossible to google

impossible and upsetting

this is the most annoying product I’ve ever seen

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41LIOcFYb9L._AC_.jpg

I know about finger cots, but those are latex.

couldn't remember what this was from/called last week, and then this morning I remembered

https://i.imgur.com/yL6Tmci.jpg

The new "shinier, happier" remake of Naked Lunch is going to be lit.

Not the same thing, but feels like the same thing.

https://i.imgur.com/1nsvdkH.jpg

whetherest thou art inside Ale's or outside Ale's, what from Ale's thou puttest inside thee doth come out 1 way or another

Some years back, Skot (I think) shared a fantastic YT video of amateur footage taken at a 1960s American high school concert featuring a super charming garage band among others, singer kinda looked like David Byrne, anyone recall this?

― Maresn3st, Sunday, October 25, 2020 7:20 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

i remember this! wld not have any idea how to find it again.

i snapped a photo of this essay, intending to go back to the book and read the whole thing. only now i've forgotten the author and the title, and i've tried various combinations of google searches but am still stumped. any idea?

https://i.imgur.com/HaogdT7.jpg

Maybe "Such Sweet Thunder: Forty-nine Pieces on Jazz" by Whitney Balliett · 1966? | (search link)

ah — yes, that seems to be it. thanks!

No results for 'fashioned a delicate trio' though eh Google

i tried the same technique (exactly search for parts of phrases) and came up empty! i thought "This disturbing sense of strain suggested that Giuffre" would find it immediately, but nothing

It's weird because usually those books will come right up if the images of the pages are still there.

Which they're not for the two examples I found above.

Is there a way to find American network TV interview shows from the 90s? Even just transcripts or closed captions would be fine.

like what?

yeah, i'm wondering if this means barbara walters, stone phillips, arsenio hall, etc...but i would love a database of interview transcripts, in general. that would be amazing

i was thinking the tonight show, letterman etc. but anything would be fine.

the charlie rose website has lots of video and is pretty searchable, goes back to at least the early '90s.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLagmnxL1NQnlAhp_-_00_dSY32QTpiXJy

Christie Brinkley and Hugh Masekela!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t2hZAOgD64

When the actor Gina McKee first came to prominence, I thought "Oh, she's the one from that advert on TV for some car wax where the joke is she's been hired to sit on the car and deliver her lines to camera but the wax is so good she keeps sliding off".

But now I can't find any reference to this online and I wonder if I mistook her for someone else. A Dulux paint ad though, so she was definitely working in that area.

some time in the early 2010s I found a website dedicated to golden age turn-of-the-20th-century illustrators. one of the works I remember was a calendar depicting countryfolk engaged in seasonally appropriate customs/rituals such as harvest festivals. iirc the illustrations had a bit of a pagan flavor, and Celtic gods may or may not have featured in certain scenes. think Arthur Rackham meets The Wicker Man. the project was originally conceived as a calendar and wasn't just some modern product assembled from old illustrations. I'd guess that the artist was a British man active between the 1900s and 1920s, but I could be wrong on that. anyone know what I mean? so far google has been of no help whatsoever, and the site I discovered it on is probably long gone

1. Diary of High School Nerd - pretty sure this was pretty close to the right name, but now all I can see to find are links to High School Musical fanfic. This was a kid who self-described as a comedy nerd, over the course of it I believe he either transferred from a religious school to a public one or vice versa. I think the guy who wrote it went on to do some comedy writing on the web at one point.

Drives me crazy wondering if I just hallucinated this one, but I've still been unable to find it. Every few months I try new combinations of words to try and find it, but no dice.

There's a dude who had a website called something like Diary Of A Nerd, he was called Andrew Hicks? I googled him some time ago and he'd become a daddy blogger.

Holy shit, yes! Andrew Hicks was the name, thanks for that! Found a few articles about him from 2011 that reference a blog that resurrected his original writing, but unfortunately all those links appear to be dead now. Thanks for that much though, I couldn’t even come up with his name which wasn’t aiding my googling.

A menu from a pizza restaurant which had varieties for every country, think itvwas from the mid-west in the 50s.

Ok, found it on Twitter. Classic fusion cooking from 1957.

I was going through The Oregonian's archives and found this ad for a pizza restaurant…… in 1957. Yes I realize it was probably not great pizza, but the toppings sound intensely appealing to me. I need to recreate all of these!! pic.twitter.com/TAaV03BlJR

— Neven Mrgan (@mrgan) September 8, 2020

Back in Francine's Pizza Jungle

the week david bowie died some DJ did an absolutely incredible DJ juggle version of Let's Dance but it's NOT the Scratch Bastid version that is quite easily findable on YouTube it was someone a lot less smug with a nicer camera but i cannot find it for the life of me

Two things I can't find

1. This is an arthouse film I saw on TV in the early or mid 90s, it was one of those films on an un-dressed white set, like Dogville. There was a man trying to get some advice in his life, he was told to marry a rich widow, so he did this, then went with the widow to the USA. The border guard gave them hamburgers and coca cola, they said "but we don't like hamburgers and coca cola" and he said "sure, everyone likes hamburger and coca cola" - I have no idea whether this was a good or a bad film, I watched it with my dad who was not at all impressed, but that scene has stuck with me for at least 25 years.

2. A Japanese (possibly Korean) sitcom which I used to watch in China in 2006 (so probably from 2000-2005) - it was called "(Man's Name)'s Diary" and was about a strong, dumb, harmless guy and his relationship with his petite wife who he was terrified of, standard enough sitcom fare but it was ridiculously cartoonish, to an almost Lazytown level, but it was an adult show.

1. Apparently there has never been a static image of a beekeeper working at a desk.

2. Clip of Paul Schaffer shaking his fist yelling "Damn you, Twister!"

not static, "stock"...

Full streaming movie of Mad Max but it's the American dub.

the pitchfork “best albums by women+” list

Duh, it wasn’t Pitchfork it was NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/627395449/turning-the-tables-the-200-greatest-songs-by-21st-century-women-part-1

still no clue with either of mine 3 months ago

A Japanese (possibly Korean) sitcom which I used to watch in China in 2006

Oniyome Nikki?

https://mydramalist.com/7700-oniyome-nikki

I came across that one as well - couldn't ascertain whether it was shown on Chinese TV -it's 2005 tho

lol it's the same link even!

from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVifEfdWz2k

That's the one! only aired for one series and looks like they changed the title in HK, not surprised I couldn't find it. looks as strange as I remembered.

thank you both!

there was a second series apparently: Oniyome Nikki: Ii Yu da na

A so-so web series from circa 2008? About it becoming permanently nighttime, plus the dark kills you. Opened with some students in a university dorm.

Pilot of a WALKING DEAD style zombie series from the same time that didn’t actually get made into a series, with a guy trapped in his office building.

THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR THE SONG "AMERICAN STORM" BY BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND.

NOT A LIVE VERSION.

NOT THE SONG PLAYING OVER THE LIKE A ROCK ALBUM COVER.

THIS ONE.

(P.S. I live in the United States.)

The music video featured Lesley Ann Warren, James Woods, Randy Quaid and Scott Glenn. It is designed to resemble soundtrack videos where scenes from the movie are intercut with the artist performing the featured song except in this instance, there was no originating movie. The video was directed by Brian DePalma.