Everyone knows who they are - only a minority have actually heard their music.

Hmm. Forgot to post the contents, but I am speaking of people such as Varg Vikernes, Pete Doherty etc. here.

who?

Varg Vikernes discovered America.

I have no idea who that is.

guy from Burzum

anyone ever notice geir's obsession with skrewdriver and burzum?

that totally catches me off guard

The Konami Kukeiha Club (コナミ矩形波倶楽部, konami kukeiha kurabu?, lit. "Konami Square Wave Club", referring to square waves used in chiptunes in the 1980s) band was formed by Motoaki Furukawa, a composer working for the game firm Konami, after his work on Gradius III back in 1990. It was formed by members of Konami's music production department, mirroring similar bands at the time from other game companies such as Falcom and Sega. The band even has two official albums: A self-titled back in 1990 featuring 5 original songs and five cover tracks and a second album entitled HOPE in 1993 featuring 10 original tracks. Afterward, they became a cover/in-house band and thus was born Konami Kukeiha Club. The band has done many songs, including the famous rock version of the Metal Gear Solid 2 for the hidden mini-game, and the Castlevania album Dracula Best Battle Perfect Selection in 1994.

Contrary to popular beliefs, music was never credited to "Kukeiha Club" in any early Konami game.

Also done music for Konami's Bemani series:

* Beatmania: Burning Heat! (3rd and Full Option Mix)
* Dance Dance Revolution: same as above
* DrumMania
* Guitar Freaks
* Mambo a go-go: Passion night Rendez-Vous

The members consist of:

* Motoaki Furukawa: All Guitars & Programming
* Mami Asano : Keyboards
* Kenichi Mitsuda : Keyboards
* Tappy (Tappi Iwase): Drums & Percussion

Somewhere in Time is a 1980 time travel romance film directed by Jeannot Szwarc, written by Richard Matheson and starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, and Teresa Wright. Although this movie was well received during its previews, it was ruthlessly trashed by the critics upon release and was unsuccessful at the box office. It has earned a large and loyal following since its release to cable television and video, and the movie is now regarded by many to be a cult classic.

Reeve plays Richard Collier, a playwright who falls in love with a photograph of a young woman at the Grand Hotel. Through self-hypnosis he travels back in time to the year 1912 to find love with actress Elise McKenna (portrayed by Seymour).

The film is adapted from the 1975 novel Bid Time Return by science fiction writer Richard Matheson, which was subsequently re-released under the film's title. The film is known for its beautiful musical score, composed by John Barry. In addition to Barry's score, the eighteenth variation of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini runs throughout the film.
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o 1.1 Timeline
* 2 Awards
* 3 Trivia
* 4 External links

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The film begins in May 1972, when playwright Richard Collier (Reeve) meets an old woman who gives him a pocket watch asking him to come back to her. Eight years later, Richard stays at the Grand Hotel and falls in love with a photograph of a beautiful woman. Richard asks Arthur, an old man who's been at the hotel since 1910, who the woman is and learns that she is Elise McKenna, a famous actress. Richard then researches who Elise is and learns that she was the old woman who gave him the pocket watch eight years ago.

Richard learns about time travel from an old college professor of his and that it can be done if one can go under hypnosis. Richard then tries to travel back in time to the year 1912 under hypnosis with a tape recorder only to fail under stress. After a trip to the hotel's attic, Richard finds an old guest book from 1912 with his signature in it only to learn that he was there.

Richard again goes under hypnosis (this time without the tape recorder, since it was not around in 1912) and succeeds. Upon arriving in 1912, Richard looks all over the hotel for Elise, even meeting Arthur as a little boy, and has no luck finding her. Finally, Richard meets Elise standing by a tree by the lake and she asks him if he's the one. Before he can ask why, Elise's manager, William Fawcett Robinson, tells Richard to leave Ms. McKenna alone. Richard continues to seek Elise out again until finally she agrees to walk with him. Richard finally asks why Elise asked if he was the one and she replies that Robinson knows that she will meet a man that will change her life. Upon returning to the hotel, Elise invites Richard to her play. Richard attends the play and upon visiting Elise during intermission finds her getting her picture taken. Upon spotting Richard, Elise smiles and the picture is then taken. This picture is the same one in which Richard will see 68 years later at the Grand Hotel. Later, Richard receives a letter from Robinson who admits to Richard that he knows who he really is. He then has Richard tied up and thrown into the stables.

Richard wakes up the next morning and escapes the stables and runs to Elise's room only to discover that her party has left. Richard then goes out to the hotel's deck to find Elise running towards him. They return to his room together and make love. Later that evening, Elise asks Richard if he's going to marry her in which he responds yes. She then tells him that the first thing she will do for him is buy him a new suit (the suit Richard has been wearing the his entire time in 1912 is about ten to fifteen years out of style). Richard begins to show Elise what a wonderful suit it because of it's many pockets. He is alarmed when he reaches into one and finds a penny that has the date of 1979 on it. Snapping him out of his hypnotic-induced time travel, Richard fades from 1912 with Elise screaming his name in horror as he drifts back to 1980.

Richard wakes up in his room having returned back to his own time. He tries to hypnotise himself again without success. After wandering around the hotel and staring for hours at Elise's picture, Richard returns to his room where he sits in a daze for days without eating. Arthur checks on Richard in his room and finds him very sick and calls for a doctor. Richard then sees himself drifting above his body and his room and is drawn to a light. In the light is Elise, waiting for him just as he remembered her where they will remain together in Heaven.

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* 1912
o Thursday, June 27: Richard wakes up at the Grand Hotel and meets Elise.
o Friday, June 28: Richard invites Elise to go on a walk with him. Later that night he attends her play.
o Saturday, June 29: Richard finds a 1979 penny in his pocket and wakes up. He also leaves behind his pocketwatch.

* 1972
o May: Elise returns the pocket watch to Richard. Elise returns home and dies.

* 1980
o Richard stays at the Grand Hotel and falls in love with Elise's picture.
o Richard hypnotizes himself to go back to 1912.
o Richard wakes up from 1912 and tries to go back, but can't.
o Richard dies from a broken heart.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Awards

Somewhere in Time has received several awards, including:

* Saturn Award for Best Costume,
* Saturn Award for Best Music,
* Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film.

The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design.

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* The film was shot at the Grand Hotel, on Michigan's Mackinac Island. The hotel hosts an annual convention for fans of the film. However, in the novel the setting is the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California.
* Richard Matheson, who wrote the original novel and screenplay, appears in a cameo role as an astonished 1912 hotel guest. The cause of his astonishment is apparently Richard's face after cutting himself shaving with a straight-razor.
* The character of Elise McKenna was based upon a real life early 20th century stage actress Maude Adams.
* In 1990, Somewhere in Time fan Bill Shepard founded International Network of Somewhere In Time Enthusiasts (INSITE) to "Honor the film, and those responsible for its creation, to Inform members about all aspects of it and enhance their appreciation of it, as well as to Influence public and media perception of the film, to assure its recognition as the classic we know it to be." INSITE has erected a plaque near the hotel to commemorate the first encounter of the film's lovers. In 1997, the fan club also paid for Reeve's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. According to INSITE president and magazine editor Jo Addie, INSITE is alive and well, and can be joined online at http://www.somewhereintime.tv. INSITE publishes an elegant 16 - 20 page magazine 4 times a year, and back-issues may also be purchased online.
* Director Jeannot Szwarc had a slight problem directing the scenes between Christopher Plummer and Christopher Reeve in that whenever he said "Chris" both men would respond with "Yes?" Szwarc resolved this by deciding to address Christopher Plummer as "Mr. Plummer" and addressing Christopher Reeve as "Bigfoot".
* The final scene between Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour before Reeve's character is thrown back into his own time was difficult for Reeve to shoot because he had just learned that his then girlfriend and companion, Gae Exton, was pregnant with his first son, Matthew, so for much of that day his attention was understandably elsewhere.

Grand Hotel where the film was shot
Grand Hotel where the film was shot

* In the film, Reeve's character refers to a Dr. Finney as an expert on time travel. This is very probably a reference to author Jack Finney, whose novel Time and Again features a very similar approach to traveling through time.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

* There is a "time paradox" in the film. The watch given to Richard when he was a young man by the older Elise has no origin in the timeline. Richard takes this watch with him back to 1912. Elise is admiring this watch when Richard finds the 1979 penny, and is thrust back to the future, leaving the watch behind. Where did the watch come from? In addition, it is likely that the age of the watch would continually deteriorate through iterations of the time loop.
* The cars used in the film required special permission from the town to be brought onto, and driven on, the island. The cast and crew of the film were only allowed to drive the vehicles during filming. Motorized vehicles, other than emergency vehicles and snowmobiles in the winter, are prohibited on Mackinac Island. Transportation is limited to horse and buggy or bicycle.
* A little bit of Superman related trivia: director Jeannot Szwarc helmed the 1984 feature film Supergirl, that in their development stage, would have Christopher Reeve reprising his role as Superman. Since 2003, Szwarc had directed several episodes of the hit TV Series Smallville, that featured the late Reeve as Virgil Swann, a scientist who became a friend of Clark Kent, (Tom Welling) during two episodes on seasons 2 and 3. Jane Seymouralso was part of this series, playing a recurring character during the season 4, calledGenevieve Teague.

Low smoke zero halogen (LSZH or LSOH) is a type of cable jacketing used in the manufacture of industrial and network cabling. LSZH cable jacketing is composed of thermoplastic or thermoset compounds that emit limited smoke and no halogens when exposed to high sources of heat.[1]

Most network cables are insulated with PVC plastic. In fires, this plastic material releases chlorine, a poisonous gas, which forms caustic hydrochloric acid when it comes in contact with water. Halogen-free cable, on the other hand, is made of a different material called polypropylene, which doesn't produce a dangerous gas/acid combination.

Low smoke zero halogen cable reduces the amount of toxic and corrosive gases emitted during combustion. Typically used in poorly ventilated areas, low smoke zero halogen is becoming very popular where the protection of people and equipment from toxic and corrosive gasses is critical.

The Meshanticut Interchange is a highway interchange complex in Cranston, Rhode Island, USA. It was one of the first interchange complexes in Rhode Island, opening around the same time as the Olneyville Bypass, the RI 2/RI 117 interchange and relocated RI 3 (now I-95) (and long after the Point Street Viaduct, opened in 1940 [1]), and has not been changed since its opening in the early 1950s. The interchange is named after Meshanticut Brook, which flows through it.

RI 2 and RI 5 pass through the interchange, and RI 33 merges with RI 2 south of the crossing with RI 5. RI 3 was originally concurrent with RI 2 through it; RI 33 was originally RI 3A. RI 2 north of the interchange and RI 33 to the south are known as New London Avenue or New London Turnpike (part of the old Providence and Pawcatuck Turnpike); RI 2 is Bald Hill Road to the south, and RI 5 is Oaklawn Avenue.

The interchange has high-speed ramps connecting RI 2 on the south to RI 5 on the north; RI 5 was the western bypass of the Providence area before I-295 was built, and RI 2 was the main road south and southwest from Providence.

A section of the old Providence and Pawcatuck Turnpike connects RI 2 to the north with RI 5. Across RI 5, the road dead ends; before the interchange it continued onto RI 33. A section of old Bald Hill Road (RI 2) splits from RI 5 just south of this turnpike crossing, and connects to several shopping centers.

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Winning London is a 2001 film starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
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Chloe Lawrence (Mary-Kate Olsen) is a very driven teenager and leader of her high school's Model United Nations team. After performing particularly well in a competition, the team is selected to attend the international Model UN competition in London, England. One of the team members, however, is unable to attend. Chloe's twin sister, Riley (Ashley Olsen), steps in to fill the gap – to get closer to Chloe's attractive teammate, Brian, more than anything else. When the group arrives in London, they discover that someone is already representing their usual country: China. Undaunted, they improvise and end up representing England. Plenty of sight-seeing and shopping ensues, while Chloe takes a fancy to James Browning, the son of an English noble, Lord Browning, who is being pressured by his father to achieve more. As the competition progresses, Chloe's over-competitive nature stalls her budding romance, Riley tries to get closer to Brian, and the team earns both admiration and anger for their unconventional methods. Nevertheless, tribulations are weathered and lessons learned about sportsmanship, overlooked friends, and learning to enjoy one's youth.

Thomas Davidson (May 17, 1817 - October 14, 1885), British palaeontologist, was born in Edinburgh.

His parents possessed considerable landed property in Midlothian. Educated partly in the university of Edinburgh and partly in France, Italy and Switzerland, and early acquiring an interest in natural history, he benefited greatly by acquaintance with foreign languages and literature, and with men of science in different countries.

He was induced in 1837, through the influence of Leopold von Buch, to devote his special attention to the brachiopoda, and in course of time he became the highest authority on this group. The great task of his life was the Monograph of British Fossil Brachiopoda, published by the Palaeontographical Society (1850-1886). This work, with supplements, comprises six quarto volumes with more than 200 plates drawn on stone by the author.

He also prepared an exhaustive memoir on Recent Brachiopoda, published by the Linnean Society. He was elected FRS in 1857. He was awarded in 1865 the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London, and in 1870 a Royal medal by the Royal Society; and in 1882 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the university of St Andrews.

He died at Brighton on the 14 October 1885, bequeathing his fine collection of recent and fossil brachiopoda to the British Museum.

Geir is from Norway, where, you know, people might hear shit about Varg all the time. So it's not too big a deal.

Charles Manson

everyone knows who geir hongro is - only a minority have actually heard his music.

perfection

yoko ono?

Acid Mothers Temple
Jandek
Neu!
Cul de Sac
Sunn))))))0 or however you fucking spell it

Yes, everyone knows who Jandek are. They never stop discussing him in my local.

if you're talking about among the general public, eno's a good pick. maybe this is less true in the uk?

"everyone"

Louis Farrakhan

Bill Clinton

and of course john ashcroft

John Cage (or you could say that everyone has heard that one particular piece, but...)
Joyce Hatto
Possibly Charlie Parker.

Hugo Chavez like to belt the odd number out, does he not?

How about Little Richard? Or even Screamin' Jay Hawkins?

This is actually a pretty good topic, I don't know why everyone is fucking with Geir.

My answer is Motorhead.

Captain Beefheart? Serge Gainsbourg?

Ok seriously, Dead C, Incredible String Band, Prurient, Magik Markers spring to mind.

everyone knows ho prurient and magik markers are? what world do you live in?

Of course, K-Fed.

Pele

This thread is making me doubt people's sanity. The most sensible answer so far would seem to be Yoko Ono -- to the extent that people seem to think they know what her music sounds like, even though most have pretty much zero experience with it.

Insane Clown Posse, maybe?

Velvet Undeground. At least I have never heard anything by them.

Eno seconded!

Eno is a crossword puzzle clue at least once a month. So, yes, Eno. And Ono. The rest of youse is on crack.

I also like Manson.

Todd Rundgren
WTF how is this guy famous?
I even have records by him and I still don't know what he sounds like.

The Velvet Underground = charanga.

I think it's funny I am expected to know who Burzum is. (Not that I mind people thinking I know more than I do.)

G.G. Allin. I never heard anything from him and never will. But always everyone knows, who is he, but no one listening his music.

Yoko Ono good call.

everyone knows ho prurient and magik markers are? what world do you live in?

A world where I live freely amongst a race of psychotic shitting half-monky half-koalas. Where Prurient and Magik Markers blare from community speakers in the streets, we dance, eat berries and drink crystal clear water from our streams, It's a simple life, and good.

a race of psychotic shitting half-monky half-koalas

TACO TIME.

I want to make a B science fiction movie where Ned is an evil intergalactic warlord that turns the entire animal populations into tacos.

Todd Rundgren is famous because he deserves to be...

I think we did the reverse of this once - "Everyone has heard their music - only a minority actually know who they are". For instance: the Timelords - everyone's heard "Doctorin' the Tardis" at sporting events, but how many people would even recognize the title?

But for the question on this thread: I agree Yoko is probably the best answer so far. Within music snob circles, I'd say maybe Stockhausen.

Lamont Young (mostly because of the total unavailability of his recordings)

In the LP era, infamous cover art could make a band well known without many spins, [Removed Illegal Link].

The correct answer is John Cage.

No-one in my family knows who John Cage is.

(nb: by "everyone" we do not necessarily mean "everyone")

I'd wager significantly more people have heard of Sonic Youth than actually heard them.

I want to make a B science fiction movie where Ned is an evil intergalactic warlord that turns the entire animal populations into tacos.

I approve. (I also highly approve of your user name but I admit it doesn't tell me who you are, unless I've missed something.)

The correct answer, comparared to his fame, is Pele.

I have certainly never heard Pele's music.

"Velvet Undeground. At least I have never heard anything by them.

Tuomas on Monday, 12 March 2007 21:11 (Yesterday)"

vintage stuff

I have heard of David Beckham, everybody has.

Have we heard his music? No.

"Everyone" = most people in your average queue at the bus stop (or local equivalent). Which is why Yoko Ono is the best answer yet. Pete Doherty as well possibly.

I have heard of David Beckham, everybody has.
Have we heard his music? No.

Yes - no.
Has Becks made any music, is teh question. Eh?
Pele, on teh other hand, has indeed recorded a number of songs. (Not like I'd argue they are good or anything :)

Paris Hitlon

HASSELHOFF

The correct answer, comparared to his fame, is Pele.

Possibly Carl Lewis or Ruud Gullit as well.

In the UK, Donny Tourette/Towers of London.

I have heard Hasslehoff's music, unfortunately.

Johan Cruijff

Nero

Kris Kristopherson-- More people probably know him from the Blade movies, or various other roles, than from his recordings (unless covers by others count.)

Marissa Marchant.