What Can't You Find On The Internet?

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Do you mean the legendary Sushi Seals?

RickyT, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Cos there's loads of stuff if you google for them

Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

pornography starring people I know.

hans, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I can't find the email addresses of several former friends who I'd like to try to contact, what is that about?

Ally, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I can't find loads of slanderous but humorous ancedotes about my guy's ex. What's up with that ?!?!?

Sam-at-home, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Rebecca - there maybe info on Ras Ibuna on the sleeve for Rodigans Roots and Culture Vol 1 - will check tonight. he also did a track called 'Want to Know'. i imagine the rest of their work was under other names - pretty unlikely for any Jamaican artist to just record 2 sides

m jemmeson, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Rebecca (again) - if you're in London then i recommend Dub Vendor (branches in Ladbroke Grove and S.London, either Brixton or Clapham, I can't remember), Sounds of the Universe (Ingestre Place, nr Selectadisc), and Daddy Kool (downstairs from second hand shop, Berwick St). Daddy Kool aren't as helpful though, and won't play tracks for you, but have a big stock if you know what you want. you're talking Jamaican 7"s for dancehall (between 2.50 and 4.00 each), except for the occasional albums (e.g. Sizzla, Mr Vegas) or the Greensleeves 'riddim' albums (10 tracks all on the same rhythm)

downstairs at Ray's Jazz Shop (Covent Garden) has plenty of 7" represses of JA stuff, and a turntable to listen on

m jemmeson, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Steady Mike has a point. Lots of Euro info is there, but less League - I think. How about Manchester United's 10-ame run c. late 1985 - does the record stop at game 11?

I can't find a resolution for the www contradiction between Lloyd Cole, on the Lloyd site, saying he loves Robert Quine and they're going for NYC Chinese food next week, and Quine, on the Quine site, saying, "Lloyd Cole just wants to make MOR records for the commercial radio" etc.

Most importantly, I can't find 'Ask And He'll Answer' Nicky D answering my question of a while back, namely: why are there two different versions of the Magnetic Fields' GET LOST LP?

the pinefox, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yay! Thank you m jemmeson. I am not in London but I'm just about close enough to go shopping there one afternoon (transport between nearest city and London = cheap, fast and easy, 24 hours a day; transport along the 18 miles of A-road from here to nearest city and back = overpriced, slow and complicated, and stops at 6pm, sigh). I'll try to get to some of the shops you mention at some point.

Do you have to go and buy tracks while they're still reasonably new, or is there a fair bit of back stock? And are the Greensleeves riddim compilations mixed or do they feature full-length tracks? I'm mainly looking for "Money To Burn" (don't know who this is by but it rocks) and Mr Easy's "Crazy", both of which are based on the Buy Out riddim, but I'd be interested in any other Buy Out tracks or, well, anything, really. (Cue lots of dancehall connoisseurs laughing at me - as you can see, I don't really know what I'm talking about at all. I feel far too white and middle-class to say "riddim", as well, but it seems fairly unavoidable.)

Anyway, thanks very much for your help, much appreciated, you rock. And an excuse for a record-shopping trip to the Berwick Street area is always appreciated, even if I haven't dared venture into the non- indie shops before :)

Rebecca, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Not Sushi Seals, but an Liquid Television-like MTV show that was around a few years back. More specifically, I want some information about where I can get the episodes. :)

palpable, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

photos of Josh Randall

anthony, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

the real story of Retsina.

tracerhand@yahoo.com, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two years pass...
what can't you find on the internet?

cozen¡ (Cozen), Saturday, 3 January 2004 02:39 (twenty years ago) link

The inertnet seems to lack a Canadian English Dictionary.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 3 January 2004 02:43 (twenty years ago) link

they speak English in Canada?

(sorry) :-)

Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 3 January 2004 02:47 (twenty years ago) link

i can't find more information about that braxe&falke/dj deon soundclash

stevem (blueski), Saturday, 3 January 2004 02:52 (twenty years ago) link

Well they sure don't speak Parisian French.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 3 January 2004 02:53 (twenty years ago) link

There seems to be nowhere on the Net where I can buy viagra or find out anything about Paris Hilton. I suspect a conspiracy....

Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Saturday, 3 January 2004 08:10 (twenty years ago) link

Sleater-Kinney slash fiction.

Really, I was amazed!

I needed some for the inlay of a mix CD I was making for a friend, but I couldn't find any. Had to use some generic girl-girl stuff and change the names.

It must be out there somewhere surely!?!

mei (mei), Saturday, 3 January 2004 08:19 (twenty years ago) link

here's what i *did* find--funniest craigslist ad ever:

losangeles.craigslist.org > tv video radio jobs > Is your name Todd? Do you know a Todd?
last modified: Fri, 2 Jan 11:27

Is your name Todd? Do you know a Todd?
Reply to: toddtvcasting@yahoo.com
Date: 2004-01-02, 11:20AM

Do you have what it takes to star in your very own reality TV show? Are you outgoing, exciting and vaguely attractive? Most importantly: Is your name Todd? Is your middle name Todd? Is your last name Todd? Do you know someone named Todd?

FX is looking for the next “Todd” for their new series Todd TV: The reality show where the viewing audience is directly responsible for every important decision in Todd's life.

If you think you have what it takes, or if you can recommend a Todd, please contact us as soon as possible!

IMPORTANT: You must be able to interview in the LA area. YOU OR THE PERSON YOU ARE SUGGESTING MUST BE NAMED TODD.

Please send your contact information (Name and Phone Number) to:

toddtvcasting@yahoo.com



Compensation: TBD (range: $1,000.00 to $2,000.00)
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
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this is in or around Los Angeles

Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 3 January 2004 09:59 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

I'm desperate for a well made gingerbread man toy, all I can find are home made Shrek rip offs on ebay :(

*rumpie*, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link

http://stuffedlegends.com/gingerbreaddg.htm

Jaq, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link

I love you Jaq

*rumpie*, Thursday, 18 October 2007 07:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Trying to find the name of a BBC TV series on photography which was broadcast about ten years ago. USP was it looked into the stories behind particular historic photographs e.g Hindenburg disaster, Kim Phuc Vietnam photo interveiwing the photographers,participants and witnesses.

Billy Dods, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 11:54 (sixteen years ago) link

The British television version of The Owl Service.

Melissa W, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link

I really want to know why Donald Tusk has such a ridiculous, un-Polish name, but the internet will not help me (in English, anyway).

Also, I can't find that Nazi propaganda poster of the Jewish octopus controlling the world (the head is a dollar sign centred on New York, and in a neat touch the tentacle stretching to the Philippines has been severed by a samurai sword).

Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link

A Chinese communist propaganda poster I saw in the Tate once called "The Nightmare of Future War" which was either the inspiration for the opening scenes of Terminator, or a startling coincidence. Or a fake. There was a futuristic warplane that really was similar to the ones in the film, searchlights and flak, and the ground was a sea of skulls.

ledge, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link

i was wondering about donald tusk too! apparently the donald comes from an englishman his grandma fell in love with (it was his dad's name too) but i got no leads on tusk. of scandinavian origin i suppose? pronounced toosk anyhow.

r|t|c, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link

I MET A MAN NAMED ADMIRAL LINgbert and i cannot find him on the internet

chaki, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link

size 9.5 red mary janes

sunny successor, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link

An mp3 of the song playing in the background of the scene in Jurassic Park where Dodgson meets Nedry at the outdoor cafe and gives him the shaving cream can for smuggling embryos.

Kerm, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link

The interview with Neil Tennant from Attitude magazine in 93/94 where he came out. You'd think it'd be everywhere. There's 100s of other articles about him.

pisces, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:37 (sixteen years ago) link

The song that plays during the trailer that used to run at the start of every manga anime dvd (or perhaps still does)

Slumpman, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link

the Nescafe top 50 all time student albums published in 1987. Sounds magazine reported on it.

djmartian, Thursday, 25 October 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

an ilx thread about new ghost towns in places like sacramento where office parks went up but never got inhabited

J0hn D., Tuesday, 15 April 2008 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link

new ghost towns in places like sacramento where office parks went up but never got inhabited

sounds like my wife's vagina.

wait, WHAT?!!

dell, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link

a reasonable price for the "Breakin'" OST from a reputable merchant

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link

A way to find out what the song in your head is when you don't know the words, only the tune.
"Boyz Unlimited", sitcom by Matt Lucas and probably David Walliams which I vaguely remember being funny.

Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Um, I can't find that thread that is "This is the thread where we get people to dig up stuff on ILX that we can't find"

Ironic I know.

Specifically, I'm looking for the links to that awful music device where you put your hand infront of light beams while some horrible general midi tunes play.

S-, Friday, 13 June 2008 05:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Is that really irony? I mean, I understand that there is something ironical about that thread where people complain about how much they dislike people who complain, but what about where you can't find the thread that is for people who can't find the threads they are looking for? I would call that tragicomic. Would I call it ironic? I am just not sure.

moley, Friday, 13 June 2008 05:49 (fifteen years ago) link

I am not saying it isn't irony. I am saying, I need some guidance here. I am curious as to whether it is irony or not. I feel my understanding of irony has become suject to modernist, morissettian redefinitions.

moley, Friday, 13 June 2008 05:51 (fifteen years ago) link

Or perhaps it is cosmic irony, or meta irony? And what I thought was irony was merely hypocrisy...?

moley, Friday, 13 June 2008 05:52 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm going home.

moley, Friday, 13 June 2008 05:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Much thanks.

S-, Friday, 13 June 2008 06:31 (fifteen years ago) link

I have no idea whether it has anything to do with his name, but apparently Donald Tusk is Kashubian.

anatol_merklich, Friday, 13 June 2008 08:31 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The name of an American film/music critic from the 1930'S/40'd. I think Frank Kogan may have namedropped him.

Billy Dods, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link

The average depth of a human's skin, before you reach fat.

Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link

manny farber?

czn, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Skin thickness varies with age and body location, but averages only 1 to 2 millimeters (0.04 to 0.08 inches) thick.

Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link

seems ridiculous that you can have an isbn number but all that comes back in searches is 100 pages selling the same "ed mcbain omnibus" with the same "cover coming soon" and no information about what's in it. i swear the internet used to be more helpful.

978-0340623244

koogs, Thursday, 15 February 2024 17:36 (two months ago) link

The name of a book published around 1912 that contained offensive (for the time) songs and poems. I think the title started with an I. And it was available on Google Books.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, June 11, 2022 12:06 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Still looking.

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 29 February 2024 01:27 (one month ago) link

four weeks pass...

A gallery of all 9 original panels of "A Short History of America" exist online in a decent (or *gasp* high) resolution?

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 28 March 2024 01:09 (three weeks ago) link

All I could find is this YT in reasonable quality -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRkq595NhD0

Maresn3st, Thursday, 28 March 2024 01:31 (three weeks ago) link

Nice, thank you!

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 28 March 2024 16:21 (three weeks ago) link

video of New Pornographers "The Laws Have Changed" on Letterman circa 2003?

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 March 2024 17:06 (two weeks ago) link

It used to be here but was taken down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzyp3JC9-uU

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 March 2024 17:13 (two weeks ago) link

I just saw them on Letterman. They did "The Laws Have Changed," which was exactly what I wanted to hear, and the most obvious song to play. Neko looked really pretty, more beautiful than I remember her being from the two times that I've seen the band perform.

Carl looks more like Howdy Doody with each passing day.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, June 17, 2003 8:56 PM (twenty years ago)

...

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 March 2024 17:14 (two weeks ago) link

Andy Partridge once wrote a mini-essay (or post?) about songwriting in which he used an extended metaphor about going around a racetrack built by his forebears (the Beatles, the Move, the Kinks, etc.) This may have been a myspace post? Or maybe that's just where I originally saw it, in my memory. It's not in the Complicated Game book and I can't seem to find it on Chalkhills (it wasn't really "news" or "press").

Οὖτις, Friday, 29 March 2024 20:19 (two weeks ago) link


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