A thread for pop culture items that don't exist but you wish existed...

I had this weird dream the other night where I was playing one of those old Galaga pinball games. It had an ink drawing off the front of the big "bug" ship, and more bees and critters on the board. Its big feature was where you could "lock" a ball up a ramp, and then unlock it by hitting a sequence of bumpers. "This is muti-ball, you've invented multi-ball," I thought.

I woke up, got in the shower, started thinking, "Wait. Was there even a Galaga pinball game? Or did I just Sinbad myself?" A GIS showed that, yes, there was a Galaga pinball game, but it was all new and LEDed out, with all the ships displayed in retro 3D. A pinball game based more on the video game than the concept of the video game.

I still can't shake that there may have been a real game that my dream was based on. Can't find proof though. I did find the Space Invaders pinball game, which to this day, still scares the shit out of me.

one of those old Galaga pinball games.

I only got this far before excitedly googling, and it appears to be a hand-made (ie coded by a dude at home) VP* game from two years ago

*downloadable computer pinball

a hobbes stuffed toy

john ford's the martian chronicles

earthsea crpg

A Seinfeld reunion that's similar to Twin Peaks: the Return

Jimi Hendrix's version of the Coronation Street theme tune.

Books that extensively cover the history of modern Japanese music with any subtleties of context expertly decoded for us occidental types.

...other than that written by Julian Cope?

Speaking of which,

a guided tour of Avebury by the Drude himself

XP - I'll take that comment at face value and assume you know that a fair amount of that book is fantasy.

Plus I want the whole history from the turn of the century up to now, not just unloveable stoner bollocks and stockhausen meets jazz wibble :)

otm

lol oh OK I didn't actually know that

Yeah, it's the same with the Krautrocksampler book, great read but a lot of supposition.

OK here's my enduring wish

A fully surrealist action movie. Outrageous spectacle and CGI but the action and dialogue is driven by extremely oblique bizarro-psychological angsts, and there are weirdly delocated 'quiet bits' with the feel of arthouse drama even as the trees erupt crystal fire and the space gantries reconfigure. A fever-dream rendered in state-of-the-art mayhem. Meshes of the Michael Bay

Kung Fu hustle

haha good point

OK amend to 'Stephen Chow with a $100m budget, adapting Jean Rhys'

Id buy it

Ha, DL and Ross: I didn't know that remix! It's actually really good, thanks guys.

It's a bit too 'friendly' sounding though, too straightforward. My ideal Superpitcher remix of Dreams would be an 11 minute fever dream, slipping in and out of the song, working towards some sort of melancholy climax. Ah christ I'm going to have to call him up.

A thread for pop culture items that are short of a good shoeing/complete expungement from history

1. Julian Cope

you've gone too far this time

Let's keep it on topic lads

calzino podcast about things or people that are short of a good shoeing slash expungement from history

Ya

title 'To the Gulag!'

where I come from people, that refer to themselves as the archdrude in the 3rd person get fucking banged!

and we don't respect the correct use of commas

That's hard to argue with

simply a case of one type of violence begetting another, so quite justifiable imo.

a good cover version of "yellow submarine"

James Corden's head on a stick

news of his head on a stick yes -- not sure where i'd put the thing itself

Oh I must have a dozen places

dangling from the rear-view mirror imo

stick and all?

i mean, without the stick i can keep it in the fridge where it belongs, by the butter

surely you mean by the margarine

I would sign it up for celebrities to karaoke with

Prob not the thread for it (anymore), but since they'll both read it here, I'm going to have to get back to Ross and Dog Latin on the 'Dreams' remix by Gigamesh. Because for all my wanting, this thing rules. I still want a Superpitcher remix but fuck, the Gigamesh remix is so great. It's practically the only thing I listened to ever since mentioned here.

For posterity, and outstanding service by DL and Ross, this needs to be addressed. Can't get this remix out of my head even if I tried. As far as unfulfilled pop culture items can go, this one hits home.

iPhone game involving sushi preparation

List of sbs given to what posts by which poster

xp that doesn't exist yet? damn. i'd play

Real theater marquee from summer 2014, spotted on Twitter and now something I would pay to see.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXKLIslV4AAnOLW.jpg

yeah that already exists it's called Neon Genesis Evangelion

Prob not the thread for it (anymore), but since they'll both read it here, I'm going to have to get back to Ross and Dog Latin on the 'Dreams' remix by Gigamesh. Because for all my wanting, this thing rules. I still want a Superpitcher remix but fuck, the Gigamesh remix is so great. It's practically the only thing I listened to ever since mentioned here.

For posterity, and outstanding service by DL and Ross, this needs to be addressed. Can't get this remix out of my head even if I tried. As far as unfulfilled pop culture items can go, this one hits home.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, February 28, 2018 11:14 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Think it was Johnny Fever who first switched me onto Gigamesh's remixes/edits but yeah it's such a great tune. I try and include it in any DJ set I can. No idea who Gigamesh is, but they're a talent. The remixes of Groove Is In The Heart and Once In a Lifetime are also really special.