trying to find the name of / photos from some ancient movie theater located in Lawrenceville, GA in the 80/90s. last time i was over in the area (~15 years ago) it was where the Phoenix High School is now.
feel like this is an impossible task cos there are so many movie theaters to search but it would be super sweet in a nostalgic way. i remember seeing so many movies as a young kid here, even ROTJ, i remember a Pac Man neon sign, etc. all super cliche stuff i know but finding the name of this one movie theater would make my life.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
Was it the Lawrenceville Cinema Four?
https://i.imgur.com/Yt6PeIK.png
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/35014
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
Went off from this conversation about a cinema with only four theaters and eventually wound up here.
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 01:34 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I saw somebody on this page for a theater in Stone Mountain mentions in passing that "I was a manager in the late 90s for Cineplex Odeon corp. Doug Sides was my district manager and I was just 17 years old managing the Lawrenceville Cinema Four (dollar house)" but it doesn't seem like that theater's on the site
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link
The theater I saw ROTJ at was turned into a Gold's Gym.
― how's life, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 11:27 (five years ago) link
thanks for pointing out that Looming game, sleepingbag, I enjoyed it
(and stayed up past my bedtime being completist about it, so I hope nobody asks me anything difficult at work today. zzz)
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 11:48 (five years ago) link
an honest man
― brimstead, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
woah Cinema Four, it was not that. i had no idea there was a drive in! must have closed before i was old enough to know.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
thanks for that link! will look around cinematreasures =)
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
tbf it's a tough search cos there is a dollar cinema over there still in operation i believe (i saw "Hustle & Flow" there in late 2005). this dollar cinema i went to for a TMNT birthday party when that came out. i remember it was next to an arcade called Great Games. not the og theater im looking for though. and right down the street is a huge AMC.
it's kind of crazy how many movie theaters pop up and go away over the years.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
http://photos.cinematreasures.org/production/photos/115049/1420327280/large.jpg
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/32458
this is the dollar theater i was talking about. this entrance photo is some powerful personal nostalgia. one of the users comments is asking about the theater im looking for but they don't know heh. still, im on the trail...
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
the altered images video that is a parody of the prisoner; mysteriously disappeared as if taken to a remote island for interrogation...
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 26 April 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
THERE IS NO GOOD QUALITY RIP OF CAMEO'S ALLIGATOR WOMAN VIDEO
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 26 April 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
Lately I've been thinking about a pair of online diaries that I remember reading around 1999-2001, some time in that range. Unfortunately I can't remember the exact names of the diaries or who wrote them, so Google proves pretty unhelpful, as you can see below. Anybody remember either of these?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.2. Diary of a 40 Year Old Virgin - not sure on the exact title, but it was close to this. It way predated the Steve Carrell movie, which has since made it really hard to search for. The guy was in his 40s and a huge gym rat, but he mostly wrote about his struggles dating and meeting women.
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.
2. Diary of a 40 Year Old Virgin - not sure on the exact title, but it was close to this. It way predated the Steve Carrell movie, which has since made it really hard to search for. The guy was in his 40s and a huge gym rat, but he mostly wrote about his struggles dating and meeting women.
helpful folks itt helped me find the virgin one pretty quickly, but i still think about the comedy nerd one a lot and wish i could find it.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 April 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
THERE IS NO GOOD QUALITY VERSION OF THAT CRUZADOS SONG THAT OPENS UP ROADHOUSE ON THE INTERNET
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 27 April 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
Osama thumbs up.jpg ;_;
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 4 May 2018 08:54 (five years ago) link
http://i11.tinypic.com/53ucxtl.gif
― Øystein, Friday, 4 May 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
THANK YOU!
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 4 May 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
This isn't really something I can't find on the internet so much as something that I haven't been able to find using the internet so far. It's a late 60's or early 70's movie with a similar vibe to Putney Swope, or the Magic Christian, and the only part I can remember is a seemingly doddering butler mumbling to himself about how he is a sleeper cell in class warfare. It goes on for a while, so that it's kind of a monologue rather than just a bit of incidental dialogue. Does that ring a bell to anyone?
― Dan I., Tuesday, 22 May 2018 03:48 (five years ago) link
Sounds like it could be "The Ruling Class"
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 03:10 (five years ago) link
I think that's it, thanks!
― Dan I., Wednesday, 23 May 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
Ah, here it is:That's the thanks you get. He's the same as all the rest.
What he doesn't want to be so just isn't so.
No skin off my nose. My 30,000's safe.
And I deserve every last penny of it.
And more, and more and more!
What's keeping you then, Dan? Be honest now, Daniel.
Fear. Fear and habit.
You get into the habit of serving.
Born a servant, see. Son of a servant.
Family of servants. From a nation of servants!
The first thing an Englishman does, straight from his mother's womb, is touch his forelock.
That's how they can tell the wrinkled little bastard's English.
They don't know about me.
A lot they don't know about Daniel Tucker.
Just old faithful Tucker. Give doggie boney.
You know who I really am? Alexei Kronstadt.
Anarchist, Trotskyist, Communist, revolutionary. I'm a cell!
For years I've been working for the revolution.
Spitting in the ox soup.
Peeing on the Wedgewood plates.
So raise the scarlet banner high
Beneath its shade we live and die
― Dan I., Wednesday, 23 May 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
I don't know if this is the right thread BUT:
Where can I stream the entire series of 'I dream of Jeannie' and 'Bewitched'??
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 24 May 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
various torrent sites
― adam the (abanana), Thursday, 24 May 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
zooqle was ok last time I checked, tbp still runs
― niels, Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
Back in the late 90s, there was a fairly popular site called "Jesus of the Day", where the person of who ran the site posted photos of kitschy/funny/weird Jesus images and statues, one per day, each one accompanied with a humourous comment. The site itself hasn't existed in years, but I wonder if it's archived anywhere? Can't look it up on Wayback Machine, cos I have no memory of what the URL for the site was.
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 June 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.jesusoftheweek.com:80/https://web.archive.org/web/20040628084418/http://www.jesusoftheweek.com:80/
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Monday, 18 June 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/extra/gilstrap/jesus.html (original url)
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Monday, 18 June 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
Thanks, awesome!
― Tuomas, Monday, 18 June 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
The video "Kitty is a very bad mystic" is back on YouTube after many years gone.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
Jimmie Walker "Swamp Country" OST (1966)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG8XCQI3bB4
https://www.ebay.com/itm/JIMMY-WALKER-SWAMP-COUNTRY-LP-SWAMPER-RECORDS-OKEFENOKEE-SWAMP/352261732274?hash=item52046f77b2%3Ag%3AxbAAAOSwDApaZjdd&_sacat=0&_nkw=swamp+country+jimmy+walker&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313
a friend of mine had this LP and busted it out at a party once and it blew everyone's mind. amazing psychedelic 60's swamp garage country music.
i've only found this used record for sale and it's $170. there are a few tracks on youtube but i want to hear the full record again.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 14 July 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
$80 https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/662249432
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 14 July 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
Early 70s (?) UK public information film which features a long haired man who get his hair caught in some machinery. Needless to say, quite gruesome.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 24 September 2018 09:17 (five years ago) link
El Looks - Whole Lotta Love cover as mentioned in the Wire August 2018 Invisible Jukebox - described by one Edan Portsmouth as "the best shit he's heard all day". I can't even find it mentioned anywhere on the internet let alone hear it.
― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 30 November 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
"El Pooks" stoopid fat fingers.
a skit that aired between programs on Nickelodeon between ≈ 1997 and 1999. a food fight breaks out in a school cafeteria, but all the kids stop what they're doing and shut up when a preppy girl climbs on a table, says "check this!", and performs a slam poem/rap to the effect of "I don't even care that y'all got mashed potatoes on my Limited Too cardigan, but can't we all just get along and be more mature?", peppering her speech with weird archaic slang (I'm pretty sure she calls her clothes "duds"). it wasn't as ubiquitous as the Muzzy commercial, but for a while it seemed to air after just about every show
I hope someone can help me out here (even if it's just to say "I remember this!") because I don't wanna have to take this to reddit
#only90skidswillrememberthis
― poochie mayne (unregistered), Friday, 7 December 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link
About a year or two (or three) ago I read an article/blog post about a mum who was addicted to using her baby tracker/breastfeeding app far past the point of it being useful. I can't find it anywhere - I feel like the author was someone from the Awl or the Hairpin or somewhere like that? Someone a bit cool perhaps. Trying to find it is making me really angry at Google for finding results for things I AM NOT SEARCHING FOR
― kinder, Monday, 17 December 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link
the ad for Rax (an fast food restaurant in the USA) in the late 80s/early 90s with the song “the house that Rax built” to the tune of “the house that Jack built”
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 17 December 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
this is shameful but i can't seem to remember the name of the thread for appreciating ilxors. i skimmed through my bookmarks but i seem to have several hundred of them so
― Karl Malone, Monday, 14 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Do you mean this one:
Say something nice about another ILXor
?
― Tim, Monday, 14 January 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
definitely, thank you!
― Karl Malone, Monday, 14 January 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
Pleasure.
― Tim, Monday, 14 January 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
ok i should have tagged this one better
but there was on youtube an ad for some kind of oil company from central or south america from the 1970s, and the song for it was just absolutely great, a fantastic song
it wasn't os mutantes' shell jingle, it was longer than that (i feel it was maybe two minutes but i could be mistaken on that)
i know it's somewhere in my music library, but i can't find it, and i haven't been able to for years.
anybody know? i know it's not much to go on, you know what if you post an awesome south american oil company jingle from the '70s and it's not the one i'm thinking of i promise i won't be offended :)
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Monday, 11 February 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQNc1I6Xzck
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 22 April 2019 03:40 (five years ago) link
the 1990 ad for Tairrie B's Power of a Woman whose slogan was "Say It Loud, She's White And She's Proud."
― milkshake chuk (wins), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
the early 1990s ad for Derrick Coleman's sneakers (British Knights??) where he says "eat right...practice hard...and I'll STILL kick your ass"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
a pillow shaped like a cruton and hard like a cruton
― alomar lines, Monday, 12 August 2019 04:41 (four years ago) link
Cover versions of Russ Abbot's Atmosphere in the style of Joy Division and Joy Division's Atmosphere in the style of Russ Abbot.
There's a bad attempt at a mashup.on YouTube but these were pretty well done original recordings.
I'm sure this was on Bandcamp in its very early days.
― Thank You (Fattekin Mice Elf Control Again) (Noel Emits), Thursday, 29 August 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
is there a thread for identifying contemporaneous (or recent) things that will be later be identified with the era? instant nostalgia? (like buzzfeed quizzes and early 2010s)
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link