What Can't You Find On The Internet?

this was a journey. made me think of this for some reason.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gw5nh3_rq6g/maxresdefault.jpg

Men used to be so much more fearless in their fashion.

Hey all, so there is lurking in ILX somewhere a reference and YT link to a TV play originating from perhaps Poland or Germany, I'm guessing late 70s/Early 80s.

It was a futuristic society story, 1984/Brave New World kinda thing, very minimal low-budget stage set, lotsa perspex and chrome iirc and I'm fairly certain it had a one-word title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T9qh4Z46FE

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Amazing, thanks budo!

cheers! good thing i reorganized my bookmarks recently

I seem to remember sometime in the past year, someone posted (probably on ILM) about a website that archived liner notes, LP and CD booklet scans, etc. Anyone know the site? (I've already found albumlinernotes.com, not sure if there are any other such sites.)

This? The Liner Notes Project

Pretty sure that was it, thanks!

Hey all, so there is lurking in ILX somewhere a reference and YT link to a TV play originating from perhaps Poland or Germany, I'm guessing late 70s/Early 80s.

It was a futuristic society story, 1984/Brave New World kinda thing, very minimal low-budget stage set, lotsa perspex and chrome iirc and I'm fairly certain it had a one-word title.

― MaresNest, Monday, 25 December 2023 00:07 bookmarkflaglink

Love the look of this - fwiw MN, this is an adaptation of the Yevgeny Zamyatin book 'We'.

in fairness budo jeru had already got that one

oh yeah, sure, i was just boosting the original novel as well, which is v good.

is there a particular translation into English that---we---should look for?

I once caught an episode of German pop show Formel Eins. There was a ridiculously OTT new romantic group debuting their single, a protest song against the cold war. I remember there was a background with a cowboy and a cossack playing chess - not sure whether this was a music video or just how Formel Eins chose to illustrate the performance - and I strongly remember the line "why did the Russians invade Afghanistan?", for its literalness and out of placeness in a synth pop bop.

This was decades ago (at which point ofc it was already a decades old rerun) and I may have exaggerated some or all aspects in my mind since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_the_Cold_War

any help?

This it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B77ZophoD-U

that is it jaymc! great work.

XP to Fizzles, a friend lent me his copy of the book!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoO53l0fUZ0

XP to Fizzles, a friend lent me his copy of the book!

footage of larry king interviewing putin

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

damn! thanks!

transcript via kremlin in case anyone is interested
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/21558

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

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.

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

All I could find is this YT in reasonable quality -

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

Nice, thank you!

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

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

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)

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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").