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AOCs Pink Pearl posted:I’ve always had this recurring dream of walking through this dimly-moonlit park/woods and it’s just like miles long. Nothing of significance ever really happens in these dreams but it seems significant and I feel comfortable/happy when I’m there. It’s very lush and green and pleasant there. watch out, there's a slim chance what you believe is the mist-haunted demense of the Old Gods is in fact merely the recollection of your childhood memories of gazing at the moon's light on the witch-haunted peaked roofs of old Arkham Massachusetts.
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I remember visiting Knott's Berry Farm in Southern California as a kid and there being some kind of maze-like ruin just outside the park that I never got to explore. I sometimes dream about that being a place I can enter and with very little time or distance passing, I'm utterly, pleasantly lost, and the real world is completely gone. It was probably an abandoned building or something, but I remember it having the appearance of something that was built and intended for exploration.
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Nov 23, 2019 06:28
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:Sounds like Shirley Manson (Garbage) to me, but sifting through their stuff on YouTube is getting me nowhere. Yeah that guitar sound though, goes from rough and dissonant to perfectly clear, yeah kind of like garbage.
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Nov 23, 2019 06:28
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doctorfrog posted:I remember visiting Knott's Berry Farm in Southern California as a kid and there being some kind of maze-like ruin just outside the park that I never got to explore. I sometimes dream about that being a place I can enter and with very little time or distance passing, I'm utterly, pleasantly lost, and the real world is completely gone. It probably was real. They put on Knott's Scary Farm every Halloween and set up stuff like that. Mazes and haunted houses and the like.
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Nov 23, 2019 06:44
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two things one was a video that i definitely saw linked from here like a decade+ ago that involved the phrase "urban cowboy" or "urban country" or something like that and most of it was a dude in a cowboy outfit doing this hilariously awkward dance to this edm/country mixture song, and the video ended very abruptly on a shot of two people in a mall food court. i really wanna see it again also what i'm pretty sure was a post here (or maybe just linked here?) about a kid who was obsessed with an ant colony and kept it growing more and more until it took over his yard, and then even more beyond that. it had a really casual description of the kid's aunt or something being eaten by the ants. all the characters had really bizarre names that are impossible to remember. i swear it existed
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Nov 23, 2019 06:58
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Overwatch Porn posted:also what i'm pretty sure was a post here (or maybe just linked here?) about a kid who was obsessed with an ant colony and kept it growing more and more until it took over his yard, and then even more beyond that. it had a really casual description of the kid's aunt or something being eaten by the ants. all the characters had really bizarre names that are impossible to remember. i swear it existed Probably Ant Problem.
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Nov 23, 2019 07:12
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Yond Cassius posted:Probably Ant Problem. this is exactly it, thank you so much
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Nov 23, 2019 07:18
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Moai Ou posted:I've posted about this in other white whale & identify this song threads for nearly a decade now, and still, bupkis. Try uploading it to YouTube and wait for a copyright strike?
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Nov 23, 2019 07:20
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mysterious frankie posted:The other I'd swear had something to do with the phrase four leaf clover used quite a bit, something about taking a handful of goodbye pills. The hook was a repetition of "I made, made up my mind". This was from way back but here you go if you're still reading the thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUUZvsLltpE
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Nov 23, 2019 08:01
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YeahTubaMike posted:1) There was a guy on Howard Stern referred to as Eric The Midget, and he briefly hosted a country show. One of the songs that he played went "kai-yai-diggy-diggy kai-yai-diggy-diggy hey HEY hey HEEEEEEYYYY" and I heard no actual word lyrics, lol. https://youtu.be/ubSCPBkTyWY ?
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Overwatch Porn posted:one was a video that i definitely saw linked from here like a decade+ ago that involved the phrase "urban cowboy" or "urban country" or something like that and most of it was a dude in a cowboy outfit doing this hilariously awkward dance to this edm/country mixture song, and the video ended very abruptly on a shot of two people in a mall food court. i really wanna see it again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGi6lpib-rU Bonus goon video recreation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb_IQA9Zbow Edit: the footage originally came from a VHS film called 'California Big Hunks', Red Letter Media did a review of it one time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brmz6uL1S0s&t=1970s Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Nov 23, 2019 |
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Nov 23, 2019 13:42
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ishikabibble posted:It probably was real. They put on Knott's Scary Farm every Halloween and set up stuff like that. Mazes and haunted houses and the like. Hm, maybe that was why I couldn't go in. My family didn't celebrate holidays and we were hardly allowed to even look in the direction of Halloween stuff, on account of the demons can infect you through the eyeballs. It'd kinda explain the dreams, too, like a childhood longing thing.
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Nov 23, 2019 17:42
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It's all just porn for me.
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Nov 23, 2019 18:32
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGi6lpib-rU holy poo poo thank you so much!!!
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Nov 23, 2019 22:03
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:Yeah that guitar sound though, goes from rough and dissonant to perfectly clear, yeah kind of like garbage. That's kind of a butch vig staple, might be worth checking out other acts he produced.
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Nov 23, 2019 22:12
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Lagomorphic posted:This was from way back but here you go if you're still reading the thread: Oh... oh god bless you.
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Nov 24, 2019 06:20
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When I was a kid our PC had, like, a demo compilation installed on it. I only remember two game demos that were on it: Mechwarrior 2 and a puzzle game called Endorfun (you controlled a cube and there were a lot of flashing colors and patterns and that's about the extent of my memories). The connective tissue of the demo CD involved you running around a space station and the games were displayed on giant monitors. The station had all these secret rooms and passages filled with gold coins that didn't seem to have any actual purpose. There was even an intro movie that involved a gunfight between space fighters, one of which was in the hangar on the station. What on earth was this? Nobody I've talked to has ever encountered it before.
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Polaron posted:When I was a kid our PC had, like, a demo compilation installed on it. I only remember two game demos that were on it: Mechwarrior 2 and a puzzle game called Endorfun (you controlled a cube and there were a lot of flashing colors and patterns and that's about the extent of my memories). Games for Windows 95 Sampler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFXV2McmwoA (Our family PC came with this, too) Here's the Space Station you're on about : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpTHVAUY48M There was even a sequel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQtHnqJ7SCg Dell_Zincht fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Nov 24, 2019 |
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Nov 24, 2019 07:34
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Years of searching solved in fifteen minutes. Holy poo poo. I do wonder if the sampler had different game selections because I definitely don't recall Doom being on mine. I admittedly might have just been playing a lot of Mechwarrior 2, though, given the only other game I was able to remember was right next to it 
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Nov 24, 2019 08:05
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i went to america once for a fortnight when i was eight. we drove three hours to knott's berry farm and dad's credit card was rejected at the gate, and even though he had enough cash on hand to pay he got so irate at the cashier that we got back in the car and drove three hours back without ever setting foot inside the place. that's my knott's story
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Nov 24, 2019 10:35
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My ultimate white whale is a scene from a movie (could be a TV show I guess) where a guy, pretty sure wearing a khaki trench coat is in like, some kind of flower shop or greenhouse, and he shoots the place up with machine gun crutches and it’s very 1980s with squibs just blowing the place apart. My brother and I saw this exactly once, probably 1990 or 1991, and have no clue what it was from. We eventually convinced ourselves that it probably didn’t happen the way we remember. Years later I was having a discussion about white whales with a buddy of mine who was from another part of the country and I described that scene, and when I looked at him it was as if he had seen a ghost. He said he remembers exactly that scene. And also has never figured out what it was. So wild. It’s not The Jackal, where a dude builds a rifle out of crutches. Or the Michael Rappaport movie where a dude uses machine gun crutches, that’s from like 98. It may be a TV show, but it seems like the production was movie quality. Maybe we somehow caught a Hong Kong action movie on HBO or something.
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Nov 24, 2019 11:06
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The year was 1988, and I had woken up at about 2 in the morning from having a bad dream and to get a drink of water. I knew I couldn't get right back to sleep, so I poured myself a bowl of Cocoa Puffs and turned on the TV to whatever channel it was on, which happened to be HBO. The movie that was on had a late '70s vibe and aesthetic to it (could have been early '80s, too), and I only watched about five minutes of it because I said "NOPE" once I saw what happened and turned the TV off. A family is driving along in their yellow wood-paneled station wagon when it either runs out of gas or the engine malfunctions and dies. What bad timing for the car to coast on to some railroad tracks, just in time for the signals to start going off and a plume of smoke from a distant train appears as it inches closer with horns blaring. The mom or dad starts trying to frantically start the car with the kids yelling hysterically in the back, but no one bothers to just get the gently caress out of the car and escape the death trap. The train eventually hits the car with full force and kills everyone inside, because I remember there was definitely blood and body matter strewn about the wreckage. That's when I said "NOPE" and turned the TV off. FYI, it's not the ending of Eraser with Schwarzenegger because this white whale is from 1988 (featuring an older movie than that), and Eraser came out in 1996. What is this strange movie memory I've carried with me in me noggin for over thirty years?
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Nov 24, 2019 12:48
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Hmm...no. The guy had a lower voice than this. I appreciate the effort though.
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Nov 24, 2019 13:29
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I'm sure this is from Miami vice, but I can't find any reference to it: A later season, Crockett and Tubbs are older and younger, cooler, grungier cops are coming up maybe to replace them? But the young cops are arrogant and slapdash, although their hearts are in the right place? At the end of the episode one of them is shot, while walking up a path towards a drug house of some sort, perhaps because he wouldn't heed the wise advice of Crockett and or Tubbs. The scene happens in slow motion with cool music playing (of course).
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You Are A Elf posted:FYI, it's not the ending of Eraser with Schwarzenegger because this white whale is from 1988 (featuring an older movie than that), and Eraser came out in 1996. I'm gonna guess it might have been this. Zamboni Rodeo fucked around with this message at 08:37 on Nov 25, 2019 |
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Nov 25, 2019 08:27
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I don't think cable TV ever showed Faces of Death
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Fair point. Two other possibilities I came across that roughly fit the OP’s time frame are The Cassandra Crossing (1976) and Runaway Train (1985). EDIT: No, wait! According to a question on another website, the movie the OP is looking for is probably Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. Zamboni Rodeo fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Nov 25, 2019 |
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Nov 25, 2019 14:22
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Time for posting these again: Movie number one: I remember a small clip of a movie where a man with moustache just accelerates his car and crashes into a wall. I think this scene was part of the trailer and I think he also breaks a toll booth so he must be on a highway. Maybe it was a german movie? I saw that trailer in early 80's. Movie number two: a stop motion movie full of realistic looking animal puppets, save the evil "magician" in the ending scenes that was a real monkey. I cannot remember much of the story save for the fact that it was a hero's journey, and it opened on a forest full of singing birds... there was also a scene set in a fair with toads riding motorcycles. Definitely it was a 50's movie.
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A vhs cartoon compilation my parents must have picked up when my sister and I were kids had a segment on it called Bens Dream. Looking it up I found out it was based on a story but I can't seem to find any trace of the cartoon version anywhere, Ben 10 seems to have drowned out any chance of searching for things involving the name "Ben". Any way thats the book and I distinctly remember the scene from the cover drawn almost identically and a bunch of other weird surreal scenes. Really wish I could find this and the tape it came on. 
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Nov 25, 2019 18:59
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the mutual love and respect of another human being
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Debunk This! posted:A vhs cartoon compilation my parents must have picked up when my sister and I were kids had a segment on it called Bens Dream. Looking it up I found out it was based on a story but I can't seem to find any trace of the cartoon version anywhere, Ben 10 seems to have drowned out any chance of searching for things involving the name "Ben". I couldn't find the clip in question, but the tape you watched was called Ben's Dream and Other Stories & Fun, aka Fun in a Box, vol. 1 
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Debunk This! posted:A vhs cartoon compilation my parents must have picked up when my sister and I were kids had a segment on it called Bens Dream. Looking it up I found out it was based on a story but I can't seem to find any trace of the cartoon version anywhere, Ben 10 seems to have drowned out any chance of searching for things involving the name "Ben". Couldn't find a clip, but there's a used VHS on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bens-Dream-Other-Stories-Fun/dp/6302068916
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Pastry of the Year posted:I couldn't find the clip in question, but the tape you watched was called Ben's Dream and Other Stories & Fun, aka Fun in a Box, vol. 1 Thats definitely it! Thanks for finding that, I'll save it and see if I can track down a copy some day. tight aspirations posted:Couldn't find a clip, but there's a used VHS on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bens-Dream-Other-Stories-Fun/dp/6302068916 also thanks!
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Fun fact, the guy that wrote/illustrated the book that short was based on (Chris Van Allsburg) is also the creator of The Polar Express and Jumanji. Loved that guy's stuff as a kid, would highly recommend any of his works
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:watch out, there's a slim chance what you believe is the mist-haunted demense of the Old Gods is in fact merely the recollection of your childhood memories of gazing at the moon's light on the witch-haunted peaked roofs of old Arkham Massachusetts. Actually, listen to The Magnus Archives. Sounds like you're an avatar of The Lonely. An Eldritch horror that feeds on the fear of abandonment and isolation.
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:Fair point. Two other possibilities I came across that roughly fit the OP’s time frame are The Cassandra Crossing (1976) and Runaway Train (1985). DM,CL featured a yellow 1969 Dodge Charger, not a wagon.
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A video with a Cyrillic title on youtube of a man leaving his house with an accordion and then getting on a train/subway and starts playing and dancing and then gets off and plays near a fountain and has random people dancing with him, I have no idea the nationality or location. Its a single song.
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In around 86 I was a sophomore in high school and everyone was called to an assembly in the auditorium. The first thing up was an old black and white educational film about energy production or something like that, a comically out of date boring movie. After a few minutes the screen opens at the middle and a rock band emerges with smoke machines and lights going off. They start playing songs about nuclear energy and recycling as far as I can recall. I’d love to find out more about that weird rear end band.
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There were toys that were sold in the early to mid 90s in Canada (and im sure the US) that were basically half mutant/ half car hybrids leaning closer to the action figure end of the spectrum than the hot wheels side. They were called gruesome racers or something. I vaguely recall that one of the characters was a guy standing with his arms out and two large wheels affixed to his hands. There was also a Twisted Metal character named Axel that had a similar design if I remember correctly. If anybody knows what they were called I would be interested in finding out.
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Back in the early 200Os I stumbled upon a song on Napster that was titled "Lilywhite sessions Too Blue". It featured a female vocalist and one of the lyrics of the chorus was: The way I see it, your eyes are too blue, Your voice a little too sweet. I lost it when my hard drive died one day and have spent hour upon hour searching for any record of it, without luck. There's a song called Too Blue, but it's not the one I'm looking for.
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