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SIDS Vicious: Jan 1, 1970

well her online handle

# ? Feb 2, 2022 04:17

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# ? May 17, 2024 01:29

shelley: Nov 8, 2010

ThatGirlAtThatShow posted:

There was a page, I'm not sure but it MIGHT have been Live Journal, that long ago, where a woman basically just spat word salad about her 'naming' and 'writing' and 'producing' like, 99% of the world's music. She obviously had something going on in her head, but it was just such a charming long shaggy dog story about every single famous person ever and how she'd 'come up' with their names, something like that.

I remember she was VERY into Amy Lee and Evanescence, and also she had multiple pages written about the Beatles and Paul McCartney. Does anyone else remember this?

It looks like she deleted her blog a few years back, but there�s an archived version here.

# ? Feb 2, 2022 04:47

Dr. Quarex: Apr 18, 2003; I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

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I am so glad you introduced me to this

The Real Amy Lee posted:

Mr. Blandings (Cary Grant) is an account executive in the advertising business. His latest ad campaign is for the fictional product �WHAM!�.

This is where I got the idea to name a group �WHAM!� who would record songs I made up.

I was asked to give the singers their stage names which was soon after I met George Lucas. I came up with the name �George Michael�, with Michael for Michael Hutchence and Michael Jackson. Hutch had already told me he was giving part of my writing credit for the INXS songs to Andrew Farriss, so I named another singer Andrew.

It was the film �Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House� that inspired me to come up with the comedy The Money Pit (1986) starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long. The film was co-executive produced by Steven Spielberg.

I have never seen another piece of writing remind me so powerfully of the first piece of fiction I ever remember writing in Windows, where I decided to write up like 20 years of occurrences in this person's life and every single event connected seamlessly to every other event, and even at like age 11 I could tell this was bad

# ? Feb 2, 2022 06:40

no pubes yet sorry: Sep 11, 2003

Dr. Quarex posted:

I am so glad you introduced me to this

I have never seen another piece of writing remind me so powerfully of the first piece of fiction I ever remember writing in Windows, where I decided to write up like 20 years of occurrences in this person's life and every single event connected seamlessly to every other event, and even at like age 11 I could tell this was bad

lol that movie is so good i stole it from OG netflix:

# ? Feb 2, 2022 08:30

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ThatGirlAtThatShow posted:

There was a page, I'm not sure but it MIGHT have been Live Journal, that long ago, where a woman basically just spat word salad about her 'naming' and 'writing' and 'producing' like, 99% of the world's music. She obviously had something going on in her head, but it was just such a charming long shaggy dog story about every single famous person ever and how she'd 'come up' with their names, something like that.

I remember she was VERY into Amy Lee and Evanescence, and also she had multiple pages written about the Beatles and Paul McCartney. Does anyone else remember this?

I think that's kind of common.

I have a mentally ill relative that thought the same thing in the 90's, and I found out later that he was constantly faxing song lyrics to local radio stations so they could 'relay them to Dave Matthews, Joan Osborne, etc. for their next albums'.

He never blogged, though.

# ? Feb 2, 2022 09:30

the mean lunch lady: Jun 24, 2009; went mad at sea
lots were drawn
Kroenke didn't survive
he was delicious

DoomLazer posted:

Was she the main focus of the film? Not a lot of geek to chic movies with a female lead that turns into a fish that I'm seeing. Do you remember if it was closer in tone to a Troma film or something like Species?

IIRC she was the main focus of it and it was like a Troma movie

# ? Feb 2, 2022 19:07

Kosmo Gallion: Sep 13, 2013

shelley posted:

It looks like she deleted her blog a few years back, but there’s an archived version here.

This brings back so many memories.

# ? Feb 2, 2022 19:13

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
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shit wizard dad

Two things:

NoneMoreNegative posted:

Can someone post the old (parody?) webcomic with 'A beer for my superhero friend! *punch* I like my beer like I like my rap music - none at all'

NoneMoreNegative posted:

On the search for an ancient bit of music (didn't find it in the end but got further along in the search than I'd expected) - I was chasing some old awful one-man nerd metal, and this thread was of help

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3005662&userid=0&perpage=40&highlight=&pagenumber=99#post415420166

but after hitting Archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20110225052446/http://www.theunhandledexceptions.com:80/

and digging the youtube link out of the page source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYjj9TKDBoc

Curses, it's been made private! Also the zipfile int he 'Free Music Section' wasn't picked up by the Archive Bot.

Googling the guy who made the songs, he's still active on Twitter but seems to be some kind of chud-adjacent Politics Guy now

# ? Feb 2, 2022 22:11

WHY BONER NOW: Mar 6, 2016; Pillbug

NoneMoreNegative posted:

Two things:

I can tell you that first one is a parody of the short lived webcomic "powerchord", haven't seen the image in years though

# ? Feb 2, 2022 22:39

jazzyhattrick: Jul 1, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

There was a hilarious party political broadcast the Tories did in the late 90s. It was this young married couple and the wife was sarcastically talking to the husband about Labour policies and then referring to tony blair as "your friend, tony blair" and the husband would just say "he's not my friend."

No idea how they thought it would make anybody want to vote for them, but it was comedy gold.

I've looked all over for it, but no luck.

# ? Feb 3, 2022 00:46

ThatGirlAtThatShow: Nov 4, 2013

shelley posted:

It looks like she deleted her blog a few years back, but there�s an archived version here.

That's it! Thank you very much!

# ? Feb 3, 2022 07:53

yaffle: Sep 15, 2002; Flapdoodle

8 Ball posted:

Two things:

A short horror story set in an English village in the summer, a vicar�s daughter(?) meets what she thinks is an angel who takes her around the village and shows her what all the sinful adults have been doing (her mum cheating etc). I think the angel challenges her to find someone truly innocent and free of sin otherwise the world will be destroyed? I remember the description of the hot summers day quite vividly. Pretty sure it was from a collection of short stories that may or may not have also included The Veldt but I imagine published in the UK? Similar sort of disturbing horror vibe anyhow

Rachel and the angel by Robert Westall?

# ? Feb 3, 2022 11:21

shadow puppet of a: Jan 10, 2007; NO TENGO SCORPIO

yaffle posted:

Rachel and the angel by Robert Westall?

He was prominent in the �yer mums a slag� genre wasn�t he.

# ? Feb 3, 2022 12:15

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

WHY BONER NOW posted:

I can tell you that first one is a parody of the short lived webcomic "powerchord", haven't seen the image in years though

All you need to get a new line of inquiry started :cool:

(of course it was here all along: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3822798&pagenumber=465&perpage=40#post488024990 )

# ? Feb 3, 2022 12:23

klugman: Jan 28, 2009

shelley posted:

It looks like she deleted her blog a few years back, but there�s an archived version here.

�I liked the name Tesla and I was told about the inventor Nikola Tesla, the Electrical Engineer who immigrated to American to work with Thomas Edison. It was during this time I not only decided to name a band Tesla, but also the Australian band AC/DC. Both bands would record song I made up.�

# ? Feb 4, 2022 05:04

JediTalentAgent: Jun 5, 2005; Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!

An oddball catalog from the late 80s/early 90s. I suspect if I could find some old Hit Parader magazines or the like I'd probably find a mailing address in the back pages for something and be able to search the internet for it after that.

But I remember my brother used to get these catalogs every so often that would contain all I could probably refer to as 'Headbanger Supplies'. A huge focus on the 70s-early 90s metal scene of stuff, but there was some overlap with various pop, 60s, hippie, etc. material. I say this because I do recall stuff like Grateful Dead and Beatles merch in it. I'd say it would have to be from before 1992 because I don't recall much in the way of a grunge or rap content.

But it was a catalog that you could order your band posters, tiger tooth earrings, studded leather bracelets, rings with spikes on them, album cover denim jacket iron-ons, T-shirts, and other associated metal fandom supplies from.

# ? Feb 4, 2022 08:07

My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

JediTalentAgent posted:

An oddball catalog from the late 80s/early 90s. I suspect if I could find some old Hit Parader magazines or the like I'd probably find a mailing address in the back pages for something and be able to search the internet for it after that.

But I remember my brother used to get these catalogs every so often that would contain all I could probably refer to as 'Headbanger Supplies'. A huge focus on the 70s-early 90s metal scene of stuff, but there was some overlap with various pop, 60s, hippie, etc. material. I say this because I do recall stuff like Grateful Dead and Beatles merch in it. I'd say it would have to be from before 1992 because I don't recall much in the way of a grunge or rap content.

But it was a catalog that you could order your band posters, tiger tooth earrings, studded leather bracelets, rings with spikes on them, album cover denim jacket iron-ons, T-shirts, and other associated metal fandom supplies from.

Where in the world was this? Sounds a whole lot like the German EMP. They've been around since '86 and this seems like exactly what they would have covered.

# ? Feb 4, 2022 08:38

JediTalentAgent: Jun 5, 2005; Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!

My Lovely Horse posted:

Where in the world was this? Sounds a whole lot like the German EMP. They've been around since '86 and this seems like exactly what they would have covered.

This was in the US. It's possible this was just a US arm of it or just a company doing the same thing.

# ? Feb 4, 2022 08:55

8 Ball: Nov 27, 2010; My hands are all messed up so you better post, brother.

yaffle posted:

Rachel and the angel by Robert Westall?

YES! Thank you! Another brain itch this thread has scratched

# ? Feb 4, 2022 12:20

Chumbawumba4ever97: Dec 31, 2000; by Fluffdaddy

JediTalentAgent posted:

An oddball catalog from the late 80s/early 90s. I suspect if I could find some old Hit Parader magazines or the like I'd probably find a mailing address in the back pages for something and be able to search the internet for it after that.

But I remember my brother used to get these catalogs every so often that would contain all I could probably refer to as 'Headbanger Supplies'. A huge focus on the 70s-early 90s metal scene of stuff, but there was some overlap with various pop, 60s, hippie, etc. material. I say this because I do recall stuff like Grateful Dead and Beatles merch in it. I'd say it would have to be from before 1992 because I don't recall much in the way of a grunge or rap content.

But it was a catalog that you could order your band posters, tiger tooth earrings, studded leather bracelets, rings with spikes on them, album cover denim jacket iron-ons, T-shirts, and other associated metal fandom supplies from.

These were ridiculously common among the skaters I knew in the 90s. There were probably dozens of catalogues like this. If you want I can ask the guys I knew if they remember any of the names but there were so, so many of them.

They always had that really lovely paper feel inside, like the same kind they used in comic books.

# ? Feb 4, 2022 13:33

LL_Ghoul_J: Oct 22, 2004; Get Heavy

JediTalentAgent posted:

An oddball catalog from the late 80s/early 90s. I suspect if I could find some old Hit Parader magazines or the like I'd probably find a mailing address in the back pages for something and be able to search the internet for it after that.

But I remember my brother used to get these catalogs every so often that would contain all I could probably refer to as 'Headbanger Supplies'. A huge focus on the 70s-early 90s metal scene of stuff, but there was some overlap with various pop, 60s, hippie, etc. material. I say this because I do recall stuff like Grateful Dead and Beatles merch in it. I'd say it would have to be from before 1992 because I don't recall much in the way of a grunge or rap content.

But it was a catalog that you could order your band posters, tiger tooth earrings, studded leather bracelets, rings with spikes on them, album cover denim jacket iron-ons, T-shirts, and other associated metal fandom supplies from.

First thing that comes to mind is Rockabilia, they always had ads in metal edge, rip, and hit parader and they did make catalogs

# ? Feb 4, 2022 17:01

Pissed Ape Sexist: Apr 19, 2008

JediTalentAgent posted:

An oddball catalog from the late 80s/early 90s. I suspect if I could find some old Hit Parader magazines or the like I'd probably find a mailing address in the back pages for something and be able to search the internet for it after that.

But I remember my brother used to get these catalogs every so often that would contain all I could probably refer to as 'Headbanger Supplies'. A huge focus on the 70s-early 90s metal scene of stuff, but there was some overlap with various pop, 60s, hippie, etc. material. I say this because I do recall stuff like Grateful Dead and Beatles merch in it. I'd say it would have to be from before 1992 because I don't recall much in the way of a grunge or rap content.

But it was a catalog that you could order your band posters, tiger tooth earrings, studded leather bracelets, rings with spikes on them, album cover denim jacket iron-ons, T-shirts, and other associated metal fandom supplies from.

Seconding Rockabilia, their catalogs ruled. It was some warehouse outfit in the midwest that always had ads in the back of Rolling Stone and Thrasher to send away for a free catalog.

https://rockabilia.com/blogs/news/the-past-present-and-future-of-rockabilia

# ? Feb 4, 2022 18:21

Dr. Quarex: Apr 18, 2003; I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

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drat, I am so glad I did not know about Rockabilia. I already had enough random metal t-shirts just from buying every good one I saw at Hot Topic or Spencer's. I shudder to think about access to ALL OF THEM

# ? Feb 4, 2022 21:18

JediTalentAgent: Jun 5, 2005; Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!

I'm going to have to go with Rockabilia being what I was thinking of, specifically because the eras match up, the midwest area matches up, the pulp-paper matches up, and that GnR image seems a bit familiar in some way.

Thanks bunch.

edit: I found a few more images of it on the companies Twitter. They're from the mid-90s but it has that same look/feel I was thinking of.

JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Feb 5, 2022

# ? Feb 5, 2022 05:59

hallo spacedog: Apr 3, 2007; this chaos is killing me
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Never mind just found it

hallo spacedog fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Feb 6, 2022

# ? Feb 6, 2022 03:20

Chumbawumba4ever97: Dec 31, 2000; by Fluffdaddy

When I was really small, so approximately 1985-1988, there was a comedy show or special on I believe HBO that my parents were super-excited to watch. It was late for me (like 8 or 9 PM) and they were so psyched that they didn't even care I was up.

The only thing I can remember is that I am pretty sure it was HBO (this would be crazy if I remembered this properly), I am not sure how I remember that; possibly because it had curse words which was not allowed on regular TV.

Other than vaguely remembering it aired on HBO, the only other thing I can remember is a guy on the show walking down a busy street and stopping at a "Walk/Don't Walk" sign, like this:

except it said something bad, like "gently caress YOU rear end in a top hat" or "GET BENT" or something like that.

So that's it. That's all I remember. An HBO show or special, mid 1980s, guy walking down the street near the beginning and the "don't walk" sign has curse words on it.

I want to find this for two reasons; 1) to see when it came out to see if my memory truly is impressive or did this come out when I was like 12 and I'm just a moron and 2) I would love to show it to my parents again.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 19:40

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

My white whale is this ugly thing:

.... which appears to be a random internet image which became attached to the Chupacabra myth sometime around 2008 and has stuck ever since. I've already done a reverse image search which was a dead end:

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

I've been trying to look into it and the earliest internet copies of that image I can find are from 2008, although that's not conclusive. Curiously, one of the very earliest images I could find seemed to be from a Japanese magazine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070920195100/http://ryou.blog2.petitmall.jp/blog-date-200703.html

..... which looks like it had the caption チュパカブラ which google translate says is Japanese for "chupacabra" so that doesn't help much!

The origins of the chupacabra itself are pretty well documented, I'm just trying to trying to find out where this particular photo came from. If you look closely it seems like it used to be covered in fur but the glue has failed and most of it has fallen off, I'm guessing it might be a random monster from an old theme park display or something from an old Halloween display.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 21:18

Dr. Quarex: Apr 18, 2003; I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

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I am nearly positive I saw that attached to something in the Rotten.com/Boners.com era of shock sites, like a link to a guy claiming he found someone's journal and that stupid-rear end thing was the proof that the chupacabra was real. I mean it looks like a scan from a physical photo, suggesting it is from the 1990s or earlier originally (I seem to recall someone being 100% sure it was a statue at some closed park, back in the day, but that also sounds potentially like part of the SPOOKINESS)

# ? Feb 6, 2022 22:13

Thauros: Jan 29, 2003

JediTalentAgent posted:

An oddball catalog from the late 80s/early 90s. I suspect if I could find some old Hit Parader magazines or the like I'd probably find a mailing address in the back pages for something and be able to search the internet for it after that.

But I remember my brother used to get these catalogs every so often that would contain all I could probably refer to as 'Headbanger Supplies'. A huge focus on the 70s-early 90s metal scene of stuff, but there was some overlap with various pop, 60s, hippie, etc. material. I say this because I do recall stuff like Grateful Dead and Beatles merch in it. I'd say it would have to be from before 1992 because I don't recall much in the way of a grunge or rap content.

But it was a catalog that you could order your band posters, tiger tooth earrings, studded leather bracelets, rings with spikes on them, album cover denim jacket iron-ons, T-shirts, and other associated metal fandom supplies from.

this reminds me of something more on the later end of this period (93ish) i've wondered about. i learned who bobby sands was via memorial merchandise sold in this catalog (magazine?) my mom got. iirc the description was fairly wordy. wondering what this was as this would've been kinda controversial obv and my mom has no idea

# ? Feb 7, 2022 04:31

frh: Dec 6, 2014; Hire Kenny G to play for me in the elevator.

Anyone find my white wale from the op

# ? Feb 8, 2022 19:03

Splicer: Oct 16, 2006; from hell's heart I cast at thee
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Blooster posted:

Anyone find my white wale from the op

I'll go look.

OK I found it.
https://youtu.be/SxQTKLOgJ-A?t=1503
From
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X3QfXfj5jjfl61Ds8gjsbO7XsXNP9FKV4aOBjliXSxg/
From
https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/lz7frq/scifi_channel_exposure_from_99_lost_to_99_found/

Splicer fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Feb 8, 2022

# ? Feb 8, 2022 19:53

shadow puppet of a: Jan 10, 2007; NO TENGO SCORPIO

Where can I watch 2012�s movie masterpiece �Slumber Party Slaughter� ?

Which was reviews as �Honestly the worst movie I watched. Seems like a scam. I thought Ms. Chaney could do better than this. Truly embarrassing�

Which managed to bring shame unto the entire slumber party genre.

# ? Feb 8, 2022 22:38

Teketeketeketeke: Mar 11, 2007

Splicer posted:

I'll go look.

OK I found it.
https://youtu.be/SxQTKLOgJ-A?t=1503
From
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X3QfXfj5jjfl61Ds8gjsbO7XsXNP9FKV4aOBjliXSxg/
From
https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/lz7frq/scifi_channel_exposure_from_99_lost_to_99_found/

HOLY gently caress. I'm not OP but I have been trying to find that episode off and on for YEARS, for his as well as my own sake. :aaaaa:

# ? Feb 8, 2022 22:39

Splicer: Oct 16, 2006; from hell's heart I cast at thee
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Teketeketeketeke posted:

HOLY gently caress. I'm not OP but I have been trying to find that episode off and on for YEARS, for his as well as my own sake.

It's been five hours, I'm a bit worried I killed him.

# ? Feb 8, 2022 22:47

Dr. Quarex: Apr 18, 2003; I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

TOVA TOVA TOVA

Oh poo poo, Janeane Garofalo AND Merle/Yondu! Now I too am glad it is found

# ? Feb 9, 2022 03:05

Splicer: Oct 16, 2006; from hell's heart I cast at thee
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Getting real worried about Blooster

# ? Feb 9, 2022 19:14

hexwren: Feb 27, 2008

blargh, never mind

hexwren fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Feb 10, 2022

# ? Feb 10, 2022 09:38

no pubes yet sorry: Sep 11, 2003

Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:

When I was really small, so approximately 1985-1988, there was a comedy show or special on I believe HBO that my parents were super-excited to watch. It was late for me (like 8 or 9 PM) and they were so psyched that they didn't even care I was up.

The only thing I can remember is that I am pretty sure it was HBO (this would be crazy if I remembered this properly), I am not sure how I remember that; possibly because it had curse words which was not allowed on regular TV.

Other than vaguely remembering it aired on HBO,

except it said something bad, like
"gently caress YOU rear end in a top hat" or "GET BENT" or something like that.

So that's it. That's all I remember. An HBO show or special, mid 1980s, guy walking down the street near the beginning and the "don't walk" sign

This is very likely one of HBOs prototypical stand up specials, at random I chose Dennis Miller and I found this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9w9XTb9cZ8

But any gritty NYC comedy special could be correct, From Andrew dice clay to George Carlin.

# ? Feb 10, 2022 11:42

Chumbawumba4ever97: Dec 31, 2000; by Fluffdaddy

no pubes yet sorry posted:

This is very likely one of HBOs prototypical stand up specials, at random I chose Dennis Miller and I found this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9w9XTb9cZ8

But any gritty NYC comedy special could be correct, From Andrew dice clay to George Carlin.

Thanks so much. I don't think it was a stand up. It was like some sketch comedy show or something.

# ? Feb 10, 2022 15:37

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# ? May 17, 2024 01:29

America: Apr 26, 2017

I don't have a link but HBO had a sketch show called 'Hard Core TV' in the late 90s that could be it. Definitely the same vibe.

# ? Feb 10, 2022 15:59

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