What's your white whale? Post something you've been trying to find for ages

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mr_mojo: Mar 12, 2005

Many years ago, in the early to mid 90s (though it was second hand so could be older) I read a book about a British sailors and Pacific islanders in the age of sail. It might have been historical fiction based on Cook or the mutiny on the Bounty or perhaps more just inspired by those events. The main female character might have been a princess and went off with the sailors. It felt like a mix of trashy romance and adventure and I mainly enjoyed it because it had some very saucy scenes. I think the cover was largely red in colour, possibly with said lady/princess looking alluring. Having read more about the Bounty and its history I remembered the book and tried to find it just out of curiosity and it's driving me crazy that I can't find it.
Would be amazed if anyone was able to ID it from these half remembered snippets that might all be wrong, but any help would be super appreciated.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2022 22:33

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 05:19

mr_mojo: Mar 12, 2005

The X-man cometh posted:

Are you thinking of Horatio Hornblower? The main female character is a duchess or something who has to be rescued but then ends up on the ship with the hero for several books.

I don't think so, I think the English sailors were mostly the baddies, though there might have been a couple of good guys. Appreciate the suggestion, especially as my description is super vague and I could be misremembering.
It's a long shot with so little to go on, but it's driving me crazy!

# ¿ Sep 16, 2022 15:12

mr_mojo: Mar 12, 2005

GotDonuts posted:

My wife and I have being trying to find this song that we both vaguely remember from the 90s. It has a guy kinda chanting and we think a bird in the background. Cannot remember anything else about it.

Not 90s and seems really unlikely it's this but just in case:

https://youtu.be/DULZ7POLUxE

# ¿ Nov 25, 2022 21:54

mr_mojo: Mar 12, 2005

Kosmo Gallion posted:

Around 2002 or so I was very much into slasher films like Halloween and Friday the 13th. I would read a lot of fan written scripts, most of which were really bad. But there was one Halloween script that I remember being really good. It had a subtitle like a Silent Hill game, something like Halloween: Shattered Memories, but not that. The script was a basic Halloween slasher but the twist came towards the end when Michael Myers used a gun to shoot somebody, revealing that it wasn't Michael under the mask but a crooked female news reporter named Autumn who was looking to restart the murders in Haddonfield and get the exclusive. Eventually the real Michael turned up and killed her.

I may have downloaded it off Kazaa or Limewire because I was using them at the time. It's also possible it was hosted on FridayThe13thFilms.com because there used to be a pretty decent community around that website.

Got to be this: https://www.simplyscripts.com/scripts/PastTenseOriginal.pdf

# ¿ Jan 6, 2023 01:25

mr_mojo: Mar 12, 2005

DerekSmartymans posted:

I can’t remember where I heard this, but the other day I found a playlist featuring Too Short’s “The Ghetto” from the early 90’s rap scene. I always thought I just made up that because my brother had it on a mix-tape cassette, and I even remembered the lyrics to half the song.

This led to my current whale: I know my brother’s mix tape had a song that I swear had (what sounded exactly like) Louis Farrakhan speaking lyrics specifically saying:

“ N****s die”
“N****s watch…other n****s die”

There was a lot more of what sounded like a “let’s get real”-type speech about black-on-black violence from Farrakhan, but I can’t remember the song or music or message. I just remember those two (out of similar) spoken lines and that it was early 90’s gangsta rap. I don’t know if Too Short had anything to do with it, but it was with “The Ghetto” and “Don’t Fight tha Feelin” (which I do know the whole lyrics of and can spit on-demand as a 48 year old white dude ).

You actually had the answer, its The Ghetto by Too $hort but apparently only on the extended cassette version (which I guess is what your brother had) https://youtu.be/gKYsZBFwIhM
Skip to 5 mins to hear the extra bit you're looking for.

From wikipedia:
"On the cassette version of the album, "The Ghetto" is extended to 5:58, which features a segment of one of the Last Poets' speeches "Die N***a". After Too Short's 4th verse, he says "For all you brothas runnin' around here usin' that "n-word", lets the original rappers kick the last verse", for which then the segment comes in. This part is omitted on compact disc, but can be found on the 12 inch single"

Can also hear the original speech/poem/rap on YouTube.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2023 18:28

mr_mojo: Mar 12, 2005

DerekSmartymans posted:

That is awesome, man! I can see why it wouldn’t have that version on Apple Music, but that’s honestly a shame. Basically censoring a black dude talking straight about some of his own community’s problems in his own community’s vernacular. I hope it’s just like a weird licensing issue and not “we’re scared of an artist using the n-word” like it was propaganda from Stormfront or something automated…which would pretty much wipe out all gangsta rap anyway I guess 🤔.

Probably right on the licensing thing I reckon or maybe early 90s moral panic by the time they came to do the cd release. Apple have the original album it was sampled from, so can't be too scared of the content. https://music.apple.com/us/album/right-on-original-soundtrack/1393870359

# ¿ Jan 10, 2023 19:33

mr_mojo: Mar 12, 2005

The X-man cometh posted:

I'm looking for a novel or maybe a short story from around 2000-2005 about a Lunar colony cut off from Earth by a Kessler syndrome event. The colonists have to scramble to survive but develop a way to become self-sufficient.

Does anyone know what it's called?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves by Neal Stephenson is very much about Kessler syndrome stuff, but the people surviving it aren't on the moon and it wasn't published until 2015, so may well not be it.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2023 22:27

mr_mojo: Mar 12, 2005

I. M. Gei posted:

Okay, so...

There's this old video game, that I can't remember the name of. It was a side-scroller and the plot had something to do with castles and saving a princess or some fantasy poo poo like that. Ninjas may have been involved too although I'm fairly sure the castle element at least was European style. I THINK it was a SNES game, but it may have been Sega Genesis.

Anyway,

The thing I remember most about this game is that it had these stages (I think one of them was the very first stage in the game) where you were outside running on top of a castle wall or something. I remember it because the background music sounds eerily similar to part of the lava stage music from Donkey Kong Country 2. The part that starts around the end of the 0:17 mark in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTEuL3jltQ0

Like ever since I was a little kid I remember playing DKC 2 and thinking the Hot Head Hop music was based on this other song, because they sound so similar.

Does anyone know the name of this other game I'm thinking of? This has been bugging me for YEARS.

This seems dubious, but just in case. https://youtu.be/CJbij1IobKY

Time Lord has music by same composer as DKC 2 and the first level is very much on top of a castle wall. That said, the music doesn't sound similar to me, so unless there's some deeper subtleties you are picking up then it's unlikely to be this.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2023 20:36

mr_mojo: Mar 12, 2005

Bomrek posted:

This one is incredibly annoying to me because 1: I saw it maybe 3 months ago and 2: it came from a link on these very forums and i can't remember which thread it was in.

It was a series of stories from a person who worked at Michaels during the great glue shortage of 2017ish, as all kids everywhere suddenly fell into an obsession with slime. The blog also followed them as they quit Michaels and went to work as a florist, picking up along the way some increasingly weird coworkers and customers.

İt had some really funny moments, like whenever they led slime-making classes or had crazy requests from customers at the florist job (usually from startlingly rich people with no idea of how flowers, uh, work). They also had a coworker who died of cancer and their telling of it made me tear up. Just, really good writing.

They had nice art for all the chapters of the Michaels story, and i think it was on the same website as some of their original fiction also. İt was definitely written out as full stories, not really blog posts.

İf anyone remembers even which thread this was linked in it would be really helpful, i accidentally deleted my history before bookmarking and now i miss it dearly

This?
https://tablo.com/cannibalcoalition/the-glue-famine-2

# ¿ Mar 14, 2023 01:33

mr_mojo: Mar 12, 2005

sigher posted:

A year or so ago I was at a restaurant and there was a video I've never seen on a TV but I remember the song, however I don't remember the name of it or the band. It was the most late 90s/early 2000s video ever, just the band performing in a gross warehouse and the singer had long black wavy hair. Everything was brown/yellow. The only thing of note was, and maybe I'm even misremembering, was the bassist was an Asian chick. The music was kinda grunge/hardrock I think.

Feel like there may lots of things that could meet the criteria, but it immediately made me think of this
https://youtu.be/E0E0ynyIUsg

Performing in a warehouse, yellowy-browny bits, singer with long black wavy (messy) hair, a lady bassist.

# ¿ May 18, 2023 23:26

mr_mojo: Mar 12, 2005

sebzilla posted:

Twenty years ago Channel 4 put out one of the best sit coms ever, Green Wing. My white whale is one particular song from the show, which I believe is a remix of Bran Van 3000's classic "Drinking In L.A."

You can hear the track playing in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJt0At32ALM&t=2597s

Sadly the guy (Jonathan Whitehead aka Trellis) who composed the original music for the show passed away a few years ago, and I believe it was him who did the Bran Van 3000 remix too. But it's not on the official soundtrack (available on Spotify)

Here's a hero recreating the loop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amp6GKGDkL8

But I want a full version from Trellis himself!

https://mp3.pm/song/146125597/Trellis_-_Drinking_in_LA_Green_Wing_Special/

Wouldn't let me access the site from the UK, so had to use a vpn.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2024 01:37

mr_mojo: Mar 12, 2005

Milo and POTUS posted:

Is there a dedicated term for the study of hell in theological terms? There's angelology for angels obviously and likewise demonology but I meant for hell as the subject of study itself. I figured infernology would be a thing but it's getting scant returns in google and it seems to be mostly a soteriological thing foremost. Infernalism feels closer but not quite. I guess I'm looking for something that doesn't exist lol.

I don't think I've heard of a specific term, but have heard of it as being described as part of Eschatology.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2024 22:31

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 05:19

mr_mojo: Mar 12, 2005

Erin M. Fiasco posted:

I return with something I forgot I was actually looking for until I realized I had never found the answer. Another mystery from my high school iPod!

So, back in 2008-2009 I downloaded a simfile (Stepmania note chart, basically) from FlashFlashRevolution. It was labeled as a Daft Punk song, called "High Tech". Even in high school I could tell this absolutely wasn't a Daft Punk song, not least of which because I was a massive fan of the band and had all their albums. I stuck it on my iPod nonetheless, and it stayed with me through various backups all the way to the modern day, where I'm once again backing up my iPod library. I ran an audio match, and it claims that it's a song by "Sova Juvy" called "Planet Funk"...but the album it claims to be from is from 2021. There's even a comment on the YouTube video for that song of someone asking who the real creator is, with a comment suggesting FJ Fistfunk. There's another match earlier on in the song from someone who is a Soundcloud artist with five followers (Luca Bossez - Space Techno OGs) and I don't think it's that either, but I can't find evidence of that song to compare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiC2xR8Et5c

So, I uploaded it and I give it to this thread. What is the reality behind this mystery song? And yes, I checked the file details, and it's just labeled as "High Tech" by "Daft Punk".

Last track on here:
https://archive.org/details/2000-discovery-beta-version/2000+-+Discovery+

A probable hoax daft punk album. Doesn't fully answer the question, but searching Space Techno Orgys brings up some more yt vids. Most say it's a hoax, but a few swear it's real.
The archive site names Dj fistfunk as one of the artists. Someone in a comment says its by a band called Planet Funk.

It's all as clear as mud.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 20:35

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