I had one of those deals with The Perfect Sugaree but I found it.

I am trying to come up with other stuff that I don't have but want. There seems to be more and more old stuff on youtube, as the months go by.

A friend of mine made me a tape of music frequently played at PowerTools in Houston in the late 80's/early 90's which I thought was an A Split Second song, which had the refrain "I hate the light" (or possibly "I hate delight") built around a sample of a man's voice saying "Open (or possibly "close") the window, won't you, darling?". It also had the Revolting Cocks recalled cover of "Let's Get Physical" (not the album release which just had Al yelling "Physical" over a drum beat.

Oh, and all my Twilight series horror teen novels.

Those are the things I want identified and/or returned to me.

(you know, preview only serves its function if you reread your post before hitting "post"! d'oh!)

The only one I can think of right now is Mikhail Romm's Ordinary Fascism, a brilliant documentary about totalitarism.

I found a copy on DC++ (or maybe it was eMule), but the video was in a matchbox-sized format. I'm still occasionally asking around if someone's got it.

Music: I still want some Weather Prophets and I can't find them anywhere. I mean, I could, or I did, used off Amazon, but I was too broke and I dithered and then they went away again. I also want the first Nickelodeon Cartoon Christmas CD but I don't want to spend a jillion dollars on it. And I need to replace all my James McMurtry that the damn dog ate but I hate spending more money on copies of things I already own(ed) because it means of course that blammo, my yearly CD budget for new music (currently in the low 2 digits) is then shot on old stuff. Grrrr. While I'm at it, I want another copy of Selling England by the Pound, (which the other dog ate, like, a million years ago) even though I probably will only listen to it like three times a year if that. Still. One is fond of the prog rock of ones' youth when one still dabbled regularly in hallucinogens and that shit was amazing, man.

Books: I have this crazed desire to reread all the Thieves World books since I loved them so when I was a teenager. I found them all at Powells and thought I had a big old major score but the shipping costs were insane and I just can't justify spending $50 on, for gods' sake, Thieves World. I am kind of embarrassed to even admit this craving. And, in the more respectable literature arena, I need a new copy of Winter's Tale because I keep giving mine away. I have faith that that will appear soon though at Goodwill or the used bookstore.

Movies - I'm cool. I don't like owning movies; I never watch them again. I mean, I'm glad I own all the Gamara movies and Planet of the Prehistoric Women and Santa Claus Versus the Martians - you know, the kind of cinematic classics that make up the connoisseurs' library - but I don't really need any more. It would be kind of nice to have the Coca Cola Kid on DVD instead of VHS but honestly, I can quote it at length already.

The only thing I can't find is a storybook from my youth and a song about choppin' vegetables on a wintry day. There storybook is funny. There is an old woman, maybe she is a grandmother. There is also a grandfather. His beard gets caught in a bowl of corn flakes.

I need copies of the GG Allin acoustic stuff.

When my sisters were here, one kept singing a line from some Muppet thing we can't identify. It's a song about Fozzie and the line is something like "he's a wokka wokka wokka and we don't know why".

mygothlaundry: check your email.

Oh, here's a couple things I've been looking for. Both are short cartoons, probably from the early 80's. One is called ANABIBLICA and is a pastiche of the story of Jesus and science fiction; the other features a weird little thing that looks like a croquet wicket with feet running (through a dungeon?) (away from a big eye-spider thing?). At one point the action gets so intense that the film melts. If anyone could point me toward sources for either of these I'd be very very happy.

The cornflake in beard story sounds like Roald Dahl's The Twits. Remember anything else, Lori?

Pinky, I think, and I might be wrong, that that song's in Muppet Babies.

DVD:
The Last Wave,
a decent print of Ironweed - the spanish copy I have is unwatchable.

Book:
A copy of the SRI International's 1973 report “Societal Consequences of Changing Images of Man”

Mp3:
The Call "Into the Woods"
The Phantom Tollbooth "One way conversation"

DVD: Rivers of Light; Imagine the Sound

The Last Wave is available on Amazon.com. There's a Region 2 version available there or on amazon.co.uk, too, if that's what you need.

I actually just found the Rufus song on p2p. Love that keyboard riff.

There is an old live acoustic recording of Joe Jackson's "Is she really going out with him", accompanied by what appeared to be an accordion. I had it on a mixed tape as a child, loved it, and want to have it back again.

THere's some line from some obscure band, something about you were pulled from the wreckage, you still had on your shades. That line, and that line only, pops into my head at weird times and just....fucking....repeats.

I'd like the G G Allin Duets series, myself, jtron.

Barring that, The only thing I'm missing from my life is the first real reggae-type song I'd ever heard, which was some sort of toast/dancehall type thing back in 1984 or so, where the singer was chanting in a deep gruff voice, "Bicycle, Bicycle, like to ride my bicycle..." -- and then he'd interrupt the music, say something incomprehensible, and then the music would come back and he'd shout something like, "Get slock, get slock, everybody get slock, went to de offey, say de mafey got slock..." I remember staring at my radio, and running to get a casette, and taping just the last 30 seconds or so of it (it had been running eight minuts or so, and sounded like it was recorded live). And then I remember losing the tape.

I can't understand any of it, but I can still hear it in my head. Anyone know what the hell I'm talking about?

-A watchable copy of Costa Gavras's State of Siege (my off air vhs descended into rainbowy goodness ages ago). I've always wanted my wife to see it.

-A copy of Kate Davy's book on Richard Foreman.

Both of these are technically available, but at exorbitant "collector" prices.

THere's some line from some obscure band, something about you were pulled from the wreckage, you still had on your shades. That line, and that line only, pops into my head at weird times and just....fucking....repeats.

"Burma Shave" by Tom Waits?

"And when they pulled her from the wreck
You know she still had on her shades"

See, I found that too, and it isn't it. My recollection of the lyrics may be colored by my knowing that song, though.

The chords and beat are like
________I_._._.IV.._.___I___.
you were pulled from the wreckage...
3___4___5____6___3___5___321
notes^

and then the music cuts out.

I've lost my mind, and it's only my first post.

Oh, and the voice sounds like Drew de Man from No river City, or Steve Dawson of Dolly Varden.

I've got the GG Allin and the Criminal Quartet "Carnival of Excess" record -- or rather, my ex does, if that's the "acoustic" stuff referenced above. It's got a wonderful/awful/wrenching version of Zevon's "Carmelita" on it. I'll see if I can digitize it, if anyone is interested.

I'd like to have the Ralph Records promo where they lock Penn Jillette in a hotel room for 72 hours and force him to listen to the entirety of The Residents and Snakefinger catalogs over and over again until he breaks down and begs for mercy. It came out in the late 70s, early 80s, when he was a DJ, I believe.

Pinky, I think, and I might be wrong, that that song's in Muppet Babies.

That would make sense- I know it's not in any of the movies.

Possibly out of print - a paperback textbook written in the 60s? 70s? titled "the sociology of sex." I've googled and amazoned and powelled it, yet the only result they return are NOT the book i'm looking for. It had information about the role of sex in primitive societies, a historical overview of sex and it had a fair number of pages (about 400 pages or so). It may be a British textbook (i first read it in Ghana in the early 90s and that copy was waaaay old - it was a college textbook, and Ghanaian universities typically tend to use British scripts for instruction.)

I've been looking for any poetry books by David Lerner for a while now.

notsnot, there's a song with kinda sorta similar lyrics by Animal Bag - it's called Oddball I think. Something about shades and wreckages.

Just So Stories, how the elephant got his trunk, I believe narrated by Jack Nicholson. My friend told me how it was the only tape in their minivan growing up, and I've wanted to hear it forever.

oh, i had to google it again, and success (hopefully).

Here it is

iconomy, I don't think The Twits is it. I think it was a picture book with a few sentences per page. I should have added that in. The Twits does have a few pictures. I'm going to read more and see if it rings a bell.

There is an old live acoustic recording of Joe Jackson's "Is she really going out with him", accompanied by what appeared to be an accordion.

There's a version with an accordion on Joe Jackson Live 1980 - 1986 (disc 2, track 3). You can download the MP3 from Amazon.

I read a book when I was about 14 called (I think) "The Blues I am a Whistlin'" that had a profound effect on me in ways that I can't really describe except that it was one of those things that defined me as I transitioned from a child to an adult. I have obviously misremembered the title, because I can't find it, despite 20-odd years of sporadic searching. I can't even really remember the content of the book, but it has always stuck with me as something I would like to re-visit (probably with disappointing results).

I recently finally replaced my (stolen) copy of Frente!'s Whirled, which was a small-run EP out in the early 90s which means a lot to me. Finally tracked down a copy in NSW, and it only cost me five times as much as when I bought it at a gig all those years ago.

What I cannot find is the film "Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em". I know there's a copy at the state film library, but I'll hold out hope.

The eponymous debut CD of the Brisbane band Isis, which I bought at a gig and was since stolen, and which I can't get now for love nor money. 'The Masturbation Song' and 'Rap Against Rape' are classics.

Wow, mrzarquon, for the longest time, mine was The Just So Stories narrated by (I think) Sterling Holloway. We had in on LP when I was a child. Many a night I drifted off to sleep listening to his thin wavering voice humming over my head.

I lately found the Sterling Holloway version available, but only on LP, which I cannot play, and only for over $50.00. I'm unlikely to splurge for it.

There was also a childhood recording (artist unknown) of "The Cat Came Back" which I'd love to have. A few years ago, I sat agog while my oldest brother spieled off the whole long, baroque song in a passable baritone. Impressive. Maybe I'd be just as happy to record him singing it.

Oh, oh! And a picture book I read when I was four or five. I only remember:

- an elevator, quite probably a magic elevator. (Not Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator; this was an early reader book, tall and skinny with a few sentences on each page.)
- a group of children, drawn round and chubby and cartoony. One had thick glasses.
- striped trousers, either in the illustrations or as an incidental plot point.

We checked it out from the public library in the mid-1970s. I was heartbroken when we returned it.

It's probably best that I cannot identify the book; if I re-read it now and found it mediocre, that would shatter the hazy dreamlike happiness it brings me even now.

Also: The vocal mix of Primal Scream's Come Together.

also, a book called Going for a Walk with a Line. Which my mother gave me when I was very small. About art.