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2007-12-05, 05:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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You won't have heard of it...
If this thread exists, I can't find it. So, do you have any film/game/band/song/series/book/something else that you know, but no one else seems to? It can both be a source of pride and annoyance when no one else has heard of it/them, so reveal your 'cult' find here!
Mine
Band: Mr. Scuff, Lemonjelly.
Book: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency by Douglas Adams
TV Series: Armando Innuchi's Time Trumpet
Feel free to tell people 'I know of them too!'. That's kinda the point.
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2007-12-05, 05:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Take your best shot, everyone else does.
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2007-12-05, 05:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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I hate that comedian. He just isn't funny and his attempts at satire just make him look stupid.
I suppose Dirk Gently is obscure if it's compared to Hitch Hikers.
Artist: Martyn Bennett. Young Scottish folk performer who did a few albums of world music before dying of cancer. Anyone who puts Shamanic Chanting, Scottish Poetry about Zombies and inacurate Irish Stereotypes on 1 album deserves slightly more recognition."that nighted, penguin-fringed abyss" - At The Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
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2007-12-05, 05:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Movie : El Topo.
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2007-12-05, 06:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Dr. Manhattan+tiny Rorshach Avatar by drKarling, much appreciated.
The Deductive Adventures of Rex Kingdom, P.I. is an awful parody detective serial.
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2007-12-05, 11:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Haven't seen it but I bought a copy for my dad last year.
Band: Two Siberians. It's amazing how much sound can be produced by the combination of an acoustic guitar and an electric violin.If you like what I have to say, please check out my GMing Blog where I discuss writing and roleplaying in greater depth.
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2007-12-06, 12:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Band: The Jungle Brothers. Thoughtful rap with no profanity or misogynistic lyrics? No wonder no one's ever heard of them. A real shame, because they're really good.
Comic book: The Elementals, by Comico. Great late 80's comic book about four undead superheros on a mission from god to stop Lazurus from destroying the world. Funny, thrilling and horrific, often in the same issue.You say "Cheesy" like it's a bad thing.
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2007-12-06, 07:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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The Iron Avatarist Hall of Fame!
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2007-12-06, 10:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Dirk Gently not very well known? What are you -- nuts? It's so well-known and such a brand that Radio 4 just finished serialising it as a drama series, starring Harry Enfield as Dirk Gently.
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2007-12-06, 10:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Saying that, I've just remember that this is a US message board -- I've got too used to posting on a UK one, obviously. I can believe that something incredibly popular in the UK is pretty much unknown in the US. Like Jonny Wilkinson, or something.
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2007-12-06, 05:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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You are not alone in having read Dirk Gentley's. And yes, it IS obscure. But hey, that's what we read it for.
A Band no one has ever heard of is Summoning. I really like these guys, and also the music they make (of course). This is probably furthered by the fact that because of the style of music they make (synthesizer sounds + harsh voacls, their songs are quite long, with 5-10 minutes playtime) they themselves said they will never go on tour, because it would just be boring.Si non confectus, non reficiat.
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2007-12-06, 06:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ianucci went downhill after Chris Morris became too controversial to show on TV ...
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2007-12-06, 07:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Read Dirk Gently =P. Fenris (Fenrir) was in the fridge, I have no doubt of that.
TV series: It's a cartoon, but does anyone else in the known universe remember project G.E.E.K.E.R? It's the one with the lady with the cybernetic arm, a t-rex with a baseball cap named Noah and the hitman in the smiley face helmet.
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2007-12-06, 09:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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What planet do you live on where most people haven't heard of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency? I wouldn't call it one of Douglas Adams' most famous books, but I never met anyone who hadn't at least heard of it.
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2007-12-06, 10:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Gunstar Heroes, Einhander (games), Last Days of Foxhound (webcomic), the Mouse Butcher (children's novel). Any of those ring a bell?
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2007-12-06, 10:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Movie: Time Bandits. Just awesome. I giggled a bunch at the end.
Book: The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear. I don't know what the author was smoking, but I want some.
Band: I know that Procol Harum isn't really "obscure", but I don't really know anyone who is a "fan."
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2007-12-06, 10:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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band: the four post men
all five of them are my heros
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2007-12-06, 10:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Nobody here has read anything ever. Whenever I get excited about somebody, no one within a hundred-mile radius has the slightest bit of interest. I understand that most Americans won't have read the classics or the foreign novels I like, even if they've been translated, so I won't complain that nobody goes around reading Jean Genet or Vladimir Sorokin, only no one's read the modern English-language stuff I like, either. Burroughs. Ferlinghetti. Saul Williams. Jeremy Reed. Henry Miller. J.G. Ballard. Nabokov's more obscure novels (The Eye is superior to pretty much everything he ever wrote, excepting Pale Fire, which wasn't a novel so much as a miracle). Then all the queer lit - Dennis Cooper, Bruce Benderson, Slava Mogutin, et cetera, et cetera.
Americans aren't very well-read. Perhaps it has something to do with your books costing five times more than Russian books at minimum. I can't be spending twenty of your American dollars on a single book!
I have the same problem with movies, but only because I insist on watching, like, inscrutable art films from the seventies that you can only buy off some Dutch guy out of the back of a van.
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2007-12-07, 02:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Meh, I usually get blank looks about things I've read or seen that I thought were fairly mainstream. Examples - Better Off Dead with John Cusack is one of my favorites. Outside of me and my brother and people I make watch it, no one seems to remember this one. Also The King's Blades and King's Daggers books by David Duncan. I picked them up at a Barnes & Noble or some such, not some hole in the wall esoteric bookstore, but still no one ever knows them save me and those I make read them.
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2007-12-07, 03:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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2007-12-07, 08:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Time Bandits is one of my all-time favorites.
As for musicians, I like Snog. He's a really clever songwriter.
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2007-12-07, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Twelfth Night. Their Album "Live at the Target" frigging rocks. Amazing instrumentals.
Anyone heard of Stevie Nicks? She's got some cool albums as well."I'm just going on motive and opportunity here and the fact that if the earth got swallowed by a black hole, I'd look suspiciously in your direction first."
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2007-12-07, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Actually there are 5 books about Zamonia out in Germany at the moment. Oh, and one where Moers was inspired by pictures of Gustav Dore, which also has an awesome story, although a bit darker than even Rumo of the Zamonia books.
And does anyone apart of me know the books of the Swedish author Mikael Niemi? He is just incredibly good, but I think he hasn't been translated to English just yet. But I think at least in french and german, books of him exist.
And before I forget it, as a film: "Night on Earth" by Jim Jarmusch.Last edited by Smeik; 2007-12-07 at 09:14 AM.
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2007-12-07, 09:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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2007-12-07, 09:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Books: Don't really have any unknowns - every time I read something that's relatively unknown, it suddenly hits the spotlight. For instance, Richard Matheson is pretty unknown outside of a small segment of society (i.e., those people that read old horror stories). But now, I Am Legend is being made into a movie (that'll probably rape the original novella, but I'll withhold judgment until I've seen it) and I'm sure everyone'll know about him soon. Oh, or here's one - Harry Potter. I started reading the series after the first book was published in the U.S. I don't recall meeting anyone else who'd read them until around the time of the 4th book or even the movies. Also, I love the stuff by Richard Bach that isn't Jonathan Livingstone Seagull (such as Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah). Also, I've never met anyone else that knows Christopher Moore, author of such gems as Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal.
Movies: For the longest time, I think I was the only one in all of North Carolina that had seen "The Seven Samurai." That's probably not true, but I'd say that most people have never heard of it (even if they've seen the movie based on it, "The Magnificent Seven). Also, "Bubba Ho-Tep." I think only about 3 of us have ever seen it.
TV: I've had some roughly luck here - most of the TV shows I watch tend to be less known, and usually get cancelled. Of the ones that are still around, probably my favorite is Dexter. I'll admit, several people have heard of it, but I don't know how many people watch a Showtime series about a serial killer who kills just bad people. (It sound hokey, but it's really great.)
Music: Let's face it - I listen to a lot of weird stuff. For instance, Chuck Mangione. He's probably the greatest flugelhorn player ever, but people only seem to know him because of the TV show "King of Hill. (And apparently, Firefox's spell-checker won't even admit that a flugelhorn is a real thing.) Also, no one in the area knows any of the Irish and German groups I like (hooray Dubliners and Eisbrecher!), or one of my favorite bands, Carbon Leaf.The Playgrounder Formerly Known as rtg0922
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2007-12-07, 09:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Mine:
Books: Hugh Laurie's "The Gun Seller"; the Fu Manchu novels of Sax Rohmer; "the Damned" trilogy by Alan Dean Foster
TV: Black Books; Spaced (both BBC shows from a few years ago)
Movies: the Descent; Without a Clue; the In-Laws (original version)
Probably more stuff that I'm blanking on at the moment...Last edited by mwp1138; 2007-12-07 at 09:30 AM.
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2007-12-07, 09:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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The Descent is one of the best horror movies ever made.
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2007-12-07, 09:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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heh...wow...with the exception of zeb's...and that's only cause he's made me watch his, i haven't heard of anything in this thread.
My favorite book series few people have heard of or read. Cept Shiny, yay for Shiny. Kushiel's Legacy by Jaqueline Carey
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2007-12-07, 01:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-12-07, 01:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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You know this thing called a shamisen, right? The Japanese three-string instrument? Well, turns out there's these two brothers who play rock with them. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: The Yoshida Brothers.