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May 18

The Taste Of Ink whispers

Is there anybody out there who has any idea what Bert McCracken is whispering towards the end of "The Taste of Ink" by The Used? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZka3E37k6w 74.108.134.149 (talk) 00:04, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Do a Google search for the lyrics to the song. You should find a site that provides all the lyrics, even if the words are whispered--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 17:18, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

That would be a totally awesome answer if it wasn't the first thing anybody would think of and do. If you don't know the answer, leave it be. I just hope I never have a serious medical problem such a heart attack in your presence, the suggestion "Call 911. You should be able to get a ride in an ambulance, even if you can't speak." would be less than useful.

80's pop song

whats the song that goes"i got my toothbrush a comb i said to my reflection lets get out of this place " —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom12350 (talk • contribs) 00:17, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

It's Tempted by Squeeze. DuncanHill (talk) 00:21, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Japanese Cartoon

I remember this Japanese 1990s - 2000s cartoon , about a talking ghost (looks like a flying white carpet with eyes and mouth) , he / she was friendly. This cartoon was about this ghost and its family / friends

Thanks for any help :/ 157.157.161.251 (talk) 10:12, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Could it be a Japanese version of Casper the Friendly Ghost ? StuRat (talk) 12:55, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

GeGeGe no Kitaro? Oda Mari (talk) 17:47, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks but not these two, It was white and was very small :/. 157.157.161.251 (talk) 17:14, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Anime picture

http://www.akiba-station.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/space_pirate_1.jpg Would someone translate this for me and tell me what anime this is?

Also, in Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei, what is the episode when Nozomu Itoshiki encounters Freddy, Ghostface, and Michael somewhere? 64.75.158.194 (talk) 10:51, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

"Mini-skirt space pirates" by Sasamoto Yūichi. "New level of entertainment that surpasses a light novel. Asahi novels, launching!!" 118.22.190.1 (talk) 12:10, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Strange Days

I just read in the article on The Doors' Strange Days (album) that the woman wearing a caftan and standing in a doorway was the stylist of the photographer Joel Brodsky's wife. Her name was Zazel Lovén. I did a Google search for her but nothing came up. Does anyone have any information on her, such as her DOB, nationality, etc? Thank you in advance.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 13:44, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Unable to find her DOB or nationality yet, but apparently she is a writer and here is a picture of her from 1996: [1]. 10draftsdeep (talk) 15:06, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Oh, thank you for the link. God, does she look good after all these years! Thanks again.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 15:10, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

She's the Senior Editor of Rodale's Organic Gardening magazine. The American Community Gardening Association gives her email as zazelloven@yahoo.com. [2] See this page from [3] People magazine. See Amazon for her books Handmade Halloween and Doll Knits. Pepso2 (talk) 15:20, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. I am curious as to her nationality as Zazel Lovén sounds very unusual. She could be Hungarian or Israeli.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 16:09, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

CSI

ON ONE OF THOSE CSI SHOWS, THERE WAS AN EPISODE WHERE A DEVICE WAS PLACED IN A KILLERS EARS SO HE COULD HEAR OTHERS TALKING. YOU COULD NOT SEE IT, HE DID NOT KNOW IT WAS THERE. WHAT WAS THIS DEVICE? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ladavis (talk • contribs) 15:24, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Science fiction is what it was! (Also, please don't type IN ALL CAPITALS - it makes the text hard to read and it upsets some people a lot more than you'd think!) SteveBaker (talk) 20:56, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Sounds awesome, whatever it is, did it allow the killer to hear people or other people to hear what the killer was saying? If it allowed the killer to hear people, how could he not know it was there? It stands to reason that he would know something was up if it allowed him to hear that which he could not (and if it did not allow him to hear something he couldn't, what's the point?). Maybe some sort of super microscopic Cochlear implant? (also, perhaps the OP is YELLING because he requires this sort of device.) flagitious 05:08, 19 May 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flagitious (talk • contribs)

I saw that episode. I beleive you're talking about Season 10, episode 17, "Irradiator". The summary mentions a killer who is "Jekyll's third victim; he has unwittingly undergone neurosurgery that has left him unable to control his rage. The killer/victim has by this time shot his aunt and died of injuries caused by the implantation of 10 radioactive rods between his brain hemispheres." He didn't hear better; he just lost control when the sound of the dog next door got to him.63.146.74.132 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:02, 19 May 2010 (UTC).

Two pretty much unrealated questions

Well, as you can probably see, I hve two pretty much unrealted questions. 1. Is it true that Diana Wynne-Jones enjoyed Hayao Miazaki's adaptaion of Howl's Moving Castle despite its deviation from the source material? 2. has the manga Franken Fran ever been realeased in the American market? Library Seraph (talk) 16:15, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

1. Part of the way there; our Howl's Moving Castle (film) article has an effusive quote from the author about the film, but it sounds like the quote is from before the film was released. Comet Tuttle (talk) 17:15, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

I can find this quote dating from January 2005. 87.81.230.195 (talk) 20:37, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

2. Our Franken Fran article (full of fancruft and needs to be edited for length) doesn't say that it was ever adapted, nor does the external link at the bottom of the article. Comet Tuttle (talk) 17:17, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

FIFA WC 2010 on PC

I heard that EA would not be releasin FIFA 10 WC on the PC ...is it true?? And if it isn't...suggest a few sites i can download it for free!!Rohit.bastian (talk) 17:02, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Our 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (video game) article does not mention PC. However, we don't help people pirate software here. And, if EA doesn't develop and publish the game on the PC, how exactly is anyone going to be hosting a pirated copy of a game that was never created? Comet Tuttle (talk) 17:13, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

This could be one good reason why it won't be on PC. Piracy is not okay. 72.2.54.36 (talk) 23:08, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Piracy is awful in my opinion, frankly. If everybody did it how would the game developers get the cash to make new games? Sorry, It just makes me really annoyed... Chevymontecarlo. 17:31, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

The Panics - Get us home melody

I was wondering where the violin melody played through this song comes from? I can't remember the original song they borrowed it from... Thanks for any help 188.82.153.179 (talk) 18:46, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Style of music in wild-west saloons.

Resolved

I'm looking for the name of the style of music typically played on a broken-down out-of-tune piano in a Wild-West movie just before (and, curiously, during) the inevitable bar-room fight scene. I can think of one or two individual tunes ("Oh! Susanna" for example) - but the style is escaping me for the moment...some suggestions for other titles and some (free!) MIDI-file scores or copyright-free MP3's or OGG's would also be great. SteveBaker (talk) 20:55, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Honky Tonk,it's often reproduced by untuning the piano by playing..hotclaws 23:59, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

OK - I feared as much. That's term I first guessed at - but searching for HonkyTonk online gets me mountains of modern country music stuff - and some stuff from the 1920's and 30's. OK - so forget the name of the style...I need barroom brawl music from cheesy Westerns. I have "Oh! Susanna", "Oh Dem Golden Slippers", "Polly Wolly Doodle all the day"...I could use some more. SteveBaker (talk) 02:43, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

You might take a look at this guy's site and the track lists of his CDs (about halfway down the page). Some of those songs are a bit too late to be "authentic" Wild West saloon music—note that the dates of the songs are given—but many of them seem spot on to me. Deor (talk) 04:46, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

AHA!!! That's exactly what I needed! His CD track listings represent 100 or so suitable tunes - and they all have dates so I can exclude the inaccurate ones if I feel like it! Perfect! Many thanks. SteveBaker (talk) 23:00, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

The term "barrelhouse music" apparently dates back to 1880. Herbert Asbury's book The Barbary Coast has some fascinating descriptions of music and music machines in brothels and music halls. Pepso2 (talk) 11:28, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

That's interesting too. SteveBaker (talk) 23:00, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

By the way, as I recall it, the iconic thing in such a situation is for the piano player to be performing some slow piece like "Beautiful Dreamer" and then, as soon as the fight breaks out, switch to an up-tempo number like "Camptown Races". (You can't go wrong with Stephen Foster for such music.) Deor (talk) 12:05, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes - exactly. SteveBaker (talk) 23:00, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

BTW, a way for them to realistically have piano music during a fight would be for it to be on a player piano which was started before the brawl. StuRat (talk) 12:45, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Yeah - I don't want "realistic" though - I'm after "cheesy" and "stereotypical of bad cowboy movies".

OK - that's all I need for this question - I'll start another thread below for the next part. SteveBaker (talk) 23:00, 19 May 2010 (UTC)