Who are the absolute legends of obscure sports? [more inside]
posted by Fireland on Sep 15, 2009 - 55 answers

What are some underrated but mind altering books? [more inside]
posted by champthom on Jul 19, 2009 - 56 answers

Give me some ideas on some exotic and "remote" places to vacation. Remote as in, obscure, sparsely populated areas. I've already considered Greenland. Anything similar?
posted by Avenger on Jun 17, 2009 - 24 answers

Long shot quest for a surf magazine published in 1989/1990... [more inside]
posted by jenh on May 23, 2009 - 4 answers

ObscureSciFiBookFilter: Space opera-type book, wherein a cargo ship is taken over by pirates. [more inside]
posted by cereselle on Apr 30, 2009 - 3 answers

Need help identifying this quote. [more inside]
posted by Squid Voltaire on Feb 11, 2009 - 4 answers

How might I obtain a copy of a very obscure movie, Dirtymouth, from the early 1970's? [more inside]
posted by mrbarrett.com on Dec 17, 2008 - 3 answers

Does anyone remember the names of these obscure artful films? [more inside]
posted by debbie_ann on Sep 23, 2008 - 12 answers

ObscureToyFilter: Help me remember a toy from my childhood. My siblings and I are remembering plastic, colored blocks and cylinders that unfolded to become characters. We recall a king and queen, almost certainly a pig, and maybe a cow. [more inside]
posted by sjuhawk31 on Sep 19, 2008 - 7 answers

Obscure book filter (and I mean really obscure)! [more inside]
posted by prk14 on Aug 14, 2008 - 3 answers

Let's say you're putting together a mix of your favorite obscure 1990s pop/rock music. What are the top couple of tracks you'd be sure to include? [more inside]
posted by iamisaid on Jul 2, 2008 - 72 answers

What hand tools would be needed to remove a chunk of iron from an iron meteorite you've discovered in the field? [more inside]
posted by Naberius on Mar 24, 2008 - 11 answers

Looking for a science fiction short story I read years ago. [more inside]
posted by gerryblog on Feb 24, 2008 - 11 answers

Here's a long shot: I'm looking for drivers for a super obscure piece of hardware from early in the decade. Specifically, a PCI souncard made by SeaSound called the SeaSound Solo EX. More specifically, the Mac OS 9 version of the drivers. [more inside]
posted by tumult on Jan 10, 2008 - 6 answers

Looking for good, guitar-driven new music that rocks, but that's away from the early 80s influenced, quirky indie pop that's been so ubiquitous of late. Can you help? [more inside]
posted by psmealey on Dec 14, 2007 - 44 answers

Trying to find a children's series, but I can't remember the titles or the protagonist's name. I can remember salient details however... [more inside]
posted by dejah420 on Dec 7, 2007 - 6 answers

What do I put in a cult/horror/art/indie film care package for my (really non-traditional) dad that he hasn't seen? [more inside]
posted by Gucky on Oct 26, 2007 - 51 answers

I am looking for a couple of obscure songs from an old mixed tape I recorded off of KOOP radio in Austin texas about 12 years ago.... [more inside]
posted by madmamasmith on Oct 6, 2007 - 6 answers

I'm looking for a cartoon I saw once with a bear asking permission to go to the prom. It only had one panel and I'm pretty sure it featured the sentence "I live in a subdivision." Has anyone here seen this cartoon?
posted by martinX's bellbottoms on Jul 31, 2007 - 7 answers

I am looking for a good source of both modern and classic film reviews/discussion with fairly long and intelligent commentary on plot/cinematography/history of the films. [more inside]
posted by Bengston on Jun 21, 2007 - 8 answers

Where can I find a score or a recording of Handel's Water Music Suite - except, the arrangement by Hamilton Hardy? I need to analyze a performance that I've already seen and need to refresh my memory, but all I can find is of other arrangements. I'm willing to pay a bit if it's only on an MP3 / other site - and just an outline of the structure of that arrangement or information about it would be great too!
posted by tmcw on Apr 25, 2007 - 1 answer

A couple of years ago I bought two bizarre T-shirts from an obscure, Japanese website. See them here. Does anyone know where I can find this site again? [more inside]
posted by bollockovnikov on Jan 20, 2007 - 9 answers

Please help me find any and all information available about an old book about writing whose very long name I cannot recall. [more inside]
posted by Nedroid on Dec 8, 2006 - 5 answers

ObscureMusicFilter: I have a friend looking for albums by a cellist named Joseph Luptale. [more inside]
posted by bullitt 5 on Dec 1, 2006 - 5 answers

Can you name these two songs from around 1971? They were taped from a campus radio station but defy all efforts at identification. Help! I've put short .mp3 excerpts here
posted by storybored on Nov 7, 2006 - 22 answers

bumperstickerfilter: what does "m'alp you!" mean? [more inside]
posted by M.C. Lo-Carb! on Sep 29, 2006 - 9 answers

What does this (seemingly an inside joke) comment on Sealab 2021 mean? [more inside]
posted by ostranenie on Jun 30, 2006 - 6 answers

Lost 80's song...I can't find this one anywhere: "400 Dragons" by Adrian John Loveridge. Not in iTunes, peer-to-peer, or ebay. (The closest I found with that name was by someone called Band of Thieves)(??) Any song with the line "...send ten thousand Venus invaders and I'd shoot them all down for one night of your love" has *got* to be a keeper! I appreciate any direction someone could point me in!
posted by g4zilla on Feb 7, 2006 - 5 answers

Obscure 80's tune--been looking for an answer for years! I used to be a DJ, and play a track by a guy who *sounded* like Springsteen. (Trust me, this wasn't Bruce) The only thing I have to go on is partial lyrics: "...what's it gonna be tonight? Red wine, maybe white. And if we're gonna fight, then we're gonna fight...(something something) down on the corner..." I *think* the name of the track was "On the Corner". (No, not CCR!) [more inside]
posted by g4zilla on Jan 30, 2006 - 8 answers

What does >| do in a shell script? [more inside]
posted by flabdablet on Dec 13, 2005 - 9 answers

Obscure-Movie-Filter?: Setting: post apocalyptic (I think) Plot: Can't remember Starring: Can't remember Unique subplot (or possibly main plot): One character (20s-30's white male) has a torn postcard of Waikiki Beach, however the "Wa" is torn, so he thinks it's called "ikiki Beach", a paradise to which he can escape to once the madness of the current plot of the movie resolves. [more inside]
posted by johnstein on Nov 30, 2005 - 21 answers

I just watched Harold and Maude for the first time in several years. The intense "and there was a blinding flash!! kill!! kill! " monologue by Uncle Victor triggered a synapse in my brain and I KNOW this is sampled somewhere in a song. [more inside]
posted by glenwood on Mar 13, 2005 - 7 answers

I'm looking for irresistible dance songs, songs that get you out of your seat and shaking it. Can you remember the best song you've ever danced to? (bonus points for obscure or genre-bending tracks)
posted by milovoo on Aug 5, 2004 - 41 answers

So, now that napster and audiogalaxy are long dead, where would you go online to find a really obscure song (like "Softcore" by Maurice and the Cliches, for example)?
posted by dogwelder on Jun 29, 2004 - 10 answers

Want to help with an obscure Movie/TV quote that's slowly driving me mad? [more inside, honest] [more inside]
posted by Monster_Zero on Apr 29, 2004 - 14 answers

I know about the Lomo & the colorful, high-contrast photos it produces, heard about the light leaks and sometimes questionable lens quality of the Holga, and seen some of the stuff Heather has been doing with her pinhole camera. Are there any other fun/odd cameras that I should be considering?
posted by jkottke on Dec 10, 2003 - 14 answers