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[furtech]

Meme: Unique Things
Meme grabbed from nicodemusrat. As I mentioned on his entry, it’s tricky to do this with a friends list full of fannish/slannish types! I *could* cheat, since I have a ton of totally obscure stuff that no one else would be interested in, but I’ll try to skirt the line (and do stuff that others may –possibly- own).


Name a CD you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
I collect musicals and lately have collected musicals in other languages. I’m doubting that many of you have the Argentinian version of “Hair” or the Italian cast of “My Fair Lady” (absolutely beautiful) or Les Mis in fifteen languages. How about the Soviet Chorus singing the “Volga Boatman”?

So I’ll list ten and I’ll consider you a win if you own even any one of them!

Douglas Quin: “Oropendola—music by and from birds”
“HOWL: the Grunts and Growls of all Toho Monsters”
Jerry Douglas: “Slide Rule”
Any “Didjetellus” CD (there are at least 8—a terrific Didjeridu musician!)
Iris DeMent: “Infamous Angel”
The Flash Girls: “The Return of Pansy Smith and Violet Jones” (Fishbliss is disqualified from this and the next entry!)
Cats Laughing: “Another Way to Travel”
Jerry Lewis: The Collectors Series!
Royal Crown Revue: “Kings of Gangster Bop”


Name a book you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
Same thing as above: if you have even one, you are a weiner! And I’ve taken most of the completely out-of-print books off…like the Navaho Dictionary and an 18th Century book about the wars of the French Revolution. Also left off: my ethnic stuff about JA’s.

S.R. Crockett: “The Black Douglas” (werewolves!)

“The Yanagita Kukio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale”

Saxon, Dreyer & Tallant: “Gumbo Ya-Ya”

Shinta Cho: “The Gas We Pass” (oddly, the one most likely to be owned by one of my friends…)

Harrison & Bates: “Mammals of Arabia”

Yoshitoshi’s “Thirty-Six Ghosts”

Elizabeth M. Ricker : "Seppala, Alaskan Dog Driver”

“Keane” (2 vol. Set) Tomorrow’s Masters

“Dawn of Art: the Chauvet Cave”

Clifford D. Simak: “Cemetary World”


Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/etc. that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
This one is tough not to cheat on…I have a bunch of obscure Japanese sentai/Tokusatsu Hero/anime that a lot of people probably have –no- interest in.

“Scared Stiff” (Lewis&Martin)
“City of Lost Children” or “Delicatessen” (likely someone has this on tape)
“The Runestone” (I helped make sheet music bleed!)
“Conquest” (Lucio Fulci! Werewolves!)
“Murder, Inc.” (where Joe Pesci got his trademark character from—Peter Falk)
“You Never Can Tell” (cute, and where my namesake is from)
“The Night of the Hunter” (L*O*V*E/H*A*T*E)
“The Lady in White”
“Kwaidan”
“Ikiru”

Name a place that you have visited that you think no-one else on your friends list has.
I’m nearly stumped on this one. I toss out what I can:

Davy Byrne’s in Dublin: Immortalized by James Joyce and “Ulysses”. I’m pretty sure that there aren’t too many JJ fanatics here (I did it for a friend who was a JJ fan).

Beppu, Kyushu, Japan: “The Blood Hells” thermal springs:
http://images.dpchallenge.com/images_challenge/296/133401.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/gojapan/1/0/0/F/kyushubeppu2.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/gojapan/1/0/3/F/kyushubeppu5.jpg

Toho Studios in Japan: I am an otaku. Saw rotting suits and a ton of props from Toho movies.

“Titan II missile site 571-9” (among others): A friend with a passion for cold war sites dragged me to the Titan Missile Museum outside of Tucson, AZ. We discretely photographed the map showing the locations of all the missile silos in the area and drove out to find as many as we could. This one, like most of them, had been filled in with cement, but the quarry dug out most of the entrance domes and a few tunnels. I could also list the Nike Missile base at Oat Mountain in the San Fernando Valley…

Lightning Ridge, Australia (also Coober Pedy): looking for opals in Australia! Opal mines were neat (as was watching the pilot clear the “runway” of big, red kangaroos), but also somewhat depressing with the local Aboriginal population in terrible condition.


Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool you own that you think no-one else on your friends list has.
This is even tougher than the places one. I have friends whose hobbies overlap mine, with all the same tools. I have some materials that are unique, but that’s not the question. I’ll put these up with little hope of uniqueness:

Ultrasonic cleaner
Hydrogen-oxygen wielding setup.
Jewelry waxer
Otoscope!
Horse shaver
Loc-Line set

Comments

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

I confess to having an ultrasonic cleaner, though it's old, it's been a looooong time since it was used, and I suspect it might no longer work... :p

[furtech.livejournal.com]

They didn't say it had to work...but I took a chance on this one (too many artists on my list).

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

Yep, got it for cleaning airbrush parts and pen nibs.... XD

[shoka.livejournal.com]

Music, hee: I have Oropendola because you bought me a copy. Though I also have the Royal Crown Revue cd too.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

*Augh!* I'm my own worst enemy! I forgot that I'd gotten you a copy! But having RCR shows fantastic taste in music...

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

I've got a horse clipper (shaver) and I used to have the Cats Laughing album. :D No longer, though.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Wow-- lots of my costuming/dog friends have pet/dog shavers, but I'm surprised about this! Did you show horses? Or just have very large dogs?

My original copy of the Cats Laughing album, complete with personalized autographs, was stolen out of my car! (Idiot kids using a rock to bash in a window for about $20 worth of cd's). I got a new one, but it's not the same...(I'd bought them lunch and few people are as grateful as starving musicians!).

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

I don't show horses, but I do have a couple of them, and in the summer I like to keep 'em looking trim. The shaver does pretty things to the muzzle whiskers and bridle path.

My dogs' feet, I just clip with scissors.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you had horses! I just use them for shaving large tracts of fur. When I don't use the Flobee...which I should have listed as well! Technology at its best!

[hoshikage.livejournal.com]

This one is tough not to cheat on…I have a bunch of obscure Japanese sentai/Tokusatsu Hero/anime that a lot of people probably have –no- interest in.

That wouldn't work on me... :D

Well... okay, it depends on the show. Despite my best efforts, my collection is not exactly complete. But still! ;) (Yay sentai and tokusatsu!)

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I'm almost positive I could stump you on this one. I *really* like live action toku and sentai:

Shirojishi Kamen
J.A.K.Q
BATTLE FEVER J
SUN VULCAN
GO-GO FIVE
Return of Ultraman
Ultraman Ace
Ultraman Leo
Captain Ultra
Masked Ninja Akakage
Lion Maru
Diamond Eye
Tiger Seven
Akumaizer 3
Kagestar
Aizenborg
Fireman
Mirrorman
Masked Angel Rosetta
Triple Fighter

Technically, those are series, not films...but I figured if I had a complete series there was an equivalency.

Movies: The Calamari Wrestler (http://www.hotgreenpeas.com/images/calamari.jpg)! (Just got it!)
The Kikaider Movie (3D!)
Kibakichi-1&2 (werewolf ronin!)
Sakuya: Youkai-den

Dare ya' to have any of these!

[hoshikage.livejournal.com]

...o_o

...O___O

...@_____@

...Never mind. I am humbled. You win.

*bows in awe*

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Haha! Great emoticons! Thank-yew! What can I say? I'm a squid (an American Otaku). And most of these are old-school shows. The movies are more recent (except for the Kikaider movie) and all worth seeing. Japanese video rental shops should have them.

[penh.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo! In addition to "Conquest" (Viva Fulci!), "City of Lost Children" and "The Lady in White" from above and Robert Wise's "The Haunting" from below (you won't catch me within 50 yards of the execrable remake), I'm also the proud owner of "The Calamari Wrestler," which I first saw last year at a horror festival in San Francisco (yes, I know, it's not horror, but the folks running the fest have amazing taste in movies), and knew I would have to own the second it hit DVD. I also saw the first "Kibakichi" movie there, which was a big letdown for me, in that the yokai were disguised as humans for almost the entire movie. Boo!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I'm mostly proud of you! Though I -did- expect you to have most of these (from the original list)...and I heard about "The Calamari Wrestler" *from* you! The second Kibakichi movie is better: the Yokai were more visible and the werewolf tribe is shown (getting slaughtered, but still...). And you should make an effort to see "Sakuya: Youkai-den": made by the same guy who did Kibakichi, it's a nice Yokai film with neat effects.

I'm slightly disappointed that you don't have more films on my original list:
“The Runestone” (One of the better cheapo horror films from the nineties), “Murder, Inc.” (the original Goodfellas film), “You Never Can Tell” (cute: Flint would like it), “The Night of the Hunter” (huge source of cliche'd imagry and scary, too!), “Kwaidan” (You don't have Kwaidan?!!! Shame on you!!!).

[penh.livejournal.com]

Well, I've seen "Delicatessen," "Murder, Inc." (thanks for the recommendation!), "Night of the Hunter," "Kwaidan," and "Ikiru," but don't have them on DVD... yet! I'm especially eager to get "Kwaidan," but those Criterion discs are expensive! And "Delicatessen" is hitting DVD soon, woo! I'll definitely keep an eye out for "The Runestone," since I'm all about the obscure horror movies. Oh, also "Sakuya: Youkai-den." And have you seen Takashi Miike's youkai movie yet?

[kyubikitsy.livejournal.com]

I've been to Beppu's Hells~! :D (But then again, I had been living on Kyushu and travel around the ... er.. island, isn't too out of the way~)

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I found them one of the most beautiful, mysterious places I've ever been. Bright red (the pics don't do them justice) and bright aqua pools surrounded by Japanese gardens and ancient buildings: very surreal. *Highly* recommended to anyone visiting Kyushu! Congrats on having been to them!

[cooner.livejournal.com]

Looks like the only place I can touch you is with movies ...

I have "City of Lost Children" on DVD.

I had "Delicatessen" on Laserdisc, which I since transferred to a DVD-R.

I have "Night of the Hunter" on DVD.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

No fair! I forgot you were part of "movie night"! Congrats on having them, tho'. Do you have the original (B&W/Wise) "Haunting"?

[iisaw.livejournal.com]

I've got The Black Douglas, Cemetery World, and City of Lost Children on VHS.

I collect werewolf books, I was a nut for Simak for quite a few years and I loved the look of City of Lost Children, so I taped it when one of the cable channels ran it.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I *knew* you would be trouble! I thought of putting up some of my more obscure coyote-legend books, but realized you probably had then all. I -am- surprised at the Simak book: Simak himself is less well-known, and this isn't one of his biggies. If you loved CoLC, you'll love the dark humor of "Delicatessen" (the first film made by the CoLC team). Exquisite piece of filmmaking!

[iisaw.livejournal.com]

I've been wanting to see Delicatessen for a while but haven't been able to find a copy!

I think I own a copy of every book Simak ever wrote.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Wow...I guess he did have his following. I'm still not sure what it was about his stories and characters that I found so compelling. I also loved, "The Goblin Reservation". I think I have (and have read) nearly all of his works, though occasionally I was happily surprised to find an obscure one I hadn't seen before.

I'm sure Deli will be coming out on DVD sometime in the near future: it's got a huge cult following.

[aeto.livejournal.com]

Hydrogen/Oxygen welding set?!? Wow... That sounds... Scary.

I didn't realize that was ever used in welding? What's its application?

[furtech.livejournal.com]

H-O torches are used in, among other things, jewelry casting: they get hotter, faster and burn cleaner than Oxy-acet. torches.

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

We have an ultrasonic cleaner someweher. My father uses it for cleaning circuit boards.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Okay, you do have excellent taste! I forgot that not-owning isn't the same thing as hasn't-seen. Runestone is a cheezy werewolf (Fenris, actually) movie...don't bust your buns to find it (ok, but just). I haven't seen Miike's latest yet: I saw that there was just a cat-woman and no kitsune or Ookami so my enthusiasm dropped below "excited". If you see Miike's film before me, let me know if I was wrong to not chase it!