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February 28

Naked zoo-gazing pothead movie

There's an American movie I saw a long time ago, almost certainly somewhere in the period 1969-74. I always thought it starred Karen Black, but I've searched her full filmography on IMdB and nothing seems to match. I remember next to nothing about it, except for one scene, where a slim young man is wandering, totally naked and totally off his head, through some sort of museum or zoo and gazing in drug-induced wonderment upon the live snakes and other critters, which I think he then sort of gets out of their display cases and plays with. This scene was not crucial to the story line (whatever that was), and it lasts for only about 2 minutes, but there's literally nothing else about the movie I can remember apart from the apparently spurious Karen Black connection.

Does this ring a bell with anyone out there? Thanks. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 06:57, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Got it. It was Drive, He Said (1971), the first movie Jack Nicholson directed. The naked guy was Michael Margotta, and Karen Black was in it, so my memory's not totally shot yet. Thank you. You may carry on about your normal business. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 11:53, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Hahahahaha! Can't believe I remember that....μηδείς (talk) 02:29, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Resolved

Russian songs on Tetris

In around 1994 we had a version of Tetris that ran on our Macintosh SE/30, long since abandoned. The game was black-and-white, two-dimensional, four shapes of four squares each, and when you filled a horizontal line of eight squares, that line dropped out. What I want to know is the names of all the songs, preferably in ascending order from Level One. I can't make sense of the Tetris#Music page since I haven't figured out which version of the game we had. My searches on YouTube have been haphazard, not much success yet. -- Deborahjay (talk) 21:25, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Was it similar to the IIgs game: [1]? – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 21:39, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Similar: ours was B/W, not color, the graphics were more detailed but the same theme of Russian vistas. Some of the music is familiar; so far I can recognize "Moscow Nights," "Polyushko-polye," the "Trepak" from the "Nutcracker Suite", and "Korobeiniki" that's cited in Tetris#Music. Except in this IIgs version the tunes are in some weird modes not faithful to the original compositions. I wonder why? -- Deborahjay (talk) 22:25, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

The SE/30 was itself black and white only; that doesn't mean the game was - just because you couldn't see colour doesn't mean that someone, with the same game, running it on a Macintosh LC wouldn't have had it in colour. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 22:30, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Hm! A concept that hadn't occurred to me! It was our first home computer...So perhaps it was that version. Now I wonder whether the distortion of the music was an artifact of which machine was running the software, the same way the color graphics weren't as sharp as the B/W. (The scenes are familiar: the ships, the cosmonaut...). -- Deborahjay (talk) 22:53, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Check out List_of_Tetris_variants. Based on the year and OS, I'd guess you had Super Tetris, seen here [2]. SemanticMantis (talk) 21:59, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Um, not sure - ours was just B/W, 2-D. Perhaps there were features we didn't try, which makes the version identification more difficult. -- Deborahjay (talk) 22:25, 28 February 2013 (UTC)