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This link doesn't really work for anyone without a twitter account fwiw. We just see a single message. I think the preferred way to share twitter content these days is to screenshot the full thread. Or just accept that it's not really shareable and move on.
Lyrics: "have waited for a light-year." What a long time! Wait.
: photons don't experience any time at all.
Edit: I think it's appropriate as the lyrics start "in my memory you are moonlight, starlight". Postulating that the subject of the song is light makes the "waited for a light year" more of an "I would walk 500 miles" type of song lyric.
TL;DR:
A song that appeared in a country bar scene in an X-Files episode (the 25th anniversary of the first airing of said episode in 1998!) has been a mystery for years. Allured by its on-topic country lyrics etc, many have wondered for years. After this thread, the music production guy and some others have come out of the woodwork and are working on finding the lost song which was produced/played custom for the show. A cue file has been found and the music guy thinks he might have a cd backup of it somewhere (which requires more help because he doesn't have a cd player to play it apparently!). They are going to work on a public release of the song if it comes together.
There is an online subcommunity both on YouTube and Reddit trying to discover a lost song based on a 17 second audio clip found online a couple of years ago. So far, no luck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyone_Knows_That_(Ulterior_...
Honorable mention to The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Mysterious_Song_on_th...
This makes me miss the ReplyAll podcast. They were the best at tracking down obscurities like this and telling a fun story about them.
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the public (open?) internet is dying i wonder if there are any nuances between public and open
I've never used Twitter in my life. Twitter is not "the internet" nor is it essential in any way. Get a hold of yourself.
There seem to be a few articles about it now: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/12/06/x-files-son... An update from one of the songwriters: https://www.joneshouseband.com/about-2
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the public (open?) internet is dying i wonder if there are any nuances between public and open
I've never used Twitter in my life. Twitter is not "the internet" nor is it essential in any way. Get a hold of yourself.
In the end, I think Jake Applebaum was right: the established social media are the real darknet. Stuff that's posted there eventually gets cut off for fun^Wprofit and dies a silent death...