POX FAP!

I didn't take any photos! Chris took a bunch though.

The only ILXor that came to our going-away party was j-lu, so it's cool.

i'm sorry

Other top FAPs include but are not limited to:

* meeting many of the Noo Yawkers for the first time, Feb 2002 -- this is when I judged Mr. Matos to be the most aggressive friendly guy I've ever met (a compliment!)

* Tom's wedding FAP, of course -- the photos really don't tell the half of it, though Mike dancing on a chair is right on up there with the all-time great moments

* the real honest to god Gareth LA visit, and scaring/revolting Gareth when I spent something like $200 on CDs, though a good chunk of that was in fact credit

* meeting my kind and good twin on earth Dan Perry, scholar and gent, as part of Boston Terrastock V FAP -- and making him AND his wife laugh!

* Dublin FAP on the final night -- it was rather drunken AND I spoke to Ronan, even if I did not actually meet the golf ravin' legend

* various Seattle FAPs, all of which have been the ultraspiff

* ChakiFAP last week, because it was CHAKIFAP dammit. I need no further explanation or justification.

* Melbourne FAP -- lots of walking, lots of coffee, lots of CDs

* Auckland FAP -- lower key and yet laden with the happy, including Andrew and Elizabeth's fiendish video game skills

* and of course July 4 FAP last year. One of a kind.

And there's the demi-FAP tomorrow and Portland in two weeks and etc. etc.

JayMC OTM about #1 :)

The only other one of real note (that I was at) was my first, the Karoake FAP in the Pint Pot. Toby & Anna, the arrival of Dave Q, blizzard spirit, and Pete singing "Some Girls Do". It'll stick with me until I learn to drink.

I'm still sad about this but at least I prompted you guys to get together! That whole weekned was awful, my housing fell through in NYC so I went to Chicago with my mom and she fell and twisted her ankle on the way to the FAP and I was just in hysterics about it. :( It was actually fun except for those parts I guess.

lauren wasn't there but JBR was. And two non-ILXors. and like 100K other people.

This is all we get? "Ultraspiff?" Man, I sat on the corner outside Bauhaus and talked shit about everybody who passed by for your benefit Ned. I'm totally not like that normally. Normally I'm pretty soft-spoken and really into Enya.

I totally confused Lauren with Eve. My bad.

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Also, LoungeFAP with me, Jim and Andrew eneff - hours of drunken shouting about music! Yay!

I don't remember this at all!

Kim, you really should watch out for those shirtless dudes, I hear they like the Dandy Warhols.

oh, db you should really try and rent the hell house documentary if you can. so so creepy. (all these "otherwise normal looking" teenagers start speaking in tongues at one point! and all the rooms in the haunted house are based on sins! like pregnant before marriage! and abortion!)

And for some reason I stayed and watched the train wreck that was D&N.

Great heavens, man, surely we tried to warn you.

You might want to rethink this.

also, chicago people, i drive 45 minutes to FAPs. get your asses in gear!

De-L.A.zhun!

(That said, Kenan, many people who live in L.A. do love it. I figure out of the 15 million that live there, at least a few probably like it, ya think?)

pete's birthday/soas fap, sep 03
tom & isobel wedding party, oct 03
nyc ilx dba fap, apr 04
nyc ilx private karaoke, apr 04
trig bruv/geetafap, jul 03
lauren/swimmer megafap, feb 04
club popular, may 04

Also good - Cozen FAP, 1.4.2004.

Club Popular, March 2004.

Other good ones that I already cannot recall.

Oh, also good: Palace Bar, June 2002.

Beth Ditto FAP action immortalised. Needs more answers.

Chris reminisces about some girls he fucked in college!

:D

Also re-reading that first post I was thinking it was creepy jaymc.xls to the extreme until I got to the point where he admitted making half it up.

lol

7. July 5, 2003. Me and Amateurist and Nabisco talk about university presses! And XTC! For four hours! Teeny never calls.

This FAP sticks in my memory as 100% awesome, largely because of the "Fibonacci salad."

Other fave FAPs include:

- ChowFAP NYC (05?)
- the one in 2001 where Chicago ILX drank Rolling Rock in my bedroom
- the one where Ned threatened Rufus Wainwright (NYC 03?)
- the one where Alan T and Gareth were in NYC and I wasn't feeling well and a "sick" vs. "ill" trans-Atlantic misunderstanding made him think I was going to barf on him

Clarification: it was Alan who thought I might barf on him, because I was sitting slightly above him and said "sorry, I feel a little sick."

Why I felt ill, as a warning to others: mild stomachache --> Pepto-Bismol tablets (a base) --> grapefruit and tonic (acidic) --> baking-soda volcano in belly

Good lord, thinking back on it, I've been to a terrifying number of FAPs and (unless you count the Brothers Bar at Glasto) every single one of them has been in London. Actually there was one in Brighton but that's Brighton so it doesn't count.

Anyway, actually Picking Only X:

- Tom and Isabel's pre-wedding party, downstairs at the Fitzroy Taven. Ned and Mike Daddino dancing on stools, much drunkeness. AKA the one where I crowdsurfed across the pub to Andrew WK.

- The enormous Lauren FAP in the Swimmer in February 2004, AKA the Biggest FAP Ever.

- Mary and Felicity FAP at the Glasshouse Stores in January 2003. This is kind of the first one where I really felt part of the whole thing. AKA the one with the Hairy Man in the Spanish Bar, hiding from omnipotent babies and Ilxers coupling up.

- The Dragon Bar in Shoreditch, July 2005, farewell FAP for Rob Bolton and also the last time most of us saw Liz, and we gleefully talked a particularly surreal brand of nonsense together for most of the evening. AKA the one where we invented Food Science Day.

- One of the many FAPs we've had in the Champion, Spring 2003. All I remember is Toby and I pretty much in tears of laughter for about half an hour. AKA the one with the pigsex.

- Mark C's 30th birthday, downstairs at the Glasshouse Stores, March 2004. AKA the one with a massive waterpistol fite in the pub, and ending up absolutely wasted in an Old Compton Street gay bar.

- Blue Posts Newman Street, June 2004, right in the middle of the European Championships. Brian Donut Bitch was visiting, as were seemingly half of London ILX. We took over the pub, laughed at Italy going out of the tournament and it felt like the most exciting summer ever was ahead. AKA the one where we ended up utterly bollocksed at Kate's house in Bloomsbury.

- Pete's big SOAS FAP/birthday party, September 2003, complete with pool tournament and Pete-themed pub quiz. AKA the one where I said "I know this is true because Pete told me".

- Old-skool Club Freaky Trigger's 'I Love The Noughties' night at the Chapel Bar. There are loads of Club FT/Poptimisms that could make the grade but this one really sticks in my memory - Tim Finney DJed and Nick K was there as well, and we all boshed ridiculously to Scooter. AKA the best Club FT ever.

- 1 April 2004, Princess Louise, High Holborn. AKA the one where we all turned up late after failing to buy Glastonbury tickets and freaking out online, and consequently got hammered to relieve the stress. It all worked out alright anyway.

Honorable mention goes to my first FAP in August 2002, although I'm sure I've had many better ones since.

These days "FAP" generally means "drinking with ILXors who are visiting Chicago." Most recently, for example, the FAPs for Alfred Soto and Dr. Morbius. Otherwise, it's just hanging out my friends.

Like laundry?

Only had the one, hadn't slept in over 30 hours at the time, so was unusually subdued. Got mocked for having a Wildhearts album amongst my belongings.

Exactly.

No, I lie, I had Tisspfap, in which I played on a Wii for the only time in my life thus far, and used distilled water as contact lens solution. I only wish to repeat one of the two experiences.

the one where Ned threatened Rufus Wainwright (NYC 03?)

details plz

Glasgow doesn't FAP anymore, unless someone's visiting, and even then we don't manage it most of the time. Shame, we've had a couple of crackers over the years.

We walked past Rufus Wainwright in the village. When Ned learned this, a minute or two later, he said he was going to go back outside and kick Rufus Wainwright's ass.

Ned is a popular thug.

Glasgow doesn't FAP anymore, unless someone's visiting

has been true of London too for roughly 2 years now bar the odd birthday event.

L.A. faps are way too wholesome! at least the ones i'm invited to

im up for an LA debauchery-themed FAP especially since i havent met any of you

Yeah London tends to have the occasional visitor FAP (a few of them coming up, excellent) plus a monthly Poptimism plus the odd birthday FAP and big calendar event (Trig Brother, Christmas pub crawl, Food Science etc) and kind of enough I think. It's not like most of us don't see each other all the bloody time outside of events organised on ILX itself.

I can't remember the last time I went a week without socialising with someone from ILX. It's probably last October and only then because I was out of the country.

let's fap

matt's list is fantastic - so many memories. i think i was at every FAP on it, except possibly for your first - i think i was maybe at your 2nd one or something? at the lyceum?

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i thought you didn't use the word "FAP"?!

aw man i enjoyed my london faps but i guess they don't make matt dc's list. c'mon man, the foundry was fun!

Toby - nope, you were at my first FAP, above the Lyceum, although I don't actually remember meeting you until the M&F one at the GHS. I wouldn't take it personally though, we were both hammered I think.

Stence - yeah the Foundry and the Christmas pub crawl that year were both fun. These ten have really special memories attached to them though. I forgot the Ally and Tom one in the Lamb back in 2004, where we went to the Irish bar afterwards and all manner of ruin broke loose. That was a belter as well.