How did you find out about ILX? (a survey)

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a) from a friend
b) from a random web search
c) from a link
d) from a publication (newspaper, magazine)
e) from a premonition
f) from a other (please specify)

― supercub, Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

a) from a friend [specifically the Gear's roommate thread]

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

f) barnacle

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

g) little bird

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

f) from a other (please specify)

Well, some misinformed forrest gibbon here was spouting negative comments about Killing Joke, and like Hastur the Unspeakable, when you speak ill of Killing Joke, their minions come to vanquish you. I arrived -- along with several cohorts from the Gathering -- to set the record straight....and decided to stay and make sure the fire gets honored, the standards get raised and the pabulum gets properly decried.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

b) random web search, i don't remember exactly what about though.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

a) from a friend [specifically the Gear's roommate thread]

someone emailed me a link to gear's roomie thread too

― gem (trisk), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew it when it was mere protoculture.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

ned is zor

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

no wait ned is the invid queen

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm all for that! Who's Gloval?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

c) Tom linked from FT to the "Rough Guide to..." and "Album Covers redrawn in MS Paint" threads. I eventually figured out there was more to ILX than ILM.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

― Laura E (laurae55), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

c) also through FT, which I had been reading on occasion for years. Yet somehow, I never made it to ILM until nine months ago.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"pop music" definition or something like that.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

c) From a link to I Hate Music, which lead me to Freaky Trigger, and eventually to ILX.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

a link on the tmftml blogroll

― Symplistic (shmuel), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

C (blissblog)

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

h) we were matched up by the good christians at eharmony.com. with 29 dimensions of compatibility, how could we lose?

― Cripps Pink (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

scott seward and maria danielson. it's all their fault!

― aimurchie, Friday, 24 September 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

From my husband.

― Hey Jude, Friday, 24 September 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

c) I remember reading about a band or artist or something that linked me to this wonderful and exhilarating place known as ILX and have never looked back and seldom google bands anymore because now all that shit's here at me fingertips. WHAAA!!!

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

From a friend (mr Jim surfacenoise to be exact!)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

c) a link from the underworld forum... stupid dance music.

― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

b) and c): First linked to it via josh blog, but then promptly forgot about it until a year (maybe?) later, when I did a search on "pazz and jop."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Fimoculous.com (sp?)(drunk, mea culpa) linked to I Love Books. Then I lowered (altered), without effort, my standards and started posting here.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

c) blissblog

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

now how i came to read blissblog, or came to where i'm at in life, love, etc., i can't recall.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

leaflet

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

b) I was looking for an image of the Gang of Four cover for Entertainment which led me to the cause and effect covers. That was two days ago.

― Hurting, Friday, 24 September 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

C) in a way.

The controversy of the Strokes thread being republished bubbled up somewhere else on the web, and I ended up at ilm. I'd been aware of freaky trigger and I Hate Music, but never followed the links to ilm. I've lurked ever since. I only started really reading other boards this year.

― mikef (mfleming), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

A & C & E, which spells ACE! ACE MOTHERFUCKERS.

(Results 1 - 10 of about 2,840 for ace motherfuckers. (0.13 seconds)!).

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Problem is, so many music-critic pretenders, who gather in places like the incorrectly named "I Love Music" message board..." etc etc

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

hahah, where's that quote from?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"Problem is, so many music-critic pretenders, who gather in places like the incorrectly named "I Love Music" message board, hate Pitchfork. These writers have wasted thousands of words railing against Pitchfork’s fakeness, shallowness, whatever. Of course, these are the same scribes who get aroused the most when the Village Voice publishes their impenetrable prose."

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I just woke up one morning and it was on my server.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I offered to host it when I was drunk.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, a) Sean Carruthers introduced me to ILM and then I wandered over to ILE a year and a half later.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, Gear!, you really found out about it from the Wang article?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I sure did!

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"scribes who get aroused the most when the Village Voice publishes their impenetrable prose."

haha I can't argue with this though

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahah, that's right, that's where I first heard about Broken Social Scene as well, obv.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

c) jahsonic

― oops (Oops), Friday, 24 September 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The worst you can say about Pitchfork, which truly cares about discovering new music and is often funny and smart, is that some of their conceits are the stuff of college English classes. But can you think of any time you cared more about music than when you were in college? Indie rock itself is a highly experimental, often embarrassing and amateurish genre, so why hate a site that takes similar chances and scores more often than it misses? Jealousy, of course, because it’s hard for some to fathom that some dude with a webzine has as much influence as paper that makes hands dirty. !!!

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I'm sold.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.imomus.com/

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I'm just jealous.

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

You could not hear or see for jealousy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.imomus.com/portal.html
I Love Music
It's one of my top hits. A bulletin board about music. An intelligent community.
I Love Everything
The sister board, going beyond (both above and below) music.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

b) from a random web search

From http://ilx.p3r.net/thread.php?msgid=3080385 (the thread referenced below, i.e. the very first thing I ever read on ILX, was http://ilx.p3r.net/thread.php?msgid=1229121):

I was Googling around for Peter Schilling's "Major Tom" [in early March 2003] and found a thread wherein said song (or video? can't remember which) was mentioned. I saw the title -- "'I Love Music'? How basic. How full of potential!" -- and started looking into this forum some more via Google. Actually, what was pulled up were the archived posts from Greenspun, but at the bottom were links to the same posts, except resident on this newer server here. It took me about a month to become addicted to reading this forum, and then I felt the pull to start posting something. It took me a bit longer to figure out that there were other forums here, and even longer to figure out that this was a forum connected to a website (oops). I heartily thank each and every single one of you responsible for this forum, as well as the person who originally posted that thing about Peter Schilling's "Major Tom". 'Twas one of maybe five things Google pulled up for me that was in English.

-- Just Deanna (deethe_downspamdown_lurke...), July 17th, 2003.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

(Okay, so the links didn't work.

First link: ADMIN: How did you find ILM?
Second link: SEQUEL SONGS: Info needed for new rock book!)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

B) I was looking for info on The Majesticons LP and found ILM. I immediately started posting there, and about a month later, here too. That was spring 2003.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

a) x2- 2 friends told me about it on separate occasions.

― Richard K (Richard K), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

a) from a friend

BLAME CAREY!

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 24 September 2004 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

though I probably would have found this place sooner or later. I was lookin'.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 24 September 2004 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I can see why ILM would be upset by the success of internet music criticism, since after all it exists only on the...wait, nevermind. That shit makes no fucking sense.

― Symplistic (shmuel), Friday, 24 September 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

My b/f told me about it when it was still on Greenspun. He was having fun winding some 14 year old up about Michael Jackson!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 24 September 2004 06:52 (twenty-one years ago)

From the Momus Nick, who sent me mail linking to him bitching about Primal Scream on a thread somewhere on the old ILM. I think I lurked for about a month and finally popped up with something relevant to Creation Records, on another thread, only to be promptly flamed by Doomie on some matter relating to McGee's toenail clippings or whatever. Being flameproof, I remained.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

'twas the doomie/marcello poptones thread that got me here.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

it's quite sad that it got deleted really.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

alba linked to tom's freaky trigger article on belle & sebastian in a sinister post. ilm wasn't around then, but later there were a couple of threads on grey hair (tom) and the sexualization of everyday life (maura). i didn't follow the threads regularly until the pinefox started talking about them.

― youn, Friday, 24 September 2004 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing should ever be deleted! Too many whinging babies. I don't even like deleting duplicate posts that much just on principle. Di told me about it, her or Duane anyway

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

On another message board almost four (!) years ago when someone linked to a few Freakytrigger reviews Tom had written (Kid A sticks out, can't remember what the other one was). I sat there and thought "hey, this guy seems interesting" and checked the site sporadically from then on. Didn't actually make the jump to ILM/ILE until the following summer.

Jesus Christ. Four years. How'd that happen?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I only came across that link by chance and it, eventually, changed my life in no small way. God knows what I'd be doing and who I'd be doing it with if I'd somehow missed it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess Ned invited me here, or at least to Freaky Trigger, to be interviewed. And I stuck around because I liked 'Am I Cool Or Not?'. I thought this place was a fast-moving Style Lab and we were just going to post photos of ourselves in cool outfits the whole time, and be catty about other people's tawdry looks. Yes, I'm here because I mistook FT/ILX for Vice magazine, basically. I can still remember how shocked I was when I saw the first photos of FAPs.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

must've told this several times here&there,
anyway it went thus -

a) heard 'bout ilm from a friend (but did nuthin for awhile to check it out) >>> (b?) then one day googled for kogan and sinker and - voila!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

d) from a publication (newspaper, magazine)

Oor magazine.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

B), i was just looking for HTML advice and I found the answers here.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

c) metafilter.

― Simon (flameproof) (Flameproof), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I was searching for stuff about My Bloody Valentine and found Ned and Tom's "best of the 90s lists" on Freaky Trigger. A little while later Tom started I Love Music - and I haven't really looked bag since, but it took me a little time to get into ILE.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Ask A Drunk

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

there was a thread covering Careless Talk Costs Lives that contained some spiteful innacuracies which i felt honour-bound to correct. i stayed.

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

a (a friend kept linking ILE threads on her blog and going 'look! cute!'), b (to ILM, not that I can remember what I was looking for), and I think c as well, though no idea where the link was. All at the same time: it was kind of fate-like.

― cis (cis), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

b) - i was googling for beta band stuff and found tom's review of their first album on FT. then i found ILM. this was in 2002.

― pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I got here via a link to I Hate Music & Freaky Trigger, but I can't remember where from.

It was the Rough Guides to... thread that got me interested.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

a) although I can't remember exactly who told me. Certainly somebody on the Sinister mailing list. Alba was my flatmate when I started posting, so he is the most likely candidate.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

b), although what for I have no idea. My first thought was that it might have been about Head Of David, but searching on them in here makes me think it can't have been (because I'm on most of the threads where they come up).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

a) One of my best and oldest (since 1981!) friends Andrew L said he thought I'd like this place, back in early 2002. He was right. I guess he knew about it because he used to work with Tom Ewing.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

martin was one of the reasons i stayed!

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

a) someone on sinister i guess

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ha, thank you, Gaz!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

b) Greenspun from a random websearch on Kings of Convenience.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

c) Link from Momus site (before imomus.com days, I believe)

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

a) - again, some unknown person on #sinister. Possibly Mandee, Madchen or Markleby.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

a) from ian/webcrack, who doesn't post as much anymore because he's a fancy grown up lawyer now.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

My origins start in 1997 @ A.M.A >> Tom starts up Freaky Trigger as a webzine 98 or 99? [signed up for e-mail newsletter] >> Tom starts collective music blog: NYLPM [Spring 2000] >> August 2000 Tom decides to start up ILM using Greenspun >> in June 2001 ILE was born as a cyber-sibling to ILM

so c: from a link, but in reality a series of links

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

f) from a message to a mailing list from someone who apparently has only posted here one time. (Unless he changed his name..)

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

c. Freaky Trigger. Can't remember how I wandered onto FT, probably Google, but was intrigued by the pop-ist slant of some of the writing, amused by I Hate Music, and eventually followed the link to ILM. Took me about a year before I ever posted anything.

― briania (briania), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd been lurking for ages before summoning up the courage to post. To answer the question, worringly I CANNOT ACTUALLY REMEMBER...

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

my male lifepartner thom west linked me to freakytrigger in late 2001/early 2002

― \(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

c) from a link

and specifically:
g) from a Ned - can't think why this wasn't one of the options! ;)

― Jeff W (zebedee), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

c) Bookslut

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

momus site - "I hate music"

"I hate music" - "I love music"

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

My mate Chris who kept banging on about it. There again he also banged on about Sinister and I never went there.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

**Well, some misinformed forrest gibbon here was spouting negative comments about Killing Joke**

That was me.

At least I'm not you, Alex. There's that to be thankful for.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I found out about it from Madchen. I think it was Fall 2001.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

B, random web search. The first two posts, basically. So you can see who's to blame.

The Bangles or The Go-Gos

― TOMBOT, Friday, 24 September 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

to be fair Dr C i think it was several people ;)

i think i'm A C D.

in the las tissue (haha, i'm leaving that typo) of papercuts (new one due this autumn!) Jerry the Nipper mentioned NYLPM and i thought "that sounds good". then when i moved to oxford, mr 'opkins told me that the tom e-wing had also moved to oxford and that i should drink beer with him. in order to have something to talk about i investigated FT and ILM before our first meeting and have never escaped...

i may have been partly responsible for bringing several sinisters here, sorry (to both the sinisters and the rest ;))

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I read something Robin wrote, and followed the link on FT to ILM.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it was you, Carsmile, what told me about this here bitch. Apology accepted.

― robster (robster), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

f) From the voices.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I discovered Josh Blog and Momus' website around the same time and both linked to a mysterious ILM, so naturally had to check it out. Perfect way to kill a slow summer internship.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I clicked on a link from PumpkinPublog. I like the fact that I came here through beer, not music. It is fitting, and true.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

C - from Blissblog

― Robert Moore (treble), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Carsmile made me do it.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

a) from a friend.

it was either Ned or Barrus... or someone else on Star Chamber posting a link.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

c) from a link

It was an MP3 blog - I forget which one.

And thus are addictions born.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Where is Josh anyhow? He's a good egg.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Lil Jon phoned me and told me to check out this great thread on bop and minimalism.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i read nylpm and i hate music for a while about four years ago but somehow never made my way here until i followed a link from the dear departed TMFTML last year.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

a. I posted on Bitchpork in college, but it started to fall apart and I noticed that my roommates had jumped ship to another message board called I Love Music, so I followed them. Charlie doesn't ever seem to post anymore, but Clarke B. posts on ILM still on the rare occasion.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Either from a google or from a link to, I think, a piece about the original Beach Boys Smile sessions. This was a few years ago now I think.

― mms (mms), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

carsmile has a lot to answer for.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember, but I do remember the time when you could read every post on ILM and ILE was but a dream.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess Ned invited me here, or at least to Freaky Trigger, to be interviewed.

Was it me? Heh. And wasn't that the second or third interview I'd done with you?

it was either Ned or Barrus... or someone else on Star Chamber posting a link.

The first rule about Star Chamber is that you do not talk about etc. Not that it matters as much anymore, I grant. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, sorry!

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

(Will I be found hanging from underneath Blackfriar's Bridge by tomorrow night?)

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i am supposed to remember??

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

'Forest Gibbon'

'E-Wing'

ans: JtN

― the bellefox, Friday, 24 September 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I followed a link from Freaky Trigger.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Years ago someone linked to "Am I Cool or Not?" on a website I used to frequent...from there it was Freaky Trigger to I Love Music. This was all before ILX had become an empire.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

My answer is on this thread:

How did you first discover the joys of ILX?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Fiat Punto!

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

c) From Tom's 90's singles list, to Freaky Trigger, to ILX.

― Richard C (avoid80), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

**Well, some misinformed forrest gibbon here was spouting negative comments about Killing Joke**
That was me.

At least I'm not you, Alex. There's that to be thankful for.

Ah, the good cantankerous Doctor. Actually, while you were certainly among the chorus of hooting gibbons, I don't think it was specifically a comment of yours that sounded the alarm. While you may not like the Joke, you're at least not an idiot (the same cannot be said for everyone here, hahahaha). Cheers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr Boyle said about it.

― badger Kitten (badger Kitten), Friday, 24 September 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

A) matos

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I was here from the start, so Freaky Trigger I guess. It's all Amplified To Rock's fault really.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Freaky Trigger as well. Either through I Hate Music or possibly Tom's thing on the Shangri Las. I don't remember.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Since everyone else is naming their sources, its all Dudley from Dublin's fault that I'm here. One day I will actually go and see the Corporation in thanks.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i wz invited by tom

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, I wasn't being clear. It's ama's fault I'm here. I meant Amplified To Rock is responsible for the actual existence of ILM, sortakinda.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Google.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Though freakytrigger. I dont actually remember the first time coming here, but I remember finding "I hate music" at the same time.

― Elliot (Elliot), Saturday, 25 September 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Madchen left it bookmarked on my PC when she was staying at my house. It's all her fault. Though I think I'd have got here eventually anyway.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 25 September 2004 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Carsmile again - a link from his blog to ILM.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 25 September 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone on this thread specified e) yet?

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 25 September 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I was pulled in by the Vicar, eventually. And then I Love Books made me stay around. I still don't post much, but it's fun to watch (but not in a Sliver way, oh no).

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

a) It's all bloody Reynolds' fault innit.

― Jasper Milvain, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

First Ilx thread I read was about Jim O'Rourke. Oh, indie.

― I know, right?, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:19 (seventeen years ago)

Googling and googling and googling again

― dell, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:21 (seventeen years ago)

Kind of...a...premonition. Portent. That is to say

― Abbott, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:22 (seventeen years ago)

i am dang perrys fault

― John Justen, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:21 (seventeen years ago)

link from josh blog

― Jordan, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:24 (seventeen years ago)

I think I followed a link from Stylus. When I saw that a bunch of their people posted here and Matos, who I knew of from his SW gig, I thought I'd stick around.

― The Reverend, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:30 (seventeen years ago)

I mean, "from a premonition".

― The Reverend, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:31 (seventeen years ago)

I blame Dan Perry and John Justen and Fluffy Bear. (And this time it really is their fault!)

― Sara R-C, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:51 (seventeen years ago)

― CaptainLorax, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:53 (seventeen years ago)

c) from the Tofu Hut.

― Roz, Friday, 25 January 2008 03:06 (seventeen years ago)

Fake Matador board circa: 2001

― iiiijjjj, Friday, 25 January 2008 03:07 (seventeen years ago)

found out from iiiijjjj on Silver Jews board.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 25 January 2008 05:39 (seventeen years ago)

a,c) followed link from jbr's blog

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 25 January 2008 05:47 (seventeen years ago)

B) Charalambides C/D

― sleeve, Friday, 25 January 2008 05:49 (seventeen years ago)

google search fr pics of kate bush. madness ensued. jagger wishes he had a naive entrance like mine.

― darraghmac, Friday, 25 January 2008 13:01 (seventeen years ago)

ILx was found out.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 25 January 2008 13:04 (seventeen years ago)

^^this guy ruined my life

― electricsound, Friday, 25 January 2008 13:16 (seventeen years ago)

warr.org

― baaderonixx, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:22 (seventeen years ago)

c) From a link to I Hate Music, which lead me to Freaky Trigger, and eventually to ILX.

^^^

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:24 (seventeen years ago)

JW would talk about it all the time so I decided to see what it was about, then lurked for a while.

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:27 (seventeen years ago)

I'm glad I found ILX when I did, was being led a merry dance by various consipiracy theory websites and utter nutjobs on various other forums. Thanks to ILX, I now know the *real* truth.

― Ste, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:31 (seventeen years ago)

My husband has been lurking/ocassionally posting for a long time and told me about it a couple years ago. I have no idea how he found it.

― ENBB, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:32 (seventeen years ago)

I was Googling Young Marble Giants and came across the "Big Hits or Little Duds?" thread, which mentioned my website. Looking around a bit more, I realized I knew a bunch of people who posted. So I bookmarked it and stayed on.

― mike a, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:39 (seventeen years ago)

jon brion told me about it.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:40 (seventeen years ago)

from sasha fere jones blog lolol

― jhøshea, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

from momus' livejournal looooool

― bell_labs, Friday, 25 January 2008 14:48 (seventeen years ago)

From my brother, aka 69

― B.L.A.M., Friday, 25 January 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

link from Simon Reynolds' blog.

― kingfish, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:24 (seventeen years ago)

a guy i used to chat to pointed me to a thread about Altern 8 on ILM

― blueski, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:26 (seventeen years ago)

link from josh blog

-- Jordan, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:24 (13 hours ago) Link

Did I know this? How did you know about josh blog?

― jaymc, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

I was googling the phrase "take no shit", when I found an ILX FAP thread.

― snoball, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

first encountered via i hate music (was she ever on ilx?), came on bored a few years later after following a link from tmftml

― mookieproof, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:36 (seventeen years ago)

was she ever on ilx?

met her at a london fap - surprisingly attractive

― blueski, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ Intentional mis-spelling of bored? (xpost)

― snoball, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

How hot is Dominique Leone in person?

i think this thread is how i found ilx.

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, December 8, 2007 11:59 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

major lol

― sanskrit, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

ken c explained ilx to me on a bus somewhere near camden station. i did not get it. i think he was kind of speaking in code. a few weeks after i got home i remembered the conversation.

― rrrobyn, Friday, 25 January 2008 20:48 (seventeen years ago)

this was in 2004. i also accidentally/unknowingly attended a fap!

― rrrobyn, Friday, 25 January 2008 20:49 (seventeen years ago)

Amazing! Tell more about all this.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 January 2008 20:49 (seventeen years ago)

this was when s1nister had really almost disappeared, but we all still had a picnic anyway on like the one sunny day of my trip. it was super cuet. also, i think the fap was for dave b's birthday? it was in april?
afterwards we randomly ran into marianna and ended up at a weird hat electroclash party where i looked like this
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/24373090_551cb4c323_m.jpg

― rrrobyn, Friday, 25 January 2008 21:22 (seventeen years ago)

Did I know this? How did you know about josh blog?

-- jaymc, Friday, January 25, 2008 3:27 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

No idea why I started reading josh blog, probably just a random thing. I think after a few weeks I followed a sidebar link to ILM.

― Jordan, Friday, 25 January 2008 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

From Ned T. Rifle II.

― ljubljana, Friday, 25 January 2008 22:28 (seventeen years ago)

"ask a drunk" poster from the greenspun days

― Jarlrmai, Friday, 25 January 2008 23:42 (seventeen years ago)

ILM: random google
ILE: it's my fault

― DG, Friday, 25 January 2008 23:44 (seventeen years ago)

Madchen told me about the great Honor the fire thread, was... a while ago

― Porkpie, Friday, 25 January 2008 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

I have absolutely no recollection of starting this thread.

― Super Cub, Friday, 25 January 2008 23:54 (seventeen years ago)

― tehresa, Saturday, 26 January 2008 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

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