which ilx poster has had the most transformative effect on your life?

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(Don't say anything about my poor spelling!)

I'm ever so proud of you! Aww! The two year older than me person that people think is me is a fast learner!

There's no fight clubs for girls. And fight clubs didn't exist before the movie (or the book).
And I've just changed my e-mail - not that I think anyone cares (not a grab at pity), but I don't want you to think that I'm someone else. Or something.

Aja, don't hate me. Cuz if you do, I'll CRY.

I am starting to hate this Algebra homework. It's easy, but it's just too many problems. I GET IT ALREADY!

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I am not a replica of you AT ALL.

You know what? Don't answer that.
Just stop calling me a "replica". I take being called a replica of anyone an insult. Unless it's...I don't know.

Nowell?

Alright, I'll stop. I'm just trying to procrastinate because I don't want to do my homework.

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i posted the wrong link, sir. a thousand apologies

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I was going to say Ian/Jon too btw.

Should it be restarted?

There are several people who post to ILx who have had a transformative effect on my life, but I think of them as friends first and ILxors second. I couldn't say that any ILxor as such has done this.

There's one ILXer who almost did transform my life in a very real sense, by almost sending me on a completely different career path. It never actually happened and maybe that's a good thing in the long run but it was wonderful to be given the opportunity.

“Matt?” Stevem whispers, and Matt stops elbowing people out of the way, pausing under a lamp post to look at him.
“Yeah?”
“Right. Just checking.”

I've always found the writings of Hanle y to be very sage.

Which brings me to answer 2: Ken Chu, who I talk to every day and who is one of the best people I've ever known, and without a doubt the kindest. He manages to be one of my best friends, despite the distance.

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silence

It just seems more like the subway without him.

2. the amazing randy - HI DERE, nuff said

3. roxymuzak - erm, only the bestest person EVAH! aw.

Thanks!

http://www.festa.or.jp/topics/poster.jpg

Garu G

oh, for the days when John Cena still frequented our board

its impossible to narrow it down to just one.

i love you all.

Probably still Ian/Jer but maybe Elmo too!

Nathalie

Oh theres someone.

Oh thanks, Trayce, you're too kind. ;-)

Heheh ;D

lucy lurex

marissa

the REAL marissa

Paul Louis Jaggermann

and waht

Esteban's back?

what's so great about his back and how did it transform etc etc

He shaved it

I can't believe I was only mentioned once.

my life changed when i met ken c

Pod Gunch Ho Tawkwind or Scott Seward. They gives the tuuuunes.

tricky.....Kate, Emsk and Carsmile Steve are all candidates.

Kate The Photographer. Her pictures certainly brighten my day.

ol' wrink p

So many people. From Marcello to Kate and a million people in between. I would not really say they had a transformative effect on my life, but I like most people on ILX. :-D

jw, ian, & remy

bros 4 life

Oink Administrator

Man, Nowell was a mess. I wonder how many kids she's got now.

Nowell? I don't remember her. :-(

Probably Luna and Mandee, because they're the ones I've most corresponded with outside ILX. Also Ed, Mark H and Hanna, who've I've met outside ILX (Ed twice now).

It wasn't particularly transformative, but it was certainly weird meeting RJG and Cathy in real life a couple of weeks ago: I was walking down a mountain in Barcelona, and there wasn't a soul in sight, until suddenly I hear someone yelling "Are you Finnish?!", and I see two people on the other side of the road, and it was RJG and Cathy.

wow, that is weird!

It wasn't particularly transformative, but it was certainly weird meeting RJG and Cathy in real life a couple of weeks ago: I was walking down a mountain in Barcelona, and there wasn't a soul in sight, until suddenly I hear someone yelling "Are you Finnish?!", and I see two people on the other side of the road, and it was RJG and Cathy.

Did I miss the news of this? I'm amazed!

It's not so weird because he was nekkid yelling "A RED BARN? A RED BARN? WAH?"

Apparently they spotted me walking down the hill, but didn't know how to pronounce my name, so they just decided to yell "Are you Finnish?". At first I didn't realize who they were, so I was like, "Huh, does it show?".

How *do* you pronounce your name?

does Tuomas have sexy Finnish accent y/n

Two-oh-mas* ?

*as in "more" in spanish

t'whoa-mas?

On topic: Probably the ones I've known longer than I've been posting on ILX... brad k, joygoat, sisut, matttt

tim f

Tyuu-maa?

that is an incredible story!

Two-oh-mas* ?

*as in "more" in spanish

That's quite correct, except that the "u" sound is short, so it's more like "to" than "two".

omg!!!! that tuomas + RJG + Cathy story is incredible!!!

in answer to the original question, TEH AMAZE RANDY

cosmic schefter

Becky L.

steve shasta/gygax! probably just cuz he's the one I've seen/hung out with the most

hahaha "are you finnish??"
that is great

we did attempt "tuomas??" a couple of times but he had earphones in his ears

thankfully, it was tuomas, eventually, and not just some random dude probably having to think "why are these two people yelling 'are you finished???' at me??"

hooray, i've been pronouncing tuomas' name correctly!

rjg, you should have just tackled him, that would have made the story better

I'm not sure how you even recognized me, the road was like 20 meters wide. You must have better sight than me, I never would've recognized some random dude on the other side of the road as an ILXor based only on photos posted here.

to be fair, you were in a shopping cart

Did you recognise them as RJG and Cathy after they approached you (and before they told you)?

Then again, I'm pretty bad at remembering anyone's faces. Just the other day some girl came to talk to me on the tram, but I had no idea who she was, so I just tried to pretend I remembered her, and I was thinking "Who the hell is she? I hope she isn't someone I've fooled around with and then forgotten..." It was only after I left the tram I remembered that she was someone I knew from the uni, I'd even stayed overnight at her place at a pyjama party.

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Did you recognise them as RJG and Cathy after they approached you (and before they told you)?

No, I don't think so. Though RJG was wearing those same cool sunglasses he's posted pictures of, I might've recognized them.

I think you are rather distinctive in many ILX0Rs minds Tuomas.

GUYS: Have you worn a bra?

Amongst many other distinctive threads.

Were you wearing a bra at the time, Tuomas?

Oh yeah, that must've been it!

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^^ tim at kfc dot edu

Tuomas, I met a girl at a party this weekend and we have a date tomorrow but I forget what she looks like.

Well, you just have to hope she still remembers you... ;)

nabs, momus and jon

Probably Ally C for getting me to go to Bowlie with him, thereby setting me on a path to ruin and mentalism.

Tough question for me - maybe Kim, without whom I would not have known about the bone church before going to the Czech Ruplic. Or maybe Barry.

the small cat

i am him

ol' wrink p

-- That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 10:35 (13 hours ago) Link

likewise, brother

Black Anus: A re-evaluation

likewise, brother

-- Wrinklepaws, Tuesday, June 26, 2007 7:45 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

bullshit

Beth Parker.

I cannot put my finger on any actual transformations she was wrought in me, but it seems reasonable just to assume them and let the details emerge over time.

I am completetly staggered that 2 Scottish ILXors and a Finnish one can completely randomly meet on a fucking mountain in Spain. HOW THE HELL DOES THAT HAPPEN.

(wait, RJG are you Scots or English? sorry. I think I am confusing myself, I'm hung over).

I see dudes who look like Tuomas around all the time. I'm gonna have to start yelling "Are you Finnish?" more often.

My obvious answer to this thread is s.s. for, you know, marrying me and making the kid and all that.

alla y'all

one way or the other, good bad AND indifferent

emergent transformation - from the bottom up.

HOW THE HELL DOES THAT HAPPEN.

It helps to leave your computer and go to Spain.

I see dudes who look like Tuomas around all the time. I'm gonna have to start yelling "Are you Finnish?" more often.

We had about 14 Tuomasalikes staying next to us at ATP 06. I think they were Finnish.

Oh aye, I remember that. No shopping trolleys though.

It helps to leave your computer and go to Spain.

Are you calling me a nerdy shut in!!!?? HOW DARE YOU!

Oh wait.

As soon as a I read that Tuomas story I had flashbacks of you mentioning your ATP Tuomaii (plural of Tuomas, no doubt)

There's probably a collective noun.

A Sundae Of Tuomaii?

I have a photo of tuomas I could post if he didn't object

Exactly what kind of photo of himself would Tuomas ever object to someone posting on the internet?

one of him fully dressed in a respectable situation ;_;

before he gets offended, i'd also object to such photos of myself being posted on the internet.

Feel free to post the pic, RJG.

I don't have any fully dressed in a respectable situation photos of the schef (adam schefter ha ha)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1126/532363073_fcd43833f5.jpg

Were you expecting a flooding or something, Tuomas?

I must reciprocate Aimless's nomination. His poetry thread got me writing like crazy, jarring me out of my usual satiric prose rut.

Was that pic taken on the road we met, RJG? I don't remember you taking a photo.

that mountain looks steep and treacherous, you are all very brave.

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He's stalking you.

I can't believe I was only mentioned twice.

omg

swygart.

I should note that this surely definitively settles the 'fake Tuomas' question, yes?

Not if RJG (or Cathy) is Fake Tuomas?

It's a tangled web, Ned.

I vote that John should decide the issue, in the style of Solomon, by ordering someone chopped in half.

Was that pic taken on the road we met, RJG? I don't remember you taking a photo.

yes, I thought I may as well take a photograph, whether you were you or not you

that mountain looks steep and treacherous, you are all very brave.

it is a mountain, though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montju%C3%AFc

Actually, it seems it is merely a "hill". I was confused by the "Mont" part of the name, so I thought it was a mountain.

hmm

Results 1 - 10 of about 80,900 for montjuic mountain. (0.25 seconds)

Results 1 - 10 of about 42,600 for montjuic hill. (0.12 seconds)

does the time difference make a difference?

I should note that this surely definitively settles the 'fake Tuomas' question, yes?

-- Ned Raggett, Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:15 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Unless it is a Scottish trick, amirite?

Also, Tuomas has the same lower half as Laurel.

Also here are Ian and me in 2002:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP5hQqM1luE

Also, Tuomas has the same lower half as Laurel.

So I'm half real at least?

what a din

did you guys meet near the fondacion miro? i ran into a friend randomly there once too!

JW is the Third Full Head.

is that a band

not v far from miro, more up the...hill

all time top 10 (unranked):

ethan
dan perry
slocki
adam rl
mark s
josh
nicole
tom
connor smedley

they had the transformative power of being funny

and/or intelligent

and/or a werewolf

hooooooowl

are you sure?

The obvious answers for me would be John Justen, Fluffy Bear, Sara R-C, naturallaw-dp and subgenius, seeing as they were all either a) in my elementary school/middle school/high school posse, or b) my older brother.

your brother posts to ilx now???

i'm not sure which is more surreal - the photo or the story itself. clearly this mountain-hill is where WORLD FAP will take place.

He posted to ILM for a while, Jess! Scan the hip-hop threads for one-liners from naturalaw-dp; that's him.

that was great, when we met tuomas by chance. meeting pete in paris by chance was great too. I wonder if in the next european city we visit we will run into geir hongro.

it looked like a mountain to me.

I went up Montjuic when I was in Barcelona a month ago. Didn't see any ilxors though. It's definitely a hill. It also has escalators going up it, but not all the way up.

I think it's a mountain or a hill

i'm not sure which is more surreal - the photo or the story itself.

peeps be dupin' balls offa yous gullible self, let'lone conjurin' hills outta yer mountholes, like there werenteh no marrow, like , and yet yous be all surr-in', for reals, all over yousself and shit. like! there aint no gospel truth. no shit. oooh. for shames.

to answer the question: t**t

xpost to Dan - I didn't know your brother posted to ILX either!

And yeah, to answer the question, it would have to be Fluffy Bear, Dan, and John for being Bad Influences in my Formative Years. ;)

(takes a bow)

Ah hell, I am pretty sure that I will not run into any ILXors next week in Paris.

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

It is now me. For all of you. Hello. I predict your hostility and welcome it with stinky ballsack.

^ I predict your hostility

yeah, for good reason.

My favorite part, so far, is about 24 minutes in, when the narrator says,

"At Luke 22:10 when Jesus is asked by his disciples where the next passover will be when he is gone, Jesus replies,

'Behold, when ye entered into the city, there shall a man meet you bearing a pitcher of water...follow him into the house where he entereth in'

This scripture is by far one of the most revealing of all astrological references. The man bearing the pitcher of water is Aquarius, the water bearer, who is always pictured as a man pouring out a pitcher of water. He represents the age after Pisces, and when the son, God's son, leaves the age of Pisces, Jesus, it will enter the age of Aquarius, as Aquarius follows Pisces in the Precession of the Equinoxes. All Jesus is saying is that after the Age of Pisces will come the Age of Aquarius. Now, we have all heard about the end times and the end of the world..."

and so on.

Capital R Retarded.

This somehow involves 9/11 too? I'm out.

haha
the ones that influenced me are mostly the ones who were assholes to me. i'm not quite sure what this means.

exception of course is tim f. who seems pretty genuine and totally changed the way i look at music

ZS, you watched quite a bit of that! Were you originally thinking you'd go the full 2 hours?

scott is my transformer (duh)

http://wizarduniverse.com/_images_/001727/Transformers.jpg

Were you originally thinking you'd go the full 2 hours

I don't know what my plans were, really. I watched the first 25 minutes and then skipped around to see where it was trying to go. Who knows why I waste my time on things like that. It's kind of like watching the 700 Club just to get outraged.

If I'm tempted to skip brushing my teeth at night I am nagged by a tombot post fyi

ian reise moraine (sp)

tuomas has ruined my life as pringle paste makes me gag on the reg

At the lowest of times, when I see no way forward, the ilx jingle for Hurting always comes to mind.

wow so many of those people from 2004 are long long gone

nabisco and dan perry!

The latter is still very much here.

but he’s so old tho

:D

lagoon fills my heart with mirth

He’s pretty good. Better on twitter. Wish he liked NBA sleeves more.

maura, duh

myonga von bontee for that BITCHIN Never Mind The Bullets bob seger compilation. fkn life affirming, life changing

scott seward for the Eagles listening thread - talk about a tour of duty. we went THROUGH some shit

gr8080 & pplains for the classic rock poll thread & the incredible stories told by Sandy within it <3

and of course me, for introducing you to the superlative method of cooking pasta

I would say "The whole of ILX"

Its big enough so that if I post something I feel like saying, there's enough people around to see it and react to it, but not too many as could misinterpret it and go global with something I didn't men.

I didn't mean!

Tsk.

the qualx pasta thread taught me to fink about the rolling boil/still boil false dichotomy, or something. Who knows, I probably still do it wrong.

scott seward, for starting the 'global warming's terrifying new math' thread five years ago and thereby plunging me into a deep existential terror from which i have never fully recovered

B@n9busd00d69

there's a few posters that plunge me into deep existential terror

GARU G wrote this on thread OMG NED RAGGETS NUMBER JUST LEAKED ON THE NET on board I Love Everything on 20-feb-2005

NED,I WANT YA BALLS LAD

"And The Winner Is ...."

scott seward for the Eagles listening thread - talk about a tour of duty. we went THROUGH some shit

scott has pointed me in the direction of a lot of good music. I wouldn't say he's transformed my life though.

there's a few posters that plunge me into deep existential terror

name names dammit

can't take the passive out of my aggressive

sterling clover and ethan.

Probably this poster:

http://i.imgur.com/otoCZ4P.jpg

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xp the other tabs in that are excellent

probably Morbz or Alfred tbh just in terms of getting me to read/watch things I either didn't know about or hadn't previously given much thought to

At the lowest of times, when I see no way forward, the ilx jingle for Hurting always comes to mind.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, October 5, 2017 6:43 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha!

whiney's posts made me realize that all nerds are evil and must die

probably Morbz or Alfred tbh just in terms of getting me to read/watch things I either didn't know about or hadn't previously given much thought to

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SBARRO IS GOOD. EAT AT SBARRO. SBARRO. EAT THERE. HAVED SOME FOOD. SPADGETTY. BIG BOWLS. SBARRO. FORK. KNIFE. MILKSHAKE DRINK. TASTES GOOD. NABKIN DISPENDER. HOT AIR BLOWER. COST MORE MDONILLDS. BETTER THEN MDONILLDS. COST MORE BURGER KING. BETTER THEN BURGER KING. SBARRO COST MORE DOLLARS AND BETTER THEN THOSED ONES. HAVED SPADGETTY. SBARRO. BIG BOWLS. SIT AT BOOTHS. WAIT FOR SPADGETTY. FORK AND KNIFE. HOT AIR BLOWER. THEY COST MORE. THEY ACT NICE. SBARRO PAY THEM. YOU PAY THEM. JUST USE MONEY. DISPENDER. HOT AIR BLOWER. GARLICK BRED. FORK AND KNIFE. BIG BOWL OF SPADGETTYS. TO GIVED THEM MONEY. EATING BOOTH. JUST PAY WITH MONEY. THEY DO THE REST. PARMAZING CHEEZE DISPENDER. TASTES GOOD. BETTER THAN MDONILIDS. HOT AIR BLOWER. GARLIC BRED ROLL. TASTES GOOD. WAIT FOR SPADGETTY. CHAIR FOR BABIES. USE DISPENDER. USE FORK. USE KNIFE. USE BOOTH. USE SBARRO. THEY DO THE REST.

^ my pick

I'm relatively certain I've just been transformed.

spadgetty indeed

Bred Spadgett

in reality, it would be one of the ppl i know IRL

as just an internet figment ... l0u1s jagg3r

lj changed us all.

tynan delong

http://i.imgur.com/jPHaoZi.gif

Oh man, flashbacks.

Bred Spadgett

A vision.

a bred, a spadgett, a raggett: panama

I guess Tep would be my answer — he's been an influence on my approach to food and drink the past dozen years — but really more for posts on his blogs and FB than on ILX.

'transformative' is too strong, but djp has introduced me to some a+ industrial musics, made me think about race more/differently, and is funny as shit

I guess Tep would be my answer — he's been an influence on my approach to food and drink the past dozen years — but really more for posts on his blogs and FB than on ILX.

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"influence" is strong b/c i have no idea how he does what he does nor could i begin to approach it but dude is amazing

vahid has had a big influence on my music taste and i would not be djing if it wasn't for him.

What shakey said. Alfred and morbs have great taste in movies. Also salvqd

SAlvador saca who no longer posts here

the movie assholes haven't actually inspired me to watch better movies but i do look down on a wider range of people now

What do you mean qualx

Feels weird to look down on anyone on ilx - this site is an abbreviation of who people are. I'm much different outside of here and not so eloquent or funny when posting. I find it hopeless to assume someone's character only by online posts

lol i mean people on the internet in general

all those ILXoRz who lured me out to Seattle that one year. 2007? was it that long ago? that totally had a profound effect on me. it really helped build my confidence when i really needed that in a serious way. just getting on a plane was huge for me. flying and public speaking! two of my biggest fears. everything about it was some sort of step forward. it was hard and so rewarding. there are too many people to even name who led me there and who i was fortunate enough to spend time with. but i never would have done anything like that in a million years without the encouragement of the people here. it was so scary and it really did change me. everyone was so nice. ned has always been so encouraging and positive over the years toward me and i really appreciate that so much. it means a lot. i feel the same way about filthy phil freeman putting me in that book of his. that was also huge and a lifeline to a wider world that i needed desperately at the time. it also taught me that i could do better work than i thought i could. again, a push forward. EVERYONE i've met from here - and i've met dozens of people irl - has been SO nice and funny and fun to talk to. no exceptions. so many smart people. i always feel enriched after a conversation with them. i even get to hang out with tarfumes the escape goat sometimes. and learn new keith moon info.

Scott, you're great

otm

I learnt a lot from Ned about how to behave online. Not saying it's necessarily always taken, but I'm a lot less likely to be self-centred/dickish thanks to him. Cheers

Wow, was about to say Scott Seward was/is the poster I gain insight/humour/musical tips from most, when he does it once again b4 I can even answer the original thread question. Over the years have also learned ALOT from Alfred, Ned, and Tyler too. But S.W. is the main one. And I look forward to a long future of more hip knowledge and long distance friendships from/with all of you. Mentioned and otherwise.

outic upper mississippi shakedown alfred tylerw sleeve joan crawford la lechera vegemite girl noodle vague calzino fgti mordy mh flopson and others even if "transformative" means finding others who like the same bad dylan album you do or a bunch of other small things that add up, thank all of you really

sorry if I missed anyone I'm immediately thinking of a bunch of you calstars dog latin brimstead morbz na man alive stevie deux clouds maps + all the ILH crew thanks

cad k3vin lagoon too many to mention

Ultimately though its hard to just say one person. I mean for various reasons Geir, Whieny (sic)Bimble (rip),that insane woman who was hawking her thousand dollar CD of tuneless hippie um "music". The Killing Joke guy. Over the years all these and more enriched my life in many, many ways over the years. ILX is easily one of the most enjoyable, and interesting sites I suspect I'll ever peruse. Thanks all of you. Re:Marcos is right, it's near impossible to pick just one.

Ethan p, Ally k, Nitsuh, Jess h, NV, John D, Momus, Abbott, Roxy

noodle's probably taught me the most about being skeptical of subjectivity w/r/t music

cad has had the best effect on my liquor cabinet

Milton Parker has helped me to take music more seriously, to look deeper

Ronan local Garda said something about wearing nice socks even if nobody knows you know you're wearing nice socks once and now I wear nice socks.

We're talking about irl here deems not your ilx habits

Socks life of the potato man

scott's seattle paper was the best i saw that year

All of Scott's presentations at Pop Con have been top notch great. And thanks to him, Alb and Vyrna of course!

I always pay attention to Ronan's book recs

estela wrote this on thread Having a crush on someone for an extended period of time but never having the guts to say anything - c or d? on board I Love Everything on 23.10.2007

have you stopped to think that if you find the right girl now you'll miss out on all the wrong girls.

Alfred taught me that you can be smooth and classy and have an undying love for Rush's Power Windows

Tuomas has made me question everything I thought I knew.

aero, stevie and alex in MTL have all saved my life (literally) off-board. I knew aero before ILX but met the other two through this site. Thank you, site

Scott and DJP are my favourite posters and have most influenced my outlook on life

maura and katherine are two of my favourite writers

estela is my favourite comedy entity

alfred and lex's cultural digestive enzymes are so oblique to my own and it's been amazing to get their perspectives

Milton Parker and sarahel for challenging me on my bullshit

VG and emil.y for being compassionate and funny

I knew wgw before ilx also but he's always the entertainment and frankly his end-of-year compilations would keep me logging in til dead

Everybody else contributes so much there were some posters I didn't like but I don't see them much any more

just control-F'd this page and I'm kinda relived I haven't transformed anyone's life

la lechera and UMS!

tylerw too

ooh yeah tylerw has done the lords work on the Pink Floyd thread <3 <3

Rex Sweeney, a now mostly forgotten poster who confined himself to Ask A Drunk back when AAD was a living, breathing entity. He was the heart and soul of the place back when AAD was almost the only thing keeping me propped up and functioning.

dan m transformed my life

scott turned me on to an incredible amt of great records.

outic upper mississippi shakedown alfred tylerw sleeve joan crawford la lechera vegemite girl noodle vague calzino fgti mordy mh flopson and others even if "transformative" means finding others who like the same bad dylan album you do or a bunch of other small things that add up, thank all of you really

― marcos, Saturday, October 7, 2017 1:49 AM (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

i'm a bit too shy to name names but i discovered this site when i was 16 or 17 years old and still read it daily 10 years later so u could say it had an impact ya

hopefully my answer is obvious

oh actually one that i'm not ashamed to say is that BradNelson has introduced me to like, a half a dozen of my favourite albums of the last few years, and in the process has gotten me to rethink and ultimately completely rewire my tastes in rock music, in a way not unlike how '07 era teenybopper/r&b crews did

frogs, clouds, nxd, brim, and everyone else on the vaporwave thread. I salute you

Number one for me is Aldo who challenged me on eating cheese on some terrible old thread about vegetarianism, and because my arguments just felt like rote bullshit, it led to me doing some actual research and really questioning my dietary choices, and as a result of that I went vegan. Have now been vegan for over ten years and apart from improving my health and introducing me to a shitload of excellent new foods, it really fucking rearranged my head and made me question so much more about the assumptions that my worldview was built on. My wife went vegan too so her life was changed as well. Maybe this would've happened anyway, but Aldo's was the hand that gave me the final shove through the door. Kind of ironic that he's a meat-eater I guess.

That aside there's a whole bunch of other people that have made me just plain *think more* and I'm really grateful for that. Don't want to start listing people cos there are many, but I do want to give a shout out to Kate and Lex, both of whose presence I miss

Sorry for earnest

miss lex so much </3

candidly I used to hate RJG for how clever and funny he was but he made me try harder (or lurk more)

I miss RJG and a bunch of the other mid-aughts UK crew a great deal

miss silby

i miss (person who probably still posts under another name and everyone but me knows about it)

silby still posts every day + is active on twitter

tim f, lex, and vahid had a transformative impact on my taste in music at an age when i was voraciously soaking up everything that altered my mind. i'm so, so thankful that they shared their opinions here and that i got the opportunity to be influenced by such incredibly intelligent people. but more than any specific person, the depth and sincerity of some of the conversation on ilx as a whole humbled me when i needed it and has made me a more empathetic, more thoughtful person

Qualx if that was directed at me I've been posting for over a year or so.

I am
A noob and longtime lurker

xp otm

one person i'm frickin pissed doesn't post here anymore is some dude

Been thinking about this and the honest sad answer is "none have" I think; I'm newish to the site and I don't think my life has transformed in any appreciable way since, certainly not positively

That's my fault tho, I can definitely name posters I ought to have learned from. Hoos, goon tie, noodle all sources of inspiration and wisdom.

Darragh and Louis I can disagree with forever but stick us in a room and I think we're on a wavelength - that prob goes for most of you fucks to a lesser extent

wins otm

one person i'm frickin pissed doesn't post here anymore is some dude

― flopson

yeah, I liked his take on popular music, he pointed me towards some cool Bmore DJ stuff

Oh and the poster I'm most like "wait are we sure this isn't me?" might be a passing spacecadet

Week of Wonders (Ross)
Posted: 8 October 2017 at 00:50:47
wins otm

And I like Ross, who I'm afraid I never really noticed before the twin peaks thread. Corny as it is I feel fondly toward everyone I shot the shit with over those three months when that show was airing, I guess that's my equiv of that eagles thread.

aw Wins :)

and yes i'm a spacecadet

yeah twin peaks thread meant tons to me

:-) just to be clear tho the first para is referring to the ilx poster "a passing spacecadet"

Every post on this thread that doesn’t mention me just makes me want to work harder

wait ross are you a passing spacecadet?? (xp)

also agreed re some dude, i would visit ILM more than once in a blue moon if he still posted there

Also a couple of years ago when I made fb acquaintance with a certain Joan Crawford he said the kindest things to me that I didn't deserve

Xp no aps and Ross are not the same

i think of tombot every time i hear 'jailbreak'

tim f, lex, and vahid had a transformative impact on my taste in music at an age when i was voraciously soaking up everything that altered my mind. i'm so, so thankful that they shared their opinions here and that i got the opportunity to be influenced by such incredibly intelligent people. but more than any specific person, the depth and sincerity of some of the conversation on ilx as a whole humbled me when i needed it and has made me a more empathetic, more thoughtful person

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, October 7, 2017 7:29 PM (fifty-four minutes ago)

cosign this post 100% (though i didn't interact with vahid as much on the music threads back in the day i don't think). i'm a stubborn asshole so i don't always admit when someone on ilx has changed my mind, but it happens frequently, and i honestly have no idea what my life would be like if i hadn't had ilx. i love you all

and yeah, some dude too. i don't really post on ILM much anymore so i hadn't even noticed he left! he's still on twitter tho

"I thank you" as the vaudevillians said, Shakey, Ross, marcos

just control-F'd this page and I'm kinda relived I haven't transformed anyone's life

― I want to change my display name (dan m)

yeah i thank god for being a mostly-politely-tolerated second-tier filler poster. you guys are great but i'm happier being an aging barfly with no last name.

I'm naming my firstborn "rushomancy"

"Transformative" is too melodramatic a word but the answer for me is probably imago, since this is I think the third website we've both found ourselves on (he's been here a lot longer than me though obviously). He's introduced to me a lot of great music over the years and generally seems a good dude. But uh, I'm not great at compliments.

A lot of my favourite ilxors I've never actually come into contact with directly since they tend to comment on things I don't really have anything particularly pertinent or insightful to say about (i.e. basically everything)

right back at you marcos!

El Tomboto I have turned to for hot reads on the Trump administration and being able to break down the breadth of the shitshow that it is into practical terms, have learned a lot from his posts in the threads this year...

the Metal thread regulars practically helped me reintegrate within the genre when I dove headfirst back in after not listening to metal for a few years and being out of touch with the scene...

DJP's posts frequently make me re-examine myself....

too many of y'all to name really

dylannn's missives from japan are one of my favorite things on ilx

I'm naming my firstborn "rushomancy"

― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins)

my firstborn's middle name will be "wins". their first name will be "1010".

note: i am never having children

yeah i thank god for being a mostly-politely-tolerated second-tier filler poster. you guys are great but i'm happier being an aging barfly with no last name.

― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, October 7, 2017 7:54 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i thank god for being a mostly-politely-tolerated second-tier filler poster. you guys are great but i'm happier being an aging barfly with no last name.

― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, October 7, 2017 7:54 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Feeling this, and perpetually in the midst of therapeutic engagement as a result of feeling this.

There are lots of folks here who have transformed me. Just being here for a decade and a half and engaging with a gaggle of people who have demanded more of me than I might've demanded of myself in isolation has been transformative. I know I'm pretty much a gag poster to those who even notice my presence, but I'm undoubtedly a better writer and a better thinker and, yes, even a better person because I've spent an unreasonable amount of time in this particular haunt rather than any number of other online hellscapes. I'm genuinely grateful for this place and pretty much everyone who engages with this place.

pvmic most of these entries aren't really transformative

I'm talking changes in my daily routine, serious dedicated changes.

Suzy usually has good lifestyle tips

idk I'm trying to think of one single thing I started doing because someone on here recommended it, coming up empty tbh

There must be something that I just can't think of.

deems taught me how to love again

Every day

OL otm

I'm trying to think of one single thing I started doing because someone on here recommended it

About a decade ago, someone on ilx posted about what to do when the perforations on the plies of a toilet paper roll do not line up with one another. You must separate the two plies, then unwind just the outer ply once, after which, the perforations will line up properly. This works! So thank you, long ago poster, for changing this aspect of my life.

emil.y wrote this on thread pissing in bottles on board I Love Everything on Oct 20, 2016

Have you read History of Shit by Laporte?

this was an amazing book! thank you!

Started reading sf again after decades-long layoff, so my first instinct was to say Martin Skidmore. but I was leery of going for the Get Out Your Handkerchiefs effect, and it was really him and sinkah along with that other Sluglord Tracer Hand. Damn you, Tracer Hand!. Oh yeah, James Morrison and Shakey too.

But tbh I don't know if that is the most transformative effect.

ultros, wins, I see ya 👏

my answer is all of you who clowned me for the past 11 years until I became a better and maybe even sometimes tolerable person. srsly. I absolutely dread what braying self-indulgent oaf I would have been without ILX

special mention to NV and ums I guess

oh and 'everything', for introducing me to Cardiacs, whose importance to me goes beyond words

the biggest transformation I've experienced has been the collective effect of ILM on what music I listen to and how I listen to and think about it ... some of y'all have pretty good taste

Probably Kerr, since he's the reason I started going into outloud, which is where my happiest ILX memories come from
But Shoutouts to La Lechera, EZ, Extended Mix, Johnny Fever, crut, emil.y, jjj, J3ff T, kjb, Michael B, Moka, Turrican, nakh, seandalai,The Brainwasher, Spottie, etc

ALSO totally miss Extended Mix, JBR, Lex, some dude

i miss jonathan williams

I don’t

the movie assholes haven't actually inspired me to watch better movies but i do look down on a wider range of people now

― qualx, Saturday, October 7, 2017 12:45 AM (yesterday)

lesson well learned

Thanks y'all for the kind words.

I've learned about movies from xyzzz and amateurist, sharpened my barbs with Morbs and Eric H, and learned a fuck ton about thinking about music from Tim F.

I have a special regard for scott, upper miss shakedown, col, C. Grisso/McCain, La Lechera, pplains, carl agatha, VegemiteGrrl -- veterans of the Eagles listening, thanks to which I lost a couple years of my life.

But Shoutouts to La Lechera, EZ, Extended Mix, Johnny Fever, crut, emil.y, jjj, J3ff T, kjb, Michael B, Moka, Turrican, nakh, seandalai,The Brainwasher, Spottie, etc

Turrican??!!??!

This kind of threads are always tricky. I mean, Tom D is one of my favorite posters, but I wouldn't go so far as to say he "transformed my life" and he probably wouldn't like it if I did.

the movie assholes haven't actually inspired me to watch better movies but i do look down on a wider range of people now

― qualx, Saturday, October 7, 2017 12:45 AM (yesterday)

lesson well learned

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, October 8, 2017 7:37 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

to be fair the first part is my fault (that's the one that matters, right)

Thanks to movies, I've grown in height too.

the movie assholes haven't actually inspired me to watch better movies but i do look down on a wider range of people now

― qualx, Saturday, October 7, 2017 12:45 AM (yesterday)

lesson well learned

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, October 8, 2017 7:37 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loool

Standing on the Shoulders of Giantess

http://photobaku.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/azerbaijan-nakhchivan-30.jpg

someone register the Movie Assholes domains

Connard du Cinema

oh and 'everything', for introducing me to Cardiacs

imago, I'd just like to say thanks for this, and ... oh wait

Probably Kerr, since he's the reason I started going into outloud, which is where my happiest ILX memories come from
But Shoutouts to La Lechera, EZ, Extended Mix, Johnny Fever, crut, emil.y, jjj, J3ff T, kjb, Michael B, Moka, Turrican, nakh, seandalai,The Brainwasher, Spottie, etc

ALSO totally miss Extended Mix, JBR, Lex, some dude

― the underground is pass-agg (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, October 8, 2017 8:51 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Cheers, man... good to see you around, it's been a while!

Tom D. up there in "still hasn't got over being wrong about Violent Femmes" shocker.

I couldn't say anyone here has transformed my life in any way, but I sure as hell miss those Outloud days too and had some great all-night sessions on there chewing the fat and listening to tune, so shout-outs to Drugs A. Money, Kerr, EZ, Johnny Fever, emil.y, seandalai, KJB, Michael B, Jeff and also to Gerald McBoing-Boing.

*tunes

I've found that if you can bracket yr faith (or lack thereof) it stops being important. Like who cares whether I believe? I'm just some shmuck.

― Mordy, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 17:21 (one year ago) Permalink

to be real though i think about this mordy post all the time

What thread is that from? I want to read the context.

just use the search! looks like it's from here: Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here

although it's neither uncool nor conservative

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/819nx3B9xiL._SL1500_.jpg

I get that but I also find it hard to do IRL. Also without faith a lot of Jewish practice seems so arbitrary and cumbersome to me.

Ned. Closely followed by Dan.

And Tom.

is ned aware he is being closely followed by dan and tom

estela

Dog Latin - simply because I still tend to think of him as a young whippersnapper, and every time he mentions his age I feel a vivid sense of the passing of time.

I'm young for my age

is ned aware he is being closely followed by dan and tom

They're a haunting presence. Alternately, they're my own personal Hugin and Munin.

(That said, thanks Nick!)

DJP and Kate for reasons shared with a lot of people above. Tom Ewing, Mark Sinker for lessons I've not learned well enough.

Also J0hn D, which is kind of cheating - but him as he appears on ILX and on his blog is also an excellent context for him on record, like having a commentary track.

If I had to pick one though, it'd probably be Starry Sarah - I met a bunch of ILX people at Glastonbury about 15 years ago, and she was the one that was delighted to sit around and talk about the Moldy Peaches and Pokemon, and from that came friendships with most of them, and eventually moving over here, which has been very very transformative.

Kate! Yes, definitely.

About 12 years ago somebody on ILM posted "In Brooklyn" by Al Stewart on a "great lost songs" thread. Since then it's basically become me and partner's "relationship song" and thinking about it is a great reminder of being younger and sillier in our twenties.

Weirdly the lyrics are totally sour! We just like the jauntiness.

Also the book recommendations on ILB basically run my life now.

zip11
Somebody helped me figure out what fucking song this is!

No government name, people !

My answer is anyone who ever forcefully disagreed with, or even ridiculed my posts when I first started posting here. At first I would become very upset, especially when the pushback came from posters I respected. But after a while I learned to roll with it and not try to win people's approval all the time. I value the way this site has pushed me to change my mons on a number of issues, but more than that I appreciate how, by posting here, I learned to stick to my guns when I felt that that was the right thing to do.

*mind, not mons. weird typo.

I would say DJP and Mordy are the posters most likely to challenge the way I think about something on the non-musical side, and on ILM I would say similar things about Ned, xhucx, and probably a few other people from the anti-rockist contingent.

No government name, people !

Sorry there Starry, Sarah.

good to get feedback on a pubic forum xxp

Also, off-site, my conversations with nakh are often disorientingly educative. I don't know if people here really know how much information that guy absorbs on a daily basis.

Disconcertingly tbh

I value the way this site has pushed me to change my mons on a number of issues

I cannot stop laughing at this typo

There have been many influential posters over the years, but the one that I think has had the greatest effect on my life is this little nugget from the running running thread:

Had been thinking about starting again tomorrow. Got a wild hair about it, the stars are aligned, whatever. But the forecast is for 95 degrees. I might go through with it anyway but goddamn.

― how's life, Wednesday, June 10, 2015 4:56 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rip

― lag∞n, Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:09 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"rip ― lag∞n" goes through my head now every time I start to flake out about my health and self-care. I still don't always make the best choices, but this little phrase has helped me more times than I can count and I am on a slow but steady path of improving health and fitness. hopefully will get where I'm going before I die.

lagoon is a great guy

From what I know through ilx and social media at least.

There are so many here. So many, and I'm worried about missing anyone but off the top of my head:

Sick Mouthy offered me my first writing gig back in 2004
Branwell, despite falling out with me a huge number of times, did make me reassess my position on a number of issues. That could be said for other ilxors, Lex, DJP and many others.
FGTI gave me some fantastic advice about songwriting once which I'll never forget
And then there are those who have either inspired me a great deal, offered advice and opinions, or just helped me in my life with friendly encouragement, among them Le Bateau Ivre, imago, Rev, Ned, marcos, wins, NickB, chewshabadoo, M4rk H3st3r (can't remember what handle he goes by now), Johnny Fever, man alive, Kerr, Gravel Puzzleworth, seandalai, Moka, emil.y, Michael B, Drugs A . Money. Like the latter says upthread, the Outloud chats were so so great and I miss them a lot

So many more.. I've been on here for 18 years now so...

lagoon also convinced me to stretch before lifting and that was helpful

god, Treeship and flopson and Karl Malone too. I don't interact with them directly much on here but their posts all seem to either be really reasonable, insightful or funny and it's influenced me to at least try not to just write any old shit on hear (I still do though)

love to y'all!

Fpd everyone itt btw

^ the transformative effect we need and deserve

/ I value the way this site has pushed me to change my mons on a number of issues/

I cannot stop laughing at this typo

I missed that, was too busy lolling

my mind put the l in on first pass

I value the way this site has pushed me to change my lmons on a number of issues

I learned to change my diamonds every day.

Twisting my mlons man

miss silby

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, October 7, 2017 4:02 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

silby still posts every day + is active on twitter

― flopson, Saturday, October 7, 2017 4:23 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

God, is it really every day?

lol--sorry! i read that post, was like, huh? coulda sworn i've seen them around, and did a search and u had posted the previous 2 days

it always takes me a while to notice when anyone has cut down or quit

still nice to be missed though right? :)

I miss "If Timi Yuro would be still alive..." and love it whenever I run across one of his posts. RIP.

Everyone here has been transformative.

Elvis otm

I miss "If Timi Yuro would be still alive..." and love it whenever I run across one of his posts. RIP.

A great guy. Very glad I got to meet him a couple of times thanks to the Pop Con.

in the interest of not just listing all the ppl i read ilx for / am friendly with on a personal level, im just gonna say tim f

same

Thirded

tim is yoga flame.

https://media.giphy.com/media/Y5HEiPdsChOh2/giphy.gif

i keep writing tl;drs (true love doctors) here and then deleting them, so instead this is the quick summary: ilx is more of a "community" for me than just about any irl community. in certain ways that is endlessly rewarding, and i don't even want to know how many times i click the ilx bookmark everyday. it is weird. it's too much. when i think about transformative effects it's not so much one person or group of people that i think of, or a specific thread, but just the overall influence of what i'm reading and thinking and talking about all the time with you all. true <3 doctors

with all that said, big ups to pplains. dr casino said something about pplains' "finest hour" on the steely dan thread today, and my first thought was "more like pplains finest year, with 8760 one-hour blocks, each one featuring a pplains greatest hit. god, 8760 hours isn't really that long for a year, i really expected the number to be higher."

also: if you're having a bad day and need something to lift your spirits, check out the only song by The Bonzai Predicament. it is really good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7odcV25sHg

seriously, put that song on if you're ever feeling down. i just listened to it for the 4th time today and literally spilled coffee all over myself and my couch

Probably me tbh

Momus was a big find for me 10+ yrs ago
Mordy is an inspiration constantly
Yancey proved that capitalism can elevate you into a better social circle, Max too

how do you measure
measure a year

what's another year
for someone who's lost everything that he owns?

Honest to Christ is that a Johnny Logan ref on ilx in 2017

today's the day for it imo

Every day is a good day for Johnny Logan. Go ahead and fp me Deems, you only need 31 51 socks to make it happen.

^^ I didn't mean that. Hold me now, D.

Horseshoe (miss u, lady) specifically because she talked somewhere on board about body positivity and HAES and posited that dieting might be unhealthy. For someone who had an eating disorder in the past and who has been on a diet pretty much constantly since I was 10, being introduced to these ideas was nothing short of life changing.

Feel bad now for fooling around because that is one beautiful, sincere post.

(did she leave for real?)

Wouldn't fp anyone for Johnny Logan love

Horseshoe is great

Aw, don't feel bad! I meant to post that here last week but realized I didn't. It was such a big deal to me at the time (this was like 2010 ish) that I wrote to her separately and she sent me all kinds of reading recs and it was a really big thing for me.

I'm not sure if she's gone but I haven't seen her post in a while but I don't really post very much these days so idk.

And, yes, she is great all around.

That's really great <3

I believe I've seen recent horseshoe posts on the cooking threads

I'm also going to say Odysseus for dragging me out to regularly participate in things like chat and plug and reading philosophy, through which I made irl friends. Also, the mid-00s metal polls introduced me to contemporary avant- and post- black metal, which became a regular part of my listening diet.

abby is consistently awesome and absent these days

Don't want to be nasty and there some assumptions coming up on my behalf but, if by 'A***' you refer to Horseshoe: there's probably a reason why she *never* used her real name on ilx and would probably prefer for it to stay that way?

her name isn't abby?

oh wait you meant crabbits? i thought you meant horseshoe, whose name does not begin with A
anyway that's now how she spells it but yeah maybe not use her name

I don't know whose name is Abby, all I was trying to say was that name never came up on here, the dropped 'Abby' only made me wonder 'who?', and one might not use it that freely if the person itself didn't use it that way either on here.

good point

horribly phrased sentence on my part but hope you get the gist. dropping her birth name felt like doxxing to me.

agree that "let's not do that going forward" is a good way to proceed wrt that issue

idk the answer to this or that it has been one person so much as a community presence for me (like KM)
it's a place i can go reliably, a place i can jib jab about stuff without much concern because no one can see me or know who i am? ilx can be relaxing in that way (except for when it's being toxic or i follow the wrong threads) + it's also a place where people like talking about music. you don't get that everywhere, or the people who like the same music i do or are interested in music the way i am aren't always compelled to talk with me about it in person (more now than before, but it was a long time between high school/college and a time when any of my close personal friends cared about music as much as i did)

i will say that i have gotten positive vibes from all ilxors i have met irl
and there have been quite a few!

i have gotten positive vibes from all the vast majority of ilxors
it needed to be corrected and i am not interested in talking about it

If now it comes across as if I am berating you, of all people, that is totally not what I intended! Just thought the transition from "we sure miss horseshoe" to "yeah Abby is the best" felt weird to me (which wasn't you even doing that in the first place).

Ilx is totally relaxing, a safe space for me too, very much so, and it should stay that way. I met good friends on here, stayed at ilxors places abroad, but don't get called by my first name on here because I don't use it as a dn. And that is awesome.

So ilx is awesome, all positive vibes for me for so many reasons. And it should stay that way imo, is what I meant. Without calling users by their real name when they themselves haven't used that.

But don't get me wrong, all <3 to you LL. 'LL' is fine.

xp :-(

Got bad vibes once from an ilxor who stayed at my house of all things

IT'S ALL PIPES DEEMS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s09pfBEJYHc

very kind of sund4r and others to say those thing. Much unexpected so thank you!

sund4r otm

LL otm, ILX is basically the one place I talk about the things that interest me the most because basically no one I know irl is interested in or interested in talking about those things.

Odysseus is a v important cog in the ILM wheel. The world needs proper enthusiasts

Coming the mechanism I mean. IDK I'm not an engineer lol

Cog in the mechanism. I hate my phone

Most engineers argue against coming the mechanism, fwiw.

Seconded on Odysseus. Good egg, enthusiastic and has brought a lot of people on this board closer together.

thanks for the shout outs

Thanks Veg Grrrrl...initiating the process that led to so many wonderful ilxors distributing that Seger comp all around the web will always be my ILM legacy

100% bonafide hero AND legend <3