How did you first discover the joys of ILX?

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I was googling for info on Sigur Ros and I saw a listing for greenspun on it. I regret that fateful day. Now I can't get any work done.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 9 September 2002 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

it's linked from the diskant weblog.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 9 September 2002 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Fiat lux.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 9 September 2002 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Fiat Uno.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 9 September 2002 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

index magazine links to momus site links to ilm

― ron (ron), Monday, 9 September 2002 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Sinister retirement village innit. I don't post on the Other Board though, because I don't LM. Or rather I don't L talking about M.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 September 2002 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

There was an ILE thread on this but I can't find it. For those that came because it was an offshoot of Freaky Trigger

here are some answers.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 9 September 2002 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember back when there was just ILM. I followed a link to it from Freaky Trigger. Then I found ILE. Then I realised ILE KiXoR ILM's ArSoR.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 9 September 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, because all my grebt chumZ0r from ye pubbe were banging on about it and introducing me to more mentalists. Heh heh. And then I got ye interwebbe @ work and it went from there. Aw. Perhaps.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 9 September 2002 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Lookin for articles from old Melody Makers and stumbled onto an ILM thread about MM.

― Michael Bourke, Monday, 9 September 2002 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

still looking for them...

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 9 September 2002 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Generation Ecstasy -> Generation Ecstasy back cover -> Simon Sez -> freakytrigger -> ILM -> ILE

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 9 September 2002 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

It's all them blasted Dunedin Polyamorous Love Cultists' fault, i tells you. A curse on their collective houses, or whatev.

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 9 September 2002 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Whoever discovers ILX from a Fiat Uno is a fool i tell you, thats a rub car

I discovered from a link somewhere to I Hate Music. Then i took the hate from the url and found Freaky Trigger

― vic (vicc13), Monday, 9 September 2002 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm just like Vic: I think some google search revealed a half-sentence of I Hate Music that was clever enough to lure me through the whole site.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 9 September 2002 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

From a link posted by someone on Rose Plaza at the Twee Kitten website to Am I Cool or Not?...Responded to that for a while (as the chat room at tweekitten had fizzled out), then looked at the rest of the Freaky Trigger and then found ILM from that, and then jumped ship to ILE on day one.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 9 September 2002 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

link from Momus' web site.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 9 September 2002 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

ft/nyplm -> ilx

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 9 September 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

google

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Monday, 9 September 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

ft/nyplm -> ilx

M33 t00.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 9 September 2002 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

i think i worked out finally that it was jyoti on uk.music.alternative pointed me (not personally) to freakytrigger or ILM. didn't get ILM at first, came back some months later, and something clicked/snapped.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 9 September 2002 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Tip-off from donut bitch 'n' Ned on a mailing list

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Monday, 9 September 2002 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate The Saint once mentioned FT on her bands mailing list. I made my way here shortly after.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 September 2002 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

i think i found joshblog, and then ft from there. or maybe it was a josh post on nylpm. and then i waited round there a little while until someone started ilm.

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Monday, 9 September 2002 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I googled some crap or other...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 9 September 2002 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

joe shlabotnik. blame ned.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 9 September 2002 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I did a google search on something like "definition of pop music" and found ILM.

― DeRayMi, Monday, 9 September 2002 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I started posting in a couple of Yahoo groups earlier this year, and asked my friends if they had any good recommendations. Andrew L said he thought I'd like ILM, and I've been around here ever since.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 9 September 2002 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Its all a blur now, but I do remember finding Cultural Artefacts Of The Moment first (don't remember how), then through CAOTM I found Freaky Trigger, and through FT, I found ILX.

― JC (JC A.), Monday, 9 September 2002 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

or ILM as it was then.

― JC (JC A.), Monday, 9 September 2002 18:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Googling for "is Morrissey a racist".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 9 September 2002 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

i was fact-checking the most unacceptable thing to have come out of yr ass

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 September 2002 18:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, I think I found it with Sigur Ros too. Either them or Clinic. It was indie entrapment!

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 9 September 2002 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

See here.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 September 2002 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I was looking for bangbus pics.

― david h (david h), Monday, 9 September 2002 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course the real answer is "there are 'joys' to be had on ILx?"

― david h (david h), Monday, 9 September 2002 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Off of CTCL's website, initially... only started posting after Com introduced me to it, tho.

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 9 September 2002 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

it's all hopkins' and welthorpe's fault. "there's this guy called tom just moved to oxford like you" they said, "you should go for a pint" they said. little did i know...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 9 September 2002 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I was googling Bangbus, and ended up here.

This thread has got me thinking. Greenspun threads always used to be near the top of what google returned. But google doesn't have the same hit rate where ILXor is concerned. I'm sure Graham can answer why this is (something to do with plenty of web sites linking to the greenspun.com domain name, but only a few linking to www.ilxor.com??).

So, my question is - is ILXs new-found obscurity a good or a bad thing?

― bert, Monday, 9 September 2002 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

My busom buddy Renyolds recommended it.

― chris sallis, Monday, 9 September 2002 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

momus links page.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Monday, 9 September 2002 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Googling for Poptones and happening across one of Marcello's lesser moments ('here's my considered opinion') on ILM.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 9 September 2002 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

i got here through duane and maryann's blogs i think.

― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 9 September 2002 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Di told me

― Elisabeth, Monday, 9 September 2002 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah me too

― Andrew Thames, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 02:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I stumbled on it, took one look and would have muttered "mentalists!!" had I known the word - bigger fish to fry! - that night I discovered two tiny fang-marks in my shoulder

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 02:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Madchen_in_Uniform told me about it on a dark and stormy night, my car's windshield wipers furiously swishing, a gloomy and sinister scene ... um, oh, forget it. Yeah, that's how it went. It was love at first sight.

Will you... muh-muh-muh-marry meee?

― mandee, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 03:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Charles McPhedran (who says he feels too intimidated to post here!) sent me the link.

― OCP, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

For long days, weeks, months, I sought somewhere where I could, in semi-public, disagree with Troussé / Jones / Hopkins / Ewing about the Darling Buds. I spent ages searching the interweb, then came across a thread where they all said things like 'late 80s MM was bad - it had the Darling Buds on the cover!!'.

Here, at last, was my opportunity.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:40 (twenty-three years ago)

That Poptones thread is clearly going to be my equivalent of Bowie doing the Nazi salute at Victoria Station in '76.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I was part of an unofficial Newcastle United BBS also hosted by Greenspun. Saw 'I Love Music', visited, was most impressed.

― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

rockcritics.com -> ILM -> ILX entire.

― Dan I., Tuesday, 10 September 2002 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

My answer to this question was drafted two days ago and will be revealed on Monday (true fact).

― Rex, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it was destiny- A discussion board based around my obsessions with my favorite things in life- Librarians, New Zealanders, Drunks Music and Pop Culture disections *Swoon* :-)

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Sue Catwoman

ILX = crack & now I'm addicted

― Miss Laura, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 06:50 (twenty-three years ago)

momus

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 07:28 (twenty-three years ago)

googled matthew collings and came across a hello culture thread

― chrisb (chrisb), Thursday, 12 September 2002 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Synergy betwixt Simon Sez, Momus, and Matos blog.

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 12 September 2002 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

The ex was banging on about it for a while, I lurked for a week on ILM, then presto.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 12 September 2002 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i blame DV.

― angela (angela), Thursday, 12 September 2002 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Everyone here is lying - we all came from maura.com

― Chris Ott, Thursday, 12 September 2002 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I blame VD.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 12 September 2002 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Googling for MBV and stumbling across Tom's & Ned's tops of the 90s.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 12 September 2002 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

googling for Thieves - "Unworthy" a couple years ago
at first I was mainly thrilled by Tom's singles of the 90's list
then I started reading ILM and all hell broke loose!

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 12 September 2002 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

this could be subtley discuised as ilxor market research, very crafty

― chrisb (chrisb), Thursday, 12 September 2002 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I was trolling around, searching for Chuck Eddy's top 100 singles of the '80s list about two years ago now; found Scott Woods's, and then Tom Ewing's and Ned Raggett's, then found ILM from there. I think I actually forgot about it for awhile but then reconnected when I moved to NYC last February.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 12 September 2002 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

joe shlabotnik. blame ned.

Oh, but it's a blame that's fun.

As it was in the beginning, so it shall be in the end. It's all about the a.m.a. continuing legacy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 September 2002 08:05 (twenty-three years ago)

i typed in 'i saw a mouse' on google........
much to my surprise i found THIS!!!!!!!

― donna, Saturday, 14 September 2002 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I found it under a rock.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 14 September 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i can access it at university now. i'm getting no work done. i have an exhibition on thursday. i'm not nearly finished. i've no self control. shit.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 14 September 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

''i've no self control''

I knw it won't make you feel any better but you're not the only one.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 14 September 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Like Mandee, I also blame Madchen - she left it bookmarked on my computer a while back when she moved to Glasgow and was staying at my house. I think I'd heard AllyC and others mentioning it, but hadn't a clue what they were talking about. I had a quick look out of curiosity, and that was it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 14 September 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

simon reynolds is all to blame.

and i wandered over to the ile side of things when ilm got boring. now, i prefer it over here. the ladeez are prettier, if nothing else.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 14 September 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember this thread from the first time around, does that mean I'm not new anymore?

Found ILM through a link on Boom Selection. Read ILM for awhile, realized I didn't have much to say about L'ing M beyond the occasional list or "hey, it's too bad Radio Iodine broke up," started to shrug, saw the ILE link in the corner and thought, "Isle of what?"

Isle of MADNESS, that's what. MADNESS AND DOOM.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

new-ness is temprorary, 100 posts = you're not new!

exhibition of what, mitch?

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

a third year art exhibition. sorry, an "interactive art event". i'm making a flash movie. it's going slowly.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

sinister.

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 14 September 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Sean Carruthers sending me links to theads, usually with me saying "knock it off you dummy" to him afterwards. I've now been posting to ILM for almost 2.5 years (though not very much) and to ILE for a little over a year.

― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 14 September 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

gareth told me

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 14 September 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

wottabastard

― David. (Cozen), Sunday, 14 September 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

googling for "O Superman" about two years ago or so.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 14 September 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Googled for info on Peter Schilling's "Major Tom"; was led to a post on ILM. Read and read and read on ILM, because I just could not believe a forum like that existed. Only ended up branching out to ILE (timidly, at first!!) out of pure curiosity; ended up finding more of a home on ILE than on ILM, though I do still consider ILM highly informative.

I love each and every single one of you, btw. *hugest hugs in the bleedin' world*

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

ILM/ILE always up in the other room.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i hired 2 sherpas to lead me to mt. olympus but i must've not tipped them enough cuz they led me here intsead those fuckerz

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 September 2003 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

From: "Mark Sinker"
To:
Subject: in the spirit of wms?
Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 3:02 AM

scroll down for my contribution: written v.fast and posted before I
changed my mind. Several typos (Chris Sabbath fan = "my" friend" not "his"
friend), and prob. needs a bit more clarity, but see what you think.

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=005GkE

I'm back in cyberland at the weekend.

x
mark

From: "Mark Sinker"
To:
Subject: more no-mates life-wastage
Date: Saturday, June 09, 2001 7:59 AM

(Un)surprisingly flat, to start, which is I suppose why I intervened (down
towards the end).

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=005Oy3

This the (intensely ugly - but also symptomatic and thus interesting)
thread it sprang from, which is what I had in mind and wanted to explore
(inc.ior indeed esp.my feeling a bit shamefaced for even having
contributed).

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=005Mu9

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 15 September 2003 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

How'd I end up here? I blame Jim.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 15 September 2003 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep - you have never been 'new'!
My boy found the greenspun boards & it all went from there. *sigh*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 September 2003 06:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty sure it was from the link that Carsmile Steve put to I Love Music from his (now semi-defunct) blog. And I met Steve through sinister so, ultimately, sinister.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 15 September 2003 08:02 (twenty-two years ago)

How deep are your archives Frank?

― David. (Cozen), Monday, 15 September 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

That's such a sleazy come on.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I fell through a hole in the ground.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

... and found the ~~bag of dicks~~ cake marked "eat me"?

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I am here because of Hopkins, in a non-paternal and non-philosophical sense.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I wasn't sure if it was a cake or the bag, either way I decided why not.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i like that my invite to frank basically says "click here to read me being amazing as per"

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 15 September 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't remember for sure. . .Summer/spring of '01 a link from someone's blog (whose??). Read alot, posted occasionally, 9/11/01 - became a regular out of neccesity.

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Monday, 15 September 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Posted a lot on bitchpork, and it kind of emptied out due to general assholism and technical problems. I followed my then-roommates over to ILX.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I googled for more information on the beloved Raunchy Young Lepers, and since many of the early apostles of the unholy word of RYL hang out here, this was naturally where I ended up. I posted on ILM for a while but eventually started figuring out what was going on at ILE and made the transition.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 15 September 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

(Thanks for the Minor Thirds cd, Chris! It kicks ass! Did Sarah send you an Id cd when she sent you stuff? If not, I'll send you that and the album that Sarah and I are working on together when it's done. Back to your regular programming.)

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 15 September 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

it's all hopkins' and welthorpe's fault. "there's this guy called tom just moved to oxford like you" they said, "you should go for a pint" they said. little did i know...
-- CarsmileSteve (carsmilestev...), September 9th, 2002. (CarsmileSteve)

if i can just clarify, "there's this guy called tom who has just moved to oxford like you have just moved to oxford" rather than "you are the same as tom"

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 15 September 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

*crossly throws away entire section of doctorate*

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 15 September 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick -- No, although there might have been something on the mix CD Sarah sent (it's at home, I'm at work, la la la) -- I know there was something with the two of you. Anyway I'm glad you enjoyed the CD!

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 15 September 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I was tricked :(

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 15 September 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Morpheus fed me a blue pill.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 September 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Were you able to get it up after that?

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 15 September 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I was hypnotised by this odd leprochaun, sat in front of this computer terminal and a tiny voice said "Join in....it's good for you...."

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 15 September 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

i was just thinking about this. early '05ish i followed a link from a pitchfork article about music blogs (or maybe artists with their own blogs?) to underrated aerosmith's blog. and he linked to the (really great) 2004-in-review on strongo's blog. and then i followed links to the blogs of a bunch of other ilxors. and eventually (probably a few months later) i figured i should look at the message board thing that everyone kept mentioning.

i think some dude's blog is only one of those blogs that still exists and that i still read.

― circles, Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:09 (twelve years ago)

I became a burden on the ilx community slowly and piecemeal.

I first landed in the realm of Ask A Drunk back when both ILM and ILE shared server space with AAD on Greenspun's LUSENET. Eventually AAD was victimized by Sean M. Hall (a mere child who later earned ilx notoriety as Dante-Cubed and who became immortalized by courting the imaginary Aja) and Greenspun shut it down for lack of moderation, about this same time that AAD found succor under the ilx mother hen.

As AAD finally slowed to a crawl, then curled up and went to sleep, I became more and more enmeshed in the other boards of ilx (ilm always excepted). I am happiest on I Love Books, but there isn't enough traffic there to keep an ant busy. I Love Hoops is ok, too. I have avoided 77, for reasons known only to god.

― Aimless, Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:25 (twelve years ago)

momus posted the link on alt.fan.momus , and to this day i don't even know who he is nor have listen to his music! is he famous?

― Sébastien, Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:30 (twelve years ago)

Sean, I don't know you, yet I feel a certain intimate bond. I have neither destroyed nor been been banned from this message board. I have, however, contributed to the destruction of another message board and took up drinking as a result.
and THAT IS WHY I AM HERE ON THIS BOARD!!!

and, hey, I am an SF resident to boot.

Can I buy you a drink?

― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty)

― bitCOINTELPRO (buzza), Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:30 (twelve years ago)

hehe, so nor is a real word; i was just about to google it to make sure. it was at least used by one english speaker in the history of the internet. cool.

― Sébastien, Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:34 (twelve years ago)

used by burmakitty too, i am in good company

― Sébastien, Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:35 (twelve years ago)

it was either the "sasha frere jones: paler shade of white" thread or the original M.I.A. thread. i was amazed at the fact that i was reading a messageboard where the contributors, for the most part, seemed as smart as i was. previously i had only found terrifying ignorance on messageboards but i might not have been looking too hard. i lurked for a long time, and learned a lot of stufff

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:42 (twelve years ago)

i have yet to discover the joys of ilx

― "privilege" is not a meme. but "privilege is not a meme" is a meme. (m bison), Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:44 (twelve years ago)

^^ excelsior bait - but I spat it out.

― Aimless, Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:45 (twelve years ago)

wait, sebastien, do you really not know who momus is or was that a joek? i wish momus would resuscitate click opera, his tumblr is bullshit. i don't know what ilx's consensus is but i think click opera is one of the greatest blogs of all time; livejournal was the perfect medium for momus's eclecticism and penchant for often wrong, but almost always brilliant cultural analysis.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:46 (twelve years ago)

cool

― bitCOINTELPRO (buzza), Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:48 (twelve years ago)

just trying to be cool

― Sébastien, Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:50 (twelve years ago)

oh no it's buzza. my nemesis.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:52 (twelve years ago)

godfather :: made man
momus :: ilx

― Aimless, Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:52 (twelve years ago)

http://www.larkcrafts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Joy-of-Socks-kit-300x272.jpg

― bitCOINTELPRO (buzza), Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:54 (twelve years ago)

oh, no. not with socks again already. such an aggravation it is.

― Aimless, Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:55 (twelve years ago)

" the imaginary Aja"

― Aimless

― bitCOINTELPRO (buzza), Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:56 (twelve years ago)

buzza: if i am a "sock", which regular poster do you think i am? personally, i think i have a very distinctive voice. i wouldn't mistake myself for anyone.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:56 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pHmaHzfMBE

― bitCOINTELPRO (buzza), Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:58 (twelve years ago)

Yes, Aja was a sock and she brought ilxors a measure of joy. now I understand.

― Aimless, Sunday, 14 April 2013 03:59 (twelve years ago)

on this board i feel like i am always on the run from buzza, who is lurking around every corner, ready to jump out and accuse me of being a "sock." he is my quilty, my shadow, my conscience. i am who i say i am though, check my twitter account which is @iwouldprefernot and also search for the book reviews i write for the tottenville review. i am a dude whose name is pat finn and i have never posted here under any other name.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 04:12 (twelve years ago)

I believe you

― bitCOINTELPRO (buzza), Sunday, 14 April 2013 04:14 (twelve years ago)

sweet. thanks buzza.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 04:14 (twelve years ago)

buzza, tough but fair.

― Spectrum, Sunday, 14 April 2013 04:16 (twelve years ago)

anyway. i found this place through momus, too. i read click opera pretty regularly, one post had a link here, and that was that.

― Spectrum, Sunday, 14 April 2013 04:19 (twelve years ago)

LJ showed me

― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Sunday, 14 April 2013 04:20 (twelve years ago)

click opera ruled. i especially liked the posts where he would rail against the hegemony of blue jeans.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 04:20 (twelve years ago)

I was GISing the phrase 'take no shit' and found an ILX FAP thread.

― Will you see a political publicity stunt? (snoball), Sunday, 14 April 2013 07:44 (twelve years ago)

I came over in 2002 because someone was impersonating me on ILM, and even though nobody knew who I was I felt like I needed to set the record straight. A year later, I switched from my real name to Johnny Fever and I've been gumming up the works since.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 14 April 2013 07:52 (twelve years ago)

Haha that's a pretty classic origin story jf

― ok let's all fuck our pants to something new (wins), Sunday, 14 April 2013 12:49 (twelve years ago)

Googling for Relevee (Carl Craig Mix)

― I am using your worlds, Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:29 (twelve years ago)

i was sent back in time to warn people that future Earth is controlled by Banaka

― life went on, sadly (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 April 2013 13:44 (twelve years ago)

I used to read this Freaky Trigger website and the owner decided to create this board called "ILM" or something. Then I started posting on there.

― Jeff, Sunday, 14 April 2013 14:16 (twelve years ago)

just out of curiosity, which freaky trigger writer was it who founded ilm? i don't know about the background of this site.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:20 (twelve years ago)

http://www.eternalnight.co.uk/books/a/asimovisaac/autobiography/injoystillfelt.jpg

― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:23 (twelve years ago)

For the uninitiated, this message board can be an uninviting place. Threads are often filled with obscure Web slang, vicious flaming, and know-it-all 'tude. But it's also an amazing place to learn about music, both new and old. Fierce debate takes up the bulk of the bandwidth, often leading to some of the most intelligent music talk around (many posters are music critics). Last year's long-running thread on Sri Lanka-born rapper M.I.A., to pick one example, was worthy of a grad-school seminar.

― Mordy, Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:24 (twelve years ago)

There are also poop jokes.

― Will you see a political publicity stunt? (snoball), Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:27 (twelve years ago)

the M.I.A. thread was like a goldmine when I discovered it. this site was everything I had wanted the internet to be: a place for fierce yet reasoned debate, intelligent analysis, and momus. i was too intimidated to contribute to it when i first found it, but i lurked for a long time on ilm mostly, and i think the archives here might be the BEST possible way to learn about music.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:29 (twelve years ago)

PF: Tom Ewing.

I discovered ILE via the connection to Freaky Trigger and Tom E, who was a member of Frank's APA for a while in the mid/late 90s. (I'm still technically a Frank's member, though I haven't contributed in a criminally long time.)

― Thirty-Six Views of ILX, by Mari3sa (WilliamC), Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:37 (twelve years ago)

Pat, the FAQ is out of date but contains some additional info about the origins of ILX:
http://www.ilxor.com/faq.html

― jaymc, Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:39 (twelve years ago)

sweet, thanks.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:40 (twelve years ago)

i ended up here because in my late teens i thought it would be cool to write about music.

― The description of my page is: Gargoyles Swimsuit Special (Matt P), Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:42 (twelve years ago)

Same answer as last time

― privilege as 'me me me' (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 April 2013 16:18 (twelve years ago)

four months pass...

I got here via the Fake Matador Bulletin Board circa like 2001 or 2002, but the details are sketchy

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 17 August 2013 03:09 (twelve years ago)

Who was in that fmbb faction besides u? Hstencil? Gygax?

― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Saturday, 17 August 2013 05:40 (twelve years ago)

loll chris v he offered me some cocaine at cans bar here loll did not accept

― color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that, Saturday, 17 August 2013 05:53 (twelve years ago)

What happened to hstencil and gygax? This thread is like a ilx milk carton

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 17 August 2013 07:25 (twelve years ago)

think ive seen stence on fb but gygax no idea

― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Saturday, 17 August 2013 07:27 (twelve years ago)

gygax = steve shasta

― I tweeted too much and I am in jail. (crüt), Saturday, 17 August 2013 12:38 (twelve years ago)

I happened across Ilm within its earliest months when I googled 'o superman' by laurie Anderson. I like to think that makes me ilx's first and most longevitist random googler

― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Saturday, 17 August 2013 12:51 (twelve years ago)

Followed a link from Daphne Carr's old Best Music Writing page in 2010 or so. Shyly lurked for a bit, particularly because I found the wealth of activity on the board so intimidating. Eventually started checking out ILE as well, and was particularly impressed with the gay threads since they seemed to talk about classic film and poetry and other cool stuff instead of the usual bullshit. Finally got up the nerve to start posting there a year-ish ago, and from there began participating in other convos as well. I felt like I hit a kind of personal ILX milestone earlier is year when I finally participated in my first ILM artist poll (Madonna).

Nowadays I quote you guys fairly regularly in irl conversations with friends, which I'm sure seems kinda weird to some, but what can I say, you guys are very quotable!

― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Saturday, 17 August 2013 13:14 (twelve years ago)

I was introduced to the board in 2005 by a user I will not name, started posting in 2006, but didn't become fully active until 2008 or so when I stopped posting on Hipinion and my local board Stillepost went kaput. I've been posting on message boards since I was 10 and the atmosphere had always been unbridled positivity; it took me a few years of tentative toe-dipping to adjust my expectations :) Hi folks! :) I like u

― ship what you wanna ship (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 17 August 2013 13:19 (twelve years ago)

I was googling for Charalambides. It took me a while to figure out how New Answers worked so for a month or two I would only contribute based on the New Questions page, lol.

― sleeve, Saturday, 17 August 2013 14:39 (twelve years ago)

overheard someone at a party saying how great the private 77 board is

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 17 August 2013 14:54 (twelve years ago)

gygax! would mention it on the Pavement listserv back in the day

― Here's to Shooting Up (rip van wanko), Saturday, 17 August 2013 14:59 (twelve years ago)

I'm homies with most of my ILXOR peeps on FB, ties run long and deep

Perpetua was another FMBB person but he stopped answering my emails ages ago

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 17 August 2013 15:22 (twelve years ago)

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