Random Impromptu ILxers Sighting

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I saw Ptee in a bar last night. He didn't see me though. Crap bar too.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah Dave, as a Birkbeck student I have to go to the Birkbeck bar occasionally.

Great game of football on the TV though. I know we should support our boys in Europe but its a long time since Chelsea could ever be considered as OUR boys. We probably have more in common with the Vikings.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I know. Magic wasn't it. This made me laff lots this morning...

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Its worth leaving that going in another window abnd waiting for it to get to £10000000. You should have tipped me the wink Dave - there's nothing that makes you look more popular around your coursemates than random punter attack (they don't get more random than the President of Birkbeck SU mind and he homed in on me). Nice to see they left the screen on for the Chuck Norris actioner GOod Guys Wear Black too - Anne Archers finest hour.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

i already did this thread for when i was on the bus in shoreditch and saw graham wandering around looking lost. i saw chris brassica in the embassy bar the other week too...

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 4 October 2002 23:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah this reminds me. Anna, were you walking through Clapham Junctuion last Friday?

― RickyT (RickyT), Saturday, 5 October 2002 09:06 (twenty-three years ago)

i saw a picture of the lollies the other day.
does that count as random sighting?

― joan vich (joan vich), Saturday, 5 October 2002 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, I was. I never go there, but it was my friend Dan's birthday, so I was on the way to his house. Did I look lost and stressed with phone clamped to ear?

― Anna (Anna), Saturday, 5 October 2002 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yes, and i saw rickyt in belsize park

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 5 October 2002 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

ptee got on the bus we were going home on last nite, but as he only lives up the road this is hardly entirely random...

i did bump into sam norman (ex-s*n*sterine) at the rachel stamp gig last nite (RoX0r!!), which was particularly random but as he's not an ilxer i'm not sure if it counts...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Sunday, 6 October 2002 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I grabbed an old forgotten Fierce Panda sampler out the other day (because I remember it had a Chris T-T track on it) and found that it had Tompaulin on it, does that count?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 6 October 2002 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

North America is bigger but I thought I saw Kerry Dymaxion sitting out on State Street one morning a few weeks ago.

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 6 October 2002 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

I am not quite sure but: matos and patrin, bus stop, corner of ashland and snelling, st paul, about 3:45 today

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 22 December 2002 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm sure that was me on hypno-sex last night but I don't remember a thing...

― Lara, Monday, 23 December 2002 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

At Earls Court station, Tuesday, a 40 something woman that looked exactly like DG from accross the platform.

At Paddington Station, also Tuesday, a 40 something woman that looked just like Carsmile.

In Tesco, Manchester, just now, a woman that looked just like Tom, sans beard, but with HAIR GROWN LONG JUST LIKE NED. A more terrifying sight I hope I never see.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 10 January 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Somebody better start Photoshopping.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 January 2003 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

ILx: home of the 40 something woman.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 10 January 2003 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

On 25 St. and 6th Tim H. and I ran into Yanc3y, roommates and friend.

Yanc3y was carrying a painting he had bought at one of the flea markets. It looked like a portrait of a sad clown without the clown make-up.

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 16 March 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Starry were you at London Bridge tube station this morning?

― Sam (chirombo), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

To Charles, that ILX-lurker i randomly met in Sydney: Chris Wu has your jacket. I was thinking of jizzing in the pockets, but I didn't.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

oh god, Chr1s Wu. you should have stolen one of *his* jackets and jizzed in it

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I ran into trife today!

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 17 April 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

any broken bones?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 April 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

*rimshot*

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 17 April 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

oh god, Chr1s Wu. you should have stolen one of *his* jackets and jizzed in it

what, you dont like him?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't dislike him, he's just, uh, a little unreliable with the things he promises. plus he's an ex of my best friend's girlfriend.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

wait... you mean bonnie & oscar?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

no, kate and mark. ooh, bonnie! i had a crush on her

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, so two random ILX sightings:

1. I'm in Sydney at a bar, and I'm just introduced to a friend of a friend, and he goes... "Phil? From New York? I've been reading your posts on ILE!" [what the fuck??]

2. That SAME day at the same bar, this other friend of a friend who I've met a few times and hung out with a few times turns out to be Charlie No.4 from ILM... craziness. insanity.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam - yes I was! Looking horrifically in a state? Pink tshirt, brown skirt and black trousers? *waves*!

I didn't see you, but I did randomly see a goth that I met last Saturday night (I did not say hello cos I've forgotten his name).

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 17 April 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Just say "Sebastian" -- that's usually a boy goth's name.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 April 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I see Cprek pretty often (almost as often as I listen to his radio show), but I've known Cprek since long before ILX even EXISTED.

I saw a sign on a church that said "BINGO" and I thought of Chris V.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I am suspicious at how rarely I spot any ILXers. There are loads here in london, and apart from Pete once I have never bumped into any of them. What are the odds? I mean, I've only spent like four or five days in Paris, and I ran into a pal there (I've mentioned this before - it was comic writer Grant Morrison). I think they are hiding from me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Carsmile Steve from the window of the 41 bus. He was wearing a long blue coat and looked very dashing.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, cookies, that would have been me, Anna, who saw Steve.

― Anna at toby's (tsg20), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Geeta on Avenue A.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i randomly met killian in the pub the other day

― robin (robin), Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Matos in Starbucks
Matos in Kim's
Matos at the Voice (not so random)

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha! One of my friends told me she thought she saw Matos at a bar in TriBeCa a couple weeks ago. He's everywhere!

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 17 April 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw tim f at his work (so i guess it wasnt that random), and keith mcd at the buzzcocks show a while ago

― minna (minna), Friday, 18 April 2003 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh Andy B. on Bowery.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 18 April 2003 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I was walking down 7th Street the other day and I heard someone yell my name. It was Matos. I felt like such a celebrity.

― hstencil, Friday, 18 April 2003 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The East Village is teeming with IlXoRs!

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 18 April 2003 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Julio pointed out Dave Q to me on Angel tube station last night.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 18 April 2003 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

what I wanna know is: did matos shout out "HSTENCIL! I blame you!"?

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 18 April 2003 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

haha amazing this got revived.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 18 April 2003 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Downtown is teeming with Matos!

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 18 April 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

No, he shouted out my real name, which was prolly even more disturbing.

― hstencil, Friday, 18 April 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

and was it out of a car h?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 18 April 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

it was out of a LIMO, plebes

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 18 April 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

no he was sitting outside at a bar, sipping a beer, being interviewed.

― hstencil, Friday, 18 April 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I was being interviewed by (another) vampire.
(note: this may not actually be true)

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 19 April 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

oi josh, that was us! We were heading back from the Pavilion Place (saddest of all the Roseville malls) from seeing 'Adaptation'.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 19 April 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

phil-two, any idea if that's the same Chris Wu that used to hang out on #Sydney and #triple j on IRC (circa 1997)? If so, I think even I know him.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 19 April 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

S*mon Reyn0lds on St. Marks Place.

― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 19 April 2003 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the people in my English class has met Matos, thru another ILXor. She told me he yelled at her about the Beatles while drunk, or something to that effect. I thought that was the best random ILXor story ever.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 20 April 2003 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

clearly I must leave New York

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 20 April 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i shall replace you

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 20 April 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

*offers Matos a flat in leafy SW London (in September, anyway)

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 20 April 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

chris motherfucking wu?! i know him too. and so does electric sound of jim. and everybody on the planet!

― minna (minna), Sunday, 20 April 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah! it seems like everyone and their momma knows [...and loves] chris. i met him via sinister, and he stayed at my place in new york for three weeks, so when i was in sydney, he let me stay at his parents'. was great. his popfrenzy night seems to be going really well. sleepy jackson [or is it sleepy township?] just played, and they have ARE Weapons coming up... which is pretty big, i guess.

i even know this australian girl [miyuki/MJ] from my university in new york who knew chris back from sydney. its strange.

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 20 April 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Matos v. Chr1s Wu ubiquity FITE!

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 20 April 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

No one ever sees me anywhere. Maybe I'm invisible!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Me neither, Jody. We can be invisible together.

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 20 April 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

There's something incredibly weird and sinister about the way gareth said he was going to replace Matos.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 20 April 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

With the exception of bumping into Pete, Emma and Alan in King's Cross once, I don't think I've ever just randomly come across an ILXer in London, which is amazing when you consider the place is full of the buggers.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 20 April 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

See above - perhaps they're hiding from you too, Matt.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 April 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw this girl out last night who must be di's Australian double. she was wearing a T Rex t-shirt and everything

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 20 April 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

hstencil at kim's. who then witnessed the ~~shame~~ joy of me buying the my so-called life dvd box set.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 21 April 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

No shame in your game, girl. I just ended up getting that Can CD, nothin' else. Did buy a copy of Cities of the Red Night on the street by NYU, tho.

― hstencil, Monday, 21 April 2003 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Hooray! Finally I can contribute to this thread!

I saw Anna on the street outside Handsome SoundArtist's flat! I almost didn't recognise her with her cute new haircut, but I recognised her musical note bag!

― kate, Thursday, 24 April 2003 07:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Me neither, Jody. We can be invisible together.

Lies, Rosemary! I saw you once at Other Music - we were both standing in front of the Belle & Sebastian "I'm Waking Up to Us" EP and talking about The Happy Hooker because you were on your way to Fez to see a reading.., and you were wearing fishnet stockings.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 24 April 2003 08:03 (twenty-two years ago)

What was Anna doing outside HSA's flat?!? Are you suspicious?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 April 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't seen them, but apparently I have been working a block away from Martin, Pete, and Julio for the last two months.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Before that, I worked just up the road for two years - the number of times I probably passed one of them on the street...

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin, don't cause trouble.

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)

hstencil on Ave. A

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Gareth's disembodied head floating evilly over my city on his way to Los Angeles.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

me too! hstencil on ave a in white jeans.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Not only white jeans, but with MY DATE!

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha you always be having a date

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

By the evidence of this thread, I am the most spotted ILxOr in London. Its my out and about and garoulous stylings to be sure.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

you're always spotted bcz you have a gorgeous girl with you pete. you're a playa.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)

What was Anna doing outside HSA's flat?!? Are you suspicious?

-- Martin Skidmore

Stop stiring Skidmore. I was around there due to my total inability to ever find the AKA bar. I thought getting off at Russell Square and walking would dothe trick. It didn't.

Thanks for the haircut props Kate. I didn't think it made that much difference, but about four or five people have also failed to recognise me.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a playa only because life's a beach.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Anna, you're better off getting off at Holborn and following the westbound buses to that corner where Bloomsbury Way becomes New Oxford Street - I think the Old Crown pub is there next to a Winkworth etc, and the carpark. You will then see the clear way to AKA and The End.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Or doing exactly the same from TCR tube walking past Arguus and then turning right at the Old Crown.

Though isn't Russell Square lovely at the moment.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete, my friend's Polish dad calls it Aggros.

Methinks Anna got off Chariot of the Gods aka 91 bus just a bit too quickly.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Theoretically I know where it is. It just seems to move. I thought appraoching from a different angle might help.

Russell Square is gorgeous at the moment. Well except for the wino who jumped up off a bench and shouted "You're not old enough to be in here."

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Russell Square. The fountain is really good for "I'm gonna push you in the fountain!" "No, I'm going to push YOU in the fountain!" type tussles. ;-)

― kate, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah the 91 - the ILE bus.

Actually the only ILXor I ever bump into in Crouch End is Marianna. Still this may be due to me avoiding Barbella's and having our own Banners On the Hill at the moment.

I can't waiot until the roses grow over the arches in about ten years... I may go spend an hours contemplation in there now. (Or I may go shopping).

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I can see Russell Sq from my window!!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

You can't see Russell Square from HSA's window (though you can see their own private square. And CentrePoint) but you can see it from his doorstep!

Are we the new Bloomsbury? Do we all revolve around Russell Square?

― kate, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I always have revolved around Bloomsbury. (Shock - thinking about this gives me the cary fact that I have worked in Russell Sqaure for the last EIGHT YEARS!!!!)

HSA is loaded if he lives there.

Of course if Russell Square is the environ of choice, I run the local.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I should add - that's my work window, not my home window. HSA = a playa? ;)

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The flat is not HSA's. It belongs to his family. I suspect Bloomsbury links, due to his Grandfather's AIP status. ;-)

― kate, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yup, he's a playa!

L-R Kate, HSA, some random guy...

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drc300/c399/c399390n107.jpg

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha you always be having a date

what is that supposed to mean? : (

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

It doesn't seem like a mysterious statement.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, where did my post go? This has been happening a lot lately!

I said that hstencil was also a PLAYAH and therefore the mystery of the "third man" in the photo of me and HSA is solved!

― kate, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

BTW, AIP has been changed from meaning An Important Poet to An Important Playah. Dope fresh, you be down with my New Verse, ya'll here? Word. Sworth.

― kate, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

*ker-ching*

Well played, Kate.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

oh Ally I'm just upset Mary didn't say "hey your date was nice" or "hey your date was cute" or other nice things. : (

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you ever consider that maybe Mary didn't find her nice?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

but we had a nice 2 minute conversation or whatever!

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, don't argue with me, I didn't meet her, I'm sure she's lovely.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

(aside to kate, I think the guy who's to the right of Ice-T is the guy who did all his beats, so maybe it'd make sense that that's HSA? But then again, he's the main pimp, so...)

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

PETE! I don't want to freak you out, but are you a fair(ish)-haired chap currently sat in front of a computer with something green on the top of it? I think I passed by your window earlier!

! -----> Stalker alert!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm upset that hstencil didn't say that the 2 minute conversation that I had with him was nice. It is obvious that he only considers the conversation with Mary nice.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe if you didn't kick him in the shins and run away, he'd like the conversation better?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, felicity, I meant the conversation with both of you. My conversation with the both of you was nice, although I feel a bit silly for accidentally calling my date by your name. I hope you weren't offended. Some sort of Freudian slip there, surely.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

hstencil, your date was indeed lovely, but i am worried that you are not concentrating enough attention on her and are already dreaming of the next girl, the next date

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

You called your date felicity!!! Did she agree to ever see you again?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

oh no! but after we saw you we spent an hour in Tompkins Square Park, talking and smooching!

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, by kicking you in the shins and haranguing you about squash goggles I meant "Your date is a fox."

It was not obvious to me that it was a date but if I start evaluating their looks now, then one day I might just say nothing and you'll take it to mean your date is ugly. SO best not start.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

well it wasn't so much a date date as it was a get-together-for-a-little-while-before-hstencil-leaves-town-and-date-is-sick date. That is, it wasn't as phenomenal a date as our first one, last Thursday. That said, it was still lots of fun.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

and I like her a lot.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn, with this and the obviously thrilling discussion on another thread of Felicity revisiting London, I can just see me doing this (calling her Felicity) on my next date. It's not until next week, so with luck the likelihood will fade.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I too shall call my next date "Felicity."

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Must we use the word "date"?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

what is wrong with that word, Mary?

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

it's just so ugh

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it's like calling an Asian person "an Asian." Objectifying.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

How about "sexual liasion"?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

in reference to a person or an activity? Or both? And what should I call her then? Don't wanna use her name here, and I think it's way too early to be saying "girlfriend" (yikes!)...

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

May 1, 2003, henceforth you shall be known as "Felicity."

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

but we didn't have sexual liasons last night, Ally! She's sick.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

...like into S&M, right?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://citypages.com/bestof2003/citygritty/bestof1877.asp

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dating" just implies that its something you're doing serially -- like, on to the next one, on to the next one.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Guessing by our previous sexual liason, I'm guessing no.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

that was to Ally.

Well, I may be going on a date with another girl next week, Mary, so maybe it is something I'm doing serially.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

And what should I call her then? Don't wanna use her name here,

You were the one who brought her up. We're not insisting you talk about her at all or anything. We just said we saw you!

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno -- I don't think serial dating is anything to brag about.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

My dating has been a bit like that lately (the serial thing). It's not what I want, so I hope I can get something regular going with someone soon.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not something to brag about. It's something that makes you want to kill all other people in the world so you can be left alone happily! I'm not going out with boys anymore, I put my foot down.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to see Serial Mom.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not bragging! Damn, I feel really bad now.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite thing-to-call-yr-love-interest (this one works better if yr love interest is a lady), stolen straight from The Big Lebowski = "special ladyfriend"...not quite as informal and "ugh" as "date", not quite as "oh God THE PRESSURE!" as saying "girlfriend", JUST RIGHT.

*meanwhile, my special ladyfriend hasn't called/returned-my-calls in days, I'm beginning think she's lost interest...BUMMAH*

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I call them all "this guy I'm sleeping with". It's more classy that way.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"We ran into hstencil and the guy Ally's sleeping with on Ave. A."

oh yes, much better.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

WHAT IS HE DOING WITH THE PEOPLE IN MY ENGLISH CLASS??????? I DEMAND EXPLICAR!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

May 1, 2003: henceforth, you shall be known as "this guy Ally's sleeping with."

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I am gonna go cry now. Thanks.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

What's wrong with the term "date"? It's so concise and formal, everything else is just horribly ambiguous and vague. Bring back "pinning" and "going steady" please.

― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't cry, stencil. Have a good meeting.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"This guy I'm sleeping with" is totally nonvague, actually. It borders on way too much information.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually like the etymological ramifications of calling one's dates "felicities," like, "Sorry, I'm busy that night, I have a felicity," or "Thanks for inviting me, do you mind if I bring a felicity?"

I also recently had an editor ask me to replace the use of "date" as a verb, because it sounded "formal!"

Personally, I've always been slightly impressed by people's serial-dating. Yes, I understand it could be the result of no relationship ever really taking off, but it also creates the impression that they're just sampling pickily around, like they're going to try out every person possible before deciding on one. This is sort of daunting in process, of course, because you realize you're going to have to exhibit a certain level of dating professionalism to avoid getting dropped: afterwards you feel like an ill-fitting shirt or one of those little pink Baskin-Robbins tasting spoons, briefly examined and then passed on. Some people are just so adept at this, like waiter, bring me another!

Sometimes I think I'd like to try this, briefly, if only so I could be one of those people who's dated everyone. You could ask me about anyone in the city, and I'd just make that little face and go "Ahh, yeah, she's ... interesting."

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know why I posted all of that. In the article, by the way, I changed "date" to "make a sex-poodle of."

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Date" seems so embarassing. Are we living in the fifties? Bring back "pimping" please.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

listen to mary everyone. she makes sense ;-)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Mary in anti-50s prep-talk genuine shocker!!!

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"Who, her? I made a sex-poodle of her for a while, but she ended up making a sex-poodle of one of my friends."

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

(I think I still prefer "date".)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

So, can I say me & this girl are "feliciting"? That sounds awfully close to another favorite word of mine.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess if you are on a date there's all this pressure -- to make small talk, who's gonna pay...Pressure = bad

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

how bout 'potential-fuck meet'. 'I'm goin on a potential-fuck meet w/this girl tonite'. ('fuck meet' was from some thread awhile ago, no?)

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"Fuck meet" sounds like "track meet" = there's that dag-blasted COMPETITION vibe abain. Howevah, it also has that endurance-implication to it, which makes it totally worthy.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

(I actually agree with Mary, though I do think there are equally problematic aspects of the whole thing where people are all "friends" and "hang out" and then magically just "sleep together." But yes, the formality of the "date" is pretty much not a good thing, and feeds into that sort of cowing professional good-at-dating thing that I fear / admire / etc.)

(Oh, but you still need a word for people in your friendship orbit who you are semi getting it on with but are not your proper "girlfriend" or "boyfriend." Personally I like "girlperson" and "boyperson" for all indeterminate situations.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

how bout 'person I fuck'?

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

'fuck partner'?
'fuck friend'?
'fucky fuck fuck fuck'?

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

fuckee

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

We should call dates "liaisons"!

Would you like to liase with me on this project?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

But all the things bad about the word 'date' make it a pretty accurate description of, for instance, what I went on last week or have set up for next week. I don't say this as a good thing - I was much happier for most of the 23 years I was with one woman, so not really 'dating' - but it's the way it is, and it's okay with me for the moment.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I think boyfriend/girlfriend sounds silly too though I guess I use it for convenience.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

how about "all-most girlfriend, not quite sure, don't wanna tempt fate".

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

well I didn't cry in the meeting but I think I'm gonna now.

this is the first time in my life when girls (plural) have been interested in me, much less a girl (singular), and you all make fun.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

boyfriend girlfriend are damn silly terms.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

'fuck meet' is a good thing.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

When two people magically sleep together, do doves and scarves shoot out of their naughty bits?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"This is what it sounds like, when doves and scarves shoot out of their naughty bits."

*cue Prince wailing*

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, I'd wail, too. Do you know how big doves can grow?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

bigger than Momus's pee pee?

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I have yet to see that. If it's thick enough for doves to come out of it, I would suggest he contact a doctor (or the Guinness Book of World Records).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"If all goes well tonight, I'll be firing off a few rounds from my dove cannon, ifyouknowwhatImean..."

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

what happened to the post where i told hstencil not to pull that pity crap with us?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

dare I say the "b" word?

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

what?

― hstencil, Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"If all goes well tonight, I'll be firing off a few rounds from my dove cannon, ifyouknowwhatImean..."

"this is what it sounds like..."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

It sounds like Stencil has discovered the wonders of the Manhattan man shortage.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

...when sperm fly (damn you nabisco)

― buttch (Oops), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Flying sperm sound like "fuck you Nabisco?" (Oh right, right, they harmonize with the gym sock...)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

BRONGP, I have ruined an already-poor joke with my careless quoting. :(

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

a friend used to use 'bedwarmer' which i always found a tad cold

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Hang on a moment: I know from ILX that NYC is packed with lovely, clever, interesting and sexy women. Now I hear there is a man shortage. When is the next flight?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

They also like a british accent, allegedly.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, I discovered that on my first visit there. I'v never been so attractive! (I notice that I could remove the 'so' from that sentence...)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, British accents...and delicious candy!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I didn't take over sweeties to hand out to sexy young people. I'll bear it in mind next time.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 1 May 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin, you could get arrested for that.

I see the ILX ph34r of the word "date" has come up again...

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, 85 threads up -Stalker alert!!!

(The green thing is an inflatable fish with a mirror in it).

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dates" are great, dates less so.

Did I mention that I haven't been anywhere except work and home (and a brief visit to the market) in 72 hours? Try and spot me, if you can!

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooo, I can see you from up here. That's a nice ... oh, eww!!!

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

A nice what? Does amateurist have too much 'junk in the trunk'?

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I saw another ILXer while I was loitering outside the Met with Otis this past weekend. But I wasn't sure it was him and didn't say hello because of it so I'm not naming names in case he thinks I was being rude.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 2 May 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

did i see anna near the irish bar in kings X this morning? it certainly looked like her from the back, white vest top, floaty skirt...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 13 June 2003 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought I saw Chuck Eddy out of the corner of my eye in the Hoboken PATH station the other night -- Rosemary later said she spotted him in Hoboken heading towards the train, so I was right.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 13 June 2003 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Not me Steve. I've only shuttled between Wilsden and Crouch End today (wearing floor length denim skirt and black vest top). Who is this imposter? Burn the witch!

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 13 June 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw DG last night around 10pm outside liverpool st station on my way to 93 ft east, he was returning from university challenge tv thing in manchester

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 14 June 2003 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

there is pictures of rainy on a flyer for a art show that is on walls all round town, i saw several of these today

― duane, Saturday, 14 June 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw Gareth last night around 10pm outside liverpool st station when I was was returning from university challenge tv thing in manchester, he was on his way to 93 ft east

― DG (D_To_The_G), Saturday, 14 June 2003 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i want more random impromptu rainy sightings on ile plz

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 14 June 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Why don't we have posters of Rainy in this country? It's not good enough!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 14 June 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

It was probably Alison Goldfrapp Steve.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 16 June 2003 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

as i said it was only from the back anna, so i wasn't sure...

also why do large numbers of people who get on my bus look like people i know/have known in the past but (almost) never are? does this happen to everyone or am i some sort of freak?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, you are always bumping into someone who looks a bit like me.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 16 June 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

#1. nick.k in borders on oxford street. about a month ago on a friday night, he was taking pictures

#2. last saturday, jbr and chris barrus in lit on 2nd ave, east village. but was this a co-incidence, or pre-planned? i dont actually know, it was during the fap though

#3. earlier this week, julio desouza at waterloo station when i was buying a bagel. then we were on same train as far as new cross when i got off

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 19 July 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

gareth we chatted till greenwich (yes, he gets trains mixed up often).

yesterday I ran into ricky t at a book shop at islington and we chatted for a bit. I told him he was the second ILXOR i ran into that week.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 19 July 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yes, it was greenwich, you are right!

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 19 July 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Not really an ILXor but today me, Mary and bnw ran into Tom's friend Raj on the Coney Island boardwalk. I saw him 4 times today.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 20 July 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw him too Ally, he pointed and was like "Ally's right over.... oh." And I couldn't find you. :(

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 20 July 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I just called you btw, pick up your phone!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 20 July 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

My phone isn't working right! I killed it today! Try again (I got yr msg tho, no can do tonite, see Siren Fest thread :( )

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 20 July 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 20 July 2003 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Also I am kind of not able to walk suddenly. I've developed a gimp from hell from banging my knee! It was ok earlier, but suddenly the thing is swelled up to tenfold size and keeps buckling. This really proves the fact that the Cyclone is the best roller coaster ever. The thing should be burned to the ground!! We should do something next weekend or meet for drinks after work this week. I'll take to email b4 ILX suddenly becomes too pally or poly or whatever we are this week.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 20 July 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Not so random, but you can run into me at the Bowery Ballroom on August 2nd and Maxwell's on August 3rd. I really hope to see some friendly faces (places like Tucson [tonight's show] make me feel lonely as hell 'cause I don't know anyone here).

― hstencil, Sunday, 20 July 2003 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Raj is the best -- he must become one of us.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 20 July 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

I think I gave Donut Bitch a heart attack this morning- he walked in front of my car when I was waiting at a light on 2nd Ave this morning, so I honked at him & waved. I'm not sure he was awake enough to handle be honked at though, it was pretty early. :-(

― lyra (lyra), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Poor DB. But he'll be fine. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Once saw Ally Cook dancing to Together in Electric Dreams.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 16 August 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I see Jerry the Nipper suspiciously often. I fear he may be stalking me.

― Mark C (Mark C), Saturday, 16 August 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw both Cprek and Emilymv last night at the VHS or Beta show (which was dancetacularly amazingariffic, btw). I may have spilt Heine on Cprek or possibly another tall slim feller that wasn't he, and when I sang to/at Emily she didn't seem to mind.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 24 August 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahaha, i was just about to post this (well after the fact, mind you). I was fine that morning, but at least you didn't catch me on a late bus day where i tend to dodge taxis in busy intersections trying to catch the connecting bus.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 24 August 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

I saw Colin Meeder at the Matmos/People Like Us/Donna Summer show tonight.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw carsmile steve outside holborn tube on wednesday morning

― ... (gareth), Friday, 19 September 2003 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

are you an ILXOR tho'? never seen you before.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 19 September 2003 07:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Shockah, random ilxor spotted by non-ilxor!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 19 September 2003 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't you know pink!!! non-ilxors aren't allowed here.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 19 September 2003 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

how rude!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 19 September 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought we welcomed anyone & everyone! :-(

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 19 September 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

b-but, don't you become an ilxor by virtue of posting on ilx? Is there another, secret ilx that's only accessable with the correct handshake?

― robster (robster), Friday, 19 September 2003 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, if you have to ask....

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 19 September 2003 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Charlton Lido! Nice email address [name deleted in order to keep cliquey secret]

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 19 September 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not that secret considering he never bothered logging out ;o)

― chris (chris), Friday, 19 September 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I miss Charlton Lido.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

how are people like us live?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 19 September 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Charlton Lido?! Hahaha.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 20 September 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Ruislip Lido is better

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 20 September 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Saltdean Lido shits on both of them.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 20 September 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Last night I saw the DV coming out of Lillies virtually hanging out of Andrea Roche. It was a sickening sight.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 20 September 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Hanging OUT of? The images are troubling.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 September 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Julio - is that you're head in the photograph of the Mimeo live review in the new issue of the Wire?

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 20 September 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I show Rosemary and Bjoerk at the Matmos/People Like Us/Donna Suummer show the other night, thus disproving my theory that they are one and the same.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 20 September 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

''Julio - is that you're head in the photograph of the Mimeo live review in the new issue of the Wire?''

!!!- I did go...I shall pick up the new -ish on monday.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 20 September 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

cinniblount, are you going to listen to the Vicki Bennett/Kenny G bound and gagged spectacular on WFMU on Wednesday? PLU was good live, though it was hard to catch the visual elements of the show.

Oh yeah, I saw Bjork, too.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 20 September 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I bumped into Tracer on the street last night - he recognised me before I him, which I expect is down to my eyes. Not hugely coincidental, but it does say something about us, in that I was leaving the same party, heading for home, that Tracer was just heading to! (haha, buthe had already seen Toby and Anna at the railway station, so I outlasted those youngsters!)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 21 September 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Only because Toby lives on totally the other side of London to said party and we had to get the last train to prevent spending all of our life savings on a cab! Honest!

Full respect to Tracer for wondering around unknown bits of London without an A -Z (or any real idea where he was going... sorry TH.)

― Anna (Anna), Sunday, 21 September 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Brooklyn gives you a load of training for that.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 21 September 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

queens is better for that though

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 September 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

scunthorpe is better still

― ... (gareth), Sunday, 21 September 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i just saw tracer but i guess it wasn't v.random

we both saw blade but blade isn't an ilxer it's a movie

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 21 September 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

its impossible for dunedin ilxers to have randomly encounter each other since we all hang out.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 22 September 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

that's a great great movie.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 22 September 2003 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I've just watched Blade too! I enjoyed it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 22 September 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw blade w/ jerry and mandee and cookie. I think I need an E sound w/ new spelling for the end of my name.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 22 September 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

What, "RJG" isn't "ee"-y enough for ye?

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 22 September 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I ran into Chris Barrus at the Hollywood Amoeba Records a couple weeks ago. I'm surprised this doesn't happen more!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 22 September 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

you are right, chris, that works v. well, thank you.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 22 September 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

It does happen! Noodles and I randomly ran into Sean C whilst record shopping a few weeks back.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 22 September 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

They didn't even have the record I was looking for.
Though I was mildly disturbed that Rough Trade is selling cds that are nothing more then college radio set lists recorded as mix cds.
I think I told Sean to listen to CIUT on Monday nights from 11-1 if he wanted the same thing with 35% CANCON.
Its like I could have been making money all those years [not really].

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 22 September 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Bumped into Dave B at Blackheath Station this morning, in an advanced state of ruin following Spurs glorious victory last night and feeling eversoslightly not with it.

Actually, this put me in a good mood to face the UTTER TRAIN MISERY that was my journey into work... I think I would have arrived homicidal otherwise, now I'm just mildly pissed off.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

It is Julio. I've decided. Chalk that up.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you all say hello when you see a Random Impromptu Ilxer? I think I would.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I said hello to Matt. He had not sighted me, so I suppose I was the sighter, not the sightee.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 25 September 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Nickalicious last night driving down High Street, blasting the new Outkast from his fancy pickup truck.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh, apart from bumping into [name deleted] t'other day, about two months ago i saw the pinefox from the bus window looking for a cash machine on russell square and i was going to post it here then but i couldn't be arsed to find the thread, but i thought i'd mention it now anyway...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

That might have been the awful day when I spent half an hour in simmering heat seeking a cashpoint that worked, and still ended up empty-handed.

I don't think I understand about the Vicar hanging out of the Andrea Roche person.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 25 September 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Was the name deleted for a purpose or was there some other point to that?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave, I am happy to bump into you anytime in the Presidents Lounge and Kingsmeadow. Just say when and I'll be there :)

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Today I saw Stevem in West Ealing!!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 25 September 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark - I never go in the President's Lounge for I am slumming it with da people ;-)

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 25 September 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Today I saw Jel in West Ealing!!

(right after thinking 'i wonder if i'll see jel' whilst getting off the E8 bus)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

When I saw Cprek last night, he was going to see our buddy Dave's band Gringo Starr. I wanted to go actually (Gringo Starr are very good), but alas I had a previously arranged date with a microphone and a hard drive that I was already late for.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep, I'm pretty sure that's Julio in the Wire.

― alext (alext), Thursday, 25 September 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I still haven't seen this. and i forgot to ask mark s when i met him yesterday at duane fap.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 25 September 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

If only I had a scanner -- but sadly, you'll just have to wait to see! You're in the front row, wearing a blue (I think) top and jeans.

― alext (alext), Thursday, 25 September 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

does it show the girl I was trying to flirt with?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 25 September 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Ware lido owns this thread.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 25 September 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Really, there were girls there? Perhaps they air-brushed them out to make it look like a bunch of men watching another bunch of men with laptops ;-)

― alext (alext), Thursday, 25 September 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

;-) ;-) ;-)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 25 September 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

SE London ILX is suddenly everywhere. I've just spent a very pleasant afternoon in the company of the Pinefox and StevieT after walking into my local to watch the Spurs-Man City game to find them sitting there.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 28 September 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Saw j0e this morning at about 9.20 outside East croydon station. I was in a bad humour due to being hungover and also having been charged 10 quid for a penalty fare. I explained that there were 2 windows open at London Bridge, and a queue that at the rate it was moving, would have made me about 1 hour late if I'd have waited. No dice. Bastards. I shall appeal. And win, oh yes.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 6 October 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Saw Tim last night; I'd been at the battle of Enfield (yay! Enfield Town won 4-0) and he'd been at barnet seeing Exeter win 2-3.

Two randoms in 2 days. I think this is a record. I was so hoping to see Matt DC this morning at my train station to lay down a record that would be hard to beat, but alas, the gods of pointless achievement were not shining upon me.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave, you see everyone!

I saw Ned Raggett last night in the pub that I was in. (or maybe it was someone who just really looked like him!!)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I am the centre of the universe, obv. The panopticon of ILx. This thought pleases me.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Why was my name deleted from Carsmile's post? OH! Was it because it was in the Temple of Freemasonry and he didn't want to admit to the fact that he was there, too, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, trousers all rolled up and correct?

(This is actually true.)

(Apart from the trousers rolled up bit. Freemasons only do that occasionally. Just for kicks. Really. It's lost its masonic cache now that ghetto fabulous types do it too.)

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Ned Raggett last night in the pub that I was in. (or maybe it was someone who just really looked like him!!)

My doppelganger! Or Kevin Shields.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Well unless you came to Cambridge & didn't tell me...

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I've run into Paul Eater twice in the past two weeks! Once outside Barnes & Noble in the afternoon, and once at 2am on 2nd Ave - but I was drunk.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

cis!!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 October 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Tracer!!!

(God, that was random. The same classroom: what are the chances? And how was the pub?)

― cis (cis), Friday, 10 October 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I've run into Paul Eater twice in the past two weeks! Once outside Barnes & Noble in the afternoon, and once at 2am on 2nd Ave - but I was drunk.

And did he live up to his name?

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 10 October 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

It just occurred to me quite HOW MANY TIMES that "joke" must've been made. Sorry, I'm not well.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 10 October 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

the ppl i was meeting had just left :(

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 October 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

how was the class?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 October 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw nabisco and Andy B. last night at the Bowery Ballroom. And I was supposed to get in under Yanc3y's name, sorta.

― hstencil, Friday, 10 October 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i spotted nickalicious at the protest outside of a Bush fundrasier yesterday with his adorable small child.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

did you use my plus one? that sucks that i couldn't make it. andy b. says the show was tres good. i owe lauren.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah my ladyfriend came with. They gave me a hassle at the door, but fortunately lauren was there and straightened things out. She's the best.

― hstencil, Friday, 10 October 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

good, glad it worked out. and lauren is the best! this boggs vinyl is beeyoootifool.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

That was totally awesome Emily! He was chanting "RECALL BUSH!" And then a guy dressed as Uncle Sam on stilts asked Lukas (my son) "Hello there young man. I'm sorry that you owe me $29,000. You don't have that kinda money, do you?" And then I realized that all those people inside at the fundraiser had spent $500 - $1000 each just for their seat and I started to get kinda sick to my stomach, so I yelled at 'em, and so did Lukas.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

apparently there were some ILXORS at the Black Keys show tuesday night in Boston. I didn't see them. I couldn't see two feet in front of me from what I remember.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 10 October 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Tracer: You didn't want to meet them anyway, then! :)
The class was... scary, in an o my god I have forgotten everything I ever knew how will I ever hold my head up in polite society sort of way. But still pretty good, thanks.

― cis (cis), Friday, 10 October 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Tim H last night. I was getting on a southbound Northern Line train to London Bridge. I was going to get into the first car I could get on, but decided to do my usual 'get onto the car nearest the doors to make it so that when I exit at London Bridge I'm right near the stairs to exit'. And who should I see but Mr H. As a result of him scaring me last week in another RIIlxS, I scared the living shit out him in return.

3 in one week - I am enhancing my status as King of random impromptu sighting.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't the implication that *both* you and Tim are so sad about public transport that you always know where to sit to get out beside the station exit?

(NB: I do this too, when I can, so I am only jealous...)

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I switched on the tv last friday night and was confonted by Marcello, ranting. It gradually became apparent that it was Ken Stott, ranting.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Dr C don't you know I have better things to do on Friday nights these days? ;-)

― Ken Stott, Tuesday, 14 October 2003 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

But ranting's good for you too.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you mean the kind of ranting portrayed in that awful serial The Key wot Stott was in recently? "Gaunae get the coal in for us, son?" "Aye, the same coal that Baldwin's licentious, mercenary Government would be only too eager to denationalise in order to decimate the mining industry in this country beyond repair..." (cont p 94)

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 14 October 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I ran into Nabisco at Kim's Uptown tonight. He got treated to the makeup-free sloppy hair nonglamorous Ally experience! And I got Run DMC's greatest hits for $6! These aren't entirely related though.

― Ally-zay, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

we saw andrew farrell on east 11th st last night. we were coming home, and he was on the way to a film

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 9 November 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i keep seeing ned

― goato mountington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 9 November 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I haunt your dreams. My apologies.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

actually it's a black guy with a mohawk, but it's how i envision ned to look

― goato mountington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow! I like that idea. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

nedmo hawkington

― Annouschka (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

tono hawkington

― goato mountington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

daniel dayo lewington

― goato mountington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

(coat on, out the door)

― goato mountington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel fear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I was in this pub today and happened to bump into about 20 ILXers! Extraordinary!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 9 November 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe your meeting was neither random nor impromptu, Martin.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 9 November 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Possibly not, true.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 9 November 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I randomly saw N. when watching my "Fans Only" Belle and Sebastian DVD.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 9 November 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Tracer Hand at the northbound Angel bus stop last night.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I saw Sam Chirombo at the station this morning but I was on the morning side of the mountain (platform 3) and he was on the twilight side of the hill (platform 1).

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw toby and anna at dollis hill tube station on sunday. and martin skidmore yesterday at euston square station

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i haven't seen anybody for ages - sniff

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheer up Dr C - I've never seen any Ilxers EVAH...that might not be bad thing

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe Tim, but I am a very early bird these days (7.30am).

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

So close! I only missed you by just over an hour and a half. BTW you have a Peckham doppelganger. Also I am increasingly short-sighted.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Coincidentally, I also saw charltonlido at Euston Square yesterday!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

and to round off quite a week of impromptu sighting, ken chu and the sarah that doesnt post really, at "how does it feel to be really really indie" at highbury corner tonite. also dickon edwards, im sure he has posted here at some point, or was that someone else?

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 22 November 2003 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

No, that's him.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 November 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

There was an ILXor's brother at the Thanksgiving dinner I went to last night.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 28 November 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

CHARLTON LIDO IS PEOPLE!

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 28 November 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahem:

http://www.aetv.com/global/listings/series_showcase.jsp?EGrpType=Series&Id=225966&NetwCode=AEN

I will be on this. Whee!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 November 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

but it won't be random.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 28 November 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

STOP RAINING ON MY PARADE

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 November 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

ok.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 28 November 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Noodles and I ran into Chuck Tatum at The Green Room last night (and we hope he had fun with his dancing afterward!)

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 2 February 2004 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

arch, I fucking hate that guy....

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 2 February 2004 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

;)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 2 February 2004 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I bumped into Andrew NF at Aphex Twin last week, as it happens. Damn fine gig it was too.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 2 February 2004 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi! Hope as was well at the Tranzac.

I'm still too scared to post my dream about Sean.

I see a picture of @d@m hoisting a barbecue fork on my wall everytime before I sleep. Aww.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 2 February 2004 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah! The Sean Dream!!! You have to post that. HAVE TO. Tranzac was quite smokey, so we ducked out early.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 2 February 2004 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

OH god, the Sean Dream. I need photoshop more then ever now.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 2 February 2004 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

WHAT THE

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 2 February 2004 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

See the "fun" you miss when you don't come drinking with your fellow ilxors?

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 2 February 2004 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

We even got our beer in under 30 minutes there.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 2 February 2004 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

SON OF A

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 2 February 2004 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom and I ran into Nabisco at his workplace tonight. Tom was looking through CDs (he discovered some sort of meringue Kraftwerk covers album) and I had just been attacked by a kitten on the street. I didn't tell Nabisco about that.

― Allyzay, Monday, 2 February 2004 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

he discovered some sort of meringue Kraftwerk covers album

I'm guessing this:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre200/e210/e210144nuca.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 06:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha yeah that's it!

― Allyzay, Monday, 2 February 2004 06:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh, he might as well be! (He's this German ambient techno dude who moved to Chile/married a Chilean/something and got this idea...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 07:01 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the deal with the Green Room? Last weekend we were getting super-fast service there. On a crowded night too.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 2 February 2004 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, do you have this album? Is it good? Tom took it with him and I didn't hear it priorhand. I don't care actually, I'm going to play it on my radio show anyway.

― Allyzay, Monday, 2 February 2004 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I like it a lot! For a lot of people I think the joke got old but if you don't overplay the damn thing it always sounds good whenever you drag it out every so often -- it's all recognizably the original songs but just delivered in a slew of different Latin American styles. Try "Showroom Dummies" for a start.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 07:19 (twenty-two years ago)

what/when's your radio show, Ally?

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 2 February 2004 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

what matos said

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 2 February 2004 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll make a new thread for it tomorrow, I don't know what time it is going to be at right now, I have to go into the office tomorrow.

― Allyzay, Monday, 2 February 2004 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

well, if I'm in the right place and I can get the right stream format (work only has windows media, and I can't install anything else)

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 February 2004 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

matos - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/ - i'm pretty sure it's the sunday 8:30 - 9:00 pm one.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 2 February 2004 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

cookie and I were sighted, in a random and impromptu manner, on friday night.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 2 February 2004 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

hott! Ally roxorz the airwaves!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 2 February 2004 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the owners realized that they make more money when people are actually served food and drink.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 2 February 2004 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

cookie and I were sighted, in a random and impromptu manner, on friday night.

By each other?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 February 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i was sighted in a random and impromptu manner too.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Weekend before last, I ran into Nick and Sarah at a Todd Barry stand-up show (apparently, we both knew the opening comic).

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

www.wbar.org - Columbia's "real" radio station is godawful. My show is Tuesdays, 10-12 NYC time (not starting this week though)

― Allyzay, Monday, 2 February 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

This sounds like much promising rock. :-) But surely Ally will have to play *gasp* INDIE?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

If the playlist doesn't alternate the greatest Spice Girls singles with "This Corrosion" and [insert Manics song here], I will cry.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

My show is Tuesdays, 10-12 NYC time (not starting this week though)

Haha, the current listing for this timeslot is "Travelin' by Train w/Ned". Coincidence? I think not.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 2 February 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

so that'll be 3-5am over here, blimX0r...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 2 February 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, the current listing for this timeslot is "Travelin' by Train w/Ned". Coincidence? I think not.

My influence is everywhere!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"influence"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 2 February 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

10-12am or pm?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 2 February 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"influence"

PERVERTALIST.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The woman opposite me on the train today was an absolute spit of Teeny, only after eating some pies. She even wore the same clothes (albeit stretched by the pies).

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmm pie!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

You brandish your racy metabolism in my face for the last time!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I am NOT playing indie rock. They've seen my proposed playlist. If they had issues with Captain Sensible, they should've said so.

And the time is 10 in the MORNING not at night, sorry for that confusion. What is that UK time, 3pm? But it hasn't started yet!

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

And the time is 10 in the MORNING not at night

Bah, given my work schedule that means I'll never be able to hear it! Ah well, I will send good thoughts from afar. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Saw Momus at Club Transmediale in Berlin Monday night, but did not have an opportunity to introduce myself. Sorry.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I wasn't talking of you, cozen, but another c-word/name.

haha, maybe you don't count, anymore!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I bumped into Tico kind of by accident in Islington on Friday. He was listening to his walkman.

Me: "Oh, what are you listening to Mr Tico?"
TT: "Tarzan Boy".

He's never off-duty, that one.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i never seem to bump into anyone despite lurking around Islington quite regularly now

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

That's why stevem, they always see you lurking & leg it!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Saw Momus at Club Transmediale in Berlin Monday night, but did not have an opportunity to introduce myself. Sorry.

I'll be there tonight again if you're around, Colin.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I'm back in Frankfurt. But I suspect our paths will cross again, as Jason F. and I are pals and working on a project together.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

RJG, on Byres Road!!! I was overdressed in hoodie and coat. He was pimpin in sleeves. He was also very cool, like he knew I'd be walking along. We should have just exchanged some kind of smooth handshake and not broken stride.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the Doc on Stott, ranting, was guid.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Glasgow is the world centre of impromptu sightings, I think.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i seem to run into lauren a lot these days. but only at night.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

because during the day i'm hanging upside down in my cave, replenishing my strength. i'd say see you tonight at ilirjana's, but then it would no longer be impromptu.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 April 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

come to pianos and see the australians play. i think one of them is friends with ili from sydney. its early'ish

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 8 April 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I might see them at Fort Awesome on Sunday.

― hstencil, Thursday, 8 April 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw ally c on sauchiehall street a while back.

and dastoor outside the cca a longer while back.

and hopkins heading to the april 1st FAP the other day.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I had two random ILX encounters today! I was having a fag break outside the office this afternoon when Sarah came over to say hello; and then on my other pm fag break Pete came past and we talked briefly. Both work fairly near me, so neither is surprising, but two in successive fag breaks is good.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Hee hee "fag break"

― Annoying Middle-Schooler (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, go and see the principle!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

or is it principal?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The Pleasure Principal

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Elvis Telecom at Amoeba, again!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 3 May 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

ddb at a bar on saint mark's a few days ago (friday, i think.) i was buying cds from the cheapo bin at kim's--us maple, long hind legs & plate tectonics for $5.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 3 May 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

grassroots?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 3 May 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I might see them at Fort Awesome on Sunday.

Oh I missed this revived thread. Did you end up at that show at Ft. Awesome last month, h? Rachel and I were there for a bit but the basement "club" area gives me the creeps, what with the six foot ceiling, mildew and BO smell, and exposed bare wires. (Post headline: SCORES DEAD IN TWEE INFERNO.) So we watched the new KG, who I liked, and moved on.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Monday, 3 May 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

naw I didn't go, unfortunately, but I heard good things about Architecture in Helsinki. By "new KG" do you mean Tae Won Yu's (sp?) new duo with Sarah Marcus? I wanted to see that, Sarah used to be in a band with my girlfriend.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 3 May 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

grassroots?

nope. don't remember the name, though.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 3 May 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

just a guess.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 3 May 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i saw carsmile & meg walking near times square a few days ago! maybe wednesday'ish. but i wasn't sure and it was crowded and by the time my head registered it was them i was already a block away.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I bumped into Alang, Emma and Pete on Saturday afternoon outside the Odeon Tottenham Court Road. They were going to see 'Eternal Sunshine' (what a great film!), I was on my way to buy a stereo.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 3 May 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard good things about Architecture in Helsinki. By "new KG" do you mean Tae Won Yu's (sp?) new duo with Sarah Marcus? I wanted to see that, Sarah used to be in a band with my girlfriend.

Yeah that's who I meant, Tae's new band, which is just Tae and Sara. He's dating Rachel's quasi-partner at Vinegar Hill Printers, aka "my house," so he's been over a few times lately. I hadn't seen him since the heyday (such as it was) of K/cking G/ant, but talking country records with him piqued my interest. (Mind you, Sara and he aren't making country music.) The new band sennes to be called "the KG Band." I didn't know that she's a pretty decent drummer, and held it together well, and the band is really good, sort of a spare-sounding (though loud) tuneful din, shortish songs, lots of Tae's wheezing in his tenor. And since the K days, he has become a bit of a showman. What was your girlfriend's band?

Four or five people told me Arch. in Helsinki played a hell of a good show. I wish I had seen it, claustophobia notwithstanding.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Monday, 3 May 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

my girlfriend was in the Long Lost, which was playing out about a year or two ago. Sara was the drummer in that band too, she's great.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

and actually my girlfriend's playing at Eat Records in Greenpoint tonight. If you're interested, I could send you an email with the details.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

sean in sf, in, er, sf on saturday. haigh st nr amoeba to be precise

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 10 May 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

jed, with a roll of newspapers, at st. george's cross.

RJG, with a sweat and without painkillers, was unable to afford the polite, interested converstion he would have liked and, unfortunately, ended up just being rude. jed, being a gentleman, graciously "let" him "go".

maybe next time.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 15 May 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I bumped into Matt DC in St James Park on Thursday lunchtime, strolling round the pond. Twice.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 15 May 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw jed about 3 weeks ago walking along past walkabout. presumably to the UGC cinema.

N. at the top of buchanan street; (sorry I had to rush off!)

RJG and cathy, along from the art-school, we said hellos.

I bumped into ally c a week before RJG's party earlier in the year. and about a month ago he walked up behind me on sauchiehall street and said 'howie, howieyedoin'?'

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 15 May 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, yeah, cozen and a gf, on renfrew street. I almost didn't count this, does that mean I think of you differently, now?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 15 May 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you think of him that way?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 May 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I can think of you differently too.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 15 May 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

play the x-post lottery.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 15 May 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

There was someone who looked just like Jerry the Nipper, bar spikier hair, in my hotel in Barcelona, but he was German so I decided it wasn't him.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

saw Lixi on another bus on Monday morning as I was heading into work

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I bumped into Ken and Ben "Killer" Apps by Regents Park tube yesterday evening.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I am not even a proper ilxor - however! did I spot some at the Dylan Moran gig last night at the Palace Theater?

― clive (Clive), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i was there, trying not to pass out

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

how is killer? is he over on a visit?

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

No, he lives here now! He's back for good, with his lovely missus, and available for parties, weddings and sunday afternoon kickabouts.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i bumped into starry a couple weeks back at lunchtime on tottenham court road.

and liz :x was on the bus behind me at highgate last sunday.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

and yeah as mentioned stevie at regents park tube, and ben killer apps but that was more by design as it was after our tuesday evening kickabout.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I went past Baran's office.

I did not see him.

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I was at the bank.
I am back in now.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow!

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

I saw BurmaKitty and Aja front and center at Mission of Burma last night at the fillmore in SF. No I didn't go talk to them because I thought that would seem creepy. But now you all know someone who has seen Aja in person and can confirm her actual existence.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone seen YOU in real life?????!?!??!?!???

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I have.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

saw Johnney B at the bus stop today. This is hardly surprising, as he works across the road from me.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracer at Angel, 7pm, last Friday

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

rob bolton on the piccadilly line, between caledonian rd and covent garden, a couple mornings ago

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Spencer Chow, in Los Angeles eaterie The Little Door, last weekend.

Actually, he saw me first, and as I shook his hand for the very first time, one of my contact lenses was out of place. I'd had a few glasses of wine. Hopefully nobody noticed all of the blinking I was doing.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't notice it at all! Kim didn't mention anything either. Just "they seem *very* nice."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah didn't quite realize who you were, and at first suspected I had paid people to "spot" me.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha! Well, thanks again for the lox plate at King's Road then!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Only Built 4 Kosher Lox

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I randomly impromptu-ly saw Kyle AKM and wife walking into the Explosions in the Sky show at the bottom of the hill quite a while back. by the time i got in, they were gone like a poof of blue mist.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i ran into melissa w at steak and shake in naperville, IL on sunday or monday night. i was caught off guard.

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

....?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

You were flying at half mast?

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

pete outside soas the other day

― Ed (dali), Friday, 11 June 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh, I completely forgot to post that i bumped into Colette last thurs. on upper street. I was having a lunch time meander into the office and she was off to give a presentation at Harringey, which I hope went well.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 11 June 2004 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam have you been listening to A Grand Don't Come For Free alot?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 11 June 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

JaXon & wife at the Giant Robot party in SF on Saturday. We left when the cops showed up. This was the most sedate party I've ever seen the cops close down.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 21 June 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

cathy, in the library, earlier.

robbie lumsden, in hyndland, earlier.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 June 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

kyle, i was there from 8-8:30pm!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 21 June 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha! I think they were rather surprised not to see you at such a "gygax"-type event!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

we didn't get there until 9!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was in Mexico I saw Ned in a taco.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Hm. Did I command you to go forth and spread the good word?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

No. But you catalogued my mortal sins alphabetically, my venial ones catagorically and those that I committed ironically by trucker-hat-at-time of transgression. Then I ate you.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Mark C in the Glasshouse Stores just now, while I was enjoying a slightly ill-advised lunchtime Ayingerbrau.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

back during the two week outage i saw Ed on Theobalds Rd while on the 55

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

you guys just want to get the bar billiards practice in before tuesday (or was it wednesday?)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Alas, the girl I was with has played bar billiards with me only once. She beat me, and has refused to play me ever again in order to preserve that record. It's really annoying.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Doesn't stop her from going "I'M BETTER AT BAR BILLIARDS THAN YOU!" every time we go in there though.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I randomly saw Rebecca (the Lo-Fi Space Cadet) in the Cellar in Oxford on Saturday. But does she still count as she hasn't posted here for 2 years???

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

bring someone else in next time.

then if he/she can beat this girl, and then if you beat him/her then you will be better than the girl by proxy!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Eight hours after hanging out with jaymc and robotsinlove (jaymc's bro) at the Empty Bottle, I ran into RIL on the El train this morning.

― eat fudge banana swirl (Nick A.), Friday, 20 August 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i believe i saw toby and anna in the nu piccadilly caff some weeks ago

― prima fassy (mwah), Friday, 20 August 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i go past where i believe ed and suzy to live on the bus every day now, but no spots of either yet :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 20 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

not a sighting as such but was that OUR DJ Martian getting his name read out on Peel last night?

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

i may have spotted geeta lookign for her phone at the kompakt 100 party. asuming she was rather short, dressed in dark colours, and wearing a red (?) glittery haedband.

― :|, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw ed and suzy getting cash on tottenham court road earlier today.. they didn't see me though.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

lastnight liz :x, robster and i saw the pinefox on st. martin's lane

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw you, also!

― the bluefox, Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I got on the same Tube carriage as Rob B0lton this morning and prodded him in the back.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 29 October 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

HA! You were a shining light on an ordnarily dreadful tube journey...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 29 October 2004 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim Hopkins, on the upstairs backseat of the 43, en route to Club FT, as was I

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 29 October 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

oddly we saw H!O!P!K!I!N!S in the cheshire cheese last night. are there two of him?

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 29 October 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

DoppelHopkins!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

he gets around that young scamp

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

if you saw me, how would you know?

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i got eyes

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

HOPPELGANGER surely

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i got disguise

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

if g-kit falls on the floor in a forest, what sound would he make?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

starry on the tube towards london bridge on monday.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

On my way to Waterloo station last night I bumped into Anna and her mum! I'd forgotten she was meeting her mum, though, and I thought Anna was with a friend of roughly the same age!

― He's allergic to lettuce (Mark C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

You are so smooth, Barry. Please tell me you said "I thought you were sisters".

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 25 November 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 November 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"oh, this must be your mum!"

"yes, I am her mum but but how did you know?"

"I read about you on the internet."

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 November 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw ken c in safeway, a few weeks ago. i saw lauren on stroud green road, we watched a man throw a shopping trolley at a security guard together

― *@*.* (gareth), Thursday, 25 November 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah! *@*.* was looking for food, and thought that he was at the right place for such a pursuit.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 November 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, Stroud Green Road. I miss it sometimes.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 25 November 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, jeez. that guy was a maniac! he was on a rampage! there's no other word for it. after throwing the shopping trolley, he started hurling the empty produce crates. i kind of jogged down towards the station to avoid getting hit by something, but then the guy mysteriously popped up on the other side of the street coming up towards me like he had already been to finsbury park and back. i guess he had the superstrength/speed of the truly insane? he yelled something incomprehensible and glowered at me, so i ducked into the budget off-licence and pretended to be interested in buying some gum. a bunch of policemen, in cars and on foot, showed up shortly. i don't know what happened, but i'm sure it wasn't an easy capture.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 25 November 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

????

this is weird, you went down to the station and he was coming the other way like he had already been there. i went up the other way, and he was there too!

― *@*.* (gareth), Thursday, 25 November 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG! so weird! maybe he was supernatural, like candyman?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 25 November 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Identalist twins.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 25 November 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe it was one of them Flash Mob things

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 November 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Ed on my way to work two mornings in a row a week or two back. His coat is nicer than mine.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 25 November 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Did anyone see me on the telly last night? Me and Mrs. Dr. C were sitting just to the left rear of the Chelsea dugout.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Today I saw Andy Koogs in Hammersmith!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

On your way to say Motorhead Andy?

― KeithW (kmw), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh oh oh I have one! T0dd Swiss eating in a Burger King in Wicker Park, Chicago the day before Xmas Eve!!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

nick and cprek last wednesday at the show.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

> Today I saw Andy Koogs in Hammersmith!

ha, first thing he said to me was that we should post something here before he hurried off to listen to heavy metal and sort books (or something). i'm now afraid he's stalking my place of work...

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I never randomly meet ILXers. I sort of randomly met Cozen and Cathy and RJG the other day, as I thought I was just going to meet Ally C and the pinefox but the others were there too. Does that count? It was unexpected in a good way, but I guess it wasn't entirely random.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 6 January 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Phil! You were chatting with my buddy for a while last night and I thought you looked familiar but couldn't place you at all until someone mentioned the warriors party and then I didn't want to be all "hey phil, it's mouse, a random person on the interweb", so I hid behind the shame of geekery and didn't say hi. So hi now.

― mouse (mouse), Saturday, 22 January 2005 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

at a pub in earl's court i stalked a drunkard
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/kenjuggle3/DCP_3990.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

also i saw tracer's dad once.. i mean it was his house and all but still! i think we waved at each other although he didn't know who i was at all.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Marianna on a Sunday about two weeks ago. We were crossing Holloway Road, on the crossing by London Met, in different directions. I didn't quite process the fact it was her until I'd crossed and then went: "Hey! That was Marianna!" but by then we were separated by four lanes of traffic.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

The other day there was a guy in front of me in a queue who looked like an exact cross between Adamrl and Jel.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 20 February 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Toby & Collette outside the Woman In White, saved me from committing suicide. Hunter S.Tompson got it instead. We went to the pub for one.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 21 February 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

what a handsome fellow that musta been jaymc.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 21 February 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

He was!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 February 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw hstencil last night at Daddy's.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i was going to go too, but it was cold and snowy

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i saw tracer hand at daddy's! that ruled!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

did you see ilirjana too?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i did, what a sweetheart. nice to chat with her after like, what, six months of never seeing her? she's rad.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Dudes, if you know you're gonna be at Daddy's, let this lady know!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

j34anne it was their 3rd anniversary party! free drinx from 9-11 pm!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

tracer hand was there last night?

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I was supposed to go! But snow and other plans et cetera.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 25 February 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah tracer showed up after you dudes rolled. nabisco i talked with your bandmate!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The other day there was a guy in front of me in a queue who looked like an exact cross between Adamrl and Jel.

Do you think I look a bit like jel? In pictures he looks a bit like a taller me? I wear glasses sometimes, too?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Markelby and SGS in the foyer of the Royal Court Theatre! I was there waiting to pounce on unsuspecting members of the public for vox pop interviews, they had just finished seeing a play.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

My "bandmate!" Yeah, at some point we might actually get together with, like, instruments, and actually try and play something. It'll be awesome.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 25 February 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

oh shit, i didnt see this until just now. where was this? and you should have said hello - i mean its not like we're strangers - we went to go see belle & sebastian together! (that was you, right?)

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 26 February 2005 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

also, was i hitting on your buddy?

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 26 February 2005 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

j34anne it was their 3rd anniversary party! free drinx from 9-11 pm!

sonofabitch. free drinks means more quarters for S1mpson's pinball. why am i so dense to all things social? i live three blocks away!!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Saturday, 26 February 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

they don't have s1mpson's pinball any more tho. : (

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 26 February 2005 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Carey/S!monB!rch and bnw and others at the corner of N5th & Wythe today, on my way home from getting groceries. They had just eaten at Relish. I was jealous.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 27 February 2005 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ian was on his way to find a usb port to plug into.

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 27 February 2005 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw cozen, jumping the turnstyle, at the cessnock underground station.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 27 February 2005 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Matt DC at Euston station, as he was going to wow indiegirls at Seal Club thingy.

― Dave B (daveb), Sunday, 27 February 2005 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Dave B at Euston station, as I was going to wow indiegirls at Club Seal thingy. I almost succeeded in ruining his entire weekend away as well, by suggesting a "quick pint", but sense clearly got the better of him.

Minutes later I saw Pete and The Lovely Emma B outside the Islington Academy. They had been to see a heartwarming film about the Rwandan genocide.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 27 February 2005 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

omg you saw me?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 27 February 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

When I said 'it would ruin my weekend', I was joking but as things turned out, had I gone for that pint, I would prolly have ended up at club seal, and that would have without a shadow of a doubt wrecked my weekend. I went home and made a discovery that saved my weekend. Hurrah for being an old fart and being sensible.

― Dave B (daveb), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep that was me!

Not sure if you were hitting on him (blonde kid named J0rd@n), but if you were i'd advise against it (he is a man-whore. a straight man-whore)

― mouse (mouse), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

ah yes, j0rd@n from detroit! i just hung out with him the other night. now i know where we were. he was dj'ing at lit w/ dan, and we were chatting on that little area by the railing in downstairs bar. is that right?

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 28 February 2005 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone seen the Pinefox lately? Is he back in London?

― youn, Monday, 28 February 2005 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm convinced RJG walked by me on Renfield Street last night, at around 17.15. I could be wrong, I'm basing this on drunken photographs posted on ILX...

― smee (smee), Friday, 11 March 2005 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

scary

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I think it was probably me.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Marianna goodshoes at Old Street station on Tuesday, followed by Ken

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

As in stalked by Ken?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, no

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

RJG you prolly thought - why is that strange woman staring at me...I did stare a bit....

― smee (smee), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't recall but, really, I am quite used to it.

just kidding. I didn't notice anyone, unusual, though, I think.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Bumped into Ricky T yesterday virtually outside my office building.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Simon Reynolds on the corner of Ave A and East 3rd as I was about to go into Downtown Yarns.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Semi-impromptu sighting of the real Adam nordicskills at Amoeba, Hollywood on Sat. We then saw Peter Baynham also shopping!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

I saw you first, dude!

― Victor Mackulous (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

wow, Adam AND Peter Baynham in Hollywood!

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

I thought I had been transported to Norwich City Centre!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

ROFL

Actually LA could "do a Norwich" and get a pedestrianized city centre!

― Victor Mackulous (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

An open air market, a couple of Dixon's and Woolworth's branches here and there, it could be very nice!

― Victor Mackulous (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Dixon's!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

We used to have Woolworth's!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

No market for ten-cent Red Vines and shitty cassingles, then?

― Victor Mackulous (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

It was pretty bleak. I remember all the model kits being already opened on the shelves...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

God, I can't bear to hear it.

― Victor Mackulous (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Is JaXoN in New York? I swear I thought I saw him outside the Tribeca Grand

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 3 April 2005 08:27 (twenty years ago)

I could have sworn I walked past Mandee in Union Street, Glasgow, yesterday, but this seems quite unlikely.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 3 April 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

yeah jaxon is in new york, so maybe that was him.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 3 April 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

oh shit, i totally did a double take. but i didnt want to be like "huh-huh, hey, are you my internet friend, jaxon?" - in case it wasnt.

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 3 April 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

I bumped into a suited-up Matt DC in Angel this morning.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

i saw pj miller the other day, across the traffic light, after work. i was informed that i was the first ever impromptu ilxor encountered randomly by pj miller which made me felt very priviledged.

it was a nice evening, too.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Impromptu anybody, Ken, not just ILX person. And I meant in London. I have often bumped into people in my home village and even places as big as Barcelona and Glasgow, but never London. I thought it was impossible.

Incidentally, I think of you, Ken, as a SinisterXor.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

I bumped into the Pinefox in Russell Square last week. So that's another Random Impromptu Sinisters Sighting then.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

oh i am still a sinisterx0r really deep down. (actually i am probably still the most frequent poster on the list)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

I have never Impromptuly Sighted either an ILxer OR a Sinisterxor. I briefly thought I saw Chewshabadoo at a poetry slam the other night, but it wasn't him in the end.

However when I was in Cambridge with non-Impromptu ILxers, I did Impromptuly Sight two OTHER people I knew.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if you have beaten me yet, Ken. I hope so.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Have I stumbled into some strange ILX S&M thread or what?

― Pradaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

stuart and murdoch

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

my friend (haha apologies nik) tannenbaum schmidt!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I almost collided with The Pinefox on Wednesday evening. Again, near Russell Square. He was eating an apple.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

what is this *apple*?

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

Damn! I forgot to say that I saw Tim in Crystal Palace last weekend! He was rushing to the pub to meet his folks.

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

I saw o.nate at the 6th ave/14th street subway station today. He was coming back from record shopping in Williamsburg at the store where DAEREST RECORD STORE GURL used to work. He had some free jazz. I was with DAEREST RECORD STORE coming home back to my house from hers. I like o. nate. I am just not very good at making conversation! sorry!

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

Hi Ian- It was nice seeing you too. I also ran into Hstencil on the L train a few days ago coming home from work. That must be the ILXer train line.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

These are the records I was carrying:

what have you bought recently? (apr/may '05)

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

Nate, I assume you made your flight in time last Tuesday?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Yes, luckily the flight was delayed due to some air-controller mishap in Philly, so all was well. I ran into Dan later, because his gate was next to mine. Unfortunately, his delay was a bit worse, since he had to make a connection. It was also somewhat funny to hear over the PA system a voice saying "Passenger Tetsuo Yamasuka please report to gate 24 immediately" - so apparently we weren't the only ones cutting it close.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

the l train is the swell train and i don't want to hear any of you indies complain.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

o. nate i don't live on the l, i was just going to daddy's.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

I saw Alan and Emma on the number 7 bus yesterday near Paddington station.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Do ILX lookalikes count? Because I saw someone who looked like Matt DC outside Celtic Park on Sunday, then later in the pub I saw someone who looked like jel, then yesterday I saw someone who looked like someone else who I only know from photos but I can't remember who it was but I thought it was weird that I had seen three people who looked like people I only "know" from photos.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

a girl on the bus today looked like roxymuzak

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

I saw Marianna and Rob Bolton on Friday afternoon on Exmouth Market after I picked up my contact lenses.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Donut and I did not see Gygax in Las Vegas. We cried. (This might not be true.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I saw nabisco at the Roxy on Sunday night!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

I remembered the third lookalike. It was Tuomas, in the Royal Bank of Scotland in Paisley at lunchtime today. Except, obviously it wasn't him as the bloke was on his own with no beautiful Finnish girls in tow. And he was in Paisley.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Mark Sinker! In the Shakespeare! Last Monday!

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

Do ILX lookalikes count?

Oh Crikey - I had a five minute conversation with someone with the firm impression I was talking to Charlie No.4. I was not.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

here's a freaky one: i think i've SAT NEXT to ken c on a bus, the 134, once. but a strange fear gripped me and i just couldn't ask.

― N_RQ, Monday, 6 June 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

Oh I just remembered, I think I saw ken c driving a car - is such a thing possible? Or desirable for that matter?

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)

i met dan regan!

― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 6 June 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

ken c does drive a car. ive been in that car. he does sort of drive it, though in the wrong direction and without really knowing where he is going, as far as i can tell

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Ken once gave me a lift all the way from London to Glasgow (and back again, through a furious thunderstorm) and his driving was impeccable.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 6 June 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

i think i saw unklecow joseph at the lcd soundsystem show.

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 11 June 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

dada ur right! i wz takin part in a PUB QUIZ WITH K-PUNK (haha dissensus my arse!)

but why u no say hi? :(

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 11 June 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

last weekend in Vancouver, my friend and I ran into Dave Q at a convenience store in central Granville... well, we didn't RUN INTO HIM.. I saw him, said "HEY!", and introduced everybody to each other.

― donut e-goon (donut), Saturday, 11 June 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

a rare Nabiscotheque was spotted amongst the ruffians on 7th ave saturday night.

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 12 June 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

andy battaglia on the c train at lafayette, friday before last

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 27 June 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

dada ur right! i wz takin part in a PUB QUIZ WITH K-PUNK (haha dissensus my arse!)
but why u no say hi? :(

I was taking part too! I dunno, it was right at the end of the night and you looked as if you were leaving plus I was probably trying to impress some woman or other at the time...

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 27 June 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

I saw Momus at an art opening / rooftop BBQ / bluegrass jam on Washington Street last night. Shook his head at the leftover room-temp American burgers.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Actually, they looked quite tasty. You should have said hello, you snobbish hipster!

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I probably would just have asked for absolution for buying a used copy of "Forbidden Software Timemachine" in San Francisco last month.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Absolution absolutely granted!

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 8 July 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

DR MORBIUS TODAY ON 1st AVENUE!!!

DDB LATER TODAY DRIVING A CAR (WTF?!?!?) DOWN GATES AVE IN MY HOOD!!!

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 9 July 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

From the bus window last night, hstencil walking east on 14th Street. The black Pedro Martinez t-shirt served as positive ID.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 July 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Weirdly, Ben and I also saw stence over the weekend, wearing white pants to brunch with an apple-cheeked miss. At that place in Wburg, Edith's or E-something, anyway. Sadly they were out of sausages and gravy but we cobbled together breakfasts involving cocktails, instead.

― Laurel, Monday, 18 July 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

wasn't me morbs! last night i was in williamsburg, wearing a solid black t-shirt! i was at enid's sunday tho. damn fine bloody mary(s)!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

for the record i can't remember what days pedro starts now so i haven't worn the shirt in a while.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

God knows who else I've mistaken. Are those really my relations?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

dadismus on holloway road last night. i on my way to the rosemary branch, and he on his was to the shakespear

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

charltonlido on holloway road last night. i on my way to the shakespear, and he on his was to the rosemary branch

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

On the Hungerford Bridge, Thursday evening, Mark C - must have been on his way home, I suppose. It was a nice surprise.

― spontine (cis), Friday, 22 July 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

This morning I think I saw Ricky T Boy of Badgers in the tunnel between the London Underground Railway and the "proper" station at Paddington. About 7.45, wearing a green t shirt. I decided not to spark a security alert by shouting hello. Also it might not have been him, then I would have looked a proper ninny.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 1 August 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

I saw Ken C yesterday at a bus stop near Old Street. I was going to say hello, but he moved off at a great pace and he was wearing headphones, so there didn't seem to be any point in shouting.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Dadaismus last night at Old Street roundabout.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

I decided not to spark a security alert by shouting hello

roffle!

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

that same night stevem saw dadaismus at old street roundabout i saw dadaismus on camden road (basically he's been - badly - stalking all ilxors)

strange too, because at some point that night i was ALSO at that very same old street roundabout (alas on a bus), as was marianna lcl.

and now i found out anna was near there on sunday night too, as was i! is old street roundabout the ilx vortex??

(p.s. hi anna! haha i just remembered that i WAS moving at great pace! it was because i thought i was going to be late getting to the Pleasure Unit on bethnal green road, and i actually had no real idea how to get there either and i was in a mad panic)

incidentally i also saw Ed. last week sometime at the sainsbury's opposite warren street station agonising over which bakery product to purchase.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

Yes, on Tuesday night:

1. stevem - pre-Celtic game, i.e. in hurry
2. ken c - post-Celtic game, i.e. drunk (me, that is)

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

agonising over which bakery product to purchase

ed, in a nutshell

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

ed finally made up his mind, when i saw him again this lunchtime, now at the check-out queue.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Do ILX lookalikes count?
Oh Crikey - I had a five minute conversation with someone with the firm impression I was talking to Charlie No.4. I was not.

-- Anna (Fieldingann...)

!!!

When/where was this, anna? Are you sure it wasn't actually me? Mind you, haven't seen you in a wee while...

*disappears in puff of smoke*

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 4 August 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

i smoked a spliff once and thought i talked to charlie no4 for ageees. then i realised i was only talking to a puff of smoke

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

you calling me a puff, like?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

No, because I even said to my mate : "I didn't know you knew Charlie Iv***s!" "Who?" he said. "Over there," I said. "He's called James," he said. "Are you sure?" I said. "Yes", he said. No wonder he looked at me like I was mad when I started on about Poptimism, I thought.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Ah, Charlie, I knew I'd find you in here - you weren't answering your phone.

(a) Did you get something for Al?
(b) Are you seeing Magic Numbers tonight?
(c) What time does this thing kick off again?

Sorry to get all off-topic!

― Huey (Huey), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

But is it really him?

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Oh and it was at the Push bar in Soho on a night called Brilliant Maniac. I was very very drunk.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

It looks like him.

― Huey (Huey), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/images/content/homepage/Jimmy%20Carr%20web.jpg

― Huey (Huey), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

oh you are a terrible cunt. i now look like a cross between this

http://www.moveandbe.com/blog/stellou/2004-12-01_1.jpg

and this

(can't find a picture of Luke wilson in Bottle Rocket)

...

haha in my crack-addled DREAMS.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

...with a soupcon of:

http://www.jsonline.com/enter/sw/images/darth.jpg

― Huey (Huey), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

ha, i was expecting this chap:

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/16/zach.braff/storyvert.braff.jpg

or at the very least this one:

http://www.tvheaven.ca/cast_dreyfus.jpg

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Oh my god. I've put all 5 of these famous faces through my new personal computer system, and look at the composite image:

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/3470/charlieno4isalive6ny.jpg

It's alive!!

― Huey (Huey), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Oops - forgot to crop:

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/9853/charlieno4isalive8mu.jpg

― Huey (Huey), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

you forgot to put dave gahan in the mix.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

that's actually quite freaky. please make it go away!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

has there been any more sightings lately btw?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

That almost certainly was me Mr Miller. I think I saw Anna walking through the Angel shopping centre one afternoon week before last, but she was moving so fast that I couldn't catch up with her.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

cropped melange looks like jimmy carr.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

quadruple header of barima, lex, marianna, ken at 93ft east last night

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

You probably did Ricky. My flatmate works in Borders, so if I forget my keys I go and harrass him. I had a nightmare day when I had to go and grab keys, go home, pick up records, return keys and then leg it to Cargo (via the nu-ILx nexus of Old Street roundabout).

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

that's me, apparently...

― Cropped Melange (Charlie), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

er, xpost to Ed.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

saw mr and mrs carsmile on the 73 bus from warren street.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Were they holding hands?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

metaphorically

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

O.Nate, was that you I akwardly exchanged "hi"s with at W.4th St.?

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Saturday, 13 August 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

i often spot anna's flatmate in islington borders, it's become my new spot of choice to do maths.

we saw suzy walking in front of our 341 bus at around 12:30 on sunday afternoon (she was walking on a zebra crossing, it wasn't as dramatic as it sounds).

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 15 August 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

bumped into jed and a ladyfriend, on saturday afternoon, while walking up buchanan street with my parents

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 15 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

no, I did

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I saw hstencil in Williamsburg on Saturday night but didn't know it was him until much later.

― mikef (mfleming), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I saw Lixi at the busstop last night! She was running for a 171, but I was scowling at the lack of 59s. It is true, all London ILX0rs work within 50 yards of that corner.

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Friday, 19 August 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

Do you ever speak to Tom, Toby?

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

i think i saw laurel on the f train the other morning, she was reading and wearing a yellow shirt with a print. the train was crowded, she transferred to a b/d soon after i got on, and my instincts tell me not to interrupt people during their morning commutes. but i like her a lot and wanted to say hi with no pressure to stop headphones, reading. maybe next time?

― carly (carly), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

I saw Momus browsing in Avalanche on Cockburn St on Friday. He was looking good.

― alext (alext), Monday, 22 August 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

Sadly I work a bus ride and a walk from holborn. The 171 is the second leg of my journey home.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Monday, 22 August 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

Oh. Then it's strange that despite the confluence of ILX0rs who work around here, you are the only one I've ever actually spotted on the street!

― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Monday, 22 August 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

I saw hstencil in Williamsburg on Saturday night but didn't know it was him until much later.

-- mikef

who are you?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

ally c this morning on the way to work

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Whilst staring aimlessly out onto the street below this morning, I saw Colette striding along Upper St at approx. 9:31am BST.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

geeta, 3 hrs ago, taking photos of ~~hayao miyazaki~~ one of the wighnomy bros

― fe7 (FE7), Sunday, 28 August 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

ha! momus was on my bus yesterday. we followed each other to a gig too. but did not speak. RJG did, however.

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I saw momus, in mono, and introduced myself

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

I asked a random man in Mono if I could borrow a chair (a member of Belle and Sebastian had invited me to sit with him and there was no room for my girlfriend). The random man turned out to be RJG. "Ah, we can write about this on the "Random Impromptu ILXers Sighting" thread!" I exclaimed excitedly, and walked off with the chair.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

I was there too, but not at that precise moment. It was probably my chair.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 06:33 (twenty years ago)

I am disappointed that I did not see any ILX0rs. (Well, apart from Emsk but that was neither random nor impromptu.) I tried to keep an eye out for g-kit but did not spot him.

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

I read Ambrose in the Guardian Media section yesterday.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

at last, I'm a man!!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

I saw the shaved pubes bear again.

― Bob Dobolina, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, i forgot about a week or so ago i ran into Dyson/Thermo whatever he wants to be called, at the Eglinton West subway - who i wouldn't have recognized if he hadn't yelled at me since i wasn't wearing ze corrective eyewear, and oddly enough Zac aka Rufus aka Noodles ALSO turned up at the exact same moment and thrust this box of chocolates into my hand which kind of confused me because i didn't expect to see him yet and i'd had a really long day and had no idea what the hell was going on. ok, so it wasn't exactly total chaos - i have no excuse.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

I saw that Stevie Chick, sometimes of this parish, sitting in the balcony behind us at the Stooges gig last night! Hacks be dancing!

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure it wasn't him, but I someone who looked a WHOLE LOT like Spencer Chow driving south down La Jolla yesterday in a silver Aud1 at around 3 pm.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 3 September 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

ju: (nun o'ju:) 'ave seen NUTHIN of me yet, bay-bee

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 3 September 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Luna, It could have been me (left work early on Fri and was in the neighborhood), but I drive a silver Jetta.

I saw JAXON, on Monday afternoon in SF's Mission district at a convenience store! I was buying diet ginger ale and green tea.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

Umm, Luna, did you intentionally google-proof AUDI?

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, spencer, adam's not in SF right now

― JAXON (jaxon), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

haha, no.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 September 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

haha spencer drives a GIRLS CAR

― huell howser (chaki), Thursday, 8 September 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

I saw a 67 gto today and just for a minute, I wanted it

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 September 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 September 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

I thought I saw Porkpie this morning, in a London Underground Railway station, but it was not him. Nevertheless, it gave me a brief spasm of joy, which surprised me with its intensity.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 8 September 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

I saw Lixi at the bus stop AGAIN!!! This is becoming somewhat of a habit. We have to stop meeting like this! People will talk...

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Thursday, 8 September 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

It's Thermo now, Kim - get with one program!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 8 September 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

RiCKAAAAAY T in the Charing X Road Sainsburys Local yesterday. Buying tissues, batteries and Vaseline, no doubt.

― BARMS, Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

En route to the Pete & Cis FAP, Marianna got on the same 38 as Alix and I. Then Colette and Toby saw us as we were getting off but by that point I guess it's less impromptu more an inevitability.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

haha spencer drives a GIRLS CAR

I've heard this kind of thing before. I disagree and think it's macho nonsense (reminds me of "disco sucks" actually). Jettas are the people's car!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

I mean, should I get a cheesy "boys" car? What would that be? A Mitsubishi eclipse or something? Something tacky?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Now I feel so emasculated. I'll have to give in to peer pressure and buy a TRUCK or whatever they drive in Simi Valley.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

got lost in simi valley (may 2005 mix)

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

i drive a MOM car!

― huell howser (chaki), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Haha! OK.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, spencer, adam's not in SF right now

Haha yeah, I remembered that after I talked to you.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

the wife thought i scared you. like i was all up in yr face and i didn't know you. i mean, i don't know you, but you know...

― Capital Letter Rock (jaxon), Friday, 9 September 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

I was a little confused! When you said "jaxon" I thought you were talking about "jackson" of jackson and his computer band etc. Nice to meet you both!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 9 September 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

So I'm processing this book for a German class and I notice that it is dedicated to one Nicholas Currie...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

(that author was someone I knew at college, but Nick knows him completely independently)

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

! A small world!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I don't know Christian Kracht very well... he interviewed me in the early 90s for a German magazine called Tempo (and got Wolfgang Tillmans to take the photos), and just last year he commissioned me to write a short story for his magazine Der Freund. My tale was a sort of shaggy dog story about Holger Hiller. I wish I could read "Mesapotamia"... I hope "processing" means translating, Ned!

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Holgertron!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

they read popliteratur abroad? at unis even?? that is so sweet

― don't be jerk, this is china (FE7), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Last night, I was taking a shortcut through Soho on my way to the Apple Stores to pick up Percy... when I heard my name, looked over to see anime stripes dashing towards me... and there was Pink! Drinking in a pub off Carnaby St to celebrate her new trainers. Hurrah!

That was so random and unexpected - I take a different shortcut every day! - and so pleasing and happy-making!

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

Would you be upset if I joked about doing something unpleasant to you now that you're in my city?

― ~~~~ DODONGO DISLIKES SMOKE ~~~~ (ex machina), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

That was so random and unexpected - I take a different shortcut every day! - and so pleasing and happy-making!

Haha, you beat me to it! There were so many points yesterday where I thought I'd done something or was going to go something & they all came true. One of them was seeing you Kate!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

It was fate or kismet or something. The randomness of London really does kick up opportunities like that! I was pleased!

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

Gareth, again. Not surprising as we live fairly near each other - I live on the posh side of Holloway Road and he lives on the grotty side. Bumped into him at Old Street and we shared a 43 home while we agreed that 271 was much the better bus - statistics provided by London Transport prove you are less likely to be stabbed by a chip-throwing madman on the 271. I have to say, however, that the fact that Gareth was eating chips when he boarded the bus must have sent a temporary shiver running down some of the passengers' spines and, in fact, out of earshot of Gareth, I heard some drunken guy snarl "Chips!" as he stumbled up the stairs...

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

"Suspect" shot on London bus
...
Police defended their shoot on-sight policy, saying Mr Lee "was acting in a manner which led us to believe he could have been a danger to others."
When questioned futher police chiefs looked shifty and said: "well, he was eating chips, just like the last guy!"

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

I saw what he was eating last night and believe me he was far more of a danger to himself than he was to others....

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

He generally is.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

Random impromptu sighting of The Pinefox on the back page of the current LRB!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 23 September 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

the man like stlfxx, at clapton pond this morning. he looked quite different to how i'd remembered.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

Have the given The Pinefox his own column?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

i spotted loads of ilxors last night, although i suspect it might not count as either random or especially impromptu.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

i was with a friend and mimicking the action of screaming while being chased by rottweillers (which happenned to her the previous night), when carey walked by. not sure what she thought i was doing, but she waved hello

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 3 October 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

Alas, Miller, no.

― the pinefox, Monday, 3 October 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

tim h outside hmv in canary wharf this morning! i was half-asleep and mumbled distractedly about batteries.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

stlfxx again, last Sunday, on the path by the Lea. he was heading south, we were heading north (to the Stow).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 14 October 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

Stevem in the hallway, earlier this morning, with the candlestick.

― Suckling robot at a warrior rave (alix), Friday, 14 October 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

Do you two live in a game of Cluedo or something? I'd watch it Lixi. And I'd move all the lead piping out of the billiard room.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

Julio at Xenakis concert(s) on Sunday - therefore not especially random. But also, at same concert, mark s and mark s's sister (trying saying that Toyah Wilcox!)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

stevem is following me and i'm starting to get scared.

― sfxxx, Friday, 14 October 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

the fact he's writing about it on the internet is not making matters any better.

― sfxxxx, Friday, 14 October 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

you were walking behind me the first time, and towards me the second time!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

Look at the obsessive detail in the above post. He's obviously keeping some kind of log.

― Suckling robot at a warrior rave (alix), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

Gotta fuel that marble fireplace somehow

...

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

Ally C at Buchanan Street Underground on my way home from work last night. I was very tired, and couldn't even sustain a conversation for two stops. It was nice though, I never randomly bump into anyone.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 22 October 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

Jena at a party last night, where a lot of people were in these half-assed costumes even though it's a full week until Halloween. I awkwardly referenced the famous wines of his motherland and he subtley made fun of me. Also trife at the bus stop in ATL several weeks ago. He had groceries, including a 2 liter of off-brand rootbeer. And a beard and well-kept sneakers!

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

i saw jellybean after the gig in oxford tonight! i have seen her imprompturilorily before but i didn't know she was jellybean til tonight.

― emsk ( emsk), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

giboyeux at the Devendra Banhart show!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

i saw toby and colette at the animal collective gig last night - i was up on the balcony of the scala and they were on the floor below, so no way of saying hello

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

Hocking a loogy is the universal balcony to ground greeting.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

I saw Grimly Fiendish on his way to work today. This was not only random, it was positively spooky as I'd just been discussing something with my colleagues that I thought he might have been the person to talk to about, and I had no sooner said "I'll speak to my friend S who might know about that" than he appeared. Wandering about with his earphones in so he couldn't hear me shouting at him meaning I had to go haring round the corner to speak to him, but there nonetheless.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

I have had 0 random sightings since moving :(

― jdubz (ex machina), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

to portugal?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

:D I am in Chelsea right now; I live in Bushwick.

Also:

Here is a picture of me smelling NYC --
http://ro.bots.org/images/totalbreakfast.jpg

― jdubz (ex machina), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

you work in chelsea? i work in far west chelsea, maybe you can randomly sight me sometime

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know what you look like!

Also, I am going to Burritoville on 23rd soon!

― jdubz (ex machina), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

I saw Mark H walking by last night..

― jellybean (jellybean), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

not random or impromptu at all as he's playing here tonight but i just saw d4rn1elle and i guess i'll talk to him at some point

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

I don't actually think he posts here but I saw Jon Caramanica in my neighborhood, Yorkville, a few weeks ago.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

Gareth. This afternoon. Talking on his mobile on Holloway road.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Saturday, 29 October 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

haha, really? i didnt see you. whereabouts?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Saturday, 29 October 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

'Sup, andrew m.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 29 October 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

(Even though either one of us showing up at Vino's could hardly be called "impromptu".)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 29 October 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

I waved, but as I was on the top of the 43 I'm not surprised you didn't see me.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

were you happyslapping?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

cozen, at my front door

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 29 October 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

happyslapping himself

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 29 October 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Cozen, being me.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 29 October 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Rather unsuccessfully.

― Ally C (Ally C), Saturday, 29 October 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

get your foot in

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 29 October 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

I think I saw Adam Crankypants driving his car the other week while I was on the tram. I forgot to txt him to see if I was right, tho.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 30 October 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

i saw michael grant on the 19 last night. i was drunk, i may have done my rubbish scottish accent at him. i had been to see arab strap though.

sorry michael :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 18 November 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

mark s in hackney, about 55 mins ago, from the bus

anna at old street, about 20 mins ago

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 21 November 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

I was just coming to this thread to say I'd run into Steve. You know Steve, I was worried about being late and I got there and no one batted an eyelid.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 21 November 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

yeah same here. we probably should've just gone to the pub or something.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 21 November 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

I bumped into metrosexual raconteur and former flatmate Jerry the Nipper in Borders last night!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

i sighted the lesser-spotted mark s on essex road at about 6.30, but he didn't sight me. he was looking cold and considering getting on the 38 i was on but it was too packed so he kept walking instead.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 1 December 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Ally C walked past me today at about 10 am on the other side of Bath Street. I waved but he didn't see me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 1 December 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

phil-two at daddy's back at the beginning of november! i was in town to see a show at the bowery and my friends went there. he was talking to the djs. i was very drunk.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

andrew farrell at the customers/champion kickboxer gig last nite. gosh, i was a bit drunked.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 3 December 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Matt DC dazedly walking past me in the Apple Store on Regent Street, Tuesday night.

― Who the hell do you THINK I am? I'm the goddamn Batman! (Barima), Saturday, 3 December 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

andrew farrell, twice in one week, once at teh bull for our clubnight thingum and once at the garridge during les savy fav. woot!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 3 December 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Barima in the Apple Store on Regent Street. He was CHECKING ILX!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 3 December 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

haha pwned!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 3 December 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

It was for your ~~amusement~~ benefit!

― Who the hell do you THINK I am? I'm the goddamn Batman! (Barima), Saturday, 3 December 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Since there isn't a thread that is totally the opposite of this: I didn't see Pete today, despite being IN HIS OFFICE!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

phil-two at daddy's back at the beginning of november! i was in town to see a show at the bowery and my friends went there. he was talking to the djs. i was very drunk.

you didnt really seem that drunk, but probably because my vision was blurry from too much bourbon. what a random chance meeting.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Gareth, Holloway Road, Saturday night around 9pm. He wasn't actually walking down Holloway Road he was walking down the central reservation on Holloway Road - funny boy.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait! I saw Stevie Chick at a gig last week! But it wasn't really that random, seeing as it was the Plan B Xmas party.

― Kate Classic (kate), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

i see stevie so little that that virtually counts as impromptu. marianna was in attendance too!

i bumped into miss amp in the george on sunday night, i'm not sure if she counts as an ilx person.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

I saw Jamiefake in the Chingford Sainsburys on saturday, but I was having a quick shop with my mum and I didn't fancy explaining the whole internet mentalism thing again, so I didn't say hello, sorry Jamie :0(

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

I didn't notice - I go into a trance when I enter supermarkets.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

were any of plan b's film bitches there?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

In Chingford Sainsburys?

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

crossposts

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

i've no idea, i've only met them once, i know nick's sister mel better. if they were there they weren't hiding in the bar.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

el bradshaw's in LA i think.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

oh right. i can't remember what any of the other film bods look like! they may have been watching the raindance film shorts.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

i dunno what they look like either. shit raindance was involved? weird three-way of ppl i know.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

hahaha, though liken the idea film dudes watch films at all and any social gatherings... we can't help it!

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

they came to the party frances put on for the editorial staff earlier this year. you don't come to ANYTHING though.

yeah, i saw one of the raindance shorts and really liked it. much better than the music.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

that's cos i don't get invited!

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

I bumped into RickyT on the Northern Line on Friday. He was on his way to a English beer v. Belgian beer drink science type thing.

Also I saw the Pinefox in a bar in Blackheath on Sunday. We had Sunday lunch together and watched the Spurs game.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

you don't need to be invited henry you just need to turn up at bars and stuff. anyway i'm sure you're on my mailing list for when i dj. (not at plan b events. yet. no one is willing to brave the rachel stevens/jeff pearson crossover.)

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

'turn up at bars and stuff'?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

on the off chance?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

well when events are arranged to happen at them.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

they probably mention these in the magazine, don't they?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

on the website too.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

i would read it, but it's kind of WHITE INDIE NOISE -- ilxor -- WHITE INDIE NOISE -- lex -- WHITE INDIE NOISE -- me tbh.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

i might be reviewing girls aloud for the next issue.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm jealous. That actually trumps my Busted article.

― Kate Classic (kate), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

it's unwritten yet and anyway someone along the line will probably REMOVE it

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

bastard.

did ne1 do 'come and get it'?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

haha of course not. i did ask, like, all year, but no one sourced it for me and by the time i heard it it was too late.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

god damn it.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

x-post x about 20

Jamie, the big sainsbury's that is next to the dog track, which is practically chingford, rather than the town centre one. If you weren't in that sainsburys then you've got a doppelganger in the 'stow...

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm sure it was me, I was there. My question wasn't directed to you, it was me facetiously pretending to think that Thierry Henry's question was directed to me:

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I didn't notice - I go into a trance when I enter supermarkets.
-- Teh HoBB (j__...), December 20th, 2005 12:55 PM. (the pirate king) (later)

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were any of plan b's film bitches there?
-- Theorry Henry (miltonpinsk...), December 20th, 2005 12:58 PM. (Enrique) (later)

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In Chingford Sainsburys?
-- Teh HoBB (j__...), December 20th, 2005 12:59 PM. (the pirate king) (later)

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

I may have spotted Cozen yesterday, if he got on the underground at Hillhead somewhere in the region of 8.30 am. I only caught a brief glimpse but there were too many people in the way so I couldn't clarify whether or not it was him.

I did meet Ally C walking down Sauchiehall Street when I was escaping from my office Christmas party. We went to the pub.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 23 December 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

yes! that was me; I had stayed at nal's the night before

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 23 December 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

x-post Yes, I realised that afterwards, but didn't want to point out my stupidity, thanks.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 23 December 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Anna again, in exactly the same time and place as last time.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 29 December 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

william b. swygart outside leeds union

should have said hello

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 3 February 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I saw Stew Beardmag at a careers fair today. We were both there in a professional capacity. I got to skive off after about half an hour and he must still be there about five hours after I bumped into him.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 February 2006 19:53 (twenty years ago)

does tracer hand's emma count as an ilxor? i was on the 43 going up to a meeting, and saw her drinking coffee outside amici cafe on holloway road (at like 9am on a COLD morning-- brave girl!)

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 9 February 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I saw Momus at the Whitney.

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 05:37 (twenty years ago)

I mean, pretty soon lots of people will have a chance to see Momus at the Whitney, which makes it a bit less "impromptu," but I hadn't expected to be there, and I'd forgotten that he was going to be there, so I was still a little surprised.

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 05:38 (twenty years ago)

I saw Nabisco at the Whitney! He was photographing Daniel Johnston, who was smiling like an elderly cherub, standing in front of his colorful drawings, wearing his grey hair in an "indie" cut.

Nabisco and I exchanged some pleasanteries, but I think we ought to exchange some more over dinner at some point, so Nabisco send me a mail at momasu at gmail.com, please!

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 09:11 (twenty years ago)

Awwwww. How was it generally, Nick? Did S+u@r+ bump into you? Tate sent him over for the opening.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 09:13 (twenty years ago)

There's another one tonight, the official one. Last night I was sort of adopted for a while by DJ Spooky, and he really works the room, so we spent time with Sonic Youth (Kim and Thurston) and other music-art crossover people. Actually, I felt like the whole thing was a bit too glitzy rentacrowdish. But Cecily Brown is yum, something clicked when I was speaking to her. I distinctly heard it go "click"!

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 09:54 (twenty years ago)

I see Ricky T so often now I don't bother Reporting Back. Some viewers might be intwerested to know that he doesn't always cross the road at the designated point, preferring to take his chances between the stationary vans and cars.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 10:21 (twenty years ago)

The thought of Nabisco and Momus being asked to leave the restaurant as the inevitable heated debate heats up is tickling me right now.

I see Ricky T so often now I don't bother Reporting Back.

Same here but with Anna in place of Rick. Gossipy viewers may be interested to know she is often a little hungover but always superbly dressed.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 10:41 (twenty years ago)

I never see PJM.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Xpost to Nick: Cecily is really, really cool (do you remember that I had to go meet her when I came to NYC) and used to go out (might still?) with one of the guys in Owada, @d@m m¢€w@n. Also her mummy is Shena Mackay and her dad was David Sylvester (I don't think she knew him until she was an adult). A pedigree chum, but a nice one (probably a nicer person than painter, actually but haven't looked at her work closely for a few years).

Wolfgang opened at PS 1 last night - prob another reason my friend is in town.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Gossipy viewers may be interested to know she is often a little hungover but always superbly dressed.

I think it's because I'm usually late for work when I run into you, which tends to follow a late night out. I don't have a problem, honest...

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Ditto with the Pinefox. He is usually buying one of my sarnies.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

I don't see anyone :(
Oh I saw Chewsabadoo the other day but didn't realise I'd seen him until I was halfway up the road. I'm quite slow like that. Sorry M!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 13:12 (twenty years ago)

anna in waitrose last week.

i only go to waitrose for one thing, i dont buy anything else there, really

i no longer randomly see dadaismus. perhaps he haunts a different corridor now

― codename: hilary duff (gareth), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm seeing the Pinefox more and more these days. Last time, there was a small boy trying to make friends with him.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

often a little hungover but always superbly dressed.

which is definitely the right way round ;-)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Matt, I think that deserves a thread of its own.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

i saw a nick d lookalike in oxford circus station today. it was really distracting. i was behind him the whole time on the escalator and i kept wanting to pull his hair.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

I saw one too, but mine was on Theobald's Road and was easily too heavy to be him but not fat enough to be Nicky Wire.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Walking under the Caledonian Road & Barnsbury railway bridge (IE across the street from my house), there was some guy waiting for the bus who looked just like Dave Q - and it was him! He lives here now.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Q back in the hood. End times are truly 'pon us.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 12:08 (twenty years ago)

I thought he hated London?

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh, he does. But global warming is coming slowly to Canada, which he basically described as being totally covered in ice.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 12:23 (twenty years ago)

That's the problem with about 4/5 of Canada, YMOF.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Michael White looking very dapper-casual on a Saturday afternoon, hustling down to Haight Street. He's going to be away for a while.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Somehow Momus and Nabisco manage to occupy the same space-time continuum (a bar called Double Happiness on Mott Street), with the only adverse effect a little light strangling.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 10 March 2006 05:25 (twenty years ago)

AWESOME

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 March 2006 05:34 (twenty years ago)

Ahahahaha! I have this theory that people who get vexed with Nick almost always never fight with him online once they've been out together of an evening. Let's see if this bears out in real-time.

Weirdly, Nabisco looks like Hari Kunzru in that picture. Hello you two!

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 10 March 2006 07:47 (twenty years ago)

Actually, he looks more like Ben Kingsley. Sorry, Sir Ben Kingsley.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 10 March 2006 08:09 (twenty years ago)

uh oh

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 10 March 2006 08:49 (twenty years ago)

Momus, when did you turn into the Birdseye captain? This is a worrying development.

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 10:37 (twenty years ago)

Nabisco: "Ah! But I've got a much bigger head than you have!"
Momus: "Aye laddie, that ye have, but my richt hand is muckle bigger than yours - feast yer een oan that, laddie!"

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 March 2006 10:41 (twenty years ago)

My finger looks tiny and impotent! Someone please photoshop it much, much larger, possibly poking Momus in the other eye.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Nabisco, your tiny hand is frozen in a gesture of admonition

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

"Caught you! I said no strangling, you little scamp!"
"Yarrr, ye have me bang to rights."

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

It hardly even looks like Nabisco's own hand! Oh the sadder side of foreshortening.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Barima espied me staggering off the bus on Friday evening. "I didn't know you lived here!"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 March 2006 09:34 (twenty years ago)

You looked pretty shocked, man. You're only 2 bus stops away too.

― BARMS, Monday, 13 March 2006 10:02 (twenty years ago)

I think I still carry this absurd notion in my diseased mind that ILx World and Real World are two separate and discrete entities which never actually meet...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:06 (twenty years ago)

ed, at the bloomsbury way bus stop last night around 6.30 - i was on the 38, he got on the 19. i doubt he saw me, i only caught a glimpse of him...

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

haitch on the platform of clifton hill train station

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 23 March 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

i saw michael grant on the 19 last night. i was drunk, i may have done my rubbish scottish accent at him. i had been to see arab strap though.
sorry michael :)

-- CarsmileSteve (carsmilestev...), November 18th, 2005 2:37 PM.

has michael grant been seen since?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

no but he's back in glasgow

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

supposedly

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

I just looked up the line "I left my bag in newport pagnell" (*) and the seventh result in google was a post by Alba!

(*) There's still lots of smiths songs I've intentionally never listened to because I'm saving them for when I'm older, when new music might have become shit, and I'll need decent old stuff which I've not heard before. But this means that when a friend who's currently on a bus heading north just texted me saying "i left my bag in newport pagnell", instead of replying with "I left my wallet in el segundo", I said "oh shit, do you need me to look up their customer service number for you or anything?" haha.

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 31 March 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Possibly Ken C at Holborn tube on Saturday afternoon, but I was with my wife and halfway through topping up my oyster card at a machine with my credit card in it, so it seemed inappropriate to run up to someone who was potentially a complete stranger and say 'you're that bloke from the internet!'.

― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Pete B on Saturday afternoon. Mrs the Nipper and I were eating in Soho Spice on Wardour St (the salmon is excellent!) and he walked by and knocked on the window.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/3301/gawkerstalker6qb.jpg

On Gawker Stalker, thanks midi sanskrit

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

I ran into Alex in NYC in Union Square on Sunday! I got him to talk about Killing Joke and I said "Honor the fire!" to him twice!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahaha!

xpost

― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

emsk on the 38 bus on saturday/sunday/monday (i have no idea what any of the days were this weekend) evening. i was stumbling home after two days of ruin and was in a Bad Way, she was chatting healthily to her friends.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah! it must have been sunday i think. i was entertaining the french. and i sighted emily last night but that was less random and impromptu as she was on stage with her band.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Pete B on Saturday afternoon. Mrs the Nipper and I were eating in Soho Spice on Wardour St (the salmon is excellent!) and he walked by and knocked on the window.

I received a letter from a Ms N1pperess today - is the missus submitting scripts incognito, Stevie?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

did anyone impromptuly see me, on brick lane, a couple of weeks ago, from inside a restaurant, as i was on the street?

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

restaurants on brick lane are the shit - i miss all that soapy candy

― -++---++, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I was with my wife and halfway through topping up my oyster card at a machine with my credit card in it, so it seemed inappropriate to run up to someone who was potentially a complete stranger and say 'you're that bloke from the internet!'.

Oddly enough, I find myself far more likely to do this than I am to say hello to someone I actually know.

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I, not entirely randomly, saw Michael Grant in the pub last week. I can therefore confirm he is definitely back in Glasgow.

I keep randomly sighting Grimly Fiendish but he never notices me, despite the fact he has walked within about two foot of me several times in the last couple of months (possibly because my "lurking outside the office on the pretence of a cigarette break but I'm really just avoiding doing any work" spot seems to be on his route to work, but I'm generally lurking in doorways not in general public view).

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

i'm glad Michael is alive and well!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oddly enough, I find myself far more likely to do this than I am to say hello to someone I actually know.

i think it's because that's quite a good ice-breaker!

btw nope! that was not me at all - there was another sighting of 'me' once in covent garden and i'm starting to think there's a doppelganger of me who lives round there!!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

There is - skinny gay boy who works in Kiehl's and gives with the samples, but he wears no glasses.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

The not Ken C I saw had glasses.

― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

It must have been unKen-ny

(sorry)

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

:-D

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Can I submit scripts incognito, Markelby, and you wave them through even if they're shit?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

I am subtitling Mark P for the Japanese market, even as we speak.

He is out of sync.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

restaurants on brick lane are the shit

i ate at cafe naz. it was grate!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Momus was on my telly the other night - in a documentary about plaster-casting penises. Most unexpected.

― miele kitty (miele), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! I was talking about this with a friend who had also seen it, and suddenly had a LOT of explaining to do. She isn't a music person so did not understand about the GTOs etc.

I've been going to the Shampan for nice dinners and Sweet and Spicy or Shalamar for faster sit-down cafe meals on Brick Lane ever since moving to London. I like Shampan because they were the original Hey We Are Bangladeshis Not Indians restaurant and NONE of these places need to use teenage curry touts (although in lots of cases the family who owns the restaurant is just keeping one of their younguns on close observation in a neighbourhood where it's easy to be exposed to smack/crack culture if you're hanging around at home with nothing to do and a place at a shit school).

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

I keep randomly sighting Grimly Fiendish but he never notices me, despite the fact he has walked within about two foot of me several times in the last couple of months

i keep looking out for you, ever since you first mentioned this. AND I NEVER SEE YOU. now i'm scared. please don't shoot me with a high-velocity sniper rifle.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

I just saw Momus at a (very tense) screening of Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man at Anthology Film Archives.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 24 April 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! I walked out before the end. The thing was sort of insufferably whacky art school pranksterism, although some of the period footage was interesting, and there were glimpses of the film it could've been -- Taylor Mead as the Buster Keaton of the downtown set.

And, God, those two old men chattering away the whole time! Someone tell me where the "commentary" menu is so I can switch it off, please! (I'm assuming they weren't you... I'm assuming they were "friends of Taylor".)

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 24 April 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

Old men chattering? You sure you weren't at Film Forum??

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 24 April 2006 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, yeah the movie was dissapointing ; it made me appreciate Flower Theif a little more, which is essentially the same thing in San Franscisco but much less forced.

I wasn't one of the old dudes. Someone got into a screaming match with them after the film ended and they were escorted out, more or less.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 24 April 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

God, I wish I'd stayed to hear that, I wanted to scream at them myself.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 24 April 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

UPDATE: i met ailsa this morning. she was lurking in an alcove with some dubious-looking older men. i was very miserable and downbeat at her, which was wrong of me, especially at 10 o'clock in the morning.

today was the first day at work i've actually *enjoyed* in the past two and a half weeks, though, which leads me to suspect that meeting ailsa might be some kind of good-luck totem. hmm.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I had a shit day, so thank you for taking my good-day vibes away with you :-)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

I read that as "I had a shit today". My first thought was that that wasn't much of a boast.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

well, if she'd been living off hard-boiled eggs and treacle for two weeks, it would.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

i saw tynan delong on the marta this morning

― -+--+--+--++, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Michaelangelo Matos introduced himself to me in Union Square last night.

― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds like a euphemism if ever I heard one

― You'll Never Put a Better Bit of Butter On Your Knife (Dada), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Boris Johnson today! He kept glaring at me, from his bicycle.

I thought he looked ugly.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no!

(Though as much as I go on about him, Boris is not an ILX0r.)

((Still, I'm glad to know))

― Alone, Jealous and SSRI'd (kate), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Why is the second one doubly parenthetical?

― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Because it's an afterthought to an afterthought.

― Alone, Jealous and SSRI'd (kate), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Logically, shouldn't it be nested inside the first set of parens:

(Though as much as I go on about him, Boris is not an ILX0r. (Still, I'm glad to know))

― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

That's another valid way to do it, yes.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

You should have nutted him, The Pinefox.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

Post it on the Celebrity Sightings thread...there is one, somewhere in here.

I saw Dadaismus yesterday evening at Old Street. We got on the same bus.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

i seen ed this morning, walking down theobald's road with big headphones on. trying to wave hello i almost veered into the path of an oncoming taxi. oops.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 5 May 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

I ran into Alex in NYC this weekend where Eighth Street and Greenwich Ave hit Sixth Avenue. He was talking on the cellphone pushing a baby carriage and wearing a Soft Boys t-shirt. I was dressed for Deep Cover on the Colorblind Dad tip. I called out "Alex!" and he said "Yeah? Do I KNOW you?" After I explained who I was he said "I was wondering who that jerk was who was trying to talk to me."

― Redd Temple Player (Two Headed Dogg) (Ken L), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I would have felt slightly insulted, but then I was grateful that I got to meet him while he was in character.

― Redd Temple Player (Two Headed Dogg) (Ken L), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah! it must have been sunday i think. i was entertaining the french. and i sighted emily last night but that was less random and impromptu as she was on stage with her band.

Crazy late, I know, but hello emsk! Sorry I was very dazed that night, totally all-consuming tiredness and attempting to get boozed AFTER playing, eesh.

― emil.y (emil.y), Monday, 8 May 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

matt dc, in a suit, on high holborn, this lunchtime.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

hott

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

I saw an exact Anna lookalike on the NYC subway this morning; if she weren't just a bit taller, I'd have thought the real thing took a wrong turn on the way to Latvia.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 May 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Noise Jon (with iPod) on East Houston Street. Claimed to be listening to Moroder; I suspect Oberst!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

I was looking for this thread last week and couldn't find it!

Ran into Katie G on High Holborn on my way to work last week!

― Sundogs at 22 Degrees (kate), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

oh alix last week on da bus.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and Marianna on the DLR, but that wasn't that random as we were both going to the same place.

― Sundogs at 22 Degrees (kate), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Otto Midnight on the Red Line yesterday.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

and it looks like i'll be on the red line again today but a little later this time. picking up a young lovely in noble square before heading north.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

No one ever Random Impromptu Sights me :-(

I am going to look out of the window all day.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot to mention that Campbell'n'me impromptly bumped into Gravel Puzzleworth and Nicholas Passant on the way to see Neko Case the other week. We then impromptly bumped into Stewart Lee, who was sitting next to us in the hall.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

I bumped into Woebot (on his bike) in Berwick Street on Saturday morning, both doing our weekly decimation of specialist record shop stocks, but he's not an ILxor so I don't suppose that counts.

I haven't seen an ILxor in person for months...when's the next FAP?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps there will be a football one tomorrow.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

is stewart lee an ilxor now? i have randomly spotted him at many improv etc gigs

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

SL's always at improv gigs, in his pretentious carpet slippers.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

marianna, at archway, walking down holloway road, this morning,

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 25 June 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

i was in a cab. yes, thats right, a cab

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 25 June 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

I was impromptually spotted by a workmate the other day, on Endell Street. It will have to do, I suppose.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I might have impromptually spotted Rumpie in Paisley last week. If she was at the midsummer fair at the town hall, with a bloke in a red t-shirt. And if she looks like the photos she's posted.

(if that was you, I'm sorry for being the lassie looking weirdly at you)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 June 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Gareth, you should have shouted hello!

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

I saw an exact Anna lookalike on the NYC subway this morning; if she weren't just a bit taller, I'd have thought the real thing took a wrong turn on the way to Latvia.
-- nabisco

A New York me!

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

i bumped into barima on denmark street on friday. he was also wearing a suit.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Ricky T again last night, swimming against the tide at Maidenhead station. I wonder if he got on the train that I had just got off, that was going the wrong way.

One thing about Ricky, he always appears to have about three times as much energy as me.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Did I see KenC by that funny little carpark beach bar off Brick Lane this afternoon? celebrity dude

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Sunday, 16 July 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Andrew Farrell, last week, near Holborn tube station. Then Kate StClaire, four hours later, on exactly the same spot. As this is right in the middle of ILXor Critical Mass it shouldn't be too unexpected though.

I think I saw PJ Miller on Kingsway the other week as well. I waved in his face but he still failed to notice me.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 16 July 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

I was actually wandering along thinking "Matt DC works in one of these buildings, I wonder which one?"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 17 July 2006 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

Dave B at the princess louise, last tuesday

xxxpost i don't think that was me! (i was at home all day learning php)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 July 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

The Ken C doppelganger strikes again

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Monday, 17 July 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's possible, Matt. I sometimes go to Don Quixote for lunch, and sometimes I just wander about aiml;essly, unsure where to go for lunch. I didn't notice anybody waving in my face, but I would probably just assume it was somebody trying to sign me up to Mencap or Shelter or something.

Also, I thought you worked on/in/at Whithall or somewhere like that, Matt.

It is nice to be impromptuly spotted at last. I've been trying for ages.

I think I might have seen Andrew Farrell one day, coming out of a sandwich shop on Newton Street and striding off into Covent Garden's murky backstreets, but I wasn't sure.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 17 July 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

That was almost certainly me.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I was going to say that I saw Matt on the Corner Of ILX the other week - same place I saw Ktee last month.

Don Quixote! I just got my breakfast there. Wow.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just waiting to go now. Don't want to shock them by going too early. Or I might get something and SIT IN THE PARK for half an hour.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

No, now you are just inviting us to stalk you, which doesn't count.

:-P

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

xxxpost i don't think that was me! (i was at home all day learning php)
-- ken c (pykachu10...), July 17th, 2006 10:35 AM. (ken c) (later)
The Ken C doppelganger strikes again

-- Teh littlest HoBBo (j__...), July 17th, 2006 10:41 AM. (the pirate king) (later)

http://www.alllooksame.com/ :)

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a good one... I went to a friend's apartment over the weekend in Brooklyn. The friend had just moved in, and when I went to the buzzer I noticed that it still had the old tenant's name. Which was Dan S3lzer. So I guess Dan moved out, huh?

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

yeah he lives in queens now.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

mmmm, donkey ho tay chicken and ham special with free crisps and macedonian diet coke!! the lunch of champions...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

i went to don quixote, didn't see anyone though.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

No, sorry, I brought lunch from home.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, just thinking about this... it's not just weird that we all work within about 2 blocks of one another. But that we ALL go to Don Quixote for lunch, even though there are dozens of other cafes and sandwich bars around?

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

I went too. I didn't see anyone either. I noticed that they had a few Believe bars in the fridge.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know where it is.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

What Andrew said.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

yes you do, Andrew! You went there with me to get sandwiches.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure I'll walk past it on the way home and go 'ah, there, of course', though.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

dadaismus again last night, in Old Street as usual, from the bus. he did not see me.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ed in Liberty yesterday evening, buying "Kate shirts" to wear at the upcoming weddings he'll be attending.

― Headspin (Barima), Thursday, 20 July 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Don Quixote is just down from Burger King, EAT, etc, more or less adjoining... Long Acre? Or the one between Long Acre and Parker Place or whatever it's called.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 20 July 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

dadaismus, holloway road, this morning

― -- (688), Friday, 21 July 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Don Quixote was a big discount store?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 21 July 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

dadaismus, holloway road, this morning

What? Who are you -- --?

― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Friday, 21 July 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

duh Gareth...

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Why duh? Should I have guessed from -- -- already? What is my soul, a raisin?!?!

― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

At the Weakerthans gig this evening, I saw this guy ahead of me rocking out, and then he turned to talk to his friend and I thought "That guy looks like Nick A from ILX! But the guy he's talking to looks like Peter from the Mountain Goats!".

"Sorry, is your name J0hn?"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

a few weeks ago my internship almost involved mailing d4n s3lzer a package-- unfortunately our supply of music was running low and it was decided that carlos d (!) was a more deserving dj than mr slzr. so sorry dan! (and of course i mail galkin shit practically every other day)

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 3 August 2006 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

remy spotted me walking home a few days ago.

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 August 2006 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

or perhaps he was STALKING ME.

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 August 2006 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

did you spot him back or were you only informed of it after the fact

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 3 August 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

he yelled "JODY!" across the street and i went "whuh? oh hi!"

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 August 2006 05:21 (nineteen years ago)

Toby and Collette at The Break-Up. They were not breaking up or anything. Though we had all clearly skived off of work.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Ed on Grays Inn Road on monday morning. I started grinning at him inanely as soon as I saw him, but he only acknowledged my presence just as he was about to pass by me. Maybe he didn't recognise m and just smiled to be polite? Maybe it wasn't Ed, maybe there's an Ed look-a-like in that area who's wondering who that nutcase was. Nah.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

I recognised you, I was probably off in a wibbly wobbly reverie about something though and it took a little while for the gears to creak into action in the real world.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

I think I saw Starry Sarah on Tottenham Court Road last Tuesday.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Andrew Farrell at the Mountain Goats show tonight. I guess that would have been less surprising had I looked at this thread earlier.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

I will see confounded and jon in one room tonight. The universe shivers.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

just ran into ed and ambrose, and then gareth along rosebery ave tonight. i only figured this out as we were running for a bus and wondering where the people shouting 'toby! colette!' were coming from.

also, saw robster on the northern line between kings cross and mornington crescent last week on our way to see low at koko.

― colette (a2lette), Saturday, 5 August 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Suzy and Anna legging it through the Tate Britain courtyard at the Scritti gig last Friday.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 7 August 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you were there? You should have come and said hello! (I guess we ran off, Suzy was moving at speed and I was struggling with heels and a laptop bag.

I met Enrique last night!

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 7 August 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

i met anna!

plus kate, kind of, though i fucked it up! how to fuck up a handshake, you might wonder.

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 7 August 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

At the same Scritti gig, pre-show, I met Green, just as I came out of the loo, where the hand dryer wasn't working. He reached for my hand and got a very damp and clammy shake - so I guess I fucked one up too.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 7 August 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, were you trying to shake my hand? I was just being drunked and pointing ~~and laughing~~ going "Enrique!!! In public!!! At an ILX thing!!!"

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

I ran into Anna and Suzy at the Scritti gig too! But not Jerry the Nipper. :(

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

Being a squatter veteran, Green probably thought it was piss on Jerry's hand.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

jeez, we were at the scritti thing on friday as well, can't believe i didn't see anyone else!

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

i was going to go to the scritti thing but didn't; i was also going to go to the shimura gig but didn't! so many impromptu sighting chances missed.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure if going to see a band with ILxOrs in counts as inpromptu.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

saw matt dc walking down rosebery ave yesterday. he was bopping along with headphones, so decided against shouting at him from the bus.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

marianna, at archway, from the bus, earlier this week, looking sort of business like

now, another one, has popped into my head, that im not sure of, because i was hungover, and in a daze...but...im wondering if i saw alasdair maclean on the tube, wearing....SUNGLASSES, and reading....THE DAILY SPORT. can this really be true?

― -- (688), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

I would've hurled abuse at him, safe in the knowledge that he wouldn't hear. (xpost)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

alasdair maclean ?

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

author of 'the guns of navarone'?

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Clientele vocalist

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 18 August 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

He always "takes" the Sport, AFAIK. The lyrics to "Losing Haringey" are lifted entirely from the letters page.

I saw Bri4n Bl3ss3d yesterday, but I don't think that counts - he only posted once on that Scritti Politti thread and I think he was lost.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

oh, it actually was him? it seemed strange, to be wearing sunglasses underground at 8am

― -- (688), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n4/n23860.jpg

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

He was wearing sunnies so he wouldn't be recognised clearly. Post Lake House their fame has soared.

AlisDAIR not Where Eagles DARE.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

I think Michael is lying two times.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

BEEP BEEP

― The JB Horns (mark grout), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

Alas.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Ktee who never posts here anymore but anyway said hello to me in Sister Ray, Saturday afternoon. For the record, the CDs I was buying were Stereopathetic Soul Manure by Beck and A Strangely Isolated Place by Ulrich Schnauss.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 September 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Did I, in a moon-brained daze, see and completely blank Mr Carsmile on Holloway Road on Saturday afternoon?

That's my fear.

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Starry on Tottenham Court Road today, walking towards the Spearmint Rhino, she didn't see me though.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Well spotted, Ken.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

I bumped into Vicky in Lincoln's Inn Fields last week.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I was gearing myself up for gruesome sights in the museum at the Royal College of Surgeons - well worth a visit!

Matt dresses very smart for work

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Is that open again? It'd been closed for ages and ages!

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

More information on grusome sights please.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

They closed for a refurb but it's open again. It's got a cool gallery which is double height full of glass bottles with specimens in, lit so that it looks really sparkly and glitzy.

Matt if you want to go and see what STDs and pickling can do to a man's pride and joy then that's your museum. I just had a look at their website and 25% of the museum collection on the catalogue has a picture, so you don't even need to go to the museum! http://surgicat.rcseng.ac.uk/detail.aspx?parentpriref= to see a pickled foot. (actually I'm not sure if there's any tissue on that one, so it might not be pickled)

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I know what's in it! Joe's mum used to curate it! But it was closed for the entire duration of our relationship or I would have got the best insider tour ever. :-(

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Tom Ewing and I conversed on the Victoria Line last week.

― Badrock Example (Barima), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

I saw Ptee in harry's bar today

― RJG, Saturday, 21 April 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

Ran into Laurel this morning at the green market in grand army plaza!

― ian, Saturday, 21 April 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

Jimmy Mod ended up at the party vic and I went to

― JW, Sunday, 22 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Went to a housewarming party for someone who turned out to be an ILXor.

― jessie monster, Sunday, 22 April 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

!!!

― ian, Sunday, 22 April 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

jessie beat me to it in mentioning this, probably because she is a better ILXor than I am. We bonded over BLOOD DIAMONDS. It was nice to meet you!

― call all destroyer, Sunday, 22 April 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Robster on the escalators in Waterloo station this morning.

― ailsa, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

What RJG's slight post up there does not cover is that Harry's Bar is the one in Paris, and I wa sthere just for the weekend. Therefore the odds of accidentally bumping into each other has to be no smaller than 10,000 - 1 and considerably higher. Except it wa sin a bar. Which makes that go down to about 2-1 for ILXors.

Met Cathy too who is great!

― Pete, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

that's true, actually!

― RJG, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

as is this:

Cheeta celebrated his 75th birthday on April 9th, 2007 in Palm Springs at his "Casa de Cheeta", hosted by Dan Westfall and Diane Weissmuller, (Johnny Weissmuller, Jr.'s widow). Many Palm Spring celebrities and press attended.

!!

― RJG, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Oh ye of little faith!

― Pete, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

RickyT on my bus this morning! AND he doesn't even live on my bus route (yet)

NickP (6 months ago), i don't recall feeling shunned so i guess i didn't see you either...

― CarsmileSteve, Monday, 23 April 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

Not entirely random , but who should I see walking down Haight Street yesterday but Jaxon.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Was that CharlieNo4 walking into the Paddington post office today lunchtime?

― G00blar, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Was that you stalking him?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

MAYBE

― G00blar, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

i saw myself in a mirror and it was a shock i wasnt there yesterday

― 696, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

I saw someone who looked very much like The Lex walking down Brewers St a couple of hours ago.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

that was almost certainly me. i was on my way to do lunch at lexington st wagamama (or poss on way back from lunch)

― lex pretend, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

oh and while i'm here, cis and i met creme1 at the kompakt night at plastic people the other week

― lex pretend, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Ah well I was there because Wagamama's was too full! So we went to The Crown instead.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

really? there was a fair amount of space when i got there (just before 2) and loads when i left (3ish)

― lex pretend, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

My workmates went there at 1 and gave up and said let's go the pub instead. I wasn't going to argue.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

this is why it pays to have a late lunch!

― lex pretend, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

i'm guessing those 2-for-1 vouchers have found their way round your office too then!

― lex pretend, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

Yep! I usually just go to the pub anyway on a Friday, but the rest of the dept was going for dinner.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

oh and while i'm here, cis and i met creme1 at the kompakt night at plastic people the other week

-- lex pretend, Friday, May 18, 2007 11:49 AM (42 minutes ago)

WHO IS CREME1

― and what, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Stew walking down the Saltmarket carrying some boxes and heading in the general vicinity of Mono. However I've just bought a new car and didn't know where the horn was so I couldn't toot at him.

― ailsa, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

WHO IS CREME1

-- and what, Friday, May 18, 2007 7:33 PM (34 minutes ago)

qft

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

He's probably getting ready for Beardstonbury! (x-post)

― Madchen, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

Marianna this morning at Dalston Junction. She had just bought some cherries.

― blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

I am goping to walk down Kingsway a bit later, in case anybody wants to impromptu sight me.

― PJ Miller, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

How come only UK ILXors ever see each other accidentally? Maybe because we always see each other on purpose, anyway....

― Laurel, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

I saw the Pinefox on my train to Charing Cross - he was going to Paris!

I was going to my office :(

― Sarah, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

tuomas on montjuic in barcelona

― RJG, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

696 walking into borders in leeds as i walked out.

― acrobat, Monday, 18 June 2007 08:37 (eighteen years ago)

tuomas on montjuic in barcelona

that's hard to beat

― blueski, Monday, 18 June 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

it shouldn't put people off trying

― RJG, Monday, 18 June 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Grimly Fiendish. In a pub (well, OK, I was in the pub and he randomly sighted me as he was walking past).

― ailsa, Thursday, 5 July 2007 08:08 (eighteen years ago)

Me and The Boy were in the car and he shouted "there's Ed from ILX" - it wasn't Ed but it was another man with big dreads and one of those roadmender jacket thingys. As The Boy had only seen him over my shoulder on a WDYLL thread I was quite impressed.

― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 5 July 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

wow, ned, your kid may be the next jaymc!

― tehresa, Thursday, 5 July 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

drew daniel at slint tuesday night!

― hstencil, Thursday, 19 July 2007 08:11 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure I saw stencil leaving Daddy's tonight.

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 29 July 2007 07:11 (eighteen years ago)

-- Ned Trifle II, Thursday, July 5, 2007 1:40 PM

wau

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 29 July 2007 07:15 (eighteen years ago)

I think I saw Ward Fowler on Duke Street the other evening, but I was in a rush and didn't have time to cross over and accost him.

― Madchen, Sunday, 29 July 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

lol it prob was me, i do sometimes think how i never seem to bump into other ilxors even tho some of them live round the corner from me!

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 29 July 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

I also thought a girl who looked vaguely familiar was flipping me the bird at some point, but that might have just been for the dude next to me in the bathroom line.

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 29 July 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

Matos, at the Capitol Hill Block Party yesterday. He was sitting with his girlfriend. Donut Bitch at Easy Street Records about a month ago. He was buying a Richard Pryor box set.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 29 July 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure I saw stencil leaving Daddy's tonight.

-- Hurting 2, Sunday, July 29, 2007 3:11 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Link
^

dude there were like 8 ilxors there

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 29 July 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/mis/384467150.html

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 29 July 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, I kinda wish I said something. I saw what I thought was a glimmer of stence walk by and I should have just gone to see. Then when I noticed him again he was leaving.

Were there ilxors sitting at a table just to the left of the bar?

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 29 July 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

no one wants to answer my question ;_;

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 29 July 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

amazing stove pipes?

yeah i just happened to be there last night but there was like a convention or something. tehresa and big v. and some other people i don't know. maybe laurel too? didn't see jw.

― hstencil, Sunday, 29 July 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

I probably would recognize laurel if I saw her. The girl flipping the bird and smiling did not look familiar - if it was aimed at me I feel very silly because I was just staring blankly and drunkenly and confusedly.

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 29 July 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

people came and left at different times but it was me, my wife, my friend Chris, remy, tehresa, laurel, vic ...

don't know who flipped you the bird tho.

i had been at the show at the pool and found out from t where everybody was at so we walked over

also I bizarrely ran into a friend of my brother's, a guy who lives in Calif. but was in town doing a puppet show @ sound fix. small world.

― dmr, Sunday, 29 July 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, we played after the puppet show - I met that guy

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 29 July 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

small wmsbrg

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 29 July 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i just happened to be there last night but there was like a convention or something. tehresa and big v. and some other people i don't know. maybe laurel too? didn't see jw.

-- hstencil, Sunday, July 29, 2007 6:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

why didn't you say hi?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 30 July 2007 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

because i didn't see you. learn to read.

― hstencil, Monday, 30 July 2007 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

ps unban me

― hstencil, Monday, 30 July 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

jon wasn't there.
i waved at stence from across the room.
hurting was there?! woah! i do not know what he looks like so i did not realize he was there :(

― tehresa, Monday, 30 July 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

alex in nyc!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 30 July 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

jimmy the mod! outside my office

― sleep, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

Did he zing you?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

*I* want to run into Alex in NYC.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Woah. Sometime this weekend, maybe Sunday night, I saw a few brass band guys standing under the El on Belmont across the street from the station, just talking and hanging out with their instruments. I almost snapped a photo to show you, but now I realize that might've been you.

-- Eazy, Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:47 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Yup, that was definitely us. Funny.

-- Jordan, Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:51 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

― Jordan, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Alex in NYC is a total bro! Super super nice!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

jon where did u see alex in nyc?!

― tehresa, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

University and 9(?)th He lives in Greenwich village I know. I was a little hungover.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

shocking!

― tehresa, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

meant to say. i walked past ailsa in a pub -- a really shit pub, too, which means she can NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT MONO AGAIN -- about three weeks ago.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

Maria and I watched remote comtrol airplanes do loop-de-loops and also picked blueberries tonight.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)

CONTROL

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

of which I have none.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

i was walking up to reckless yesterday to sell some records and came across one dr. morbius walking down milwaukee avenue. it was twice in two days that i passed him on the street, in two non-adjacent neighborhoods even.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

stirmonster, near kings cross, the other friday

― Filey Camp, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

beat this, ken chu getting off a 254 at the same time as me (i had been upstairs, ken downstairs) AND pete getting on the at same stop we were getting off. holloway nags head STILL the centre of the ILX universe ;)

― CarsmileSteve, Thursday, 2 August 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

it was a 91 actually :D

― ken c, Thursday, 2 August 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

all we need is pete to tell us that he just came from the swimmer after drinking with ilx0rs.

― ken c, Thursday, 2 August 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

i stumbled into an ilx FAP venue by accident yesterday.

first mark c at the glasshouse stores, first edition.

then aldo, g00bler, pinefox, and ledge at the glasshouse stores, second edition.

― ken c, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

I accidently saw myself in the mirror today. Not a pretty sight, but she is an ILXOR.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

i randomly met whiney g. weingarten at union pool a few wks back

― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 12:04 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Starry Sarah wearing her excellent new coat. I was barreling out of my office and practically walked into her. She had been eating at the Scandanavian Kitchen.

― Anna, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

I need a bit of Nordic joy soon.

― Pete, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

Not sure if he counts any more but Dave Q at Rip Offs gig in Tufnell Park.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 5 October 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

tim finney American apparel carnaby at

― czn, Friday, 5 October 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

astonishingly after lready seeing him in soho!!!9

― czn, Friday, 5 October 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

various ilx0rs last night at a stoke newington pub quiz

― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

They all just happened to be there?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

all more ex-ilx0rs really, except me

― blueski, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

finney's in ldn?

czn's in ldn?

crazy

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

it was j0hn darni311e

― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

and m0mu5

― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

and j0hn c3n4

― ken c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

that pub quiz wasnt the rose & crown was it? i walked past there last night tooooooo

double crazy

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

alex in nyc (and oliver!) again :D

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

This was more than a month ago, but I could have sworn I saw chaki in my neighborhood.

― Michael White, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

impudent harlot @ West 4 Street station turnstiles

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

not exactly a random sighting, but my first ever IRL encounter with another ilxor:

alex in SF and his new wife are in NZ for their honeymoon, and they came into my restaurant for dinner tonight. when alex posted a thread for itinerary ideas for their trip i told him to stop in if they had time and ask for me. it was a hectic night and i see this couple standing at the door; i go up and ask them if someone is looking after them and the guy says "is justine working tonight?". i respond with the obvious answer and he says "hi i'm alex from ilx!".

totally cool getting to meet them :)

― Rubyredd, Saturday, 20 October 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

ok who in blue blazes informed me that enrique was "really really fat"?

i think it might have been tom d.

― Just got offed, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

more like PHAT mah nigga
-- Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, August 28, 2006 8:28 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

there really is nothing PHATter than a heroically drunken barman, especially if a) he's in a chatty mood, b) you're the last ones left in his pub and c) he's decided to educate you about the ways of the world.

― Just got offed, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 00:44 (eighteen years ago)

Yesterday I think I saw Trayce at a tram stop, then I think I followed her boyfriend home.

― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

I see alex in nyc often enough to make it not random

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 07:50 (eighteen years ago)

i think it might have been tom d.

I did not!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 20 November 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

ok who in blue blazes informed me that enrique was "really really fat"?

HAHAHAHA really? god, no, not at all.

he did actually look exactly how i imagined he would when we met, which was surprising/reassuring/something.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

I thought he'd look less bodrick than he actually does.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.blakeneymanor.com/images/blackadder/baldrick.jpg

― Tom D., Tuesday, 20 November 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

well, sort of

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah Starry, Pete B, Carsmile, Rob B (and a couple of people who I recognized but shamefully have forgotten their names) on Wardour Street at about 10.30pm on Saturday. They were off to a club and I was coming out of a Chinese Restaurant.

― Dr.C, Monday, 17 December 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

The Groke, bourgeois shopping in Borough Market

― Ed, Monday, 17 December 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Ward Fowler on the number 40 bus going into town.

― Madchen, Monday, 7 January 2008 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

Timi Yuro and the Higgs at the best chinese restaraunt in town

― jergïns, Friday, 18 January 2008 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

Several days ago, I'm flying on two wheels through the 6am dawn fog only to spy the always dapper Michael White at our local bus stop. I am in a rush and can't slow down to chat but I do offer a "Helllllo Michael White" as I whiz by...

― Steve Shasta, Friday, 18 January 2008 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

I had about half a second to determine who the blur going by was but I somehow managed.

― Michael White, Friday, 18 January 2008 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Matos in front of a movie theater by my work

― jergïns, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

Alex in NYC on what was my second to last day on the job out by Broad and 9th.

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 17 February 2008 06:52 (eighteen years ago)

whiney g w not unsurprisingly at avant show w/ t0ny c0nrad lurking like count duckula

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 17 February 2008 07:07 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Edward O, identified solely from WDYLLs, rushing to central station as I was strolling from it. He was intensely alarmed to have been recognised.

― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

Catsupppppppppppp Dude sitting at the Trash Bar in January, but I wasn't posting then. I SMSed Yerac for an ID but by the time I got it I was busy getting food poisoning from Pies n Thighs.

― felicity, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

Aw <3felicity!

Tehresa on the L train lol

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

Pies n Thighs reopened?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

^January. It is reopening on the Southside date tba. South 3rd I think.

― felicity, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't really see an ilxor but there was someone at the bar last night that looked so much like rrrobyn I had to ask if her name was rrrobyn. It wasn't! Bummer.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:27 (seventeen years ago)

i once went up to a guy and asked, over the music, "ARE YOU CHAKI???"

he of course gave me a quizzical look, but then we had a decent conversation. i wanted to take his picture but didn't.

― jergïns, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

PICTURES OF PEOLPE WHO ARE NOT CHAKI

― Laurel, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

I keep expecting to see Ken C out and about in Holloway, but it's never happened.

― chap, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:40 (seventeen years ago)

I swear I saw Trayce at a train station in York like a month ago? Is she travelling (York in the UK)

anyway I kinda didn't have time between changes to stop but I did listen for an Awstraylian accent... I couldn't tell, I didn't say 'hi' :'(

― fandango, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

Haha I once said "Morbius?" to a dude on the L train and he changed cars.

― felicity, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

I saw Alex in NYC my first day in nyc

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

There was a while where I saw a bunch of bizarro Nabisco's in various neighborhoods around town. But I probably should post that on this thread instead.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:58 (seventeen years ago)

i am surprised i only run into yerac like once every 3 months since has to walk past my house to get to the train every day.

― tehresa, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:58 (seventeen years ago)

felicity, what was L rider's me-like characteristic?

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 21:02 (seventeen years ago)

i am surprised i only run into yerac like once every 3 months since has to walk past my house to get to the train every day.

It may be due to differing schedules, but I'm surprised I don't see Steve Shasta more often.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 21:04 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

[nabisco]!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 11 April 2008 17:00 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

saw strongo hulkington twice today, was in my car and saw him on the sidewalk on charles st. the 2nd time I was parked and rolled down my window and yelled to him, but he had headphones in and just kept walking. :(

― some dude, Friday, 20 June 2008 04:34 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

mackro mackro @ the bus stop (wrote bust stop 1st but i am not that drunk)

― jergïns, Saturday, 12 July 2008 03:46 (seventeen years ago)

about a month ago I was on a bus and it stopped to let someone on and I was like ......is that Mackro Mackro? And then Mackro Mackro got on and I was like ....WOAH THAT'S MACKRO MACKRO

― The Reverend, Saturday, 12 July 2008 07:24 (seventeen years ago)

Mackro is a dude and I have had beers with him, he is good value :)

Also sorry fandango that wasn't me in York, Ive not been to the UK since 98!

― Trayce, Saturday, 12 July 2008 07:49 (seventeen years ago)

morbs at siren, rocking the sleeveless

― gabbneb, Sunday, 20 July 2008 03:57 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

While I was eating my lunch I saw Alex in NYC walking down Thompson Street. I knocked on the window of Snack but I think I scared him. Maybe he thought I was one of the many enemies he has no doubt accumulated in his lifetime.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 25 August 2008 00:19 (seventeen years ago)

morbs at siren, rocking the sleeveless

-- gabbneb, Sunday, July 20, 2008 3:57 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

OK, MAYBE I SHD B SCARED NOW

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 25 August 2008 14:17 (seventeen years ago)

v v stylish, morbs, but i cared too much about my place in the shade to say hello

― gabbneb, Monday, 25 August 2008 14:24 (seventeen years ago)

bb on the street, sunglasses and breezy demeanor.

― ian, Friday, 29 August 2008 18:46 (seventeen years ago)

lol irresponsibly drunk SITEWIDE MOD on 11.30 pm train from charing x to blackheath

― J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Thursday, 11 September 2008 11:27 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Not very random because his tour bus was about 50 ft from him, but J0hn D, crossing the sreet at Hayes @ Divisadero about 2 minutes ago.

― svend, Friday, 24 October 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

Saw andrew m loading a bunch of boxes containing the updated Freedom of Information Act into a waiting parked car. He may be up to something.

― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 24 October 2008 17:04 (seventeen years ago)

Not very random because his tour bus was about 50 ft from him, but J0hn D, crossing the sreet at Hayes @ Divisadero about 2 minutes ago.
― svend, Friday, October 24, 2008 9:09 AM (2 hours ago)

weird, i rode by on Fulton and saw that bus but had no idea who was in town...

― ▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 24 October 2008 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

i had the sensation of being followed. so i whipped around yelling "aha!" and there was pleasant plains. random and impromptu? not this sighting.

seriously though, nice haircut, pleasant plains! they do good work in the tower building.

― andrew m., Friday, 24 October 2008 19:29 (seventeen years ago)

wait, john has a BUS? not indie.

― ian, Saturday, 25 October 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

indie dude who stayed at our house last weekend had a bus. but it was some weird vintage-looking short bus that he had set up like a house (i had a hard time not thinking of into the wild even though his setup was way better).

― highly theoretical, of course. (tehresa), Saturday, 25 October 2008 23:17 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I was just watching a tv show and saw this, aren't these people from here?

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/9535/screenshotgg2.png

Sorry for the crap screenshot.

― svend, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 05:21 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, the front guy is Pete, right?

― bnw, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 06:44 (seventeen years ago)

Pete and Carsmile. What show was this!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 06:46 (seventeen years ago)

Ohmigod, have they finally become talkingheads on "I Love 198X..." or whatever?

― Carrot Kate (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 14:37 (seventeen years ago)

It was a programme about beer presented by Neil Morrissey. I was thinking about going along but had a hangover :(

― Chopper Aristotle (Matt DC), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 14:42 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

As Joel said. I moved to a much larger 2 bedroom apartment for about $400 less then your friend is paying, and I don't live in between two housing projects anymore, but across the street from a park. Hooray Queens!

Carlos D is generally a more deserving person then I am.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 22 January 2009 19:33 (seventeen years ago)

i find that hard to believe, aside from your misuse of the word "then".

― tehresa, Thursday, 22 January 2009 21:20 (seventeen years ago)

Was that my imagination, or was that a giant pic of The Lex in yesterday's London Paper? Illustrating an article about dance crazes?

― The Boring Machine (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 31 January 2009 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

ha, not your imagination at all! it was taken at night slugs (one of the nights in the article) about 6 months ago. i had no idea until i got like 5 simultaneous texts at 5.45 yesterday

― lex pretend, Saturday, 31 January 2009 22:07 (seventeen years ago)

Ha ha, I was just leafing through it on the way to my gig and was all BOING! hang on, that's The Lex. Saved a copy to show Hels and she was all "Huh?" until I told her "yes, you've met him - imagine that, but with a feather boa dancing onstage at a Shimuras gig" and she was all OH YEAH RIGHT, IT IS HIM!

Well done!

― The Boring Machine (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 1 February 2009 08:14 (seventeen years ago)

How did I miss Pete and Carsmile on the telly? I was in a bookshop buying a birthday present yesterday and looked at a book about beer which involved Neil Morrissey in some capacity, is that related to the TV show above? Should I have paid more attention, are they in that too?

― ailsa, Sunday, 1 February 2009 09:55 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

todd sw1ss, record shopping in brooklyn.

― ian, Saturday, 16 May 2009 17:25 (sixteen years ago)

i thought it was you, but i didnt want to look like an ass.

― t0dd swiss, Saturday, 16 May 2009 22:43 (sixteen years ago)

haw.

― ian, Saturday, 16 May 2009 22:58 (sixteen years ago)

Thought I saw Laurel on Smith st. near the F maybe last weekend? Not sure.

― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Sunday, 17 May 2009 02:05 (sixteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

pretty sure i saw S. Reynolds and Fam going for some championship 'cue on Sunday. a day after I saw a dude who looked like m. matos on my block (with a girl who i immediately assumed was k. crazy-horse, lol), but don't think it was him.

― Gabbneb in NYC (gabbneb), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 05:11 (sixteen years ago)

G00blar, Islington Farmer's Market, on Sunday...

― bad hijab (suzy), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 09:10 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

sexyDancer at dimsum gogo just now? I only remember seeing a picture of him once so I wasn't sure.

― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Monday, 6 July 2009 18:19 (sixteen years ago)

was that JW at knitting factory?

― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Friday, 10 July 2009 06:19 (sixteen years ago)

I'm always embarrassed to just say "hey, are you j0n wi11iams" -- this has happened to me at least two other times.

― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Friday, 10 July 2009 06:19 (sixteen years ago)

I think I may have seen Call All Destroyer at a show tonight. Not 100% certain though.

― ENBB, Monday, 13 July 2009 05:51 (sixteen years ago)

Ha - just confirmed that it was indeed CAD.

― ENBB, Monday, 13 July 2009 06:17 (sixteen years ago)

It wasn't me

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Saturday, 25 July 2009 14:34 (sixteen years ago)

Saw deej on the el yesterday morning.

― jaymc, Saturday, 25 July 2009 16:17 (sixteen years ago)

saw a dude who looked like m. matos on my block (with a girl who i immediately assumed was k. crazy-horse, lol)

http://www.creepygif.com/images/full/10.gif

― jaymc, Saturday, 25 July 2009 16:19 (sixteen years ago)

x-post -- Should be the start of a song.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 July 2009 16:19 (sixteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

starry sarah on tottenham court road near goodge st, holding some kind of lunch.

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Monday, 24 August 2009 22:29 (sixteen years ago)

the late mullygrubbr cutting through my work building with hundreds of students, the lazy pricks

― miss pamela and the gtfo's (sic), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 00:25 (sixteen years ago)

Ronan yesterday in the Bricklayers Arms in Shoreditch yesterday. Felt rather strange approaching someone and saying "uh, don't I know you from the internets?", but very glad I did.

Hope I didn't offend when I overreacted by shouting at that woman who was probably being perfectly reasonable by telling me off for abandoning my friend at the opposite table.

― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Monday, 31 August 2009 11:25 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

was dave b just on football focus?

― coz (webinar), Saturday, 17 October 2009 11:26 (sixteen years ago)

stew beardmag crossing the road in front of me and onimo when we were stopped at traffic lights.

― ailsa, Saturday, 17 October 2009 17:14 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

as i was leaving a club last night, noted LBZC hotrod 'elwisty' made his entrance; there was a brief exchange of pleasantries

― What a wonderful vocabulary word! (acoleuthic), Monday, 7 December 2009 01:45 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

ally/the schef doppelganger in LA bar about an hour ago, freaky resemblance

― velko, Sunday, 3 January 2010 04:44 (sixteen years ago)

uncanny ally

― hoos rotorvator (acoleuthic), Sunday, 3 January 2010 13:51 (sixteen years ago)

Ken C at Paddington station at 6.10 today?

― ljubljana, Monday, 4 January 2010 22:32 (sixteen years ago)

forksclovetofu on the buffet line

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 January 2010 08:48 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

not really random or impromptu but Ken C and I played football yesterday, on the same team! and we WON

― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 19 July 2010 17:37 (fifteen years ago)

One for the books: I was at this bar in Philly where my friend DJs on Monday nights, and everyone was dancing and it was a blast and etc, and I noticed this guy sitting in the corner by himself and so I walked up to him and said "You look lonely sitting there all by yourself!" and he just says "...are you Stevie D? From ILX?"

and it turns out it was dell.

― Lexaprotend (Stevie D), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:52 (fifteen years ago)

― "goof proof cooking, I love it!" (Z S), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:54 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

that's an incredible one, stevie!!!

i ran into a LAUREL on the street today, and it cheered me heartily.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 16 August 2010 01:29 (fifteen years ago)

yaay! :D

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 16 August 2010 01:36 (fifteen years ago)

Hurray!!! It cheered me too, and made doing laundry 2x as bright and enjoyable. Which is saying something, cos I like the enforced down time and was rly into watching the sidewalks get wetter.

― Jesus doesn't want me for a thundercloud (Laurel), Monday, 16 August 2010 01:54 (fifteen years ago)

Holy crap that Stevie D - Dell story is incredible!

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Monday, 16 August 2010 23:29 (fifteen years ago)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ !!!!!!!!

― acoleuthic, Monday, 16 August 2010 23:34 (fifteen years ago)

also incredible is the fact that Dell and Michael Jones' wife are old pals (yes, the Michael Jones who lives in roughly the same part of London as Matt DC and I)

― acoleuthic, Monday, 16 August 2010 23:35 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah that was wild.

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Monday, 16 August 2010 23:36 (fifteen years ago)

my wife is acquainted w/various actual and peripheral ilxors including some recently mentioned...

― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 16 August 2010 23:39 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

this is not an actual ilxor encounter but:

i was scrolling through a crafters' rss feed and this photo of a kid jumps out at me - i thought 'wow that kid is a dead-ringer for one of michael jones' little girls'. i read the caption, and her name is ava... a little further exploring and sure enough, it's the same kid!

― just1n3, Friday, 14 January 2011 20:49 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I think I may have seen Lex getting out of a cab on Great Eastern Road on Friday night.

― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Sunday, 30 January 2011 03:06 (fifteen years ago)

nah that wasn't me, i stayed in on fri! yesterday would have been a very different matter

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Sunday, 30 January 2011 19:19 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

I believe I saw Ronan last Friday lunchtime near the BBC at Portland Place.

― DISPLAY NAMING RIGHTS (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 17 March 2011 14:31 (fourteen years ago)

pretty sure this new guy at work is an ilx0r

― panda bear aka noah linux (diamonddave85), Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:17 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Not a sighting as such but the same ilxor put in a very impressive performance on Radio 4 this morning.

― DISPLAY NAMING RIGHTS (Upt0eleven), Friday, 8 April 2011 08:16 (fourteen years ago)

I am still waiting to Streetpass various 3DS toting ilx0rs tbh.

My secret code is 'monkey chews'! So you will know you have encountered me amongst the horde of people who have nothing more imaginative to say than 'hello'.

(Monkey chews of course being tres sophis).

― superpitching, Friday, 8 April 2011 10:15 (fourteen years ago)

just read your earlier sighting nick...yeah i worked at radio 1 for the last few months....and thanks for the r4 praise.

i met tracer hand and mrs tracer hand on broadway market on saturday, and a great little chap who can be called tracer hand junior!

― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Friday, 8 April 2011 11:32 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

Was that D-40 walking east on Chicago Ave., near Damen, looking like he was air-keyboarding?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 03:31 (fourteen years ago)

(About 4 hours ago.)

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 03:31 (fourteen years ago)

I choose to believe you mean a computer keyboard, not piano, and he was posting air-beefs

― I have some kind of staph infection, and the only prescription is IALEX (sic), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 03:48 (fourteen years ago)

perfection

― once a week is ample, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 05:09 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

noisedude sleep walking to work (a block from my work)

― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:34 (fourteen years ago)

which noisedude was it?

― omar little, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:37 (fourteen years ago)

a noisedude sleepwalking, or noise dude sleep, walking?

― remy bean, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:40 (fourteen years ago)

ah!

― HOOSIC has the right to steendrive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:42 (fourteen years ago)

sleepdude noisewalking

― HOOSIC has the right to steendrive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:47 (fourteen years ago)

six months pass...

The head honcho, numero uno, Mr. Tom Ewing in the reception area of my work, just now

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 10:08 (fourteen years ago)

No random impromptu sightings of me it seems. Although I did bump into the Lex in the work canteen not too long ago.

― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Thursday, 19 January 2012 10:20 (fourteen years ago)

That boy will go anywhere for a free lunch

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 10:22 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

deej and J0rdan S. at hipster bar earlier tonight

― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Sunday, 3 June 2012 08:20 (thirteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Jordan (no S.) at a restaurant in Madison.

― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Sunday, 1 July 2012 20:57 (thirteen years ago)

I see crüt every weekday, which I guess is neither random nor impromptu.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 1 July 2012 22:07 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I guess seeing da croupier at a free outdoor Archers of Loaf show isn't exactly "random."

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 July 2012 14:19 (thirteen years ago)

I see crüt every weekday, which I guess is neither random nor impromptu.

wait, what?

― pplains, Monday, 16 July 2012 14:37 (thirteen years ago)

he's been stalking crut for some time now

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 16 July 2012 14:38 (thirteen years ago)

crüt still has that local weather gig?

― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 16 July 2012 14:41 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

nearly ran over noodle vague, who was carrying a bunch of flowers and a vacuum cleaner.

― thomasintrouble, Sunday, 30 September 2012 21:01 (thirteen years ago)

he seemed to be struggling a little so it's a good job I remembered where my brakes are.

― thomasintrouble, Sunday, 30 September 2012 21:04 (thirteen years ago)

he's in the dead pool for next year just sayin

― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 September 2012 21:07 (thirteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Could've sworn the guy sitting across from me on the train yesterday morning was Deric W. Haircare.

― Murder in the Rue McClanahan (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 17:41 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

was he bald?

just saw mark s strollin down blurton road

― conrad, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:01 (twelve years ago)

mark s trollin down blur

― гір кривбас кривий ріг (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:31 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

J0rdan on the G train in his Fall Out Boy shirt

― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 14:26 (twelve years ago)

Think I might have seen wins after a screening of Roland Klick's Deadlock at the Cambridge Film Fest.

― having nunavut (seandalai), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 22:44 (twelve years ago)

yep!

― wins, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 22:48 (twelve years ago)

A possible wild sighting of Ken C at the Glenn Branca show in Peckham a couple of months back

― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 22:56 (twelve years ago)

Barima at the Brunswick Centre, also slinking out of Waitrose.

― aldi young dudes (suzy), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 23:12 (twelve years ago)

J0rd lives in NY now?

― ian, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 23:23 (twelve years ago)

he does!

― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 04:04 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

Jel! In Rough Trade!

― Tim, Monday, 9 December 2013 21:01 (twelve years ago)

five months pass...

sure that someone i saw in the craft beer co. pub near farringdon (london) on friday was someone i've seen on wdyll but i couldn't match a face to a name. glasses, beard, hair. not me.

― Merdeyeux, Monday, 19 May 2014 00:13 (eleven years ago)

i was there myself, because i turned up not knowing that my friends had gone to the OTHER craft beer co. pub down the road and i bought a drink before realising this.

― Merdeyeux, Monday, 19 May 2014 00:14 (eleven years ago)

cd be plaxico

― verhzleyavbtreleambreb (imago), Monday, 19 May 2014 00:28 (eleven years ago)

Shocked that an ilxor would have a beard

― 龜, Monday, 19 May 2014 00:32 (eleven years ago)

ikr.

xp nah not him. smaller beard. smaller glasses.

― Merdeyeux, Monday, 19 May 2014 00:33 (eleven years ago)

Shocked that an ilxor would have a beard
― 龜, Sunday, May 18, 2014

Has there been a facial hair poll yet?

― Iago Galdston, Monday, 19 May 2014 00:34 (eleven years ago)

Riffle through several WDYLL threads and the idea of ilxors having beards will seem as natural as their having personality disorders.

― king of chin-stroking banality (Aimless), Monday, 19 May 2014 04:59 (eleven years ago)

the idea of an ilxor being at a craft beard show stretches the credibility of 'random' in thread title tbh

― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Monday, 19 May 2014 06:52 (eleven years ago)

eight months pass...

today in NYC I opened Scruff for the first time in weeks and within like 10 minutes this dude 0.54 miles away sent me the message "Well, you look familiar" and it was noted Chicago ILXor K3vin J0hn B0zelka!

― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 2 February 2015 01:53 (eleven years ago)

two months pass...

saw a jaymc walkin' down kinzie t'other day.

― truvada mangano (clouds), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 05:08 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

i think i just saw gr8080 on vanburen in a suit? maybe?

― bnw, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 23:03 (nine years ago)

you probably did!

― gr8080, Thursday, 15 September 2016 20:19 (nine years ago)

this is the thread i should have posted on the other week when I saw grimly fiendish crossing the road at Hairmyres Hospital when I was in a taxi home from visiting my dad

― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 15 September 2016 21:09 (nine years ago)

eight months pass...

Alex in NYC, wearing blue suede shoes

― The Pickety Third Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 12:08 (eight years ago)

A couple of months ago I was at the pub to meet edwardo for music trivia, but he texted to say he was ill and wouldn't make it. However! old-time ilx0r colin s. barrow was having a few with his good lady wife before leaving for dinner, and they stuck around to play the first half.

― Doubtless they are toss. (sic), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 14:58 (eight years ago)

(this was just two weeks after I'd seen colin at all for the first time in almost five years, supporting S3vered H3ads at the next pub down the road)

― Doubtless they are toss. (sic), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:01 (eight years ago)

Despite appearances, they are not suede. They are blue, however.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 22 May 2017 19:58 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

Doctor Casino, sitting next to me at a program of Mabel Normand silents

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 14:41 (seven years ago)

I hope you were able to pool your medical expertise and help those poor people on the screen with their chronic laryngitis.

― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 July 2018 14:53 (seven years ago)

seven months pass...

Pretty sure I sat near Tom E on a train last night but I don’t know him only recognized from either here or on FB so I didn’t say hello. Also, I might be wrong.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:48 (seven years ago)

ten months pass...

lxy said she saw silby at the bus stop today

― chet san telmo (alomar lines), Sunday, 12 January 2020 01:02 (six years ago)

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:19 (six years ago)

bumped into Matt DC the day before the election, was nice

― opden gnash (imago), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:45 (six years ago)

six months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/OH5gqJG.jpg

― conrad, Sunday, 26 July 2020 18:13 (five years ago)

Excellent!

― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 July 2020 18:14 (five years ago)

eleven months pass...

suzy wearing a face mask on the news the other evening being vox-popped about wearing face masks

― conrad, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 17:13 (four years ago)

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