Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post on the "Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here" thread - put them here

Do you even differentiate between what you post on the actual threads and what you put here? Is it just a random percentage? Is this so we can all have a look-see at the angel's share of your fine barrel-aged curmudgeonly predictableness?

Tom that is a beautifully written post I gotta say, seriously

Seconded. Best thread ever.

misère en abyme

It's actually just for posts you has second thoughts about posting to that one thread what's the issue here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiSKXxWgA4w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Xsj9-3Pvo

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/theamericans/images/4/45/The_Americans.jpeg

l-r: me, Treesh

hahahah

both looking pretty good

yet to see evidence of first thought tbh

if you're going to make it obvious what you are subposting there is no pt to bumping the second thoughts thread just post it in the original thread

spontaneous beef is a rare commodity nowadays

most people are savvy enough to not run into beef when the opponent has more pieces attacking the beef square, as is usually the case. manoeuvring for an opportunity can be arduous and you have to have the full measure of the beefee before making the fateful move

Putting the beef t into posing

beeefffeee

as I'm sure we'll all find out

Oh wrong thread ffs fuck you dead search function

Do we know anyone else like that do we i think we do but do we hmm.

I forgot there was a "second thoughts about second thoughts thread" thread so I posted that here anyway.

The above is the text of a post I had second thoughts about posting to the second thoughts thread, in respect of a post I'd posted to the second thoughts thread in response to another post on the second thoughts thread. If only I'd posted my first response here both my subsequent post to the second thoughts thread and this post would not have been necessary and we'd all have saved some time.

It was about bannisters, and balustrades.

slippery slope huh

^watch-list!

Oh wrong thread again FFS, can we just lock this one

HIIIIIII-YA!

"I'm afraid that I was very, very drunk"? ;)

LJ hie thee to the cluiche cheannais thread btw

Can't even post it itt tbh

Can't believe an ilxor knows any of those obv

I never hied to the GAA thread

Became a Flann O'Brien fan instead, hope that'll do

The gaa is actually one of the pillars it's ok not to have grasped in order to fully get FOB I think.

But you really should his thee for other reasons

I was going to post something like 'I was going to post something like "I wonder what musicians have to do to get a good review on AMG" on the Weinstein thread but it's no joking matter' on the second thought about thread, but it's all too serious and I don't know what offends people anymore.

Otm

EASY NOW TYSON EASY NOW

We know of no spectacle as ridiculous

That age tbf

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why can you say "they should be blinded" but not "they should be deafed"

deafened?

Soundly defeated

probably shd've said "they should be visually impaired"

Blound?

emblindened

blindicated

i

deocularized?

depercussionated

"shown the wonder"

Oh good you two have met

c3p0, r2d2 and bb8 are bad and you should all feel bad

Growing up we had a baby grand piano that I was the only one who played… in the last couple years, I think my dad tried remembering how to play. I had bought them a new piano bench. My mom listened to records when I was young, but stopped around the time I was 8 or 9. We would also listen to Casey Kasem Top 40 countdown around then … early 80s. My mom’s parents produced community theater sometimes, Neil Simon comedies and some musicals …. My mom sang in one.

She recently started listening to BBC Radio a lot, including a show called the Perfect Fifth. She didn’t know what a perfect fifth was … my response was “it’s the most common interval in choral singing… between the alto and soprano parts.” She didn’t know this because she was always the soprano singing the melody. But she did know that she doesn’t really like major keys and chords much, and prefers minor ones.

Not sure how memorable but my grandfather

Parents met at the semi/pro Bach Choir in Saint Louis and sang in church and community choirs for decades. They also had a small collection of early records from the early music (Baroque mostly) revival. I was more interested in my dad’s Beatles records but I loved looking at the exotic German-import records with exotic German language sleeves and labels (Archiv! Deutsche Gramophon Gesellschaft!).

I sang in my (Lutheran) church children’s choir and in the Minnesota Boychoir. Wore a dickie and sailor type outfit lol with the latter. But I got to sing on the stage of Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis so that was my one and only star moment. I deejayed and on staff at the student radio station all four years of undergrad (played almost exclusively indie rock and backpack hip hop but discovered Aphex Twin and blew my mind) and two years of grad school at a community radio station where I had a wider repertoire but still ostensibly electronic.

Between college and grad school I ran a one-man record store in a small town in Connecticut. I had no idea what I was doing, business-wise but I had a blast, met interesting people including Dan Bunny and Gene Moore (who wanted me to know he taught his younger brother Thurston guitar) and discovered that I love Philly Soul and bluegrass there, so it widened my horizons.

My family is all musicians and dancers, mostly classical. My uncles play harpsichord and terz guitar, my mother is a violinist, concertmaster, and a ballet teacher for 40 years.

This was around me like water but I felt left out, like an amphibian among fish. No ear, no aptitude, and for some reason no lessons, ever. I speak music haltingly, like a poorly understood language.

The music that hit me viscerally was what came out of the bedside radio, like many tweens. But I had the unimaginably good fortune to have been a tweenager in the years of our lord 1981 through 1985, which all sensible people agree were the absolute best years for music. No use arguing, because this is straight facts.

I went on to know and do many things in music, some of which were hipper or more avant-garde, but it all stems from the faux-wood Radio Shack clock radio, the excitement and ferment.

Casey Kasem would hand you "Pass the Dutchie" and then "Let's Dance" and then "Borderline" and then "Rock the Casbah" and then "1999" and then "Shock the Monkey" and it was all together and it was all perfect.

40+ years of chasing that specific neon-colored high. I was so excited, I just couldn't hide it.

i guess i'll do a spoiler cut cuz what i wrote is longer than what you wrote :)

kate, a single post of yours is often more wordy than a month or two worth of posts from any other user on this site. not slagging you, just stating a fact.

There was also a lot of schlock during those years… I remember getting mad at Casey Kasem when some schmaltzy movie love ballad would be in the top 10 … or like Journey … like One Night in Bangkok and Rock Me Amadeus and their ilk were vastly superior … and this led to a long period of misanthropy.

xp that is an exaggeration!

since i couldn't afford new albums, i started getting into trading bootleg tapes. i got a fixation on them because they sounded like the songs i knew but different. i was very into "the same, but different". also a lot of them sounded like shit, and i never had a good sounding stereo. so i still love records that sound like shit in a certain way.

yeah that was a thing for me too. especially after we got unlimited dial up AOL, and I could get strangers on the internet to fill up a bunch of blank tapes with music for me if I just paid for the postage.

my good friend and neighbor who is a semi-professional record collector bid on this 45 of India Remembers Elvis by Ananda Shankar. He didn't win, but he persuaded the winning bidder to send him a cassette dub of the material, and both of us were like obsessed with this fucking record, it was the coolest thing we'd ever heard! It was warped though, and distorted, and I think a little too fast. We said, oh god, we need to find a clean copy. So then when it was reissued as the bonus material on some Ananda CD I got it, and we listened together and it was so disappointing, just not nearly as incredible sounding as the warped cassette dub. like a soda gone flat.

lately I've been obsessed with this Bismillah Khan performance of rag Yaman, it seems like it was recorded on a tape machine with a fucked up motor, so there are all these weird key changes. it's fantastic. I mean, it's also one of my favorite performances of music I've heard in my life. you should check it out!

Nice, I listened to a couple of other renditions of Yaman the other day, and those old radio recordings have an aura about them too..

xp that is an exaggeration!

it isn’t.

can a mod tell me if there's a max no of fps you can give in a thread in a week

Only one FP from a single poster against a single poster is counted, but it's always the most recent one.

can a mod tell me if there's a max no of fps you can give in a thread in a week

Flagged

xp that is an exaggeration!

whether or not it's literally true isn't the point... it is true that my posts are more like lectures than message board posts. it's not how i want to communicate with others and i don't feel like it's an effective way of communicating. i'm isolated and my communication skills have atrophied and this is the result. i appreciate critical feedback! particularly... since this isn't a thread with a particular purpose, if anybody has any constructive advice, i'd love to hear it. i _am_ trying to get out more and meet more people in person. i believe that would help me a lot.

lately I've been obsessed with this Bismillah Khan performance of rag Yaman, it seems like it was recorded on a tape machine with a fucked up motor, so there are all these weird key changes. it's fantastic. I mean, it's also one of my favorite performances of music I've heard in my life. you should check it out!

― supermeerkat (Deflatormouse)

oh shit i totally will now, thanks! i love tapes that are "wrong" in interesting ways, artifacts from the recording rather than accurate representations of how it sounded in person. i think that process can be additive as well as subtractative. i love, for instance, carole king's acetate of "porpoise song", the one that was found in a house davy jones had moved out of. the particular sort of distortion on it is SO GOOD.

last night i started streaming the doobie brothers episode of "what's happening !!", and then i went on a bender looking for doobie brothers bootlegs. i never saw any doobie brothers AUD tapes back when i was an active trader. there are a couple out there. not many.

xp-

thank you again everyone for your answers. deflator, your record chasing war stories sound like the exact kind of lore i had in mind when bringing up this topic. perfect post imo. perhaps i'll take ned's advice and start a new thread later. my reservations stemmed from the topic potentially getting too personal/not fun. for example: there's a reason i didn't talk about anyone else in my family outside of my grandparents when answering my own question.

thanks again. really enjoyed everyone's answers. i wish i could go further into detail about my adolescent years, experiences with the punk rock and hiphop scenes, the internet, hilarious forays into joirnalism,l and whatnot... but it's just too associated with trauma and painful memories. i don't mean this in a pitiful way at all, but it's amazing to hear of fairly normal music-rearing. i'm not envious of you guys, but please understand: a situation like ye mad puffin described literally sounds like a fair tale come to life for me and if i get a chance at selective reincarnation, i choose that skin.

anyway because this is the off-topic topic, it's the middle of the week, and the last few posts are what they are, i'd like to shamelessly self-promote a poll i'm running-
‘THE NERVE OF WALKING TALL’ ― my picks for the most fun songs ever!

i am bad typist on internet. i am sad at my own inability to proofread.

xp kate!-
the love of (and sometimes preference for) lesser-fidelity recordings is something i learned to recocile when it came to my attention that certain music only exists on warped dub plates. like... that IS the master recording lol. very much a certain charm to it. good thoughts.

thanks again. really enjoyed everyone's answers. i wish i could go further into detail about my adolescent years, experiences with the punk rock and hiphop scenes, the internet, hilarious forays into joirnalism,l and whatnot... but it's just too associated with trauma and painful memories. i don't mean this in a pitiful way at all, but it's amazing to hear of fairly normal music-rearing. i'm not envious of you guys, but please understand: a situation like ye mad puffin described literally sounds like a fair tale come to life for me and if i get a chance at selective reincarnation, i choose that skin.

― austinato (Austin)

huh, i just made a post over on the LGBTQ thread talking about something a little similar, maybe you might vibe with it

Real love -- I'm, like, searchin' for that Queer Love -- LGBTQIA+ Love // A Thread for the Real Ones

i've thought about it, and i've decided is what i'm going to do is put most of my longer posts behind a cut, so people can read them if they want.

cuz the answer to "could you be more succinct?" is truly and genuinely "no". i got stuff that's important for me to say, and i know that there are people here who find it valuable and meaningful. i understand that for a lot of people it's "too much", and i don't think it's pointless logorrhea.

"be your authentic self", people say, and it's good advice, but i do have the constant temptation to hold myself back. all my life people have been telling me that i'm "too much", that i'm "extra", and yeah, i agree. i am. i try to spread it around, not throw everything in one place. my posts are long, but i'm not flooding the server with rambling post after rambling post. in fact, one of the reasons my posts are so long is because i _do_ try to be mindful of what i write. my long posts are typically second drafts. i mean what am i gonna do, a third draft? it's a fucking internet message board!

people tell me "you should talk to your therapist about it". i _know_ they mean well. i have ONE HOUR A WEEK with my therapist. that doesn't even scratch the surface of what i'm dealing with. i am dealing with a lot of horseshit, my friends are dealing with a lot of horse shit. y'all are the most together, high-functioning people i get to talk to regularly. and look, i've spent the past year working on my skills, learning to self-soothe, learning to manage my emotional issues myself rather than dumping on other people, and i still have problems. i still need to talk about things, i still need to, like, get external validation. i carry way too much around and i gotta let some of it out sometimes. and sometimes that takes place here. i work hard to be wise-minded, and sometimes that means speaking at length. i hope putting my digressions behind a cut will be an effective compromise.

Glad I missed yesterday’s absurd art crit discussion

I just want to mention that I don't think I ever achieved a lot of relative "cred" with the ilx "clique", but I am proud of the fact that I at least coined "shady scams" for the ilx lexicon.

Too bad "jugstaposition" didn't take. Limited usage. Hard to shoehorn into discussion. Takes skill.

donald trump about to die what's on yr ipod

hoo boy instant regret on that one

I don't think an Authentic Self exists, Kate!

"whatever you do: don't be yourself"

How do you know they weren’t written by a music critic getting paid by Apple?

I don't think an Authentic Self exists, Kate!

― hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

sort of me too. except i think i have a bunch of different "authentic selves", which may or may not be effective to lean into at any given moment.

I just want to mention that I don't think I ever achieved a lot of relative "cred" with the ilx "clique", but I am proud of the fact that I at least

credibility is just the stock market for emotions. poptimism was the 90s tech boom.

In the worst writing thread I missed the first bit about Joshua Clover so did a double take of

Did Clover champion country music?

AND

Gavin Newsom likes Huey Lewis & the News

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clover_(band)

The Newsom post was a reference to American Psycho

Does no-one use the "Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here" thread anymore?

it was locked, iirc

Not enough second thought

Straight up now tell me do you really wanna have second thoughts about posting to the second thoughts thread forever

before posting you must first confront and overcome a recursive labyrinth of self-doubt, otherwise it probably wasn't worth sharing

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

Straight up now tell me do you really wanna have second thoughts about posting to the second thoughts thread forever

so as a thought experiment, to start a debate, let's say we make a time machine and go back to 1930 and shoot Hitler in the neck, would that be a good thing? go on, debate me, what are you scared of?

https://i.imgur.com/4flYr0y.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dj6udCPF5M

I've been practicing in case Adrian Chiles dies and The Guardian needs a new columnist. This is what I came up with. I started at 10:27 and it's now 10:34. Hit it.

"Over the last few weeks I've been using a new body spray. This morning I took the time to read the writing on the front. DEO Body Spray it said. It struck me. What does DEO stand for? And then I felt old, because it's just another one of those modern things that pass me by, like MILF and SMS. One moment they're random strings of letters. The next moment everyone under the age of seventeen is nattering on about them. Where do they get it from? I blame Twitter. Madame Is Lusty Fox. Super Messages, Sassy. What does it matter.

When I was young we used full sentences, with punctuation. Because clear writing is the sign of a clear mind. Have you ever had to deal with a complex problem, such as the global economy or the future of humanity? A lesser man would founder but I can clearly delineate the path of our future. Because I can break those problems down into clear, concise elements, as if they were Meccano components. And so, dear reader, I can see the future, and you can see the future through my eyes.

But it haunted me. DEO. Dust... no, it's a body spray. Is it an American legal term, like 420? Is it Spanish? Obviously it isn't French, but perhaps it's a pan-European packaging term added for legal reasons. A relic of the time before a tiny majority of stupid people in the north decided that Ashley Pomeroy had to use a different and slower passport control line when he flies back to his home in France. Was it a stupid abbreviation aimed at foreign kids? The kind of screeching, empty-headed inhuman little fucks who gather to smoke in the car park behind my garden despite my entreaties to the local Conseil that the smoke is making my dogs ill.

Then it dawned on me. It wasn't an acronym at all. And before you complain I am fully aware that I'm actually talking about an initialism. Well done. In any case it dawned on me. It dawned on me. DEO. Deo. Deodorant. Deodorant. The packaging was trying to help me, in its stupid way.

Did I take this moment to reflect on my mistakes? No, because I am not capable of making a mistake. But nonetheless I was chastened. Today I will see the world with fresh eyes, and tomorrow I will share with you the secret of manhole covers."

Gloria

In excelsis DEOdorant

“The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible,”

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f9/34/2f/f9342f9da3914e596a544e308ea6b5cf.jpg

Not even worth pointing out pot/kettle similarities… in terms of cognitive dissonance, there is so much worse atm

so hear me out...

we get mangione acquitted. in a totally chaotic neutral mangione move, he gets in cahoots with kirk's assassin, and they finagle a landslide against trump/vance. in a move to show a commitment to unity, mangione takes the veep. but the run was a gamble; the verdict comes through the day after inauguration, and damn, hail to the now-incarcerated chief. chain of command being what it is: mangione is prez. lol shitpost assassin ftw.

thank you for reading my media analysis podcast.

all that to say: fuck Emmanuel Goldstein!

we're all in horrible danger

I think your use case problem is akin to my pathways problem

"just here for the show", as it were.

also i apologize for the level of crass and cynicism in my above postings. not directed at anyone, giggling crazily at myself the whole way. what a world.

The shadow raised its arm, and instinctively Bond took cover. The dart missed him by inches.

Bond drew his Walter and rolled clear. He fired, twice. And a third time just to make sure.

I know who sent you, thought Bond. Besides which that was a very nice couch. Buzzini. The exquisite stitching of the leather was unmistakeable. It would have been a shame to ruin it.

Bond turned to his partner, but it was too late. The dart had struck his little plastic spout. Cheeseoid's robotic eyes were already fading.

"CHEESE", said Cheesoid, struggling to speak. "CHEESE".

"No, you fucking moron", said Bond. "It isn't cheese. Jesus Fucking Christ."

rest well stirmonster.

i'm not saying i'm an average case scenario, but it's kind of cool that even though i never knew him in person, he's yet another example of a guy from glasgow who had nothing but violence and intolerance in his heart for misogyny and alpha male dickhead bullying. keep up the great work, glasgow!