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

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

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

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

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

f) barnacle

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

g) little bird

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

f) from a other (please specify)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I knew it when it was mere protoculture.

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

ned is zor

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

no wait ned is the invid queen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"pop music" definition or something like that.

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

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

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

a link on the tmftml blogroll

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

C (blissblog)

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

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

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

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

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

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

From my husband.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

c) blissblog

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

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

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

leaflet

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

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

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

C) in a way.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

hahah, where's that quote from?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I sure did!

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

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

haha I can't argue with this though

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

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

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

c) jahsonic

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

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

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

Well I'm sold.

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

http://www.imomus.com/

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

I guess I'm just jealous.

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

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Carsmile again - a link from his blog to ILM.

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

Has anyone on this thread specified e) yet?

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

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

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

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

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

three years pass...

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

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

Googling and googling and googling again

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

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

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

i am dang perrys fault

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

link from josh blog

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

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

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

I mean, "from a premonition".

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

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

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

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

c) from the Tofu Hut.

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

Fake Matador board circa: 2001

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

found out from iiiijjjj on Silver Jews board.

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

a,c) followed link from jbr's blog

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

B) Charalambides C/D

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

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

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

ILx was found out.

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

^^this guy ruined my life

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

warr.org

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

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

^^^

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

jon brion told me about it.

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

from sasha fere jones blog lolol

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

from momus' livejournal looooool

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

From my brother, aka 69

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

link from Simon Reynolds' blog.

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

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

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

link from josh blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

was she ever on ilx?

met her at a london fap - surprisingly attractive

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

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

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

How hot is Dominique Leone in person?

i think this thread is how i found ilx.

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

major lol

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

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

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

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

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

Amazing! Tell more about all this.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Ned T. Rifle II.

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

"ask a drunk" poster from the greenspun days

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

ILM: random google
ILE: it's my fault

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

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

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

I have absolutely no recollection of starting this thread.

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

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

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