Identify An ILX0r With Whom You Have A Weird Set Of Things In Common

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Not necessarily musical taste. For me there is one other IlX0r who, like me

a) Lived in New Haven during the 80s
b) Likes Jim Thompson
c) Likes Mad TV
d) Has two kids
e) Vastly prefers Wire to the Minutemen (note: a point of musical taste, but only one)

Also, this person has a brother in the Bunnybrains, who I think I met at a party given by Scrabble nerds about five years ago, although maybe it was just one of his bandmates.

This ILX0R is, of course, Scott Seward. Who is your corresponding, what? Let's call it: Bizarro ILX0r.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

you have kids, ken?!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

I don't think there is such an ILXor for me, but I guess this is a good place (bad time) to note that I've repeatedly noted (perhaps mostly intangible) commonalities between a friend of mine and Ally, and thought they might (might) get along.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

Two girls, baby. Ten months old.
(xpost)

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

This ones easy for me. Adam Crankypants0r. I could list a billion reasons why, all rather silly/and or obscure but not limited to:
- we live literally the next street over from each other (but have never met)
- we both love the 'burb we're living in
- we both have completely rooted up bad feet, and a clicky jaw
- TMBG worship
- same taste in comedy (Sean Micallef, Fast Show, etc)

Thats just fer starters n'shit. I still havent met the bastid either.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

for me it is Tuomas:

1. same birthday
2. both have Scandinavian roots (I am 1/8 Swedish)
3. he shaves girls, I shave FOR girls
4. he dresses up like a girl and looks hot, I dressed up like a girl in high school for lame-o skits and looked hot cause I had great legs
5. we're both universally loved on ILX...well, except me

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Sir, you are loved too and I will brook no argument.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

but what about yer, yunno, dick?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

you guys are awesome :)

i've got no one, but once jon williams posted a thread about someone he knew, whose livejournal i recognized as that of a personal friend of one of my best friends. and then it turned out that my friend had heard of jon williams from that person (but didn't actually know him). crazy!

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

Dan Perry and I went to the same high school and this has had me WTF all day.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

nickalicious:

1. is from kentucky
2. is part lebanese; my two best friends growing up were part lebanese
3. likes weed

i think that's about as close as i'm getting

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

margus kiis, estonian rock critic, and I have both sailed around the cape of good hope from luderitz to durban, though he did it 3 1/2 hours faster than i, the motherfucker.

― g e o f f (gcannon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

I don't think one exists. Frustrated/depressed artistes-slash-manual laborers who love Kristin Hersh, the Descendents and Mazzy Star apply here.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Masonic Kate and I have quite a few things in common:

We're both called Kate
We're both interested in freemasons
We've both been to art school
We both like the same kind of looking guys
We're arguably both nuts and have trouble with social interaction

― Hate the sinner but love the sin / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

I love Kristin Hersh and I'm a frustrated IT worker, does that help?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

Me and Dinkers:

1) Not sure about Pickles.
2) In love with Fiction Plane.
3) Going to fuck Sting and his son.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

1) i once lived in minnesota but i am a lot taller than dan
2) i was once a college dj but i have shorter hair than ned
3) i have nice-ish eyes but not as nice as MANDEE's
4) i'm okay-looking but nowhere near as hot as spence-ahhh

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

i can't think of one particular ilxor -- i think i have weird things in common with a few different people here, a couple of whom i've never even had a proper conversation with off the board.

but if i gotsta choose one, tokyo rosemary is my sagittarian record collecting twee-as-fuck post-feminist soul sistah.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

me and miccio grew up in the same stinko town - greeley, CO.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

Al Shipley. Too many things to list, and I knew him before ILX, but if I never got acquainted w him online all them years ago, my career and life as it stands right now probably wouldn't exist.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

Ah, see my doppelganger already posted, so I'm going to have to pick another person:

1) Moved around like an army brat
2) Spent a lot of their teen years in Upstate NY
3) Sci Fi geek!
4) Loves dronerock
5) Also magically appears on any Spacemen 3 thread...
6) Has lovely pretty long hair

If it weren't for his heterosexual life partner Dan, I would be Ned Raggett!

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

amazing randy

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha Kate!

Beyond the obvious (Ned) and the obvious-that-no-one-knows-about (John Justen, seeing as we grew up together and were super best friends who had all the same classes, did all the same after-school activities, shared a music collection and had something like a 30% overlap in romantic interests/entanglements) there's the all-new revelation of giboyeux, who also went to my high school and has an older sister who graduated with the younger brother of one of my exes.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

There is no one else like me on ILx, or indeed in the world.

(I could type that sentence in the Comstock Carabinieri sense and it would still be true)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

apart from randy, maybe there's another ilxor who has/is..

- love for curry/cheapo burgers
- a pisshead
- love for fat animals
- punners of pwns
- gemini
- recently started going to the gym
- a fan of the streaks
- quote song lyrics/tv show scripts with every opportunity
- obsession with doing pointless retarded little things

Haw. That'd be parakeet_esparanto then!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

There is no one else like me on ILx, or indeed in the world.

Er, except Caitlin...? (You answered this question on the "Should I go to this party?" thread.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

You are quite correct to point that out.

Caitlin is now my favourite ILxor.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

GARU G WE BOTH LIKE TEH SAME THIGN

― Amon (eman), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

I guess I'd have to pick either Remy or Kate from Australia. Both are about the same age as me; Remy likes the same movies and seems to have a similar sensibility towards life and everything, whereas Kate often seems to post the exact same thing I was about to say myself.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

I can't think of anyone, and can't decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Just a thing, I guess.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

ken c pwns stuff
i pwn stuff

um
tenuous, but there you have it.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I know any of you well enough to answer this question, I spose my 'things' would be:

- drastically switches between introvert and extrovert, daily
- love for all things 'warp' labelled
- one of those guys who ends up being 'just good friends' with girls instead of anything more intimate.

i can't think of anymore and I even regret posting those but I'm fed up of retracting all my posts in ilx lately. sod it.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

Haikunym and I have the same alma mater and I know a good friend of his from undergrad.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

That is true indeed.
The strangest connection here
was me and jack_cole,

who went to the same
high school! but have nothing else
in common, alas

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

college wise and career wise: Anna I suppose, and all the other journalist people. other than that I'm not sure, I identify with alot of you at different times.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

I empathise a lot with Kenan - maybe I see him as the most like-me of the American ILX contingent.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

Keep 'em coming, people! If you have a lot of things in common that's fine, but these kind of "went to the same high school but have nothing else in common" things are good too, and in fact may be more of what I was looking for originally.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

If that is true Ronan then you have aprox. two years before the liking indie gene kicks back in. (But thanks, I'd probably have said that too.)

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

I think this will probably happen eventually cos of work! we sell an unbelievable amount of feist/nouvelle vague/husky rescue type cds and there's only so many times you can pretend to like them when a customer asks about them without eventually just sort of liking them.

though in other ways work has pushed me even further down the dance route/boring catalog number discussions with customers due to the simple joy of meeting someone in your small city who likes lawrence or something!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Threads like this make me realise how little I register about other ILXors :(

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

sadly, i concure.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

no I don't, i concur.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

"a) Lived in New Haven during the 80s"

Jeez, I hate to burst Ken's psychic twin bubble, but I wasn't living in New Haven in the 80's. I was living in Connecticut in the 80's though! So, close enough. And I spent a lot of time in New Haven in the 80's. And I do love Mad TV and Jim Thompson and I do have 2 kids. And Wire. I love Wire. I mean, no offense to the Minutemen, but sheesh, no contest for me on that one.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

well, you two have that much in common, at least.

xpost, yo

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

scott, you are dead to me now.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

This ones easy for me. Adam Crankypants0r.

Aha yes, it's spooky. Too often one will say something obscure and the other will pick up the reference.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Noone (thank god for you guys/girls).

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Let me clarify some more. I wasn't looking for psychic twins - not to insult scott, but I never thought he was mine. Part of my intent in starting this thread was to use it as a place to deposit some of the informational flotsam and jetsam accumulated after spending a lot of time at ILX- to offload, or dememe, if you will, even if the meme is only in your own head. But if you think you found your psychic twin, go ahead and tell us.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

You mean that voice in my head isn't you, ken? then who is it? In any case, I will think of you the next time the baby poops on my grandfather's ancient Yale blanket that is on top of the changing table.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Haikunym lives in the same town as me and went to undergrad with the tuba player from my band (right?).

Jess and I have similar taste in girls and beats.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

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actually we've got a lot of strange similarities, roxy. we both have flying cars! : D

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

I know it's just music, but i have EXACTLY the same taste in music as Sir Raggett.

― Richard K (Richard K), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Teeny and I have a few things in common when it comes to our families.

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Me and Jess were actually grown in the same tube

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Really Je4nne? Identical?

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

me and gunther heartymeal are really, really, like, common-like

1. We have 99% of the same genes
2. We both grew up in Greeley, CO
3. We both like saying "grodey"

That's where the SIMILARITIES END

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

i have to agree with roxymuzak. she/me/we/are teh awesome!

― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

I know it's just music, but i have EXACTLY the same taste in music as Sir Raggett.

One of us. Or one of me. If you will.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Me & Ned Raggett were nearly called Seth.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Okay, long shot here: Who in here is a half-Spanish, half-Mexican twentysomething from the Southwest quadrant of the U.S. who is hugely enamored of '80s New Wave & New Romantic music and styles, who does crossword puzzles for fun, who has really long hair, an olive complexion, a love for Wheat Thins and Diet Coke with Lime, who loves watching programs about food, who's Catholic, and who is pretty much a homebody?

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

who does crossword puzzles for fun

Is there another reason for doing them?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

I do them to keep myself from going senile, and it's not working.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

No, but there are other things to do for fun.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Is there another reason for doing them?

I meant "for fun" to mean "as a hobby", i.e. hey, this is a major fun-making hobby of mine when I have enough time to actually have a hobby. You know, instead of doing something *else* as a hobby. i.e. what Andrew said (many thousands of thanks, Andrew).

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

Fuck. I must find someone who lived in Miami, loves the Go-Betweens, and enjoys Quaker Oats.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

I am increasingly and almost entirely convinced that Alex in Doncaster and I are the same person, as have the exact same taste in nearly everything and eerily similar biographical details and both live in boring industrial towns away from anything exciting.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

and loves hall & oates -- don't forget THAT one, mr. soto!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

"and loves hall & oates -- don't forget THAT one, mr. soto!"

Aha! The circle tightens!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

I am unique.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

it's funny how many people say that

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

in terms of this thread, this board, I think so

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

i'm an expatriate new york jew late-twentysomething kicking it in the southwest, and i've got all the new wave/new romantic you can shake a stick at, and i'm into xword puzzles/scrabble/literati, and i have pretty long hair (and pale skin), and wheat thins are ok and diet coke is one of my major food groups (although diet dr. pepper might just take over), and yeah, i still watch food tv when i get a chance although i find myself yelling at the screen a lot more than i used to.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

ANYBODY ELSE HERE LIKE EATING MAC AND CHEESE????

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 3 June 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

oh fuck yeah

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 June 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

JBR, you wanna play in the literati tournament?

Mmm, macky cheese.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 3 June 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

rock, i'm gonna say no because i've got a million other things to think about right now and with literati, focus is EVERYTHING.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 June 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

Mac and cheese is great. Day-old mac and cheese is of the devil.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 June 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

kay-o, just checkin'. (xp)

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 3 June 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

I don't want to rile scott up any further, but there is one other thing I noticed I had in common with him - disliking Nina Simone.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 3 June 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

ned raggett and i went to the same junior high school!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 3 June 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I love this thread. Particularly Mark's dream about spooning with Haikunym.

(do you spoon with someone, or just spoon them?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 10 September 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Me and Jess were actually grown in the same tube
-- miccio

haha

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 10 September 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

one time late at night i was playing poker on the internet with two other people and we started chatting about where we lived and two of us lived in ft greene and the other lived in pk slope. it was weird. also i was wasted, but it wasn't last night.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 10 September 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

It's "_____ and I" people, not "Me and _____"

― señor citizen (eman), Sunday, 10 September 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

So it'd be "That Grammar Nazi Senor Citizen and I." not "Me and that Senor Citizen?"

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 10 September 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

No, we have nothing in common.

― señor citizen (eman), Sunday, 10 September 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

:-((((((((((((((((

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 10 September 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

We both like emoticons (^ . ~)

― señor citizen (eman), Sunday, 10 September 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

whatever happened to margus kiis, estonian rock critic?

― ruddy raleigh and the rickets (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 10 September 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

maybe he went into politics.

my ilx more-or-less dopplegangers, hmmm not much to go on:

edd hurt - we're the same age, he lived in my home town cincinnati (and didn't like it at all), we like a lot of the same music.

special agent gene krupa/ian 50nson is basically ME age 21 or so: insatiable consumer of all kinds of music, works in a record store, loves teh weed, eats lots of hamburgers & hefty sandwhiches.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 10 September 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

i seem to have a lot in common with the quincie family, except that they each get their own new yorker and i have to read my wife's

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Sunday, 10 September 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

haha mookie I was just coming to post that you and I seem to have led oddly parellel lives in some respects! Except for the duke v. unc thing, which is a pretty mighty chasm. But hey, both in NC. Also: PITTSBURGH, editor-y occupations, corporate bookstore connection, prolivity for drunkiness, low regard for Quinn Snyder and wojo. And: both v. tall.

― quincie (quincie), Sunday, 10 September 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

JESSICA HARVELL

back to school, seasonal allergies, 1987-92 in pop culture, UK postpunk, lowercase typing, coffee addiction, prior residence in the pacific northwest (may have something to do with previous entry), appreciation of cheesesteak as art form, free-associative lists of puns

― ruddy raleigh and the rickets (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 10 September 2006 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

― -- (688), Sunday, 10 September 2006 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

I have a weird set of things in common with Scott Seward: 2 bizarre kids.

Actually, I thought this was going to be a Scott thread because of the title case capitalization. Ken, you also have in common with Scott that you capitalize "A" and "Of" in thread titles.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Sunday, 10 September 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

gareth: maps, transit routes, mort garson, cheburashka, graphic design, american vernacular photography, 1973.

― ruddy raleigh and the rickets (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 10 September 2006 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

I was a state geography bee finalist.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 11 September 2006 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

State geography bee finalists unite! P.S. I have consulted with experts in the field and it turns out the question on which I was eliminated (for a 3rd-place finish) was totally wrong and fucked and my answer was completely correct.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 11 September 2006 02:17 (eighteen years ago)

WAHT WAS TEH QUESTION?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 11 September 2006 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

DOEZ GEOGRAPHY B BLUE RIBBON REALLY NARROW THINGS DOWN? AROUND HERE, THAT'S LIKE SCORING HIGH ON THE AUTISM/ASPERGER'S TEST.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Monday, 11 September 2006 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

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