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As this latest ILX personality seems to hijack every thread I read with what I'm still not sure isn't trolling, I'm gonna say Dud.

favorite line: no, i have not heard of jackie chan, is she american?

― richardk (Richard K), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Great thread.

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

BAN RICHARDK

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Monday, 13 November 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

who is richard k?!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

HALL OF FAME

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Monday, 13 November 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

who is richard k?!
-- The Lex (alex.macpherso...) (webmail), Today 12:43 PM. (The Lex) (later) (link)

Haha ok that's funny.

― richardk (Richard K), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

ilxors in self involvment shocker!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Let's see how many spiteful school bully threads we can start before the end of the day!

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

this latest ILX personality

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

I've never heard of "Richard K" before this thread.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

me neither.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

The Lex has been around for ages. He is classic, despite the whole pop-ideologue viewpoint thing being very infuriating on occasion.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Classic if only for giving us the legendary "Paris Hilton is important" meme.

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

the lex is utter classic, but - and this may be a generational thing - if i've not heard of someone who has been namechecked, it usually compells me to go (in the first instance to wikipedia) to find out who s/he is. my ignorance of them doesn't make me immediately think that ignorance has been justified, and that might be what gets people's back up, on a board that's about the exultation (and otherwise) of people/things.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but the thread is about whether or not you like someone. If you don't know some celebrity, even if you check his Wikipedia entry, it's unlikely to make you like or dislike him, unless it says he is a satanical dictator or something.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

The Lex is consistently entertaining company, I say he is classic.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

I think to call "Paris Hilton is important" a meme is stretching a point at best

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

I think to call "Paris Hilton is important" a meme is stretching a point at best

Oh, but if anyone deserves a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Paris does! Right Lex?

:-/

― shorty (shorty), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Paris Hilton is important as a socio-cultural for people to project their fears about mediocracy and the decay of Western society during the late modern era.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

"socio-cultural vessel"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

The Lex has been around for ages. He is classic, despite the whole pop-ideologue viewpoint thing being very infuriating on occasion.
-- Pashmina

Hmm, I guess I've just been hanging out on more pop threads lately. Funny how depending on what you look at you see different segments of teh ILX populationz...

― richardk (Richard K), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Classic! I've very much enjoyed meeting him the couple of times I have.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think The Lex is utterly wonderfully fantasmastically GR34T! I love the fact he isn't shy to admit he doesn't know someone and doesn't really (seem to) care if people berate him for not knowing an important artist/person/group or whatever. As Stevie admitted, some of us google when we notice an unfamiliar name. It's partially because I was quite insecure about my taste or writings. I always thought that I had to know as much as possible to justify my taste in music (or whatever else) (when I wrote about the subject). The Lex has taught me it isn't at all. Hurray for The Lex! :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

But revelling in ignorance to the point of making it your schtick = dud in the extreme.

(ps I have met the Lex and he's a very nice chap and i really like him)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

As Stevie admitted, some of us google when we notice an unfamiliar name. It's partially because I was quite insecure about my taste or writings. I always thought that I had to know as much as possible to justify my taste in music (or whatever else) (when I wrote about the subject). The Lex has taught me it isn't at all.

its never been about that insecurity for me - more a hunger to know and hear and understand more stuff.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Me too, I google when I don't know something and feel that I may like to, I don't go "I don't even know who you are therefore you are unimportant and quite probably rubbish" all over ILX whenever anyone from John Wayne to Peter Crouch to (pick indieboyswithguitarsofchoice) is mentioned.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think to call "Paris Hilton is important" a meme is stretching a point at best

You haven't seen the plans I have for this exciting internet meme with massive viral potential!

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

PINELEX MORE LIKE

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

But revelling in ignorance to the point of making it your schtick = dud in the extreme.
(ps I have met the Lex and he's a very nice chap and i really like him)
-- ailsa (ailsa.watso...),

Exactly how I feel. Well, I haven't met Lex, but he does seem to be a generally friendly person.

So i guess for me

Lex the individual = classic
Lex's "revelling in ignorance" = not so classic

― shorty (shorty), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, berating somebody on the internet for supposedly being ignorant doesn't exactly make you yourself look like a genius.
I don't know The_Lex, I don't really notice him on ILX. I guess I post in different places. But I'm going to say he's CLASSIC so that this thread doesn't achieve what it seemingly set out to.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Berating wasn't my intention. I apologize if that's how it came off.

I'd rather have a friend who I disagree with about pop culture but is a nice person, than one I agree with on everything under the sun but is an asshole.

― shorty (shorty), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, pretending that 'on the internet' has a socially inept tinge to it hasn't been true any time this century.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

That wasn't aimed at anyone in particular, just at the intentions of the thread in general.

Take out the "on the internet" part, my point still stands. I assure you I wasn't trying to imply social ineptitude. I just don't think threads that are entirely about "I think Poster X is an idiot, what do you think?" are particularly productive. The Lex is taking this very well, but if I were on the receiving end of something like this, I'd be rather upset.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Me neither. And I qualified it by saying that I really like The Lex - he's intelligent and smart and could drink me under the table easily (no mean feat). I actually kind of admire his purist stance on "I haven't heard of you therefore I don't need to hear of you", but it can get a bit tiresome when pointed out all over the place. It's a schtick, and I'm almost convinced it lapsed into self-parody quite a while back, hence (sort of) fair game. Also, no-one actually dislikes him. No-one's actually being nasty except the thread-starter, and it seems to have stemmed from confusion as to Lex's role in the grand scheme of ILE. (The ironing of "I don't know who the Lex is, is he a troll" is great though)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

I always wikipedia stuff I don't know, too - I don't think it's a generational thing, it's just a Lex thing. It annoys me when the lex-doesn't-know-stuff schtick gets in the way of any actual point he's making, though, cos it's dead easy to jump on the usual joke and ignore what might be a really interesting idea.

Obviously Lex is classic, but then why would I ever say otherwise?

― ampersand, hearts, semicolon (cis), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

and I'm almost convinced it lapsed into self-parody quite a while back, hence (sort of) fair game.

Again Ailsa, exactly what I was trying to say but couldn't find the words (I need sleep).

― shorty (shorty), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Dude, in fairness there is rarely another point, it's quite common for him to disengage from argument by just saying "I don't know who that is".

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

its never been about that insecurity for me - more a hunger to know and hear and understand more stuff.

I wasn't implying this at all, just talking about myself. :-)

Who's to say it's self-parody? Maybe he's just consistent.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, pretending that 'on the internet' has a socially inept tinge to it hasn't been true any time this century.

-- Andrew Farrell (afarrel...), November 13th, 2006 1:31 PM. (afarrell) (link)

haha you've gotta be kidding

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

The Lex in person = classic. His schtick and reactions to it aren't that bad on ILX - I find its occasional* derailings of threads to be quite enjoyable/avoidable. There was a time when it was rendering every relevant discussion on LJ unreadable, though, which was a shame.

* NB I don't read ILM.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

he's intelligent and smart and could drink me under the table easily (no mean feat).

Anyone care to bet on that?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

The fact that he can still stand/move/speak/get home after several bottles of wine is more than I can do, usually.

(As explained, I have met him once. He was very drunk and still charming. I was very drunk and, erm, probably incoherent and gibbering).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, he's the ten drunkest people I've ever seen, no contest.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

The fact that he can still stand/move/speak/get home after several bottles of wine

personal experience LOL

most threads ABOUT ILXors (there are many, esp. from the Olden Days, so Lex isn't really a special case in this regard) are overly positive.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

but i thought you don't drink..

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

maybe Matt DC is querying the "intelligent and smart" bit not the drinking bit

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

seems like a rad dude to me!

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

stand/move/speak/get to steve's house/hork on the sofa

That's what makes me God's Own Umpire in this thing, Ken!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

yeah but i mean like if anything YOU shouldn't be the one seeing TEN of the lex! :

Yeah, he's the ten drunkest people I've ever seen, no contest.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry that this was seen as "nasty" in intent. Obviously I don't know the d00d personally, so I was only referring to the dude's itnernet (read:ILX) persona which it seems generally accepted here even amongst personal friends is "unproductive" and obtuse. Plus, that jackie chan line is pretty absurd, he's gotta be taking the piss there.

― richardk (Richard K), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

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(Probably should've revived an ILM thread, but w/e.)

― jaymc, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 22:02 (sixteen years ago)

lex did you ever listen to be your own pet

― banaka socka flame (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 22:04 (sixteen years ago)

i don't think so, is that because i'll hate them or love them?

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 22:30 (sixteen years ago)

"Hahahaha I was JUST thinking today how the mindset of people - particularly critics - who always seem to be trying to find the good in things is totally alien to me. I feel that if your natural, instinctive response to a thing is revulsion or disapproval, this should only be encouraged."

the thing about this is -- and Lex, as a pop-ist, knows this, too; it's pop credo -- one's "natural, instinctive" responses to art are seldom actually natural or instinctive. which is why some of us (raising hand) are often drawn to explore the things that repel or bore or offend us. there's a lot of room for play in interrogating these "ntaural, instinctive" responses.

― aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 22:44 (sixteen years ago)

Dude if you're still classifying Lex as a popist you've missed something.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 22:50 (sixteen years ago)

lex i think you might like byop -- not positive tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvPvq_91Q64

― banaka socka flame (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 22:54 (sixteen years ago)

this is the single from their second (& final) album that came out the year before last

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WQpvR945Rs

― banaka socka flame (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 22:56 (sixteen years ago)

there are some jams on Jemina's solo record too

― markers, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 22:57 (sixteen years ago)

(which I'm more familiar w/ than BYOP)

― markers, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 22:58 (sixteen years ago)

i quite liked the first one to start with but by the end it seemed a bit karenoke o circa 2002 sans the hooks

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:00 (sixteen years ago)

i think when it comes to that punky yowly sound, the stuff i love tends to be secretly really really tightly structured (eg early pj harvey and yeah, yyys)

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

the second one is much much better! but i already have and cherish a copy of sleater-kinney's one beat, which is basically that but with good lyrics, not bad ones

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

i should get around to s-k one day

― banaka socka flame (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:08 (sixteen years ago)

yes, also pj harvey. one beat is the only s-k album i really love though, never got into the others i tried. but it's amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLgPGpX5Gek

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

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:14 (sixteen years ago)

re j0rdan: you should. not necessarily one beat, but yeah, sk.

― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:14 (sixteen years ago)

Dig Me Out
The Hot Rock
One Beat
Call The Doctor

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:16 (sixteen years ago)

also, pj harvey >>> sleater-kinney, and thus better to check out first

i think i tried the hot rock and call the doctor but just couldn't get into them, which was weird considering how immediate one beat was. oh, i like the woods fine, it's not v listenable but then that wasn't really its point.

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:20 (sixteen years ago)

lex might as well be geir in terms of actual worth in trying to understand musical views. difference is lex is a good laugh and lots of fun as a human being and i don't know geir.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 23:42 (sixteen years ago)

^ board descrip, 2006

― Underground - Parking (2010) (sic), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:40 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

what happened to tennis when it went from line judge to lasers? was it a big deal?

― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 9 October 2010 04:06 (fifteen years ago)

it's still line judge based (apart from lets on serve, which are computerised) - line judges call the lines first, the lasers come in if a player decides to challenge (and they can only do so like...four times a set or something, to stop the more gamesmanship-minded players from challenging every single call).

it's weird to remember that there was so much debate about bringing it in - it seems such an obvious thing to do in retrospect (the technology had already been available to commentators for YEARS). pretty much everyone loves it, except roger federer. the only vague issue is that it's only available on certain courts at certain tournaments so eg most lower-ranked players won't get to use it. thought it's quite funny to see a top player on an outside court/at a smaller tournament make as if to challenge, then realise they can't.

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Saturday, 9 October 2010 07:38 (fifteen years ago)

hah, thanks for your answer! :D

― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 9 October 2010 08:14 (fifteen years ago)

six months pass...

lex, what do you think of "The Rabbit" by mahjongg?

Song starts at like 3:05:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh-od12FUfE

― maybe i'm just gay (Tape Store), Saturday, 23 April 2011 05:52 (fifteen years ago)

lex might as well be geir in terms of actual worth in trying to understand musical views. difference is lex is a good laugh and lots of fun as a human being and i don't know geir.
--I see what this is (Local Garda)

Having never met either, I prefer the automaton motorik consistency of the one to the slight randomizing attempts to humanize the autotune of the other

― under the pollcano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 April 2011 02:28 (fifteen years ago)

CLASSIC

― flopson, Sunday, 24 April 2011 07:11 (fifteen years ago)

LEX IS ETERNAL

― flopson, Sunday, 24 April 2011 07:12 (fifteen years ago)

i should get around to s-k one day

― banaka socka flame (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:08 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark

my friend that day is TODAY and you will start with THE WOODS and work your way backwards

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 24 April 2011 07:52 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Happy birthday lex!

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 30 August 2012 17:39 (fourteen years ago)

happy birthday to my favorite comedy act

― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 30 August 2012 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

smh

thx u guys

― lex pretend, Thursday, 30 August 2012 19:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://img.dazedcdn.com/700/dd/260/0/260666.jpg

HI. I'M BEN KLOCK. AND MY CHEEKBONES ARE HERE TO WISH LEX HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 30 August 2012 19:29 (fourteen years ago)

why so sad, ben? it's lex's birthday

― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 August 2012 19:31 (fourteen years ago)

He is not sad. He is pining, soulfully, for Lex.

― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 30 August 2012 19:36 (fourteen years ago)

I like Ben just like that :D

― lex pretend, Thursday, 30 August 2012 19:42 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

hey lex, do u know ester rada? she's an ethiopian israeli r&b singer. her ep is here, i guess there's an lp expected later this year. curious what you think:
http://esterrada.bandcamp.com/album/life-happens-ep

― Mordy, Sunday, 20 January 2013 14:41 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

Another year of Lex!

― faghetti (fgti), Saturday, 30 August 2014 14:30 (twelve years ago)

happy birthday lex, keep up the good work

― Daphnis Celesta, Saturday, 30 August 2014 14:34 (twelve years ago)

As this latest ILX personality seems to hijack every thread I read with what I'm still not sure isn't trolling, I'm gonna say Happy Birthday.

― birdman junior dad (some dude), Saturday, 30 August 2014 14:53 (twelve years ago)

ffm forever

― markers, Saturday, 30 August 2014 15:28 (twelve years ago)

hb lex, keep hijackin those threads

― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Saturday, 30 August 2014 17:57 (twelve years ago)

nine months pass...

It seems like he hates most music.

― maybe/whatever/so what/boring (admrl), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:40 (eleven years ago)

most shit music

― Twee Speech and Crepey Literalism (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 19:02 (eleven years ago)

oh right

― maybe/whatever/so what/boring (admrl), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 19:04 (eleven years ago)

always baffling to me when people are riled up by lex. i find his opprobrium at the very least entertaining even if i don't agree. he's good on music he likes, which is usually in places with like "3 new answers" or w/e so tends to be missed? idk

― bag lady bag (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 19:30 (eleven years ago)

classic

― joked for the dadness (wins), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 19:33 (eleven years ago)

lex is classic I want to cook dinner for lex sometime

― jennifer islam (silby), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 05:58 (eleven years ago)

lex is classic

indie rockers be butthurt

― brimstead, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 06:15 (eleven years ago)

It seems like he hates most music.

― maybe/whatever/so what/boring (admrl), Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:40 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know he's expressive and vehement when he hates something but c'mon this perception is so weird... do you ever check the bobbins thread or like r&b threads?

― brimstead, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 06:17 (eleven years ago)

i love music

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 06:53 (eleven years ago)

have i even been hating on much recently? apart from pc music but obvvvvv that is utter trash

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 06:53 (eleven years ago)

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