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I'm giving you all a full week's notice so you can readjust your Memorial Day weekend plans to include doing time on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, so be grateful! We've decided that Saturday, May 26th would be a fantastic time to organize a little get together for anyone who wants to come. It'll be at the Potion Lounge on Columbus Ave and 78th Street in NYC, starting say around 7pm in order to A) snag a table and B) allow people who have to catch trains sufficient time to party. It's pretty close to the 1/9 subway line, so it's very easy to get back to Penn Station from there, for those concerned.

If you're in the "greater NYC area", which when I say it basically means anywhere from Maine to Florida, then come on down.

― Ally, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

No.

― , Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Damn, and I was so hoping you'd come so Ramon could destroy you, neuro.

― Ally, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Who's Ramon?

― , Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

And why do people who make threats always assume they'll win? It's pretty funny. It's kind of like when tough guys say "faggot" to taunt people, assuming that'll really get them riled. If you're talking about a verbal confrontation, nobody would win, clearly. Rarely are people actually proven wrong (as far as they know) and persistence usually turns to mindless violence, one ego trying to dominate the other. You might as well anally rape the opposition. Also, nobody ever really wins actual fights, since either the beaten person comes back later to "destroy you" with a weapon or with a big brother or a lawyer or a policeman. Pretty stupid, actually.

― , Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Dude, chill the fuck out. He wants to destroy everyone. It's pretty amusing to listen to him go off for no real reason. Do you have to be an asshole in every thread?

― Ally, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

you can meet perennial ilm faves like: ME!

― fred solinger, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Will you destroy us too, Fred?

― Josh, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I'd love to show up and clink glasses with some of the names I've seen bandied about here, and I promise not to discuss how shitty Courtney Love really is or how mightily I honor the fire of Killing Joke.

Must it really be the Upper West Side though? There are many more exciting things downtown....

― alex in nyc, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Fred will destroy you with his MIND NUMBING MAGNETIC FIELDS CONVERSATION! HAHAHAHAHA! ;)

It has to be on the Upper West Side because 4 of us will be on the Upper West Side, and the three of the four not named Ally are all lazy and hate walking and taking subways, plus just knowing from living in NJ, it'll be sort of convenient enough for the NJ constituency. If anyone has any other suggestions - preferrably no further than midtown because I hate doing the subway thing to downtown - I will be willing to consider moving location ;)

I'll admit I'm just picking Potion because Cesar works there on Saturdays and he's totally my man. We'll be meeting at Potion first but I'm all about the crawl.

Oh! You guys should look for me and Stephanie, I'm the tall chick who'll probably be wearing black with shaggy red-blonde hair that looks like this and Steph is a really, really tiny blonde girl who is planning on wearing some red dress.

― Ally, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I'm in Tokyo, but even if I were in New York -- where I keep an apartment -- that weekend, 78th Street might as well be another country. That's way too far uptown! Personally, I never go above 14th.

― Momus, Friday, 18 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Momus, I don't even leave my own apartment building now that the Germans are across the hall. Unless I'm getting a tattoo, then I go to W. 4th. That's a good place to go. Let's all meet at Modern Age on W. 4th and get tattoos. I totally would've never thought of that if not for Momus. Thank you, Momus.

― Ally, Saturday, 19 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

momus we love you.

― ethan, Saturday, 19 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Will ILM's Jimmy The Mod make a suprise appearance? Probably not. He has an image to maintain.

(insert comebacker here)

― JM, Saturday, 19 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

am i the first the first to say that ally is a hottie. i'll go fetch paper towels now..

― arrow core..!, Sunday, 20 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Well, thank you, I think.

― Ally, Sunday, 20 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I'd go but will be out of the area until June. Hopefully, there will be a second one if y'all don't kill each other.

― bnw, Monday, 21 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Damn. I guess Toronto could be considered in the "greater NYC area", but I think I'll have to pass, despite wanting to feel the love. (I wonder if there are enough people in Toronto and vicinity for a viable ILM pub meet). Have fun!

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 21 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Like Momus, I keep an apartment in New York (well, technically it's in Cleveland Ohio, which is the New York of Ohio. Actually though Toledo is the New York of Ohio with Cleveland a close second). I guess I won't be making it afterall. Too bad because I look fetching in my Nehru.

The least you could do is go to a bar with Jan and Dean on the jukebox.

― Steven James, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

momus, i don't think 'a bathhouse' is the same as keeping an apartment....

― joe samson, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well? Whose tattoo is coolest?

― mark s, Sunday, 27 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Paul (not doompatrol, sorry - other Paul), if you're reading this, e- mail me. We must discuss.

― Dave M., Sunday, 27 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Minutes are being drawn up.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Cleveland Ohio, which is the New York of Ohio"

heh heh. Indeed. I am always somewhat let down when I meet people "for real" . Everyone seems better in cyber form. No one smells online.

― Mike Hanley, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We all survived. Some of us just barely, i.e. I almost kicked the crap out of someone, but a good time was basically had by all. Cheers to Tracer Hand for bringing us to a fly little party downtown after Potion. We all gotta do it again, and this time Mike Daddino and Fred Solinger better show up - you missed the drama, yo, not to mention the explanation of certain screen names and a whole pile of nice people.

― Ally, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was a good time. Someone apologizes to everyone he slandered, i.e. everyone. He's still looking for his car though. He hates people who talk in the third person.

― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh, i was there. i was just going by the name "peter."

i thought today couldn't get any lamer or more wasteful, but here i am, posting in the hoboken terminal. how shitty.

― fred solinger, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When did Hoboken's train station add computers? It's too bad it's in, you know, dirty ass Hoboken, cos it's pretty much way cooler than Penn.

― Ally, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always thought Hoboken was hella cool because there was this children's book about the ghost of a chicken that haunted Hoboken.

You don't hear about chickens haunting NYC!

― Nicole, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's because we have cooler shit than chickens haunting us. Like horses. I'm scared as all fuck of horses.

― Ally, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As long as they weren't like Mr. Ed and started talking to me I wouldn't be too bothered. They'd probably just clomp around and leave ghostly horse shit. But since it is ghostly there'd be no clean up involved...

Chickens are another matter though, they are second only to monkeys and clowns in their unnerving creepiness.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there's one computer in the terminal. it took forever to connect, though.

hoboken is world-renown for frank sinatra and allegedly having more bars per capita than anyone in the world. and having done more than my fair share of walking around the town, it's hard to dispute.

― fred solinger, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If fred was walking around my town I'd want to drink too. ;-)

― Nicole, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nicole, don't make me start writing songs about you again.

― fred solinger, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dude, why do you think I was ragging on you in the first place?

Write a song about me, and you have a vendetta against you for life.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nicole: Cash Cow or New Ally (which is basically the same thing as Evil Bitch)? Discuss.

Actually, judging by last night, I'd say Stephanie is the New Ally, but that's a whole other story. Good lord, Fred, I think you and her were both PMSing.

― Ally, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no, i was just annoyed and aggravated.

― fred solinger, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did anyone take any pics? Who had the best drugs? Best shoes?

― Steven James, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'll say this: jimmy the mod's no-show did little to quell my suspicions that he is little more than a figment of sterling clover's hyperactive imagination!

― fred solinger, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fred: Isn't it better that I'm elusive? I mean, I could be sitting behind you right now... think about that for a while.

¿Creepy, innit?

Besides, Sterl couldn't make somebody like me up.

― JM, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I so obviously had the best shoes it's not even funny, and I wore them with fishnets so I was absolutely awesome, until I ripped the stupid stockings sitting on the roof of someone's apartment. Stupid gravel. Very minimal pics though, I think I have like one picture of Ramon flipping off the camera, and a couple of Stephanie on the bed at the hotel, making "sexy" faces at me for no reason. Being as these are the two people who have no idea what ILM is, it's really a pointless photo roll.

― Ally, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nicole: Cash Cow or New Ally (which is basically the same thing as Evil Bitch)? Discuss.

Proud to be a cash cow, and an evil bitch but I don't think I could say I'm the new Ally. Wouldn't that kind of imply that you're dead or washed up or something? And I'm too much the geek (and not in the irritating "proud to be a geek!" sense)...

― Nicole, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I AM dead and washed up, or at least torn up, according to my coworkers. First thing said to me by someone besides the receptionist: "Jesus, you look a little torn up today". Good fucking morning to you too. Anyhow you aren't a geek, you are awesome. I won't stand for such talk.

― Ally, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

To all who left the Chinatown loft early: shame. The board may be interested to note that the dancefloor did finally explode, in response to a mighty troika of "Gigantic" "I Bleed" and "Here Comes Your Man".

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, jeez, people started dancing? Fucking hell. I was waiting ALL NIGHT for the dancing to occur, and the best I got was you and Steph goof dancing. Jesus. I am so disappointed, I really didn't want to leave to be honest but everyone else did.

― Ally, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what kind of dancing does one do to "gigantic"? i've never been privileged to see anyone dance to anything but dance music.

― fred solinger, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I believe you do an overly literal Pan's People style routine to it. It involves finding a man called Paul to dance with you and making expansive drama class-type stretchy arm motions to the chorus. Or pointing at your groin if you are feeling fruity.

Sorry, I don't even know what I'm doing on this thread.

― Nick, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

to make the joke more obvious, when you find paul, do you ask him if he wants to have a ball?

what am *I* doing on this thread?

― fred solinger, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lots of grinning all round and a general sort of upper body bob, as if one were digging a post hole to trip somebody with.

p.s. Ally, ne1: what was in those pink shots? i think i'm just going to refer to them as "pink trouble" from now on. (anyone looking for a band name?)

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Luv, fuck me if I know what they were. I bet they just consisted of whatever stuff they had that was nearly empty, all poured into glasses. They were pretty good though. "PINK IS ALWAYS TROUBLE". That's the slogan of the night, I reckon.

― Ally, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what was in those pink shots?

Hang on, isn't that porn industry speak for hardcore pudenda shots? It all sounds much more interesting than the London pub get together. Not that I went to that either.

― Nick, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Of course it was more interesting than the London meet, I was there, and, as everyone knows, I'm the biggest whore in the world. Or so I heard. Plus: fantastical bubbling windows! Taxi rides to Canal! ROOF TOPS! Hello!

― Ally, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Should there be another London pub meet it has to be more like this one. Or everyone must consume vast amounts of VERY HARD DRUGS, and the resulting mess will become an urban myth, totally outclassing the NYC meet.

― DG, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DG, I think you missed an important clue: "Minutes are being drawn up" (Tracer Hand, some way up-thread, dated the DAY AFTER).

Nothing of note happened, just like the London meet, and it's taken the chastened crew THREE DAYS OF FRANTIC MUTUAL EMAILING (plus an extremely indulgent Nick Dastoor with porn — as ever — on the tip of his tongue) to concoct the legend you have just read.

― mark s, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mark, i fear the actual delay was related to damage control, i.e. how much of the story do we let out?

― fred solinger, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So? Doesn't mean we can't get together for a legendary evening of VERY HARD DRUGS. Like paracetamol.

― DG, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just found my car, yo. Then ten minutes later I was driving my mom's Honda down the road and a wheel fell off and I had to walk home. Karmic payback, some might say.

― Otis Wheeler, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The whole story would be far too damaging to some people's reputations and egos. I mean, a non-ILM friend of mine was told to her face that an ILMer wanted her dead - and that's probably the most printable comment. It was very rock 'n' roll. Some might say Tommy Lee/Courtney Love/Eminem-like.

― Ally, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jimmy's right, he's far too strange for anyone to invent. Meanwhile, the ILM-West meetup sorta took place the day before. By which I mean that Ned, Kris, and I bored a bunch of other people stiff with our constant music talk.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually Ally I thought it was a little more emo-core, with occasional blasts of punk. So the evening was much like an 8th-grade mix tape.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did you turn up at the London meet, Mark? If so, you obviously arrived (as I know the Pinefox did) after I left :).

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was in a pub, Robin, wasn't it? (a) I'm not allowed (b) nothing interesting *ever* happens in a pub. (b) is the reason for (a) — tho vice versa works also, come to think of it.

― mark s, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Holy fuck, it's true, I'm emo. Now I HAVE to off myself.

― Otis Wheeler, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

EMO? Thank christ I left the table and hung out at the bar. Not only did Cesar come talk to me but I had no association with emo. Plus - when you lot got kicked out, my good reputation at Potion was not tarnished!

― Ally, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just givin ya a hard time kid. I've just looked it up and torn fishnets are definitely rock n roll. But where are the PICS??? (so youse Brits can see what a class bunch we iz)

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I forgot about my camera :(

― Ally, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes Mark, it was in a pub. I'm tempted to agree with you, but it's all relative; pubs are much better for me on quiet midsummer Sunday afternoons.

Which was the time and place of the first and best FT meet. Is there another one, Tom? And what about the Oxford boat meet?

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 31 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Here are the pics, two anyway (and a bunch of other shit). Are we cool or not?

― Otis Wheeler, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Here are the pics.

― Otis Wheeler, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dude, you had a camera????? I totally woulda like done myself the fuck up if I knew someone besides me had a camera.

That picture of Ramon and Stephanie at the bottom is the funniest shit I ever saw in my entire life. Ramon is a wussbag, he lets girls crush him. Some destroyer.

― Ally, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whoa Otis, you live in a barn? A barn with a Madonna poster?

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not a barn, it's a garden shed. I also have a Britney poster.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It totally looks like Pa Ingalls is there, just outside the shot. If Pa Ingalls was insane and into instruments of torture. If Little House on the Prarie was like that, it'd be my favorite show ever.

― Ally, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

Dude, I was looking for my old posts for the thread about first posts and I found this, this is the funniest thing ever - EMOCORE. Tracer is a brilliant man.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

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