What Did You Do With No ILM For Two Weeks?

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I partied like it was 1999. I listened to punk rock. I had a FAP with my eddytor and his family on Martha's Vineyard. That was fun. I ate pizza. I was outside a lot more and I don't know how I feel about that. Hope everyone had fun.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 16 July 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it symbolic that after the two weeks of dreadful weather in the UK, now ILX is back it looks like the weather is picking up?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 16 July 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I knifed a hobo.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 16 July 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Same as most- I wished it would come back online early, checking often, and went back to old msg boards to lurk there.....

― mclaugh (mclaugh), Friday, 16 July 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I spent time on some single-topic music boards. Like, boards dedicated to one band. I JUST CAN'T DO IT ANYMORE!!! I just can't stay on topic! I just can't not lose my shit at kneejerk pop-haters or stuck up indie kids. I missed you, ILM. ::mwah mwah:: Never go away again!

― Ma$onic Boom (kate), Friday, 16 July 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i found that my job was just tooo boring. i entered therapy for depression and my wife threatened divorce. nope. didn't miss ILM one bit. well ok a little .. just dont tell my lawyer ..
welcome back one and all. feels good. if only i could get my post entered !

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 16 July 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

MASTERBETED

― Amazing Randy (Amazing Randy), Friday, 16 July 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I was knifed.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 16 July 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i hit 'refresh'

― tipustiger, Friday, 16 July 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I went camping in Wales. I ascended to Level 5 in Kingdom Of Loathing.

― Mog, Friday, 16 July 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I went on holiday to Austria...which was nice.

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 16 July 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

got more work done

― coco, Friday, 16 July 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I nursed my injured foot, missed a lot of really good salsa happenings, and didn't read books as much as I thought I would. Bought some new CDs. Where's that thread?

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 16 July 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot it existed.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 16 July 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

started listening to music again

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 16 July 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

wait - maybe i DID get more work done. hmm. well, thats the end of THAT.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 16 July 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot it existed.

Which is why you're back straight after it re-opened?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 16 July 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

And yes, spent a little more time on other boards, usually taking things a little off topic.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 16 July 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

cleaned out my cubicle and in the process filled half a giant recycling bin with papers. changed my desktop backround a thousand times

― kephm, Friday, 16 July 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i worked.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 16 July 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

was about 10% more bored at work

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 16 July 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i woke up

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 16 July 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i realized that it wasn't really the internet stopping me from enjoying life. i also pretended to do some work. and then, yesterday, i got sick.

― m. (mitchlnw), Friday, 16 July 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

enjoyed two solid weeks of not seeing the name "devendra banhart" at all.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I mostly went about business as usual, occasionally visiting my ILM bookmark out of habit, bringing myself to the realization that I read ILM way more than I had thought.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Tried out a new anti-anxiety medicine, got a massage, identified some insects and fungi, "opened" for IZITITIZ, listened to the Mopomoso Solos 2002 cd, got some rest.

― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Rockist:

I saw Philly-based Dominican republic merengue band Franklin Hernandez y sus Tipican Brothers play for free a few times at the Smithsonian Folklife festival between the Washington Monument and the Capitol in Washington D.C. Franklin's a big guy who plays a tiny accordion, and he's backed by an electric bassist, a percussionist and a sax player. Sometimes it sounded like polka sped up by Kanye West. A "traditional" band that's alot of fun...The Smithsonian had lots of bands from Spanish-speaking countries there, plus an Haitian theme as well.

― Steve Kiviat (Steve K), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i got married -- really.

― newnumbertwo, Friday, 16 July 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh heh. I got divorced.

― Ma$onic Boom (kate), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Played frisbee

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried and failed to buy a house on the northwest side of Chicago for less than $270,000.

― frankE (frankE), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

mostly went about business as usual, occasionally visiting my ILM bookmark out of habit, bringing myself to the realization that I read ILM way more than I had thought.

Ditto for me. I especially missed ILM on my overnight shifts at work...incredulously visiting this funereal black screen again and again.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

speaking of the black screen, why did it change from funny (and v. ILXish) to boring? did people actually complain?

― common_person (common_person), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Because of a tremor in the Force.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i did frisbee too - joined a league even¡
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i checked out the toronto electronic music festival - some jega jazzists, manitoba, junior boys, dj serious, etc.
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i took in janet cardiff's 40 part motet, which i recommend for any ilm'ies in the area.

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Monday 5th was a difficult day. After that I didn't really miss ILM too much. But work's been busy anyway lately. Read more of the Freaky Trig blogs and other ILXer's/music blogs than I would otherwise have done, so that was good.

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Subscribed to the I Hate Music board on bagatellen. More anonymous, fewer laughs, but still more valuable than most mailing list activity.

Cursed my employer for keeping IE as its standard web browser.

Cursed AMG for imploding.

― doug watson (solid air), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriousy, what the fuck happened to Allmusic? It completely sucks a big bag of dicks now.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

what the fuck happened to Allmusic?

It appears that their new alliance with Microsoft has included the adoption of their partner's bulky and buggy code. Tragic.

― doug watson (solid air), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

IT'S BACK!!!! WOO-HOO!!

(I hated that 2-week raft of a forum on network54...)

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Friends visited, made plans to visit other people (going to NY later today), indulged in Dursteria on Two Weeks. Whenever I got too bored at work I just dived headlong into the music blogosphere (which seems to get bigger every day).

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, but JP Almeida, TWX had the Durst thread: http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/message?forumid=323139&messageid=1089984424

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

x post

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Franklin Hernandez y sus Tipican Brothers

I've never heard of them. Maybe they are the same band I saw a few years ago on New Year's Eve. My friend and I showed up about an hour before the club was scheduled to close (since we had been at a concert), but they still charged us the same amount. The host said, "We flew this band in all the way in from the Dominican Republic." My friend later whispered to me: "That's the same band they have here every week."

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 16 July 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i got into prince again. big time.

― piscesboy, Friday, 16 July 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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Chew, that Fred Durst demo is hilarious...
Fred Durst, the Vanilla Ice wannabe!!! :P

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Friday, 16 July 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I just borrowed Rainbow Children, which has some nice music mixed in with Prince's vocodored religious appeals.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 16 July 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I fell in love.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I fell in mud.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Rainbow Children, vocoded sermons and all...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 16 July 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

there should be a thread on how bad allmusicguide is now.

― reo, Friday, 16 July 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a good point.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

there is one already.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

even though I KNEW ilm would be down i still came to the site. i dont know what the hell i was thinking -- maybe it would recognize my IP address and suddenly appear just for me? perhaps? i can be that dumb.

otherwise, i remember there was some holiday, i was angry because my pay raise was botched at work, i ate some food, slept booked a couple shows.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Honestly, I thought it was really amazing how many people I know were upset or whose lives were disturbed by not having ILM for a few weeks. Says a lot, I think — good things, too.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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http://www.bullsting.blogspot.com
http://www.lemon ..........

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i started to redo my cdr challenge of death because my old one sucked

― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i settled into the opening two weeks of my first-ever bout with unemployment.

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Saturday, 17 July 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Found out that cocaine is "One hell of a drug", and cursed at Charlie Murphy a few times.

― NUXX (NUXX), Saturday, 17 July 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I spent most of my time on George Michael's message board.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Saturday, 17 July 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I travelled around Indiana. It's really a beautiful state.

I cooked. Cheap-ass fruit and veggie vendors pop-up everywhere around the highways this time of year. Eggplant stirfry. Vegan burritos.

I drank. I realized half-involved ILM posts are the best way to waste time when you're hungover. I missed that.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 17 July 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I remembered how to make a proper omelet and got a tan.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 18 July 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought of like 500 awesome thread ideas and then forgot them all except the bad one - "t/s (sexiness edition) : prince vs rick james".

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 18 July 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Same here on the thread ideas. Though maybe only ten, which for me would be an astounding number.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 18 July 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the usual stuff that people like me do

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Sunday, 18 July 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i drank a lot of beer, read a little bit, traveled, etc

― tricky disco, Sunday, 18 July 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I realized apathy is the best way to live.

― Cacaman Flores, Sunday, 18 July 2004 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i met col barrow and edward o

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 18 July 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I spent a lot of time reading the popjustice boards, listening to Chuck Berry, and drinking gin'n'lime. I'm now totally out of the habit of opening up an ILx browser: I keep forgetting that it's back.

― cis (cis), Sunday, 18 July 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

After the 5th and 6th, I thought about it very little. Almost disturbingly little.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 18 July 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriousy, what the fuck happened to Allmusic?
Yeah-hehheh, it made even Ned-man flee to another part of the world :):(

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 18 July 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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