To Lurkdom or Bust: Alex in NYC says Kinda Bye for a Little While...

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...like it matters to anyone.

Given the new job that I've just started (day 2 was today), it seems my time getting agitated by the inanities of ILM is to be drastically cut down (or until such time as I get settled in at work that I can safely juggle tasks and downtime, etc. etc.) At the moment, I'm suffering from the new kid in school syndrome, frantically inventing tasks for myself in a vain attempt to look busy and not appear entirely foolish and useless. In any event, by the time I get home, I'm more inclined to spend time with Charlotte than peruse ILM. I'm not vanishing entirely, but I may not be as vocal a presence here for a while. Please make sure the fire is honored and the cheese monkeys are fed to famished jackals in my quasi-absence.

Oh, and for the record, via nefarious means, I have obtained the entirety of the new Killing Joke record. I am not immediately floored (Jaz's voice is shot), but it's still better than whatever little rinkydink indie backpack teen pop crunk undie hip hop crapola that you're currently grooving to, you pabulum-engorged newts.

Don't take everything too seriously.

Piece, man

Alex in NYC

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 January 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

end of an era.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 January 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

You'll be back. (And with news of the new baby at that!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 January 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

He's right. It is better than the little rinkydink indie backpack teen pop crunk undie hip hop crapola that I'm currently grooving to.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Friday, 6 January 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/c4/375px-Goodbye.gif

― gear (gear), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://wally.wa.funpic.de/4images/data/media/19/goodbye.jpg

― gear (gear), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.caa.co.za/publications_files/CAA%20Media%20Scan/July%202003/11.7.03_files%5CSuper%20tonic%20goodbye.jpg

― gear (gear), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

When the meaningful words, when they cease to function, when there's nothing to say, when will it start bothering you?

― Dom iNut (donut), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008DCRE.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― gear (gear), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.justpetstrollers.com/happy_trails_pet_stroller_collapsible.jpg

― gear (gear), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.furryangel.com/cd.jpg

― gear (gear), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

awww LAME! Yr one of the first posters I remember coming across here, yr cranky old punk presence will be missed, surely.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

i'm curious as to what the new job is. i really am. can you tell?

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

he'll be back. playing with toddlers gets old in a hurry!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

hes workin at mtv news..speakin of inanities..have fun tho

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

all the alexes in _________ salute you!

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not dying or moving to Bulgaria or anything. It's just that I don't have as much downtime at the office to fuck around on ILX, and when i get home at night, I'd like to spend some time with the wife and child (before she goes to bed, shortly after I get home) then log onto ILM to tell somebody that he's an abject jackass for still listening to New Edition (or whomever). As time goes on, I'm sure my professional regard for office decorum and proper conduct will invariably slack, and I'll sneak in as much ILM terrorizing as I can, but in the interim, until I get my bearings at the office, I just won't be here as much, I fear (though you can always check out my stupid weblog by clicking here.

And yeah, I'm working at MTV News Online.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

it took me awhile to realize that the alexes were all different and not a single nomadic alex.

― gear (gear), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations, Alex!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.susu.org/photo/goodbye_alex.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://blogs.salon.com/0003517/images/2004/05/12/ENOUGH.gif

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait to see the Killing Joke documentaries, Alex! Good luck to ya!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

Given his new job, I expect to see Alex (anonymously) posting "unconfirmed rumours" about pop stars on various threads.

Good luck with everything!

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

Given his new job, I expect his boss & colleagues to become ILXors, posting plausible rumours about Alex on various threads.

― blunt (blunt), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

"Black friend of the night, why do you leave in such a hurry?
White friend of the day - you left us working on our worries
Never say goodbye, for we'll all be with you someday
Fond adieus but never say goodbye
Like lovers of the past, they swim and surface in our memories
Those questions never last, I'll save them all for the next century
Never say goodbye, for we'll all be with you someday
Fond adieus but never say goodbye, never say goodbye
Tell us what's over the horizon
Is it worth the chance to stick around for more surprising
Never say goodbye, for we'll all be with you someday
Fond adieus but never say goodbye
Never say goodbye, for we'll all be with you someday
Fond adieus but never say goodbye"

― Stewart Osborneinblack (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 6 January 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

ditto.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 6 January 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Have fun! Don't be a stranger :(

― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Friday, 6 January 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Goodluck with the job.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Alex, I didn't always agree with what you were saying, but it was always interesting to hear what you had to say. Also, I love the first Devo record.

Yours truly,
mcd

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Piece, man

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

i have obtained the entirety of the new denny lethargy record

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Piece man

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Your absence will be palpable!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Bye, Alex, sort of, for a while anyway! I hardly knew ye, but thanks for joining me in obsessing about Gang of Four and in reasoned, dispassionate, scholarly debate re Patti Smith ("Sucks!" "Rules!" "SUCKS!" "RULES!" "SUCKS!!!"). Good luck.

― xero (xero), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

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http://www.facets.org/Images/browseCatalog/vertigo.jpg

― gear (gear), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

Good luck, and enjoy doing your bit to ensure that our youth listen to nothing but fetid robotic pabulum worthy only of a butt catapult into a cheesemonkey's pustule of suckness.

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

I guess this would be the right place to recall that, on first joining ILM, I was convinced Alex was about 15 years old and got all freaked out when he mentioned his wife.

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

seriously i will miss alex (and charlotte!). obv it's a cliché, but i actually decided to check out killing joke because there was this mentalist on the internet. and thanks for organizing that fap in july when i was so drunk that people thought i was developmentally disabled. rock.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

Two ILXors sucked into the belly of the MTV beast...

― Mitya (mitya), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

I can't go on. I'll go on.

― Sam in Montparnassico (rogermexico), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

There is a tiny kinda Alex in most of us. Continue fighting the good fight for A Fierce Pancake. *hand*

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

I will cry myself to sleep tonight. There is no comfort in this cruel, cold world.

― Freud Junior, Third Cousin to Chuck Norris (Freud Junior), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Alex,

i've lurked here for a few months now, since finding my name mentioned here multiple times through a google search. a quick search of the archives has led me to see you as one of my earliest champions on this board. as a result, sales of my back catalogue have surged .21% in the past 4 months alone. i must thank you for that, sir, as times have been tough for the last decade. id also like to thank the rest of this board for helping Alex in his quest for spreading the Lethargy Gospel.

anyway, good luck Alex and blessings upon your family and new job.

rock on with your frock on,

d-leth

― denny lethargy, Saturday, 7 January 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

my favourite afternoon with alex:
What was on Avril's coat?
take it easy, alex and don't piss on avril's coat when she comes to mtv.
you're a good egg, you'll be missed around here.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 7 January 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

from one alex to another: good luck and good bye (for now, anyway...)

― latebloomer: Let's just say I do for bullshit what Stonehenge did for Rocks (lat, Saturday, 7 January 2006 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

I can't go on. I'll go on.

OTM

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 7 January 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

I for one welcome our new fire-dishonoring overlords.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 7 January 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Alex NYC: proof that writing prowess does not neccessarily = taste in music. Godspeed!

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Saturday, 7 January 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Alex NYC: proof that when you've made one good album and coasted for twenty years, there'll always be some fool who'll love your shitty band.

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Saturday, 7 January 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

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Patti Smith does suck. Always has. Always will.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

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― Jena, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

what's yr blog again alex, i forgot...

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Alex! (This is Dan P)

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

hello alex -- i am not here all that often anymore, either ;__;

nice to see you, though, dude!!

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

yo dog!@!!

-jon

― JW, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

yo dog!@!!

alex in nyc: ILX's old-school punk rottweiler:

http://users.aber.ac.uk/crw4/what_is_a_rottweiler_like_files/image002.jpg

or, if he were a rapper, he'd be DMX:

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/statusainthood/archives/images/dmx.JPG

:-)

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

The blog can be found right here

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:26 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, why SHOULD scarlett johanssen's singing with the JAMC piss you off at all alex?!? doesn't seem any worse than when ian mcculloch did that soccer song with the spice girls ...

... on second thought, i think that i answered my own question.

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:30 (eighteen years ago)

The return of the Alex. Now all is well.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:31 (eighteen years ago)

cameron diaz on-stage w/ throbbing gristle actually sounds like a GREAT idea. she and genesis can compare cleavage ...

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

Who cares about Alex? It's Stewart who needs to post more.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

Alex, any show going plans of note. I would like to buy your a beer!

― JW, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 03:39 (eighteen years ago)

--ian mcculloch did that soccer song with the spice girls ... --

link plz

― deeznuts, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 03:45 (eighteen years ago)

--ian mcculloch did that soccer song with the spice girls ... --

link plz

-- deeznuts, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:45 PM (7 minutes ago)

from the wikipedia entry on ian mcculloch:

In 1998, McCulloch teamed up with the Spice Girls, Tommy Scott of Space and Simon Fowler of Ocean Colour Scene as "England United" to record Top of the World, the official song for Team England in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, although it fared less well than a reissue of "Three Lions".

ocean colour scene & space, too -- ugh!!!!

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

alex, while yer here vote in my "best joy division album" poll -- you don't need to post any messages if you can't spare the time, just a vote will do!

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 04:41 (eighteen years ago)

And to think that for a while I thought this deeznuts guy was donut.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 05:35 (eighteen years ago)

i have no idea what that means but alex yr stone cold classic, stick motherfucker

― deeznuts, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

anyway, this is how much we miss you alex:

http://www.tombraider4u.com/pictures/sadfaces.jpg

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 08:43 (eighteen years ago)

Alex, any show going plans of note. I would like to buy your a beer!
Nothing on the immediate agenda, I'm afraid -- but I'll always welcome beer.

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Okay, kids. I start my new job today. I may have to vanish back into the ether again.

STOP LISTENING TO AND VOCIFEROUSLY CHAMPIONING MUSIC THAT ISN'T UP TO SCRATCH!!!! RAISE THE BAR!!!!

Over and out for now.

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 11:38 (seventeen years ago)

Good luck!

― StanM, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 11:40 (seventeen years ago)

yeah - lets hope this one is a good'un Alex.
take care.

― mark e, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 11:42 (seventeen years ago)

Good luck, Alex.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 26 March 2008 11:46 (seventeen years ago)

Stop by when you can Alex, your presence around here is valued a lot by me!! but enjoy the new job and make a ton of money man!!

― J0hn D., Wednesday, 26 March 2008 12:04 (seventeen years ago)

what he said

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 12:05 (seventeen years ago)

much love, papa bear.

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 12:43 (seventeen years ago)

good luck alex!!!

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Okay, so I'm back.

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 20 April 2008 22:46 (seventeen years ago)

Looking for career advice again?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 20 April 2008 22:49 (seventeen years ago)

j/k

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 20 April 2008 22:50 (seventeen years ago)

What is (hopefully not "was") the new gig?

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 20 April 2008 22:51 (seventeen years ago)

I thought new policy was to maintain radio silence on the issue.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 20 April 2008 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

No, I'm still working. I just don't need to sequester myself away from the rest of the world while doing so.

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 20 April 2008 23:33 (seventeen years ago)

I can still maintain radio silence about the job itself -- were that it was only that interesting.

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 20 April 2008 23:33 (seventeen years ago)

Alex, I don't know if you were ever an M.I.A. fan (the eighties band, that is), but if you were, I don't know if you know about this story. I only learned the other day.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 April 2008 23:56 (seventeen years ago)

Alex, may the benevolent lizards of goth be with you.

xpost

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 20 April 2008 23:58 (seventeen years ago)

Alex, I feel like we must be having shows you want to come see; you should hit me up off thread about them sometime.

― forksclovetofu, Monday, 21 April 2008 01:10 (seventeen years ago)

howdy alex!

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 21 April 2008 02:49 (seventeen years ago)

Ahoy

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 21 April 2008 17:21 (seventeen years ago)

Do you still hate Motown and Bruce Springsteen?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 21 April 2008 17:41 (seventeen years ago)

Never hated either. Don't really like either, but I don't hate'em. I reserve my hatred for much more deserving foes.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 21 April 2008 21:15 (seventeen years ago)

I have just realized that Firewater is playing NYC just before I arrive for a wedding, and playing Minneapolis while I am at the wedding, meaning I will miss them entirely. No need for a response, just figured you would be one of the only people that could truly understand my pain.

― John Justen, Monday, 21 April 2008 21:19 (seventeen years ago)

Sorry to hear it, John. I'm planning on catching their Manhattan show. They're playing in Brooklyn too, but that's the same night I'm supposed to see X. We'll see. Anyway, don't fret -- they'll be back.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 00:19 (seventeen years ago)

Alex, hey ya!

Glad you're back. How many times have you quit ILX?

― Wrinklepaws, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 01:10 (seventeen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CTyQRx4lPwA

― omar little, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 01:14 (seventeen years ago)

2nd thread revival in as many months, Alex. How can we miss you if you won't go away?

(Kidding!)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 01:25 (seventeen years ago)

nice

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 02:23 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.trunkrecords.com/recommend/rec_img/October_04/vivstanshall.jpg
Nice!

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 02:26 (seventeen years ago)

I was just listening to "Can blue men sing the whites" not five minutes ago!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 08:16 (seventeen years ago)

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