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i've posted a few times before but i stopped cause life got a little hectic, and also i felt a bit outclassed. my record collection is much smaller than all of y'alls. also i never did an "answer this first" thread. regardless, i think this place is extremely interesting, i love reading it, and i'd like to contribute occasionally.

i like the birthday party, the velvet underground, early pere ubu, early red krayola, the pixies, later tom waits, among other things.

i also like the slackers and the hives and i think shadowy men on a shadowy planet are criminally underappreciated.

nice to meet you all.

― adam j (In Place of Something Clever), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

my record collection is much smaller than all of y'alls.

Copy/paste 'size doesn't matter' post here. And re-welcome!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

wotcha.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 22 September 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

it's just that they have more awful records than you do.

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 23 September 2006 01:19 (twenty years ago)

I know I do.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 23 September 2006 01:21 (twenty years ago)

Oh Adam, I'm sure you're better suited to this place than I am, and I've been a sore thumb at least 60 times. So post away.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Saturday, 23 September 2006 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Hi.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 23 September 2006 01:41 (twenty years ago)

Step 1: Sweetly, unassumingly introduce self
Step 2: Get up the nerve to post on a few threads
Step 3: Express a strong opinion
Step 4: Go through long period of being relentlessly mocked by assholes
Step 5: Become completely hardened to all mocking
Step 6: Turn into mocking asshole

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:41 (twenty years ago)

Step 6: Turn into mocking asshole

Rinse and repeat.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:42 (twenty years ago)

the ilx 6-step program to living in the 21st century

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:49 (twenty years ago)

with mocking tone

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 23 September 2006 02:50 (twenty years ago)

Hi, I'm Jason. I made the "guess the artist's name based on a string of pictures" thread. So far all of my posts have been short, witless, and irrelevant, and I'm probably a rockist. At the moment I'm listening to a Turtles anthology. I'm a college student. "Love in the City" has a nice coda. Ned Raggett is real neat.

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Saturday, 23 September 2006 03:05 (twenty years ago)

yo there Jason. If they're not calling for your head by the end of your first week, it's been a successful induction.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Saturday, 23 September 2006 08:03 (twenty years ago)

Jason, if they are calling for your head after the first week, it's because you accidentally used the Louis Jagger 6-step method instead:

Step 1: Express many strong opinions as a form of "hello". Doesn't matter what they are.
Step 2: Attempt to show up Ned Raggett. That'll turn some heads.
Step 3: Get cheeky! Throw around as many "controversial" opinions as possible. Slay some sacred cows. Whatever it takes!
Step 4: It's never too early to start throwing around "x-posts", "memes", and other ILM phrases. This will help you pretend you've been around longer.
Step 5: Two words: Posting Whore. Get yourself out there! Skip classes, work etc.
Step 6: In every other post, make sure to mention at least one of the regs in order to curry favor with them. Your longterm mission is to ingratiate yourself with every established ILMer you pissed off your first week. Go get 'em.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Saturday, 23 September 2006 08:43 (twenty years ago)

All to some extent true (if hugely embellished) except Step Two, for which should have been written 'Attempt to defend oneself from unprecedented Raggett onslaught'. And I don't actually think you'll find that I've been particularly contrarian; aside from the infamous punk debacle my musical opinions have been mildly put. Hell, though, cosmo's post'll get excelsiored despite being a cheap shot at an empty net.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Saturday, 23 September 2006 08:56 (twenty years ago)

and we all know what a tragedy that will be

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 23 September 2006 10:08 (twenty years ago)

also, there is something beautiful about the phrase "unprecedented Raggett onslaught". I like to imagine Ned shouting that at the computer, while his eyes begin to glow and his hair goes all spiky

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 23 September 2006 10:12 (twenty years ago)

Step 1: Express many strong opinions as a form of "hello". Doesn't matter what they are.

This is basically what every new person here has done as far as back as I can remember (myself included.)

Step 4: It's never too early to start throwing around "x-posts", "memes", and other ILM phrases. This will help you pretend you've been around longer.

This, also.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 23 September 2006 11:42 (twenty years ago)

Hullooo, adam j!
Hi, keyth!
Aye, Rockisto!
Privet, bernard snow!
Zdrastvui, Space Gourmand!
Terekest, Colonel Poo
& everybody!

One thing:
Ned Raggett is real neat
Well, Ned Raggett is *neat*, that's for sure. Whether he is "real" is another bone of contention entirely :)

― tiit (tiit), Saturday, 23 September 2006 12:49 (twenty years ago)

I-is there a 6-step program for politely dismissing oneself from a discourse?

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Saturday, 23 September 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

otm

xxxxxxxxxxxxpost

― capt thinking (Pablo A), Saturday, 23 September 2006 13:55 (twenty years ago)

I-is there a 6-step program for politely dismissing oneself from a discourse?

Nah, don't fret. And welcome. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 September 2006 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Step 7: Speculate that someday Ned Raggett is going to snap and waste a McDonald's.

― M. V. (M.V.), Saturday, 23 September 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Step 8: ???
Step 9: PROFIT!

― someone nice (le hague), Saturday, 23 September 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Until I read your message, I didn't even realize there was a specific place to introduce yourself. Whoops...hello!

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Saturday, 23 September 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

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