Posts very much out of character

This will end well.

i'll shut up now

-- Just got offed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:21 (1 hour ago) Link

OH SNAP

OH NO YOU DIDUN
OH MY GAWRD

A great album although I prefer "Rhythm Nation",
-- Geir Hongro, Saturday, 12 May 2007 17:26 (1 month ago) Link

(i chopped off the end of the post, it was irrelevant and distracting to the out-of-character lols)

I am starting to recognize the kind of crappy that smoking too much makes me feel, though. Maybe it's time for a break?

-- Laurel, Saturday, June 30, 2007 11:24 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

One of the odder but more enjoyable situations I've been in was when a very open lesbian and myself went to a Cure show back in 1992 and proceeded to spend a couple of hours beforehand judging the general fuckability of female members of the crowd. If anything, she was more blatant than I was!

-- Ned Raggett, Friday, November 16, 2001 1:00 AM (5 years ago)

heavens

added to the raggetstax

http://www.secraterri.com/faint.jpg

ned raggett does NOT have sex.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.alternative/browse_thread/thread/6723c2584c0e8d94/c4451d78fb2a4dc5?lnk=st&q=%22ned+raggett%22+%22have+sex%22&rnum=1#c4451d78fb2a4dc5

What is a 'g' in hip-hop?

It might be spelled 'gee', not sure, but it gets mentioned an awful lot.

-- mei, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 7:24 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Seriously? It's "gangsta", though I guess it can also refer to a gram (as in "two grams of cocaine").

-- Tuomas, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 7:26 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link

unban hstencil

from nz board

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, August 18, 2007 8:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

haah

:D

omg I never noticed that I got on here. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrobyn u a bro.

I like that GIANT COCK up there /\ it looks tasty.

-- Masonic Boom, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:46 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

would like to see mrs nude spock's then, pix pls =)

-- ian, Friday, August 24, 2007 3:52 AM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

that was actually me oops

j'aimerais bien recevoir par e-mail la partiture piano de Gosset de la chanson appelée "ta ta yei", je crois la numéro neuf de un des ses discs. Merci merci bien et j'attends une réponse!!!
-- starnini roberta, Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:37 AM (3 years ago)

I DON'T SPEAK FRENCH YOU FAGGOT
-- Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, August 19, 2004 3:06 PM (3 years ago)

enjoying misogyny

Threads mainly in character: Kenan discusses his favourite moments of violent anger against women, Kate St Clare has freshman women's studies opinions4u

Wrong fucking thread

my Mencia years are long behind me, obv.

orbit,
dis me all you want. ive never personally attacked you. i still wont. i met you in real life and thought you were cool. im sorry you take my generally-silly-not-even-directed-twords-you posts so personally. but i dont think i should walk on eggshells when i want to post something funny for fear of offending my new friend orbit. if you dont wanna be friends with me anymore because you think im a sexist piece of shit then ok. but remember CHAKI IS YOUR FRIEND TILL THE END.

-- chaki (chaki), Sunday, August 31, 2003 12:01 AM (3 years ago)

Pfft...for the ART?? Forget man, now I don't believe in nothing. I'm going to law school... ;]

I knew FT was a non-profit (perhaps you can tithe the readers.)

But seriously, if I actually get off my ass (or continue to sit on my ass actually, and get motivated) and write something decent, I'll let you know.

(BTW, Neddy, I really enjoyed your Tool piece.)

-- Jess, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

(BTW, Neddy, I really enjoyed your Tool piece.)

fun with strikethrough

(BTW, Neddy, I really enjoyed your Tool piece.)

oh man, is this the shower story ned was talking about?

let's not fite.

-- hstencil, Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:42 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ha!

dean wins teh thread.

but seriously, imagine a cro-magnon or homo habilis squinting at it's reflection in prehistoric marsh water while it traps a whitehead on it's cheek between it's forefinger and thumb and prepares to deal it the final pinch of doom.

-- Amon (eman), Friday, 15 April 2005 04:38 (2 years ago) Link

does Amon usually know the difference between its and it's?

Okay people calm down, now.

-- Bimble, Wednesday, October 10, 2007 2:27 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lol

@RJG - :(

dont worry. its ok

there is this concept called fun

-- gabbneb, Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:38 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.mimun2.com/spock.jpg

The second Eco game is AWESOME.

-- Laurel, Monday, November 12, 2007 10:50 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Hahah okay it's Ecco, and the only one I know is "Defender of the Future" which was for Dreamcast (which is the only system I have). But it's my favorite kind of puzzle game! And really beautiful!

i had the impression you didn't like any video games! except ddr ^_^
i only played the first ecco game for the genesis, it was nice

I also like Choo Choo Rocket. And I watched my ex-ex play all the way through one of those police corruption-scandal games, where your wife and baby were murdered and you have flashbacks and have to break out of prison and stuff, and also through one of those whole-world RPGs where you take a personality "test" and up as a thief or wizard or warrior or whatever. Very "Receive guardsman weapons training, three golds" sort of thing. Also beautiful, though.

Not to mention a 20-year addiction to Sierra puzzle games and Myst. But I haven't had my own computer...ever.

Wait you have a Dreamcast?

http://web.syr.edu/~bamilcza/Wallpaper/surprise%20-%201024x768.JPG

(from Taking Sides: El-P vs LPs)

ELP

-- Geir Hongro, Monday, November 12, 2007 9:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

oh wait emerson lake and palmer fuck nevermind pwned by geir

COULD THEY BE CUTER!!!

-- jergïns, Friday, November 9, 2007 11:11 PM (1 week ago)

laurel has a dreamcast?

:)

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, June 27, 2019 8:16 PM (thirty-one seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aw

lol

Good for Sanders. As Nate Silver pointed out yesterday, his early state polling was lagging his national polling, and it really wasn't clear if one was right and one was wrong.

― Frederik B, Thursday, January 23, 2020 10:17 AM (two minutes ago)

I wouldn't wish an injury like this on my worst enemy.

― calzino

Loooool

:D

lmao

excellent

:D

Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic)

This is beautiful logic and a beautiful sentiment

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, February 12, 2020 10:22 PM bookmarkflaglink

I believe I prefer Hillary Clinton to all of them.

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, February 13, 2020 2:47 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

woah

No edits Hadrian

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9QNu5ha7Me8/TSbmR9lyFpI/AAAAAAAAAd4/JQKpq8GEaJA/s1600/thefourhorsemen470_469x426.jpg

Morby Say Relax

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius),Tuesday, 14 April 2020 18:06 (thirty-three seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

:)

don't do it

Hey guys I was reflecting on my posting here and elsewhere and overall mood lately and I feel like I've been going down a contrarian and overly detached/trollish rabbit hole and I wanted to apologize. I probably need to log off for a while. I'm mostly just expressing frustration with the situation.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 23:08 (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink

RIP

wait what did you lecture me about?

― jaymc

LOL

I am not a snob, despite some past pronouncements on this site.

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table)

I miss what it was like to have a conversation OTP before Facetime, video chat, etc when we were all privy to multitasking without making our phone mate feel like we aren't paying attention

― stwahberrymilkgirlll, Wednesday, May 1, 2024 11:26 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Idgi

holy shit, xyzzzz__ is J***o D*****a of early ILX fame? I thought xyzzzz__ was like in his 20s.

― jaymc, Thursday, August 22, 2024 6:39 PM bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4lurE-IpHE

I love original RoboCop and Karate Kid and Naked Gun...

― xyzzzz__, Monday, August 4, 2025 4:48 AM

who is this guy and why should I care?

― jaymc, Tuesday, August 4, 2026 8:59 PM

:D

I mean ... I know why you posted that, but it also feels in character to me. :)

(I sometimes get annoyed when I feel left out of a discourse. And lately I have been feeling a little alienated by the fact that I don't really use YouTube except to watch music videos and Taskmaster and random stuff that I see posted elsewhere. I don't care about any of the zoomer influencers or whatever, but I have recently come to understand that a lot of people my age, people I know IRL and on this board, subscribe to various other YouTube channels. So when I see there is a long ILM thread about some YouTube guy I have never heard of, and people are treating him as ubiquitous, part of me is like "Where are you guys even hearing about this guy? And you mean to tell me you are sitting down and regularly watching his videos?" I know I could just look him up, but the mock-naivete is an expression of my alienation.)

I'm dating myself but remember when "Is that something I would need to have a tv to know about?" was all the rage on Metafilter? I miss Metafilter. Also I don't know what anything or anyone is.

jaymc I'd say that the long discourse threads are never about youtubers ppl on ILX actually watch; they are about youtubers ILXers resent knowing about.

Haha. Well, I resent ILXors for being familiar enough with those YouTubers to have opinions, I guess. (I'm still curious how it is that so many people have encountered Rick Beato. Is it the algorithm?)

I assume it's a combination of people who actually consume a lot of YouTube, other music websites (rateyourmusic?) that I'm not familiar with where people post about his videos a lot, social media saturation, who knows

I regularly have to tell youtube to stop recommending beato and fantano videos to me, but it seems to have got the message re: the professor of rock

I really can't recommend the Unhook browser extension enough for Youtube. It's damn near life-changing.

I think there's an interesting generational divide re. YouTube's place in the world.

As a person in their late 40s, Youtube exists as a glorified utility: a lever to access content made by (a) traditional media companies (b) weirdo uploaders of specialty stuff, e.g. one-off episodes of otherwise unavailable TV, or advice on how to fix my lawnmower. Being 'on' YouTube doesn't convey any authority or legitimacy, it's just a delivery system. Number of views, reputation of creator... basically irrelevant. In my mind, there are a few breakout channels (Mark Rober? TED? Bon Appetit) that were legitimized by YouTube, but I think in most cases they would have found another avenue to fame if YouTube didn't exist.

To people a little younger than me, I think YouTube popularity is a kind of validation of some marker of quality/infamy/appeal. My sister (mid-30s) will send me links to random channels w/ rationale attached 'This guy has 300k followers!' or 'This was really big a few years ago' or 'this guy is lowkey awkward but I realate to him about ...' She and her friends favor a kind of parasocial relationship w/ creators, especially those who have a long/dense history of videos. It feels like I'm supposed to heed/acknowledge or appreciate or react to the content based on the fact of their ubiquity and longevity.

For the young people I work with (teens, early 20s), YouTube is an entire media ecosystem. Can't begin to untangle it. But personal videos (one kid recording a video ripping on another kid), professionally-created content, reposts of TikTok/Instragrm videos, mock-confessional influencers, AI algorithmic stuff, all of it commingle, and it's like something else entirely.

I just assumed anyone that watches anything music-related on youtube gets recommended a Beato video at some point, he's reached that level of youbiquity.

My mind was blown at my wife's family reunion recently, upon learning that my non-musician in-laws watch Drumeo videos for fun, i.e. a drummer learning and recording a song that they've never heard on the spot or whatever. Like, I knew that it's become the main source for every kid who plays drums, fine. But it had never occurred to me that civilians would be watching these before bed.

Beato was humming in the background of my attention, and then pulled my focus when he went after Jon Caramanica for that "30 Greatest Living American Songwriters" list and roundtable. I'd be more inclined to watch more of his if it weren't for their reaction-face title images. Curious about the Billy Joel one.

youbiquity

:D

just assumed anyone that watches anything music-related on youtube gets recommended a Beato video at some

blessedly no, I only know these guys’ reaction-face thumbnails from Tom E genially complaining about them on bsky

but I did walk past a 70+ coworker watching The Professor Of Rock at his desk last month (and shamed him)

All yt thumbnails and clickbait titles are the worst, but I accept that's just the cost of playing the game these days (the game being the Youtube Lottery, or maybe it's the Social Media Hunger Games).

Yeah, I don't fault him for playing the game, it's just when I look at the right-hand column and its his reaction-face or some band on Letterman in 1993, I end up clicking on the latter. I think I'd rather walk and listen to one of his interviews than watch it (which fits into this larger convo of who is drawn or not drawn to YouTube direct-address videos).

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

jaymc, I first learned about Beato when someone (I think on ilx) shared Pat Finnerty's What Makes This Song Stink videos, which are a parody of Beato's What Makes This Song Great series. But he's also a big reference point anywhere on the internet that middle-aged men gather to discuss guitar gear or classic rock. Which like, I haven't even been to The Gear Page in years, but my social media algorithms definitely still have me pegged as that type of guy. I have watched a handful of his videos, myself, so I don't really know enough to resent him.

Pat Finnerty’s not quite up my alley but he’s entertaining

metafilter still exists! sometimes i even look at ask metafilter if i'm bored

also i've apparently been a user there for 24 years ffs. about six months longer than i've been here

I just assumed anyone that watches anything music-related on youtube gets recommended a Beato video at some point

apparently not. i have no clue who that is!

same, at first i was like “beto o’rourke?” lmfao

I thought beato was some British bloke — my only awareness is that there’s an ilx thread about him