The Lex: C/D?

Haha ok that's funny.

!

Oh, but if anyone deserves a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Paris does! Right Lex?

:-/

Hmm, I guess I've just been hanging out on more pop threads lately. Funny how depending on what you look at you see different segments of teh ILX populationz...

(ps I have met the Lex and he's a very nice chap and i really like him)

its never been about that insecurity for me - more a hunger to know and hear and understand more stuff.

You haven't seen the plans I have for this exciting internet meme with massive viral potential!

Exactly how I feel. Well, I haven't met Lex, but he does seem to be a generally friendly person.

So i guess for me

Lex the individual = classic
Lex's "revelling in ignorance" = not so classic

I'd rather have a friend who I disagree with about pop culture but is a nice person, than one I agree with on everything under the sun but is an asshole.

Take out the "on the internet" part, my point still stands. I assure you I wasn't trying to imply social ineptitude. I just don't think threads that are entirely about "I think Poster X is an idiot, what do you think?" are particularly productive. The Lex is taking this very well, but if I were on the receiving end of something like this, I'd be rather upset.

Obviously Lex is classic, but then why would I ever say otherwise?

Again Ailsa, exactly what I was trying to say but couldn't find the words (I need sleep).

I wasn't implying this at all, just talking about myself. :-)

Who's to say it's self-parody? Maybe he's just consistent.

-- Andrew Farrell (afarrel...), November 13th, 2006 1:31 PM. (afarrell) (link)

haha you've gotta be kidding

* NB I don't read ILM.

Anyone care to bet on that?

(As explained, I have met him once. He was very drunk and still charming. I was very drunk and, erm, probably incoherent and gibbering).

personal experience LOL

most threads ABOUT ILXors (there are many, esp. from the Olden Days, so Lex isn't really a special case in this regard) are overly positive.

xpost

That's what makes me God's Own Umpire in this thing, Ken!

Yeah, he's the ten drunkest people I've ever seen, no contest.

(Probably should've revived an ILM thread, but w/e.)

lex did you ever listen to be your own pet

i don't think so, is that because i'll hate them or love them?

"Hahahaha I was JUST thinking today how the mindset of people - particularly critics - who always seem to be trying to find the good in things is totally alien to me. I feel that if your natural, instinctive response to a thing is revulsion or disapproval, this should only be encouraged."

the thing about this is -- and Lex, as a pop-ist, knows this, too; it's pop credo -- one's "natural, instinctive" responses to art are seldom actually natural or instinctive. which is why some of us (raising hand) are often drawn to explore the things that repel or bore or offend us. there's a lot of room for play in interrogating these "ntaural, instinctive" responses.

Dude if you're still classifying Lex as a popist you've missed something.

lex i think you might like byop -- not positive tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvPvq_91Q64

this is the single from their second (& final) album that came out the year before last

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WQpvR945Rs

there are some jams on Jemina's solo record too

(which I'm more familiar w/ than BYOP)

i quite liked the first one to start with but by the end it seemed a bit karenoke o circa 2002 sans the hooks

i think when it comes to that punky yowly sound, the stuff i love tends to be secretly really really tightly structured (eg early pj harvey and yeah, yyys)

the second one is much much better! but i already have and cherish a copy of sleater-kinney's one beat, which is basically that but with good lyrics, not bad ones

i should get around to s-k one day

yes, also pj harvey. one beat is the only s-k album i really love though, never got into the others i tried. but it's amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLgPGpX5Gek

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

re j0rdan: you should. not necessarily one beat, but yeah, sk.

Dig Me Out
The Hot Rock
One Beat
Call The Doctor

also, pj harvey >>> sleater-kinney, and thus better to check out first

i think i tried the hot rock and call the doctor but just couldn't get into them, which was weird considering how immediate one beat was. oh, i like the woods fine, it's not v listenable but then that wasn't really its point.

lex might as well be geir in terms of actual worth in trying to understand musical views. difference is lex is a good laugh and lots of fun as a human being and i don't know geir.

^ board descrip, 2006

what happened to tennis when it went from line judge to lasers? was it a big deal?

it's still line judge based (apart from lets on serve, which are computerised) - line judges call the lines first, the lasers come in if a player decides to challenge (and they can only do so like...four times a set or something, to stop the more gamesmanship-minded players from challenging every single call).

it's weird to remember that there was so much debate about bringing it in - it seems such an obvious thing to do in retrospect (the technology had already been available to commentators for YEARS). pretty much everyone loves it, except roger federer. the only vague issue is that it's only available on certain courts at certain tournaments so eg most lower-ranked players won't get to use it. thought it's quite funny to see a top player on an outside court/at a smaller tournament make as if to challenge, then realise they can't.

hah, thanks for your answer! :D

lex, what do you think of "The Rabbit" by mahjongg?

Song starts at like 3:05:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh-od12FUfE

lex might as well be geir in terms of actual worth in trying to understand musical views. difference is lex is a good laugh and lots of fun as a human being and i don't know geir.
--I see what this is (Local Garda)

CLASSIC

LEX IS ETERNAL

i should get around to s-k one day

― banaka socka flame (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:08 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark

my friend that day is TODAY and you will start with THE WOODS and work your way backwards

Happy birthday lex!

happy birthday to my favorite comedy act

smh

thx u guys

http://img.dazedcdn.com/700/dd/260/0/260666.jpg

HI. I'M BEN KLOCK. AND MY CHEEKBONES ARE HERE TO WISH LEX HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

why so sad, ben? it's lex's birthday

He is not sad. He is pining, soulfully, for Lex.

I like Ben just like that :D

hey lex, do u know ester rada? she's an ethiopian israeli r&b singer. her ep is here, i guess there's an lp expected later this year. curious what you think:
http://esterrada.bandcamp.com/album/life-happens-ep

Another year of Lex!

happy birthday lex, keep up the good work

As this latest ILX personality seems to hijack every thread I read with what I'm still not sure isn't trolling, I'm gonna say Happy Birthday.

ffm forever

hb lex, keep hijackin those threads

It seems like he hates most music.

most shit music

oh right

always baffling to me when people are riled up by lex. i find his opprobrium at the very least entertaining even if i don't agree. he's good on music he likes, which is usually in places with like "3 new answers" or w/e so tends to be missed? idk

classic

lex is classic I want to cook dinner for lex sometime

lex is classic

indie rockers be butthurt

It seems like he hates most music.

― maybe/whatever/so what/boring (admrl), Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:40 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know he's expressive and vehement when he hates something but c'mon this perception is so weird... do you ever check the bobbins thread or like r&b threads?

:)

i love music

have i even been hating on much recently? apart from pc music but obvvvvv that is utter trash