its still fun for jaw-dropping owen maercks and andy zax posts too.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
They spawned offline meet-ups
an ILx crew made me drink malort in Chicago in 2010.i should have killed my account there and then.
― mark e, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
hey chaki, yeah that's the one. found it at Amoeba for a buck, i guess it's worth a decent amount. it's got a lot of larry and darryl and darryl content.
― omar little, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
i've met dozens and dozens of ilxors irl and they are always super nice. pussycats!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
the folks were wonderful people.its the fact they made me drink malort that i will never forgive.
― mark e, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
fair
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
Scott ‘s NP FB group is geared to vinyl. I mostly just lurk
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, May 29, 2018 4:53 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not really...I mean, there might be slightly more vinyl posts, but there's not much "THIS IS A HOT STAMPER, WIDER SOUNDSTAGE THAN ON THE 1974 PRESSING" kind of talk. Hell, someone just posted all 70+ discs of a Miles Davis box (and I posted all my Cecil Taylor recordings, only one of which was vinyl).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
Scott's NP FB group sounds great - I'd love to check it out, but damn if I'll ever join FB. I love that ILM is around as a board still b/c too many folks want to point music discussion/music promotion/etc. to FB.
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
Nick b if you’re talking to me that’s lame man.
― Ross, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
I’m not a monster
― Ross, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uL1Ll6lRoM
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
Lol!!!!! It’s
― Ross, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
There was no noticable change in the number of new user registrations as a result of Tom's article, btw.
― mod, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
why would there be
I mean, he painted it as a stultifying backwater only inhabited by an insular circle of ppl who can't move on with their lives
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
ooh, new board description
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link
Tom OTM obv
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link
we have polls now too
― j., Thursday, 31 May 2018 01:38 (six years ago) link
No ross, I wasn’t talking to you, it was just an xp to myself
― Toto Cuomo (NickB), Thursday, 31 May 2018 06:20 (six years ago) link
Cheers thanks man sorry for that
― Ross, Thursday, 31 May 2018 06:24 (six years ago) link
en there are the RYM discussion boards, which are fucking abysmal
― imago, Tuesday, May 29, 2018 1:51 PM (two days ago)
I beg to differ
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
haha, that person a) decided Cardiacs are the best band (yay!) and then b) invited every vocal Cardiacs fan on RYM into a chatroom they are never away from (D:)
― imago, Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
of course ILX with its flawless track record of dealing with hyperenthusiastic trans people would be far better equipped to handle such a thread
― imago, Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
did you join?
it seems like at any give time there's one poster on the rym forum who starts 10 threads a day, turns the forum into their personal blog, and announces some outrageous project like reviewing every album released in the '90s, only to mysteriously deactivate their account several months later, leaving a void that's quickly filled by a new poster with a near-identical persona. it's like it's an elected office or something.
in ilx's (slight) defense, I don't think anyone here passively-aggressively misgenders trans posters or rants about SJW's white knighting CRJ. there's a not insignificant alt-right presence on that board even though the most egregious offenses are usually shot down pretty quickly
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
I joined...briefly
tbf while there's some anti-trans on RYM there are also a LOT of trans users
at any give time there's one poster on the rym forum who starts 10 threads a day, turns the forum into their personal blog
nobody on here like that
― imago, Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
oh, of course not ;)
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
aware I've collected myself with that one
― imago, Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
It has its moments of being classic and/or dud, but right now it's slap bang in the middle of the dud category.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 13 July 2018 06:41 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps
― more like Toss, Ow amirite? (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 July 2018 08:01 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMm4b47pXBA
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Friday, 13 July 2018 08:14 (five years ago) link
needs more pavement discussion imo
― niels, Friday, 13 July 2018 09:36 (five years ago) link
Dud, no-one ever mentions the Dan or the Mac
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 13 July 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
the day a fetus marked ILM's homework.
― calzino, Friday, 13 July 2018 10:40 (five years ago) link
The trouble is, we're not purely a Parquet Courts fansite yet
― imago, Friday, 13 July 2018 10:45 (five years ago) link
fucking hate Wimbledon!
― calzino, Friday, 13 July 2018 10:57 (five years ago) link
yeah, they keep fucking beating us!
― imago, Friday, 13 July 2018 11:01 (five years ago) link
And as the usual suspects come out of the woodwork, I rest my case.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 13 July 2018 12:14 (five years ago) link
They're growing on me tbh
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 13 July 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
Get curious, not furious.
Turrican, what's missing for you these days? I still find bits and bobs worth chiming in about though not as much as in the past.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 13 July 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
Yes, where is ILM going right?
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Friday, 13 July 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
Turrican, what's missing for you these days? I still find bits and bobs worth chiming in about though not as much as in the past.― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, July 13, 2018 1:23 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, July 13, 2018 1:23 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is it in a nutshell, basically. I've found that a lot of (most of?) the posters I enjoy reading the most are no longer posting as frequently or have stopped posting entirely. There's still a couple of decent folks about (and it's great to see you posting - it's been a while) but ILM these days is such a drag to read. Activity has slowed down and I'm not taken with the level of conversation of most of the current regulars.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 13 July 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
exit is thataway
― imago, Friday, 13 July 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
"The way out is through the door/ how come nobody uses it?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySjN5vzc4lE
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
sounds like we need a new Beatles megathread :-p
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:13 (five years ago) link
exit is thataway― imago, Friday, July 13, 2018 2:00 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― imago, Friday, July 13, 2018 2:00 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You're part of the problem, tbh.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
go on
― imago, Friday, 13 July 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
As for quitting? Nah. That's too extreme, and I'm not a drama queen. Besides, if ILM keeps up its current form, it'll naturally fizzle out anyway.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
LOL. If there was Giger counter that measured irony, background irony, residual irony, it would have disintegrated by now.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
(xp) Listen, if it can survive you...
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
Kinda like I assume all your offline relationships have, Tom. Although I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
And this is why people love your style
― more like Toss, Ow amirite? (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link