Any reason why ILM is so quiet these days?

If the new posters who come in as a response to mordy's thread start bullying our venerable elder colleagues in that way I will personally preside over a massive purge don't worry

'hold on now, youngster' is the best album ever made, come at me dickhole dads

― devvvine, Friday, 10 February 2017 17:36 (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just when you thought it was safe to open your heart on ILM

PASSANTINO 2

Lol I was gonna say, I think I'm in favor of Mordy's idea but I'm not willing to moderate or be the thread mommy in any capacity.

xp lol I ended up here googling Passantino circa 2012 I think

the order of the vengeful scarf

could extrapolate a lurker albums thread from general poll results and yeah well

y'all think this board is quiet, you ought a see the I HATE music forum..

here's my impression of ilx lurkers:

*flapping my arms and hopping on one foot in a circle, head cocked sideways* oh-tee-em

I think they're all great.

Just a cross-section of the most dynamic, interesting, thoughtful people who have one sadistic quirk, that is denying all of us the benefit of their perspectives.

a Radiohead album stamping on a human face, forever

yesss thanks

http://www.eater.com/2017/1/18/14312686/the-rise-of-the-beer-poptimist

now fuck off back to ile the lot of u

a couple who lived next door to us, they worked for Budweiser/Anheuser Busch up in Van Nuys, and they were on the science end of things. Talked about how every year because of variances in crops and water and what not, they had to tweak the formula in order to maintain the consistent flavor of Budweiser that America has come to know and love.

"Only seven tons of dead squirrels added this year."

Bilger found that Jean-Marie Rock — at the time, the brewmaster at Orval, a Trappist brewery in Belgium that produces some of most beloved beer in the world — doesn’t just appreciate Bud’s consistency, he also legitimately enjoys consuming it. “Tell them that the brewer at Orval likes Budweiser!” he said.

tbf budweiser is one of only a very very few tolerable mass-market lagers

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/304/media/images/48446000/jpg/_48446989_brewdog_end_of_history_464.jpg

it all leads to a brewdog gimmick, eh

Beer is the new music. It is art after the end of art, the degeneration of aesthetic pleasure into something merely somatic. - Steely Dan

maybe we could seduce them out of hiding w/ a special thread like: "Dear Lurkers Only - what are your 5 favorite albums? Don't worry you don't have to post anything anywhere else ever again." but of course once they do post then we know who they are and we can keep calling their names until they're forced to continue to participate mock them relentlessly.

xp well, it's something we still have to pay for

i have a question for ppl who do like it -- doesn't it overwhelm the taste of everything else when you eat it?

I think the trick with cilantro is just to use it as a garnish. Don't ever dump a bunch of it in your food while it's cooking, or it will overwhelm everything. But a bit of chopped raw cilantro complements a lot of foods nicely: Vietnamese, Thai, Indian, Mexican being a few.

nah, cilantro is great when dumped in sauces

There are some good sauces made with a healthy amount of raw cilantro, true - like various salsas or Indian chutneys. I was talking about dumping a lot of it right into your main dish as it's cooking. That I wouldn't advise.

there are good cooked sauces too like methi murgh and poblano sauces

suppose the amount in those could be considered garnish, though

http://www.rickbayless.com/recipe/tacos-of-creamy-roasted-poblano-corn-and-zucchini/

love cilantro, i agree that there are def circumstances where someone can load up too much cilantro though

iirc i heard cilantro started being used with meat because it could cover up the rotting meat smell pre refridgeration? not sure if apocryphal

lol @ this thread

long-time lurker, recent opinion: i've been harvesting recommendations for years from ilm. i know whose taste i love (tyler, the guy with the doom from the tomb blog; bradnelson emo, etc.) i'm not a music critic. or rather i haven't spent two decades thinking about music through the lens of a critical vocabulary. so it feels weird to post an opinion. it feels juvenile.

I joined in 2007. I was at one of the lowest points in my life and was googling things like "I am sad" and "I am lonely" etc. One day I made a conscious decision to turn that around and google things that I actually liked instead, and I googled "I love music". It was a move that exponentially enriched my life.

― how's life, Thursday, February 9, 2017 7:42 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/fist-pump.gif

basically this place has it's own language. jumping in you have to be both guileless and weirdly confident (like LJ). i think it's probably hard for folks.

bradnelson emo

ugh how did you figure out my true surname

Does everyone here have their version of a bat signal? Thanks for Hotelier.

And the cover of photobooth

One last thing: people have asked me for ten years where I 'found' the music I listen to. I've invariably directed them here with the caveat that 'it's hard to get into.' No one has ever spoken of ilxor again to me.

reprobates

one of my first memories of ilxor lingo was the term fap, meaning fancy a pint. now that was confusing. I also get the sense i'm one of the only "new" people on this board, think i first joined around june or something after seeing it talked about on The Singles Jukebox, which has a lot of ilx posters

also getting told that a comment i made was otm for the first time was a great feeling

welcome!

why thank you!

the annual convo about whether ilx is too scary is perfectly fine & all that but when it invariably gets to the bit where people worry about in-jokes alienating new posters that's when I'm really like jesus fuck guys choose life for fucks sake

or "site-specific jargon" or whatever, same thing

come on, it's a simple matter of someone making a guide, perhaps that seems po-faced and humourless but it's surely needed

done one

http://yourcontactinflorence.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sandro-Botticelli-map-of-hell.jpg

going back to the topic of playlists, check out this youtube playlist someone made:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQFXCpBXX_f6QTdXukhdxVaXGSIDjtLcr

Another mostly lurker here, like lion in winter I've been leeching ilm for info for a while. Found it by googling in 2012 and browsed it every now and then, registered and started checking it out daily in 2014.

i haven't spent two decades thinking about music through the lens of a critical vocabulary. so it feels weird to post an opinion. it feels juvenile.

otm

I fell I'm an extreme example of that mindset, I lack any critical skills not just for music but for anything else really, and rarely have anything more interesting to say than "I like/don't like this".

xp

THAT'S the kind of new poster this board needs. i salute the meticulouslessness of her research.

hang on, why does Duck South Africa just use the generic anglo-voice?