what's between it and the old emo
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
clear-eyed no romanticism can't lose?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
new sincerity has BEEN a thing & we had enough convos about treezy's level of sincerity last year, ilx 2013 kinda embarrassed itself with endless earnest debate about whether t was too earnest
― wins, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
new earnest debate was 2013?
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 21:47 (ten years ago) link
treezy pulled it off, as did other ILX characters.
how's tricks, tree?
― ∞, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
xp wrt treesh it was, & to be fair it was probably only like a month last year, but all month, on every thread, and just super lame like u felt hands were being literally wrung
― wins, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link
my question was not about treezy's level of sincerity, it was about his self-reflection about that level vis a vis our grim jaded world. it was a question for the heart.
― j., Tuesday, 6 May 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
^ilx has heart problems, though
― ∞, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
xp fair enough just felt like old material to me
― wins, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link
that is ilx's problem. here one speaks directly into the heart of the treeship.
― j., Tuesday, 6 May 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link
hands will have been wrung all over the site since imma say 2009
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link
^you're being generous
― ∞, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
its my nature tbh
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 22:38 (ten years ago) link
i've gone through a lot of corny phases in my life, j. please don't go back and read my responses to similar questions nakh asked me last year.
― très hip (Treeship), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 23:56 (ten years ago) link
treesh do u have any opinions on the music of richard wagner
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 00:34 (ten years ago) link
no, but i enjoy the music of Bathory and have assumed i could get the gist from that. which performance of which piece by wagner should i listen to on spotify?
― soxahatchee (Treeship), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 00:44 (ten years ago) link
treesh: how do you feel about the baroque movement? and rococo?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 11:13 (ten years ago) link
where do you put james joyce? in what category?
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 11:20 (ten years ago) link
idk if it is available there, but anything with the tristan prelude & liebestodif you can get this lp in particular than do it
http://www.allmusic.com/album/wagner-orchestral-music-mw0001837745
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Where did Treeship go?
― ∞, Thursday, 12 June 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
to the men's rights thread
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Thursday, 12 June 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
Oh okay.
Thank you.
I was starting to miss him
― ∞, Thursday, 12 June 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
still posts fairly regularly I think, just not quite at the rate of his peak output
― TMI@JFC.U_U (wins), Thursday, 12 June 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
<3
― Treeship, Thursday, 12 June 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
treesh what is the most hateful sincere opinion about any subject that you have ever encountered? (flagrantly inflammatory, hateful or discriminatory opinions excluded)
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Friday, 13 June 2014 00:58 (ten years ago) link
treezy tell us abt the last time you checked your privilege
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 13 June 2014 04:50 (ten years ago) link
nakh, this question is difficult. it's hateful when people say that suicide is a "selfish act" or that it is usually motivated by a desire to "get back" at others. i've heard this many times. related to this, i think, is any opinion based on a general assumption that people only ever have base, selfish motives for their actions. less serious than the suicide example but connected to this idea are people who think having an interest in the arts is just a way to acquire "social capital".
― Treeship, Saturday, 14 June 2014 03:53 (ten years ago) link
now can you somehow mix the two together to create the ultimate hateful sincere opinion?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 14 June 2014 04:11 (ten years ago) link
isn't that that one al alvarez book
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 14 June 2014 09:55 (ten years ago) link
ha I have that book
― TMI@JFC.U_U (wins), Saturday, 14 June 2014 09:59 (ten years ago) link
treesh what is the most angry and/or aggressive you can ever remember being
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 October 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
I had a really bad political argument with my father while visiting him in Singapore last summer. I don't even remember what it was about but I remember arguing in a really unfair way, with personal attacks and just in general being a dick.
― Treeship, Friday, 3 October 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
is your father a laissez-faire type?
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 October 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
Essentially. I don't want to get into it here. He's a good person.
― Treeship, Friday, 3 October 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
that is very treeshian, for your most intemperate moment to be about political principles, and to hold yourself responsible in retrospect
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 October 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
i assumed your answer would be about hitting someone when you were 14 or something like that
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 October 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
in the wake of recent alt-lit rape scandalshave you ever been in a sexual situation that you now regret or feel weird about
― dylannn, Saturday, 4 October 2014 03:59 (nine years ago) link
seriously?
― Treeship, Saturday, 4 October 2014 04:26 (nine years ago) link
the answer is no, unequivocally, but i am disturbed by the ambiguous wording of the question. "regret or feel weird about" could mean a bunch of stuff, but due to the first part of your question if i said "yes" it would imply i did something morally wrong.
― Treeship, Saturday, 4 October 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
also, i thought we were chill dylann.
― Treeship, Saturday, 4 October 2014 04:35 (nine years ago) link
have you ever been in a sexual situation that you now regret or feel weird about
surely he was only asking from experience
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 October 2014 04:42 (nine years ago) link
we're chill
― dylannn, Saturday, 4 October 2014 04:46 (nine years ago) link
kinda fucking with you maybe. but reading about stephen tully dierks or whatever his name is and similarly behaving guys, i definitely run through my memory of sexual encounters looking for questionable behavior on my part.
― dylannn, Saturday, 4 October 2014 04:50 (nine years ago) link
treemonisha: have you noticed a palpable difference in temperament or attitude or w/e between academic types who grew up in a household that values intellectualism (e.g. parents are college professors/some other kind of academic/artist/etc) and those who grew up in largely blue collar surroundings?
― clouds, Sunday, 5 October 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
this is a tough question. the sharpest academic-types i know (not all involved with universities necessarily) tend to be from some kind of "interesting" background, so weren't born into the yuppie intelligentsia. the people i am thinking of have unconventional left wing political beliefs that are rooted as much in experience as in theory. academic-types i've known whose parents were professors tend to have more predictable views. but this is such a small sample size, and there are so many exceptions, that it's hard to generalize.
what have you observed on this front?
― Treeship, Sunday, 5 October 2014 05:15 (nine years ago) link
a certain sense of boredom/blasé attitude towards a given discipline in the former group; a somewhat refreshing anti-authoritarian streak and sometimes a less attractive tendency towards aiming to impress in the latter
― clouds, Sunday, 5 October 2014 05:36 (nine years ago) link
why do you post to ilx?
― ≖_≖ (Lamp), Friday, 17 October 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
because it's the only message board that matters™
― Treeship, Friday, 17 October 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
and when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless and ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity--then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions only one thing: whether you have posted to ilx, or not.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 17 October 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
no way to verify this but i guessed kierkegaard and then i googled it and it was kierkegaard
― Treeship, Friday, 17 October 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link