Ronan local Garda said something about wearing nice socks even if nobody knows you know you're wearing nice socks once and now I wear nice socks.
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Saturday, 7 October 2017 10:30 (six years ago) link
We're talking about irl here deems not your ilx habits
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Saturday, 7 October 2017 10:32 (six years ago) link
Socks life of the potato man
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Saturday, 7 October 2017 10:34 (six years ago) link
scott's seattle paper was the best i saw that year
― mark s, Saturday, 7 October 2017 10:36 (six years ago) link
All of Scott's presentations at Pop Con have been top notch great. And thanks to him, Alb and Vyrna of course!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 October 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link
I always pay attention to Ronan's book recs
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Saturday, 7 October 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
estela wrote this on thread Having a crush on someone for an extended period of time but never having the guts to say anything - c or d? on board I Love Everything on 23.10.2007
have you stopped to think that if you find the right girl now you'll miss out on all the wrong girls.
― Wes Brodicus, Saturday, 7 October 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
Alfred taught me that you can be smooth and classy and have an undying love for Rush's Power Windows
― Moodles, Saturday, 7 October 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
Tuomas has made me question everything I thought I knew.
― del griffith, Saturday, 7 October 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
aero, stevie and alex in MTL have all saved my life (literally) off-board. I knew aero before ILX but met the other two through this site. Thank you, site
Scott and DJP are my favourite posters and have most influenced my outlook on life
maura and katherine are two of my favourite writers
estela is my favourite comedy entity
alfred and lex's cultural digestive enzymes are so oblique to my own and it's been amazing to get their perspectives
Milton Parker and sarahel for challenging me on my bullshit
VG and emil.y for being compassionate and funny
I knew wgw before ilx also but he's always the entertainment and frankly his end-of-year compilations would keep me logging in til dead
Everybody else contributes so much there were some posters I didn't like but I don't see them much any more
― fgti, Saturday, 7 October 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
just control-F'd this page and I'm kinda relived I haven't transformed anyone's life
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Saturday, 7 October 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
la lechera and UMS!
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 7 October 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
tylerw too
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 7 October 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
ooh yeah tylerw has done the lords work on the Pink Floyd thread <3 <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 October 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
Rex Sweeney, a now mostly forgotten poster who confined himself to Ask A Drunk back when AAD was a living, breathing entity. He was the heart and soul of the place back when AAD was almost the only thing keeping me propped up and functioning.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 7 October 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
dan m transformed my life
― ATTACK MY RUSTY TOOLBOX (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 7 October 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
scott turned me on to an incredible amt of great records.
― ian, Saturday, 7 October 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
outic upper mississippi shakedown alfred tylerw sleeve joan crawford la lechera vegemite girl noodle vague calzino fgti mordy mh flopson and others even if "transformative" means finding others who like the same bad dylan album you do or a bunch of other small things that add up, thank all of you really
― marcos, Saturday, October 7, 2017 1:49 AM (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
<3
― flopson, Saturday, 7 October 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
i'm a bit too shy to name names but i discovered this site when i was 16 or 17 years old and still read it daily 10 years later so u could say it had an impact ya
― flopson, Saturday, 7 October 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
hopefully my answer is obvious
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 7 October 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
oh actually one that i'm not ashamed to say is that BradNelson has introduced me to like, a half a dozen of my favourite albums of the last few years, and in the process has gotten me to rethink and ultimately completely rewire my tastes in rock music, in a way not unlike how '07 era teenybopper/r&b crews did
― flopson, Saturday, 7 October 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
frogs, clouds, nxd, brim, and everyone else on the vaporwave thread. I salute you
― calstars, Saturday, 7 October 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
Number one for me is Aldo who challenged me on eating cheese on some terrible old thread about vegetarianism, and because my arguments just felt like rote bullshit, it led to me doing some actual research and really questioning my dietary choices, and as a result of that I went vegan. Have now been vegan for over ten years and apart from improving my health and introducing me to a shitload of excellent new foods, it really fucking rearranged my head and made me question so much more about the assumptions that my worldview was built on. My wife went vegan too so her life was changed as well. Maybe this would've happened anyway, but Aldo's was the hand that gave me the final shove through the door. Kind of ironic that he's a meat-eater I guess.
That aside there's a whole bunch of other people that have made me just plain *think more* and I'm really grateful for that. Don't want to start listing people cos there are many, but I do want to give a shout out to Kate and Lex, both of whose presence I miss
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Saturday, 7 October 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
Sorry for earnest
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Saturday, 7 October 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
miss lex so much </3
― flopson, Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:00 (six years ago) link
candidly I used to hate RJG for how clever and funny he was but he made me try harder (or lurk more)
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 7 October 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link
I miss RJG and a bunch of the other mid-aughts UK crew a great deal
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
miss silby
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
i miss (person who probably still posts under another name and everyone but me knows about it)
― qualx, Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:13 (six years ago) link
silby still posts every day + is active on twitter
― flopson, Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
tim f, lex, and vahid had a transformative impact on my taste in music at an age when i was voraciously soaking up everything that altered my mind. i'm so, so thankful that they shared their opinions here and that i got the opportunity to be influenced by such incredibly intelligent people. but more than any specific person, the depth and sincerity of some of the conversation on ilx as a whole humbled me when i needed it and has made me a more empathetic, more thoughtful person
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
Qualx if that was directed at me I've been posting for over a year or so.
I amA noob and longtime lurker
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
xp otm
― flopson, Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
one person i'm frickin pissed doesn't post here anymore is some dude
― flopson, Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
Been thinking about this and the honest sad answer is "none have" I think; I'm newish to the site and I don't think my life has transformed in any appreciable way since, certainly not positively
That's my fault tho, I can definitely name posters I ought to have learned from. Hoos, goon tie, noodle all sources of inspiration and wisdom.
Darragh and Louis I can disagree with forever but stick us in a room and I think we're on a wavelength - that prob goes for most of you fucks to a lesser extent
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link
wins otm
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link
― flopson
yeah, I liked his take on popular music, he pointed me towards some cool Bmore DJ stuff
― sleeve, Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link
Oh and the poster I'm most like "wait are we sure this isn't me?" might be a passing spacecadet
Week of Wonders (Ross)Posted: 8 October 2017 at 00:50:47wins otm
And I like Ross, who I'm afraid I never really noticed before the twin peaks thread. Corny as it is I feel fondly toward everyone I shot the shit with over those three months when that show was airing, I guess that's my equiv of that eagles thread.
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Saturday, 7 October 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
aw Wins :)
and yes i'm a spacecadet
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
yeah twin peaks thread meant tons to me
:-) just to be clear tho the first para is referring to the ilx poster "a passing spacecadet"
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:03 (six years ago) link
Every post on this thread that doesn’t mention me just makes me want to work harder
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
wait ross are you a passing spacecadet?? (xp)
also agreed re some dude, i would visit ILM more than once in a blue moon if he still posted there
― qualx, Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
Also a couple of years ago when I made fb acquaintance with a certain Joan Crawford he said the kindest things to me that I didn't deserve
Xp no aps and Ross are not the same
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
i think of tombot every time i hear 'jailbreak'
― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:19 (six years ago) link
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, October 7, 2017 7:29 PM (fifty-four minutes ago)
cosign this post 100% (though i didn't interact with vahid as much on the music threads back in the day i don't think). i'm a stubborn asshole so i don't always admit when someone on ilx has changed my mind, but it happens frequently, and i honestly have no idea what my life would be like if i hadn't had ilx. i love you all
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
and yeah, some dude too. i don't really post on ILM much anymore so i hadn't even noticed he left! he's still on twitter tho
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:29 (six years ago) link
"I thank you" as the vaudevillians said, Shakey, Ross, marcos
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link
― I want to change my display name (dan m)
yeah i thank god for being a mostly-politely-tolerated second-tier filler poster. you guys are great but i'm happier being an aging barfly with no last name.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
I'm naming my firstborn "rushomancy"
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Sunday, 8 October 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link