Anyway, this is as appropriate a moment as any to reiterate that I miss Scott.
xps
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 00:29 (four years ago) link
What can we do special to celebrate the 20th anniversary
― Mordy, Monday, 11 May 2020 00:31 (four years ago) link
51 each other.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 00:32 (four years ago) link
lower SB threshold to 11, re-enable blink tag, lock 20,000 random threads, make System bump 20,000 others
― silby, Monday, 11 May 2020 00:32 (four years ago) link
bon voyage, yelploaf. walk with god. come back anytime to lurk or post.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 11 May 2020 01:11 (four years ago) link
ilx is old enough to know better
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link
So cry, baby, cry.
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 May 2020 01:23 (four years ago) link
can you take me back where i came fromhoney can you take me back?
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 11 May 2020 01:47 (four years ago) link
And indeed, this August -- three months away -- ILX is officially twenty years old.
Whoa, this is weird, in my mind I'm a new ILXor but it seems I've been posting for ... three-quarters of the entire history of the site?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
thought I started posting as "uh" in 2004 (which I'm not proud to admit), horrified to realize I posted here under my government name 10 times in 2003. which I didn't know until 5 minutes ago.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
sorta kills the point of the big goodbye post when you claim ta-nehisi coates was a seminal ilxor
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:30 (four years ago) link
I recently ran into one of TNC's posts while doing an ilx search on an unrelated purpose. Surprised me to see the name used in a year prior to TNC becoming well known. It was articulate, pointed, but nothing deathless, much like your somewhat above-average ilx post.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 11 May 2020 03:50 (four years ago) link
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Monday, May 11, 2020 5:30 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Otm. TNC posted a handful of posts, addressing one particular topic, no more. This seems like name-dropping for the sake of it. At least Jimmy the Mod awaited the return of his loved ones en publique.
You owe us nothing, Yelp, and feeling out of touch with everyone here is as good a reason as any to leave, obviously. All the best.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 May 2020 06:50 (four years ago) link
Might spend the 20th anniversary looking up TNC's ilx posts. They must've had a lot of wisdom in them for a lurker/occasional poster to remember them in his goodbye post 17 years later.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 May 2020 07:10 (four years ago) link
Did I remember a rumour that Paul McCartney posted here at least once?
― thomasintrouble, Monday, 11 May 2020 07:11 (four years ago) link
He left after the great 'Defend the Indefensible: Mull of Kintyre' wars of 2006 iirc
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 May 2020 07:14 (four years ago) link
Lol
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:38 (four years ago) link
i meant to leave after T✧✧@k✧✧.e✧✧ stopped posting
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:49 (four years ago) link
what eephus said goes for me too - i arrived in 05 or 06 and have always felt very late to the party
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
a couple years back someone made a poll of all of TNC's ilx posts, it was kinda weird
I also joined up somewhere around 2004 or 2005 and still feel like I'm catching up.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
Any children-of-ILXors-turned-posters?
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:37 (four years ago) link
My kid lurks on here at times and has voted in end of year polls
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:40 (four years ago) link
He was born in 2003, which was also roughly the time frame when I first joined, although my posting history suggests it was later. I must've lurked for a while.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
what happened in 04 that so many ppl seem to have found this place? That's when I got here but can't recall how.
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
I don't remember exactly how I found it. I was very active on the Stereolab forum around then, and that may well have been what led me here.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
I may have first heard about it through hipinion.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
heyday of blogging iirc, and no twitter yet
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:49 (four years ago) link
plus there were people making a living writing about music.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
I found Tom Ewing's Best singles of the 1990s some time in 2000, I think, and was reading Freaky Trigger for a while - my first ILX post was February 2001, though I probably lurked for a bit before then.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:52 (four years ago) link
i bought my first computer immediately following 9/11 after it became clear that physical media was too slow to keep up with the world. Plus the downloading. I found ILX a few months after.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:54 (four years ago) link
I joined in 2003 but only really lurked. I properly started posting in 2015 (I think). I don't post enough so always feel vaguely like I'm posting from 'outside the room' as it were. I get this with all forums, tbh.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, May 11, 2020 8:42 AM bookmarkflaglink
My friend that posted here told me about Geir and how he said Schoenberg ruined music so I joined purely to wind him up about it
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
I want this to be a true story
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
Hey Geir, I know you still drop by every now and then. What's less musical in your opinion, twelve-tone serialism or rhythm for rhythm's sake?
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
“The return to the board of noted musico-phrenologist geir” may yet be my answer to thread q so steady on pom
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
lol I think I missed the 'phrenologist' part.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:12 AM bookmarkflaglink
Lol it totally is. The first post under my gov't name was me ribbing him for it. I didn't realize the dude very rarely responded to barbs so I lost interest, came back a year later to talk rap and metal.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
Schoenberg? I thought it was James Brown who ruined music?
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
Papa's Got a Brand New Tone Row
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
I started posting in 2005? no idea if I lurked before that, probably not for long if I did. I do feel like a new poster, though I've met a people off board which makes me feel more like an insider.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
get up get into it get inverted and retrogade
― mark s, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link
I once started an 'end of music' Pandora station based solely on the initial inputs of James Brown and Schoenberg. Geir is a good sort, though; some time ago, I reminded him of some of his earlier ILM pronouncements and he lolled
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:45 (four years ago) link
I like Geir, I think he drops by here from time to time. Some weird opinions, but a good guy.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
So he's not an actual phrenologist? I'mma need a citation, wins.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
everyone who leaves becomes their legend in time, rarely fairly but thats life
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
did… did a nude spock write this?
― mark s, Monday, 11 May 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
I said musico-phrenologist which is not an actual thing: I was not being literal
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
Ah, my bad. I parsed the hyphen as an 'and' instead of a metaphorical qualifier.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
Is that around when the Baffler excerpted the MIA thread?
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link