The ilxor.com Anniversaries thread

thread for bumping to commemorate posters' first post as an ilxor

mine is coming up Sep 13th (2002 was my first post, oy)

holy fuck

My favourite review of recent weeks has to be Cokemachineglow's staunch and beautifully-written defence of Bitter Tea. I'll get back to y'all with my all-time favourites... (and the winner, without a shadow of a doubt, is Pitchfork on Obie Trice, simultaneously the greatest and yet most awful single piece of music writing...ever)
I've written my own (IMO quite wittily-observed) spoof review but I'm not sure how I could post it here...

― l0u1s jagg3r (Haberdager), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 20:30 (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

thanks Οὖτις, you must have known. lucky 13 folks!

haha

Can't believe my fifteen years of service went uncommemmorated back in March. No gold watch or anything. Bullshit.

17 years for me in October. I am 31 years old.

Sept 3 will be my 18th anniversary of posting to ILX. Inane remarks delivered to your eyeballs since 2001.

I just wrote the opening lines to a song:

It was the third of September
A day Aimless will always remember...

i think i started in march of 2006...not totally sure though.

Next month, 19 years, per this thread, ILX's first.

I think 15 years? fucking christ

be about that too id think

I keep forgetting that I briefly showed up in 2001, wandered away, then came back and dug in like a tick in 2004.

that LJ debut is perfect and beautiful

Obie Trice, why hast thou forsaken us

trice before the cock crows

15 yr anniversary on sunday wtff lol

i know it was a huge hit...by twista or common maybe. i can't seem to figure it out.
the rap song where the chorus has the lines "1 to the 3 to the 4" and "5 to the 6 to the 8". it is catchy as hell tho, i know that much.

― jimmy_tango, Wednesday, July 28, 2004 5:33 PM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

J-Kwon, 'Tipsy'.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, July 28, 2004 5:55 PM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

ahh...that's the stuff. much obliged.
― jimmy_tango, Wednesday, July 28, 2004 5:57 PM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

From the "quit my job" thread with Ned's first post:

You are all wasting your time.
― Plunging Hen, Monday, 11 April 2005 16:13 (fourteen years ago)

Plunging Hen otm

STROD FUKNG RULAS MAN U DONT GAT IT!1!11! OMG WTF HA ROKS TEH MOTHER FUKNG HOUS31!!! LOL H3 FUKNG ROXORS IT ROKS IT ROKS IT!!!! WTF
Almost sweet 16 bros!

Is Ned the only ilxor who has posted under the same display name for an extended ilx career?

I’ve been Ed in a couple of guises since arriving in 2000 or 2001, but not with quite the consistency of Ned

Speaking of anniversaries this feels about the time of year I shared, what is still, the greatest flan I’ve ever eaten with Mr Ned Ragget somewhere in Irvine in what must have been 200x

My sweet sixteen was in May.

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https://i.imgur.com/8TScPHN.png

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*Snff* I haven't changed a bit.

didn't ned go by flan raggett for a couple months back there, i know it's just a technicality, but if we're talking about an all-time record here, these things matter

No.

­Is Ned the only ilxor who has posted under the same display name for an extended ilx career?

It's a branding thing. According to my sources Ned is building up to the release of his own personal scent, Midnight Over Raggett®, available at fine department stores everywhere and online at www.midnightoverrraggett.biz. Look for it to land before Christmas, 2021.

I am eternal.

Speaking of anniversaries this feels about the time of year I shared, what is still, the greatest flan I’ve ever eaten with Mr Ned Ragget somewhere in Irvine in what must have been 200x[

Oh yeah, I remember that now! Good stuff.

I think next month I hit 15.

Eau de Raggett

turns out i just passed my 16th a few days ago

first post under an infrequently-used screenname which shall remain nameless: feb 2007

first post with this account: sep 2012

i lurked for at the very least a couple years before i first posted tho

first = 14 dec 2000 on the WHAT IS ROCKISM? thread lol* = five months off 19

theory 1: crüt forgot abt me bcz he hates me
theory 2: crüt correctly remembered that when i began i posted under my full name a handful of times**

*my contribution is wise and helpful and factual obv but also very stiltedly written with like capitals and full stops and shit
**i changed bcz i disliked the excited adulation

Sunday, December 3, 2000

some cringey post about the UK music press

January 28, 2004

started a thread because I hadn't figured out how to search for existing threads

It's fun and not at all depressing to consider your time spent ILXoring as a percentage of your entire lifespan to date (> 33% for me, whee).

If you ate your iPod, what would it taste like?
15 years ago this past march

aw, my first thread is so very lame
― “run around like a maniac, hilariously insult the audience” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, May 19, 2011

It's fun and not at all depressing to consider your time spent ILXoring as a percentage of your entire lifespan to date (> 33% for me, whee).

― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:57 (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

better to focus on how much progress you have made personally in that time imo

<33%

darragh otm

Ten years on ILX next month. Over 5,000 posts made and not one OTM gained.

surely not

14 years later this year. I think I had another login that I used briefly a few years earlier than that but I don’t remember it exactly.

anyway 15 years comin up iirc

18 years in.

october 20 will mark ten years

those early posts yikes

Those later posts extra yikes

those middle posts... nice

approaching 16.5 years, same display name, which is admittedly not as catchy as Ned Raggett. seeing him here was likely one of the reasons i stayed, as i recognized him from his AMG reviews of many grebt albums i love

literally everyone i've met irl has been lovely. still wanna meet ned, DJP, pp, ss, c sharp, crut, k78, ailsa, estela and basically everyone else. maybe even darragh

no raiders fans tho

I know I lurked for at least a few months before posting (and have never been a prolific poster) but I think my first post was July 2001 under a different name. I switched to Vinnie a few months after that so, alas, no godlike Ned streak for me

I am coming up close on using ilxor for half my life though

maybe even darragh

― mookieproof, Sunday, 28 July 2019 04:33 (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this aged terribly

i think i started in march of 2006...not totally sure though.

― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, July 26, 2019 4:19 PM (two days ago)

hey T, i think it was almost exactly 10 years ago (not long after I started posting) that we became friends over yr former CCA prof who was always at Whole foods w/his wife, also a poetry person. ... I still see them there and think of you!

I seriously had a really misguided idea of what ilx was like and how people related to one another when I started posting here ...

Wow. I couldn't even give you the year.

(If someone else knows though I'm all ears)

you can use Search to find your posts and order by oldest first

June 25, 2002. that post is...oooof.

earliest as "raymond cummings" = 21 feb 2003 (earlier if you used a different name pre-this)

thread is abt errors inadvertently added to reviews you've written (not just you raymond cummings, you any ilxor who writes reviews)

my first post was a very innocuous show of appreciation for the ilx animated film poll; this week a follow-up poll about animated series was launched so that's kind of like an anniversary

thanks mark s.

I think it was probably 2001 or 2002, probably had a different user name.

i remember getting on ilx shortly after the towers came down and being excited to have people who were talking about music

August 2001 for me, same user name always. And I still read ILX everyday.

Didn't your name used to have quotes, Christine? I remember you as one of the fellow newcomers from around the time I started posting

They had quotes back when I was manually entering my display name, back before you had to register to post.

I'll be 15 next month, I think. Was surprised to see my first post pop up here recently. Had totally forgotten that I signed on with a different user name, which I may have only used for that first post.