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this is a thread in praise of white belts. feel free to say things about them, or simply post pictures. as ever, the choice is yours

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I ain't got no problem with white belts, but yellow belts are better. I was a green belt in judo, but I prefer white belts to green ones and that narrowly includes olive green.

― I am not a mandible (Barima), Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

A signifier that got tossed around makeoutclub back when i felt young enough to read makeoutclub (several years ago!!). what does the white belt signify now?

― Aaron A., Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ili.net/~frey/karate/gallery/j/lion_front_kick.JPG

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, it's a simpler time...

― Aaron A., Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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― beanz (beanz), Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

tracer hand to thread.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 June 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

RJG to thread.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 June 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it say anything about me that I don't give a shit about signifiers and so on?

― I am not a mandible (Barima), Saturday, 26 June 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

What does it mean to not give a shit about signifiers?

― Aaron A., Saturday, 26 June 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It means I don't care about things/objects/etc 'signifying meanings' or whatever. I'm not bothered, especially as this is supposed to be a fun thread, but why ask whst the white belt signifies now anyway?

― I am not a mandible (Barima), Saturday, 26 June 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

jon williams, alert!

― juiceboxxx (juiceboxxx), Saturday, 26 June 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a feeling there is going to be a photo posting BONANZA the second he read this

― juiceboxxx (juiceboxxx), Saturday, 26 June 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i like white belts, they go well with white shoes.

― todd swiss (eliti), Saturday, 26 June 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"I have a white belt in bullshitdo."

― I am not a mandible (Barima), Saturday, 26 June 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i have the same kind of white belt that rjg has.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 26 June 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

They would not look good on me. They ARE sexxxxxy, though.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Saturday, 26 June 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

white belts are kind of a turn off, let's be honest.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't hang around with hipsters, but if I did, maybe I would feel differently. I AM being honest!!!!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.coppadecota.com/Belts/2_Inch_White_350.jpg

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm... your ideas are intriguing to me. The only people I know who wear white belts are dumb scenester girls at bad hardcore shows.

Dean OTM.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

why arent scenesters any good at karate?

they cant get past the white belt hurr hurr

― Ade (Adrian Langston), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm too old for bad hardcore shows!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://ourworld.cs.com/Jacksayow55/images/Marvel-real/Blood+Brothers.JPG

Oddly enough, this is named "blood brothers."

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I like The Blood Brothers! I think I'm the only ILXer who does!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the Blood Brothers are ok, but I'd be hesitant to actually buy anything of theirs or see them live.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

lots of people were big-upping them on ILM when their LP came out

― Ade (Adrian Langston), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(or be nice to them when they're sweeping up my trash at the movie theatre - xpost)

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

They are GREAT live!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Although, I will admit to seeing Red Light Sting live.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

how many bostonians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

24: one to screw in the lightbulb, one to make the replacement filament from tiny strands of white belt, 5 to write a zine about it, 2 to start a website, 15 to do coke

― Ade (Adrian Langston), Saturday, 26 June 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't it all about wearing the white belt BACKWARDS now?
originally started as a gtr. player things and is spreading like wildfire in the scenster community. or so i'm told.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Saturday, 26 June 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

God, how retarded.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 26 June 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

yep.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 26 June 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a nice white leather Martin Margiela one.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Doc Samson wore a white belt. AND a mullet.

And he was the shit, yo.

― Vic Fluro, Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

people are more bitter and cynical about white belts than i had hoped. it isnt necessary to listen to interpol you know, you can still like them

i have never heard interpol anyway, are they like the make up? ive never heard them either, or that other band he was in.

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

interpol are not like the makeup; they may be worse. nation of ulysses is grebt though, esp. the second album.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Interpol isn't so bad.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw some trucker hats tonite. i still think they are good

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

interpol are good in my book.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 26 June 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

GARETH YOU MUST HEAR THE NATION OF ULYSSES!!!

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"i saw some trucker hats tonite. i still think they are good"

if you're a trucker.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

nou are my favorite.

― g--ff (gcannon), Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

*raises hand*

Uh, I quite like Interpol. I've enjoyed everything I've heard from them. They've got that '80s-flavored sound I like. And they actually dress up.

*quietly puts hand down*

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

(Now that I'm actually clued-in about the whole "trucker hat" thing:

latebloomer, that was brilliant.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, Gareth, you are several years behind the fashions. Pay attention, now! Over a year ago they were so Hoxton that I was naming my fake white belt band.

― He wants to be me (kate), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

(Dammit, I can't even remember what I called them now. Something silly.)

― He wants to be me (kate), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah ha! The Begats!!!

Who is the quintessential White Belt Band?

― He wants to be me (kate), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i know they are finished now, but i think that is a shame, because i like them. i do still see them around, but not in the ways i did before. i want to save them from extinction. together, on this thread, we might be able to achieve it. trucker hats are still around though, i see, i have no problem with that though

now, anyway, what i am really interested in, for myself, these days, are BERETS! i looked for some berets the other week but i didn't really see any. perhaps this should be another thread

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

See, if you love them because you love the way they look, the whole Courreges (sp?) 60s look. rather than their being fashionable, now would be the time to start wearing them again. But I know you're secretly jut a bit fashion slut, my dear... ;-)

― He wants to be me (kate), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

and indeed there is a thread about Berets

fashion slut:)

but, you are right, now is the time, and we have a thread to make it happen.

people, more white belt love please. if you are feeling shy, try and look at it as a kitsch early 00s retro nostalgia thing, if not, just go right ahead

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 27 June 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

neckerchiefs are good.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 27 June 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

White belts are best worn with white boots for that Nancy Sinatra look. That's much better than any kind of hipster variety. I used to rock the Uncle Sam look, blue and white striped trousers, white belt, red shirt. Oh god, there's probably somewhere online a picture of the Lollies dressed up in matching outfits like that.

― He wants to be me (kate), Sunday, 27 June 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.texaslonghorn.com/buelingo_info/heritage/paparazzi.jpg

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Sunday, 27 June 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.grtco.com/belts/images/white.jpg

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Sunday, 27 June 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.quicklinks.on.ca/~maple/planets/jup-99/j-092799.jpg

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Sunday, 27 June 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tahoeyc.com/graphics/merch/8_lg.jpg

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Sunday, 27 June 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

what about cream or beige belts, i think that would go better with my color scheme, although theres a lot to be said for brown and white

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 27 June 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

gareth don't worry white belts will neer die in our house mainly because i have and always wear it. I must say that when I bought i was totally unaware of the connotations surrouding them, and was only aware of what white belts 'signify' when readin ILE recently. To be honest sometimes I wonder if these memes really do 'signify' anything outside of ILX/ILxors minds....

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 27 June 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you back in Londonnow Ambrose?

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 27 June 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

er... from brighton? no i am in berkhamsted now. got your text bout the radiophonic workshop but surely neither you nor i have bbc4?!?!?!?!?!

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 27 June 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

nylon-mesh adjustable caps will never go out of style. i think the only difference is in the clothes that surround them: i.e. white belts or smart shoes instead of flannel shirts and torn jeans: suddenly they become "trucker hats" and worthy of singling out, instead of just, like a hat; obviously this is a good thing

white belts, especially the studded variety, are obviously awesome when worn by an 80s-era debbie harry, but it's the democratization of the white belt that rubs me the wrong way. one should have to earn it, in a kind of social karate system, but with the color heirarchy reversed. there should only be two white belts in the world and one should be prepared to sacrifice everything to wear one.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 27 June 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had bbc 4 for a while now thanks to the magic of freeview saturday night had a great doc on 60s experimental music fiollowed by one on the radiophonicworkshop.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 27 June 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

A bit of a tangent, but are poncho-like knit shawls turning up on every second girl in other parts of the world right now? That's the main trend I'm seeing here this summer.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 27 June 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

hardcore girls like to fuck

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Sunday, 27 June 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

BRING BACK THE BAJA

http://raskcycle.com/ACC/ACC.htg/553.jpg http://www.las-imports.com/images/T-115.JPG

DRUG RUGZ 4EVA

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Sunday, 27 June 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking about getting one of those...

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Sunday, 27 June 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

there are 1800 of those in camden market. they are inadvisable

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 27 June 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.northernplainsstudio.com/mixed_main/mixed_images/hairshirt.jpg

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Sunday, 27 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

are those signifiers?

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Sunday, 27 June 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.yellowkidcomics.com/board/triad/signs3.jpg

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Sunday, 27 June 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.hut.fi/~ansi/jee!sukset/clinton-devil.gif

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Sunday, 27 June 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, jon, the baja is a hippie signifier.
what is signified includes: 1. stinky dreadlocks doused with patchouli 2. "permanent jam band camping trip" 3. trustafundian rastafarians

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Sunday, 27 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

what are transient noise hippie / tripster signifiers?

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Sunday, 27 June 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

post-ironic diy clothing?

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Sunday, 27 June 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

+1 tripster point for hand screen print tshirts
+2 tripster points for hand stenciled clothing

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Sunday, 27 June 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

+2 for puffpaint
+3 for ugly patchwork

― andrew l. r. (allocryptic), Sunday, 27 June 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Kim, I think the knit/crocheted poncho is definitely one of the trends of the summer. I've found them in pretty much every clothing store I've been in the past couple of months.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 27 June 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Eurgh. Yes, the thin lacy/thick chunky pointy poncho is all over London. It's not a good look for the majority of girls wearing them. But better than fluorescent string vests like last year! Summer brings out the horrors in big cities.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 28 June 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

DIE

http://i.myspace.com/07/68/2508670/13183515_l.jpg

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

man sometime I gotta tell that funny Guy Piccioto white belt story.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

why not now, on the all-white-belts-all-the-time thread?

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd like to know of lido has heard NOU and what he thinks of them.

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

TELL IT!

x-post

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll get around to it, eventually.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Its like that kid settled down with his coors light to masturbate and then just passed out cold instead.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like he took his dad's empty beer can out of the recycling bin and loosened up his belt and asked his terrified kid sister to take a picture.

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I almost bought one a week or so ago but it was too small. :(

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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