C/D: scaring ILXors you've never met by recognizing & (politely) accosting them on public transportation after having seen their pic on a "What Do You Look Like" thread

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― xero (xero), Friday, 23 December 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

Actually, "scaring" is probably too strong a word. Make that "startling."

― xero (xero), Friday, 23 December 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

Name names!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 December 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

xero is the new horrible

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 23 December 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I will, out of respect for (what remains of) the accostee's privacy. I'll leave it up to them if they want to say something. It ain't no big deal, but it was pretty funny. Wonder if and when and with whom it might happen again, though.

Oh, and go fuck yourself.

― xero (xero), Friday, 23 December 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

this thread better start getting interesting

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Friday, 23 December 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

Feel free to contribute an account of your own experience of this sort, if any.

― xero (xero), Friday, 23 December 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I nearly did this once in Glasgow to a bloke I thought was Tracer Hand. Then I realised that it would be too embarrassing if I was wrong (possibly even if I was right).

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 23 December 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

i go to faps and sit in the corner quietly, watching ilxors and telling the waiter to put my drinks on raggett's tab.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

petesmith kind of did this to me except not on public transit, he saw me at my old apt bldg, where he also lives.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

i used to occasionally see andrew nf on the tram but i didn't accost him

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

it was me. startle was the right word, there was nothing horrible about it.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

i was startled a few years back in a steak & shake by melissa w.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

Didn't someone also see you at Reckless?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

I saw todd at Reckless, or outside Reckless, but I had already met him.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

there was nothing horrible about it

Well, I didn't think so either, but certain persons seem to have taken mild NOIZE exception to a recent ILM post in which I revealed myself as EXTREMELY OLD and sometimes CRABBY, so whatever. ...If you were at all discomfited by being recognized solely from ILX by an unknown commuter, and/or by this thread, I apologize. Also, interesting to hear that Sasha Frere-Jones sort of had dibs on writing about Gang of Four for 33 1/3, although he doesn't seem to have pitched for it. Anyhow our very brief exchange was perfectly nice, and, yeah, startling. That's all.

― xero (xero), Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

i am sad i didn't get to accost jaymc at schubas.

― tres letraj (tehresa), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

I don't think Sasha dibbed it at all, just had said once that it would be the one he'd most want to write about were he doing one.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

Ah. "Sort of had dibs" was my misconstruction, then, no doubt arising in part from a sense of being very much an outsider to that sort of enterprise. (If he ever did it I'd definitely want to read it, though.) Never mind.

― xero (xero), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

I did this to ken c at a gig! Sorry ken. I don't think he minded too much, though.

― emil.y (emil.y), Saturday, 24 December 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

I would totally do this to matos if I saw him on a train, because he is a hunk.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 24 December 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

I did this to Ned Raggett. Blew his fuckin' mind.

― origami snail (origami snail), Saturday, 24 December 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Whoops, sorry. It was actually I that blew Ned's fuckin' mind. Not my previously logged-in girlfriend.

Anyway, it was at an Acid Mothers Temple show at the Casbah in San Diego. I thought I saw that hair, that glorious cascade of wavy locks. Turns out the hair actually did belong to Ned like I suspected it. I took the opportunity to approach him, and blow his fuckin' mind.

― ath (ath), Saturday, 24 December 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I did this to Todd at Steak & Shake's and he ran away quickly.

*waves* Hi Todd!

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 26 December 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

um.. dud?

― howell huser (chaki), Monday, 26 December 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

supposedly adam rl saw me in the burger king near the wicker park reckless... but he just walked on by.

also, hello melissa! haha.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 26 December 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

I've had people recognise me from my blog, and ilx, and other places on the net. It definitely is pretty disturbing, to be honest.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 26 December 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

HSTENCIL. WERE YOU IN BURRITOVILLE ON FRIDAY NIGHT? WITH A MIDDLE EASTERN GIRL? SITTING IN ONE OF THE NORTH WALL BOOTHS?

― inquisitor, Monday, 26 December 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

I nearly went to a Sceret Machines show whist visiting NYC recently, later found out that Alex in NYC was there, I might have braved a quick hello.

― mzui (mzui), Monday, 26 December 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

HSTENCIL. WERE YOU IN BURRITOVILLE ON FRIDAY NIGHT? WITH A MIDDLE EASTERN GIRL? SITTING IN ONE OF THE NORTH WALL BOOTHS?

He was outside burritoville on 2nd Ave (err you know which one I mean) but he was in the UK friday. I ran into him at Burritoville.

WASTINNNNNNN AWAY IN BURRITOVILLE
LOOKING FOR MY LOST HSTENCIL
SOME PEOPLE SAYS THERE'S A WOMAN TO BLAME
BUT IT'S HSTENCIL'S FAULT

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 26 December 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

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