Identify An ILX0r With Whom You Have A Weird Set Of Things In Common

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You mean that voice in my head isn't you, ken? then who is it? In any case, I will think of you the next time the baby poops on my grandfather's ancient Yale blanket that is on top of the changing table.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Haikunym lives in the same town as me and went to undergrad with the tuba player from my band (right?).

Jess and I have similar taste in girls and beats.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it's Dink Stover calling you from the Great Beyond, scott. You guys don't use those changing mats?

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link

nabisco and I are both black!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Dan Perry lives in Boston and I get Boston stations on my t.v.!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Jordan: I only know Eric from my old job, not from college. But it sounds like we're both on the same track re: taste in ladeez, as Jess has always shone a beacon through the wilderness in that regard. (It's times like this week, with the summer fashions everywhere, that I LOVE living in Madison, do you not agree?)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

i live in north london, did an arts degree, and grew up on the music press: who wants to touch me?

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I hardly know anyone well enough on the list to draw any conclusive parallels, but the first ILX'r to come to mind is Jody (both New Yorkers, both Devo fans). That's about it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

If it weren't for his heterosexual life partner Dan, I would be Ned Raggett!

Heheheh. :-) Kate is the goodness.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

heterosexual life partner

I'm glad to see this term getting circulation.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

It's times like this week, with the summer fashions everywhere, that I LOVE living in Madison, do you not agree?

Yes. Yes, I do.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

It should be noted that my New Haven roots are deep & strong. My ancestors lived in the New Haven Colony and helped to found the town of Guilford on the Long Island Sound not far from New Haven. This was in the 1600's. But please do not confuse us with the Milford branch of Sewards. Oh, that wouldn't do at all! No relation, you see. Even if they did have the more famous relation (william henry seward - secretary of state under lincoln, etc).

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

the first ILX'r to come to mind is Jody

ha, I was just thinking that if anyone it's Jody and Alex, given that intangible native New York-ness. Alex and I both went to private prep schools. And Jody and I both like the Southwest (and other places). But we're all New Yorkers in different ways, I think.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait a minute, Seward, you been coasting on your family name? OUT OUT! I know you played that Milford branch game when you were a young swinger! "Hey baby, wanna talk to a guy who's related to someone who was almost killed when Lincoln was shot?"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

"bought alaska for 2 cents an acre, baby. those russians didn't even see him coming. another drink, my pet?"

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link

A lot of ilxors have library related jobs, that's about the only similarity I see, really.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link

no-one!!! haw haw haw

(the closest that i can think of may be mike a, if he's still around)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Like almost every other male ILXor, I have testicles!

― The Ghost of Needless Shit-stirring (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Alex and I both went to private prep schools.

Ummmm....Loyola School is private, but it's not a prep school. "Preparatory", yes, but not a "prep school" in the prestigious sorta sense of the term.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Please don't confuse that with me attempting to assert that "i'm a street kid, hard to the bone, me!" Loyola was fine, but it's a damn far cry from Deerfield or Andover.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Dan OTM. And hey, now I'm OTM as well! Spooky.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

right, I use 'prep' in the same sense (xpost)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

(tho I thought you went somewhere else)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

my ancestors also helped to found deerfield. the town and the school. if your last name is ashley then we might have something in common.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I work at the same desk as Michael Jones, although he sits at a jaunty angle. We both have daughters of roughly the same age. Both our wives are ethnically challenged.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

those Other Schools in foreign New England are "boarding schools"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

the weird set of things that Maria D. and I have in common other than a life together and children is common ancestry. we iz related! *cue banjo*.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Nah, high school-wise, I went to Loyola on 83rd street. I did goto grade school at St.David's (home of Robert "Preppy Murderer" Chambers, just a class ahead of me), which sent most of its students off to posh-o prep schools (self excluded, as I wanted to stay in NYC).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know how similar I am to other ILXors

- TV workin' dude
- northern Illinois born-and-raised, Irish and Russian, NYC/upstate NY college educated
- Saint Etienne, Royal Trux, free jazz fan
- six years of high school, the last two at college prep
- allergic to peanuts
- shaved head

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I HAVE A SHAVED HEAD!!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link

BROTHER

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link

what i've noticed in common w/ mike a (again, if he's still here):

(a) born & raised in central NJ
(b) family roots in philadelphia & eastern europe
(c) went to rutgers undergrad (and wrote for the papers there)
(d) spent time at catholic law schools (him, st. louis univ., me, villanova)
(e) love young marble giants and cheesy synth-pop/new wave
(f) non-native NYers who spent time in NYC (though i think that i'm much more ambivalent about NYC -- and NYCers -- than he is)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link

did robert chambers honour the fire?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

He lived up to the band's name all too well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Oops and I went to the same high school! I also determined recently that Spencer and I have similar tastes in both women and music.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't think of anyone, really. Can anyone relate to this -- ?
- Middle-aged, overweight, balding
- Married for a long time, with a nearly grown-up kid
- Strange back-and-forth upbringing between SoCal and Mississippi has left me feeling totally rootless.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link

margus kiis, estonian rock critic, and I have both sailed around the cape of good hope from luderitz to durban, though he did it 3 1/2 hours faster than i, the motherfucker.
-- g e o f f

peeps posting on ile while wide asleep wtf?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Allyzay and I:

a) have the same cat
b) have the same furniture
c) are wildly amused by the same random radio stations discovered by travelling south on the NJ turnpike
d) have a balcony that looks over the river towards Georgetown U. and the National Cathedral
e) have the same mailing address

The rest of you are all from another planet as far as I can tell.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link

WUV

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Ned, you're starting to sound like a Care Bear. Stop it.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Careful, luna. Come the next full moon he'll turn into a WereCare Bear and the 'WUV' will be overtaken by a thrist for 'BWOOD'!

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

TWEEIST ... next thing, yer gonna be listening to belle & sebastian records AND LIKING IT!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Frightening thought.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Dan Perry. He and I both have a goiter the size of golf ball, but otherwise we could not be more unlike.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think one exists. Frustrated/depressed artistes-slash-manual laborers who love Kristin Hersh, the Descendents and Mazzy Star apply here.
-- milozauckerman (wooderso...), June 1st, 2005.

Before I even opened the thread I was gonna say milozauckerman... we're also both Texans dude!

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Someone around here's gotta relate to some of these!

a) Adopted a British accent when he was younger in reaction to Southern US background (and now finds it hamstrung and pretentious of him and is trying to phase it out)
b) Lacks close friends and is viewed as little more than an eccentric curio by his immediate peers and acquaintances
c) Interested in music production, post-punk/dub/shoegaze (although not entirely adhering to), anarchism (of the Emma Goldman and Voltairine de Cleyre variety), Situationism, Dadaism, minimal art, female intellectuals who aren't Ayn Rand, and more recently linguistics and structuralism
d) Very young and single, slender, tall, glasses-sporting brown-eyed brunette
e) Makes music without having any conventional gear around

Yeesh, sounds like a twisted personal.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's exploding hamster zeppelin! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link

with a couple of tweaks that could be me.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

mostly just item c tho

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I've got most of Ian's minus the accent and Southern US background, glasses, shoegaze-mention, some of the youth, the linguistics-structuralism and female-intellectuals interests and plus a couple of close friends and some conventional music-making equipment (speakers, mixer, etc.).

― Pangolino 2, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

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WAHT WAS TEH QUESTION?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 11 September 2006 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link

DOEZ GEOGRAPHY B BLUE RIBBON REALLY NARROW THINGS DOWN? AROUND HERE, THAT'S LIKE SCORING HIGH ON THE AUTISM/ASPERGER'S TEST.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Monday, 11 September 2006 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link

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