ilx posts with striking imagery

jfc end ilx

interesting choice of thread to post that in

not sure what the context was but that seems very unlike advice on How To Write Posts Like Aimless. guy writes every post like he's fn John Stuart Mill or some shit

Possibly I was confused when I wrote that.

i got some in my eye and now my gums are all atingle

cmon flopson

it actually didn't clusterfuck me the way other posts do on ilx

Willingness to attack aimless is a dece inverse test of ilxor moral fibre ime

nb he will not take undue offence were i not to endorse his posting style viewed through a recommendation prism of brevity

there's about as much attacking in this revive as there is striking imagery

still boggling at anyone reading that "advice" as given in earnest tho

also I thought this bump would have been for schlump's post in olive thread

we all know the real trick to capable posting is to sum up conventional wisdom in paternal but patronizing bite-sized chunks

ya was wondering where's the imagery

thought it was meta lit crit

龜, it rly sucks to have to break this to you, but when you become Truly Adult, you discover the deliciousness of olives, in this moment simultaneously discovering the error of yr ways, but also, tragically, once you have reached this enlightened stage of True Adulthood, it is only olives that are enjoyable, the rest of your life as sour & chewy as you once found olives. you shd either try to appreciate olives, now, in advance of them being yr only membrane to feeling, or else try to die young, blessedly ignorant, unbaptized.

― schlump, Thursday, June 2, 2016 12:56 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fine we'll post this too

hey, i'm a big Aimless fan

i just found it funny that his writing tips are 'keep it brief and conversational' when his posts read like they're dusted off and read from atop a cliff. but i love reading that shit. one of my favourite ILB posters

paternal but patronizing

lol c'mon mordy

fatherly, but also fatherly

different roots i thought - pater + patron

i lost my aimless alergy some time last year *shrug*

classical Latin patrōnus protector and defender … < patr- , pater father (see pater n.2) + -ōnus , suffix forming nouns

anyway basically I'm just etymologically clowning, what is this thread about

the whole i love books sci fi 'recommendation' thread he did was a classic troll

Psst. I believe his posting recommendation was satirical, recommending the kind of simplistic posting he looks down about and would never stoop so low as to write, not even in order to conquer.

In general I like his posts a lot, but every once in a while he gets into that bag of one pot on the spectrum calling the other kettles on the spectrum black, and that SF thread troll was a classic example of this.

About = upon

guess he trolled me good then cuz that thread really pissed me off

he sure did!

Well what do you expect when you like to read such a poorly written genre with no sense of joie de vivre?

lol

i didn't care cuz i will talk about sci-fi anywhere. and i got to blab about van vogt on there.

lol

xp

To be honest, I think his initial impulse was to reach out and not to troll, but he quickly felt uneasy and had to get back into his comfort zone as a defender of the faith of civilization against the barbarians at the gateway.

it was a good thread tbf, i got to read good writers on stuff i'll never actually seek out, one of the primary joys of ilx 4 me

what happened to chris p.? wasn't he aimless before aimless on ilb? i even made him a moderator.

chris p left a long time ago i think, someone once told me he thought of ilx as a 'hive of assholes' and that phrase has been stuck in my head ever since. thanks chris p.!

Chris P. went to grad school in Canada, became a medievalist if not a full-blown academic and runs a groovy imprint that puts out lots of interesting books. You can find him on FB if you want.

He's FB friends with plenty of past and present ILX0rs, so he couldn't have been down on everybody. Plenty of these are also your FB friends, skot. I saw him last Halloween, well the night before Halloween, when he was home to give out candy at his mother's house.

yeah, found him on FB. i was never exactly sure how he felt about me though...maybe i was one of the asshole hive...

this place woud be an apiary

In fact when I saw Chris I even discussed that SF thread with him. He told me that he had only recently finished John's Scalzi's Old Man's War and that he didn't read it for the prose style but for the weird ideas. Sorry but your name did not come up, Skot.

this place woud be an apiary

Actually I remember one more thing. Chris recommended Aimless read Delany, which recommendation I passed along on that thread, so he read his way into a little bit of Dhalgren.

Chris P. went to grad school in Canada, became a medievalist if not a full-blown academic and runs a groovy imprint that puts out lots of interesting books

what imprint? have no idea who chris p is, so can't google it...

Punctum

its woozy small hours music, too much coke, walled into yourself. i want you to love me, you send me a coffin of roses. i guess avalon is a fair reference, but it misses something. its music influenced by avalon in the same way that life sometimes feel like its being refracted through movies. it feels cinematic inasmuch as sometimes it feels like you get lost in being somebody else in the dark. bringing a cigarette to your lips, watching the smoke billow up through the lights in the club. this is it though, the glassy surfaces. everything is an image. how hard it is to feel things sometimes. its not empty though, its just half numb, playing itself playing at someone else.

i think this is a pretty strange album though. it doesn't help to just tell people that it sounds like steely dan, or late pet shop boys or al stewart whatever. you think we're idiots? we've heard year of the cat. the album works differently, yeah its heavily influenced by those artists, but it seems really obvious that it wants to use them in a different way than to try and emulate them, or make an album in that tradition. there's a sense in which some music is "about" loving other music, or maybe not even loving other music but about the experience of other music. and so the way the appropriation of that language is functioning seems entirely different to how people want to characterise it here. that is, the comparative criticisms sort of miss the point entirely. yeah things are off, the guy has this wobbly croak of a voice, everything sounds glassily self contained, obsessively neat but weirdly off. a strange lens, the perspective doesn't work. something. but its not a failure at emulating Hats or Gaucho. it directly recalls those records, as records. as sound worlds that can be only re-accessed in this artificial way. a set of surfaces, images, movie scenes.

― judith, Wednesday, February 8, 2012 12:25 AM

does kinda seem like classic wenger to contrive spending 20m to tell theo he's a fucking pussy this way instead of to his face for free

round about when jose returned and cast himself as thee pearly queen of england it struck me that wenger was rly the one who lowkey said the most ukip bollocks on a consistent basis. this fits in with his numerous quixotic subliminals over the years re twp/suarez/sanchez/austin and the lost art of the street football fighty fight man

like an increasingly deranged scientist attempting to cure the virus he created - 50k p/w britlad yoof wave all now pathetic mutant manbabies littering the marble halls, even mighty sanchez sapped of his maracas this season, he must now splice the two for a new totem, incorruptibly un-arsenal maximum panto dame

― r|t|c, Saturday, June 4, 2016 12:40 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like to think we can get ilx hooked on ilf

Not football, just our angle on football

If that post won't do it, nothing will tbf

one vote for nothing, please.