Firemen were hacking away at the walls like Drake hacking away at a metaphor.
^^^quality blogging
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 17 June 2010 13:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
Against fireman’s wishes and defying any modicum of common sense, my first instinct was to dive inside the burning building and save my laptop. This I did. I’m typing on it now. I have a book about Hipster Puppies due in a few weeks, and I’d rather die in a blaze than fuck up an assignment that awesome
glad you're okay whiney - hope this doesn't come off as callous or w/e, but there are a lot of cheap solutions to backup your files online, e.g. carbonite, and it's a good idea to have off-site backups of your data in general... so you don't run into burning buildings!!
― dyao, Thursday, 17 June 2010 13:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
other thread is on 77: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77
― fantast (ico) (some dude), Thursday, 17 June 2010 13:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
snuff it out with whiney g
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 June 2010 13:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh man here I was thinking this was whiney's-back ilx drama and it's irl sadness
glad you're ok bud
(also I echo the condolences to darraghmac)
― (e_3) (Edward III), Thursday, 17 June 2010 14:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
hi Whiney, I was on some punishingly long driving-from-place-to-place action yesterday but stopping by this morning to say condolences on the fire & glad you are OK man
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 17 June 2010 15:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
Grabbing a laptop out of the flames and immediately blogging about the fire = best example of "firsties" yet?
― Position Position, Thursday, 17 June 2010 15:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
Grabbing a laptop out of the flames and immediately blogging about the fire = best example of "firsties" yet? --Position Position
"immediately" = 41 hours later, but OK
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 June 2010 17:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
glad you are safe man
― it's hard out here for a special snowflake (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 June 2010 17:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
it was pretty surreal to see this on twitter -- your place fucking burning down obv seems like something that will never happen to you or anyone you know -- anyway good to see that it ended up probably as good as it could've -- too bad it wasn't the free drake show that caught on fire
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 17 June 2010 17:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
I thought the Drake show caught on riot
― cunty body bean sauce? (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 June 2010 17:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
too bad the free drake show riot didn't catch on fire
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 17 June 2010 17:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
that's dangerously close to my platonic ideal of "entertainment"
― cunty body bean sauce? (HI DERE), Thursday, 17 June 2010 17:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
sorry i didn't see this sooner whiney, glad you're ok, and that you didn't lose more than you did. what a terrible thing.
― goole, Thursday, 17 June 2010 18:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
really glad you're ok, chris
― da croupier, Thursday, 17 June 2010 18:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^^ use an ilxor's real name when shit gets heated
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 June 2010 19:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
GET IT???????????????
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 June 2010 19:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
groan
― kkvgz, Thursday, 17 June 2010 19:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
dad joeks
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 17 June 2010 19:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
bite me, nick
― da croupier, Thursday, 17 June 2010 19:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
fuck you, JERRY
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Thursday, 17 June 2010 19:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
Boy, I am glad to hear things did not turn out so bad as they could have.
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Thursday, 17 June 2010 20:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
You and me both!
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 June 2010 21:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
(^^ sense-of-humor-wise, I am still kinda laughing about how multiple music writers showed up with boxes and Whiney said "this is like Da Capo's Best Helping-out-after-a-Fire 2010." it would probably have been faster to get five reviews of the fire than actually clean anything up.)
(umm obviously Whiney has friends who aren't music writers, but the music writers are the ones where I know who they are)
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, 17 June 2010 21:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hahaha, thanks for remembering my jokes because I def was too frazzled to remember them! Yeah, including me it was FIVE music writers and 100 boxes.
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 June 2010 21:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
totally behind the curve here but glad yer ok and so is most of yer stuff dude
― AESTHOLE (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 June 2010 21:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
sorry that happened--I lost all my stuff in a fire 7 years ago (woke up to find my ceiling on fire with flaming bits falling onto the bed.) Got a pretty big settlement from the lawsuit, but that took 4 years.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 17 June 2010 21:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
Do they know what caused it yet bro?
― Loathsome Dov (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 17 June 2010 21:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
Nope!
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 June 2010 22:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
any idea when your place will be habitable again?
btw, i almost gasped when i read this:
Against fireman’s wishes and defying any modicum of common sense, my first instinct was to dive inside the burning building and save my laptop. This I did. I’m typing on it now.
that's a lot of risk for a laptop.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 18 June 2010 00:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
anyway, i said it before, but it's worth repeating: very, very glad to hear you're okay.
i bet it was some schmo trying to microwave a hot pocket
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Friday, 18 June 2010 00:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
it was someone from the future trying to stop the publishing of the hipster puppies book, which ends up leading to the end of civilization as we know it. whiney from the future killed the arsonist but died in the fire.
― cutty, Friday, 18 June 2010 01:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
now who knows what will happen...
Whiney, have you done anything about smoke damage? My memories of the fire in my apartment a little distant (it was 1982), but I remember that smoke damage was pretty deep and instantaneous and the smell of soot won't go away until you address it properly -- won't wash out of clothes without certain chemicals, all your recovered stuff (books, records, jewel cases, etc etc) has to be treated; when it's just sitting in boxes it's just soaking in the smell. I also remember that we were so drenched in the smell, having moved lots of the smoky stuff we salvaged with us to a hotel, that we didn't at first notice it, but man, the people who worked in the hotel sure did.
Fire insurance can go a long way toward this type of thing. Hope you had plenty. Anyone reading this who isn't really interested in experiencing all the details of this type of nightmare firsthand -- GET FIRE INSURANCE.
― dad a, Friday, 18 June 2010 03:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
My girlfriend and I are friends with Rose and were there all day wed packing her apt and moving it to uhaul on 4th ave. Had no idea music critic and fellow ILXor was doing the same in downstairs apt. I'd been to your building before, it was a good location and the yard was nice except for the giant slugs. Sorry you had to go through that and good luck...
― dan selzer, Friday, 18 June 2010 14:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
Sorry you had to go through that
The fire, or the giant slugs? o_O
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 18 June 2010 14:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
wow just read this, sorry to hear about all this Chris, glad you're ok though!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 18 June 2010 14:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
Wow, this practically counts as a FAP (Fire After-Party)
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Friday, 18 June 2010 14:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Whiney, you got your amazon wishlist stocked yet?
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 June 2010 15:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
Whiney, I know you're kinda not on ILX much right now, so just wanted to ensure you saw this:
http://pitchfork.com/news/39202-local-natives-schedule-fall-tour
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 18 June 2010 19:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
came across this on the internet randomly.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
*the complete randomness of where I found it being so odd.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
"hipster runoff"?
― max, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
"ban max"?
― terry squad (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
sorry
― terry squad (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
― blap...tremendo (deej), Sunday, 8 August 2010 05:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
hmm so the 'victory' sample is from this, had no idea
― blap...tremendo (deej), Sunday, 8 August 2010 05:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
dying
― markers, Sunday, 8 August 2010 05:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
should play this music before the next twitter conference speech
― da croupier, Sunday, 8 August 2010 06:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
that in three years you'll be talking about a hot new song from pop sensation tessa netting featuring 2chainz
― an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 January 2013 06:29 (4 months ago) Permalink
o is gr8080 itt? policing it i bet!!
― zvookster, Monday, 28 January 2013 06:31 (4 months ago) Permalink
tessa is worse than Amanda Palmer. Thanks forks.
― sarahell, Monday, 28 January 2013 06:36 (4 months ago) Permalink
zvookster i see what you did there
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 28 January 2013 06:44 (4 months ago) Permalink
and i u man
― zvookster, Monday, 28 January 2013 06:45 (4 months ago) Permalink
Fellas. Fellas.
― an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 January 2013 06:46 (4 months ago) Permalink
Has your girlfriend got the butt?
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― sarahell, Monday, 28 January 2013 06:53 (4 months ago) Permalink