Happy Birthday ILX

i don't remember growing older
when did they

when did ile get to be such a monster
when did ilm get known to all

wasn't it just yesterday
when they were small

sunrise, sunset
sunrise, sunset
swiftly flow the days
seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
blossoming even as we gaze

sunrise, sunset
sunrise, sunset
swiftly flow the years
one season following another
laden with happiness and tears

*sniff*

just kidding! happy b'day ILM

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And yes, reading about hearing "Bombs Over Baghdad" for the first time seems the best way to celebrate ILM's fifth.

(hbilm!)

Hey-ooooooooo

Woah, it's almost ILX bday time.

This thread was started on the first day I was at college. Freshman year. Insane.

That's cute. So I was right that you graduated this year, ksh?

Yeah, this May!

Welcome to ILE, big man.

I think this is still on ILM, Hoos?

The idea of this place being ten years old next year is a little nuts.

Yeah, we're on ILM.

Yeah, Ned. What's weird is thinking that I've been around for nearly 75% of the board's existence.

I was there since day 1! So was Dan and DJ Martian, I think.

Looks like Tim Finney and Alba and Sundar and Ally all posted in the first week as well.

Does Tom even still post here anymore?

Well that's embarassing.

xpost Very rarely, but he did a few days ago:

This is an interesting topic for me cos I just finished a big "decade in pop" essay piece for P4K (look out for it next thursday 'popism' fans)

Two things seem obvious to me. 1. No music now is as popular as some music used to be. 2. Some music now is still a hell of a lot more popular than other music now. I don't think (1) means (2) isn't interesting.

― Groke, Friday, August 21, 2009 12:46 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

he posts as "cankles" these days

All is love, JS.

Yeah, Tom checks in here and there but he's mostly busy with Freaky Trigger, Pitchfork, his regular job and raising his kids. Not necessarily in that order.

Thanks, jaymc & Ned. Still learning who's who.

the "name that song/mp3" game is one of my earlier FT/ILM memories.

I was there...that first day ILM started.

And I can hear the drums now.

also remember Ned and Dan schooling me on wax trax era industrial in a.m.a., just as I was feeling like i was gonna drop mad knowledge. still bitter.

The B.C. era, if you like.

Oh, I meant to mention you, Mark!

But unlike almost everyone else in those early months, I didn't know anyone from Usenet. Somehow I started reading Freaky Trigger/NYLPM a few months before, and then a post mentioned the board.

So we've about a year to organise that big 10th anniversary WorldFAP then?

TuomasFAPWAF will have to do.

Hmm, search tells me my first ILM post was in December of 2001, but that was by an a-hole who liked to go around pretending to be other people. I actually showed up in May of 2002 to call shenanigans, and have hung around ever since (originally posting with my real name). "Johnny Fever" was born in September of 2003.

I take this place for granted most of the time, but I've really had a good time here the last seven years. And I've learned a hell of a lot.

Happy birthday you dear old thing. And a massive thankyou to Keith & the backroom people for making everything so much smoother and more usable without losing its essence at all.

(I find ILM too addictive and tempting to even lurk mostly - I rely on people to pass the good stuff on - but I've been enjoying the P2K reaction threads.)

The idea of this place being ten years old next year is a little big nuts.

The idea of this place being ten years old next year is a little big nuts cajones.

T**t, the Spanish Balt.

Happy Gonads to ya too, Sir!

happy birthday! don't post as much as I used to, but will always have an ILX place in my heart

TEN!

I've just picked up some champagne and am looking forward to celebrating ten years of ILX and nine years of me wasting my life and annoying everyone on it.

That quiz, I know one, have a reasonable guess at two, the rest I have no idea.

Morning all.

Over the last year I’ve been content to be a very occasional lurker and even more occasional poster. The preceding eight years certainly had their ups and downs, and yes, if I had them over again I wouldn’t have said maybe 98% of what I did say here, but then I think about where I might have ended up if not for the roads, actual and otherwise, which ILX opened up for me. I spent most of my time here as a grieving widower and/or confused, furiously self-projecting fuck-up but all I can do is thank everyone who did stand by me and/or stand up for me when things were at their worst. These days I twitter, comment on Popular and blog on Then Play Long and that’s enough for me. Just over nine years since I thought life was over for good, I find myself back in the life I used to have before I came to ILX, before ILX even existed, with the benefit of not-making-these-mistakes-again wisdom, and that’s fine by me. But without ILX I doubt I’d ever have found my way back home.

All good wishes to everyone on ILX, even (especially!) if they can’t stand me, and enjoy the next ten years, as I’m sure I will.

Hey Marcello :)

And happy 10 years y'all! Wow, I can't believe even I've been here seven and a half years now and I felt like I was a latecomer to the borads. It's been a great ride - I've come and gone from other forums, but this place has always stuck with me like a big, bad felafel.

Huzzah!

Hi everyone and happy birthday ILX. Sorry I missed the FAP (as per). Here's to the future!

Awkward air-kisses and embarrassed man-hugs to one and all.

(and hi Marcello - hope things are going well for you!)

Wow, my first post was on the 11 March 2001. I don't just feel old, I'm trying to justify what I've been doing with my life these last 9 and a half years.

happy birfday ilx
wow, tho dont post that often nowadays just checked and abt 8 years since first post, where did the time go?

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/gallery/2007/01/10/morrissey460.jpg
Where did the years go? Why did the years go?

About 'justifying' time spent here and all (and don't worry dog latin, I'm not singling you out or anything!):

In a segment of the interview series I did with Scott Woods the other month I predicted there would be some 'argh where did the time go' handwringing of sorts -- not the most radical of predictions and I'm sure a number of posts like that are functioning more in a sense of 'wow time did fly' or light humor rather than deep angst or anything like that.

I'd simply suggest this -- ILX functions as a constantly archived mass conversation, but at base is just that, a conversation. It is no more something to justify than the conversations we all have with others who inspire, amuse, engage or even annoy us in any number of contexts. For some it's a necessary outlet when no other one seems available, for others it's just part of how we communicate with others in general, there's no one answer.

And as such, these conversations are part of how we learn and reflect and act, continually. The archiving may be new in terms of human history, the many distances crossed similarly, but it is simply a continuing of that which has been a hallmark of language and humanity in general. It's only something to justify, or a waste of time, if you think it needs to be.

There are plenty of things I've regretted saying or writing or thinking over all my years on this planet, there's plenty of things I'm proud of. There are arguments and discussions I wish I hadn't been caught up in, there were others I was thrilled by and wished wouldn't end. ILX is just a subset of that -- and on balance, it's a damned good one, a resource, a comfort zone, a chance to connect, more besides. People stay in conversations and discussions, people leave them, people leave and return and leave...that's no different from the rest of life. Neither are the sometimes wonderfully ridiculous in-jokes.

I think that's all the justification anyone needs, really.

well said hippy ; )

That's well-spoken hippy to you, punk.

The tressed one speaks great wisdom that is balm to the soul of the weary poster.

good post, Marcello

(and Ned, too -- seconding cozen with the "well said")

Hello Marcello. Hope things are good with you.

Just over nine years since I thought life was over for good, I find myself back in the life I used to have before I came to ILX, before ILX even existed, with the benefit of not-making-these-mistakes-again wisdom, and that’s fine by me

very pleased to read this. hope you're well.

also: happy birthday, ilx.

1st post was 3rd December, 2000. good god. happy birthday ilx.

Don't forget.. on August 26th 2000, 15 years ago today ILM started

musical memory jogger of that year, that was then...

rym top albums of 2000
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2000

rym top singles of 2000
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/single/2000

aw quinceañera

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Happy BDay ILX ...

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Happy birthday ILX!

i wish i remember what brought me here in 2001

I can't remember what brought me here, but I know it took me ages to register.

I came to ILX for the waters