Matthew Perpetua and Fluxblog make the NY Times, fame and fortune is his

Also they had a record label that released the first ever Kaiser Chiefs single.

tastemakers doesn't come into it then

i discovered ilx through an mp3 blog blogroll

I discovered ILX by Googling the words 'take no shit'.

i discovered ILX whilst trying to find the northwest passage

i still call you all ilxians in my mind

i discovered ilx after emailing my favorite music writer (at the time) he wrote me back and said "oh hey if you like my writing you will love ILX" and then he quit ilx like weeks after i started posting

:-(

one thing i remember about mp3 blogs is everyone bitching and moaning about TOO MANY MP3s and TOO MUCH MUSIC and oh my god it's cheapening and sullying my experience of music w/ overload of choice etc etc etc

it's true i think Gold Chains lost a lot of his mystique

Matthew started the LCD Soundsystem "Yeah" thread, which remains one of my favorite threads ever on ILM. All these people hearing the track for the first time at the same time. I remember that day so clearly.

IT CAME FROM SAN FRANCISCO

gold chains?

awful blog-friendly joek "rapper"

i know who he is

you were just using him as a stand-in for all the shitty mp3blog-hyped music out there?

yes

ah point taken - i probably would have used something like bis as a strawman, not enough pixie haircut on mr chains

think i discovered ilx because of mr. wolk.

remember liking fluokids about 6 years ago. haven't followed an mp3 blog in forever.

He was on here a lot for years but he was not well suited for the snipey hardman zing swing ilx took.

― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this is hilarious to me cause he went all hardman on me for panning animal collective on the singles jukebox and did so on his own blog where i only saw it cause someone linked to it. so basically, lol fuck that dude.

Our indifference to Animal Collective was akin to a bunch of reactionary stooges in '88 panning Daydream Nation, remember?

Takes a Williamsburg riot to put me back to sleep right now

Reactionary Stooges -- hmm might be a good name for a garage rock band.

http://perpetua.tumblr.com/post/267696453/imagine-if-the-internet-as-we-know-it-now-was-around-in

(I wasn't offended -- I don't mind a good fight)

the bile in that singles jukebox roundtable is um... quite something

the "material things"/house-buying chorus, which garners a ton of vitriol, is kinda funny in light of the subsequent housing bubble implosion

"not well suited" = could not give as good as he got

wow, animal collective lyrics...how many guns would you have to put to my head to think about their lyrics and actually have an opinion on them? lots of guns!

i don't think i ever interacted once with matthew on ilx. thus, had no problem with him. same with dom. i was hardly ever on the same threads as either one of them. and i've never read their blogs. does dom have a blog?

i feel bad that i don't think i've ever looked at the singles jukebox thing...sorry you guys! love you all!

think we're in the same boat scott, I pretty much never came across either of those guys posting. don't even know what the singles jukebox thing is really

i think tom ewing started it. i know chuck and frank have contributed which is one reason i feel bad...cuZ i like those guys...

i love "teenage riot" tho

I know him as the dude from that pic w/ the pineapple

so it's basically that dude is fat, huh

that seems like an oversimplification, if for no other reason than how many people on this message board must be overweight, including his tormenters

Yeah, it's some pretty disgusting ad hominem shit and it seemed to happen all the time. I'm not at all surprised he eventually split.

the bile in that singles jukebox roundtable is um... quite something

There's a balletic, Malcolm Tucker-esque grace to this:

lex: Hey Perpetua, what the fuck do you think you're doing talking outrageous shit like this here? You don't know shit about 90% of what I'm into - you don't even know what I'm into. You don't know me but you should know yourself, you narrow-minded little indie fuckwit.

i have periodically read perpetua since whenever, and yeah he's not a zinger. he may not be much of a critic either, e.g. he's never sued the beasties. has he gotten too much credit for being among the first such blogs? very likely.

he likes stuff and he posts about it. although i'm an outsider, i've never seen anyone specifically complain about him ever. and i suspect that were his gender different, he would have taken significantly less shit on ilm.

xp lol at lex accusing anyone of narrow-mindedness

Yeah, the lex pullquote makes me want to vomit.

hey mookieproof that is easily one of the dumbest things i've ever read on ILM (but if i knew your gender and it was female i probably wouldn't have posted that)

man i can remember chatting w/ him on soulseek (so we're talking WAAAY back, like 02) and him just OBSESSING over ilxors and what they think about him and this was well before noiseboard existed, when by and large everyone was very friendly to each other w/ the exception of a few trolls (even momus hadn't gone full tilt gavin mcinnes groupie/wannabe yet i don't think) and me just going 'yeah, ok' and not really responding cuz he had some pavement bootlegs i wanted. he's a nice guy and alot of the flak he caught was undeserved but alot was deeply deeply deserved, dude had a crazy ego when he was just a blogger and it was only made worse by this even at the time clearly phony couching that he was just a enthusiast, he had no interest in writing for say pitchfork or rolling stone but lo and behold. the singles jukebox the few times i've looked at it has been pretty clearly awful, a dozen ppl trying and failing to hold charles aaron's jock (nevermind john leland), but even at whatever it's worst would be (totally can believe it would be their take on animal collective) i am pretty certain it nowhere near approaches to kind of routine dumbness perpetua has made his stock in trade. i remember when a few ilxors (not counting the ones that already had solid 'careers' in rockcrit pre-ilx) started popping up in eddy's voice music section (and for all the flack i caught at the time re: amy phillips being a poor man's pfork writer i'd like to think history has shown me to be fucking churchill on that front) and esp in matos' seattle weekly and jess's whatever altweekly that was, but in retrospect i'm not sure if tom briefly getting a column and nabisco getting a prominent regular gig (better than sfj isn't even an argument right? nevermind ANY other rock critic w/ healthcare in new york) is worth the huge number of hacks this place has churned out, like it was ilx's ultimate joke on pitchfork: 'we shall inundate you w/ shitty writers'.

lol mookie: "why isnt there a tumblr white history month?"

haha ok

it was ilx's ultimate joke on pitchfork: 'we shall inundate you w/ shitty writers'.

i think it was ott who said ILX hated pitchfork until everyone on here wrote for it

does dom have a blog?
― scott seward, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 7:09 PM

http://ichlugebullets.wordpress.com/

tbf ilx also hated pfork until ott stopped writing for it

i think ott is missing the point that after everyone on ilx wrote for it the tone changed a lot

what i find weird is in the comments section of that post he made about the singles jukebox how every reply gets indented so much that they eventually
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i mean who thinks that's a good idea when you're programming a commenting thing?

guillaume apollinaire?

fair enough

i am not a critic but i have been on ilx for . . . nine years, and basically only encountered perpetua is fat joeks. perhaps the shorthand needs explanation every once in a while

i'm generally not into mocking other people's weight but i always thought it seemed apropos in his case - pompous dude w/ an inflated ego has an inflated body to match

wait who is balls? is balls ott? fuck an ott.