― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Hey-ooooooooo
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Woah, it's almost ILX bday time.
― kshighway, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 03:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, this May!
― kshighway, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Welcome to ILE, big man.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I think this is still on ILM, Hoos?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:02 (fourteen years ago) link
The idea of this place being ten years old next year is a little nuts.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, we're on ILM.
― kshighway, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, Ned. What's weird is thinking that I've been around for nearly 75% of the board's existence.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I was there since day 1! So was Dan and DJ Martian, I think.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Looks like Tim Finney and Alba and Sundar and Ally all posted in the first week as well.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Does Tom even still post here anymore?
― kshighway, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Well that's embarassing.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
he posts as "cankles" these days
― please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks, jaymc & Ned. Still learning who's who.
― kshighway, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
the "name that song/mp3" game is one of my earlier FT/ILM memories.
― bnw, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I was there...that first day ILM started.
― Mark, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link
And I can hear the drums now.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― bnw, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
The B.C. era, if you like.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, I meant to mention you, Mark!
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 04:29 (fourteen years ago) link
So we've about a year to organise that big 10th anniversary WorldFAP then?
― Tuncay Stryder (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link
TuomasFAPWAF will have to do.
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 09:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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.)
― Groke, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 11:04 (fourteen years ago) link
The idea of this place being ten years old next year is a little big nuts.
― t**t, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
The idea of this place being ten years old next year is a little big nuts cajones.
― t**t, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
T**t, the Spanish Balt.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Happy Gonads to ya too, Sir!
― t**t, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Sheez, everybody's got an August birthday (mine's tomorrow)
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I was still young when I found out about this place ! But ILX has aged a lot better than me.
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
But ILX has aged a lot better than me.
debateable.
10 bloody years. i think i first found this place by accident about 9 years ago.not sure i should celebrate it, gien this thing has at times nearly lost me my job.of course, i jest. bravo to all those that keep the machines a ticking.
― mark e, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Here from very nearly the beginning - I posted on a thread called The UK Music Press: Has It Ever Been Good? on Aug 31, 2000. It wasn't a very good post but Stevie T made a better one immediately afterwards to which I responded "I agree with Stevie". I should have mostly stuck with the latter approach.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Needs Stevie to say something first though.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Not really.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I agree with Stevie and Michael Jones.
― t**t, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha good times
I was scanning back through AMA via Google Groups a few years ago and realized exactly how many of those folks made the jump over here; it was kind of frightening! (Also made me wonder what happened to folks like ML Compton and Mark Bartlam.) I also stumbled across what was probably my first Usenet post, back in September 1991 on rec.music.industrial... and it was answered by donut bitch!
― I have a set of penises leftover from some bach party somewhere (HI DERE), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
ML's still around, just saw him earlier this year at Sparks.
About the only a.m.a. regulars who never turned up besides ML and Mark were Persi and G*ndola B*b.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha oh the reflexive googleproofing
Did JackieBlue come over here, too?
― I have a set of penises leftover from some bach party somewhere (HI DERE), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
...hmm, not sure. Kris and Otis did for a while.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I love it when J. pops out of lurkerdom once every 14 months!
okay enough, we're acting worse than Sinister here
― I have a set of penises leftover from some bach party somewhere (HI DERE), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I was going to say!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
What's a bach party btw?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
It's where penises are served, duh.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
good post, Marcello
― markers, Friday, 27 August 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
(and Ned, too -- seconding cozen with the "well said")
― markers, Friday, 27 August 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Hello Marcello. Hope things are good with you.
― Duran (Doran), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:06 (thirteen years ago) link
also: happy birthday, ilx.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:07 (thirteen years ago) link
1st post was 3rd December, 2000. good god. happy birthday ilx.
― Michael B, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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 2000https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2000
rym top singles of 2000https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/single/2000
― djmartian, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 22:57 (eight years ago) link
aw quinceañera
http://www.mjuniqueevents.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/MJ_Unique_Events_Quinceanera_DJ_Chicago2.jpg
― drash, Thursday, 27 August 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
http://image.blingee.com/images17/content/output/000/000/000/65b/582710637_1967770.gif
― soref, Thursday, 27 August 2015 00:06 (eight years ago) link
Happy BDay ILX ...
http://wearethelastbeatniks.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/dio_thanks.jpg
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 27 August 2015 00:32 (eight years ago) link
Happy birthday ILX!
― Erasure are better than The Doors (Turrican), Thursday, 27 August 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
i wish i remember what brought me here in 2001
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 27 August 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
I can't remember what brought me here, but I know it took me ages to register.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 27 August 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
I came to ILX for the waters
― Exile's Return To Sender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 August 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link