obviously
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
what will have been the results of such tempestuous collusion, we wonder
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
some new words
― the prefects of the spirit world (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
bet you guys would get it on.
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
wordsmithery
― Ban Kil Moon (imago), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
visit a coffee house in houndsditch
― the prefects of the spirit world (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
pass comment on olde london's avianry
if you haven't watched any of joanna hogg's films yet (particular the last two) i suspect you might like them
― No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 14:21 (nine years ago) link
o cool, ty
olde london with its red kites and peregrines, pigeons lived in proper fear then
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/thugclive/status/563709970756423680https://twitter.com/thugclive/status/563711099879837696
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Friday, 6 February 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
just went to the offie for some cava and rae sremmurd was playing. is there no escape
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Saturday, 7 February 2015 20:28 (nine years ago) link
ive not heard rae sremmurd or run the jewels and not more than about half a youtube of death grips but i enjoyed that anyway
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 7 February 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
tbf yeah. i actually came to ilx to post that post not knowing of your clive martin retweets, it all came together splendidly
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Saturday, 7 February 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
deja vu sense this may have been covered before, but do people irl say lj or is it an ilx innovation
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
trying to think of a football personality with the same initials who might be pictured wearing a monogrammed tracksuit
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
An ILX thing mostly. Some usage amongst intimates. LJVN is a new one though.
― Josh Whitehurst the endowed drummer and backing vocalist (imago), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:14 (nine years ago) link
quite possibly nobody else has identified the divine kinship between yourself and the avian world
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
my dearest avian has, adeo ut she has mooted a specific nature walk (the 'parkland' walk) around haringey for this weekend. birdwatching might be shuffling towards becoming my primary hobby again
― Josh Whitehurst the endowed drummer and backing vocalist (imago), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
shuffling furtively, like a dunnock
― Josh Whitehurst the endowed drummer and backing vocalist (imago), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
that and wordbotching
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
:)
― Josh Whitehurst the endowed drummer and backing vocalist (imago), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
http://wordbotching.tumblr.com/day/2012/02/27
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
your most avuncular post yet, marred by an idiotically weak tumblr concept
― Josh Whitehurst the endowed drummer and backing vocalist (imago), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
how do u feel abt the epithet 'twitcher'
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
it's fine when used to describe a particular sort of birdwatcher, the sort who will receive text alerts about a twice-recorded rarity blown into colwyn bay on a midatlantic depression & drop everything
i am not that sort of birdwatcher, although i did stumble across sevenoaks' ibis recently, and have also stumbled across a purple heron at dungeness before. seems much more satisfying when you don't have gps coordinates and a ritualistic cavalcade of parka'd telescope-wielding pricks pinpointing the exact location of that lesser tawny-streaked marsh warbler or w/e
loved it when that famous rarity in durham or something got eaten by a sparrowhawk a few years ago
― Josh Whitehurst the endowed drummer and backing vocalist (imago), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
accidental shawx
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
lol
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link
on the 7th of November 2010, I posted "dear government, get fucked"
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:13 (nine years ago) link
<3
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:13 (nine years ago) link
that was more for the :) which is the telltale sign of curt lj pique, to be contrasted with :D
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
all affection mon frère
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
there will have been prior expressions of impatience to #0
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
#0 looks like a particularly anguished or indignant emoticon
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
compulsive autoscarification of the eyes is a known risk of long term exposure to twp
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
we must always remember whom the real victims have been
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/BC0Eh.gif
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 02:07 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
would treat to tea and scones
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 02:09 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
why don't more people like the cardiacs
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Saturday, 14 February 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
https://writerchick.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/worditout-word-cloud-284025.png?w=300
― content raggettator (wins), Saturday, 14 February 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
who stole the body of the president of cyprus??? was it you!?? (rolling graverobbing thread)
well you see nakhers chum
cardiacs' music is extremely intense with unusual melodic sensibilities but a demented punkish energy - the former putting off typical punk types and the latter putting off classical or prog fans
they sit uneasily within the rock in opposition venn set - it's like asking why henry cow or koenjihyakkei don't have more fans. they demand lots of close listening and a level of commitment that most listeners just do not have
they also alienated every single major music magazine during their heyday and the press famously loathed them, probably because they did not want to make the effort to understand them & it was easier to demonise the freaks
they have had something of a revival in the discourse of late, mostly because it's being publicised just how many popular musicians are into them
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:17 (nine years ago) link
they aren't remotely like 'henry cow or koenjihyakkei' though, they make quirky indie rock music which is in a fairly recogniseable idiom to anyone who is familiar with indie rock
it would be more apt to wonder why they couldn't get at least some of the support that british sea power or whatever do, different generations but it isn't as if this country has a problem appreciating odd melodic rock music
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:26 (nine years ago) link
played a few of their tracks on that youtube yesterday and there were quite a few comments from people who had heard them on radio 6 and been enraptured
this would seem to be a natural audience for them and it would be possible to imagine them being marketed a 'national treasure' to that set, had they not had the mark of cain from the trad music press
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
they demand lots of close listening and a level of commitment that most listeners just do not have
Come come, Louis.
― Nut-bloody-rageous (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link
they evidently receive a lot of close listening and commitment, though it's scarcely as if this is a necessary condition to appreciate them
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link
Their wiki is pretty funny
― content raggettator (wins), Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Cardiacs are also renowned for their startling performance style, which has been historically integrated (via video work, publicity, interviews and onstage presentation) with a vague and oppressive band mythology. The latter involves Cardiacs' record label and supposed management company, the Alphabet Business Concern - a repressive, controlling organisation (with a marked Edwardian character) which supervises (and restricts) Cardiacs' recording work and live appearances (as well as communicating band news and statements to the band's mailing list in florid and archaic corporatese). Several early 1980s video releases by Cardiacs – in particular The Consultant's Flower Garden and the clip for To Go Off and Things – provided video "evidence" that Alphabet ran Cardiacs' internal affairs in the manner of an Edwardian children's home (complete with behavioural problems and bullying).
The Alphabet Business Corporation shares some similarities with the "Cryptic Corporation" supposedly responsible for managing The Residents. As with the Cryptic Corporation, there is a strong probability that the Alphabet mythology is entirely fictional and that the band (often hailed as archetypal independent musicians) control all aspects of their work themselves. Alphabet's original representatives - or representative characters - were Cardiac's "sordid, waxy" manager The Consultant (real name James Stevens) and his assistant and band advisor "Miss Swift", both of whom made onstage appearances with Cardiacs during the 1980s.[1][17] In the late 1980s both The Consultant and Miss Swift left the Cardiacs organisation and were replaced by Mark Walmsley, who played a less public role (but did appear for inserts in the Maresnest concert video, expressing contempt for his charges and their music).
In performance, Cardiacs generally reject (or occasionally parody) standard rock band posturing. In keeping with the Alphabet mythology, the band's shows have instead featured behaviour which has been described as "therapeutic, surrealist pantomime", compared to absurdist theatre, and labelled "not so much theatrically eccentric as completely fucking neurotic". During any given performance, Tim Smith rants between and during numbers, acting out bizarre childlike ideas and emotions.[17][18][19][20] During the 1980s the band perfected a detailed stage act involving shabby lift attendant costumes, badly-applied clown make-up, Tim Smith's bullying of other band members (predominantly Jim Smith), and a final formal presentation of champagne and flowers by The Consultant and Miss Swift complete with confetti, taking place to "a euphoric sweep of saxophone and keyboards that wouldn’t seem out of place in a '70s cigar advert."[2][12][19] During the 1990s, the theatrical elements of the live show were toned down and the uniforms replaced by formal suits, although certain rituals (including the childlike mannerisms and Smith's ranting style) were retained.[3][4][6][7][12]
british sea power comparison -> 'they evidently receive a lot of close listening' = a level of trolling I can't deal with on a Sunday
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Sunday, 15 February 2015 14:02 (nine years ago) link
(xp) Why oh why aren't they more popular?
― Nut-bloody-rageous (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 February 2015 14:05 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKQuh_RZeew
british sea power
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Sunday, 15 February 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
there were several baby incidents! One of the first, was early in my ilxor career and you agreed with me that the term was infantilizing and problematic. Thus, I developed a fondness for you.
Then there were the frogbs baby incident, and the Aimless baby incident ...
― sarahell, Sunday, 10 July 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
Aimless was an 'O, dear' incident iirc? Similar tbf
― imago, Sunday, 10 July 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
maybe trying to accurately recall specifics of ilx exchanges involving Aimless is something else you should avoid? Considering?
― sarahell, Sunday, 10 July 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
ugh, fair
― imago, Sunday, 10 July 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
saying TWO nice things about a Fader list (and only one not-nice thing) vmooc surely
― imago, Tuesday, December 13, 2022 10:02 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
immediately responding defensively to a meta post about himself, though ... now that's a pvmic
― na (NA), Tuesday, December 13, 2022 10:26 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
look, wait, hey,
― imago, Tuesday, December 13, 2022 10:28 AM (yesterday)
― sarahell, Thursday, 15 December 2022 06:23 (one year ago) link
Sorry to say but insinuating that anything about “Moves Like Jagger” is good gets you a FP― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Sunday, March 19, 2023 2:43 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
so much irritation just gone at a stroke if that song never existed
― imago, Sunday, March 19, 2023 2:44 PM (three hours ago)
― sarahell, Monday, 20 March 2023 01:14 (one year ago) link