Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

Pieces of Me is an alltime jam.

noize board as all males is a misremembering

I meant the ILM heavies were all guys, noize was WAY more integrated than ILM ever was

oh! yeah, maybe!

for some reason i remember the pop music fans from back then as all male.

ha I heard Ashlee's song about "Whoa I didn't steal yr boyfriend" playing on the radio when I walked into my health club a few months ago and LOL'd thinking about ILM's 'glory days' the receptionist just stared incredulous so I said 'who could forget this classic' and he said 'well you have a kid so that must be why you know this song' and i laughed even harder cause my son hated her. "No but I knew a 56 y.o. critic who..."

maybe you had to be there ;)

Bullshit revisionism. And I say that as a girl who was on ILM from p much the first month. Old ILM had a lot of women.

One thing about the Noize Board that's not often commented on is that it functioned partly as a locus for NYC ILXors. I gather that some of the frequent Pickle Bar posters in the board's heyday gravitated there less because of the "noize aesthetic" than because that's where their friends hung out and where happy hours at Daddy's were organized.

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well when I started posting in 2004 you were one of the few women - maybe 20% tops - as far as i could tell

haha, i'm kind of tempted to go looking for these high-falutin' Ashlee Simpson threads...I always liked "L.O.V.E."

time would be better spent getting back to your X-Men/Grant Morrison blog imho :)

True. I never went to a Daddy's, but Noize was a reliable source of info on upcoming NYC shows and events.

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I mean, to Daddy's. Not to a Daddy's..

Bullshit revisionism. And I say that as a girl who was on ILM from p much the first month. Old ILM had a lot of women.

as usual you read what you want to read. We were talking about 2005.

2008 was a difficult year for ILX - there were many passions flowing like wine into the mouth

prithee - when and how did Momus eventually tell us all to "get thee fucked" and leave?

on ilx's best day, no doubt

it has changed a lot for me over the years.
i had no idea as to the whole community aspect of this place until i went to chicago a few years ago and met up with the local crew there (and djp !).
that one evening made me realise how brilliant it is.
i used to be in fear of posting stuff, and so held back a lot, but no longer.
the contacts i have had from random ilx folks re the last year experience have been very heartwarming.
something i would never have expected from ilx.

oh, and even after 10 years hanging out here, i still have no idea re noize/secret boards etc.

thread? anyone have that memory? in the barin?

the divine nature of latham green's spelling has not changed over time

yoy uknwo I realized I did not spell brain right but then I felt it seemed nic ethat way - like some word from middle-earth

exactly!

Hey let's fight some old wars!

i also fondly remember the time when thread policing consisted of a series of amusing and massive images fuck yeah

I am willing to admit it has been done in amusing manner like, five, times. Most of the time it was an airhorn at a dinner party - yeah dude that's hilarious but we're talking here! From some of the posters it definitely started sounding like "I don't have anything to say so I don't think anyone else has" / "bored now!"

idk, the period of clowning people with no self-awareness of how they sounded had its purpose, but failed in that it's possible to be clowned and still not learn self-awareness

The thing is, most of those people were quite aware of how they sounded, they were just glad that they could sound like themselves unselfconsciously without assholes. Then, suddenly, there were assholes!

i liked these guys - and they were always guys

a) they weren't always guys, dude b) at least they weren't bros.

as a sideline to the hacker aesthetic, the noize borad in its heyday was a place for shared music enthusiasm, earnest (yes) appreciation at a time when ILM was dominated by pretentious/convoluted music-crit and verbose posters who could be very condescending w/o realizing. i liked these guys - and they were always guys - but still the over-intellectualized verbiage on Ashley Simpson (remember HER?) got a bit wearying imho

those posters getting chased off ilm coincided w/ my move to ilx + subboards and only infrequent posting on ilm

sometimes wonder if the influx of B&S fans was actually an influx of people who thought they were characters in a B&S song

those posters getting chased off ilm

leave on their own or chased?

time would be better spent getting back to your X-Men/Grant Morrison blog imho :)

― Harvey Cartel (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, August 9, 2012 3:08 PM Bookmark

awww, thanks for the boost shakey! We have been talking again about reviving it! It could happen! Really! I'm about to start a PhD program so I sort of want to get a bead on how the free time will really shake out, before we revive it and then have to just as suddenly go on hiatus again.

question : what is the ilx equiv of tar and feathers ...

it's all good - I had just gotten all set to read along and then you guys stopped :(

xp

OK, topic diversion, which blog? I just got the new x-men omnibus and should mosey by.

ilx also brought me Doctor Casino's awesome travel/architecture pics on flickr

sometimes wonder if the influx of B&S fans was actually an influx of people who thought they were characters in a B&S song

And now they're all characters in a Saint Etienne song.

before there were tweets there was just twee

you guys are so nice! See, nu-nu-ILX is a supportive atmosphere for nerds like me. ^_^

mh: http://kangaratmurdersoc.wordpress.com/ is the blog, the Claremont material is all gathered here: http://kangaratmurdersoc.wordpress.com/category/uggu-chris-claremonts-uncanny-x-men/

This board is def better with me in it.

gracias

also be sure to check out S/D X-Men Runs , ILC has good X-threads IMO

sometimes wonder if the influx of B&S fans was actually an influx of people who thought they were characters in a B&S song

― your native bacon (mh), Thursday, August 9, 2012 7:50 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this may have been me at the beginning: "you're too tall, much too tall for a boyfriend. they run and hide from your buck teeth and split ends."

ILC is awesome in general! I used to lurk around different places on the web for comics (like Barbelith) and no one is really as good as ILC.

I sad no see no Kate anymore-o

leave on their own or chased?

let's split the difference and say that they left on their own after things got really uncomfortable

xp lol

ILNFL during football season = my favorite ilx thing ever

a) they weren't always guys, dude

"susan douglas" RIP

"a) they weren't always guys, dude"

who were the women talking at length about ashlee simpson on the teen pop threads back then?

the in-depth critical analysis by people outside the target demographic for garbage media has always weirded me out, I can't help it.

was there ever any evidence for calling the teenpop guys pedophiles? im not gonna go look up a teenpop thread bc im on my phone right now. but were they supercreepy?

no

the in-depth critical analysis by people outside the target demographic for garbage media has always weirded me out, I can't help it.

^^^^^

I mean, all Perpetua jokes aside, not really

I wouldn't charge pedophilia (come on now) but a bunch of old dudes extolling at length over some shit put out by a bunch of morons to make a quick buck off a young nubile face is ... odd. it just makes me wonder about the underlying psychology of it all. I'm fully aware that this position exposes my own prejudices.