Village Voice's F2K

twitterers get crazy laid, though

I just became the mayor of vagina on @foursquare

the fact that robbie's old blog apparently gained a huge audience and enough traction for him to interview several big name pop stars and parlay a "career" out of horrifies me so very deeply

― lex pretend, Thursday, November 12, 2009 7:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

realizing that a vacuous douchebag can do relatively well in the world of pop music infotainment hit me like a slap in the face too

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lol

Hey y'all. I've decided to quit ILX to spend time on other things. I'm really glad I got to talk to a lot of you here, and I wish you all the best. Rock out. :-)

See you in a week, homie.

dying over here

kshighway = the susan boyle of ilx

another sock bites the dust

The ILXor circle of life:

1. Earnest poster ("Hey guyz, so what you all want to talk about on this fine day?")

2. Quitter ("I'm leaving never to return. No offense, assholes")

3. The poster's return as a cynic who speaks mostly in memes, jpegs and sentence fragments.

ksighway1, you can't escape destiny, brah.

2. Quitter ("I'm leaving never to return. No offense, assholes")

I've been here since 2002 and I'm yet to enter this phase.

You're stronger than most.

rip kshighway1
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My first post was july 12th 2002 and my last post was sometime in january 2007

i have come back as more of a troll-y sort of ghost than "a cynic who speaks mostly in memes, jpegs and sentence fragments".

its been confusing - comapared to 2002 nobody likes techno or is british

comapared to 2002 nobody likes techno or is british

Hey now.

yeah ned's british!

Found out.

A few refugees from the comments have started a new group blog for Idolator-friendly news/thoughts:

http://chainofknives.tumblr.com/

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very very awesome

exciting! the ned raggett gossip column!

ITEM!

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yeah i am generalizing

part of it is just the times too

microhouse was much more galvanizing than the deep house revival is now

most "cool" american indie bands have american influences now compared to the previous era of Go4/britpostpunk veneration

otoh this aint freakytrigger's comment box anymore

still love it here

Ned I have worn out all my Associates records what band is next?

suggestion box: draw a cartoon penises in on pictures of kevin shields like perez hilton

also: out Robert Smith once and for all. DUDE WEARS MAKE-UP

Ned I have worn out all my Associates records what band is next?

Good question. A lot of Associates freaks really like the Wild Beasts and I can see why but in terms of a broader palette I'd want something more.

they need to pick a totally nice, talented singer and have an absolutely bizzare and nonsensical vendetta against them.

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Ned yr leaving my hanging there! Does this something more have a name?

(of course I can't think of a really nice, talented, humble popular artist that would be so undeserving of negative commentary that as to make the vendetta as hilariously ludicrous as it should be)

Hahaha no it's just that I can't think of anyone offhand who HAS that something more. I mean, a band like them does come close, but Billy Mackenzie's gift lay in trying all sorts of things to see what works, not just being a rock band frontman. Marc Almond's done similar but he's a contemporary rather than somebody new -- if I could stay Antony more maybe him but he's only good when he's singing with Hercules and Love Affair, frankly. (Yes I am biased.)

I see what you mean. Associates are one of those sort of dead ends of pop music in that nobody beat them at their own game (and actually its probably good that nobody tried and failed). I do like Soft Cell too. I need more of it. I only have "nonstop" and the "bedsitter" 12". I really like how "frustration" and "bedsitter" attack the same theme from different angles. smart lyrics that are just as worthwhile now as they were then.

shh! it's not me, would it be tacky for me to ask who you are/old login name? : )

it wouldn't be tack to ask but I prefer if you wouldn't as i am much happier this way. sorry. thanks.

no promblema, just nosy i guess.

nah.

lol @ myself - "promblema"

its not even that i am shy or a famousperson/archcriminal/futurepresident or anything.

its more that i used to post under my name and i wasn't thinking back then about how all the smart/stupid/whatever stuff i have typed on the internet will never vanish. and of course what i say here is a cheap substitute for who i really am and as online personae are starting to take over real ones i have just wanted to back off from it all and enjoy a bit of privacy. i will probably be deleting all my social networking accounts soon too. not becuase of that whole "facebook is really the cia, man and you are all victims of corporate/governmental opression man" but more because i have been at this on/off for 10 years and its all just a headache now.

this just applies to me - not passing judgement on others. also Ned has never said anything stupid here so he has nothing to gain from following my lead ;-)

Ha! If only, really.

was about to guess that was Ned

momus

i dont want to turn things into a guessing game...
that being said, i dont think momus uses emoticons

This thread got too big in two days. Anyone care to give me a brief? Maura left Idolator. Robbie and Becky were hired. Someone over here got banned from ILX? Whiney came back? The F2K page is down no idea where it will be hosted now. Where is Maura?

Wait. I already took a quick glance. Only question I wish to know is if anybody knows already where will Maura be posting?

I can't really remember if kshighway1 is one of those people in my mental list of 'ILXers who think I'm challops so I also think they're challops'. Was he being called a sock for suggesting that the article be moved to Passantino's blog?

kshighway1 gets called a sock all the time, mostly because he's really earnest about his musical tastes and doesn't take well to ribbing and that amuses people. Basically people clown on him for no particular reason. ILXors occasionally assholes shocka!

fyi these are the 3 links maura left in her last post on idolator:

http://maura.com/
http://maura.tumblr.com/
http://twitter.com/maura

afaik where F2K is ending up is still tbd or at least tba

so Whiney is back, kshighway quit, Chris Ott gets hammered (again) and Geir Hongro is currently banned. what a strange place this ILX is.

The Lord giveth back ILXors, and the Lord taketh away ILXors

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WTF??? Geir is banned???????

supposedly in trying to explain his strong preference for the european music tradition he made some pretty ill-advised remarks about africans.

i don't know where the comments are myself so i don't know if they were outright racist or just close enough to piss people off.

73, 192 Suggest Bans later Geir got banned!? Gee... for how long? Would love to see that particular thread where the last drop finally made the cup run over.