Village Voice's F2K

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.

FREE MELODY!

Seems like ILX moderators are getting pretty loose with the banning. Didn't it used to be rare?

it's only temporary and he did get 51 sb's. glad he's not permanently banned but imo it's been pretty nice the past few weeks.

Well I didn't really meant the amount of suggest bans for that particular thread but over the course of time. In any case I was joking.

I remember I used to suggest ban him quite often when I first arrived because he would write the most outrageous statements about... well, everything and I thought he was some sort of troll, or 'sock' or whatever you call them just trying to provoke me. Then I learnt that he's been around for years and he's just born wrong that way so I carried along.

Is there a way to see how many suggest bans I have? Just curious.

FreeSuggestBanReport.com

Snrub, I've sent you your SB number

moka, you can't SB someone more than once, you know

Oh I didn't know that :P then I should rejoice and laugh at Jordan's face everytime he suggests he's SB me.

Oh I didn't know that :P then I should shall rejoice and laugh at Jordan's face everytime he suggests he's SB me.

Seems like ILX moderators are getting pretty loose with the banning. Didn't it used to be rare?

― Mark, Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:18 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

technically mods haven't chosen to ban many people lately, they just implemented a system that allowed people to vote for others to be banned, and that option has become pretty widely used

i am really feeling this loss. where can i go for intelligent pop music writing daily?

don't worry, geir will be back soon.

The comments section has devolved at an even more alarming rate than I thought it might:

"Morals over Music, Why do you keep saying Michael Jackson was a p3dophile? Like you KNOW this for a FACT, which you Don't. Just that you are among the brainwashed sheep that jump on the media bandwagon train. Why then, did the 1993 accusers father just commit suicide??? Maybe he couldn't live with all the LIES he told for greed and money and fame. Anything for a Buck. Michael is, was and will always be one of the Greatest Entertainers who ever Lived. He will always be the King of Pop no matter how many of you try to take him down. Michael was NOT a child abuser. Michael Jackson was the one who was abused by people with the greed for money. His money that he worked hard for."

"How nice of you to condescend and take time out of your busy life to interview Kris Allen. Adam may be the poster boy for Bedazzler and a media darling, but there are legions of fans of the more organic music and pure talent of Kris Allen. They are both talented and I feel will both do well in their own genres. I knew Adam Lambert before he became a TV star. I like him. I don't like the majority of his music. It's just not my thing. I didn't know Kris Allen. I like him. His music is what I like and bought. I look forward to the day when it gets back to being all about the music and not some bizarre pissing contest with media types who lost a bet. For the record, I'm very 'blue state' and Kris Allen gets my $$$ vote"

"HA! Love it -- "Lady Gaga might want to leave the disco stick at home for this one." I don't know though. Everyone can use a good disco stick. Even the queen."

(Slight google-proofing there...and I'm not clicking through any of these, this is just what's displayed on the front page.)

Am I wrong in remembering that comments had long been locked to people who already had comment accounts? Did this change before the switch over or could these new commenters have gotten anonoaccounts before the 2.0 switch?

It is, however, a nice place to find new display names.

F2K will be back on Monday, November 30.

where?!

Seconding that!

Y'all don't know how the internet works if you think I'm spilling that info so soon. But it definitely LIIIIVESSSSS

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cool, so pitchfork on Monday.

whiney's twitter, they spent the intervening weeks sanding every piece down to fit into 140 characters including the artist, title of song, year and youtube title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uzc8kndcfA

if this doesn't make it then this list is a fucking sham.

This is great news! Is it going to be the same format as before (like, one entry every 2-3 days wth youtube links)?

It'll be upped to 1-2 posts a day so it'll be done by xmas, but yeah basically

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And we're back on the air...

Can't wait. Glad you guys were able to make it work.

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village voice, good going. suck it, buzznet!

:-)

And with the title now updated (who did that, anyway?), onward:

30!

the outtake of that being recorded on the Some Kind Of Monster DVD is horrifyingly revelatory

Poor old Ja Rule. Has anyone truly eclipsed his reign as the King of All Sensitive Thugs?

Drake!

Man, croup, I wish I remembered that scene when I wrote the blurb. I haven't seen Monster since it came out.

Are you guys back on a one-a-day schedule with these?

yes

I actually bought that Swizz Beatz album, and thought the whole "feat. Metallica" thing was some kind of a joke, since you couldn't really imagine any sort of common ground between Swizz and Metallica. I think "We Did Again" proves there wasn't: I can't hear any Swizz Beatz on it at all. Otherwise it's a pretty nice album (at least when Swizz doesn't rap, which he thankfully doesn't do too much), definitely overlooked.

i think swizz and metallica could have probably done something nice if it wasn't such a rush hack-job. pretty much 100% of Metallica's non metal collabos have been shit

I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSaac6cD4lk

Haha, I was just about to say that compared to that, the DJ Spooky/Metallica collaboration on the Spawn soundtrack was a piece of art.