The All-New STYLUS.

I am both doomie and c-man

I am Ned Raggett.

is this like the scene in spartacus where everyone stands up and says i'm some dude?

how many message boards have you ever seen where everyone's screenname is the same name on their driver's license? there'll always be a few like Ned, but those are the exceptions.

I had to fight like hell for the Florida DMV to include my title.

It looks pretty fucking weird to me and I've been here for years!

Kate, I know you're Karen T, I was joking just now. I know modeskeletor is SteveM too.

some dude, I had no idea that you are Al Sh1pley whatsoever and I can only apologise for you not being invited to take part. I honestly don't know if you were included in the big email that got sent out, but I suspect not. We literally just had a brainstorm of names of people who'd written for Stylus and who we could contact; if your name didn't turn up it's probably something to do with the fact that I didn't know you were on here under that name! I'm sorry.

Difference with ILM is that there's both screen names and account names; Matt DC or SteveM or I change our screennames and people can keep track; several other people can change theirs loads and thus people lose track.

Also most other forums have, like, avatars, and postcounts, and profiles, and stuff. I click on 'some dude' here and I get no info at all.

are we still pretending karen t isn't kate?

I don't know who you are.

Is Dom P permanently banned?

i'm not kate, i'm not dom, i'm not masonic boom, i'm not mr. ewing and i'm not the aphex fucking twin

really wish i'd picked a different screen name now

Can we actually go back to the lists for a second?

18.
The Hold Steady
Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

^^^ lol

WE KNOW, WE'RE FIXING IT!

No results found for "the oligarchist home journal millennium".

Kate's been talking about nothing but Aphex Twin on Twitter for weeks now. KT is the "pseudonym" for The Tuss. You post much like Kate. If you';re not Kate, then, well, the internet really is weirder than I thought it was.

hahaha @ Andy K.

No results found for "the oligarchist home journal millennium".

We could only fit one Arcade Fire on the list.

i dunno if this criticism has been levelled at all these p2k etcs yet, but when i was younger and i kno im not alone here these lists were a pretty big source of finding out abt stuff id never heard of. and maybe its b.c. my appreciation of anything indie has kinda gone into hibernation but the blurbs i read for things i hadn't heard of were all pretty "this is indie" sounding, but the tokenistic wild card stuff is all stuff i've heard and is usually super famous. i haven't checked out anything based on these lists is what i'm sayin.

thanks, Nick, I know it was oversight and nothing personal, I just felt like whining

WE KNOW, WE'RE FIXING IT!

i believe it should say

18.
JJ72
I To Sky

i dont want to hate to much but that St3wart V03gtlin essay is like getting repeatedly punched in the face

i did like the singles list a lot tho

18.
Bat For Lashes
Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water

If it makes you feel any better, some dude, I failed to follow through on at least three invitations to write for OHJ/Stylus and wasn't asked to participate, either.

i honestly do not know who kate is

i've searched for that user name in the database and it's some chick who hasn't posted since 2003

yeah i'm an aphex twin fan along with 759522 other users according to last.fm

i don't know why your so hung up on this chick i'm guessing maybe she was your ex girlfriend or something but it ain't me babe

guess this is where i do the classic newbie thing and storm off ilx in a huff vowing never to return

i dunno if this criticism has been levelled at all these p2k etcs yet, but when i was younger and i kno im not alone here these lists were a pretty big source of finding out abt stuff id never heard of. and maybe its b.c. my appreciation of anything indie has kinda gone into hibernation but the blurbs i read for things i hadn't heard of were all pretty "this is indie" sounding, but the tokenistic wild card stuff is all stuff i've heard and is usually super famous. i haven't checked out anything based on these lists is what i'm sayin.

― plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:43 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This sense of there being no surprises on these kinds of lists is exactly why I got us to do this; I said in my intro essay "Umberto Eco recently said that “we like lists because we don’t want to die”, which makes a certain amount of sense even if we generally seem to list things at points of death, or at least points of change, however arbitrary. I think my favourite thing about lists has always been their capacity to surprise and educate, to remind us of things we forgot and introduce us to things we never knew existed. I think this is also why I’ve found lists in the Internet age a little underwhelming; our collective memories have become so good that the surprises seem to have thinned in number. But maybe that’s just me; if there are people who get from this list what I got from lists at the end of the 90s, then it will be worth it."

It's the internet. The surprises are being turned up every day, on forums, on webzines, everywhere, for all to see. None of these lists were ever going to be like end of the 90s ones, sadly. But, y'know, to some people, the kind of people who don't hang out on ILM, it might be full of suprises. Some of the feedback I've had suggests that it is.

I shared a bowl of gravy, chips, and cheese with Kate once, but my girlfriend was there, so no. But she was a very prominent member of this forum and someone I've got a lot of time for, so, y'know, don't be insulted.

17.
Marit Larsen
Get Rich Or Die Trying

1.
Radiohead
TP.3 Reloaded

Really kind of surprised and saddened that there was no Lil Wayne on the singles OR albums list... right?

Yeah, I was surprised by that too. I have no explanation.

Lex, for the record: I LOVE R&B and listen to it constantly and certainly DID NOT mean for that to be a swipe at R&B, personally.

I have to go somewhere now, but I just wanted to address that right away, because it was certainly not my intent.

storm off ilx in a huff vowing never to return

― Karen Tregaskin, Friday, 8 January 2010 14:50 (22 minutes ago)

Most Kate thing said yet.

Thanks for the clear-up, Tal.

i'm still scratching my head over the decision to list the remix instead of the original, and never once refer to it as the remix

― some dude, Friday, January 8, 2010 6:07 AM Bookmark

The opposite happened with "Made You Look". They listed the original and Dom wrote about the remix.

karen being kate makes so much sense now

i think the stylus top 20's put some nice tweaks on the pitchfork ones. it's cool that 'stay fly,' 'ante up' and 'kala' are top 20, and that modest mouse isn't top 20.

#1 still feels like a wrestler-going-heel double-cross tho.

Karen being Kate would actually make valid all those 'gender experimentation' points he/she purported to be purveying. And I'd have been not just duped but DOUBLE-duped.

Anyway.

If I call out Stewart Voegtlin as being a massive bell-end, will he start sullying ILX with his wit and wisdom?

I mean, the dude obviously Googles himself.

what is a bell-end?

A GLANS

lol

I really doubt Stew does google himself actually.

Can you explain why he's been given such a prominent platform? Yeah I know obnoxiousness is his steez but at least Dom (for instance) is funny and occasionally picks on good targets.

Dave Queen should have written that run-down, not him. Assuming Dave Queen's alive, which I've heard is uncertain.

wait waht

Uh

Someone said 'nobody's been able to contact him for ages'! I forget who. Anyway, I hope he's alive and well. He's a fabulous writer.

Horses for courses; the two essays today are the ones I most wished I'd written.

Was the other one the Ned one? Liked that.

Much as I liked Ned's piece I meant Powell.