Matthew started the LCD Soundsystem "Yeah" thread, which remains one of my favorite threads ever on ILM. All these people hearing the track for the first time at the same time. I remember that day so clearly.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
IT CAME FROM SAN FRANCISCO
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
gold chains?
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
awful blog-friendly joek "rapper"
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
i know who he is
you were just using him as a stand-in for all the shitty mp3blog-hyped music out there?
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
ah point taken - i probably would have used something like bis as a strawman, not enough pixie haircut on mr chains
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
think i discovered ilx because of mr. wolk.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
remember liking fluokids about 6 years ago. haven't followed an mp3 blog in forever.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
He was on here a lot for years but he was not well suited for the snipey hardman zing swing ilx took.
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol this is hilarious to me cause he went all hardman on me for panning animal collective on the singles jukebox and did so on his own blog where i only saw it cause someone linked to it. so basically, lol fuck that dude.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
Our indifference to Animal Collective was akin to a bunch of reactionary stooges in '88 panning Daydream Nation, remember?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
Takes a Williamsburg riot to put me back to sleep right now
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
Reactionary Stooges -- hmm might be a good name for a garage rock band.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://perpetua.tumblr.com/post/267696453/imagine-if-the-internet-as-we-know-it-now-was-around-in
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
(I wasn't offended -- I don't mind a good fight)
the bile in that singles jukebox roundtable is um... quite something
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
the "material things"/house-buying chorus, which garners a ton of vitriol, is kinda funny in light of the subsequent housing bubble implosion
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
"not well suited" = could not give as good as he got
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
wow, animal collective lyrics...how many guns would you have to put to my head to think about their lyrics and actually have an opinion on them? lots of guns!
i don't think i ever interacted once with matthew on ilx. thus, had no problem with him. same with dom. i was hardly ever on the same threads as either one of them. and i've never read their blogs. does dom have a blog?
― scott seward, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
i feel bad that i don't think i've ever looked at the singles jukebox thing...sorry you guys! love you all!
think we're in the same boat scott, I pretty much never came across either of those guys posting. don't even know what the singles jukebox thing is really
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
i think tom ewing started it. i know chuck and frank have contributed which is one reason i feel bad...cuZ i like those guys...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
i love "teenage riot" tho
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
I know him as the dude from that pic w/ the pineapple
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
so it's basically that dude is fat, huh
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
that seems like an oversimplification, if for no other reason than how many people on this message board must be overweight, including his tormenters
― some dude, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it's some pretty disgusting ad hominem shit and it seemed to happen all the time. I'm not at all surprised he eventually split.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
There's a balletic, Malcolm Tucker-esque grace to this:
lex: Hey Perpetua, what the fuck do you think you're doing talking outrageous shit like this here? You don't know shit about 90% of what I'm into - you don't even know what I'm into. You don't know me but you should know yourself, you narrow-minded little indie fuckwit.
― Position Position, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
i have periodically read perpetua since whenever, and yeah he's not a zinger. he may not be much of a critic either, e.g. he's never sued the beasties. has he gotten too much credit for being among the first such blogs? very likely.
he likes stuff and he posts about it. although i'm an outsider, i've never seen anyone specifically complain about him ever. and i suspect that were his gender different, he would have taken significantly less shit on ilm.
xp lol at lex accusing anyone of narrow-mindedness
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, the lex pullquote makes me want to vomit.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
hey mookieproof that is easily one of the dumbest things i've ever read on ILM (but if i knew your gender and it was female i probably wouldn't have posted that)
― the late great, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
man i can remember chatting w/ him on soulseek (so we're talking WAAAY back, like 02) and him just OBSESSING over ilxors and what they think about him and this was well before noiseboard existed, when by and large everyone was very friendly to each other w/ the exception of a few trolls (even momus hadn't gone full tilt gavin mcinnes groupie/wannabe yet i don't think) and me just going 'yeah, ok' and not really responding cuz he had some pavement bootlegs i wanted. he's a nice guy and alot of the flak he caught was undeserved but alot was deeply deeply deserved, dude had a crazy ego when he was just a blogger and it was only made worse by this even at the time clearly phony couching that he was just a enthusiast, he had no interest in writing for say pitchfork or rolling stone but lo and behold. the singles jukebox the few times i've looked at it has been pretty clearly awful, a dozen ppl trying and failing to hold charles aaron's jock (nevermind john leland), but even at whatever it's worst would be (totally can believe it would be their take on animal collective) i am pretty certain it nowhere near approaches to kind of routine dumbness perpetua has made his stock in trade. i remember when a few ilxors (not counting the ones that already had solid 'careers' in rockcrit pre-ilx) started popping up in eddy's voice music section (and for all the flack i caught at the time re: amy phillips being a poor man's pfork writer i'd like to think history has shown me to be fucking churchill on that front) and esp in matos' seattle weekly and jess's whatever altweekly that was, but in retrospect i'm not sure if tom briefly getting a column and nabisco getting a prominent regular gig (better than sfj isn't even an argument right? nevermind ANY other rock critic w/ healthcare in new york) is worth the huge number of hacks this place has churned out, like it was ilx's ultimate joke on pitchfork: 'we shall inundate you w/ shitty writers'.
― balls, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
lol mookie: "why isnt there a tumblr white history month?"
― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
haha ok
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
it was ilx's ultimate joke on pitchfork: 'we shall inundate you w/ shitty writers'.
i think it was ott who said ILX hated pitchfork until everyone on here wrote for it
― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
does dom have a blog?― scott seward, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 7:09 PM
http://ichlugebullets.wordpress.com/
― am0n, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
tbf ilx also hated pfork until ott stopped writing for it
― balls, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
i think ott is missing the point that after everyone on ilx wrote for it the tone changed a lot
― the late great, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
what i find weird is in the comments section of that post he made about the singles jukebox how every reply gets indented so much that they eventuallyread
like
this
i mean who thinks that's a good idea when you're programming a commenting thing?
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
guillaume apollinaire?
― balls, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
fair enough
i am not a critic but i have been on ilx for . . . nine years, and basically only encountered perpetua is fat joeks. perhaps the shorthand needs explanation every once in a while
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
i'm generally not into mocking other people's weight but i always thought it seemed apropos in his case - pompous dude w/ an inflated ego has an inflated body to match
― the late great, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
wait who is balls? is balls ott? fuck an ott.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
balls = blount
― sleeve, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
o man leon wieseltier was right, facebook friendships are meaningless!
― balls, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
it was only made worse by this even at the time clearly phony couching that he was just a enthusiast, he had no interest in writing for say pitchfork or rolling stone but lo and behold.
TBF, as long as I've known him, dude never made any bones about wanting to make a living from his writing.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
haha leon used to come into my bookstore
he was kind of a prick
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
oh okay i love blount. hate ott. got confused.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
haha mookie never would've guessed
― balls, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
haha knowing who balls is makes me less inclined to snap on him and much more able to shrug this sort of thing off. that said, given the decimation of venues for sanely paid music-crit over the past years, and everything else that's conspired to destroy whatever it was that maybe some of us thought it could offer and what could come of it, pointing the finger at ilx in relation to this in any way whatsoever seems beyond bizarre.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link