ILM is kinda sucking these days (boring and meta ignore not safe for work)

rtc's otm though. it's true there are a few posters who mostly post content but they mostly popped up in the last year or two, plenty of exegesis on rolling rap threads

custos was british? no way! hes one of yours surely!

having said that i am very grateful that u all don't post in the thread

custos was british??

xp

part of it may be that rap music itself is getting progressively weirder over time

having said that i am very grateful that u all don't post in the thread

― flopson, Friday, January 25, 2013 3:05 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark

We'd be grateful if you didn't post outside of it. Haha, just funnin *punches you in the armm*

sometimes i wish i could filter goon threads to only "new [x] tape is good" posts

part of it may be that rap music itself is getting progressively weirder over time

― tity boi historian (ciderpress), Friday, January 25, 2013 3:05 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark

*shittier

custos' humor read aloud w/a british accent *does* make a *bit* more sense

i always assumed he was british!

let's split the difference and say he was Canadian

we don't have lords in america

all those long brit top ten posts made me think that. where was he from? plus, he was a lord.

you have traci lords

ah young master custos, have you compiled yet another top ten list

[lots and lots of x-posts]

I too miss the exegeses. I've felt underwhelemed by my own presence here since I've halfheartedly "returned". It's like I can't find the stretches of time nor summon the mental reserves to really dig in deep and exegete, and I can only blame myself for that; you can't really expect exegeses if you yourself don't exegete from time to time. "Old ILM" (circa 2000/2001 when I first started reading/posting--back in my college days) felt like such a warm place, full of mentors (I suppose that was a function of being a pretty young poster). I do fully recognize that Old ILM had its fair share of sniping and pissing and stuff as well, but it somehow felt different. Like there were fewer walls up, less snark. I don't know. (Again, that may well just be my filter.) Re: poptimism and the discussion above (good post, thomp), I feel like Old ILM's "pro-pop" stance was an openness to pop, a willingness to engage with it and take it seriously, but somewhere along the line it became an "of COURSE I like pop, and I'm suspicious of those who don't" sort of stance. What once felt freeing then felt less so. I'm just throwing this out there, but the internet (for me at least) used to feel like this neat escape from actually dealing face-to-face with people all the time, and there was a wonder in bonding with folks on a board like ILM. Now that we're all on the internet and FB and stuff all the time anyway, what if that has the cumulative effect of making ILM feel a little bit like just more everyday bullshit rather than a special place?

you have traci lords

i have her album .. does that count .. .

As a non-professional (again, pretty much under a rock), I appreciate the keeping-up angle of ILM. I am pretty skeptical about the value of most exegesis of music anyway, not that it doesn't make sense to me some of the time.

I just assumed he was an anglophile american. I bet he still posts here under another name ashamed of his past.

Also I miss dj martian.

I too appreciate the keeping-up angle. That said, I don't look to exegesis for truth or revelation necessarily, I look to it because it makes me feel some sort of a connection to another human mind beyond just "you should check this out"...

Also I miss dj martian.

totally.

I started posting on here way before I got to grips with a two decade run of alcoholism and hard substance abuse so I can't really complain if people think of me/talk to me like I'm an asshat. However there's a poster who never misses an op to try and paint me as a misogynist which is genuinely really upsetting and usually ends with me not coming here for a few months. Also, my site is very important to me, so I take criticism of it to heart. I should grow a thicker skin. That said, there are a couple of posters who do it so often that I can't help thinking of them as mean spirited. But the bottom line is it's my fault if I can't help but take it personally.

ILX is much, much friendlier than it used to be. I took part in the last hip hop albums poll which would have been unthinkable a few years earlier.

ilx is a much better place with you doran

ILM is kinda ROCKING these days! wooooo!

Yeah, gotta say I have been getting turned onto a lotta great stuff these days through ILM, and I come here primarily cause the stuff popping up is coming from general enthusiasm most of the time. Doesn't really get old for me.

Also, my site is very important to me

despite having had little involvement in recent times, me too ..

It's hard to convincingly prosletyse when ILX is full of such great writing that seems so casual and easily-formed, it can be intimidating trying to discuss something that someone else has managed to examine and evaluate fully in a few sentences.

and if anyone does have issues with me then please webmail me and im happy to talk to you about it,

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, January 25, 2013 1:59 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol on the occasions when you have gotten on my nerves i can't imagine a less appetizing prospect than "e-mail exchange with Algerian Goalkeeper"

tbf al we've never really had a falling out or fight though.

yeah it's never been too bad. but i feel like when you get on people's bad sides, it's from earnestly talking their ear off, so i just imagine the reactions when you "let's take it to e-mail!"

when you say

fair point!

AG, I just wanted to tell you: the big super duper giant heavy-rock/metal poll you ran in 2010 (which I discovered last year) was hugely responsible for this continued slide into the reeking bowels of black/death/doom. I still go back and check it out somewhat regularly, and it always reads/scans differently based on knowing more records and continuing to evolve my tastes. Classic stuff. I used to hate polls--or think I did--but I can longer say that.

haha you dug the 80s one too!

I definitely did... I'm always finding new music to listen to, but it almost always seems to be new old music. I think I've heard a total of 6-7 records that came out in 2012.

there's a comprehensiveness to ilm these days that's amazing. the golden years were great but were a fairly narrow slice.

non-pros have held held their own just fine on rolling raps, just say u feel intimidated and need ur hand held rather than inventing some horseshit projection

^^^ this sort of internet hardman vibe - which isn't really that widespread on ilm, but is more in evidence than it used to be - is exactly what people mean when they say ilm sucks more than it used to, I think. it contributes nothing of any value to the conversation; it impresses no-one; it's worthless. I was a kid once too though so whatever, people outgrow this shit eventually.

ILM is kinda sucking my dick these days.

Yours truly,
Internet Hardman

bring back mark c

Is the not-using-a-question-mark-when-asking-a-question thing an Internet Hardman Behavior?

or just laziness

Would you prefer...................excess punctuation?????

(Yes, I really have nothing better to do that I'm up to doing at the moment.)

i think people do it in imitation of tone of voice?

or do you have an example in mind

Yeah, that!

Scott's earlier-today angst is funny. Taking Foghat more seriously is one of the best things that ever happened to ILM...

yeah ur right aero, the reason ilm sucks is the definitely lack of precious civility and not at all the guy apparently saying that there's too much expertise being put in front of him on a silver platter to contribute and that lower standards would be more inclusive

i'm not a hardman i'm a bitterly fed-up man

i am an unattractive man i believe my liver is diseased

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