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

do other boards (reddit/somethingawful/etc) have threads about ilx like ilx has about them?

Do we have a thread about something awful

II'm sure chakis board Haas had some threads about us

searching 'something awful' immediately brought up two threads about them

dissensus got pretty slow/dead when all the heavy theory people left. it kinda felt like things fizzled out/shot their wad after the big 'nuum debate five(?) or so years ago

"This thread makes me feel like I haven't kept up my end of making goon threads imposing to outsiders enough. :/"

could there possibly be people intimidated by the right rod rev? such a sweetypie!

I know, I'm slacking.

Rod Flash?

on occasion i've wondered what it would be like to be nasty and snarky on ilx. would it be fun? i've gotten pissed off before and i always feel like i can't really be mean because it would be too...uh, mean. cuz if you aren't usually rude/mean then it feels worse to the person you are being mean/rude to. i've made bad jokes before and had my tone misinterpreted and i feel like when that happens things get magnified. sometimes you have to be careful on the internet! i always try to apologize right away. or explain what i meant. god i actually remember almost every time that someone took something i said the wrong way! that's how careful i am. i still cringe when i think of those moments.

(and sometimes you can be insensitive and not even know it. i bitched about polls years ago and pfunkboy still thinks that its personal. and it really isn't. i just got sick of polls a long time ago. not the people who love them. i'm telling you, you gotta be careful on the internet. people can't see you or hear you.)

xp - i stopped paying attention to I Hate Mus1c when some mod deleted one of Warburton's posts where he actually questioned the perfection of Keith Rowe and commented that IHM might as well be called the Keith Rowe Fan Club.

hahaha. I bailed for a similar reason. Someone posted about how they never listen to "popular music" because it's inherently inferior to "free improvisation." The discussion was actually kind of interesting, but was soon deleted.

I thought about posting how Rowe got all his ideas from Pete Townshend and Eddie Phillips, but figured I'd just get banned.

would it be fun?

yes

not enough yes

Scott you are a good and decent person and I really admire that. It also must be hard to know more than everyone else and also be nice. It's enough reason to stick around, to know that the people I keep company with are kind/good people.

i can't think of anywhere else to ask this but

mbv flashpoll #2: let's predict the Pitchfork score!

- what the fuck is that thread, have you no fucking dignity
- please tell me the only reason it's still going and has so many answers is because the thread starter is getting mercilessly clowned

pitchfork review is up now

We'll get em back when the D'angelo record finally drops, lex.

i would hope no one gives a shit about what p4k gives the d'angelo album

(it's not the MBV excitement that annoys, obviously, carry on with your enthusiasm)

lex you think about pitchfork 100x more than people who actively read pitchfork

I don't get the impression anyone on that thread actually gives a shit about the pitchfork score, if that makes you feel better

lex you think about pitchfork 100x more than people who actively read pitchfork

― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, February 6, 2013 4:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

o really do tell me more about what i think

it's been bobbing around the top of ilm new answers for days, it's impossible to overlook the thing

- please tell me the only reason it's still going and has so many answers is because the thread starter is getting mercilessly clowned

how are you even so vexed at this?

it has 45 answers in four days

I don't get the impression anyone on that thread actually gives a shit about the pitchfork score, if that makes you feel better

― ☯ t (wins), Wednesday, February 6, 2013 11:21 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

^ ding ding ding

why did you start the thread

Lex, for your edification (not that you deserve it, but whatev): the poll was a lark, an afterthought. The album had just been dropped that night, out of the blue w/ no advanced word (to say nothing of copies for review) & given how intrinsic MBV is to the typical p4k mythos, I thought it would be good sport to predict how they were going to react, given the short lack of any notice. that is all.

let he who is without polls cast the first stone

o really do tell me more about what i think

I really wish this was accurate because lol:

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww#hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=site:www.ilxor.com+AND+%22lex+pretend%22+AND+pitchfork

About 141,000 results (0.17 seconds)

in retrospect, I should have realized that combining the terms 'mbv' and 'pitchfork' in a thread title would result in some kind of volatile combustibility on ilm.

if it's any consolation lex, I came in there to complain about it, but people round these parts increasingly rally around anything that's 40% statistics, 40% polling, and 10% about music

and 10% something else, i did the math wrong

polls predicting pitchfork scores are hilarious imo

people round these parts increasingly rally around anything that's 87% statistics, 34% polling, 25% complaining

have we done that before?

think it was pre-polls era but there used to be tonnes of speculation, destroyer's rubies

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8086/8451221268_1685764680_z.jpg

Just a little indie insider baseball nbd

pro tip: if there's a thread you're not interested in, just ignore it!

if it's any consolation lex, I came in there to complain about it, but people round these parts increasingly rally around anything that's 40% statistics, 40% polling, and 10% about music

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 11:37 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait do you even post about music here?

It's kinda nice seeing people enthusiastic over album releases rather than the usual snark that goes on.

http://www.joncouture.com/Wamblnce.jpg

if it's any consolation lex, I came in there to complain about it, but people round these parts increasingly rally around anything that's 40% statistics, 40% polling, and 10% about music

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 11:37 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and 10% something else, i did the math wrong

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 11:38 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

9.0

lol

To be fair to Lex, I believe this gripe comes from a place of love. I feel like his main premise is why should ILX reg posters be concerned w what P4k thinks since ILX is clearly the superior site. Hence: "wheres your dignity?"

I think that might be what he's saying anyways, I could be way off...

pro tip: if there's a thread you're not interested in, just ignore it!

― Neil S, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 4:48 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

This is pretty much how I use the board.

o really do tell me more about what i think

ok - you think about Pitchfork more than people who read Pitchfork - the search results bear this out - maybe you should think about Pitchfork less and be happier in life - enjoy the music you enjoy instead of obsessing about Those Horrible People Who Like The Music We Don't Like and all - just a thought - I know there's no point - you will continue thinking lots about Pitchfork - that's cool - just pointing out - it's not them - it's you

well, you're wrong! you do not seem like the kind of person who would admit that though. maybe spend less time trying to divine what other people think based on tossed-off msgboard annoyance and more time working on yourself? god it's like those people who think they know the ~real me~ because they follow me on twitter

indie insider baseball

― Drugs A. Money, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 4:47 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fwiw this phrase pretty much sums up my annoyance, makes my skin crawl etc

insider cricket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5z0MuKxfZc