zing

And I was only posting that word.

I don't think that what Nabisco wrote is that different from what you're saying here. Yes, the indie-hipster of yesteryear and the indie-hipster of today are both exercising "discernment" - the difference is the degree of personal investment of time and energy that is required to seek out non-mainstream bands. What used to be a massively time-consuming passion can now be just a casual interest. The audience for this type of band has expanded exponentially, and the level of commitment and intensity has dropped (on average, not in every particular case). At the same time, the distinguishing subcultural markers become less meaningful. What was once the province of "freaks and geeks" is now mainstream.

Even back in the day, people always said that it was all about the music, but I think a big part of the fun for a lot of people was the sense of being plugged into a secret underground society, with its own mores, markers, and shibboleths. Thus the resentment whenever a band got too popular or "sold out", in the parlance of the times. The fact that it took a while to build a following, even among the most tuned-in members of the subculture, was a necessary constraint. Now that constraint is gone, and bands routinely become internet sensations practically overnight - available to anyone anywhere at the click of a mouse. It's hard to figure out what "selling out" means anymore. And so the bogeyman which was used to police the borders of the subculture is gone, and the subculture feels like it's dissolving. Everything is just pop now. Perhaps this is the coded message in Pitchfork's inscrutable embrace of Timberlake et al.

― o. nate, Friday, October 2, 2009 2:34 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

And other things I said years ago. FUGUYZ.

― cee-oh-tee-tee, Friday, October 2, 2009 2:44 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol you have a blog

― baby girl lemme snrub up on you (J0rdan S.), Friday, October 2, 2009 2:45 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

blogger jackoff sesh

try living in a country thats been in drought for over 10 years.

― ceci n'est pas une pipecock (Trayce),

i'll pass, thanks

― the rap battle of algiernod (k3vin k.),

3/10

zinging is the great lost art of ILX

tedious zing policing lives strong, though

the policing of tedious zings, or the tedious policing of zings? straight question.

my zing lies slain behind the arras

who zings the zingsmen?

Zing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus

my zing lies slain behind the arras

Sid Waddell quote?

the art of zinging is a lot like this these days unfortunately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWCtFTeyP4

babies zinging babies

zing on zing violence

and people question why i don't post pictures of myself on ilx

― Althus (sarahel), Thursday, October 8, 2009 12:29 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

do they

― lorax & order (electricsound), Thursday, October 8, 2009 12:32 PM (3 hours ago)

(sigh) yeah, well.

haha

WOW, that went well. She said she felt really comfortable with me and "it's like we've already been on twenty dates".

― "i find your antics mirthful and infectious" (King Boy Pato), Sunday, October 25, 2009 5:39 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

She's bored and ready to dump you already?

― RAPTOBER (sic), Sunday, October 25, 2009 4:51 PM (37 minutes ago)

hahaha

Oh my.

I Be Like... Damn

brutal.

greatest show ever imho

― Mordy, Wednesday, November 4, 2009 1:44 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

greatest show ever except you voted something else #1

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, November 4, 2009 1:45 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

did you see IBs morbs?

― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, November 3, 2009 5:29 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lots of point-missing going on today, guyz?

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, November 3, 2009 5:31 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

did you see it?

― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, November 3, 2009 5:31 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if you can't tell the diff btwn I-won't-call-him-QT and A Serious Man (OR No Country)...

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, November 3, 2009 5:31 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i don't think anyone is having trouble with that. pointing to the coens as an example of mature sober filmmakers is kind of ridic tho

― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, November 3, 2009 5:32 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

did u actually see inglourious basterds morbius?

― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, November 3, 2009 5:32 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

of course not; I don't spend unemployment payments on films I won't like.

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, November 3, 2009 5:33 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so shut up about it already

― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, November 3, 2009 5:33 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

slocks' last post there soooooo cathartic to read

beautiful

"ilxor" wrong? shocking!

― autogoon crew for coldplay (The Reverend)

:'(

B-b-b-but lex agrees with me!

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:02 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

... are you guys gonna tell him or shall i?

― r|t|c, Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:25 AM Bookmark

looooooooooooooooool

^__________^

lol where is that from

dream thread

i have the internet which is how i saw this video.
― k3vin k., Monday, November 9, 2009 10:26 PM

kudos to you
I use the Internet for actual porn
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE)

BURN
― TGAAPQ (Mr. Que)

use more lubricant
― sarahel

a++

i wanna say "lol, only ilx" where a successful zing is bragging about how much you jerk it but i'd be selling the rest of the internet short

r|t|c killin it l8ly

totally disagree - watched it Saturday and thought it was terrible. Larry David couldn't sell that dialogue, which wasn't any good to begin with for the most part, and everything seemed so half-assed and predictable and tired...

I think after a decade of bad films (Match Point excepted) its time Allen and I parted ways. he's definitively past it now.

― the butt is like a wailin' guitar solo (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, November 23, 2009 11:41 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

how do u think he'll react?

― 311 is a joek (s1ocki), Monday, November 23, 2009 11:43 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what about when there's a woman who is exceptionally gorgeous and two guys are noticing that they're both noticing her hotness and they give one another a knowing look/smile? is that egregious/threatening, Laurel?

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 00:56 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's kind of gay?

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 00:56 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 00:57 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

:)

― harbl, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 00:57 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is there going to be a whole thing itt of cooking up champagne commercial scenarios to see if laurel is so hysterical that she would denounce them

― A B C, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 00:58 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

not for nothing cutty but the difference between reg dvds and blurays on a 23" screen is.. well there prob will be no diff really.

but then again, maybe you have a library of stuff on blu you wanna watch in bed!

― donde está mia farrow, fa la la la la, la la la la (s1ocki), Saturday, December 12, 2009 1:08 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

watching blu movies in bed, eating protein gels

― THE SAIYANS ARE A PROUD WARRIOR RACE (Lamp), Saturday, December 12, 2009 3:46 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

energy gels are carbs not protein

― robster craws (cutty), Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:05 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think that was euphemism

― leave garbage snickers eat snickers leave garbage (jeff), Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:21 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cuss you guyz some more, btw

ie, shut up about me already

Dr Morps

there is the theory of the Morbius: a twist in the fabric of ilx where lols become a loop

where lols become a loop
where lols become a loop
where lols become a loop
where lols become a loop
where lols become a loop
where lols become a loop
where lols become a loop
where lols become a loop

hahaha

Anomalies do happen. I had a girlfriend in high school that seemed to have no clitoris whatsoever. Neither of us could find it. We broke out medical books, which were handy since her father was a doctor. We solidly identified the place where the clitoris ought to be, by all rights, but we were both denied its discovery. It was the Quivira of clits. It was the Clitoris of the Sierra Madre.

― kenan, Monday, December 14, 2009 10:48 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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― max, Monday, December 14, 2009 10:50 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lmfao

http://www.wolfhazmat.de/images/hazmat_taining2.jpg

that was a dude, kenan

omg @ clitoris of the sierra madre.

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