ILX's Oblique Strategy for the Day

14 January 2010:

Remove a restriction

I wonder if citing the ilx oblique strategy of the day would cover me in traffic court…

11 January 2010:

Is there something missing, officer?

15 January 2010:

Relaxation is necessary tension.
Tension is unnecessary tension.

16 January 2010:

Ask people to work against their better judgement.

17 January 2010:

The problem with knowing what we want is we just might get it.

Be careful what you wish for 'cause you just might be repeating a lame old proverb.

Yeah, I really hate this one. It's from Fripp, not Eno.

18 January 2010:

Give way to your worst impulse

uh oh.

My actual worse impulse, or what I currently think is the worst?

You gotta figure that part out yourself.

mine would be "talk too much about self," which is my usual m.o., so...done!

you need riskier impulses

"mh just can't help acting on Impulse" (tag line of old UK TV commercial)

no way I'm going near my worst impulses

well worst impulses on internet are a lot milder than worst impulses in real life

19 January 2010:

Look at the order in which you do things

20 January 2010:

Do the washing up

21 January 2010:

The musician and audience are parents to the music.

22 January 2010:

Cascades

is that another 'warm jets' ref

23 January 2010:

Use an unacceptable color

24 January 2010:

Consider different fading systems

25 January 2010:

Get your neck massaged

today's strategy is so true, omg
my neck is hurtin tho

26 January 2010:

The future is what the present can bear.

bummer, I forgot yesterday

28 January 2010:

Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance

Might as well say "apparent importance", he needs to specify if it's most or least important first.

bummer, I forgot yesterday

― the end times are coming, but they're just the beginning (WmC), Thursday, January 28, 2010 8:46 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

what a great strategy
"forget yesterday"

29 January 2010

Take a break

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30 January 2010:

In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly

31 January 2010:

How we hold our pick is how we organise our life.

1 February 2010:

Trust in the you of now

dude how many different ways are there to hold a pick? am i missing something with the whole 'between thumb and index finger'?

There's some specific pick technique RF teaches in Guitar Craft; the angle and grip have to be just-so.

2 February 2010:

We are held responsible for our actions, whether intentional or not.

that is not a strategy

that's true

I do like these in theory, but in practice lots of them seem to mistake vapidity for obliqueness.

keeping it in mind could be a strategy though

xp new ilx board description

"Be excellent to each other!"

And one for the olds: "Drinka Pinta Milka Day"

makitlikeasaladbap beansaladbean

today's is a Frippicism -- they're always scolding admonitions, not oracular like OS.

3 February 2010:

Put in earplugs

4 February 2010:

What context would look right?

14 April 2012:

Ask people to work against their better judgement.

15 April 2012:

Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance

16 April 2012:

What context would look right?

Ask people to work against their better judgement.

capitalist system has been pulling this strategy on us for hundreds of years already, amirite brothers & sisters?

17 April 2012:

Reverse

?tahw woN

Double reverse!

1 May 2012:

Simple subtraction

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