I could of course refuse to give my address except "in chambers" -- a line Mom used last year when she was getting screened to serve on a federal murder trial. She was excused.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"being distracted by pressing work commitments" also works well.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Racial slurs help too ("Sorry, counsel, but he's black so he probably did it").
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
sing all yr answers instead of speaking them and would at least slightly increase the chances of yr procuring a record deal before sunset tomorrow
― markers, Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
*that would
― markers, Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, markers -- I finally deleted The Suburbs from my hard drive. My computers will dream of electric sleep more soundly.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
re jury duty: just crack open a bottle of banyuls rimage les clos de paulilles dessert wine tonight, then wing it tomorrow.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, "no jury duty selection at this time," according to the hotline. Now I can relax.
Someone ask me a question. I got a nice tanline today!
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
justin bieber is terrible and his popularlity is the result of him being forced on the public, right?
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
did you mean George W. Bush?
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
him too.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP The Suburbs
― markers, Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm actually surprised you weren't looking forward to federal jury duty even a little, al. i've also wondered if pretending to be racist or something would work - what if they found out you did it on purpose?
― k3vin k., Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno how they could, racists aren't registered in any database
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah obv but i would probably give myself away somehow
― k3vin k., Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i doubt anybody seriously tries it IRL because of similar fears. just gotta keep it consistent. if you say you hate all Mexicans because a mexican killed your family, you better kill your family in case they check up on u
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i got a summons letter for local court recently (got out of it via MY TOTALLY LEGIT EXCUSE SUP GOVERNMENT) so i'd been wondering about this
― k3vin k., Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm actually surprised you weren't looking forward to federal jury duty even a little, al.
ha -- why?
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
idk you like reading about law/supreme court stuff so much. i guess this wouldn't be as exciting tho
― k3vin k., Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
jury duty is like giving a handjob to a turtle
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Turtles are at least horny.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 August 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
hey al have you ever listened to francis and the lights? super good 80s phil collins/prince/p gabriel thing, basically all his music streaming here:
http://francisandthelights.muxtape.com/
i love this dude. seems like something up your alley.
― max, Sunday, 15 August 2010 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
so do you do pr for this band or
― plax (ico), Sunday, 15 August 2010 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
alfred, are you on the twitterz?
― markers, Sunday, 15 August 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah. Like Gretta Scacci said in The Player: "Life's too short."
I do have a blog: http://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/
max, thanks for the suggestion! I'll check it out. All my favorite referents, etc.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 August 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
― plax (ico), Sunday, August 15, 2010 7:06 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
haha i mean i think everyone should listen to em! but i keep thinking its like made for al soto, its all 80s r&b w/ computer sheen
― max, Sunday, 15 August 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
but it's oh so exciting for the lawyers involved.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 15 August 2010 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Dear Soto, What are your ten fave singles and albums of the Aughties please? A perfunctory search on your blog yielded the expected nothing.
xoxokjb
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 15 August 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's twenty albums. Don't take the order too seriously:
1. M.I.A. – Kala2. Bob Dylan – “Love and Theft”3. DJ Shadow – The Private Press4. Ghostface – Fishscale5. Kylie Minogue – Fever6. The Mekons – OOOH!7. The Go-Betweens – Oceans Apart8. Miranda Lambert – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend9. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part One10. Aaliyah – Aaliyah11. Jay Z – The Blueprint12. Bjork – Vespertine13. Lee Ann Womack – There’s More Where That Came From14. The Mountain Goats – We Shall All Be Healed15. Roisin Murphy – Overpowered16. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver17. Arctic Monkeys – Favorite Worst Nightmare18. Sleater Kinney – One Beat19. Missy Elliott – This is Not a Test!20. Drive-By Truckers – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 August 2010 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
20. Drive-By Truckers – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
sometimes you surprise me.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 16 August 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
well, i guess nos. 2 and 6 surprise me, too.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 16 August 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
no taylor swift no credibility
― dyao, Monday, 16 August 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
haha. YEAH. taylor swift is the super-duper awesome voice of a new generation.
Love a couple of her singles.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 August 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Lee Ann Womack – There’s More Where That Came From
Just read an interview with her today! She's a friends of the gays. But I hadn't thought about her since "I Hope You Dance" which was (eek!) 2000. Will check this out.
Now singles please (they're more important).
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 16 August 2010 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I may even have overrated that one, considering how the highs of her 2008 album really get me, well, high. Like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKTr9pKw-5I&feature=av2e
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 August 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Really? That descrip sounds awesome, but I listened to a few minutes of it and my gf said it sounded like Blues Traveler.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 August 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
it sounded like Blues Traveler
harsher words have never been uttered.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 16 August 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
never figured out what troll started this thread, but I'm grateful.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 August 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
― jaymc, Sunday, August 15, 2010 9:11 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
first track on the new album?
― max, Monday, 16 August 2010 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I just went to the Muxtape link you posted. Listened to a few tracks, but I wasn't really paying attention that much.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 August 2010 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkM5MiPjaf4&p=325F569B393E8D21&playnext=1&index=38
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 August 2010 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
xp I will give it another chance, tho!
― jaymc, Monday, 16 August 2010 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Alfred, do you like Elton John's "Island Girl"?
― fear mongrels (Abbott), Monday, 16 August 2010 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I love that whole album! Prefer "Hard Luck Stories" and "I Feel Like a Bullet..."
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 August 2010 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
first track on the new one is kind of "blues traveler-y" but i cant really think of anything else that sounds like blues traveler at all
― max, Monday, 16 August 2010 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Alfred, are you down w/ metal? any new stuff?
― markers, Monday, 16 August 2010 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
do you like dubstep, funky house, related sub-genres?
these are the things i wonder.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 16 August 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I like to say I'm a dilettante with genres but devoted to artists. I'm still trying to understand chillwave and dubstep. I'll always pledge allegiance to house, even when a couple of recent high profile attempts at house have left me cold (e.g. Kelis).
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 August 2010 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
That descrip sounds awesome, but I listened to a few minutes of it and my gf said it sounded like Blues Traveler.
^ New board description?
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 16 August 2010 02:39 (thirteen years ago) link
answer: he would make you leave jk jk
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 November 2023 17:47 (five months ago) link
I've hung out with fgti and I would never walk out on him
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 November 2023 17:48 (five months ago) link
We had negronis iirc
― meaner stinks meat bake it cone (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 18 November 2023 17:54 (five months ago) link
<3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 November 2023 17:57 (five months ago) link
― meaner stinks meat bake it cone (flamboyant goon tie included),
ten years ago!
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 November 2023 17:57 (five months ago) link
a simpler time
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 November 2023 18:02 (five months ago) link
happy birthday alfred. party's in full swing:
https://i.imgur.com/3K2gF7s.jpeg
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 18 November 2023 18:05 (five months ago) link
charlie has overnegronied
I like men who dress like Negronis.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 November 2023 21:17 (five months ago) link
Having a white Negroni right now, I’ll toast yr birthday.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 18 November 2023 23:10 (five months ago) link
Wow, I didn't know Charlie had grown out the stubble, which I guess is no surprise given his condition at the time.
Happy birthday Alfred, hope it's a great one!
― birdistheword, Saturday, 18 November 2023 23:44 (five months ago) link
Just came across this old reference that made me smile:
i pulled this thread up cuz i'm spending tonight in self loathing mode and listening t oPet Sounds and Smiley Smile era Beach Boys (just saw Mike Love and the band he calls the Beach Boys live a few weeks ago and they were pretty awesome)....and this thread is clearly the biggest challopser I've ever read. Pet Sounds might be 'overrated' to some degree but there's little doubt in my mind that it's filled with fantastic songs. Hell, the first four tracks are pretty much flawless!― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Friday, April 9, 2010 11:59 PM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglinkbasically old-ILM was just a bunch of trolls who hated to get trolled and eventually got older, fatter, grayer in their safe haven corner of the blogosphere.― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Saturday, April 10, 2010 12:08 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglinkso presumably there's a thread from 2003 proclaiming Coda to be Led Zeppelin's best album.....― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Saturday, April 10, 2010 12:14 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglinkhmm when did Lord Soto Challops show up on ILM?― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Saturday, April 10, 2010 12:24 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
and this thread is clearly the biggest challopser I've ever read. Pet Sounds might be 'overrated' to some degree but there's little doubt in my mind that it's filled with fantastic songs. Hell, the first four tracks are pretty much flawless!
― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Friday, April 9, 2010 11:59 PM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
basically old-ILM was just a bunch of trolls who hated to get trolled and eventually got older, fatter, grayer in their safe haven corner of the blogosphere.
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Saturday, April 10, 2010 12:08 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
so presumably there's a thread from 2003 proclaiming Coda to be Led Zeppelin's best album.....
― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Saturday, April 10, 2010 12:14 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
hmm when did Lord Soto Challops show up on ILM?
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Saturday, April 10, 2010 12:24 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Love ya, Alfred. Keep us on our toes.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Saturday, 2 March 2024 13:08 (one month ago) link
Ha! I'm part of Ye Olde ILM, eh?
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 March 2024 13:14 (one month ago) link
I think it was more the early recognition of your love for an imperial artist's late career album.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Saturday, 2 March 2024 13:27 (one month ago) link
No, it's about Alfred being really old.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 March 2024 13:32 (one month ago) link
I wasn't around when those acts released many of those albums, hence my (what I thought) fresh approach.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 March 2024 13:55 (one month ago) link