ilx posts with striking imagery

does any of latour's newer theory stuff demonstrate that he's actually doing any research at all anymore? i get his theory is all about actual research methodologies. but is he actually employing those to study actual things, or just pontificating on them these days?

― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Wednesday, August 14, 2013 1:56 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's what you do once you're eminent, i thought, you shoot eminent rays out at things in order to unify them under one field of eminence

― j., Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:37 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm strangely attracted to Natasha leggero

― chrisv2010, Sunday, August 8, 2010 1:52 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And Katy perry is obviously not an actress but I'd break it off in her ass

― chrisv2010, Sunday, August 8, 2010 1:59 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have been to SF only once (aside from the airport), back in April, for a work conference and some meetings w/my boss, who is based on the west coast. We went out to lunch, and on our way back to the office, there was a dead body on the sidewalk covered by a sheet, blood pooling from underneath it, surrounded by fire/rescue workers and emergency vehicles on the street. People were standing around taking video with their phones and Instagramming it. It was really weird.

― Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Friday, August 16, 2013 7:22 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The thread reminds me of when 22-year-old me moved 500 miles away to follow my 18-year-old girlfriend to her freshman year of college. Yeah, plenty of people warned me against it: "How's life? You need to let that go, man. She's about to go through a different life phase. It will go horribly wrong." And yeah, she was in a different phase. It went horribly, horribly wrong. Like, worst, WEIRDEST relationship bullshit to happen to me ever. But I don't think they were necessarily right. It happened to go all wrong. But I think there's room out there in this wide world for early-20s dudes to follow their incoming-freshman girlfriends to school and make it work and I will ALWAYS recommend that course of action, if given choice. ALWAYS. You guys are gonna be TOGETHER. FOREVER. Don't listen to them. They won't understand your love. You'll support her with your job at Blockbuster. Plenty of people do that. Plenty of people are young and poor and in love and get married and start a family. Poor people! They aren't any less loving! You can always shoot for Regional Manager or something, right? And once you've got that all sorted out, you'll be able to settle down and pursue your life's dreams of producing downtempo electronica. There's a mid-Atlantic Ninja Tune waiting to happen, and it all starts with this decision.

― how's life, Wednesday, August 21, 2013 8:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Almost makes me want to pack up and do something somewhere but I'm 42 as is my girlfriend and we're happy to let someone else release music for us, so.

Also, I mean, even though the relationship WILL crash and burn you HAVE to do that shit, both to live out the wholeheartedness that's harder to feel later in life, and to learn the lesson deep down of how dumb that stuff can be. Went through something similar, it was miserable and totally avoidable but if i hadn't done it I'd've made worse mistakes later.

sorry, i'm sure people have said that on the actual thread that comes from!

what thread

man how's life is really in full bloom these days

what thread

― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, August 22, 2013 4:06 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'that girls only thread is great'

when I see a dude in a tasteful plaid shirt, some raw dark denim, & red wing boots, i think to myself "that looks like a man of courage."

― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, September 3, 2013 6:29 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fucking weird my elementary school playground had the same "treehouse" as pplains & the same pee problem

If you're ever being buried alive, throw yourself into your panic with full gusto (you probably won't get much choice in this, but it's actually best not to keep a clear head). There are few moments in life when one gets to really unleash an all-consuming, sanity-rending panic. Such a level of primal terror is probably so overwhelming what it's debatable to what extent it can even be called a 'conscious' event. You're unlikely to experience thoughts anywhere near as lucid as 'Oh God, I'm being buried alive'. In the face of such an unpleasant end, panic induced insanity may shield from the full consciousness of your death.
You probably shouldn't take off your shirt and try to tie it around your face and mouth, that's kind of ridiculous.

― I have gathered no gaudy flowers of speech in other men's gardens (dowd), Sunday, September 8, 2013 5:30 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Voted Stingray. Saw one last week when out on the beach, and it was a magical moment. I used to dream about having a pet stingray when i was a kid. I would have it in a huge swimming pool and race it from one end to the other.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, August 27, 2013 1:51 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

should also go to cutecelsior!

I do wonder sometimes if my smoking annoys ppl around me...how many houses away can they smell it, just a little? Does it go in their windows? What about the ppl upstairs if I smoke on my fire escape? Do I have any ground to stand on if they object? It seems like with smoking the default "right" position is 0% tolerance of any inconvenience to others. What about the noise we all tolerate? Or the dogs, or the unsightly yards and garbage, or just every single other thing about living near a lot of people? Harrumph.

NB No one has ever said one single thing to me about it in my 2+ years here, I just worry.

― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Friday, September 13, 2013 9:47 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But this is still just lousy: this the cloddish, rotten, stupid Eagles; the meathead Eagles, the pestilent Eagles. I can picture George W. Bush, driving around Midland in '75, knocking back a few cans of Coors, blasting this awful piece of shit while he tailgates someone. God, even the guitars sound hateful.

― col, Monday, September 16, 2013 8:10 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have this weird but salient memory of hanging out with him when I was like 11, and he insisted on playing me this Howard Stern video when my aunt went out, and it involved Howard Stern inviting women up on stage to have something called "Butt Bongo" played on them, and this one woman kept giggling and saying "But I'm a mother! I'm a mother!"

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, September 20, 2013 12:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is that from the "saying goodbye to your pet" thread?

facebook

miley should change her name to Jah Cyrus and record a song with house of pain and naughty by nature called "gettin' my irish up" and have mc lyte and karen finley guest star. i would buy that.

― scott seward, Thursday, October 3, 2013 12:11 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if i learned anything during that today show interview its: she's never been happier and she's just being herself and if you are being yourself you don't have to worry about anything. also, be nice to people when you are not onstage and no matter what anyone writes about you its okay because you know that you are a good person who treats people well. also, matt lauer is a big dick.

― scott seward, Wednesday, October 9, 2013 1:09 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ fun and worth reading, but I can't find any imagery in those I'd call striking

read the last line as 'also, matt lauer has a big dick' at first, was it was pretty striking.

Same.

struck by another's jet

― deej snyder (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 25 April 2010 05:27 (3 years ago)

Very vivid dream last night that Whiney built a purple flying saucer and took off in California as US ilxors tracked him west to east, but it was revealed after takeoff that it was a suicide mission. Soon it was on the news and the Air Force was tracking him and all of ilx was posting with him, pleading for him to land it safely somewhere. Then he crashed it and died in my backyard (of the house in Alabama that I grew up in, not where I live now). It took about ten people to unscrew the lid off the saucer and retrieve his limp, naked body.

I know it all sounds really weird, and sort of based on the "balloon boy" thing, but it was very sad. Everybody was crying.

I did NOT do any drugs before bed.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, October 19, 2013 10:31 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can u imagine meeting Oprah

― surm, Friday, October 4, 2013 1:11 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

also Johnny Fever's dream was harrowing.

After I read Johnny Fever's account of his dream I was going to ask if he had felt the need to check that Whiney was actually still alive after he woke up, but then I looked and Whiney hadn't posted to ilx or his twitter for a couple of days so I was scared to ask in case something actually had happened to him (God forbid). I can see he has posted to his twitter since, so I will ask now if Johnny Fever is reading.

also, semi-related, i just woke up from a dream where a hot new novel was getting lots of critical buzz but the novel was just a chocolate cake that readers were instructed to eat. it was sold in bookstores, however, which distinguished it from cakes sold in bakeries. there was a lot of discussion about whether this was "really" a novel just because the author said it was and in the course of the dream i at first passionately defended it but then was convinced to change my mind and denounced it.

― (emphasis Treeship's) (Treeship), Wednesday, October 23, 2013 9:16 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

hahahahaha

He woke up to find his bookshelf empty and cake crumbs on all over his pillow

treesh will do well to post as well as that again

we all will

http://s3.amazonaws.com/quietus_production/images/articles/1994/sir_patrick_moore_1246283574_crop_550x367.jpg

Where the hell does someone even buy trousers like that?

― 'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Tuesday, May 1, 2012 11:42 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If he pulled them up any higher, he'd have to cut armholes in the sides.

― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, May 1, 2012 11:50 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just remove the lining from the pockets and put his arms through the holes.

― 'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Tuesday, May 1, 2012 11:52 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, that would also have the secondary benefit of stopping his car keys from chaffing his nipples.

― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, May 1, 2012 11:55 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Legendary Hearts IS a better song record but it's so austere about its flourishes it's downright Presbyterian; when a solo shows up on "Make Up My Mind" or "Home of the Brave" it's like a favorite aunt serving you wine.

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, November 7, 2013 8:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The thing is, a lot of the appeal of vinyl is how cool it is. Not hipster cool, really, but it feels cool to put a record on cos they sound good and look good, and for sure there's a kind of joy in participating in a ritual of aural reproduction that goes way back, and a lot of record players - vintage and modern ones alike - look great in the home and blah blah blah.

When I go to visit my mum, a pristine woman whose house looks like a mid-range hotel, I'm always shocked to visit her bathroom. She has these air fresheners set up that periodically spray their stuff, often right at me as I'm doing a piss or worse. I don't know whether they're on a timer or there is some kind of motion detection going on, but it is definitely uncool. I can't really bring it up, but I am tempted to tell her that these attempts to obliterate all that is unpleasant in life make me feel weird. I gotta take a shit, mum, and I don't like to be made to feel unwelcome while I do. Furthermore, I understand that you have to take a shit from time to time, and if you're trying to use technology to hide this fact from everyone, it's failing - I can think of little else when I'm in there. I imagine you shitting and the panic you must feel at being revealed as a person who commits these violations of familial order. What's more, I'm inclined to introduce the smelliest, most virulent and unflushable shit into your bathroom and see how your systems can deal with that. It's really a provocation.

That's how I would think of anyone who had one of these record players in their house.

― Eyeball Kicks, Sunday, November 17, 2013 5:59 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

i don't particularly mind the fleet foxes record tbh but they do sort of remind me of the guy that got expelled from my school for allegedly bunking off PE to go and hump a log in the woods behind the sports hall

― but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Monday, November 18, 2013 10:12 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not exactly 'knockout', but when I was 17/18 I was walking down the street and some ten year old kid came up to me and said "Do you need something?" and I was like "what?" and he repeated "Do you need something?" with gritted teeth emphasis on "need" and I was "what the hell are you talking about?". Then he threw a baby's dummy in my face and ran away.

― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Thursday, November 21, 2013 9:17 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My memories of visiting WDW exactly seven years ago (as a bratty 16 year old):

MGM Studios being the best thing ever (apart from the weird Drew Carey ride/experience). Massive shouts to the Aerosmith Rock'n'Rollercoaster ("GET READY TO MERGE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER MERGED BEFORE"). The Indiana Jones stunt show being better than pretty much any film (even if the mime who warms the crowed up did racist mimes at one point). Watching some form of Thanksgiving/Christmassy firework show.

Getting weirdly teary at the Magic Kingdom show when everyone has a go at Donald Duck for some reason but we all learn that DREAMS COME TRUE! Obviously seeing the castle for the first time is a real woahhhh moment. Going on the old time steamboat thing and, again, finding it weirdly emotional. Queuing for hours for the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride behind a girl who looked just like Maeby Funke in a Dr Pepper T-shirt and not being able to stop myself from looking at her throughout.

Typhon Lagoon being as much fun as anyone can have involving water.

The repeated shouts of OPA OPA OYSTER!!! at Seaworld/getting to ride the Kraken about 6 times in a row at the start of the day because there was zero queue. My mum CRYING at the Shamu show/us beinbg sat next to a very patriotic American who alternated between heartfult salutes and whoops and spitting on the floor.

Animal Kingdom being really shit because we went on the log flume kind of thing and I was the only person in our boat to get absolutely drenched and it really did ruin my day. Didn't even enjoy going on the safari thing and seeing the gorillas.

REFUSING TO SWIM WITH DOLPHINS AT DISCOVERY COVE. I lost my glasses that day too.

Other memories of my only American trip to date:

Spending Thanksgiving itself at this park with a big old house in it nearish to Kissimee that also had a river full of manatees and gar and being wowed by seeing manatees just hanging out. We had a lasagane for dinner purchased from a Walmart.

Going on a boat trip on the everglades and my mum flirting with the captain. We didn't see any alligators sadly.

Blasting Power 95.3 (ORLANDO'S NEW NUMBER ONE FOR HIP HAAAWP) and hearing My Love by JT/I wanna Love You by Akon/Showstopper by Dainty Kane on repeat all day every day and loving them. Also endless adverts for Fazolis.

Driving back from Kennedy Space Center and seeing dolphins jumping about in the water. Also liked Lee, the guy who drove the shuttle bus around the center, top #bants ("please take all of your valuables when you leave. That includes your children, folks." "shake an alligators hand with me. five dollars.")

Eating absolutely joyless dinners in Sizzler and Golden Corral.

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, November 25, 2013 7:18 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also, being corny, I picture Soma as a Cloud Giant, thousand-yard towering D&D humanoid made of mist and storms. Lighting twitches through his slowly roiling body, spills ceaseless from his eyes. His weightless fist, the size of a village, comes down a hurricane, soft as it is terrible, a mile-wide swath of ruin in his wake. I like the feeling and image. It's not something I get from much other music.

― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Wednesday, December 11, 2013 11:20 AM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Night on Bald Soma

come on, that's just a saruman speech right?

that dwight yorke post is amazing

i keep thinking about people telling you how the beach boys never actually liked surfing, apart from dennis, & wondering what it would be like if middle aged kells had actually lost interest in sex, infrequently pursued women, hadn't talked to anyone for a couple of weeks prior to the cover shoot for this record, just asked dutiful questions about the girl's career & was kinda glibly professional, only concentrated on pussy as a distillation of his muse

― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Wednesday, December 11, 2013 5:38 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

5. Mrs Mooney, 11th grade English. Now, if your uncle's friend had just offered YOU a book deal, you got A-pluses in all your elective Humanities subjects (journalism, World Literature, Theatre Arts, Cinema, blah blah) and you were skating around the edge of the Minneapolis artypunk scene, would you look kindly on being given C's by some patronising prannet who all the other teachers had informed you was on tranquilisers? You have to be really shit as an educator for the STAFF to take against you in conversation with a student. I felt like Someone Was Jealous and was pretty focussed on getting A's as I was plotting my escape (noble cause) rather than being a big swot. The one- two punch of telling her she was doomed to teach a syllabus until her eventual early retirement on mental health grounds when my book APPEARED on that syllabus and going 'Oh! My grandmother told me about what happened at the Commodore Hotel back then!' when I spotted the family namecheck in the Great Gatsby (party scene, natch) scored major smartarse points with fellow students and the woman eventually backed down. Aced the final. Eat my dust, baby.

― suzy, Sunday, November 4, 2001 1:00 AM (12 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wowww

Anecdote kind of horrible to the poor woman who committed the cardinal sins of being a crap teacher AND having emotional problems (hmm wonder if the 2 are related, well let's give her a kicking for it anyway eh) but damn you can't fault suzy as a raconteuse, can you?