lagoon is a great guy
― Treeship, Friday, 13 October 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
From what I know through ilx and social media at least.
― Treeship, Friday, 13 October 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
There are so many here. So many, and I'm worried about missing anyone but off the top of my head:
Sick Mouthy offered me my first writing gig back in 2004Branwell, despite falling out with me a huge number of times, did make me reassess my position on a number of issues. That could be said for other ilxors, Lex, DJP and many others.FGTI gave me some fantastic advice about songwriting once which I'll never forgetAnd then there are those who have either inspired me a great deal, offered advice and opinions, or just helped me in my life with friendly encouragement, among them Le Bateau Ivre, imago, Rev, Ned, marcos, wins, NickB, chewshabadoo, M4rk H3st3r (can't remember what handle he goes by now), Johnny Fever, man alive, Kerr, Gravel Puzzleworth, seandalai, Moka, emil.y, Michael B, Drugs A . Money. Like the latter says upthread, the Outloud chats were so so great and I miss them a lot
So many more.. I've been on here for 18 years now so...
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 13 October 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
lagoon also convinced me to stretch before lifting and that was helpful
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 13 October 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
god, Treeship and flopson and Karl Malone too. I don't interact with them directly much on here but their posts all seem to either be really reasonable, insightful or funny and it's influenced me to at least try not to just write any old shit on hear (I still do though)
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 13 October 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
love to y'all!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 October 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
Fpd everyone itt btw
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Friday, 13 October 2017 15:51 (six years ago) link
^ the transformative effect we need and deserve
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 13 October 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
/ I value the way this site has pushed me to change my mons on a number of issues/I cannot stop laughing at this typo
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Friday, 13 October 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
I missed that, was too busy lolling
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Friday, 13 October 2017 16:22 (six years ago) link
my mind put the l in on first pass
― rip van wanko, Friday, 13 October 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
I value the way this site has pushed me to change my lmons on a number of issues
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 13 October 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
I learned to change my diamonds every day.
― Treeship, Friday, 13 October 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
Twisting my mlons man
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 13 October 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
miss silby
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, October 7, 2017 4:02 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
silby still posts every day + is active on twitter
― flopson, Saturday, October 7, 2017 4:23 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
God, is it really every day?
― .oO (silby), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
lol--sorry! i read that post, was like, huh? coulda sworn i've seen them around, and did a search and u had posted the previous 2 days
it always takes me a while to notice when anyone has cut down or quit
― flopson, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 03:24 (six years ago) link
still nice to be missed though right? :)
I miss "If Timi Yuro would be still alive..." and love it whenever I run across one of his posts. RIP.
Everyone here has been transformative.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 26 October 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link
Elvis otm
― Bazooka Jobim (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 October 2017 02:14 (six years ago) link
A great guy. Very glad I got to meet him a couple of times thanks to the Pop Con.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 October 2017 02:15 (six years ago) link
in the interest of not just listing all the ppl i read ilx for / am friendly with on a personal level, im just gonna say tim f
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 26 October 2017 07:08 (six years ago) link
same
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 October 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link
Thirded
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 October 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
tim is yoga flame.
https://media.giphy.com/media/Y5HEiPdsChOh2/giphy.gif
― scott seward, Thursday, 26 October 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
i keep writing tl;drs (true love doctors) here and then deleting them, so instead this is the quick summary: ilx is more of a "community" for me than just about any irl community. in certain ways that is endlessly rewarding, and i don't even want to know how many times i click the ilx bookmark everyday. it is weird. it's too much. when i think about transformative effects it's not so much one person or group of people that i think of, or a specific thread, but just the overall influence of what i'm reading and thinking and talking about all the time with you all. true <3 doctors
with all that said, big ups to pplains. dr casino said something about pplains' "finest hour" on the steely dan thread today, and my first thought was "more like pplains finest year, with 8760 one-hour blocks, each one featuring a pplains greatest hit. god, 8760 hours isn't really that long for a year, i really expected the number to be higher."
also: if you're having a bad day and need something to lift your spirits, check out the only song by The Bonzai Predicament. it is really good:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7odcV25sHg
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 29 October 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
seriously, put that song on if you're ever feeling down. i just listened to it for the 4th time today and literally spilled coffee all over myself and my couch
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 29 October 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
Probably me tbh
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 October 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
Momus was a big find for me 10+ yrs agoMordy is an inspiration constantlyYancey proved that capitalism can elevate you into a better social circle, Max too
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 29 October 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
how do you measuremeasure a year
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 30 October 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
what's another yearfor someone who's lost everything that he owns?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 30 October 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
Honest to Christ is that a Johnny Logan ref on ilx in 2017
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 30 October 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
today's the day for it imo
― mark s, Monday, 30 October 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
Every day is a good day for Johnny Logan. Go ahead and fp me Deems, you only need 31 51 socks to make it happen.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 30 October 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
^^ I didn't mean that. Hold me now, D.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 30 October 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
Horseshoe (miss u, lady) specifically because she talked somewhere on board about body positivity and HAES and posited that dieting might be unhealthy. For someone who had an eating disorder in the past and who has been on a diet pretty much constantly since I was 10, being introduced to these ideas was nothing short of life changing.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 30 October 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
Feel bad now for fooling around because that is one beautiful, sincere post.
(did she leave for real?)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 30 October 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
Wouldn't fp anyone for Johnny Logan love
Horseshoe is great
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 30 October 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
Aw, don't feel bad! I meant to post that here last week but realized I didn't. It was such a big deal to me at the time (this was like 2010 ish) that I wrote to her separately and she sent me all kinds of reading recs and it was a really big thing for me.
I'm not sure if she's gone but I haven't seen her post in a while but I don't really post very much these days so idk.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 30 October 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
And, yes, she is great all around.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 30 October 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
That's really great <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 30 October 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
I believe I've seen recent horseshoe posts on the cooking threads
― sleeve, Monday, 30 October 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
I'm also going to say Odysseus for dragging me out to regularly participate in things like chat and plug and reading philosophy, through which I made irl friends. Also, the mid-00s metal polls introduced me to contemporary avant- and post- black metal, which became a regular part of my listening diet.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 30 October 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
abby is consistently awesome and absent these days
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 30 October 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
Don't want to be nasty and there some assumptions coming up on my behalf but, if by 'A***' you refer to Horseshoe: there's probably a reason why she *never* used her real name on ilx and would probably prefer for it to stay that way?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 30 October 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
her name isn't abby?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 30 October 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
oh wait you meant crabbits? i thought you meant horseshoe, whose name does not begin with Aanyway that's now how she spells it but yeah maybe not use her name
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 30 October 2017 23:35 (six years ago) link
I don't know whose name is Abby, all I was trying to say was that name never came up on here, the dropped 'Abby' only made me wonder 'who?', and one might not use it that freely if the person itself didn't use it that way either on here.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 30 October 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
good point
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 30 October 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
horribly phrased sentence on my part but hope you get the gist. dropping her birth name felt like doxxing to me.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 00:03 (six years ago) link
agree that "let's not do that going forward" is a good way to proceed wrt that issue
idk the answer to this or that it has been one person so much as a community presence for me (like KM) it's a place i can go reliably, a place i can jib jab about stuff without much concern because no one can see me or know who i am? ilx can be relaxing in that way (except for when it's being toxic or i follow the wrong threads) + it's also a place where people like talking about music. you don't get that everywhere, or the people who like the same music i do or are interested in music the way i am aren't always compelled to talk with me about it in person (more now than before, but it was a long time between high school/college and a time when any of my close personal friends cared about music as much as i did)
i will say that i have gotten positive vibes from all ilxors i have met irland there have been quite a few!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 00:07 (six years ago) link