ASK ME ANYTHING RE: The History of ILX

Just realized that that TNC thread also features Neil Drumming, who is now a producer for This American Life and did a segment a few years ago about his friendship with TNC.

Best Ta-Nehisi Coates ILX post

Um, I am pretty sure I sent the thread to he and City Paper writer Neil Drumming who both posted.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, September 29, 2015 1:17 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was writing for W. City Paper then too and tried to alert various people whom I had some sort of contact with to certain threads

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, September 29, 2015 1:34 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Okay someone go find the Jake Tapper posts now.

anyway, the most famous ILXor is clearly adamrl (nordicskilla)

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5c585f81973b5279a897095e/2:1/w_790/Adam-Levine.jpg

uhh i thought adamrl was like a hot sweater vested film type, not a hot rock star.

he was wearing the sweater vest before he went onstage

but there were liability issues with the fire insurance

sorry, one more... what was the name of that smug guy with glasses that posted here? i think he was a music writer. the sweater vest reminded me.

Hooray this ient a mischaracterization of tynan delong

Fuck, "hope this isn't"

From my dealings with 'the horror community' on Facebook, Calum is as deeply divisive a figure within that as he was on ILX. His company, 88 films, put out some excellent martial art blu-rays that I will continue to buy in Fopp at £6 a pop.

AFAIK, he also remains the only person to threaten ILX (!) with legal action.

smug guy with glasses doesn’t exactly narrow it down tbf but are you thinking of matth3w p3rp3tua aka fluxblog

yes, TYNAN

p3rpetua seemed chill to me

Strickler is the richest former ILXor, I would guess.

who’s the richest current ilxor

sanpaku

where are the tax returns?

d00mie also threatened ilx with the law

(after alan mcgee's moral rectitude was questioned in a possibly over-forthright way)

As one of the few ILXors I've known irl, I can confirm that matty perpz is chill.

that’s some OL info to add to my spreadsheet

sorry, one more... what was the name of that smug guy with glasses that posted here? i think he was a music writer. the sweater vest reminded me.

― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Saturday, 9 March 2019 09:58 (five hours ago) Permalink

I thought you meant st3ve g0ldb3rg lol

not sure who that is

although it described ~85% of ilx posters, i got the right answer within one post. kudos jim in vancouver

Lol goldberg called me a spic iirc

Steve goldberg was the indie singer songwriter who talked about neutral milk hotel and musical theory all the time? Didn't realize he posted some "racially charged" content

did Goldberg go there as well? I remember jay blanchard snapped and went racist.

nobody goes racist, they either already were or they aren't

Oh yah that was Blanchard! Sorry Goldberg!!!

nobody goes racist, they either already were or they aren't

― imago

imago has never seen the musical "south pacific"

no kidding imago but i mean in the "accidentally revealing it" sense

though i guess to actually type out a word then hitting "submit post" is not quite as accidental as blurting something out in a heated conversation.

xp - ok mr i want this racist bottle opener

:o

i would like to point out that i have forgotten absolutely everything about that thread

the phrase, coined by you, "I would like to point out that i have been otm" (to paraphrase) is something I think about irl -- thanks for that

I've seen it said that one of the influxes of people into ILX was when Momus instructed his fanbase to start hanging around - are there any current posters who came here by those means?

were there ever?

no but one of the first threads I clicked on had naked Momus and yet I kept coming back to ILX

It was naked Tuomus back in mydae

never saw naked Tuomas, I just remember him being pro-masturbating in the same room as a baby

he was in a martini glass, iirc

were there ever?

Tom Ewing thought so!

I originally found ILX through Momus, whose music I barely enjoy anymore. Actually I think it was his posts on here that turned me off of him. But I suppose finding this site means I owe him some thanks

i discovered ilx cuz of momus. lurked and read the DMB thread etc but did not register until much later after i had been at stylus cuz i guess i thought you had to be qualified lol

I didn't know who momus was until I read his posts on this site

Yeah, me neither. I still haven't heard any of his music.

I'm a Scottish person who likes indie pop and isnt famous for not knowing who people are so I've less of an excuse

i got a momus cd in a record store cutout bin twenty years ago and thought it sucked, i'd probably like it better if i heard it again now though

Momus got played on government-funded youth radio in Australia in the '80s

Momus is one of several successful recording artists from the town of Paisley, including Paolo Nutini, Gerry Rafferty and Kenneth McKellar.