ASK ME ANYTHING RE: The History of ILX

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.

This was how I heard of Momus. I liked the song on here I remember.

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Doing-It-For-The-Kids/release/547494

i am an ilx lifer at this point but still very unclear on, and incurious about, any distinction between Momus and Matmos

ha ha

!!!!

there is a huge distinction
(apart from the music, DD is an AMAZING and very kind and generous person. i don't know much about momus the person but not many people on earth top DD so)

love DD

xp that post also made me think of Matos

i may have been conflating Matmos and Matos above fwiw

to be clear i also have no beef with any of the above, i just never quite got them separate in my brain. i regret to say i sometimes have this problem with Aimless and Amateurist, it's a thing with me and phonemes, not a reflection on the people's actual distinguishability.

oh wait matmos worked on vespertine! i remember this now.

just to.be clear
outside of ilx no cunt has ever heard of momus

...but what if I'd heard of him well before ILX?

*raises hand*

https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y296/imomus/momusnabisco.jpg

Whoa, don’t remember seeing that particular image before.

I only know of Momus as a like gnomic spirit of ilx past

i have tried to read that luna thread like 5230 times

On thursday I read both the Luna thread and the ilx heaven 5000+ post thread where it (mainly) went down.

i think that latter thread is the one i actually need to read. the luna thread is frustrating to read because it's a bunch of people talking about the thing that happened elsewhere

The Luna thread and 5000+ thread are dual weirdness, all the Luna stuff and then hundreds of posts unrelated to that that were just fighting between cliques like a fictional high school.

ILX had no chill until 2014 and now it always seems super calm.

the "proudly hosted on photobucket" watermark all over the images on both threads is fucking gold. it's almost always possible to estimate the time frame of visual media from the last hundred years or so - the color grades, the quality, dimensions of the image, instagram filters, etc. an old messageboard thread, even if it didn't have the dates, is now readily identifiable as mid-2000s because of the photobucket mess

just throwing that in there.
i wish i would have read that ilx heaven thread 10 years ago, it would have really helped every single time the luna stuff came back up