ASK ME ANYTHING RE: The History of ILX

I have a friend who has amicably crossed paths with him online as she's big into both k-pop and horror - I told her he was a notable troll on ilx but mostly I just giggled to myself while mumbling about Nicky Wire in a banana suit.

LMAO, I just saw the "Rob Brydon's Identity Crisis" documentary on YouTube a few weeks back (I'm crazy about the British TV show "Would I Lie to You" is why) and when Nicky Wire popped up in said documentary, the first thing I thought of was, "Poor guy will never know some crazy person had this innate obsession with putting him in a banana suit." He seemed so normal and so kind and I felt really bad for Mr. Wire. Also, I do wonder if said friend/acquaintance (one of Clive Barker's regulars and someone who does quite a few horror cons) has ever encountered the C-man. I really hope not.

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

Oh cool, I feel better now about having clicked on some of his Buzzfeed articles.

Anyway, I have one minuscule claim to fame and that's having been written into a "Janet and John" story for Terry Wogan's radio show. No, not "Wake Up to Wogan" but one of his Sunday afternoon live shows.* That and having two questions answered by Nick Rhodes on a BBC-sponsored chat back in 1998 is about as famous as I get.

*: What can I say? "The Dark of the Matinee" was a very powerful argument in Sir Tel's favor.

Except he had a grump about not ever doing anything on BBC2.

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the Great Migration

like tears in the rain: http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=00620d

Sinker at the end of the day not classic just sad and over the hill

... and that was 17 years ago.

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LOL I knew of Momus 15 years prior to showing up here, I recall my bf of the time saying "whats this shit, it sounds like a B grade Pet Shop Boys" while I was playing "hairstyle of the devil".

Am sure you’ll all be pleased to hear that he’s writing a memoir to be published next year by Farrar Straus Giroux. Good for him.

I can't hate on Momus; I refuse to hate on anyone who's also a fan of David Sylvian's music.

Except he had a grump about not ever doing anything on BBC2.

The song gained him at least one new Transatlantic fan, though, so.

Momus was a tweaker of noses, but he took himself too seriously in his role as a parody of people who take themselves too seriously.

Sums it up, really.

hes a good songwriter!

otm

he posts photos on tumblr every cpl days, looks like dude is living his best life tbh

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loves to layer up does our momus

Is there something actually wrong with his eye or is the patch just an affectation?

something actually wrong

he lost an eye from an infection from an improperly stored contact lens iirc

all covered in depth on momuspedia

I suppose it can be both, now that I think about it.

Xpost he also covered it on here too!

Actually, he uncovered it on here too, thinking about it..

(ie, added a photo)

he did iirc

i definitely have thought about what i would do if i lost an eye: glass-eye like peter falk or eye-patch like momus?

momus is a talented guy.

Did not need reminding of his uncovering tbrh

he does have some vision in it iirc and had some surgery to make it a little better

Maybe Trayce was talking about some other uncovering.

i definitely have thought about what i would do if i lost an eye: glass-eye like peter falk or eye-patch like momus?

glass eye like charles dance in last action hero or gtfo imo

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In which case, he is reminding us of something he did not need reminding of. xpost

I recall my bf of the time saying "whats this shit, it sounds like a B grade Pet Shop Boys" while I was playing "hairstyle of the devil".

your bf otm

real ilx history question: list the ilxors who started out on the sinister board, migrated here, and stuck around

Mandee was one of them, I think? Can't remember any others anymore.

n1ck dast00r?

pinefox?

Some of Starry / Tim / Carsmile Steve / Madchen / RJG ?

Not all of those stuck around.

neither did kat stevens, ricky t, alixxx, the barnet ape, etc etc

I still post very occasionally.

!!

Not all of those stuck around.

Alixxx was probably from sinister too - did Kat ever post here?

Kat was not Sinister. Grandpoint Genie was though!

pinefox still posts on ILB

Madchen still posts.

dastoor still posts also tho not under that name

I dunno how you define stuck around, but IIRC all the people Andrew listed posted here for years.

I thought you meant still posting.