it was a bulletin-board style site similar to (but much uglier than) ILX for nerds to argue about 90s indie rock (Pavement, primarily). Morbz, Johnny Fever, and several other ILXors gradually migrated over here
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 July 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 July 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
lol of course you were there, bg
― mh, Monday, 1 July 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
it was relevant to my interests
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 1 July 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
in the days before wikipedia that was p useful for parsing Morrison's references
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 July 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
goths detected
― mark s, Monday, 1 July 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
i never had the patience required for the makeup tbh
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 1 July 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
lol no one's ever accused me of being a goth before
I don't even like Joy Division
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 July 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
Morrison's fanbase of that time was only part goth
at least compared to another Vertigo writer who'd wrapped up a series in the mid 90s
― mh, Monday, 1 July 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
it's a continuum
― mark s, Monday, 1 July 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
show me a chart
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 July 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
most of the data is lost to the internet, i'll have to rely on guesswork and prejudice
― mark s, Monday, 1 July 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
on a scale of occasional guyliner to custom all-black wardrobe...
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 July 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
Fake Matador Bulletin Board
I don't think the real Matador Bulletin Board is online anymore either lol
― Οὖτις, Monday, July 1, 2019 4:41 PM
It's long gone, though I sometimes still go to click it in my bookmarks and remember it's not there.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 July 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Monday, July 1, 2019 2:02 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the goth "I don't even own a television"
― omar little, Monday, 1 July 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
lol
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 July 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
I posted on Barbelith too (though not that much), and I've always been far from a goth. I assume Invisibles fans were probably more likely to be ravers, like the protagonists?
― Tuomas, Monday, 1 July 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 1 July 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
so you keep insisting, strangely urgently
― mark s, Monday, 1 July 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
stop harassing me, if i get even a little verklempt this eyeliner is done
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 1 July 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
FMBB - wow hadn't thought about that place in like a decade (was mostly a lurker). that and the Joos board were my go-tos
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 1 July 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
everyone here is goth, sorry
― cheese canopy (map), Monday, 1 July 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
Bruh, how am I just now learning bg and mh were on Barbelith. I was a mod up in that mug, yo. Mind blown rn.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 02:51 (four years ago) link
lmao what the fuck
were you haircare on barbelith too?
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 05:56 (four years ago) link
Arthur Sudnam, it was my Other Pseudonym.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link
i def remember that name! spent a few minutes earlier browsing through barbelith via the wayback machine - amazed at how many of those posters i remembered vividly
i think i might have ended up at ilx for the first time via it being mentioned offhandedly in a flux post, so i guess matty p is directly to blame for my benighted presence on this board
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
He told me directly to check this place out, so clearly he has much to answer for.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link
yet again i am moved to wonder whether we are in fact the same person
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
I'm yrev very glad you've accepted the truth, old friend.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 12:47 (four years ago) link
*where is my mind starts playing in the distance as i/we reach out to hold hands with helena-bonham carter*
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
did they only send the corny fux from that board over here or what
;)
― mh, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
when barbelith sends its people, they're not sending their best, okay
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
FMBB ruined my life.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
Yr welcome
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 01:13 (four years ago) link
I've been enjoying some of his recent genre-based Spotify playlists: http://www.fluxblog.org/2020/08/oops-all-playlists/
― jaymc, Sunday, 23 August 2020 04:29 (three years ago) link
Interesting
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 August 2020 12:03 (three years ago) link