What Can't You Find On The Internet?

I've asked here before, I think, but I wrote a track review for XLR8R.com in 2010 or so, and it was mentioned in this article about a decade ago. https://www.spin.com/2011/09/new-rave-generation/

Relevant quote from article:

"I remember the first review we had was on XLR8R," Diplo says of the single, "and it was like, 'This is the worst piece of shit I've ever heard in my life.'" He's close: The actual headline was "Tiësto and Diplo take huge crap in your ears," and the article went on to call the record "the aural equivalent of santorum….Be prepared to hear this playing at the next Lakers game."

The issue is that the original article that I wrote— "Tiësto and Diplo take huge crap in your ears"— seems to have been scrubbed from the internet, probably because XLR8R went in a very different direction after I left (one of the reasons I left in the first place!), and one of their sponsors probably demanded it. The article isn't in the archive of every other article I wrote for XLR8R, nor can I find it despite my efforts on Wayback. I've tried writing the magazine, seeing if I might even just access the text of it for my own records, but that has led nowhere. Of course, XLR8R was sold several times during the course of the great internet media comglomeration meltdown of the 2010s.

It was a really stinging piece, but it was accurate and I'm proud that I wrote it. I just want a copy of the text for posterity's sake.

quite a few energy fm 87.9 speedcore tapes from 94-96 era, used to have them but lost them in an hd crash, proper speedcore on the london pirates!

xpost been trying to find it and I think I found your blog linking to it, but not the actual article, and same luck on Wayback Machine :(. will try again later.

https://i.imgur.com/inTkYqL.png?1

what is ghost poop

i can relate

I used to have a subscription to XLR8R when it was in print in the late 90s early 00s.

Boring, I wrote for them at the end of their print era— 2009-2011. In 2011, they got rid of all staff writers and then the company was rapidly sold and sold again to other media companies. It was a great place to work while I was there, met all kinds of amazing people.

Thanks Neanderthal. It's really distressing to me that I can't find it.

I might finally look up my old editors to see whether *they* might have a copy of it somewhere. I've resisted doing so because I know that some of them did not depart amicably and i didn't want to bring up weird memories.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141117072740/http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2010/05/ti-sto-diplo-take-huge-crap-your

Is this it, or just part of it?

Tiësto & Diplo Take Huge Crap in Your Ears

Remember the YouTube video that was circulating a while back that featured a falsely subtitled interview with Tiësto? In the video, he claims that he starts making tracks by drinking Scotch and watching The Real World while his dog licks his anus, then he interprets those slurping sounds on his Casio. Though his many fans would like to believe otherwise, the Dutch producer's latest collaboration with Diplo is proof that whoever subtitled the video wasn't that far off—"C'Mon" is the aural equivalent of santorum, a called-in piece of disgusting trance chords, shitty electro bass, and kicks that a feral child could imitate in his sleep. Check it out on Beatport, or listen to a low bit-rate version of the whole track here. And be prepared to hear this playing at the next Lakers game.

omg that is hilarious

haha. "at my funeral, can you please read this?"

I feel like Parker/Stone stole the idea for the "You're Getting Old" episode of South Park from tabes's article.

you should demand residuals!

Boring, I wrote for them at the end of their print era— 2009-2011. In 2011, they got rid of all staff writers and then the company was rapidly sold and sold again to other media companies. It was a great place to work while I was there, met all kinds of amazing people.

Alba, bless you.

One of my proudest moments.

I guess I had a different link than that one, which is why I couldn't get it to work in wayback.

I went straight to Bing as I figured you’d flogged Google to death already. The Tim Pratt blogpost had the link

https://www.bing.com/search?q=diplo%20%22huge%20crap%20in%20your%20ears%22&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=diplo%20%22huge%20crap%20in%20your%20ears%22&sc=0-30&sk=&cvid=55FF0AED48E74D09A4CF9DC571B3473A

That is fantastic. Pitchfork wouldn’t publish that is a million years, the humorless bastards.

I cannot, for the life of me, find out how Bandcamp subscriptions work. Do I need to renew? Does it just turn over? Why isn't this made clear on any sites I've looked at, including the Bandcamp FAQs page?

when you subscribe you agree to it automatically renewing, which is why there's a cancel option if you want out

+/- indirectly to be concluded from this, I guess: https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/360007903093-How-does-a-subscriber-cancel-and-what-happens-when-they-do-

Okay, thanks— I kind of came to that conclusion, but it's fucking weird that it isn't spelled out anywhere!

where were folks talking about the kenny g doc? i thought maybe beatles doc megathread but doesn't seem to be that

i want to post some poems i'm writing. there are probably threads for that. which one?

You might consider this one: Resurrection: The 2006 Poetry Thread

am i a jerk if i just make a new one? it's been 15 years!

greta thunberg was still shitting her pants in 2006. hell, I was still shitting my pants, even though i was 23. some habits die hard

If you can afford the new thread title fee, go ahead. After all, it's only money.

you know what, for this new year, i'm saying FUCK THE THREAD TITLE FEES. in lieu of #paymentforposts, i'm just going to ignore the fee and see if ILX mod enforcement has any real teeth

come at me, mods

There was an album cover I used to see posted on ILX sometimes with a picture of a weird-looking dude with a big red beard which covered a larger percentage of his face than a beard would normally cover. Any ideas?

https://i.imgur.com/3hraMo4.jpg

maybe try https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/

xp: Hatcat forever.

Gentle Giant debut perhaps?

No, it was an actual photograph, but I do think that it was progressive rock of some kind.

probably the Simply Red album after Mick's head shrunk

Julie's 16th Birthday? They Only Come Out at Night?

Gary Higgins Red Hash?

https://www.discogs.com/release/3581939-Jonathon-Round-Jonathon-Round

Red Hash is what came to mind for me too!

i can't seem to find the thread that invited everyone to the ilx slack a couple years ago. i remember seeing it once, but my searches are coming up empty.

there's an ILX slack?

I could have sworn that when the Pretenders were nominated for their first Grammy, Chrissie Hynde said something about that making all the blowjobs she had to give worth it. I cannot find that quote anywhere, so I suspect I may have made it up in my own mind.

xpost yeah

i still can't find the ilx thread that contains the link to the ilx slack. i do remember seeing it at one point, and the ilx slack has over 100 people, so it's definitely a thing, i'm just trying to find where it was ever mentioned on ilx

oh nevermind, i found it. no dedicated thread for it, but a passing mention in 5-6 threads. i mentioned it myself in a couple!

Is HG Wells's character Dr. Moreau named after the artist Gustave Moreau? There would appear to be a connection via a vis "fauvism", the movement which Gustave Moreau founded is derived from "les fauves", I.e. the French term for wild beasts, which the mad scientist experimented on, but I cannot see this either confirmed or denied.

I think the the answer may or may not be in this article/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4240981

Maupertuis: Doppelgänger of Doctor Moreau

is there a thread for posting things you find? i found a nice short little shopping list at my supermarket, gotta share it