as the classic members are going away one by one, one can't help to wonder if there's an age limit to Xixax ? I came here 7 years ago if I recall correctly (I wasn't Pas back then) and I remember how I felt enlightened by the place. How it seemed larger than life, filled with the inteligentsia of the internets.
Nowadays I come here feeling an equal, just to read valuable reviews of movies that just came out. No longer do I try to prove myself like I used to. I don't know it's just strange nowadays, it feels like the place is holding to it's life.
Anyways I don't know the point of my post, my facebook and msn is under and I invite you all to add me on either place as I respect all of you. I have made real friends here (SoNowThen and P mostly) and I hope to make more (I'm thinking Stefen and shit a whole lot of you) so don't hesitate!!!
Fo sho. I just added you to MSN.
This was my favorite message board of all time. And I've been a part of many. Lately, I think it's suffered from lack of new blood because alot of the posters who made this place have since moved on, and what's left is a small collection of oldies, while nobody new is replacing the ones that left.
How would anyone new come across this messageboard?
I can't really remember how I found it, but I want to say via cigarettesandredvines (or whatever it was called 5 or so years ago) probably searching for PT info.
i don't think it's for teenagers and i don't think it's dead.
i think it's whatever WE are. it's whatever we want it to be. the board is not some separate entity with a process of growth and evolution separate from ours. it's us. we set the tone, we establish the discourse, we control the universe. we are xixax. like everyone else, i'm terribly sad that pubrick and cron and polkablues and hacksparrow are gone. but who knows? maybe they'll come back someday. in the meantime, a different, ever-changing dynamic remains, one influenced by those members' absence negatively and positively, but it's still ours and theirs and i still love it. nothing can erase the collective memory of each individual's impact on the site, for better or worse.
i don't want to speak for those who have ditched the site, but i'm sure many of us have considered doing the same. i know i have. hell, cyberspace is a confusing and strange thing the more you contemplate the way it permeates your being. the idea that i am writing these words on a computer, periodically switching between xixax and facebook -- another bizarre online visual interactive representation of my self -- and whoever clicks a button that doesn't even physically exist except on a screen is suddenly reading this transcription of my ideas-- it is fucking amazing. beautiful. almost a bit scary. sometimes i get severe techno-angst and consider removing myself entirely from cyberspace, deleting every page on every social networking site and never posting on another message board again. i get that shit a lot but it's counterbalanced by my awareness/appreciation of the benefits of being alive in the digital era.
things move in cycles. people have been lamenting the demise of xixax since its early days when douchebags ruled the earth and then got banned. we grow and so does the board.
we've got a great thing going here, my friends. even if shit slows down for a while, we've got enough of an expansive (unsearchable?) archive of great essays, hilarious running gags, classic characters, and brilliant insights to attract the right type of crowd to influence the evolution of this great, beautiful thing we call Xixax. hallelujah.
I'm a deist but I'm going to say amen to that. There's a certain evolution to every site that populates the web. People change, get smarter, possibly get dumber, and people leave...all in time. Personally I've bee able to spread my wings and really make a decent contribution since P left, although some some would argue with that point.
I've been watching a lot of dvds and films I haven't seen in a long time and have decided to post more reviews more often including movies I've owned for a long time that I haven't seen yet, much like Quint's resigned column at aintitcool.com, the second reason I visit that site, the first being Harry's DVD release column. But I'm getting off topic here.
The main reason why I keep coming back to this specific site is because I love the people. Awww...hey shut the fuck up. I'm also a cynical sentimentalist when it comes to believing in people, but thats neither here nor there. Believing the worst in human beings and every once in a while becoming pleasantly surprised. The people here have become a staple to this website and while its sad to see some of them go, such is life.
Hope that made sense. I'm almost sure it did.
Most boards go through cycles, but most boards are also linked from some type of fansite, etc.
For instance, a band, will go through cycles with each album, etc.
That's why I was wondering - how does one even find this board?
It's not attached to any site or linked from anywhere else, is it?
I want to say it was linked or at least mention at the old PT fansite, but I have no idea if it is now.
Of course, I imagine some people will reemerge with the first solid news on PT's next project.
I don't even think cigs and red vines has a link to xixax.
I don't remember how I found this place. I'm pretty sure it was from Greg Mariotti's Cigs and Coffee site. I frequented the old PTA board. I can't remember if it was part of Greg Mariotti's site, or if it was it's own entity. I never posted there. I remember, I think Film Student. Maybe GT.
Now, there is no way for anyone to find this place. It's almost like it doesn't exist. I don't think it has open registration either.
We should all bring some friends over. Liven this place up.
I think I found this site doing a search on google : ''strategies to steal dvds'' :shock:
there was an actual thread about it too
Where else am I going to talk about movies? This place challenges me to actually think a little bit after I see a film (see the Revolutionary Road thread. I loved that movie, and I felt challenged to defend it, which you rarely get to do, especially if people you know haven't seen it).
I'm glad there's no drama on here. If we're in some sort of existential crisis, I agree that it's reflecting whatever growth we're experiencing as people and film-goers. This place is kind of like an old car, or some other bullshit analogy. There's a quality here you can't find elsewhere, and it's getting rarer and rarer (and harder to find, apparently). There's a quality of conversation here that I have obviously enjoyed enough to stick around for a really long time, since I began college. Now I'm out, have been working for almost two years, married. There's a fucking hell out of a lot of growth going on, whether I realize it or understand it. I just haven't grown out of cursing a lot.
This place is just fine. It's a post-TWBB year. I've come and gone at times, but I keep coming back.
Xixax rules. Everyone's opinion is valuable. I think we're all over the scared to post our opinions phase. If we like something but someone else hates it, so what? We've been posting here for so long that that's bound to happen.
I'm pretty sure everyone here respects eachother's opinions regardless of how often it differs from your own.
I wish P would come back. Someone needs to coax him out of semi-retirement.
I found Xixax because it had a link to the original Bottle Rocket, and this was pre-YouTube, or at least pre-meusingYouTube.
Since I started using the Internet I've posted on boards pertaining to what my interests were. First it was a videogame website, then a music website, and now only Xixax. And so when I think about leaving Xixax, which like Hedwig says I have and he has and others surely have, I think about dropping off of Internet communities entirely (I don't even have a MySpace of Facebook, etc), because this is my only link.
But then, for example, how would I have purchased the Twin Peaks shoes today? Or know the new M. Ward had leaked? Not to mention the rare times I actually get to talk about movies here.
The advantages outweigh the disadvantages right now. It's probably pretty arbitrary that this is the place I go, but this is the place I go.
Quote from: w/o horse on January 20, 2009, 04:02:04 PM
Or know the new M. Ward had leaked?
of course it does the first week i don't look for it. good to know though, thanks.
I came looking for PDL DVD release dates.
I stayed because at the time I didn't know any movie elitists in person, so I learnt about foreign films here. Now I know a lot of movie buffs and have lost a lot of passion for discussing theory. I still love movies. Plus, now I can keep it at a reasonable distance and make sure it's diluted with unrelated Idle Chatter.
I love this place.
As a teenager, and as a member who doesn't post frequently perhaps i can shed some insight.
Yes I believe Xixax is for everybody, but there is a level of maturity required (of which i dont think ive quite attained) to be a regular insightful poster. That's probably due to the average age of the usual xixaxers, and as the board grows older, that level of maturity or whatever, will change. Im sure when most of you started posting people weren't the same as they are know (obviously), but because xixax is such an intimate board you've all gotten to know each other well and haven't realized this change in maturity/attitude. I guess what im trying to say is back during the board's early days it was really easy to make a thread called "does anyone think fight club is a little pretentious?" But this is why xixax is such a special place. It has a certain quality that no other message board that ive ever visited has. The sense of humour, the tastes on movies/music/tv, everybody here jives really well here. This is probably why there's not alot of new posters, people just dont get the xixax dynamic. They get intimidated and leave. Or they start posting, get ripped by you guys, get pissed off and leave. Remember posters like Maya Kash? that shit might fly on imdb but not here. That right there is a reason why i dont post as often as i like to. I've been visiting this site everyday (well, pretty much) for the past two years. I feel as though i know alot of you, and you guys know nothing about me and it would be weird if i just started posting here, making jokes, referencing other posters and shit, and you guys would be like "who the fuck is this guy?" But then again i guess its equally weird (or more so) that ive been creeping here for two years (so i guess i better start posting here more often eh?). But enough about my psychological bullshit...
Xixax is great. This is where i get my information on pretty much everything. I've discovered movies, music, awesome cell phone smashing stories. Xixax has been so influential in developing my tastes, the way i think, everything. I owe you guys so much. I should really start giving back. I'll try.
In conclusion,
Quote from: Walrus on January 21, 2009, 01:53:31 AM
I love this place.
its always been for everyone but if you can balance your immaturity with your maturity when it comes to writing about film people will respect you more around here.
There hasn't been a new member registration since September. That can't be right.
Quote from: Stefen on January 21, 2009, 03:22:08 PM
There hasn't been a new member registration since September. That can't be right.
We have been flooded with spambots (Viaga and russian sex, etc.), so we cannot trust who is legit.
Quote from: Pas Rap on January 19, 2009, 12:34:53 PM
I think I found this site doing a search on google : ''strategies to steal dvds'' :shock:
there was an actual thread about it too
hahah! and this is why I like this place.
I don't write reviews for films I see because I don't think I'm really good at that, either I like it or I don't. I said to my friend the other day, "Can I just call that Tree of Life is the best film of 2009 or 2010?" I called There Will Be Blood like a year before it was released as well. At Xixax we know this. We know whats good.
I think we should revive the thread about what you do on Fridays. It was generally amusing. Theres a good group here. And as long as I like films (and cheap jokes), I'll be coming back
As our only female regular, I think that Bethie is xixax's Snow White and we are all her dwarfs.
Bring back the 'Bethie approved' reviews!
xixax = sausage fest.
^^ lol
Quote from: MacGuffin on January 22, 2009, 02:17:46 PM
As our only female regular, I think that Bethie is xixax's Snow White and we are all her dwarfs.
perv!
or Queen of the bee-hive, and as such we're here to look and care for her..
I've been a member since the first days, and I also was from the old Cigarettes and Coffee board. At first I can say I was a regular, and coming here was like mandatory: every day, more than once. It was fun and insightfull and I can say that some of my growth as a film lover came from this place. But we grow up, go to college, get jobs and don't have the same time anymore, we need to move on. There are other things to dedicate our time to, more important (I don't even spend almost any time on messenger nor stuff like that). I stoped writing regularly a long time ago, but yet I haven't stopped visiting. Every computer I have ever been to has Xixax.com memorized on the browser, so I don't even have to type the whole adress to come here. One of the other reasons I think made me write a bit less here was because it grew a lot. What started as a forum dedicated to a single director, became something bigger, with a lot of topics of discussion, and other people came in and, I must admit, I became kind of lost around here. It's too many information that makes dialogue a bit more difficult. There were times when I knew I almost read every topic ever made here, now there are so many that I don't even get to know about (I came to this one by accident). But Xixax still exists and I still come here as many times as I can. I can remember some really funny moments around here and the old boards. Lots of funny stuff, from "inspiring actresses" to people making fun of my scanned face, or betting on the European and World Football Cups. And I got to read a lot of insightful stuff from some of the members, got to know their movie projects, and even acquire some technical knowledge. So, yeah, this place rocks pretty much, and everything is archived here, existing in this wonderful thing called cyberspace. Even if many of the older members don't come by anymore, we can meet them anyway on their past posts.
So yeah, this is alive, only different. We all change, and this changes with us. Oh, and one more thing, Xixax also gave me a friend, a great guy we all know around here as rustinglass who once was robbed on the way to a film festival and left me waiting for about an hour at the entrance of the theater :yabbse-grin:
speaking of sausage fest, anyone wanna speculate why most girls lose interest in the board?
Quote from: Cinephile on January 24, 2009, 01:43:10 AM
speaking of sausage fest, anyone wanna speculate why most girls lose interest in the board?
anyone wanna speculate why most girls do whatever they do
Girls don't like movies.
Let me tell you GUYS a little story........
In 2006, I entered a directors pool. I did my research and had awesome picks. I'm talking picks that you just can't fuck with. Sure thing type picks. I followed career story arcs from the 70's, 80's and 90's. Themes, critical praise. I even made a chart and tried to calculate which seasons certain directors make most of their movies in (late fall to early winter) -- the whole nine. I spent a whole week crunching numbers in my moms basement like it was tax season to come up with my picks. Very scientific. Anyways, to make a long story short, I ended up LOSING to a girl who did her picks based on who had the cutest butt.
Quote from: Stefen on January 24, 2009, 09:44:16 AM
Anyways, to make a long story short, I ended up LOSING to a girl who did her picks based on who had the cutest butt.
Were you surprised? I wouldn't be but I'm a cynic.
Quote from: Stefen on January 24, 2009, 09:44:16 AM
Girls don't like movies.
Let me tell you GUYS a little story........
In 2006, I entered a directors pool.
What's a directors pool ???
guys he's CLEARLY joking.
and there's clearly more than just "a bunch of nerds" that are keeping ALL BUT ONE girls away - girls who have been here and posted frequently.
It's a mystery!
Quote from: Cinephile on January 24, 2009, 01:43:10 AM
speaking of sausage fest, anyone wanna speculate why most girls lose interest in the board?
they've moved on to twitter.
It's the same reason why for every 1 decent female director there are 1000 decent male directors.
oh my god i can't stop sneeeeeeezing!
i'm gonna take an ambien.
It's both a decent board and is close to dead.
I say the board is close to dead because it is no longer the place it used to be. I remember when the number of people who reviewed movies on a continuous basis was over 20 and I could always expect a bunch of people to argue anyone on any given thing. That barely happens anymore and the chance any argument will ever exceed the length and depths of the Full Metal Jacket and its limitations thread is pretty slim to none. I'm not helping matters because I am knowingly sitting on a few responces I should (and will) give to past discussions. One, I'm busier these days (like most people are who get older) and two, to post any lengthy piece is to kinda talk to yourself a little bit. It's not self pity on my part because I see other people face it too.
It's a decent board because I know most of my film friends couldn't navigate this board. I'm a graduate student at a university and I always meet people who think they know a lot about film. I know some people think I am arrogant on here and that's fine, but in real life I am just the guy who tries to be friendly to all film fans. I host movie nights at my apartment and welcome almost all kinds of films to be shown. Anyways, my friends skipped a lot of film education and headed straight to film arrogance. The local budding film critics at my school talk down to me and say they've just seen two Stanley Kubrick films ever in the same sentence. I like coming to the board because I occasionally hear about new directors and I trust most people here to have a good lay of the film land. It's sad that everyone at a university I go to don't at all and still carry high images of themselves. I know I am still restricted in my education and could easily be humbled by a new crowd that did know more, but I also dont think my university situation is that much different than most. I always consider introducing my friends to Xixax, but they would never be able to handle it.
Quote from: bonanzataz on January 25, 2009, 11:01:01 PM
oh my god i can't stop sneeeeeeezing!
i'm gonna take an ambien.
the bird flu is nothing to sneeze at :(
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Quote from: The Gold Trumpet on January 28, 2009, 03:08:42 AM
I always consider introducing my friends to Xixax, but they would never be able to handle it.
Why not bring 'em in and let them sink or swim? Nothing says 'you can't handle the truth' like castrating chumps who liked Garden State.