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Happy Anniversary, TG!!
(I hope you're joking about leaving...)
Well, seeing that you asked so nicely 
I would very much miss manually ignoring you, so please do not go! Would not be the same without you.
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Nic, being manually ignored is an honour that I barely feel I’ve deserved.
You don't. So best ignore it. Just like I do.
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As already posted in my grand biography above, I was in the army in all of 1998. And I made my first post in March, after 3-4 months of lurking. Wish I had the exact date, but sadly that particular date is not available at archive.org. But yeah; 25 years if you merge in the year we were all at moviemusic.com during FSM's down period. A stunning number to wrap one's head around -- people born when we first came here are now adults, many with kids of their own.
My first film music home was filmus-l. I met/encountered a lot of folks there when I started there in 1995.
One was a 15-year-old ne'er-do-well named "Jeffrey Wheeler" (aka Jeffrey Bain). That was 23 years ago, and young "Jeffrey 'Gee Whiz' Wheeler" is now 38 years old and working toward his PhD.
I am still friends with a lot of folks I met there...and later here. I joined here in 98 or 99 before it crashed. And I was at MovieMusic Messageboard. And came back here in October 2000.
I have had a fairly continuous presence, although i did drift off for a few years when I retired, relocated from California to South Carolina and then was dealing with medical issues of my mom and my aunt.
I once came back because a friend alerted me that I was presumed dead. I know I disappointed one or two folks when I denied death and proclaimed myself alive and well.
Oh, well. This Message Board has kept me sane for many, many years. I pray it will continue to do so.
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My first film music home was filmus-l. I met/encountered a lot of folks there when I started there in 1995.
One was a 15-year-old ne'er-do-well named "Jeffrey Wheeler" (aka Jeffrey Bain). That was 23 years ago...
28 years even.
OMG! He is 43??? How can that young squirt be 43?
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Nic, being manually ignored is an honour that I barely feel I’ve deserved.
You don't. So best ignore it. Just like I do.
Can I also say (to myself, of course) that I admire the ability to ignore someone in a foreign language. I tried to ignore someone in Russian once, which was terribly difficult, and I had to give up in the end.
Yes, you can say that. To yourself. Let me relate and say (to myself) that I understand. It takes a lot of effort and can be terribly time consuming to manually ignore someone in a foreign language, especially if it is a foreign language with a foreign alphabet, as there are so many things you would ignore if you just could but cannot simply because you don't understand or comprehend. In some extreme cases, you may consider hiring a native speaker to ignore that person. But sometimes the effort just isn't worth it and you give up in the end.
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Mar 16, 2024 - 8:35 PM
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Howard L
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In October-2000, the FSM messageboard suddenly came back, and we flocked back like the dedicated fans we were. Interface-wise, the current board is pretty much the same as it was back then, 21 years later. Shortly thereafter, I posted my first “official” criticism of complete and chronological releases (already a known entity by then, and I think the post was a re-post from something I’d posted on moviemusic.com), for which I’m now (in)famous. Lukas made fun of it with the “watermelon” story in the first of the get-togethers. I’m OK with that, have at it! But in general, I love the early 2000s on FSM. Someone started a thread about something – a score, a film – and we would discuss the film or music. Nothing, or very little, about desiring new releases or expansions, or any other technical nuts and bolts. This was pure aesthetics.
Hey Thor, check this out for a relevant early entry in the Feeling Out Dept.—
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?pageID=1&forumID=1&threadID=1411&archive=1
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Ah, the days when FSM was a printed magazine. Pretty cool stuff.
And indeed, I think we had more discussions about aesthetics of film music, about the artistic expression then we had about different releases and album versions. I sure did. Then again, back in the day (here on FSM, but also other outlets such as rec.music.classical and rec.music.movies) I probably said most of the things I had to say about the subject, so that nowadays I am somewhat less inclined to enter into score specific discussions that center around the aesthetics of the music. (Though of course I still would if the right subject came along.)
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It was really great to have a quality printed magazine discussing film scores... and indeed, the Internet is an addition, but no replacement for a printed magazine.
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