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Title: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: lindsey on January 05, 2016, 05:23:00 PM
Via Chris' fb:

"After much consideration over the last two or three years, I have decided to surrender plan-it-x records. Plan-it-X will not be releasing any more music in a physical format. It is not financially possible for me to do this anymore. In my opinion concept of the record label is no needed. Bands can do it themselves which is what this scene has always been about for me. Sam and I only started this label to help bands that could not afford to release their own music or had no interest in doing mail order themselves. We just released music for bands that we fell in love with, and wanted the world to hear. It was a passion, a community, not a business. We served a purpose at the time. Plan-it-x is no longer needed. I also refuse to give in to the social media push to be more aggressive and advertise and market our bands. The D.I.Y. punk scene has always meant so much more to me than that. I have tried to grow and change with the times but I'm really not feeling it. I also think that if Sam was here today, she would agree with me. She felt these things long before I did. I believe it would dishonor her memory to keep going.

The catalog will stay active for a few months, so if you want to buy something do it soon. After that, P.I.X. releases will be available from No Idea Records. They have a P.I.X. section in their distro catalog. The bandcamp will remain up for a while, unless I start to feel weird about it.  If you're reading this as an active P.I.X. band, and would like your records, contact me and you can have them. I've very grateful to all the bands that have been a part of P.I.X. and I regret that this might be the first you have heard about the end.

Also, I regret to announce that there will not be a Plan-it-X fest this year, I know I told many people that I was 90% sure their would be, but I don't think it's a good idea. I'm not saying there will never be another one, but there will not be one in 2016.

I'm very sorry if this news makes you sad, it makes me very sad too. It has taken me a very long time to come to this conclusion, to admit that the thing I have devoted twenty one, or twenty two years of my life to is no longer possible.

I look forward to moving on to something new and feeling inspired again soon. I'm open to suggestions (please don't suggest that I keep doing P.I.X. unless you can pay for all the records to be released and maybe help out with storage of those records that won't sell).

With the most sincerity possible, I want to thank all of the AMAZING people that have been involved with P.I.X. over the years. I mean everyone: bands, helpers, record assemblers, people who wrote nice letters, all the people that helped me move heavy boxes of records, other labels and distros that allied with P.I.X. and everyone that came to plan-it-x fest and everyone that worked at any P.I.X. fest.

I am so grateful for the friends I have made over these years because of this record label. Thank you.  -chris"

Fml
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: pronetoaccidents on January 05, 2016, 07:20:08 PM
I saw it earlier.. Whats to come of us? No new folks so we gotta hang on.

Its sad. The world is killing what was good about the world I was too young to really grasp
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: Anna Karina on January 05, 2016, 07:36:50 PM
I honestly thought this happened like four years ago.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: jer on January 05, 2016, 08:14:38 PM
Welp. Dang.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: ramblinrabble on January 06, 2016, 09:11:55 AM
Quote from: Anna Karina on January 05, 2016, 07:36:50 PM
I honestly thought this happened like four years ago.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: Graphix on January 06, 2016, 10:55:08 AM
I say we keep the board up. Maybe we can start doing more informal "pix board" hang outs?

I'd be down to lay in some grass by the mountains near a stream or something for a day or two in the summer.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: pronetoaccidents on January 06, 2016, 10:58:47 AM
yeah, i wouldn't object to a lsd fueled picnic in some beautiful misty valley with seraphims and cherubs filling in on harps for the folk bands that aren't real anymore
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: pronetoaccidents on January 06, 2016, 11:03:52 AM
i'm hanging on to my pix stuff, not that i wouldn't, but just for the resurgence and rediscovery of them, when i'm old and it's the most popular form of music, and everyone will just have it on their futuristic devices (i-Halos or something.. something that floats around your head and plays any song it knows you would want to hear that second) so the old formats might be worth a pretty penny.

it just makes me feel sad at the world, sad about life, old and upset.. i see it as an acquiescence, a battle uphill to maintain a label and i hear where chris is coming from, i just hope people fight to make something like pix.

if i where chris i would be a very content individual. all i want is to make some type of mark and reach people. he reached probably more than he knows. well, i can't say that, i'm sure he's aware of his labels impact.. but it saved my life at times, sure it saved some others.

R.I.P. Plan-It-X

But yeah, i thought it happened like 4 years ago too ha. weren't there like 5 times were there was super sales because the label was getting yanked?
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Post by: skateandannoy on January 06, 2016, 03:39:53 PM
Not to be a negative nancy, but I feel like the label could keep going it it was signing some new artists, or doing collaborations with other labels to do releases. I feel terrible because I love PIX but I also haven't been interested in this round of artists and haven't bought much new stuff for that reason. Either way, I'm glad Chris is happy with whatever he's doing.

RIP PIX I miss you already.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: jerkemy on January 06, 2016, 04:34:13 PM
Quote from: Graphix on January 06, 2016, 10:55:08 AM
I say we keep the board up. Maybe we can start doing more informal "pix board" hang outs?

I'd be down to lay in some grass by the mountains near a stream or something for a day or two in the summer.

i mean this has basically been a general punk rock message board the whole time anyway; I see no reason to take it down now



Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: jer on January 06, 2016, 04:38:10 PM
TEAR IT DOWN
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: skateandannoy on January 06, 2016, 09:07:56 PM
Quote from: jer on January 06, 2016, 04:38:10 PM
JER IT DOWN
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: jer on January 06, 2016, 09:15:34 PM
Mr Admin, Jer down this board!
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: lindsey on January 06, 2016, 11:11:38 PM
Quote from: skateandannoy on January 06, 2016, 03:39:53 PM
Not to be a negative nancy, but I feel like the label could keep going it it was signing some new artists, or doing collaborations with other labels to do releases. I feel terrible because I love PIX but I also haven't been interested in this round of artists and haven't bought much new stuff for that reason. Either way, I'm glad Chris is happy with whatever he's doing.

RIP PIX I miss you already.

Yeah I think it was more of a "running this label just isn't my jam anymore" vs a "keep it running by any means necessary" type situation

I'm sad, but so happy to have basically grown up with the music and people and especially the ethics and politics. I can't believe I joined the first pix board like 12 years ago. That's almost half my life!

What I am stoked for is to scrape together as much cash as I can to send in one more order and a letter to chris about how much pix means/meant to me. I hope he sees an overwhelming show of appreciation for his contribution to each of our lives. We've seen him work his ass off for years, grow the label, and never compromise his radical ethics, and that is pretty remarkable.


I honestly would love to make this threat like a yearbook of everyone's favorite PIX related memories, be it shows/bands/fests/songs/meetings of future spouses  etc. Photos encouraged! PLEASE?? Goooooooo!
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Post by: Anna Karina on January 07, 2016, 12:00:54 AM
Probably my most cherished memory of PIX was meeting Jer and him not remembering it ever happened.

Heathers was pretty cool too.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: manmagic on January 07, 2016, 06:22:25 AM
The two PIX fests I went to were beyond fun.

My favorite PIX show outside of PIX fest was when Ghost Mice and Onsind were playing my town and they decided to do a matinee show at a local park before the main show that night. Four people including myself showed up, but onsind still played all my favorite songs.

Someone from this board once gave me a banjo for free. I drove up to Dayton and waited almost an hour for them to get off work, but they didn't want anything for it and it was a really nice banjo, I don't think they post here anymore, but that was a really nice gesture.

Dozens of other PIX shows I have fond memories of and I'm stoked to have a fair amount of their releases on CD/Vinyl.

Interested to see what Chris does next. While PIX will be tough to top, he always seems to put his heart and soul into things. Even though some of his other ventures haven't gone as well, it has never stopped him from trying, which is more than can be said about most people, including myself.

Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: momitsnowme on January 07, 2016, 06:12:29 PM
2008? The Trilby/fedora campaign
2007 My mom joining the board to look for me in Europe
2007 Ghost Mice show in Paris and having Gael come through and meet me at a metro stop in a strange city and give me a place to stay
2007 or 08 Eric Ayotte and Paul Baribeau show in Greensboro and then root beer floats after
2007 The Fest 6..meeting my future husband, haha. The pix showcase by the bakery was so good
2008 or 09 Ghost Mice and Heathers in LA with Brett
Every Defiance, Ohio show, ever
Janelle, Skuyler, Jer, and I seeing Defiance and Max Levine Ensemble in Long Beach at a weird warehouse with a giant Ron Paul sign
So many best friends, visiting all over and from all over. Wes, KW, Erica, Janelle, Jeremy, Sami
KW playing at a park by our house
2011? Chris, Gary, and Adrian staying with us for like 3 days while they played all over southern California
2011? Pix fest.
Screaming with Sami to Good Luck
2012 All the pix people at our wedding
2015 taking Jonas to see Nana Grizol and Toby Foster
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: momitsnowme on January 07, 2016, 06:12:54 PM
Whoever made that big database with all the stuff we could edit about each member
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: momitsnowme on January 07, 2016, 06:13:15 PM
Everyone changing the naked picture of me and jer, haha
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Post by: momitsnowme on January 07, 2016, 06:15:46 PM
The recipes thread was great. I've made that peanut tofu from jp so many times
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Post by: momitsnowme on January 07, 2016, 06:28:45 PM
Hijinx tattoos
KT cutting Bobby moose's hair
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Post by: momitsnowme on January 07, 2016, 06:34:46 PM
TOTS
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: BlakeK on January 08, 2016, 06:24:10 AM
If Chris does want the PIX name taken off of the board, is there a way to just change the name of the board? This is sad. Chris seems like he's lost some motivation and passion (me saying that doesn't have to do with him ending PIX but rather other things he said). I hope he's happy and finds inspiration soon.

I know not a lot of people post on the board anymore but I'm glad it's still here. I'd love to meet most if not all of the people in the board (sans a certain person who may or may not wear tight pants) and hope that I'm able to at some point in the future. I now regret not taking time off from work to go to PIX Fest at least one year.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: Anna Karina on January 08, 2016, 07:48:34 AM
I doubt Chris cares this board still exists.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: manmagic on January 08, 2016, 08:43:34 AM
yeah this place doesn't even register on his radar.

However you may still get to go to pix fest yet, because while he said he is done with the label, he isn't ruling out another pix fest down the road.
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Post by: skateandannoy on January 08, 2016, 11:00:40 AM
I never got to go to PIX Fest, I really hope there's more I want to meet everyone so badly and all the stories about it are legendary.

Quote from: momitsnowme on January 07, 2016, 06:15:46 PM
The recipes thread was great. I've made that peanut tofu from jp so many times
Can we start a new recipes thread please? That was one of my favorites. I'm really curious about this peanut tofu......

Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: skateandannoy on January 08, 2016, 11:16:51 AM
For my PIX yearbook, an important one was joining the board because I wasn't in a great place when I first joined and was probably really annoying, which was part of why I changed my username to what it is now when the board crashed. I love all the people on the board even though I'm terrible at communicating on the internet.

Seeing AJJ, Tiny Teeth, Pat the Bunny, Inky Skulls and other PIX affiliated bands and all the memories all the artists and their music holds. Meeting Chris at a surprisingly crowded basement show one of his obscure bands was doing, and getting to talk to the legend himself was great.
And I bought a copy of Rat Storm's 7" "Fractured" at a really random record fair where everything else was uninteresting. Finding one of PIX's most unusual releases in the middle of nowhere made my week.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: BlakeK on January 08, 2016, 05:42:37 PM
I'm almost 33 years old, have two step kids, and am planning on trying to have a baby with my wife this summer. I think I missed my window for that sort of thing. I could meet up with some people from the board, though, if they went.

I think you're right, Brett, but I do remember Chris not really being into the board in the past and thought he may want to have it down completely now that the label is shut down. Maybe it's the opposite and now that the label is over he cares less.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: avivaaeelena on January 08, 2016, 11:16:59 PM
since all my usernames seemed to have evaporated... this is what i wrote on fb. i do think that there are more representative scenes these days and thats important to me, but like i say here - i at least felt okay sorting my shit out here and that was really important for this very queer thought-i-was-a-boy to now a pretty lezzy trans girl.

"I know there's some criticism (some of it very valid, some of it just 2010s griping) around the whole scene and the label, but while I'm 100% for the decision made and fully support it, there's a big part of me that's sad that Plan-It-X is closed and shuttering in the next few months. Honestly, it helped create a scene and a place where, growing up in the south/rural areas often in a military "community" and tough guy music scenes, I felt like I could be not masculine, I could be gay/queer/wonkygender/a woman, where I could have some fucking feelings and not tough-guy it out. Thank god I found some torrents of some of those first records, and more importantly thank god I was near Pensacola where a lot of bands came through and have at least a little of that sensibility diffuse across the state line (at least through people I knew), and thank god I got to meet people and make connections, some of whom are still friends today and I've spent a lot of time with and been very close to and intimate with. It's meant a lot. I know there are more diverse scenes now, and I'm so fucking happy about that, they're needed and important. I'm just saying that was my first and was what I needed in a place and time I was in. All things die and that's fine, let it be put to rest. But it's a good excuse to think about them."
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Post by: jer on January 09, 2016, 12:20:18 PM
Quote from: BlakeK on January 08, 2016, 06:24:10 AM
If Chris does want the PIX name taken off of the board, is there a way to just change the name of the board?


I don't know why chris would care about the name of this board, but if he does, it'll be real easy to change it over to just hijinx board or whatever
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Post by: jer on January 09, 2016, 12:20:41 PM
Old Man Jer's Very Fun Time Posting Web
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Post by: Anna Karina on January 09, 2016, 12:42:02 PM
Quit Bring the Shitboard
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Post by: rory on January 09, 2016, 05:32:26 PM
Stopping the label seems totally reasonable. I think more people need to learn how to let things go when the time is up, and I find it kind of inspiring in a way.

It's pretty fun to think and realize how important a lot of this media has been for over 10 years of my life, though, and how many friends and connections I've made because of it.
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Post by: BlakeK on January 09, 2016, 05:51:41 PM
Quote from: avivaaeelena on January 08, 2016, 11:16:59 PM
since all my usernames seemed to have evaporated... this is what i wrote on fb. i do think that there are more representative scenes these days and thats important to me, but like i say here - i at least felt okay sorting my shit out here and that was really important for this very queer thought-i-was-a-boy to now a pretty lezzy trans girl.

"I know there's some criticism (some of it very valid, some of it just 2010s griping) around the whole scene and the label, but while I'm 100% for the decision made and fully support it, there's a big part of me that's sad that Plan-It-X is closed and shuttering in the next few months. Honestly, it helped create a scene and a place where, growing up in the south/rural areas often in a military "community" and tough guy music scenes, I felt like I could be not masculine, I could be gay/queer/wonkygender/a woman, where I could have some fucking feelings and not tough-guy it out. Thank god I found some torrents of some of those first records, and more importantly thank god I was near Pensacola where a lot of bands came through and have at least a little of that sensibility diffuse across the state line (at least through people I knew), and thank god I got to meet people and make connections, some of whom are still friends today and I've spent a lot of time with and been very close to and intimate with. It's meant a lot. I know there are more diverse scenes now, and I'm so fucking happy about that, they're needed and important. I'm just saying that was my first and was what I needed in a place and time I was in. All things die and that's fine, let it be put to rest. But it's a good excuse to think about them."
What was your old username? I've seen a few new posters pop up lately which I find odd but good, of course.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: avivaaeelena on January 09, 2016, 06:23:05 PM
Quote from: BlakeK on January 09, 2016, 05:51:41 PM
Quote from: avivaaeelena on January 08, 2016, 11:16:59 PM
since all my usernames seemed to have evaporated... this is what i wrote on fb. i do think that there are more representative scenes these days and thats important to me, but like i say here - i at least felt okay sorting my shit out here and that was really important for this very queer thought-i-was-a-boy to now a pretty lezzy trans girl.

"I know there's some criticism (some of it very valid, some of it just 2010s griping) around the whole scene and the label, but while I'm 100% for the decision made and fully support it, there's a big part of me that's sad that Plan-It-X is closed and shuttering in the next few months. Honestly, it helped create a scene and a place where, growing up in the south/rural areas often in a military "community" and tough guy music scenes, I felt like I could be not masculine, I could be gay/queer/wonkygender/a woman, where I could have some fucking feelings and not tough-guy it out. Thank god I found some torrents of some of those first records, and more importantly thank god I was near Pensacola where a lot of bands came through and have at least a little of that sensibility diffuse across the state line (at least through people I knew), and thank god I got to meet people and make connections, some of whom are still friends today and I've spent a lot of time with and been very close to and intimate with. It's meant a lot. I know there are more diverse scenes now, and I'm so fucking happy about that, they're needed and important. I'm just saying that was my first and was what I needed in a place and time I was in. All things die and that's fine, let it be put to rest. But it's a good excuse to think about them."
What was your old username? I've seen a few new posters pop up lately which I find odd but good, of course.

i honestly am fuzzed out on it. memory loss, disassociation. if someone can tell me thatd be awesome, lmao. i signed up in early 2005 after a couple years listening/going to shows.
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Post by: BlakeK on January 09, 2016, 06:52:47 PM
Were you on here a lot? It's just strange that no one has acknowledged the fact that you're back or seems to remember you. What's your first name?
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: avivaaeelena on January 09, 2016, 07:11:49 PM
my username is my name, if sami was here they could tell you. i was even supposed to be in the boardie photo at pix 12/spoons called me to come down but i was busy bussing tables!
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Post by: momitsnowme on January 09, 2016, 11:20:44 PM
I remember you!
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Post by: Anna Karina on January 10, 2016, 04:24:55 AM
I also remember you but forget your previous names. Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts.
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Post by: avivaaeelena on January 10, 2016, 09:00:25 AM
i think i was a really frustrating human being, at least in the way i would interact half the time. i apologize for that now. i think i'm in a better and more medicated place, heh. i'm still a ball of spite but i know where to point it now.

but this isn't about me, this is for our odes to plan it x. x is dead, long live x, etc.
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Post by: GrownFolk on January 11, 2016, 08:31:48 AM
I just hope that whatever Chris ends up doing he keeps the music going.  The last Ghost Mice and Captain Chaos albums were too good to stop at that point.  They need proper follow up albums!
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Post by: jer on January 11, 2016, 08:44:51 AM
avivaaeelena, your previous name was something like avtigerlilly, but i don't think exactly that. you had at least one other one that i remember.
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Post by: pronetoaccidents on January 11, 2016, 11:51:36 AM
i was pretty sure he said something about their being no pix fest this year. I don't know if that means things are hectic now and he's  cancelling it this year or if it's a wrap in general. I never made it to the pix fest and that really disappoints me.

I agree with what the others are saying, that the label could definitely have maintained, succeeded, even flourished (I'm speaking for Chris here which is crazy. he probably doesn't want any of this. actually i'm sure he doesn't or he wouldn't do what he did but, i dunno, i thought maybe he could have left it in someones competent hands. The music means a lot to a lot of people. Maybe he's making a statement to them that they can do it themselves? anyhow i'm digressing).. Don Giovanni, which is now a super fucking label as far as D.I.Y. punk is concerned, they got their bands in Rolling Stone magazine, lock-down on solid. It's funny how things change. before the label was anything really it was a means to put out the album by skynet which went to become for science!, Joe Steinharts band, founder of the label. I remember being younger and my friend and I didn't know how much cough syrup to drink to get an effective trip and Joe was the man we called for the job at the time. Now he's a tenured professor with a successful label and I'm assuming happy. We would call him for other endeavors I believe nowadays.

I wish PIX would maintain in some form. A collective of sorts? a Publishing house? use what he knows about putting out D.I.Y. albums and help bands to do it themselves as well. Again, speaking for chris, this is all stuff that I, and anyone can do.

Now the motive is become clearer and clearer as i write and read what I've written.
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Post by: momitsnowme on January 11, 2016, 12:06:24 PM
Ryan, I've definitely been throwing around the idea of a punk publishing house. Not as PIX, obviously, just in general
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: Anna Karina on January 11, 2016, 12:14:02 PM
Quote from: pronetoaccidents on January 11, 2016, 11:51:36 AM
i was pretty sure he said something about their being no pix fest this year. I don't know if that means things are hectic now and he's  cancelling it this year or if it's a wrap in general. I never made it to the pix fest and that really disappoints me.
Quote from: lindsey on January 05, 2016, 05:23:00 PM
Via Chris' fb:

"Also, I regret to announce that there will not be a Plan-it-X fest this year, I know I told many people that I was 90% sure their would be, but I don't think it's a good idea. I'm not saying there will never be another one, but there will not be one in 2016."
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Post by: Phitney on January 11, 2016, 02:47:10 PM
This is a huge bummer. I found PIX in high school when I really needed it and eventually found this board from it. I totally understand why Chris is shutting it down. Even though I haven't kept up with PIX as much in the past few years, it will always have a place in my heart for shaping me into the person I am today. I'll forever be grateful to Chris for beginning this amazing label and exposing me to ideas and politics and heartfelt music I would not have otherwise been exposed to. I've met some of my most favorite people because of Plan it X.

Seeing some of the PIX bands and singing my heart out to Ghost Mice and Defiance, Ohio at a small coffee shop in Asheville are absolute highlights. That coffee shop is now a fancy vegan restaurant and I can't help but remember those shows every time I've been there.
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Post by: BlakeK on January 11, 2016, 08:22:10 PM
Quote from: jer on January 11, 2016, 08:44:51 AM
avivaaeelena, your previous name was something like avtigerlilly, but i don't think exactly that. you had at least one other one that i remember.
I remember now! Thanks Jer, that was driving me crazy
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Post by: Aaron on January 12, 2016, 08:00:53 PM
Quote from: GrownFolk on January 11, 2016, 08:31:48 AM
I just hope that whatever Chris ends up doing he keeps the music going.  The last Ghost Mice and Captain Chaos albums were too good to stop at that point.  They need proper follow up albums!

Agreed. 

Excuse my romanticism but...I've been reflecting lately how PIX and the whole folk-punk thing was such a special moment in countercultural history, and how lucky I feel to have been a part of it..even though some of the songs make me kind of cringe when I hear them these days.  It couldn't have happened at any other time in history.  It was like this last gasp of unbridled, innocent sincerity before society truly settled in to the current era of the surveillance/police state, extreme inequality, irony, mass madness, etc.  The PIX community meant the world to us, and I think compared to most of the rest of our generation, as maturing adults we all have a much firmer grasp on what a sane, healthy community actually feels like.

Highlights for me include my mom buying Dunkin Donuts before a DIY Bandits-organized picnic/park show in Shelton, CT because I told her there'd be a potluck.  Then being super intimidated putting them on the blanket in front of my hero, Chris, who I thought might judge them for being too corporate and non-vegan or something.  The cops quickly kicked us out of the park and then this big mass of sweaty kids moved into a small office nearby, unironically playing Against Me singalongs (remember when that was actually possible? or was it ever haha?) before Johnny Hobo, Spoonboy, Ghost Mouse (Chris solo), Russ Substance, and some others played sets.  Man, the singalongs and feeling of unity at that show, wow...It was actually recorded and released as a split live CD, but it feels strange listening to that now....In CT there were many shows at The Nest in Bridgeport...And the acoustic and Riotfolk shows I organized in DC (not exactly PIX, but the same orbit)...Oh, also PIX-board penpals!  Hello if any of you see this..
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: kt on January 14, 2016, 02:43:03 PM
i wish we could find that google doc that has all the nice things we all wrote about each other. so much of my life has been built on connections i made through the pix boards (some bad, like moving across the country with someone i didn't know well enough or that time i dated someone who was horrible to me) but mostly it's been such a fun wild ride MY DUDES.

I had a dream recently that there was a pix board panel discussion that chris hosted and her and becca and bret and courtney and lindsey and tague were there and I was running late and crying on the bus because I didn't want to miss my internet friends.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: GrownFolk on January 14, 2016, 04:13:16 PM
Quote from: skateandannoy on January 08, 2016, 11:00:40 AM
Quote from: momitsnowme on January 07, 2016, 06:15:46 PM
The recipes thread was great. I've made that peanut tofu from jp so many times
Can we start a new recipes thread please? That was one of my favorites. I'm really curious about this peanut tofu......
I too am really curious about the peanut tofu.  I'm in support of a recipes thread.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: jer on January 14, 2016, 04:48:19 PM
I asked JP for the original peanut tofu recipe on facebook a few years ago and my message went unanswered :(
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: momitsnowme on January 14, 2016, 05:01:11 PM
I basically melt like a cup of peanutbutter with maple syrup, garlic, soy sauce, and Sriracha to taste.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: amanda on January 14, 2016, 05:19:51 PM
Quote from: kt on January 14, 2016, 02:43:03 PM
i wish we could find that google doc that has all the nice things we all wrote about each other. so much of my life has been built on connections i made through the pix boards (some bad, like moving across the country with someone i didn't know well enough or that time i dated someone who was horrible to me) but mostly it's been such a fun wild ride MY DUDES.

I had a dream recently that there was a pix board panel discussion that chris hosted and her and becca and bret and courtney and lindsey and tague were there and I was running late and crying on the bus because I didn't want to miss my internet friends.

God, yeah.  This.  Even though I was technically an adult (I think I was 20) when I joined this board, I'm really glad I got to grow up with you guys.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: momitsnowme on January 14, 2016, 05:29:12 PM
Ha. Can we do a pix board panel discussion?
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: lindsey on January 14, 2016, 10:44:09 PM
I was 16 when I joined the board! People were mean to me then. LOOK AT ME NOW JERKS!
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: jer on January 15, 2016, 09:12:24 AM
Quote from: lindsey on January 14, 2016, 10:44:09 PM
People were mean to me then.

♬ but i always thought you were cool ♬
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: rory on January 15, 2016, 11:05:20 AM
I'm really glad my first round of encountering this board was just looking at tabs and never signing up or posting, because I was 17 and probably straight up horrendous.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: kw on January 17, 2016, 12:15:32 PM
i forget when i started posting, but i remember a lot of fun in high school / university on this board. never actually listened to much pix music, but played with nearly everyone on the label and met nearly everyone from this board at one point or another. rad times. PIX as an ethos shall be missed.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: pronetoaccidents on January 18, 2016, 05:10:42 PM
This thread makes me sadder than I thought it would. I often forget how much amazing music came out on one label, how unwavering and real chris and sammy were when it came to running it.. I could list endless favorite songs, bands.. They change as my mood does. One reason seem immortal to me at the moment. The bananas were my  beach boys. Ajj my absurd, epic, operatic go to band to listen to while working menial jobs, hours of precious life spent at the job, yet not wasted for alas, aforementioned tune-age. thought nothing could top Rosa, and they were right so they did something.different, instead of the best folk punk they made the best snotty poppunk ala grumpies.. If pix south counts sexy por vida is my favorite lp ever. Well right now I feel that way.. Abe froman.. Carrie nations.. Ghost mice when I first heard I was like is this real? People can be that honest? And tbapb, blewe away with their anthematic Chattanooga chugga train sound and perfect accompanying vocals. I will always love and associate with pix. I was banned I think once or twice (think of me at my worst here and imagine when I was an actual junkie, or worse, a high school punk). I love everyone. From the notables to trolls, thanks for laughs and lessons. Thanks plan it x, chris, and the whole board
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: pronetoaccidents on January 19, 2016, 05:35:43 AM
Quote from: amanda on January 14, 2016, 05:19:51 PM
Quote from: kt on January 14, 2016, 02:43:03 PM
i wish we could find that google doc that has all the nice things we all wrote about each other. so much of my life has been built on connections i made through the pix boards (some bad, like moving across the country with someone i didn't know well enough or that time i dated someone who was horrible to me) but mostly it's been such a fun wild ride MY DUDES.

I had a dream recently that there was a pix board panel discussion that chris hosted and her and becca and bret and courtney and lindsey and tague were there and I was running late and crying on the bus because I didn't want to miss my internet friends.

Damn im never invited to the subliminal dream pix meetings. Jerks
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: cat_mom_2004 on January 29, 2016, 07:14:06 AM
way late to this, cos i don't think i've checked the board more than a couple of times since the reboot, but yeah, weird feelings about this

joined this board in what, 2006? round the time i saw ghost mice and defiance, ohio for the first time. i would have been 18 or 19. was almost definitely a jerk a lot of the time, so, uh, sorry about all of that. plenty of good memories though.

this assuming i register in anybody's memory.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: skateandannoy on January 29, 2016, 01:38:06 PM
hey! welcome back!
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: Joe on January 29, 2016, 02:49:28 PM
I don't remember what year, but a few PIX bands/musicians were still pretty active posters on the board when i joined.  There always seemed to be lots of arguing about what it means to do the right thing, and a poster named mahlon seemed to be board shit-starter of that period but seemed bent on turfing out.

and then all you jerks showed up and ruined everything. 
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: GrownFolk on January 29, 2016, 06:38:20 PM
The PiX store was taken down a few days ago...sad times.  Thinking of all the great music I discovered through PiX and how a lot of it I still had yet to discover.  For example, Carrie Nations was mentioned as one of somebody's favorite PiX releases in the other thread.  I never checked that out.  It's long out of print now and so underground that there aren't any used copies of the album online that I can find.  Also, it's not on the PiX bandcamp site to download.  I have no idea how to ever check out that album now.  Is this the ultimate ending for most all PiX releases?  Will they all be lost to time?  I wish Chris would archive all the releases on the bandcamp site and keep them available.  I'd gladly throw some money his way for downloads of a lot of the old stuff.  Even the old TBIAPB releases are out of print and not available to download.  They weren't near as obscure as Carrie Nations and their first couple albums are already lost aside from paying big money on ebay for an old scratched up CD. 
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: skateandannoy on January 31, 2016, 09:08:06 AM
I wish PIX would still do reissues after folding like Chunksaah Records. There will always be buyers for TBIAPB, early AJJ, Ghost Mice, Antsy Pants, etc stuff. Maybe No Idea will take over that?
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: jer on January 31, 2016, 01:04:37 PM
I'll buy out the back catalog and release on anti-creative. My lawyers will call Chris's lawyers immediately.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: skateandannoy on February 01, 2016, 05:04:00 AM
I know that's a joke, but can it not be a joke?
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: pronetoaccidents on February 01, 2016, 09:56:49 AM
For real. Then ride.the rio de la muerte dude to put out more music. If you need to be like phil spector and put a 45 caliber to his temple while constructing obvious masterpiece so be it
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: jer on February 01, 2016, 02:02:59 PM
my lawyers are working hard.

trying to find out why chris has no lawyers. and if i will actually ever pay them.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: jake on November 20, 2016, 07:10:15 PM
Hey folks! Sorry for the thread necromancy - I just stumbled across this thread in search of an old recipe for I posted on here back in... '08 probably. Looks like it's gotten eaten up in the dark recesses of the internet, beyond the reaches of even archive.org. So if anyone has that peanut butter chocolate squares recipe, could you please post it or let me know? My family's specifically requested them for the family feast thing on Thursday, and I can't find the recipe anywhere.

In any case, here's the infamous noodles recipe (disclaimer: largely stolen/adapted from the PPK):

QuoteIngredients:
2 tsp peanut oil
2 cloves minced garlic
2 tbsp minced ginger
1 cup water
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp coriander
2/3 cup peanut butter
2 tbsp maple syrup
3 tbsp vinegar
2 tsp Sriracha

Directions:
Make 10 oz of noodles.
Saute garlic and ginger in oil over low-medium heat in a small saucepan. Add water, soy sauce, coriander, and bring to a boil. Add peanut butter and turn heat to low. Stir until peanut butter and oil are combined, then mix in syrup, vinegar, and Sriracha.
Pour sauce over noodles and go to town!

Optional: Drain and press extra-firm tofu; fry in pan with olive oil, garlic, and red pepper flakes, and add to noodles with sauce.

I hope everyone's doing well!
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: BlakeK on November 23, 2016, 06:09:17 PM
Jake, welcome to the board. Could you please do me a huge favor and find a picture of the guy from the State Farm commercial and make it your avatar? It's the first thing that popped in my head when I saw your name. Second thing was Jake the Snake Roberts. An avatar of him would actually be cooler.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: Courtney on November 24, 2016, 06:45:21 PM
Quote from: GrownFolk on January 29, 2016, 06:38:20 PM
For example, Carrie Nations was mentioned as one of somebody's favorite PiX releases in the other thread.  I never checked that out.  It's long out of print now and so underground that there aren't any used copies of the album online that I can find.  Also, it's not on the PiX bandcamp site to download.  I have no idea how to ever check out that album now.

Just now saw this so I'm super late, but the entire "Be Still" album is on youtube.
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: jer on November 25, 2016, 08:06:21 AM
Quote from: Courtney on November 24, 2016, 06:45:21 PM
Quote from: GrownFolk on January 29, 2016, 06:38:20 PM
For example, Carrie Nations was mentioned as one of somebody's favorite PiX releases in the other thread.  I never checked that out.  It's long out of print now and so underground that there aren't any used copies of the album online that I can find.  Also, it's not on the PiX bandcamp site to download.  I have no idea how to ever check out that album now.

Just now saw this so I'm super late, but the entire "Be Still" album is on youtube.

here's 5 songs on bandcamp, though not from the PIX release https://carrienations.bandcamp.com/
Title: Re: Plan-It-X Records, and also our youth, is officially dead.
Post by: pronetoaccidents on November 25, 2016, 10:40:51 AM
Quote from: jer on November 25, 2016, 08:06:21 AM
Quote from: Courtney on November 24, 2016, 06:45:21 PM
Quote from: GrownFolk on January 29, 2016, 06:38:20 PM
For example, Carrie Nations was mentioned as one of somebody's favorite PiX releases in the other thread.  I never checked that out.  It's long out of print now and so underground that there aren't any used copies of the album online that I can find.  Also, it's not on the PiX bandcamp site to download.  I have no idea how to ever check out that album now.

Just now saw this so I'm super late, but the entire "Be Still" album is on youtube.

here's 5 songs on bandcamp, though not from the PIX release https://carrienations.bandcamp.com/

so good