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geoff 34 male uk, psych nurse. love acr new order, miles, moz, momus, warp & the1910 fruitgum co. been lurking here for a week or so and like what i see.

i want to be mxyzptlk / jeff when i grow up. see post up there a bit.

Hi, I'm 44 and drug addled.(due to lack of drugs) Have been on the straight but never narrow now for 6 years and counting. My partners site is at http://home.alphalink.com.au/~cornoyd/ No its not a porno site even though some will take it that way. Forget art - forget censorship. Live in the sunny arse end of the world. Have been in Melbourne for 4 years but come from that red neck capital of Brisbane and spent my time under Johs regime which actually generated a lot of great bands like the Saints/Leftovers etc. I like a lotta shit, if you dig deep enough you'll find something you like in all forms of music. The Velvet Underground/ early Lou Reed, Dylan, Patti Smith, Stooges, Stones - am i cool or wot - shit i'm even an xjunkie as well - Little Richard, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Nirvana, Stravinsky, Elmore James, Tom Waites, Marc Bolan, Beck, the Pogues, Diamanda Galas and i'll still be writing this in Dantes inferno. Dislikes - i hate a lotta shit as well but this old man couldn't be bothered. Nice to be somewhere dedicated souly to music. ......Kind Regards Harry

28. Portland, OR. Music is good. Sometimes I play it (c.f. www.thetritiummiracle.com), sometimes I release it on shiny 5" discs (c.f. www.ertiacreations.com), sometimes I write about it (c.f. www.spacecityrock.com), sometimes I listen to it (c.f. the thousands of recordings in my living room), sometimes I read about it (c.f. this website). Typically like a little bit of most styles, with soft spots for avant-jazz and indie rock.

Hi, I'm a 30 year old Glaswegian that somehow ended up living in Switzerland. I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm also an addict.

well, I've been putting this off so here are some factoids: 23 yo I said M-A-N North Kakalaka Father had thousands-wide record collection (when I was child he spun a lot of Kraftwerk, Devo, Led Zep, Sabbath, and Dr. Demento-type stuff) My brother/housemate also took up record fiendism (currently obsessed w/ breakbeats, MF Doom DJ Shadow, Def Jux), so I let them do the collecting while I concentrate on making music (started w/ piano at 8 guitar at 12 came into my own singing within the past few years and kick it jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none style on some other instr.) I also have always loved drawing Have speakers on my computer at my crummy job but don't use them too often 'cuz I can't stand to keep it quiet Happy to find this forum I Love Music, too

Male, 24, lives in St. Paul MN and is currently discovering the wonderful world of temp slavery en route to a real job (I hope). I like all sorts of crap, and I'm pretty sure that my musical taste is annoying and smarmy. Ten favorite albums, currently:
-The Clash, "London Calling"
-Beck, "Odelay"
-DJ Shadow, "Entroducing"
-Wilco, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
-Sonic Youth, "Dirty"
-Cannibal Ox, "The Cold Vein"
-Curtis Mayfield, "Superfly"
-Basement Jaxx, "Rooty"
-Bob Dylan, "Highway 61 Revisited"
-The Stooges, "Fun House"

Came across ILM & FT via rockcritics.com and been catching up on some of the old threads over the past few weeks before I started posting.

Age 30, queer, smoker, coffee fiend, pop culture junkie.

Live in Addis Ababa and recently moved from working freelance to setting up my own company doing event-production (film festivals, concerts etc.) and promotional work. Do some writing on occasion and keep meaning to do more.

Music, listen to a little bit of everything though mostly world and hip hop these days. In my CD case right now: Ethiopiques Vol 6, the Roots, Karsh Kale, Geosonic Grooves Vol. 1, Los de Abajo, Basehead, Augustus Pablo, Susana Baca, Susheela Raman, Manu Chao, Olu Dara, Rachid Taha, Beastie Boys, Spearhead, Blind Boys of Alabama, Tabla Beat Science live featuring Gigi

Live in Addis Ababa

Damn, how cool. You should chat with Nitsuh (aka Nabisco). Out of curiosity, what's the net service like there?

umm, guess living in Addis is cool. i tend to have a love/hate relationship with the place.

net connection is dial up, controlled by monopoly and therefore expensive. It's pretty available though, if you don't have it at work or home there are lots o' cyber cafes around town.

I'm 17, and I've only been really listening to music for about five months now (I know. What sort of heartless person could have almost no interest in music till the age of 16? But it's okay. I'm fixed now. Thank you.) I have pretty broad musical tastes, but I do have a band that I can call my favorite, and that band is Radiohead. I'm currently angry because my Yankees are losing once again to the bunch of pansies known as the Seattle Mariners. God damn Ichiro. God damn Ruben Sierra. We'll get you bastards in the playoffs.

We'll get you bastards in the playoffs.

Only to lose to the Diamondbacks. *flees*

Hi my name is lex and I live in boston Mass for a while I'm 24 graduated from college in computer networking. I love music I'm a R/B singer and I'm trying to get my voice to be heard all over the world.I currently working on a album but i'ts going so slow that it might take alot of years to finish due to the fact I don't have the right motovation of people around me. anyway you can reach me at my email or call me for more information. I need an agent , promotion and a manager....thank you if you interesting email me together we can make it....

J & H Productions will give the label a percentage of J & H Productions or a percent of the gate, either one. Because J & H Productions is getting ready to do shows and J & H Productions would like to hook up with the label industry pertaining to shows. I would look from the label industry a respond pertaining to these shows that J & H Productions is going to give and J & H Productions will begin the shows under the label that contacts him pertaining to these cities and stars and the label and the filming and everything pertaining to shows under the label that he is getting ready to go under for these shows. I hope that the label can get back in touch with me at this address pertaining to a contract and these coliseums and stadiums that J & H Productions is going to do shows in [as far as?] city to city. I hope that the label can contact me, J & H Productions, pertaining to a contract.

computer networking
Wot they have courses on cyber dating now?

John, I'm with you on the Yankees- I live in Seattle, and I've had it rubbed in my face nonstop for the last few days! Previous to Seattle, I went to college in Boston, which is also another great town to be a Yankees fan in. Anyway, I've been reading ILM for a while, but I only recently posted for the first time, so I figured I should add something here. I'm 24, I work as a perl programmer, and I'll be happy if I ever learn to make as good a cup of coffee as the folks at Monorail Espresso make. Like every other suburban NJ kid my age, I got into music when grunge became huge when I was in high school.

Music I love: really good pop songs, singles where the B sides are even better than anything on the album (currently: super furry animals), exile on main street, and anything that will help me finish up a project the night before it's due

Music I don't like: albums where all the songs sound exactly the same as each other

Last CDs I bought and loved:

1. 89/93: An Anthology, Uncle Tupelo
2. Singles, The Smiths
3. Jonathan David, Belle and Sebastian (the carriage clock song is my new favorite song of all time)

Last CDs I bought and didn't like:

1. Far Places, Push Kings (whatever happened to the sweet songs that were on their first album??)
2. Come with Us, Chemical Brothers
3. All That You Can't Leave Behind, U2 (stuck in a moment is nice, but it got old too quickly)

H: I've been spreading possibly-wrong propaganda about the Addis network, then! At the Hilton I spent something like 30 minutes (and 30 birr) just to open up a hotmail account and see that there was nothing in it. After that I gave up, on the assumption that the cafes couldn't possibly be any better than the fancy-shmancy Fat-German- Businessman Hilton.

Well, next time I go back, I won't give up so easily.

Hi I'm Kelly Su and I live in the US of A.. I'm not allowed to say where bc I have extremely overprotective parents I'm 15 and I love music and emo&punk are awesome I play keyboards and go highschool . I'm working on a website right now but I lost the address silly me~ thats the second time I've forgot it. I hang out in coffee/bagel shops write extremely short poetry and love photography. Some grand bands are: weezer jimmy eat world slick shoes good charlotte the faint le tigre promise ring time spent driving pedro the lion cool hand luke and I'm sick of typing now so Ta Ta much mad luv -~-**Kelly Su

>>> extremely short poetry // is best, cos quickest to read

Hi. My name is Bryan, and I count beans in Winnipeg, Canada (home of the Canadian starting point of the Mexi-Canadian Overpass, if you believe what the Onion says!). I am a bit of a proggie, though I don't take it very seriously, and I suppose I'm a bit dadrock, though I don't take it very seriously either. Bye for now, and UP SCUMBAG! Sorry.

I see someone's got their Young Ones on tape. ;-)

greetings lyra im in seattle too. so is brian. who else is??

Hi, I'm Colin, I'm 16 and I'm from Blackpool, England. My friend Nick Southall recommended this board to me. I enjoy having conversations about anything musical, technical or otherwise, so I thought this'd be a good place to come and do just that.

My favourite bands are Radiohead, Super Furry Animals, Beautiful South, James and The Clash. My favourite 2 records I own are Ok Computer (Radiohead), Everything Must Go (Manics) and Automatic For The People (REM). I play bass and sing in a "band" of sorts with a friend, who plays guitar, and we've been covering stuff in our respective bedrooms for a couple of years but more recently have started writing songs.

I hope to befriend you guys soon!

I hope to befriend you guys soon!
And *be-enemy* the girls?

Bryan neglects to mention that he is also the president of Manitoba Corn and Metal Fest Inc. I think I may have taped those Young Ones episodes for him.

Yeah, and I think I need for you to tape them again someday when you quit yer ramblin'. I'm not dadrock, in spite of what you think, Sean. Why did I say that? I've pretty much given up hope that Paul Weller will produce any decent music in whatever time he has left on this earth. Right now I'm working up the courage to start a Genesis: C/D thread, I think I'll need several Fort Garry Darks first. I enjoyed a good feed of corn just yesterday (from DJ Hunnicutt), and then got a mighty helping of cheese (Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones) afterwards. Hope all the Canadian ILMers enjoyed Victoria Day.

Jeff (if you see this): I knew exactly what you meant when I read the phrase "AM punk." Fear music, terror music, but also expansive/exploratory from an anything-goes era where anything could become a hit. I'm sure not everyone heard it as fear music, and now it probably comes across as just nicey-nicey on oldies radio; it coincided with my junior-high-school years, kids walking around acting tough and terrorizing other kids. In 1978, a young woman from my hometown went with me to Max's Kansas City and, listening to the music that was being piped-in, said "This sounds like junior high but more intense." As good a definition of punk rock as I've ever heard, although the Max's stuff was less intense than the original era. (The term "punk rock" was first used in print in 1971 by Dave Marsh in writing about a ? & the Mysterians reunion gig; you probably know that, living in Detroit. "And then I'm gonna put you, right down there. And you'll start cryin'." Gave me the creeps when I first heard it.) Not just an American phenomenon, though, since so many of those bands were copying the Yardbirds and the Stones (the Velvet Underground was just the 1000th to do this, though one of the best). And the Troggs were Brits, and the Easybeats were Australian.

Scary music, from the worst years of my life, but somehow part of the growing and thinking process.

I'll just cry.

Brad Luen, 22. Another NZer. Thought I was part-Mongol until a few weeks ago. Grew up in working-class Mangere, surrounded by minorities less fashionable than mine. Got a scholarship to the most expensive private school (UK=public school) in the country and stopped listening to hip-hop for seven years. Got to university and tried to make up for lost time. Currently doing a Masters in Statistics, which at the best of times is more rewarding than even the Pet Shop Boys. Write for Craccum magazine, where 28000 Auckland University students are regularly subjected to my four page essays on why Britney is better than Britpop. My one great idea is that since youth (say under 18) lack spokespeople who are articulate in adult forms of discourse, their culture is trivialised by society's tastemakers; which it shouldn't be, as anyone who's watched both The Fast and the Furious and A Beautiful Mind knows.

Sorry about that last sentence; imagine how much worse it would've been if I'd done an Arts degree. If anyone knows of a good forum for publishing Kross-Kultural Kriticism (w/jokes about trance fans) on this sort of stuff, please tell me. Anyway, music. If Michaelangelo Matos claims his tastes are "a mutant offspring of Robert Christgau's and Simon Reynolds's", that makes mine a mutant offspring of Robert Christgau's and Michaelangelo Matos's. Which I think makes me MOR by rockcrit standards and downright conservative around here. But I like pop, obviously. And rap-metal, but not nu-metal.

Partially connected thoughts - Greatest artist of the last millennium: Jean Renoir. Greatest artwork: The Simpsons, mostly for the second season. Greatest artwork of this millennium: Ian McEwan's Atonement, mostly for Part One. Greatest artist: Eminem (not solely on artistic ability, but largely so). In my spare time I think of ways to overhaul our crap excuse for an education system. I can understand why so many people are unhappy, but I still think they shouldn't be. I was National Universities Public Speaking champion once, but I got booed off stage the only time I did stand-up, possibly because I didn't have any jokes. I'm an activist by default, because most of my best friends are oppressed. Anyone who emails me and guesses both ethnic groups that I belong to wins a prize.

B-Rad, I hope you start a lot of threads here. I love your your one great idea, though I disagree with it, given that, since whatever month in 1964 A Hard Day's Night was released, officially articulate adults have been all over the Importance and Significance of teen pop, far more than they're into the Importance and Significance of adult pop (really, articulate geezers like me who speak in officially articulate tones of voice spend way more words on Britney and Em than on Phil Collins or Celine Dion). Trouble is, those adults are too into the adult convo about teens and pre-teens without listening enough to the teen and pre-teen convo itself. They don't listen all that well to the adult convo either, maybe because there are few good forums for that convo to take place. If there's a good Kross-Kultural forum (potentially Kinksy?), someone please tell me! The only one I can think of is ILx.

Magnum P.I. better than the Simpsons. King Lear and The Searchers possibly better than either.

Em could do it. We'll know more in a couple days.

Statistics fans: I'm the guy who invented the controversy rating.

Oh, it's YOU, eh? *beats Frank down*

More seriously, welcome to Brad. I'll have to quibble with you regarding Eminem, though (heavens, man, the new album -- a couple of diamonds surrounded by dogshit, for a start).

Em could do it. We'll know more in a couple days.

but frank, we know now! in fact, i've had to listen to ethan blather about it all night!

(the record is out, in case you didn't know. pre-release to beat the bootleggers.)

ha ha ignore ned he is how do you say a bit extreme in some of his views haha

Thanks for your kind words, especially the extremist ones. My great idea applies more to mainstream thought than crit theory, and less to rock (a medium created for the youth audience) than movies or TV or whatever. But even though many pop writers know that youth in itself is worth celebrating, the geezers generally only study their own reactions, and I don't think they correlate sufficiently with the actual experiences the kids have. Though I might change my mind in a decade, just like I hope I will about John Ford...

Anyway, in this great country of mine, I think (I'll have to check) that I still have to wait till June 4 for the Eminem album, and I don't know if I'll have time to steal it before them. And since it's not an Osama concept album, I'm already disappointed. Still, E gets my millennium nod for a whole array of diamonds, bound together in a lattice to form a mega-meta-diamond, even if what binds them is shit.

haha BLATHER you loved it

a bit extreme in some of his views

JUST because I think "Stan" is the single most unfunniest single since "We Are the World"...

'black humor'

...is not apparent.

wasn't "we are the world" supposed to be funny?

Depends on who you talk to.

this thread has been silent too long...

been posting on ILM for abt a year (or more) but nevah introduced myself.

Name is Julio. I am 22 years old and I live in London, UK (as I write I am in Toronto though). I am currently doing a PhD in chemistry at University College, London.

I was Born in Brazil but I moved to England 10 years ago. Watching Ian Curtis on the telly did stir up an initial interest in music. Started buying rock/indie records but then watched a captain beefheart doc on the telly that led me to him. This completely changed my musical inetrests and led me to more marginalised musical forms such as free-improvisation and also some free-jazz. From the classical standpoint I seem to like things that are 'anti-classical' like morton feldman and Xenakis' electronic pieces but have maintained an interest in the walking corpse that is 'popular music'.

my name is chris browning, 26, and i'm currently holed up in hebden bridge with the flower people looking for gainful employment with my film studies MA. currently resorting to my original vocation as a librarian. musically my obsessions are nick drake and the whole gamut of sixties folk rock to more trad. folk people like the watersons and the like, XTC, robyn hitchcock, the clean and all other NZ bands robert scott dabbles his hands in, stackridge, syd barrett, esquivel etc etc. my first and most abiding love is old jazz, especially 1920's dance band people like henry hall and al bowlly. could listen to that for hours. tend towards more introspective music as am an introspective kind of person. tend to be much more willing to talk film that talk music, but like to see what's being discussed hereabouts....

Umm, OK then.

William Swygart, 18 years old, born Croydon, South London, currently studying English Lit. & French at Birmingham Uni. Also student journo type wanker. Interest in music triggered by seeing Pulp play Glastonbury (on telly) in 1995. At least I think it was 1995. Any case. Quite into me indie-pop and such and such, favourite song of all time would be Lazy Line Painter Jane, waiting for the real rain to come and wash Starsailor off our streets (and Haven if it's got the time)... Oh, and I look like I should be emo. It isn't intentional. Really it isn't.

"I am the devil, and I come to do the devil's work."

Dont Touch This is my favourite EVER song!

i mean MC Hammer song EVER. God, I know I should add the name of the performer. Sorry!

The pants did it.

haha nath, you belgian waffle it's "CANT touch this"!

I never went to his concerts because I know I would want to prove him wrong!