Is There an ILE Introduce Yourself Thread?

Location: Athens, GA

Age: 28

Fav Band: the minutemen, the kinks (today only)

Fav Movie: hell is for heroes (today only)

Fav TV Show: homicide, sportscenter

Fav Book: herzog (today; alternates with v., bill james baseball historical abstract)

Fav Actor: sam rockwell (today)

Fav Actress: joan fontaine (today)

Fav Food: southern

Fav Sport: baseball, football

Fav Athlete: michael vick

Drink of Choice: gin and tonic, cherry coke

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): whatever's around

Smoker? : yes

Occupation : "student"

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 1.37526

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 1.37524

Name: Tad (last name unpronounceably Polish, as if there's any other way a Polish name could be)
Location: live in Hoboken, work in midtown Manhattan
Age: 32, will be 33 in a month
Fav Band: dude, if you have to ask ... shit, mr. sinker or ned will tell you if you must know!
Fav Movie: scarface; eraserhead; nosferatu; night of the hunter
Fav TV Show: monday night football
Fav Book: invitation to a beheading, vladimir nabokov; tristram shandy, laurence sterne
Fav Actor: al pacino, jack nicholson, or clint eastwood
Fav Actress: Maggie Gyllenhal
Fav Food: italian or mexican
Fav Sport: NFL football (though the Jets weren't playing it till 1997)
Fav Athlete: latrell sprewell; alan iverson; chad pennington
Drink of Choice: johnnie walker black
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): won't you follow the sweet leaf?
Smoker? : cough!
Occupation: attorney
Do you work out?: hah!
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : i think i'm a 10; what other people think i dunno
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: no negative ratings?
Add anything you want people to know:

james, you are way better looking that you give yourself credit for

Location: Los Angeles

Age: 30

Fav Band: Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong; Aretha; Ben Haper; Cat Stevens; the Greatful Dead; the Black Crowes; Stevie Wonder; Third Eye Blind; Boston; the Cult; Jonny Lang... and about 5 million more

Fav Movie: Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Say Anything; A Guy Named Joe; Saving Silverman; Undercover Blues; and again, about a million more

Fav TV Show: That 70s Show, Frasier and the Osbournes

Fav Book: Memoirs of a Geisha; Divine Secrets; Confederacy of Dunces; A Secret History; Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; Where the Wild Things Are, and far too many more to list

Fav Actor: Terrence Stamp

Fav Actress: Don't have one currently

Fav Food: Prime rib, anything italian, thai, indian

Fav Sport: To watch? Football

Fav Athlete: Haven't got one at the moment

Drink of Choice: Jack Daniels; Coke

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Marijuana from time to time - but very rarely these days

Smoker? Quit after Mardi Gras '99

Occupation: Day job: Admin. Assistant in a law firm; otherwise, fledgling writer

Do you work out? I walk to work - otherwise I exercise mostly playing volleyball with friends, and playing with my son

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? Ohhh I dunno

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? I think I do ok...

Location: TX

Age: 28

Fav Band(s): VU, the Fall

Fav Movie: Pasolini's Gospel of St. Matthew

Fav TV Show: currently, Curb Your Enthusiasm

Fav Book: I don't read enough proper books lately but Crying of Lot 49 and Wuthering Heights

Fav Actor: i have some least favorites

Fav Actress: don't know

Fav Food: oysters mussels clams scallops

Fav Sport: tennis (to play); college hoops & boxing (to watch)

Fav Athlete(s): Michael Chang, Oscar de la Hoya

Drink of Choice: beer, Coca Cola

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): i would like to try the liquid Demerol from Winona's purse

Smoker? : 4-5 a day

Occupation : stock trader and occassional night jobs

Do you work out? : run and walk

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6

Location: NYC

Age: 26

Fav Band: Gah, "band" is so rockist. Suffice to say, I like postwar pop and R&B singles, "jammin' oldies" (disco/soul/house, esp. with shouty girl singers), punk-wave-powerpop-indie, mopey British nonsense, the piano as a rock instrument, experimental whatsis (turntables, tape loops, and all those crackpot Germans you read about), 20th c. classical, '60s British folk-rock, easy-listening & other AM-radio detritus, '70s Brazilian samba-funk, choral masses, Steely Dan, Bob Dylan, various singers and songwriters.

Fav Movie: Woody Allen's Love and Death

Fav TV Show: those horrible dating shows

Fav Book: There were five books I read as a kid that made me really interested in music -- the 1979 Rolling Stone Record Guide; Joel Whitburn's Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (1987); a British coffeetable book from the early '80s (can't remember the name) that had short articles and pictorials about rock bands like the Jam and Duran Duran; History of American Bandstand: It's Got a Great Beat and You Can Dance to It (1987); and a book about NYC hip-hop/breakdance/graffiti culture. For better or worse, these books helped turn me into the obsessive weirdo I am today, so they take precedence on the pecking order.

Fav Actor: Harry Dean Stanton, John Turturro, Gene Hackman

Fav Actress: Ruth Gordon, Anjelica Huston, Drew Barrymore, Ellen Burstyn, the four principals of Sex and the City

Fav Food: Cajun-Creole/Southern, Ethiopian, Italian, Mexican, Szechuan

Fav Sport: skeeball

Fav Athlete: Tonya Harding (serious answer: Muhammad Ali)

Drink of Choice: Grey Goose martini, dry, straight up, twist, no olive

Smoker? : sometimes

Do you work out? : I walk as much as I can.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Face and hair, an 8. Body, a 3.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? :

Oh, I'm all personality. I'm that girl with the "good personality."

Location: san francisco

Age: 30

Fav Band: casiotone for the painfully alone, pita, drive like jehu, violent ramp/wolf eyes, black flag, dolphins of the forest

Fav Movie: sans soleil

Fav TV Show: twin peaks, jackass

Fav Book: the sound and the fury william faulkner, gravity's rainbow thomas pynchon

Fav Actor: steve mcqueen

Fav Actress: lee remick

Fav Food: sushi

Fav Sport: baseball, miniature golf

Fav Athlete: barry bonds (i have his rookie jersey from the pirates that i got signed by him at the san diego Murph in 1990).

Drink of Choice: tangerine juice

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): love

Smoker? : nope

Occupation : FASHION

Do you work out? : i live on a big hill in san francisco

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 2

Add anything you want people to know: i just ate half a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream and now i don't feel so good.

And I am male chocoholic = don't get laid.

Leee - do you have any See's truffles hidden in your house, by any chance? If you do, maybe I'll come pay you a visit after jason sends me the plane fare *grin*

Add anything you want people to know: I had the pleasure of meeting hstencil a couple of weeks ago, and he's a big old softie.

Name: Rob (only used "Mr.D." as that's my standard internet name / googler repellant - it's from Den of Thieves. After being here a couple months tho it looks like I may the only Rob?)
Location: Chicago
Age: 30 and 3 weeks
Fav Band: Rolling Stones, the Meters, Art Ensemble of Chicago
Fav Movie: L'Eclisse, Stalker, Playtime
Fav TV Show: Monday Night Football
Fav Book: The Tin Drum, At Swim Two Birds, short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fav Actor: Jimmy Stewart
Fav Actress: shit, I dunno .. Anna Magnani or Dominique Sanda
Fav Food: scallops, broccoli
Fav Sport: football
Fav Athlete: Steve Yzerman
Drink of Choice: Champagne or a gin martini
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): pills, preferably Vicodin or Valium
Smoker? : nope, save a cigar every month or two
Occupation : trader
Do you work out? : try to jog three miles twice a week
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : as Grace Slick sang "You're only pretty as you feel"
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5.5

Not that I am suggesting that this is going to be an interesting post.

But I already posted something not long ago in an "Introduce Yourself" thread (although, sure, that was before taking part in an explosive thread and working my way onto the top 50 users list) (ha! I'm exactly tied with Oops right now! But this post will push me over him... for now...).

So.

That, right there, that is me in a nutshell.

Or, in another nutshell: I'm 27, male, and I live in Portland, Ore., though like everyone else I used to live in Astoria, NY (1997-9, Grand Central Parkway and 36th). I, like, I'm in this band, and I'm in this other band, and I help organize this avant-garde poetry reading series, and I've edited this webzine for a few years, and I have this cat, and this job at an environmental advocacy group, and I do some web design, and I do all this other stuff, and so I keep busy. Which is weird, since I don't think of myself as a busy guy. I mean, I seem to spend most of my day goofing off on the Internet, so am I really that busy? I dunno. It would explain why I'm so frickin' tired all the time. Also I am single and something of a homebody and I live in a house where we aim to have books in every room (we are almost there) and I've got two turntables and two microphones so clearly, clearly I am doing pretty well in that department.

Height: 5'8" - 175cm

Weight: 13st - 180ish lbs

Eyes: Dark brown

Sex: Male / regular

Location: Dawlish / Exeter, Devon, South West England

Age: 23 (24 in May)

Fav Band: Don't know. The Stone Roses always used to be the stock answer but that has become somewhat subject to rapid and unpredictable change these days.

Fav Movie: As above, but with Jaws.

Fav TV Show: The Simpsons is about the only thing I watch with anything approaching regularity.

Fav Book: The Subtle Knife! For the next 113 pages, anyway.

Fav Actor: I have no favourite actor - I like films. It's kind of like asking me what my favoruite musical instrument is - I like music, as soon as I mention one, another comes to mind, and then another, and then their bad points, and so on and so on... It is not the individual components that matter, but the whole product.

Fav Actress: Monica Belucci. Emily Dequenne. Not necessarily for their acting ability (although both are very good!). See above.

Fav Food: And again. I like food. I really like food. Chocolate. Cheese. Toast. Bacon. Potatos. Eggs. Ice cream. Brownies. I could go on and on and on and on...

Fav Sport: There are three sports - hutning, shooting and fishing. The rest are just games. My favoruite game is football.

Fav Athlete: Maradona.

Drink of Choice: Water. Orange juice. Red wine. Guinness. German lager. Milkshakes. God, all of it except coffee.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Booze. Life. Music.

Smoker? : Nope.

Occupation: Audio/Visual Library Assistant / (unpaid) music writer / layabout / pontificater.

Do you work out? : I play football. I occasioanlly cycle. I walk lots. I intend to start swimming next week.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 10.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10 (is there ANY point in giving any other number?).

I would send you to the website but it's a bit threadbare and out of date (all my own damn fault)...

I'd no idea about IJ - someone sent it to me as a gift and it's sitting right next to "Mason & Dixon" and "The Recognitions" and "JR" and "Underworld", to name a few on my "unread as yet" shelfs - and it just looks so darn heavy! (Physically and mentally, I mean.)

I'm taking with me, in addition to The Intuitionist, a book on the Soviet Manned space program, a history of the word "Fuck," and something by Mahfouz, I think. And, just maybe, a book of interviews with Palestinians and Israelis about the current (well, semi-current, now) situation in that region. I need something cheery to read.

After that I read a lot of DFW's other work and enjoyed most of it.

(Similarly, I enjoyed Mason & Dixon until they actually started, you know, surveying the Mason-Dixon line. Then it suddenly got bland for me. But it is a wonderful book to have on your shelf, especially if it's the hardcover: It's a gorgeous object!)

Name: geeta
Location: NYC
Age: 23
Fav Band: the minibosses, wire
Fav Movie: der blaue engel
Fav TV Show: i don't watch tv
Fav Book: the one i am writing
Fav Actor: don't have one
Fav Actress: ingrid bergman
Fav Food: japanese, ethiopian, indian
Fav Sport: basketball
Fav Athlete: don't really care
Drink of Choice: beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): beer
Smoker? : not anymore.
Occupation : grad school
Do you work out?: nope
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 10000000
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 100000000

I also forgot in the TV column any historical documentary with Adam Hart-Davis. He's so cuddly!

Also, I'm another person who doesn't like fill-in-the-blanks surveys. My name is Caitlin, although that's not what it says on my birth certificate or my passport. I'm 25, I'm English but I've lived in Edinburgh since I was 18. My taste in anything - music, books, films, art, whatever - tends to be pretty eclectic, so whenever anyone asks: "Who's you favourite [blah]", I go a bit blank. I'm a computer geek - well, a geek generally - and I first found ILX via Sinister.

If you want to know anything else about me, go here.

It was fun to meet David, actually, although I was pretty drunk/drugged/nervous that night.

NYC FAP? Hmm, maybe I'd go. Details?

the album or the writer?

Name: Ally
Location: NYC
Age: 23 in a few months
Fav Band: I don't know. Maybe I like Jay-Z best but then sometimes I like the Ramones better, you know?
Fav Movie: I don't know this either. I like to quote Scarface.
Fav TV Show: I don't really watch TV, I think I like Third Watch but I haven't seen it in ages so maybe I don't anymore.
Fav Book: Fathers & Sons by Turgenev
Fav Actor: currently it is probably Edward Norton but I prefer to say Steve McQueen because he's just cool.
Fav Actress: Ummm...I like Catherine Keener, her role in Being John Malkovich is like an older me.
Fav Food: I like Italian.
Fav Sport: Football
Fav Athlete: currently I like Shockey.
Drink of Choice: beer, Amstels. hard liquor, vodka & cranberry. But generally I just drink water.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Not anymore.
Smoker? : Quitting.
Occupation : Corporate whore.
Do you work out? : I have a personal trainer!
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8
Add anything you want people to know: I'm really tired today.

Name: james
Location: west london
Age: 26
Fav Band's and musical stars: Poison, Megadeth, Slayer, Dinosaur Jr, Philistines Jr, Avril, Shakira, Kelly O, NMH, OTC, Smashing Zwan, Journey, Cheap Trick, Iron Maiden, Komeit, Juniper Moon, Sum 41, Beach Boys, Carpenters...that sorta thing
Fav Movie: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, American Movie, ROTJ
Fav TV Show: Grounded for Life
Fav Book: Mysteries - Knut Hamsun; Gatsby; Dance Dance Dance - Murakami; Confederacy of Dunces
Fav Actor: None really
Fav Actress: Ditto
Fav Food: Cakes of all sorts
Fav Sport: Cricket
Fav Athlete: none really, Kane?
Drink of Choice: Tea
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): no thanks
Smoker? : nope
Occupation : Library assistant
Do you work out? : nope
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 4
Fave comicbooks: All James Kochalka stuff, Transformers, Joe Matt, Urusei Yatsura, some superhero stuff
Height: 6 foot 1

I like painting pictures, and walking around aimlessly.

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Cmon mayne if you do be on football formation threads you gotta know this stuff

don't think i've posted many... if i did i guess i satisfied myself with ugly looking ones. will keep in mind for next time.