Introduce Yourselves!

Jaymc: I write primarily for Crain's Chicago Business. They pay well and I have a family to support.

I hope that's not mutually exclusive. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

Rockist, I was not suggesting mutual exclusivity, just answering your call.

Regarding name recognition, give me something more to go on and we'll see if we've crossed paths. There are clips I'm proud of and there are others I'd rather not revisit, if you know what I mean.

but perhaps not

mookie, it's more likely he's confusing me with former Pittsburgh Penguins forward, Martin Sonnenberg . . . or maybe violinist Nadia Solerno Sonnenberg. Schoenfeld is a longshot. (Though I did enjoy Schoenfeld's infamous post-game altercation with Don Koharski. Stone-cold classic!)

After a 6 year tour of the midwest (Mpls for 5, Chicago for 1, with a disasterous 4 month stopover in Brooklyn along the way) I'm in Philadelphia. Weaned on 1983-4 chartpop. Graduated to bad music for 40 year olds (So, Back in the High Life, White Fricking City) plus some decent classic rock and oldies. Chuck Berry and David Bowie helped me acclimate to punk. Slowly caught up with indie (for the first time) and hip-hop (after a few year hiatus) in college. Turned omniverous in the early 90s. "I like all kinds of music."

References available upon request.

learned that people would pay me to write about CDs I got for free in the mail

What's the secret, man?

NEVER go drinking with film lecturers.

What's the secret, man?"

Sorry, I left out the part where you make next to no money for three years.

Male, 16, English. Enjoys Swans, My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead, Slint, The God Machine, Joy Division, The Cure, Neurosis, Xiu Xiu and anything else that blends angst with melody while managing to keep a pretense of 'art' and 'intelligence'. Heh.

I can't get enough of the God Machine. It's all thanks to Aereogramme, Craig B from that band has put me onto so much good heavy music I can't believe it. Neurosis, Converge, Anathema, all that stuff. I owe him a considerable chunk of my CD collection.

One of 'em, yup. Loose Lips Sink Ships will be replacing it.

I can't get enough of the God Machine. It's all thanks to Aereogramme, Craig B from that band has put me onto so much good heavy music I can't believe it.

What a good man! I'll have to listen to his band.

Got kids, watch lots of movies, could be more physically fit if I weren't pinned up in this office waiting for students to come by and be tutored in the finer points of applications of second and third derivatives. What have I left out?

Oh wait, I have have a disgusting weakness for prog-rock, and I am even willing to listen to stuff my 11-year old tries to impress me with, like Lisa Marie Presley. So far he's 0 for about 15, but I haven't let him in on it yet.

I'm 24 and live in Melbourne. I'm currently between jobs. My listening tastes are reasonably varied, thoug much more so recently due to ILX. Currently in the pile next to me: 'Marquee Moon', the Rocket From The Tombs reissue, that new Underworld compilation, Creatures 'Hai!' and Jackie O Motherfucker. And Primal Scream 'Live In Japan', but having seen the reaction the them around here, let's not mention that one. ;)