Introduce Yourselves!

Ha, another library person, welcome! I'm not acquisitions, though I know an irregular poster who is.

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Dude, I used to live there! Do you live in Litchfield? Can you get 88.1? Anton, Doug, and the JB, if they're still on, have great shows.

Anyway, now I live an hour north of Chicago, 26, married, work as a trainer at Borders and a church organist. First loved the Beach Boys, then a Christian rock phase, then King's X and Tom Petty, then other stuff. Currently would buy anything new by King's X (though it would probably suck) or the Coup.

A watershed event in my appreciation of music (as a listener and as a musician) was a two-week trip to Havana last year. For months after I came home to Canada I was (irrationally?) embarrassed by the lack of musical proficiency and creativity exhibited in the shitty blues, rock and 'indie' scenes here. Anyone that's been to Cuba will know what I'm talking about, I presume, even if they don't fully agree.

Anyway - I love music of all kinds and I don't want to seem overly biased (too late). Can't wait to hop in to the discussions!

I am not particularly into Cuban music per se, but (as mentioned above) salsa is one of my favorite forms of music (especially, but not exclusively, for dancing to).

No, but very close. A town called Highland. And yes, 88.1 and 90.7 (the NPR station here) are all I listen to. I'll make sure ot listen to who the DJ's are a little more closely.

Looks like Sean's pretty local too. You're in Columbia, Sean? We're down there pretty often for shows and such. It's a pretty cool town.

Are you guys in St. Louis very often?

And Ned - I really can't be bothered. I am me. Will that do?

Order has been restored.

Cis, indeed, rocks majorly.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), April 26th, 2004.

Hm.

My name's Joe, I live in North london, I'm 25, like most of my disaffected peers I still live with my mama, I'm, ahem, a 'writer', and when I grow up I wanna be a motherfuckin' hustler, you better aks somebody.

Oh, and I used to really really like metal. I think I've mentioned that before though.

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I did not have sexual relations with that man. Mr. Bergman.
*ha-ha.*

my home town has a bronzed sculpture of 3 corgie dogs on high street - the squickly swishified boutique type district of christchurch.. recently i developed the catch-phrase 'surfing the corgie' as some kind of anal sex analogy..

I'm here because I love everything from Carcass to Dylan to Boredoms to Waits to Sonic Youth to Neil Young to Phillip Glass to Joni Mitchell. My Morning Jacket and Yo La Tengo are my current fave bands which I cannot, for the life of me, stop listening to. I play in a band here called the Fragments and we will be great in about six months ;)

I'm 30 and from Toronto (and would be curious to hear from other Toronto ILMers). I freelance as a composer and producer - jingles, corporate video soundtracks, voiceover demos, you name it. I also do production and remixes for a couple of tiny dance labels. I have yet to give up my day job, as it involves flogging studio equipment and thus keeps me in reasonably priced gear and freebie software.

I've been obsessed with music and recorded sound for as long as I can remember - one of my earliest memories is of my Dad showing me how to handle LPs and work a turntable, and my Mom is convinced that I was born knowing how to play the drums. I have my favourite genres and artists (I have a serious soft spot for early house and techno, as well as late-80s hip-hop), but I'm open to anything that's good.

Currently shuttling me, myself and I between Montreal, Berlin, Helsinki and Linköping (Sweden). Researcher and lecturer at various universities in aforementioned cities. Doing work on scenes and subcultures, cities and culture.

Did a fair bit of radio in my Montreal days. Now a smattering of DJing in Berlin, not much though. Generally soaking up the vibe there (involved now with the Club Transmediale Festival). Off to Helsinki in two weeks.

At this very moment, I'm planning how to get my act together for a job interview at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Good fun.

a good name for a band - i'd remove the "the" though.

this older Jewish guy

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-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), August 23rd, 2004. (later)

AdamL, it was you, wasn't it?

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), August 23rd, 2004. (later)

since i have never seen a picture of him AdamL is black and shall remain so in my head.

I'm a 33 year old graphic designer in Portland, OR. Currently loving The Wrens, Pinback, New Pornographers, Rogue Wave, and Broken Social Scene. Also a big fan of most 60's British invasion stuff.

I should add that that you people are some insanely funny mother fuckers. These two threads had me in stitches:

In every Lemmy lyric, a PhD: Essay and thesis topics in honour of Motorhead

drug-addled artists you'd like to see in a roundtable discussion

(Rereading this it sounds like a music obsessive version of an AA introduction.)