― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:05 (nineteen years ago) link
(Rereading this it sounds like a music obsessive version of an AA introduction.)
― Reed Rosenberg (reed), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link
that is all.
― nothingleft (nothingleft), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Nope - it's Mom, which is Standard Canuckian English.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link
I know that's a questionably structured sentence, but fuck it - I'm leaving it that way.
― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 26 August 2004 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 26 August 2004 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link
My tastes seem to be generally more pitchforkian then i'd like to admit, but that's changing i swear. I don't see why people should be hatin on certain bands, it just seems easier and more pleasing to just ignore what doesn't fit my style. I'd like to thank ILM for convincing me to get Capital Punishment, have me start listening to M.I.A., reaffirming my 80's guilty pleasures, and having a sense of fucking humor.
― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 26 August 2004 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link
-- lemin (jlync...), August 26th, 2004. (later)
No shit? I'll be over at Hayden hall. Glad to see NYU has a small contingent on ILM.
― Reed Rosenberg (reed), Thursday, 26 August 2004 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link
this post so totally affirms why this place rocks!
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Thursday, 26 August 2004 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― piers (piers), Thursday, 26 August 2004 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link
All sarcasm aside, having the unofficial school hipster band be Interpol is better than what my high school has produced, namely Rose Hill Drive. God Boulder sucks.
― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 26 August 2004 07:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link
I have a theory that if your first ILX post is on an "Introduce Yourselves!" thread, you will stop posting within a week.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Name: Joseph McCombsAge: 31Location: NYC
Bio: Grew up in the Pittsburgh, PA area. After college, spent almost 5 years in SF until an appearance on "Rock & Roll Jeopardy" helped convince a music-related dotcom startup to hire me to write music news and reviews in Orange County. That lasted about a year, long enough for me to decide to continue the pursuit of writing about music. Freelanced for some websites, mostly now defunct (Digital Music Weekly, ZDNet Music, OnAir.com), then returned to the east coast. Interned with Chuck Eddy at the Voice last fall (he's the one who got me interested in this board) and now copy edit there part-time. Currently writing reviews for the All Music Guide and StarPolish.com, actively looking for more writing and editing projects.
Favorite Songs Ever: 1. Jefferson Starship, "Miracles"; 2. Grass Roots, "I'd Wait a Million Years"; 3. Nina Simone, "Wild Is the Wind"; 4. Todd Rundgren, "I Saw the Light"; 5. Lighthouse, "One Fine Morning."
Favorite Radio Listening: KFOG's 10@10, Felix Hernandez's Rhythm Revue, Capital Gold.
Unknown Bands I Wish Would Break Big: The Rosenbergs, The Clarks, New Invisible Joy, Bran Van 3000.
Other Interests: British humor, playing softball, drinking, husband-hunting. Fortunately this city allows me to pursue all four simultaneously.
― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link
My name is Deanna (but you can call me Dee) and I do cringe when looking at my old "introduce yourselves!" post. I'm 24 years old, born December 29, with parents who luckily understood the necessity of STILL getting both Christmas and birthday gifts. Have matured and grown on the inside since I started throwing myself into discussions both here and ILE. I'm much more tolerant about a wide variety of things, happily enough.
I would still kill to have serious ILM-ish discussions about Duran Duran, though I fear that will never happen because of how strong I've come across in re: that musical artist. As a result of all this, I do sometimes feel quite alone in this forum, because I really haven't come across someone here who has felt even remotely similarly toward the band as I feel. I do listen to a lot of other musical artists, though, and I am sorta secretly hoping to wake up one day and discover that a musical artist I'm a huge fanatic of is also easily discussable here. (Though that could be the case with Japan, I'm currently in one of my "I'm sick of Japan" phases.)
I feel tons of regret about all sorts of things, but one of the things I regret most is that I was so obsessed with the '80s when I was a teenager. As a result, I haven't been able to get away from that sort of legacy and currently I'm berating myself constantly for not regularly listening to artists people around my age "should" be listening to. I'm perpetually uncool and unhip and unable to find a group of individuals I can blend into. I was born without the "irony" gene. I didn't even know such a thing could exist on a regular basis until I came here. I also now understand quite a number of other pop culture-y things I did not get at all when I first started posting here. As a result, I am perpetually in a state of embarrassment at how idiotic I must've come across when I started posting here.
I consider New Wave and New Romantic music to be my musical comfort food. I try to get into all sorts of musical things, though, and really, as long as it was released from 1964 onward and isn't country (or country-tinged), Spanish-language, or rap, I like it or would probably like it. I'm the only "minority" (of 50% Mexican extraction and 50% Spanish extraction) here in the U.S. without any "street cred" at all, and I actually kinda like that. I balance work and school and also help take care of my mother, whose arms and legs bedevil her on a daily basis. I've only ever had one boyfriend in my life -- it was an odd excuse for a "relationship".
And that's who I am.
And I'm still waiting for someone ELSE to list Duran Duran in one of these bloody lists!! (Even though I'm disgruntled by them, I still view them as my own personal # 1. Sickening, isn't it?)
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 12 September 2004 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 12 September 2004 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 12 September 2004 10:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 12 September 2004 10:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Okay. Never mind. Asking the impossible.
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 12 September 2004 10:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― nameom (nameom), Sunday, 12 September 2004 10:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― snazz, Sunday, 12 September 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Hello
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 12 September 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
"Duran discussion"? No, not really. Just the usual bit of whinging on my part, though I was good this time and didn't break out the violins. I don't think.
I do like a lot of other stuff and am trying to concentrate on that, though every time I do that, my main huge fanatical thing keeps coming back to haunt me. It's a curse.
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 12 September 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link
I am completely average in every way.
― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Asthmatic Cajun (Asthmatic Cajun), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
"I like the way 'Snnnnrub' thinks!"
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 16 January 2005 07:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Okay Mr Burns, whats your first name?
I don't know!...
― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 16 January 2005 08:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 16 January 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Butler, Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Butler (Butler), Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― owen reading, Monday, 17 January 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/weblogs/Grimly/
which is a shame, because he is way cooler than me.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link
gregory bowler. i do graphic design stuff and make music as the fawn for poppy techno-ish stuff and as bedroom eyes for music for people to have sex to (seriously, i hope some day they will be). i live in THE OC. but i want to move to new york. or berlin. or barcelona. or italy. or somewhere. like everyone, i guess. i write also, every once in a while, for a few publications...
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― ppp, Monday, 17 January 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Awesome Welles (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
I've been here for a while too... I live in Seattle but am originally from Nashville and did a long stint in NYC. I do web design and development (more dev cause for some reason I get those gigs more easily and they pay better). I have done some professional illustration (for websites), and I make online comics.
I have a small scale recording studio in my house and record my own stuff. I'm not in a band at the moment, but I have been in several over the years. I know (and probably care) too much about guitars, tube amps and effects pedals, which I both collect and build. (Okay, well I don't really build guitars, but I've modified or rebuilt the electronics on some.)
I think I am the resident hardcore They Might Be Giants fan, and I dunno if that's creepy or refreshing. They are far from the only band I like though.
― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Carel Fabritius (Fabritius), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link
so: simon, 29, glasgow, journalist, new order (or maybe wire ... or the wedding present ... or early OMD ... or the original human league), alcohol, sideburns. er, that's it.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
i totally loved walt mink in high school! i guess spoon would be the other bands from the 90s that went through label hell and back, but survived....
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link