Introduce Yourselves!

that is all.

Nope - it's Mom, which is Standard Canuckian English.

I know that's a questionably structured sentence, but fuck it - I'm leaving it that way.

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 (jlync...), August 26th, 2004. (later)

No shit? I'll be over at Hayden hall. Glad to see NYU has a small contingent on ILM.

this post so totally affirms why this place rocks!

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.

I have a theory that if your first ILX post is on an "Introduce Yourselves!" thread, you will stop posting within a week.

Name: Joseph McCombs
Age: 31
Location: 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.

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?)

Okay. Never mind. Asking the impossible.

Hello

"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.

I am completely average in every way.

"I like the way 'Snnnnrub' thinks!"

Okay Mr Burns, whats your first name?

I don't know!...

http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/weblogs/Grimly/

which is a shame, because he is way cooler than me.

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...

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.

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.

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....

26 in Los Angeles and I work in "television". I don't like describing music to people because I suck at it. I like lots of stuff and I hardly ever hate anything even when it's bad because it makes me laugh. My copy of "Bootyz in Motion" is a testament to this...It has both "Whoot! There it is" and "Whoomp! There it is". Amen!