Introduce Yourselves!

I still read all the new answers to this question. So there.

I'm resubmitting my answer! I am a postgraduate student studying Mass Communications, I'm going to be writing a dissertation on on-line diaries dealing with issues such as identity and community. After I graduate I am faced with the prospect of work, though ideally I'll do some sort of research/academic job. I like lots of music. I have about 450 Cds and 200 tapes and 70 seven inch singles. That makes me kinda geeky? so I'll keep quiet about my comicbook collection!:) Ok, have fun! bye bye!

hi. 30 something support analyst. obbsessed with music. www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk.. a lo-tech website easier to maintain. too many genres hit the spot to isolate specifics, but to start - on- u sound,turntablism,indie rock, foetus, mo-wax,fax the usual suspects basically. time consumed by fatherhood and so music is third in priorities.thankyou

hello, last weekend a strange man in a pub told me that i should go to freaky trigger, and i never ever ignore the advice of strange men in pubs. they know too much.

here is the requisite information about myself: i am approximately thirty one and four fifths, and though it seems to be a popular method of introduction, i do not have a 'favourite' band, so for the sake of this posting i shall pretend that i do, and that my favourite band is transvision vamp. i derive great enjoyment from the between song banter on local radio stations, and the juxtaposition of classical music and platform announcements in the bar at birmingham new street station.

that is all.

Age: 28 Location: Baltimore, MD, USA

Work: I do software programming/engineering for $$$, which is why I spend much of my time internet browsing!

Bands that I am: Roads to Space Travel, Slow Jets

I enjoy lots of bands/artists but I have serious interests in: British Punk/"Post-Punk" (from about 1976-1982); 80s "New Wave"; 60s- 70s Jamaican Ska/Rocksteady/Reggae/Dub; and I have a soft spot for 80s synth pop.

Newer, smaller bands I would vouch for: Spoon, Candymachine (RIP), Enon, Les Savy Fav, Lifter Puller (RIP), The Fuses, The Glands.

Interests: Musical gear/instruments/recording ( http://www.guitargeek.com/layouts/display.php3?id=399 ); Vintage analog and newer, cheap, digital synthesizers; BMW motorcycles (preferrably 70s boxers, I own a '77 R75/7); Saab 99/900 autos (up to 1994); My dog Benny; Basketball; Football; Driving too fast; War Movies; Behind the Music; Drug Legalization (not for my own purposes, however).

Dislikes: Most music journalists; Record Labels; Most Booking Agents; Promoters; Record Reviewers.

maura mae deedy, 19, short pixie hair with wispy bangs.

mauramae dot com. i am AICON 14! sophomore in college, wheaton college, near boston, too poor to ever get out there to do anything and when i do. i spend more money. i am studying anthropology and women's studies, doing astronomy in my spare time.

i am into neutral milk, and apples in stereo, liz p, bjork, just bought le tigre and LOVE it. prince (!), elliott smith. i really hate writing all the bands/artists i listen to cause i always forget something. i should just catalog my cd collection. i adore mix tapes, and those are my favorite things in the whole wide world. i love making mixed.

i don't like pretentious elitist hippies, and recently i don't like being touched when i am sleeping. i like silver bangles and fun clothes. i have a coat, hang bag, scarf fetishes. i like to cook. my dad and gramma are both sick and 2001 has been the worst year of my life so far.

I'm a 38 year old, almost completely asocial ex-junkie living close to the ass end of the world. (Does that make me sound cool?) ('cause it's meant to).

writer now and then first in UK to interview youssou n'dour inadvertently outed the late billy mackenzie as bald attended ut's last ever show first to develop theory that daphne and celeste's appearance on never mind the buzzcocks was this millennium's answer to the sex pistols and bill grundy (it was certainly funnier) favourite movie: mabaroshi favourite inexplicable use of a smiths song: "how soon is now" as themetune to charmed favourite improv guitarist: john russell favourite member of hear'say: myleene, obviously

A 33 year old news desk editor for a weekly news magazine based here in New York City and freelance writer on the side. LOVES: KILLING JOKE, Cop Shoot Cop, Firewater, Gang of Four, the Stranglers, Iggy & the Stooges, Buzzcocks, (vintage) Kiss, Motorhead, XTC, Julian Cope, Pussy Galore, Skeleton Key, the Ramones, Television, Jeff Buckley, lots of old metal and (sheepishly) old goth, Gavin Friday, Talk Talk, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack, Robyn Hitchcock, the Modern Lovers, Velvet Underground, (vintage) Devo, Berlin-era Bowie, classic American hardcore (Minor Threat, MDC, Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys), the Wonder Stuff, (vintage) Alice Cooper, Kraftwerk, Laika, This Mortal Coil, Prong, the Saints, Public Image Ltd., and loads more.

LOATHES: The plague of self-styled so-called 'divas' (Mariah, Whitney, and their vile ilk), contemporary cheeze-whiz r'n'b (Sysquo, Destiny's Child, R.Kelly), teen pop in all its vaccuous manifestations (N'synch, Backstreet Boys, etc.), lowest-common-denominator-fueled hip-hop that is obssessed solely with the acquisition of easy wealth and "booty," unforgivably mookish rap/rock bands like Korn, Bizkit, deplorably self-righteous and self-congratulatory Lilith women like Paula Cole and Jewel (and to the same extent, Ani Defranco) and yawnsome fraternity rock like Dave Matthews, Phish, Hootie, etc. etc.

AGE33, SOLD/GOT RID OF ALL MY RECORD COLLECTION DURING 1999, HAVEN'T BOUGHT ANYTHING ELSE SINCE BUT LISTEN TO LOADSA MUSIC WHEN OUT + ABOUT,HOMEMADE CD'S FROM DODGY BANDS. USED TO READ MELODY MAKER IN LATE 80'S, THEN THE WIRE IN THE 90'S NOW RELY ON WORD OF MOUTH. MY TASTES WENT FROM ROCK>METAL>INDIE>DUBINDUSTRIALTECHNOHIPHOPAMBIENTJAZZetc Before deciding I needed freedom from choice. . .

I like hearing music unannounced best of all - on a dance-floor, from a turn of the dial, in a lift, on random shuffle.

I live in London where I once snogged Billy Mackenzie.

guy, you've probably made tom more jealous than you'll ever know. ;)

should have done this ages ago i guess...

i'm gareth, i like pop music (well, i'm here aren't i, so i spose thats obvious). live in london, but originally from oop north.

i'm probably supposed to insert a big and exciting list of eclectic music here or something.

i run surface vs depth/1471

the self publicity is now over

This is my 100th ILM posting, so it seems appropriate to splash my baby-bio all over this thread at last.

Born in '68, earliest musical memories: "School's Out", Lt Pigeon's "Mouldy Old Dough", "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep", "Without You" (the last two equally moving). Pop-life shaped early on by older brother (born '58). Preferred my Abba records to his "Brain Salad Surgery", but after being singed by the cleansing fire of punk in Sixth Form, his tastes got more interesting. As a result, Joy Div and Magazine transport me back to Mr Odell's RE class as keenly as Blondie or BA Robertson. Fave record of 1980: Lipps Inc - "Funky Town".

"Boys with toys" sneers future thesp R Delamere in Physics one week, as we enthuse about the latest Fiction Factory release. He has a 'Smiths session' on tape... I'm not sure what this means. Moz with flowers in his pants makes a big impression, but so does Mr O'Dowd in a kimono and lipstick - the Stephen Patrick obsession starts much later. Mostly, it's the Bunnymen and China Crisis, Frankie and the Icicles. Y'know, local boys come good. Don't stray too far from chart territory because, after Kid Jensen, it's all gets a bit strange. German metalbashers? Nein danke.

1984-87: the wilderness years. Bro' leaves home, I start buying 'Q' and Joni Mitchell LPs. Melody Maker have someone I've heard of on the cover - 45p later, Stubbs, Reynolds & co have me snared. There's an inspiring South Bank show on a Mancunian ex-quartet - oh, I know they were magnificent all along, I just, er, taped the singles off the radio... If 4AD offered season tickets, I'd buy one at this point; Black Francis screams on the Late Show and things turn upside down. Coast through the latter under/postgrad years, comfy with post-MBV indie dreamers. My guitar-pop conservatism reaches some kind of apotheosis/nadir in '92; "Mixing It" on R3 play some of that daft dance music - scandalous that this context should 'legitimise' it for me, when extended rave blasts in East Midlands nightclubs on 'alternative' night never did - but suddenly, my ears are open. So, somehow, Penderecki leads me to Aphex Twin.

Mid-90s: on an overgenerous income in a remote coastal town with a nice flat, a nice stereo and no pals within 200km. Expand nervously into 70s Miles, 60s Coltrane, more austere electronics... Tricky and Laika rule and I've never heard anything like "Sour Times" before in my (sheltered) life. Mark Radcliffe plays a song called "The State I'm In" by some band named after a kids' show and my life *literally* changes.

Move to London, meet some stellar folks on top of a hill, turn 30, exchange marriage vows in a Lambeth registry office. My pop-life has pulled me to the place I live, and introduced me to the people I know. What would've happened if it had been hang-gliding, or kick- boxing? I'll name five good records beginning with 'T' and then stop: "The Fat Skier", "Tri Repetae", "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima", "Tigermilk", "Thixty-Nine Luff Thongs".

I've barely said a word, but I've been reading I Love M for some time. I usually join parties just as everyone's yawning and thinking about bed, but this one still seems to be going strong, and what a vibrant, thoughtful place this is. I was about to mail saying "I'm older than all of you!" which has become something of a self-denigrating personal mantra recently, but I'm thrilled to see I'm not the oldest. Bless you. This also means that I can't fall back on "hey I'm old and I'm not listening to Eric Clapton and moaning how great music was in 1978!" and feeling I deserve some sort of Longevity Award. Brave New World...

Let's say I'm 30-*, with the emphasis on the asterisk, I live in Edinburgh, I know some of you :) and it's nice to be here, although I'm a bit scared to post, honestly. I think I found this place after Tom's "Why we hate indie kids" was posted rather mischievously elsewhere, with some nice consequent fallout displaying a total lack of irony. Currently (Monday, 4pm, it changes that quick) simmering with gentle obsession over Life Without Buildings's "Let's Get Out" although I'm not sure quite why, or whether I'm making a terrible social faux pas. Oh heck, I'll just hit Submit.

Duane wrote: living close to the ass end of the world

Ok Duane, well if you're near it, as our ex-PM said, I'm in it. 26 yr old post-queer Aussie writer, author and freelance media whore (email me if you want to know where my novel Fuct & Fiction's available from). Grew up in Buttfucke, Queensland, won a scholaarship to Argentina when I was 17, landed in Buttfuckette, Argentina, for a year which I dedicated to the pursuit of weight gain via alcoholism. Returned, fucked up a lot more, thought I was Rimbaud in bad nailpolish, then stopped writing poetry when I realised I was lying to myself. went back to Arg, came back to Oz, had a break down, spent 4 months in a psych clinic trying to decide why life was worth it, and cleaniing my system out of the chemicals I'd put into it. Kicked the booze in 98, finished my BA in 2000, and am now working on the 2nd novel. Likes: Magnetic Fields, Lou Reed, VU, Patti Smith, Cafe Tacuba, Illya kuriaki and the Valderramas, Ryan Adams, Avalanches, Dylan, RHPs and Mark Kozelek, Elvis, Shellac, Big Black, Eminem etc. Literature of many types, sizes etc, and of course, a nice bit of cocksucking to pass the time. Dislikes: Commercial pap, though I do have a recent hankering for the Pet SHop Boys and Madonna.

I remember reading some of the folks here on a.m.a. way back in the day. Anyway, I am always looking for people to talk music with and especially to tip me off on anything good that's come out. Especially since I graduated last year and fell out of the college radio loop. Ah, but I start my new show at my graduate school (Sarah Lawrence) next week. Lately I have been digging Sigur Ros (who's show sold out in 3 minutes today grrr), Clinic, Delgados, Damien Jurado, Richard Buckner, the Czars, New Year... And I just got tickets to see Grandaddy and Autechre. So that is good.

when i said that thing about the ass end of the world, i wasn't trying to give this place a bad-rap. i live here 'cause I like it here.
The effect I was going for was more like, I live a long way from the percieved cultural centres of the world because cities are full of fraudulent shit that I'm trying to leave behind & rise above.
You know, a romantic distortion of the truth to (like I said) make myself seem really cool.

― D."Getting it together in the country" Zarakov, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Time to stop them damn italics.

I don't even know how to start them.

oops,sorry 'bout that.

Former music magazine editor, former men's lifestyle magazine editor, former adult magazine editor. Looking for something new to become former in. Very occasional freelance writer. Last online piece: www.villagevoice.com/issues/0104/palmer.shtml. Just turned 30. I find posting to I Love Music quite therapeutic. So excuse me if I often sound like I'm talking to myself.

I'm 25 unfortunately. At present I'm in the musical backwater that is Australia, where Leanne Rimes, Powderfinger and Crazy Town rule the airwaves.Out here on a work visa, actually from Liverpool. Got into house and techno in 1987 via the much travelled route of M/A/R/R/S through Chicago, (the city not the group) into Detroit, and these were the holy grails for me in my formative years: stuff like 'Illusion' R-Tyme; 'Promised Land' Joe Smooth; early Mr Fingers,Reese,Knuckles and followed its developments VERY closely up to and including today. Still my first love, but now I'm also getting more and more excited by the stuff many music writers dismiss as light and insubstantial, you know, the records which get discussed a lot on this site: Max Martin style pop, r+b, U.K garage. Good songs, out of this world, futuristic production. Proper shiny, visceral, stimulating music. This stuff is about making people actually ENJOY music, as well as apreciate it. A quick list of favourites: Carl Craig, Timbaland, 'I Feel Love', 'Ain't Nobody', 'Wichita Lineman', Daft Punk, Bola, Boards of Canada, Britney, Neil Young, Pepe Bradock, early PSB, all BSB, 'Technique', Rakim, UR, MAW, '76.14' etc.etc.etc.

K-reg

Shepherd's Bush/West London - from The North, grew up abroad and lived all over UK. late 20s - Freelance whatever?

likes getting lost, ignoring phones, playing dumb, Chris Marker films, having a pen handy, repetition, pressing the square root button, using the optimise function on cubase, filming with digicams then watching it back with friends, driving cars at night, ctheory.com/edge.org seam, listening to Hip-Hop in city traffic, google.com, hallucinogens, The Wire's Xmas Like and Dislike interviews, napster, dancing, airports, recordable MDs players, more dancing, film sets, Artangel projects, extropian urges, crisis, documentaries, surrendipity, jodi.org, Burroughs, reflexivity in art, CDs full of MP3s, the cinema of Wong Kar-Wai/Tarkovski/Koreeda, psychogeography, Bill Viola, paradoxes, motorways or any huge bits of concrete in the countryside, riding very fast down Oxford Street through all the traffic, laughing at the TV, keyboard shortcuts, Erik Davis, the tube system, corresponding with artists, Steven Shaviro, typing..I mean, writing and music

dislikes missing the beginning of films, comedians, ignorance, national attention deficiency disorder, institutionalised religion, people grew up with access to good records, slow moving intricate things, not having a car anymore, anyone who seeks to restrict freedom of information, the guy who slept with my girlfriend, and people who dislike missing the beginning of films

I also am Ian Moore. I got fed up with the Pihkalboy name when it became apparent that no one can spell it.

Such miserable weather!

"The greatest writer the music press never had." "Crack-brained old acidhead." "Decrepit ex-child prodigy." These are just some of the things which have been said about Marcello Carlin. An Italian- Scottish hybrid, Marcello's interest in music was galvanised by his parents taking him to see "Mary Poppins" at the George Cinema, Bellshill, at the age of nine months, and tapes of him atonally bawling his way through "Let's Go Fly A Kite" still exist. Similarly early exposure to his late father's extensive modern jazz and contemporary classical record collection helped to nurture his passions. In the 1980s he came to Oxford to study English Language and Literature; contemporaries of his included Simon Reynolds, David Stubbs and Stewart Lee. Since then he has led a full and varied life divided between Oxford and London and continues to maintain a highly successful career (which is entirely unconnected to music). To music press veterans he is probably best remembered for his controversial but lucidly argued polemics which appeared regularly in the Melody Maker letters page; indeed he holds the record for most "Letter of the Week" awards in that formerly august journal, but has never sought to become a music journalist (short answer to the question "why not?" - IPC freelance rates). But his correspondence has also infrequently appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, the Wire, Mojo, Uncut, Coda, Downbeat, Literary Review and London Review of Books. He supposedly appears in "High Fidelity" (the book, not the film) as the chap in the suit who asks for the theme tune to "Fireball XL5" (which indeed he did once do in the late Rock On Records in Camden which was the acknowledged model for Championship Vinyl) but much prefers the writings of Ian Penman, Paul Morley and Iain Sinclair (and Ray's Jazz Shop and Intoxica). If he could overcome his minor social affectations, such as continually talking about himself in the third person as if he were Wyndham bleeding Lewis, then he still has the potential to become a fully-rounded and sociable human being.

Tracer Hand, 26, born in Tennessee. Killt me a bar when I was only 3. Have lived in Chicago, Glasgow, Providence, 46th St. Manhattan, now Park Slope. I get traxxy for the dexxxy and I end up seeing a bunch of of my friends' bands, like Dare Diablo, Itchy Trigger Finger, and Slut 'Em Go.

I play sad country ballads to myself on guitar because nobody else can stand it. Which goes for most of my records too.

38 years old, canadian living in california for the last 4 years. getting pretty sick of it, too. came to ILM via the great I Hate Music site, which I think I found through a link on a site about The Fall. I enjoy reading this stuff, even though much of it is about current British Pop, which I don't hear much of over here, and, to tell you the truth, am not very excited by the sound of. But I like the writing on this site, and the debates. I currently like a lot of older US and British garage rock stuff (yeah, the Nuggets box, and more than a few others), some of the current US country rock stuff (whiskeytown, etc), punkrock (ramones, buzzcocks, more ramones), rockabilly, 40s and 50s R&B, drony psychedlic stuff like Spiritualized, african pop (franco, four brothers, prince nico mbarga), older reggae (desmond dekker, etc), some of the better spanish-speaking rock (manu chao, los fabulosos cadillacs), oddball rock (the fall, captain beefheart, the grifters) and a bunch of other stuff. I used to do community radio shows in Ottawa, Canada for years, and am a recovering music junkie. Still buy about 10 LPs a month, which is quite a few less than I used to.

Hey there, I live in Chicago; next month I'll turn 28. For money, I work for a publishing company and currently edit a soccer magazine. I'm also an editor for could-be magazine, webzine StopSmiling, the print version of which should be back on newsstands in June. Ooh. Aah.

I confess: I really am Geri Halliwell. Sorry.

I'm new. I like lots of music. I live in Canada. Shame on this site for giving me yet another way to watch my oh so budding youth slide past. oh...i'm 23 and a guy.

still 33, was brought to you by creative e-mailing, boxes within boxes, blah blah . off on my travels....

31, single, music geek lawyer whose "lawyerly" work has nothing to do with music or the entertainment industry (and who likes it that way). Born and raised around Princeton, currently living in Hoboken and working in midtown Manhattan, and saddled with a silly and unpronounceable ethnic name.

Will tell more maybe later. Just hanging out for now, taking it all in.

Scott Bassett - 31 years old, white. From Middlesbrough but grew up in Lagos, Nigeria where I regularly got to see King Sunny Ade play at the local Ikoyi Club and through that developed a love of African music (which no one seems to mention on this site). Now living in Surrey where I do computer shit for the NHS (except when I'm reading ILM instead which is quite often - now for instance). Love: Louis Jordan, the Stooges, Mekons, James Carter, Kinks, Archers of Loaf, Minutemen, James Brown, George Jones, Unholy Modal Rounders, Le Tigre (the album), Trailer Bride, the Go-Betweens and Miles. Hate: the current crop of whiny Brit bands - Coldplay, Travis et al. Also hated Radiohead until I heard Kid A.

Out of lurking, finally. With this I might even get to posting eventually... 28 years old Finnish guy, right now mending a broken heart by studying philosophy in a relative non-entity of a place, Aarhus (= rural Denmark). Got into ILM and loads of great weblogs by having lots of spare time to avoid any real work done and a healthy interest in anything pop. Poplife: loved Kraftwerk and Sex Pistols as a kid, first album bought: Remain In Light by Talking Heads. Worshipped (almost) everything Eno-related afterwards. Got very context/concept-fixated by late teens (aquired a taste for superb music writing: Reynolds, late-'80s-early'90s Melody Maker stuff in general, later: Eshun's book blew my mind) until rave & hiphop (= frenetic clubbing instead of all that reading) wiped it all out and got me where I'm now: maintaining a hopefully-healthy balance of immediate appreciation & analytical distance. Sounds a bit pretentious, but you'll get my drift...

more about me, 'cause I like to talk about me:

some of my likes: Velvet Underground, New York City, the Kinks, David Bowie, London, Philadelphia, Gamble-Huff TSOP soul, the Ramones, Constitutional Law, political theory, Tax Law and Estate Planning, Stravinsky, Arthur Schoenberg, Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Ween, New Hope Pennsylvania, Brian Wilson, cannolis, homemade pierogies, Frank Zappa, the German language, spicy food, the NYC subway system, Vermont, Sonic Youth, Nick Drake, Joy Division, the Boredoms, Sigur Ros, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, the Smiths, Joy Division, Jean Renoir, Krautrock, David Lynch, Wu Tang Clan, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Mozart, Cape May, Wales, Neil Young, Syd Barrett, Belle and Sebastian, Portishead, liberal politics, Spiritualized, death metal, Slayer, Henry Fielding, being a pain-in-the-ass, sleep, Czeslaw Milosz, William Douglas, Brian Wilson, the Rolling Stones, Italy, rice, John Coltrane, Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, artsy-fartsy and offbeat people, cold weather, old buildings.

some of my dislikes: Rage Against the Machine, Republicans, Miami, Los Angeles, hot and sticky weather, "mook rock" (i.e., Korn, Slipknot, Blink-182, etc.), Antonin Scalia, Criminal Law, Pearl Jam, emo, most (non-techno) dance music, buttrock, Morrissey's solo music, Billy Corgan, TV talkshow pundits, journalists, cars, New Order, Switzerland, borscht, Garth Brooks, Drew Carrey, Grateful Dead, Creed, Ralph Nader, peaches, stupidity, conservatism.

indifferent: Eminem, Brittney Spears, the Beatles, most electronica, r'n'b, William Burroughs, yuppies (though purported to be one), sushi.

Reads like the lyrics to a Black Box Recorder song...

i just realized that i've never answered this question properly:
ask a hundred people what they think of fred solinger and you're likely to get a hundred different answers. to prove this theory, i went out and did just that. here's a selection of some of the answers we got.

"super honey man!"
"dancing machine!"
"#1 love giver!"
"really quite large in the pants!" (ed. note: thanks mom!)
"my baby's daddy." (?)

we tracked down the man himself in his quaint new jersey bedroom and this is what he had to say:
"some might say that i'm vain, selfish and lazy, to which i reply: i AM vain, selfish and lazy. among things, i'm a son, a brother, an uncle, a man. a poet, a lover, and a fighter. i'm easily given to making preposterous claims, subject to delusions of grandeur, but at heart, my life is all about the simple truths.

"what do i do for a living? why, i work for the 6th largest magazine publisher in the country. i used to work for wenner media/rolling stone but was disappointed to find that it wasn't very rock and roll at all. i secretly wished that i'd be laid off and on the day that my wish came true, the office was quite literally flooded with my tears of joy.

"i'm 23. what? oh, thank you, yes i do get that a lot, i'm afraid. despite my age, i'd like to think that i'm well-informed about things like film, music, and literature. in the realm of all things musical, my favorites include -- though are hardly limited to! -- the beach boys, the velvet underground, al green, david bowie, the stooges, sly & the family stone, abba, the pixies, smiths, and roxy music.

"final thoughts? yes. when i die, and you write to casey kasem, as i'm only too certain you will, please make sure that it's something heartwrenching, like 'how am i supposed to live without you?' (laura brannigan verson) or 'without you' (mariah carey!). the other morning, having forgotten to turn off my alarm, i was awakened by the dulcet tones of mr. kasem who was relating a tragic story of a man cut down before his years, as penned by the woman who loved him like no other. as he concluded and as i wiped the copious tears out of my eyes, my empathy turned to rage when she pissed on the man's grave -- figuratively! -- by requesting the little river band's 'reminiscining' with its carefree opening keyboard notes. such disrespect can not be tolerated and i do hope the man haunts the woman until she loses her bleeding mind. let that be a lesson to you all."

ohhhhhkay. he's an original (!) you can say that much. elusive and mercurial, that's fred solinger. and that's the end.

You forgot to add "He's a wankerface who leaves his psuedo-girlfriend psychotic voicemails accusing her of being a whore". That's like the best part of your story, fuck that Velvet Underground shit (which isn't even true).

I am a 27 year old with a certificate in cultral managment, and 3/4 of an art history degree specializng in problems in contempary methodology. I work in a used bookstore. I am living with a wonderful man named David who is a writer and does not listen to music and hates contempary art. I listen to jazz, avant garde nonesense , country, punk and misc. prettiness. I love Frank Black and Momus . I barley make enough money for music and art but i pull thru. In september i will finsih my degree in Madison because David got a scholarship. I live in Central Candada because that is the only thing that makes endless praries livable. I also write poetry and go to the movie house once a week.

read i belive in God because it makes endless praries liveable.

I'm 25 and I write and record music always. I work at an art school in Boston but dream of having a record contract. However, my music seems to only appeal to me. Oh well. I like lots of stuff, and I shall not choose "favorites"at this time, Hear me here http://www.mp3.com/mikehanley

http://www.mp3.com/pennysongs

cheers!

I'm an entomologist in kentucky. I'm the sort that tends to like short pop songs with lots of melody and harmony (Buddy Holly, Beatles, Kinks, Byrds, Beach Boys). I also really really like early albums from Van Morrison. Here's some psychosis for ya: I'm putting off buying Veedon Fleece because its the only Van album left that I suspect I will like. I'm actually saving it for a later period in life when I desperately need a good album that's new (to me). Does anybody else do that? Lately I've been catching up with old stuff that I've never listened to before (Mike Nesmith, Nitty Gritty Dirt, Todd Rundgren, the Move) and some newer things by some of these Elephant 6 people, and others. Unfortunately, I'm not really qualified to be in this forum. I don't write music or music reviews. I did write some music reviews for myself so that I could read more criticism on the albums in my collection (I would like to expand this project so that I can learn more about my opinions of my friends' albums). Also, I once dated a girl whose dad wrote the "we do chicken right" jingle for KFC, so I have connections to the music "biz." Okay, I never really dated a girl. Speaking of dating, I watched _Looking For Mr. Goodbar_ for the first time last night. Man, if that don't turn you off stabbing someone to death, I don't know what will. Perhaps _Suspiria_. Favorite albums, cause you want to know and I like to list things: Moondance, Astral Weeks, Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of...), Get Happy!!, Imperial Bedroom, loveless, isn't anything, stone roses, pet sounds, 69 love songs Favorite albums which perhaps aren't as cliched as the above, but then again they are: cake and I've seen everything (trash can sinatras), uncle anesthesia and dust (screaming trees), the good earth (feelies), Gone (yoakam), and the hits just keep on coming (nesmith), pinkerton (weezer), heaven or las vegas (c. twins), wrecking ball (emmylou), va va voom (cinerama), saturnalia (wedding present), simpatico and copacetic (velocity girl), straightaways (son volt), Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy (Nitty Gritty). Other insterests: movies (how predictable), false sea serpent sightings that aren't hoaxes, non-offensive uses of Liquid Paper.

36. Office worker in Cleveland.

Jan and Dean, Dif Juz, the new Lucinda Williams record. Twee.

6'1", 160 lbs.

Asexual when sober.

I've been reading and occasionally contributing here for a while, but now that school's out, you'll be seeing more of me.

I'm 33, live in Chicago. I work in an art / film/ music library. We've got a music library with an annual budget of about $25,000, so I've been listening to a lot of free stuff lately and our collection is surprisingly good.

Um, to be brief, I'm very intolerant and have distinct taste boundaries that could be best characterized as urban: I like poppy things, stoopid things, funky things and arty / experimental things. I like music sung in languages other than English and Mayo Thompson-era Rough Trade. I dislike Brand Name personality music, confessional music and music made by guys who wear plaid shirts. I have, however, been known to boogie out to the trashiest rock anthems.