Introduce Yourselves!

Music that comes to mind, off the top of my head, stream-of-consciously: The Cure, The Smiths, The Fall, Pixies, Love, Magnetic Fields (I think '69 Love Songs' might be a Desert Island Disc), Nick Drake, Scott Walker, Burt Bacharach, New Order & JD, My Bloody Valentine, Smog, Cat Power, Dirty Three, The Sundays, Cocteau Twins, Cowboy Junkies, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Dead Kennedys, The Clash, The Cramps, Velvet Underground, Nick Cave in all incarnations, Will Oldham in all incarnations, Stone Roses, Moose, The Go-Betweens, The Clean, Pulp more than Blur and not Oasis much at all, Broken Social Scene, Feist, The Dears, The Arcade Fire, Destroyer, Mercury Rev, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, The Beatles, The Monkees (I know! I know! But I had a job closed-captioning the entire "Monkees" TV series and, well, developed a bit of a crush... guilty pleasure, OK?), The Beach Boys, ohGodwhoamIforgetting...

Other: Writing, reading, films, eating, daydreaming on the bus, wine.

I like sad things but I'm quite happy, really.

A perfectly fine state of mind! Hullo to you and Nic both. (And there's nothing wrong with the Monkees at all!)

and there is no such thing as a guilty pleasure! there is only pleasure.

Hi!

and there is no such thing as a guilty pleasure! there is only pleasure.
Ooh, I like that!
Voluptuarist indeed, or maybe a Head-On-ist, if you're a JAMC / Pixies fan... ?

Vicky

My name is Casey, I'm 37 and have been living in England with my wife since November 2002 (originally from the USA).

I have been lurking here for awhile and finally decided it was time to formally introduce myself.

Some of these threads are absolutely brilliant and I'm looking forward to putting my two cents in here and there.

(When the award is handed out for Most Boring Introduction on ILM, I'll make sure I'm there to accept in person so you won't have to see my (boring) videotaped acceptance speech.)

Brett Hickman

34 years old

I edit and write for an online magazine

My all-time five favorite albums are:
1. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
2. The Band - Music From Big Pink
3. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
4. Wilco - Being There
5. The Beatles - the White album

My e-mail address is real, but I am not.

five musicians i wish i could interview (some of which i can't, really):
emmylou harris
keith jarrett
frank black
marc bolan
buddy holly

it is merely coincidence that their names start with letters from the first half of the alphabet.

i might be able to help you there, dearie. cross my palm with silver ...

I like it here.

interesting. but which period specifically? or just "everything"?
dude, start threads on russian op 6 rock. do - now.

Now my friend Diego (who has been part of some Focus Group at freaky trigger, and has also been writing for Stylus Magazine) offered me to be part of Edward O's kinda classic "Cross Europe Charts", I did the first one, based on the charts from Denmark. Then he sent me yousendits for the one from Norway, which was really great, but I couldn't write anything because...well...life happened again. So if Edward gets back from wherever he is and sends me more yousendits, I hope I'll keep being part of that.

I really don't know if I'll ever get enough courage to be part of any of the wild discussions that take place here, but, well, I had to do this just in case.

i'm john, from chicago, 33 years old, first found ILM (via a link from woebot) to the covers drawn from memory threads last year. began posting as frankE, advocated strong for big & rich as album of the decade, stopped for a while after the 2004 election (nothing seemed to matter, woe is me and all that), came back as john'n'chicago, had some trouble logging in (apostrophes don't sit well with cookies apparently), settled with this new/improved name.

in a former life i was: high-school OCD record acquirer, college paper record reviewer, lackey for crappy teensy record companies, assistant to booking agent.

after all that, i stopped listening to music with any seriousness for years. not quite sure i do now.

Anyway, who reads this kind of thread???

welcome, new people. hope you like it here.

my name is jonathon, 29, married and father of 1, bachelor of arts in journalism, i'm in a touring band that i'd rather not name here because i'm too chicken ILMers will filet us alive and i'd rather post in obscurity, i've spent a lot of my twenties travelling and working for various music-related businesses in the US and Europe, have probably slept on every couch in North America, Eastern Canada, and Western Europe, i'm growing my first beard, my very first ILM post was locked by Ned Raggett, and i'm psyched to enter into these discussions, but i'll probably end up getting lazy and resorting to half-assed lurking most of the time.

nice to meet you all.
cheers

I can't spell or write very well. I'm not objective. I have less than 1% hate in my heart. I like to play electric guitars through amps with pedals, even though I'm no good. I like to play with Reason 3. I like to sing. I can sing a little I think. I love music!

"I'm in love with the radio on" - modern lovers

And Ned is like a greeter who stands at the entrance to the sanctuary.

(Amazing that people were already missing Geir Hongro before I first posted here.)

hello!