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Hi I'm Mark and I've been posting for about 2 years. I am 29. I have a propensity for posting when I'm totally drunk, but somehow have managed not to say anything completely stupid yet. Give me time.

I like all kinds of music, except rap and country*

* I like rap

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 11 February 2006 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, and I live in Austin,TX, usa.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Saturday, 11 February 2006 02:23 (eighteen years ago) link

hi i'm john. i've been posting occasionally for nearly three years. i have a mix from doglatin off slsk. i tend to post mostly when drunk (like now). i am 34 (!), a corny indie fuq, taller than you unless your first name ends with -o and your last with -ington, and getting married next week to a girl who likes the yankees and most of the music i like except for laika. i respect yet hate steely dan, abhor the word 'utilize', and considered inviting the members of superchunk to my wedding. on most ilm threads i agree with nabisco--except, of course, when he's wrong.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 February 2006 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link

hi mookie, didn't realise you had one of my mixes. congrats on the marriage!

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Saturday, 11 February 2006 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, I'm a totally corny indie fux0r, except when I'm not. I'm probably as tall as mookieproof. I'm married to someone who likes Death Cab For Cutie. I'm currently listening to the Cockney Rejects. They are the best band in the world.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 11 February 2006 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm as corny as the indies get and totally rockist about it too.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Saturday, 11 February 2006 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I've been a lurker / rare poster for about a year. I'm Jeff, 31, web-development type person, from the UP of Michigan. But will be moving soon to wherever the wife gets a college professor job upon which time I probably will look into being a grad student or calling my own bluff on my culinary aspirations.

Lately I've been heavily revisiting my musical formative years by digging a lot of 80's punk rock and hip-hop, but I like most everything cause I'm pretty sure theres lots of music I love that I haven't heard yet.

― joygoat (joygoat), Saturday, 11 February 2006 06:38 (eighteen years ago) link

You guys really ARE all young!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 11 February 2006 06:50 (eighteen years ago) link

mike aka mikebee, 31, san francisco
for money i maintain the electronic(a) section at amoeba music in the city

Hey weird, heywood! My name is Mike B. and I used to maintain the rock section at amoeba music in Berkeley.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 11 February 2006 07:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Anybody work at Amoeba music in Hollywood?!?

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Saturday, 11 February 2006 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

HELLO, I am Quinn.

A/S/L = 23/F/Philadelphia (recently moved from Austin, TX)

I became addicted to this site (mostly the Noise Dudes board) for about three weeks, and now I mostly like to read the ILM for interesting recommendations and YSI tracks. My favorite music is krautrock/psychedelic/noise/anything bitchin'.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Halloa and how do. Yay anything bitchin'!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry I never came back to see your response Ned--I'm from Saratoga Springs! How on earth did you end up there for 3 years? It sure as hell explains why you reviewed Animated Porcupine on AMG though!

― patita (patita), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link

i come for continuation of the thisly and thusly story...

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahahah, very cool. :-) Yeah, I lived there from 1982 through 1985 -- my dad was commander of the Naval base at Ballston Spa. I know about Animated Porcupine cuz Emily was a good friend of my sister's at that time and they kept in touch over the years. :-) There's at least one other Saratoga Springs veteran on the boards, Caitlin (from America as opposed to the UK).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey,
I'm Will, 20 years old, lurker and rare poster under many different names for the past year or so. I am from NJ but go to the University of Michigan (seem to be a few other Wolverines here). Figured I might as well introduce myself so I have at least SOME credibility given ILM's insularity. I tend to like noisy or psychadelic music most. Some of my faves are Butthole Surfers, My Bloody Valentine, Wire, Can, Brainiac, and Big Black. And props to ILM for essentially introducing me to Royal Trux, Karp, Gravitar, The Wipers, Disco Inferno, and a bunch of other top flight bands that I now consider among my favorites.

― W Gary (Schade), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Credibility? We spit on it. (A lie, perhaps.) All Disco Inferno fans highly welcome, of course. :-) And so you're the Gravitar freak, are you? ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Hi, I'm Sean, 22 and from Boston. I've known about ILM for a while but just started posting recently--opinions aside, there's an impressive amount of knowledge here. I don't really know what to say about what I like, except it's wide-ranging and there's really no pattern to it (at least that I can find). I'm currently trying to listen to reggae. So, yeah, it's nice to be here.

― Sean Braudis (Sean Braudis), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

ned, are "disco inferno" fans also welcome??

― haitch (haitch), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

And heya to Sean.

No, Haitch, I'm afraid they must be killed. Oh wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:34 (eighteen years ago) link

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Hi Will! I'm U-M class of '98. I hate most of your favorite bands. Welcome!

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

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If you're talking about the guy who wanted all the "crazy psychadelia," that wasn't me. I stumbled upon that thread a few months ago while searching for ILM's opinion of the Butthole Surfers. But yeah, that thread basically convinced me to shell out the $7 for "Now the Road of Knives," and the Gravitar love just blossomed from there.

Hey Joseph! Class of '08 here! And I'm used to the hate, my friends are all "there is no good music after 1980" classic rock fans!

― W Gary (Schade), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Hi Will! I'm U-M class of '98. I hate most of your favorite bands. Welcome!

It's quite possible that I attended your graduation. Anthony Kiedis might have been there too.

― joygoat (joygoat), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Hi Will! I am a maladjusted, bitter guttersnipe. However, your favorite bands are A-OK with me.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Hi everyone. My name is Oscar and I live in the Bay Area. I was introduced to the boards by a fellow music and am glad he did. My music tastes are schizophrenic: jazz, punk, psych, disco, shoegaze, noise, classical, latin.I am hoping to engage in some heated discussions in the future, all in good fun of course.

― oscar, Sunday, 11 March 2007 01:08 (seventeen years ago) link

no teenpop, no schizophrenia

― unfished business, Sunday, 11 March 2007 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Matt. 38. Lurking for years. Ned sent me a Disco Inferno 5eps CD a couple or so years ago.. (thanks again Ned!)

As for labels, Post-Rock and Krautrock are what I'm all about.

A wonderful place for reference and good discourse, this.

― Sum Fitch, Sunday, 11 March 2007 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello, oscar, and what type(s) of Latin music do you like (granted, you listed that last)? (Hello Sum too. Not a big Krautrock fan, but I did have on Ralf und Florian earlier, if that counts.)

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 11 March 2007 02:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Oscar! [rep]the bay[/rep]

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 11 March 2007 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Rockist, right now I'm listening to Willie Colon, Aldemaro Romero, and Nico Gomez which i just finally got on Japanese import CD (ouch). Also, just got a nuyorican vinyl comp on Honest Jon's which is heat. Generally, I listen to everything from boogaloo, mambo, salsa, also been listening to alot of Colombian cumbias lately too. Although sometimes I get tired of the hard percussive funky stuff and go back to my father's collection who turned me on to Esquivel and Agustin Lara. Any recommendations? Yeah hoos, the bay area is the sheez, way too much stuff going on. Also thanks for the response, and I have to say you guys here on the boards really know your stuff.

― oscar, Sunday, 11 March 2007 03:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I dreamt some cumbia last night, except I was thinking it didn't sound that Colombian and maybe it was Mexican.

Hey, I don't even kow who Aldemaro Romero is (and Nico Gomez is just a vaguely familiar name).

Any recommendations?

Too many really, although at the moment my attention is a little bit elsewhere. But come and add something to the rolling salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia thread, if you have anything to say: http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=55739#unread

Otherwise you will bump into more rolling salsa or artist-specific threads in the archives.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 11 March 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi Everybody,

I am: Stephen / 29 / Libra / Smoker / Heterosexual / Caucasian (German / Dutch) / Semi-Rockist

I've been a casual observer around these parts, though I've only now mustered the courage to officially participate. I have a fragile ego and have feared being crushed ILM & its trenchant, take-no-prisoners methodology. Through therapy, though, I've come around to announcing my official participation.

I just moved to Toledo, OH, via Brooklyn (Greenpoint), via Ann Arbor, MI. Thankfully, I will be back in NYC by August, though I currently have a lot of time on my hands. Hence..

― Dorf Engulf, Thursday, 15 March 2007 06:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Welcome welcome.

Ned sent me a Disco Inferno 5eps CD a couple or so years ago.. (thanks again Ned!)

And you're welcome there too!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 March 2007 06:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks Ned. I'll sleep more soundly tonight, to be sure.

BTW, Favorites: Velvets, Byrds, MBV, Galaxie 500, Bark Psychosis, Public Enemy, Joy Division, The Chills, Low, Big Star, and way too much more for me to briefly synopsize.

I know of Disco Inferno, mostly from their Talk Talk-esque post-career reappraisal; and I know they are commonly referenced alongside artists I like, but I have not heard any of their music. A damning admission, I know, so I'll be sure to seek some out.

― Dorf Engulf, Thursday, 15 March 2007 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link

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― danbunny, Thursday, 15 March 2007 06:57 (seventeen years ago) link

25, nerd. san francisco. from gainesville, fl by way of phoenix, az. um ... appreiciate minimal wave and mid 20th Century compositions, but ... i love shoegaze, ambient, and bad mid-90s hardcore. also love love love techno. went to school for euro continental philosophy. hate it now, but not really. just hate academia. love that i live 2 blocks from 4 parks. love drinking whiskey and listening to records with my friends. being stupid. posting on the internet and digging through records. my mom is mexican, but i look really white. wish i looked more mexican, and i love enchiladas. i also love ethiopian food. i wear boring clothes ... black, white, grey, brown block color t-shirts. jeans. always. that's about it.

thinkin of moving. i like change.

― Cameron Octigan, Thursday, 15 March 2007 07:29 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

I'm Craig (obvs), 31 year old philosophy graduate in Nottingham, England. I'm 6'5" and 17-18 stone. I need a haircut, have a big nose, and love twee indiepop, songs that get bored with themselves several times during their duration, and most stuff within a step-remove of Stereolab.

Emil.y is my significant other.

― Mister Craig, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:43 (sixteen years ago) link

How come there are 800+ posts on this thread, and I don't recognize 75% of these people?

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link

Maybe they all left after the welcome they got?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link

all the REAL MEN just jump right into posting without a second thought

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link

What up, Mister Craig! Welcome to ILX!

― The Reverend, Thursday, 10 May 2007 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link

"How come there are 800+ posts on this thread, and I don't recognize 75% of these people?"

i think it's like the picture thread on ile. it's a way for lurkers to show us they are alive. or get a date. one or the other.

― scott seward, Thursday, 10 May 2007 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link

all the REAL MEN just jump right into posting without a second thought

ha OTM. Actually I followed the formula of lurk for 3 months+, post as judiciously as possible especially at first and 100+ posts before axing a question.

I would like to introduce myself by saying that I prefer to remain anonymous.

I feel like I can say more of what's on my puny little mind that way.

I am 45, male and live in New York. I can give you that.

― Saxby D. Elder, Thursday, 10 May 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link

HI DERE to Mr. Craig. And then there's this Saxby guy I've heard about, whose real name is of course Thurston Moore.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 May 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm a Virgo, 43, live in Boston and ladies, I can assure you that I am ALL man...I like/hate all kinds of music, but if somebody disparages Laura Nyro, we're gonna have a problem...

― henry s, Thursday, 10 May 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link

My name's Mark, as it says below. I'm 24 and work in a specialised ethics library at a university in DC. I went to American University here in DC, where I studied philosophy. I grew up in Cleveland and my heart is still there, despite my unlikely return.

Stuff I've been into recently: Gas/Wolfgang Voigt, Peter Brotzmann, Anthony Braxton, Ricardo Villalobos, Nanae Yoshimura, Fennesz, electronic stuff from the late 90s/early 00s, Steve Reich, Farben, Minutemen, and lots of dub: Augustus Pablo, Lee Perry, Tubby.

Stuff that I'd like to hear more of: noise music, free/improv, Tim Hecker, Miles Davis' Jack Johnson period, Ryuichi Sakamoto, early Fennesz, Evan Parker, more Jan Jelinek, Stars of the Lid, Prince, Beefheart, Boredoms, loads more and stuff I haven't even heard about.

Stuff I grew up on (with a little help from older siblings): Beatles, Tom Waits, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Sonic Youth, John Fahey, Pink Floyd, Aphex Twin, Olivia Tremor Control, Pet Shop Boys, Duster, The Cure, Dylan, Pavement, and lots of bad trance music in high school.

Non-music stuff I'm into: cooking, beer: esp. american pale ales, IPAs, stouts, porters. Cooking a great meal with some pale ale in hand and a good record on the player is a perfect night for me, preferably with some friends who also like music.

Which brings me to: any DC folk here who would want to hang out and play some cds/records and drink some beer, feel free to send an email.

― Mark Clemente, Thursday, 10 May 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Hi! I'm Jeff. I'm a screenwriter/music reviewer in Los Angeles, age 24. I've been here for seven or eight months now, so this isn't that much of an introduction, but I feel like I'm not officially here until I introduce myself on this thread. Everything before this post was just practice.

― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 10 May 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Welcome, Mark! I share a lot of your interests (Braxton, dub, Miles, Beefheart) and am a philo major, cool to find a kindred spirit. Look forward to posts!

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 10 May 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link

The true Jeff is revealed!

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 10 May 2007 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link

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― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 May 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link

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