Introduce Yourselves!

oh Ned, you just make me fucking smile. god bless ya

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"ILM ruined my life, I'm only 31 years old. . ."

erm... are there any ladies on here? anyway, i'm 20, from the nw, go to college in ohio. holla at disco inferno. also: hall & oates, swirlies, royal trux, this heat, eric b. & rakim, bone thugs, bedhead, isolée, rhys chatham, the clean, lync, fleetwood mac, unrest, lotsa giorgio moroder/cerrone/italo-whatever stuff. and that's just, like, memorable stuff that recently popped up on itunes shuffle. but i also just listened to erasure, drive like jehu, aztec camera, and young marble giants on vinyl, so you stodgy vinyl diehards can stop sniveling. i don't wear pants. categorically. i write. creatively. for my major (yeah, it makes me wince, too). i wear huge earrings and high top vans every day and am incorrigibly lazy. i have an affinity for pickles. i probably deserve to be slapped.

oh, i've been lurking creepily for maybe a year, but hey, it's summer break, i'm bored, and i'd rather not spoil my consumptive pallor by, i dunno, venturing outdoors. so i figured i'd like, register or something. greetings.

hi do you go to oberlin?

or is that just what everybody in ohio listens to?

or the planet

TERRA

aw shit am i that transparent?

guilty as charged.

Hello! Finally. I started posting here recently and I was in a crappy mood this week, so if I snapped at anybody, I'm sorry for doing that. Sorry CaptainLorax. It was just me.

Anyway, I live in Seattle in the Capitol Hill neighborhood with my girl who I'll call Jamee. Right near Broadway, the street that keeps pumping more value into our pad but gets crappier and more depressing as time passes. Now we're just waiting to see when it becomes too much to live in this place or when the value will hit its highest peak. It's like Vegas baby!

Jamee and I are both dykes in our forties. We currently love rnb and dance music. We used to love punk rock, hip hop, and experimental or industrial music and we still do, but we don't live there anymore if that makes it clear. I'm here just to see if I Love Music will help me discover material that I have been missing or not getting all these decades. And you guys seem knowledging and eager to share the 411.

No, my girl and I think the Indigo Girls are blah. They are pleasant enough and if they came over the speakers or the radio when we are with company, we would not stick our fingers in our throats or leave. And I wish I could say the lesbian Indigo Girls stereotype was not true but it is, with our friends anyway. Rnb, funk, hip hop, punk rock or whatever else I mentioned speaks to both of us a lot more than the whole granola lez folk thing. But that's just us. The only frustrating thing is that some of my friends will not even consider Sinead O Connor or Bonnie Raitt, who we do not worship, but are so much more interesting than the Indigo Girls. We do have friends who love the Rnb the funk and the hip hop though, so we're definitely not going crazy or nothing. *Lol*

Now it's time for me to hush and let someone else take the stage.

Greetings and hi dere. It's always good to meet a Seattle personage, since I visit the city fairly often (though alas probably not again until next April). Your Indigo Girls disdain strikes me as healthy and right (though I'll allow for "Closer to Fine," at least musically).

Thank you Ned! What is going down in April?

Indigo Girls disdain is healthy? I do not think disdain for anything that is just for entertainment purposes can automatically be healthy. I like hearing the people explain why they like or don't like something meant to entertain. And the explaining part is healthy. Sometimes the explanation is not healthy, but that is a subjective thing. Is that what you meant?

In large part, though I'm prone to snap judgments in general, it has to be said. Said duo doesn't do much for me as you've gathered, but on a larger point any kind of defeat of expectations as to what one must or must not like musically in favor of simply enjoying what you enjoy the most is a good thing to start with, for anyone -- and it sounds like you're not one to be put into a box, taste-wise!

As for April:

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Ned: and it sounds like you're not one to be put into a box, taste-wise!

Don't be so sure.

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*Lol*

That EMP thing sounds really striking. I hope I don't forget by April!

Don't worry, the thread will be hyperactive at that point.

What's up, Miza Din II! Always good to have more Seattlites on ILM. Be warned, SeattILXors party 'til we throw up. And play croquet.

You might occasionally want to drop into the de facto Seattle thread. Seattle! How is it now? Are there jobs? Should I move there?

Oh, and if you go to the EMP thing, avoid the long-haired hippie-looking guy with the deep voice. He'll talk your ear off if you give him half a chance.

Yeah, fuck that fucking punk.

Indeed.

OMG Ned, that photo: Please tell me you're not trying to pull a Waldo Jeffers there. It ain't worth it!

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Fuck a non-rapist! Real men rape and pillage and burn and destroy all fucking day, because that's what makes us men! Actually, now that I think of it, being a non-rapist is excusable if you're female. Maybe.

OMG Ned, that photo: Please tell me you're not trying to pull a Waldo Jeffers there. It ain't worth it!

But I'd reached my limit!

Hi, my name is Jamie, I'm 28 and live in North London although I originally hail from Devon. Office monkey and freelance Designer.
Record my own bewildered sounding electronic stuff.

Long time favorites would be New Order, Underworld (got my ticket for the Roundhouse next month!), Massive Attack, 808 State, early Mo' Wax, Autechre up until they went totally bongo, Aphex and other early Warp AI stuff - B12, Link and all their subsequent Global Communication monikered stuff. Recent-ish convert to Dubstep (namely the Hyperdub strain, Random trio / Bug stuff). Teky (i.e. early Photek) d&b, teky (but not emotionless) House. Not all bleeps; big respect for The Durutti Column, Can and Killing Joke.

Longtime dislikes; Ill-informed, florid student music journalism, ill-informed, florid baby boomer gen music journalism, rockists, the London trust-fund posh boy indie scene. Zealots.

Might change my hilarious username to something more sober in the near future.

Formerly "Dr. Gene Scott"...I've been wandering the desert for years due to email change + Firefox registration glitches... There were so many things I have wanted to say, and now I cannot remember a damn one of them.

In any case I wanted to be the very first to welcome me back.

Welcome back, me!

Welcome back, you!

Welcome back.

What is up with Dr. Gene Scott's broadcasts still being broadcast with no mention of his passing? Ah, I guess it's par for the course. Did you ever see the Werner Herzog docu "God's Angry Man"?

I've posted on and off here for 5 years or so.

I'm 33, and I grew up listening to punk and hardcore. In 1989, at 15, I started booking bands and running a fanzine in CT (Fun With Cows). I booked Neurosis, Green Day, Born Against, Nation of Ulysses, and tons more Dischord and Lookout bands. I interviewed Henry Rollins, Naked Raygun, and Fugazi. I sang in bands called Maude and Pageant.

Now I listen to lots of jazz (20s to 00s, with a preference for avant-garde) reggae (the usual Blood & Fire, Tubby/Perry suspects), and I've had the long-term crazies for Mekons, Tom Verlaine, and Alex Chilton. I've moved more toward instrumental music, but I've always loved good lyricists, from Dylan to Darnielle.

I've always been ambivalent about this site--in order for me to submit considered, well-worded answers, I would be on here all day. Still, thought I'd say hi, since I've dropped in more often lately.

Look at me
Look at me
I'm a zing master

bolton borealis.

kenneth connor, white pigeons, beaver and krause.

bester. is it september yet?

tongues cold when stored salty.

I sang in bands called Maude and Pageant.

tell me you guys covered "...and then there's Maude"!

No, but we heard it all the time! I hardly remembered why we called ourselves that--I'm pretty sure the drummer and I were gonna have a joke rap band called that (joke rap bands--not funny then, not funny now), and then called our Screeching Weasel-derivative band that instead.

The second band was Fugazi/Jesus Lizard derivative--a common arc at the time among kids my age, I think.

Hey all, been reading these boards for a few months now, and found it a great source of information and discussion, so I finally got around to making an account.

I'm a 17 year old student living in London, which makes me younger than the vast majority of posters, but hopefully I can contribute a bit without making too big a fool of myself. Really just hoping to expand my still very small knowledge of music and hopefully broaden my tastes a bit.

Currently listening to a lot of metal (cos I'm a teenager clearly) but plenty of other stuff, small selection of artists I've been listening to recently to give you an idea:

Agalloch/Alcest/Amok/Anathema/Angelic Process/Arcturus/Boards of Canada/Boris/Burzum/Caina/Candlemass/Darkspace/Deathspell/Dillinger/Dodheimsgard/Down/Earth/Electric Soft Parade/Electric Wizard/Emperor/Endstille/Ghost/Gorgoroth/Grave in the Sky/High on Fire/Immortal/Isis/Isole/Jesu/Katatonia/Moonsorrow/Mr. Bungle/My Bloody Valentine/Neurosis/Neutral Milk Hotel/Novembers Doom/Novembre/Oceansize/Om/Radiohead/Ride/Slowdive/Studio/Sunn O))/Super Furry Animals/Talk Talk/Trelldom/Ulver/Virgin Black/Watain/Witchcraft/Working for a Nuclear.../Wolves in the Throne Room/65daysofstatic

Ok I should stop, sorry about the facebook style list. Anyway, it just seems like I have quite a lot of the obvious and more famous choices (as well as mostly new stuff), and I'd love to try and get deeper into a few of those genres, probably by haunting the Rolling Metal Thread like I did last year.

Oh, and a certain l j4gger happens to be my brother, but don't hold that against me (yeah I'm the dude he kept stealing metal off).

this has to be fake

has to

Louis gets his revenge!

Holy shit.

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WOW

Have you met Noodle Vague yet?

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As one door closes another opens...

Heh, I knew mentioning lj in first post was a bad idea (though I was hoping for some amusing responses), but I'd rather just get it out the way. Guess I'll lie low until the zings stop flying.

'Have you met Noodle Vague yet?'

Don't think so...

dude if you were gonna go ahead and impersonate louis' brother you should have gone ahead and made sure you didn't call him "lj"

Wecome, Brother Jagger, to the madhouse.

this had potential

'dude if you were gonna go ahead and impersonate louis' brother you should have gone ahead and made sure you didn't call him "lj"'

Not only did I impersonate louis' bro I also hacked his school email account and used it to register. :)

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creep

Are we sure this isn't legit?

FAKER PD