Getting to Know You : A Survey ......... (please contribute if you are as eager to talk about yourselves as I am to know about you all!)

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Add anything you want people to know:

C J, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I suppose I had better go first though

C J, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: C J
Age: 34
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 132lbs
Fav Band: Lots really - I don't think I could choose just one. Queen, The Jam, The Buzzcocks, The Beautiful South, INXS, Steely Dan, Roxy Music, Genesis ....... I could ramble on for ever. I have extremely diverse musical tastes.
Fav Movie: Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Iron Eagle, and I've watched the Harry Potter DVD about a hundred times
Fav TV Show: Any silly, self-deprecating humorous British sketch shows or sitcoms - League of Gentlemen, Smack The Pony, The Fast Show, The Kumars at Number 42, Goodness Gracious Me, AbFab, and the greatest of them all - Python

Fav Book: All the Harry Potter books, but especially Book 4 (The Goblet of Fire)

Fav Actor: Mel Gibson, Sean Connery (except he's rotten at accents apart from his native Scottish one)

Fav Actress: Goldie Hawn

Fav Food: Curry
Fav Sport: Rugby (watching, not playing!)

Fav Athlete: Due to the fact I become completely weak and helpless in the presence of a number 8, plus being of Welsh extraction, I would have to choose Scott Quinnell - Captain of the Welsh national rugby team, and most capped Welsh number 8 player ever.
Drink of Choice: Yes, please. Is it your round?

Depends on my mood - Gin & Tonic mostly I suppose, but also Pimms, wine, beer, champagne, or innocent-sounding cocktails that remove the use of a person's legs and make them start speaking Klingon. (Not all of those drinks at once, obviously, or I would be Very Sick Indeed which is neither classy nor ladylike)

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Nope. None. Nada. Rien. Nichts.

Smoker? - No, never

Occupation - Self-employed. I run a property letting/ management company.

Do you work out? - Not as such. Play quite a bit of tennis whenever it's not raining (so that's probably not very much, then)

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?
What a horrible question. I don't know, do I? First thing in the morning, all tousled with a hangover and no make-up? Probably best not to dwell on that.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? I've just asked my staff for their comments on this. They chorused an enthusiastic "10", but I think this has more to do with the fact they have performance appraisals due soon. I'd say 7 or 8, but after a few drinks to overcome my dreadful shyness, I'm absolutely magic. Really.

Add anything you want people to know:
I have nearly died from bad asthma attacks a couple of times (but thankfully - touch wood - I have been OK for the past few years). I am very scared of being buried alive (blame rading The Pit and The Pendulum when I was a kid for that). I love chocolate. My dog is a thief.

C J, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Dr.C Age: 40 Height: 6 feet 4 and a half

Fav Band Names ever: Buggles, Hot Butter, Disco Tex and The Sex-O-Lets

Last Movie Seen: Last Orders

Fav TV Show: Match of The Day

Fav Book: The Grapes of Wrath

Fav Actor: Phil Davis

Fav Actress: Anna Friel

Fav Food: Fish and Chips

Fav Sport: Rugby Union + soccer

Fav Athlete: Hazeley Crawford

Drink of Choice: Bitter

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): N/A

Smoker? : Part-time

Occupation : Marketing, sadly.

Do you work out? : Yes.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5 On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 4

Dr. C, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Nathalie
Age: 28
Height: 167 cm 59/58 kilos
Fav Music: Fleetwood Mac, dEUS, Madonna, Joni M, Northern Soul, Spector, No New York comp,... too much to list here
Fav Movie: I quite like Fast Times At Ridgement High but Hitchcock, Scorsese and David Lynch are excellent as well.
Fav TV Show: Young Ones.
Fav Book: Most recently: Anything by Barthes.
Fav Actor: A young Robert DeNiro
Fav Actress: I don't have a fave (sadly?)
Fav Food: Japanese, yoghurt and banana-bread
Fav Sport: tennis
Fav Athlete: Hmm, I quite like the curent crop of Belgian tennis playaz
Drink of Choice: Diet Sprite/Coke, fruit flav. tea and alcohol (rum especially)
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): I haven't tried any yet.
Smoker? : Nope, I get nauseous
Occupation : Sales
Do you work out? : Nope, but I plan to take up tennis again
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :I don't rate my looks
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Nor my personality.

nathalie, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Martin Skidmore
Age: 43
Height: 5'7" Fav Band: Probably Pulp, except the use of "band" distorts: favourite musical act is Al Green. Fav Movie: I watched Bringing Up Baby again yesterday so am tempted by that, but mostly it's Seven Samurai. Fav TV Show: Unmissables include Simpsons, Homicide, Buffy, Match of the Day. Fav Book: Probably 1001 Nights. Fave novel is Sam Delany's Dhalgren; short story collection - Labyrinths by Borges. Fav Actor: Jean Gabin. Others: Brando, Mifune, Cary Grant. Fav Actress: Barbara Stanwyck, Katherine Hepburn, Gloria Grahame. Fav Food: Bacon, chocolate, ice cream (not all together). Fav Sport: Football, no contest. Fav Athlete: Pele, one of my great heroes. Drink of Choice: Robinson's Original orange squash, diluted 1:1 and cold. Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): cannabis. Smoker? : Not since December 2001 - I have had three since. Minimum permitted interval between fags now: 2 weeks. Occupation : system analyst and programmer. Do you work out? : No, never. On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : about 3. On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : about 3. Add anything you want people to know: not that I'm copying CJ, but my asthma has nearly killed me a few times too.

Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: duane

Age: 39

Height: i don't know

Fav Band: i don't know

Fav Movie: "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"

Fav TV Show: "Just Shoot Me"

Fav Book: i don't know

Fav Actor: nobody

Fav Actress: same

Fav Food: i don't know

Fav Sport: i hate sports

Fav Athlete: ditto

Drink of Choice: beer i guess

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): i'm trying to quit. yeah, right, i know.

Smoker? : nope

Occupation : "unemployed musician"

Do you work out? : oh god no. i went swimming today tho

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : i don't know

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : i don't know

duane, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

to answer the drug question slightly more honestly, seeing as neither the local police nor my mother are likely to read this : junk. all i'm doing in the way of "trying to quit" really is not having enough money to do it every day. there's always a way tho!

, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: James E L
Age: 26
Height: 6"1-ish
Fave Band: Slayer, Poison, Beach Boys, Dinosaur Jr, Philistines Jr, Elfpower, NMH and loads more...
Fave Movie: Return of the Jedi, Bill and Ted, American Movie and loads more...
Fave TV show: Don't really have one
Fave Book: Stuff by Knut Hamsun, Murakami, Great Gatsby, Kerouac, Kochalka...
Fave Actor: hmmm, Charlie Sheen and Johnny Depp
Fave Actress: Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Love-Hewitt, Rachael Leigh Cook etc.
Fave food: Doughnuts
Fave sport: cricket
Fave athelete: don't have one
Drink: tea
Drug: tea
Smoker: non
Occupation: Library assistant
Work-out: nope

Looks: 4?
Personality: 5

jel --, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Dianne Smith
Age: 22
Height: not sure exactly but i think i'm about 5'4"
Fav Band/s: sleater-kinney, the fall, the terminals, the renderers, the strange girls, the scissor girls.
Fav Movie: Different for girls
Fav TV Show: Six Feet under
Fav Book: gender trouble
Fav Actor: david mccallum
Fav Actress: joanna lumley
Fav Food: hummus
Fav Sport: swimming
Fav Athlete: none
Drink of Choice: pina colada
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): LSD!!!!!!
Smoker? : trying not to be
Occupation : student/musician
Do you work out? : NO!
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : well i guess i would give myself 9/10 but i don't think i'm necessarily better looking than anybody else
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : i really don't know. i don't think i'm a very great person but i seem to have friends whose opinions i respect so i would give myself a neutral 5.

di, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Everybody I hate

Age: 20-something

Height: Taller than me

Fav Band: The fucking Verve, Muse, etc. etc. etc.

Fav Movie: Lock Stock

Fav TV Show: Hollyoaks

Fav Book: Sara George - Robert Persig "Zen and the Art . . ."

Fav Actor: Johnny Vaughan

Fav Actress: any

Fav Food: MacDonalds

Fav Sport: Footie

Fav Athlete:

Drink of Choice: Lager

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Bit of weed, makes me feel queasy though

Smoker? : Yeah. 10 Marlboro Lights when I go out

Occupation : Sports Science student

Do you work out? : Yes (No)

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 11!

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 12!

Add anything you want people to know: Last night my mate Dazza got really fucked and threw up all over his mum's sofa. It was so funny . . .

Lynskey, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

jel lists poison as one of his favourite bands = he is CHOICE!

di, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Victor
Age: 15
Height: hmm, i dont know i must be around 170 cm(no idea of how much on these primitive systems)
Fav Band: Put it down to Daft Punk, Kylie and Mundo Livre S/A
Fav Movie: i resaw Orange Clockwork yesterday and i love it so its that
Fav TV Show: CSI
Fav Book: i dont read too much, but okay Vidas Secas(dont know if exists in english)
Fav Actor: Guy Pearce or Jude Law
Fav Actress: have no idea
Fav Food: Beef
Fav Sport: Footbal
Fav Athlete: Arce
Drink of Choice: Graviola Juice
Drug of Choice: Alcohol
Smoker: tried once when was 10, hated it
Occupation: Student
Do you work out: im still tired of the footbal matches i had yesterday
Looks: 5 pushin too hard
Personality: 7 now imagine the amount of spam we are gonna get from this

Chupa-Cabras, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Chris Venuti
Age: 27
Height: 5'11
Fav Band: tough question...Kings of Convenience.
Fav Movie: Goodfellas, Casino, Saving Private Ryan, Dirty Dozen, Kicking and Screaming.
Fav TV Show: Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, CSI.
Fav Book: Stay Here With Me and Sometimes a Great Notion
Fav Actor: Al Pacino, Robert Deniro.
Fav Actress: not sure
Fav Food: Sushi, Beer-Can Chicken, Ice Cream.
Fav Sport: Baseball and Hockey
Fav Athlete: Cam Neely
Drink of Choice: Julius Echter
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Nothing, used to enjoy all sorts, quit them all 7 years ago.
Smoker? : yes
Occupation : QA Software Testing Manager/Web Developer.
Do you work out? : heheee, sometimes.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : a ten of course
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : another 10
Add anything you want people to know:

Chris, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Marc

Age: 23

Height: 6 feet

Fav Band: Modest Mouse

Fav Movie: Magnolia, Pulp Fiction, Spinal Tap, Requiem for a dream

Fav TV Show: Seinfeld

Fav Book: Some Discworld

Fav Actor: Don't know

Fav Actress: Don't know

Fav Food: Pizza

Fav Sport: None

Fav Athlete: None

Drink of Choice: Coca COla

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Coca Cola

Smoker? : No

Occupation : Secret

Do you work out? : No

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : At best 7

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Can't say, not that high though

Marc, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Lek Dukagjin aka Kodanshi aka Jagannatha

Age: 26. 27 on Christmas Eve

Height: 5 foot 3 and-a-half inches. Despite my age I can't think in metres.

Fav Band: Fushitsusha

Fav Movie: Ladri Di Biciclette

Fav TV Show: Quantum Leap

Fav Book: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Fav Actor: Ian McKellan

Fav Actress: Milla Jovovich

Fav Food: Fresh brain

Fav Sport: What does "sport" mean?

Fav Athlete: Huh???

Drink of Choice: Irn-Bru

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): I usd to smoke cannabis. Now it gives me The Fear.

Smoker?: No

Occupation: Dole scum / Hello jobseekers

Do you work out?: I used to. I can't bother doing owt these days.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 0 - yes I know you scaled it from 1 to 10.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: How in fuck's name do you rate a personality???

Add anything you want people to know: I suffer from asthma which has stopped me joining Britain's Royal Marines. Arse!

Lek Dukagjin, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Bryan Age: 34 Height: 5'10"

Fav Band: Sun Ra Arkestra, The Dead C, Barbara Manning, Unrest

Fav Movie: Meet The Feebles, Putney Swope

Fav TV Show: The Simpsons, The Prisoner

Fav Book: Anything by Gertrude Stein or Harry Crews

Fav Actor: Dennis Hopper, Harvey Keitel

Fav Actress: Joan Crawford, Lucy Lawless

Fav Food: Eggplant Parmesan, Peanut Butter

Fav Sport: Miniature Golf

Fav Athlete: Doc Ellis

Drink of Choice: Anchor Steam Porter, Yuengling Black and Tan, Rasberry Italian Soda

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): A combination of 40% procrastination and 60% alcohol

Smoker? : I tried menthols but I quit after a few days when I started coughing up blood

Occupation : subversion from within aka professional temp, possible Grad Student

Do you work out? : Does clicking a mouse or hoisting a pint count??

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4?? I'm not that ugly

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? :5?? I'm not that boring

brg30, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Chris

Age: 21 & 3 quarter's

Height: 6"3

Fav Band: captain beefheart, bobby conn, and bauhaus at the moment

Fav Movie: lost highway

Fav TV Show: only fools and horses,

Fav Book: "Art Crazy Nation" Matthew Collings "Slow Down Arthur Stick to Thirty" Harland Miller "Selected writings" Antonin Artaud Fav Actor: Clint Eastwood

Fav Actress: Milla Jololovich (or something)

Fav Food: Yogurt/ and vegetables

Fav Sport: horseshoes

Fav Athelete: serge gainsberg

Drink of Choice: Water, coca-cola, tea, Kronenberg or Bacardi

Drug of Choice: trouble ain't no place to be

Smoker: Yes

Occupation: Stu'dent

Do you work out: I walk, dont take the car; i do, i do, i do!

On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate your looks: atchoo..... On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate your personality: i cant find my self'o'meter

chris, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: anthony "pink moose" easton
Age: old enough to know better, young enough to care
Height: 1.86 M. Fav Band:Palace,Ween,Velvet underground,The Slits,The Smiths,The Magnetic Fields,Shangri Las,Pulp,Neko Case and her Boygfriends,Smog,Ben Folds Five,Blur,Dead Kenendys,Gang of Four Fav Movie: F is For Fake,Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Apartment,M,Barry Lyndon,Decamron,Sunset Bvld, Rope, If..., Pinacchio, Kids, Gentlemen Perfer Blondes, The Eel, The White Balloon. Fav TV Show:Buffy, Law and Order CI, Oz, West Wing, Six Feet Under,CSI Fav Book: Borges Labyrinths, Frank O Hara Lunch Poems, Melville Billy Budd, Gunn Boss Cupid, Flauberts Dictorinary of Received Ideas Fav Actor: Jimmy Cagney,Liam Neeson,Danielle Day Lewis,Jim Broadbent,Alan Cumming Fav Actress:Alfre Woodward,Jean Seberg,Jodie Foster,Susan Sarondon,Barbra Stanwyck, Catherine Denuve,Gwyneth Paltrow Fav Food: Roast Beef Sandwhiches with Hot Horseradish, Sushi was wasabi, Choclate ice cream, bacon Fav Sport: anything where the men get sweaty and take their shirts off,polo. Fav Athlete: Lance Armstorng Drink of Choice: A dry red wine, vodka and orange, g and t. Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): grass Smoker? : nope Occupation : writer student gadabout Do you work out? : i swim on occasion On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6 On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7

anthony, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Duane and Di are both very good looking! Take it from me. Gee why do I only feel motivated to add a note regarding that?

maryann, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Mandee. Age: 22 Height: 5'7" Fav Band: The Dream Warriors Fav Movie: "Dream to Believe" Fav TV Show: "Dream On" Fav Book: "How to stay happy, though married," by Ida Frumthorpe Fav Actor: Donovan Leitch Fav Actress: Jill Schoelen Fav Food: Macaroni and cheese Fav Sport: Tennis Drink of Choice: Diet YooHoo Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Estrogen! Smoker? : Yup! Occupation : Model Do you work out? : I usually work out allright, in the end. On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 10+ On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10+

Lady Wolf, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Nicholas John Southall Age: 23

Height: 174 cm, or 5'8".

Fav Band: The Stone Roses, Spiritualized, Wilco, Orbital...

Fav Movie: Jaws, Magnolia, Seven, A Matter Of Life And Death...

Fav TV Show: The Simpsons is about the only thing I watch.

Fav Book: Winnie The Pooh, Wind In The Willows, Nausea by Sartre, fuck knows, I don't read enough. 1984 or something.

Fav Actor: ??? I prefer films.

Fav Actress: Layla Jade. *wink* I went to school with her. Google her.

Fav Food: Italian, Chinese, Mexican

Fav Sport: Football

Fav Athlete: Ronaldo

Drink of Choice: Guinness, red wine, real ale, posh bottled lager, water.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Not touched drugs in about 2 years.

Smoker? : Nope. never was.

Occupation : Barman, graduate, writer, potential librarian.

Do you work out? : I play football and I cycle.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7 I guess. My girlfriend likes me.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8. I'm too argumentative and pig-headed to get anymore, but I'm clever and funny and unfortunately generous so that gets me marks.

Nick Southall, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Ally
Age: 22
Height: 5'8"
Fav Band: I don't know, I guess I like Duran Duran and Soft Cell a lot.
Fav Movie: Rushmore or Goodfellas, maybe. I'm indecisive.
Fav TV Show: I don't like tv but sometimes I like to watch Sex in the City.
Fav Book: Sometimes it is Thru the Looking Glass. Sometimes it is not.
Fav Actor: Christian Bale is mighty good looking.
Fav Actress: Uma Thurman is might good looking, but she's not a very good actor.
Fav Food: Depends on my mood.
Fav Sport: Football.
Fav Athlete: Jim Kelly and Jesper Parnevik.
Drink of Choice: Stoli & tonic.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Decline to answer.
Smoker? : I just quit.
Occupation : Corporate whore.
Do you work out? : I probably should.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 2
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8

Ally, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Matt Fallaize
Age: 24
Height: 5'9"
Band: Any answer would be spurious, too many to mention
Movie: True Stories
TV Show: God knows, probably neighbours
Book: The Dow Low Drop, collected poems by Roy Fisher
Actor: Basil Rathbone, for the cheekbones
Actress: my mum
Food: world of delights, couldn't possibly pick one, oh, all right then; Sea Bream stewed slowly with white wine, mussels and chilli
Sport: cricket, they break for meals
Athlete: Anyone hapless.
Drink of choice: '88 Amarone, '87 Taylors quinta de terra feita port, Kestrel Super
Drug: Ecstasy, probably.
Smoker?: Yes, cigars
Occupation: Bar manager
Work out?: about three times a week
Looks 1-10: High sixes, low sevens. Intense eyes (apparently) but potato shaped face
Personality 1-10: 3, top whack. To know me is to have had me piss you off recently with an ill-considered remark.
Additional information: I'm engaged on a mission so secret that I can't even tell the internet about it.

Matt, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Graham
Age: 18
Height: 5"5
Fav Band: Helen
Fav Movie: Amelie
Fav TV Show: Ally McBeal probably
Fav Actor: Erm, Tomothy Spall
Fav Actress: Alyson Hannigan
Fav Food: Space Raiders
Fav Sport: Fish/barrel/ect
Drink of Choice: Smirnoff Ice
Smoker? : No
Occupation: Student, Media Technology
Do you work out?: Pfff. Actually Last summer I used to go on bike rides
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 0
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 0

Graham, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Leee Wang
Age: 22
Height: 5'10"
Fav Band: ae, Plaid, Labradford, Sleater Kinney Saves Rock This August, Cocteaus, Mogwai.
Fav Movie: Trois Couleurs: Rouge.
Fav TV Show: currently Alias
Fav Book: latest = Everything is Illuminated.
Fav Actor: Ralph Fiennes (he's too pretty to pass up)
Fav Actress: Irène Jacob, Cate Blanchett.
Fav Food: White rice.
Fav Sport: as a spectator, any one in which my team is winning.
Fav Athlete: Chris Mullin.
Drink of Choice: Milk, 2%.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): naw
Smoker? : Nein.
Occupation : Cutco!
Do you work out? : injured
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : no.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Nope.
Add anything you want people to know: Well I have a.

Leee, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Julia Lutz aka j.lu aka rococolette aka flavia
Height: 5'7"
Fav Band: Afghan Whigs, Soul Coughing/M. Doughty, Girls Against Boys, Firewater, Dirty Three, dEUS, Scarce, Dismemberment Plan, etc.
Fav TV Show: Powerpuff Girls
Fav Book: Probably something by Colette
Fav Actor: John Cusack
Fav Actress: Janeane Garofalo
Fav Food: roast chicken; asparagus; strawberries; tiramisu; Nutella; etc (too many to list)
Drink of Choice: strawberry daiquiri
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): COFFEE!!!!
Smoker?: no
Occupation: editor/writer
Do you work out?: Does beating myself up for not exercising count?
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: On the classic scale, 9. On the contemporary fash mag scale, 4.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: If my best qualities are drawn out, 8.5.

j.lu, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

thanks maryann. i would like to point out that so are you! (actually, all the dunedin posters are in my opinion sights to behold. and petrajane is pretty foxy too!)

di, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

why the fuck is there a separate category for female and male actors?? they do the same thing. It's insulting...and it helps perpetuate the situation which I suspect may contribute to less of you having or being able to think of a favoured "actress" than actor. Might as well ask who your favoutite drummer and drummess is.

halo halo, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

good point liz.

di, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Maryann Zimmerman

Fav Band: I love Sky Saxon and the Seeds, the 13th Floor Elevators, the Cars, Kraftwerk, The Rainy Days, Little Stevie McCabe, Yoko Ono, I guess that's too many

Fav Movie: Fear Eats the Soul, The Blues Brothers actually that was my favourite movie when I was 9

Fav TV Show: The Brady Bunch - not so much the later episodes where they sang - Get Smart, The League of Gentlemen, Black Books, Hancocks Half Hour, Freaks and Geeks, Grosse Point etc

Fav Book: The Idiot, Whatever, Hunger, Wuthering Heights, Ordeal

Fav Actor: My favourite actor is Kathy Burke. My favourite actor is maybe Charlie Chaplin, Tony Hancock or John Cleese in Fawlty Towers - not in any movie - I've only seen Fawlty Towers once. I love Kathy Burke so much, including her comedy routines and herself in person. I love Rainer Werner Fassbinder as an actor too. I also like Ric Ocasek.

Fav Food: roasted nuts

Fav Sport: gymnastics

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): no

Smoker? : no

Do you work out? : no

maryann, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am your mother C J, and I KNOW that you masturbate.

Now stop it, please.

Chris Sallis, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not in public, at least.

Chris Sallis, PhD., Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I mean, really...

C. Sallis, Esq., Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love Rainer Werner Fassbinder as an actor

do you think he's sexy? I don't know if it matters, it's just that I often see him described in disparaging terms on his appearance whereas I think he is very beautiful and sexy. Di you might like him sexynesswise, check out Fox and his friends if you get the chance.

halo halo, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Andrew Age: 24 Height: 5'8" Fav Bands- the Fall, Sleater-Kinney, Beatles, Raincoats, ABBA, Wire Fav Movie: King of Comedy, Fire Walk with Me Fav TV Show: Homicide, six feet under, simpsons Fav Book: Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths. Fav Actor: Jeremy Irons, Robert De Niro Fav Actress: Movies aren't too great on good female roles. Maybe someone off Tv whose name I don't know. The woman who played the aunt on six feet under's good. Fav Food: italian Fav Sport: swimming Fav Athlete: Mark E. Smith Drink of Choice: beer. Monteith's Original Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Pot. You can never be too paranoid. Smoker? : yeah. I was gonna give up but dutyfree tobacco's too cheap Occupation : Student. Do you work out? : A bit On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : about 4/5 I suppose. On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : well I wouldn't. Other people would say about 7 I guess

Andrew, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name:Elizabeth
Age:26
Fav Bands:Kraftwerk, Soft Machine, Snapper, Skeptics, The Clean, The Terminals, Roxy Music, Leadbelly, Alastair Galbraith, Leslie Q, Jandek, early Tall Dwarfs, Ravi Shankar, Bruce Springsteen, Neu!, Talk Talk, Bardo Pond, Gillian Welch, Carter Family...
Fav Movies:Minority Report, The Ice Storm, The Mosquito Coast, Desperately Seeking Susan, Spectres of the Spectrum, Criss Cross, Das Kabinett des Doktor Kaligari, The Cell, All About Eve, By Hook or By Crook, James at 15, Len Lye films, Sad ie Benning, the Hong Kong Young & Dangerous series & many other HK films, Bruce Lee especially Fists of Fury, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; mostly thrillers I like best.
Fav TV Show: sesame street, ricki lake, twin peaks, seventh heaven, bh90210, buffy a couple of years ago, felicity, the goodies, tom baker dr. who, mastermind, the krypton factor, third rock from the sun, basil brush, that quiz show with selwyn toogood that they had mystery objects on, monkey, columbo...
Fav Actors: Tom Cruise, Kurt Russell, Harrison Ford, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Lee, Goldie Hawn, Neve Campbell, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Clea Duvall, Juliette Lewis, Pam Grier, Patricia Arquette, Gloria Grahame, Bette Davis, Crispin Glover, Sissy Spacek, Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan Fav Food: Cheese (feta, blue, brie), toffee, green tea, pomegranates, persimmons, beer, vege sushi with ginger wasabi and avocado, avocado, capers,
Fav Books: Trout Fishing In America by Richard Brautigan, A season in Hell by Rimbaud, some Dashiell Hammett can't decide which, Comet in Moominvalley, fool's paradise S. Braunias, the lesbian body by Monique Wittig, The Jew of New York & by Ben Katchor, Oh the places you'll go by Seuss...lots others.....
Fav Sport: participant: maybe underwater hockey but haven't played it for about 12 years. Ping Pong. Puzzle Bobble. Swimming & Walking but not competitively so I don't know if that counts as sport. I want to try: snowboarding, and BMX stunt halfpipe stuff and racing, and Mountainbiking.
spectator: running, women's gymnastics, women's hockey women swimming diving perv perv perv perv perv I like to watch the tour de france on screen...
Fav Athlete: Ekatarina Lobaznyuk
Drink of Choice: beer, green tea
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): psychedelics
Smoker? :no

halo halo, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Sean Age: 34 Height: 5"11"

Fav Band: Roxy Music

Fav Movie: Suspiria

Fav TV Show: I'll skip this

Fav Book: Robert Christgau's Rock Records of the 70s

Fav Actor: Jeremy Irons

Fav Actress: Shelley Duvall

Fav Food: Italian

Fav Sport: none

Fav Athlete:

Drink of Choice: Almost anything

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): I'm not sure

Smoker? : no cigarettes

Occupation : graphic designer

Do you work out? : never

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7.5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : this is a tough one. I think I appeal to a cult audience. Maybe this is a key misconception of my own personality though.

Sean, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I meant the jew of new york & julius knipl - real estate photographer by ben katchor.

It is probably fitting that I left my fave foods lists with a comma because there are so many foods that are so so so so good
I could also go on about my fave actors - I meant William Hurt not John Hurt but I guess I don't rate him that highly now that I think about it.

halo halo, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh yeah Freaks and Geeks!
I didn't know Ric Ocasek had acted

halo halo, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Im too lazy to scroll up to catch the reference, but Ric Ocasek (I mentioned his name in a post of my own today) acted in John Waters' "Cry Baby".

Sean, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I thought some more about my fave TV shows, they are: Enterprise (that vulcan girl!); Smackdown; House Doctor; Angel; Charmed; South Park...these being the programmes that I remember are on! I'd probably like Transformers: Robot in Disguise if I had digital TV and could watch it.

Fave Artists: Kandinsky; Miro; Rauchenberg; Redon; Chagall

Thanks Di :)!!

jel --, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Sam
Age: 25
Height: 6'1"
Fav Band: Stones
Fav Movie: Magnificent Seven (cos it was on the other day)
Fav TV Show: 24 at the moment
Fav Book: Lucky Jim
Fav Actor: I dunno. Jim Carrey. Matthew Broderick. Steve McQueen.
Fav Actress: Cameron Diaz
Fav Food: Hamburgers
Fav Sport: Prob Rugby (but only big competitions)
Fav Athlete: For some reason I could watch Becker for hours
Drink of Choice: Beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Nothing for ages. Dope.
Smoker? : yes
Occupation : programmer
Do you work out? : no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5
Add anything you want people to know: i am more interesting than this survey implies

Sam, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

On first read I thought - bloody hell I'm not going to do this! Then I looked at my intray. So... (god I'm already depressed this morning will someone go and get me some coffee)?

Name: Sarah. Some people call me Starry.
Age: 21
Height: small? 5'2 I think.
Fav Band: The Aislers Set! The Corpo! Gang of Four! The Human League! Vic Godard (and his Subway Sect)! Them Buzzcocks! Kate Bush (okay she is not a band but so wot). New Order!
Fav Movie: pervy hobbit fancying Lord of the Rings hur hur.
Fav TV Show: Buffy and Pokémon
Fav Book: right now the SPUFFORD book roxx0r
Fav Actor: I never find this question interesting. James Marsters? Herb?
Fav Actress: Kiki.
Fav Food: curry/cheese/chocolate biscuits/toast/DUCK GYOZA currently Wagamamas summer special, oh my DAYS they are bluddy nice, and for that matter, sushi and noodles and all kind of Japanese foodstuffs.
Fav Sport: Boooo-ring
Fav Athlete: The swim team in BUFFY who turned into sharkZoRs!
Drink of Choice: fine beer/GIN/vodka/RHUM/water/coffee/tea/apple juice
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): YAWN!
Smoker? : No, what does that say about my personality anyway!
Occupation : Drone in a government department
Do you work out? : I am a member of a gym and sometimes I go running, but now I've moved it's kinda out of my way so I don't go as much as I should, I are BAD
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 3? (munter ha ha)
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6?

Also after CWM mentioned it, I haf the Gareth Gates song stuck in my head!

Sarah, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Rick/Richard/RickyT
Age: 26
Height: 1.75m (5'9")
Fav Band: Disco Inferno, The Fall, Throwing Muses
Fav Movie: Repoman
Fav TV Show: Buffy
Fav Book: Infinite Jest or Mason And Dixon
Fav Actor: God knows
Fav Actress: ditto
Fav Food: Cheese or curry (tho not together)
Fav Sport: Cricket
Fav Athlete: haven't got one
Drink of Choice: Ale, whisky, gin, wine
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): E or acid
Smoker? : Nope
Occupation : Programmer
Do you work out? : No
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 2-7 depending on how much sleep I've had

RickyT, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

NB - fave bands in my case = wot I have just been listening to as I am rub at 'fave bands' questions!

Sarah, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I wish I hadn't mentioned the duck gyoza. Is anyone up for a Wagamama trip soon?? Mmmmmmmmmmmm!!

Sarah, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Billy Dods

Age: 36 and 3/4

Height: 6'2 eyes of blue

Fav Band: At moment Fischerspooner. Of all time KLF or PSB or Beatles or Roxy or Kraftwerk.....

Fav Movie: Midnight Cowboy, Withnail and I, Toy Story

Fav TV Show:Rising damp

Fav Book: Damon Runyon - On Broadway

Fav Actor: Kevin Spacey's cute

Fav Actress:Kathy Burke

Fav Food: Starter:Baked goats cheese with roasted red peppers. Main:Curry . Sweet: Sherry Trifle or cheesecake.

Fav Sport: Association football

Fav Athlete:Pat Nevin

Drink of Choice: non alcohol; Coffee. alcohol; Red wine or bitter

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): love

Smoker? :nope

Occupation : Meteorologist

Do you work out? :very rarely

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :6, with a following wind otherwise 4

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6. A shyness which is criminally vulgar.

Billy Dods, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Anna

Age: 23

Height: 5'2" (although I swear you're taller than me Sarah)

Fav Band: Oh erm, New Order, Blondie, The Smiths, Joni Mitchell, Miss Kitten, The Beach Boys, Orbital, Television, Joy Division (I can never answer this question fully or properly)

Fav Movie: Breakfast at Tiffanys, Stealing Beauty, Before Sunrise, The Last Picture Show, Casablanca, Blade Runner, the Star Wars trilogy.

Fav TV Show: Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Sex and the City.

Fav Book: An Artist of The Floating World, Generation X, The Great Gatsby, The New Journalism, Atomised, can't think, can't think, and some others.

Fav Food: Cheese

Fav Sport: No, no a thousand times no.

Fav Athlete: A blank zone in my mind

Drink of Choice: Red wine, JD and coke, poncey cocktails I can't afford, tea, champange.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Spliffs

Smoker? : Yup, Camel Lights

Occupation : Journalist

Do you work out? : Hmm, I try to. Swimming occassionaly, roller blading when I think there will be no small children to laugh, sit ups when I am feeling fat.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Depending on mood between 2 and 8.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Oh God, I think I'm quite nice to people, but I'm bloody boring when drunk, I don't bitch, but I do make snap judgements, I can be amusing, but I can also be shallow at times. Cross and neurotic vs quite thoughtful. Um, 6/7?

Anna, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Dave Age: 28 Height: 5ft, 8 and a half inches, and it's a very important half inch, let me tell you. Fav Band: Ooh. Probably James and Belle and Sebastian. Fav Movie: Goodfellas, Very British Coup (yeah, yeah, was a three parter), Godfather II, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Grosse Point Blank Fav TV Show: Royle Family, Phoenix Night, West Wing, Sopranos and 24 Fav Book: Name of the Rose, Communist Manifesto, The Football Business Fav Actor: John Cusack Fav Actress: Jodie Foster, Alicia Silverstone Fav Food: Chilli, thoug very partial to a medium rare fillet steak Fav Sport: Football (Uk version), though I am getting quite into Baseball Fav Athlete: Probably David Beckham. He's not my favourite, as I don't go in for individuality in sport, but he's someone I admire. Drink of Choice: Bittoh Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): I'm far too coy to say Smoker? : Sadly. Occupation : Scabroud leftie in football Do you work out? : A resolute no. On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : A modest 7 On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : A less modest 9

Nathan Barley, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hmmm, quite what you will learn about me from this survey I dunno, but if nothing else it seems to have revealed that Kodanshi is back (yay).

Name: Jeff W
Age: 37
Height: 1m70 (I think)
Fav composers: Bach, Mozart, Berio, Howells, Lutoslawski
Fav Records: "Good Vibrations", "Heard it through the Grapevine" (Marvin), "Tiger Feet", Close To The Edge, anything by Stereolab
Fav Movie: Once Upon A Time In The West (possibly)
Fav movie trilogies: The Godfather Parts I-III; Antoine et Colette/Baisers volées/Domicile conjugal; Alien//s/³
Fav TV Show: The Simpsons, Buffy, UFO
Fav Book: The Wrench (Primo Levi)
Fav Actors (m/f): Jack Nicholson, Cameron Diaz, Christinna Ricci, Reese Witherspoon, Kirsten Dunst, Winona Ryder, Drew Barrymore.

Fav Sport: Baseball

Fav Food: Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding

Drink of Choice: Chimay Bleu or Leffe Blonde (when in Belgium), Bass or London Pride (when in UK)
Drug of Choice: N/A
Smoker? : Nope

Occupation : Brussels Bureaucrat

Do you work out? : hahahahahahahahahahahaha

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 3

Jeff W, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

thanks, Di! i'm blushing already. here goes!

Name: petra jane XXXXXXX
Age: eleventeen
Height: six foot exactly. i've been measured like 4 times this month. i dunno what they're expecting yeknow...
Fav Band: wire, hugo montenegro and his orchestra [does that count?], the fall, nancy + lee, the surfaris, johnny cash, the datsuns, sleater-kinney, stereolab, deep purple, neil young, sonic youth, the kinks, whoever did the macguyver, speed racer and knightrider theme tunes...oh, lots ok.
Fav Movie: Amelie, Ring, Gattaca, War Games, The Exorcist, 2001, Brazil, To Kill A Mockingbird, Battleship Potemkin
Fav TV Show: Simpsons, an' i always try to watch family guy and buffy.
Fav Book: On The Road, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The See, The Outsider, The Long Goodbye, The Rules Of Attraction, Lolita, Breakfast At Tiffanys, the Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, Brecht's Parables of the Theatre...books are choice.
Fav Actor: um...maybe Gregory Peck, maybe.
Fav Actress: Ally Sheedy circa 'war games'
Fav Food: sushi, bagels, stonefruits.
Fav Sport: none
Fav Athlete: see above
Drink of Choice: Vodka + cranberry, monteiths, bloody marys
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): caffeine, alcohol, rock n roll
Smoker?: passive
Occupation: stalker
Do you work out? : no, walk lots though. apparently i have a good arse.
oh, and i'm not gonna rank my looks/personality on a scale cause i think the idea's silly. though let's say 3 when i wake up in the morning, peaking abt 7.4, 8 on a good hair day.

whose job is it to enter this in a big ol mainframe DATE-O-MATIC matchmaking computer then, huh?

petra jane, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Caitlin
Age: 24
Height: 5' 9"
Fav Band: ummm ... there's too many to just pick one.
Fav Movie: oh god, anything cheesy enough to make me laugh.
Fav Tv Show: The Prisoner, Mysterious Cities of Gold, The Kingdom (the Lars von Trier miniseries thing)
Fav Book: Lanark, by Alasdair Gray
Fav Actor: my best mate from school, who will be famous before long. he's called William Gregory
Fav Actress: um, I don't think I have one.
Fav Food: Cake. Fruit cake especially, but I'm not fussy.
Fav Sport: The only one I ever enjoyed doing was fencing.
Fav Athlete: no idea
Drink of choice: vodka
Drug of choice: none
Smoker: no
Occupation: sysadmin, programmer and general all-round geek.
Do you work out: hell no!
Looks: 2/10
Personality: 3.5/10

Caitlin, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: RoRo. Age: 19

Height: dont know

Fav Bands/artists:Jon Carter, Basement Jaxx, Fatboy Slim, Orbital, loads more that noone cares or knows about, mainly house.

Fav Movie: meh.

Fav TV Show: match of the day probably.

Fav Book: If This is a Man by Primo Levi

Fav Actor: no preference

Fav Actress: no preference

Fav Food: Chinese.

Fav Sport: Soccer

Fav Athlete: Michael Owen (FA Cup two goals against Arsenal; for a L'pool supporter too young to remember them winning anything this was the best moment ever)

Drink of Choice: beer, coca cola, vodka.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): ALCOHOL, "club drugs".

Smoker? :yep marlboro lights.

Occupation : I don't know whether to say Journalist (student) or Student (Journalist)

Do you work out? :Christ no.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : It's up to other people, what I think doesn't really matter. What number is a healthy "I don't care too much either way".

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Hmmm dunno, I bitch constantly and am irritable and cranky and dislike lots of people, so TEN! no I don't know, again I can't really do this sort of thing, judge for yourself.

Add anything you want people to know: I left the Chicken Tikka in the oven ok? It's set to come on at 6 so if you get in before then just make sure it's ok? There's also some fried rice ok? Thanks.

Ronan, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

OMG Petra you are the NZ Rattail Jim/Bob!!! *faints*

Sarah, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

But um, nicer and prettier and poo ur gosh, stuff!

Sarah, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: james harrison

Age:25 Height:6'2"

Fav Band: band: LOVE, RUN DMC, FUNCADELIC, DEXY'S, THE WHO, ERIC B AND RAKIM, X-RAY SPECS Artist: MARVIN GAYE, PRINCE, DIONNE WARWICK, CAROLE KING

Fav Movie: Apocalypse now

Fav TV Show: anything Chris Morris/ Armando iannuci linked (probably "im Alan PArtridge")

Fav Book: Catcher in the rye

Fav Actor: Bobbie De Niro / jay and silent bob

Fav Actress: joey lauren adams (i dig her squeky voice)

Fav Food: crisps

Fav Sport: football

Fav Athlete: Harry Kewel

Drink of Choice: lager (red stripe or stella)

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not so now

Smoker? : most def

Occupation : hmmm computer monkey sums up how i feel

Do you work out? : yeah im buffed - ha shit no - i play footie once a week and moan fro the next three days

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : def not ugly but not about to rate myself (screw it im an 8)

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : personality is different tho - im a great person to be around - im hitting the high 9's

Add anything you want people to know: currently very much in love - great feeling, just moved in with my girlfriend and things are about as perfect as i can ever expect them to be.

i am also a compulsive buyer of trainers - i think it is a mental problem i have

born clippy, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

whose job is it to enter this in a big ol mainframe DATE-O-MATIC matchmaking computer then, huh?
No need: you've pulled! (an' I ain't talkin' 'bout starry here neither)

zebedee, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Chris Age: 29 and a half Height: 6 foot 3 inches

Fav Band: erm right now, belle and sebastian, Flaming lips and Yo La Tengo and Mogwai

Fav Movie: Ferris Bueller's day off, Bring it on, Amelie (although I need a couple more watches of it to be sure )

Fav TV Show: Simpsons and Jackass equal tie

Fav Book: generation X, Real Food, Mediterranean cookery by Elizabeth David

Fav Actor: De Niro

Fav Actress:Emily Watson

Fav Food: impossible to narrow down

Fav Sport: Association Football

Fav Athlete: Kenny Dalglish, Brian Jacks, Steven Gerrard, Alan Hansen, Ian Botham

Drink of Choice: proper bitter, with a head on it

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Dope I suppose

Smoker? :nah

Occupation :unwaged

Do you work out? :I should

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :6

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? :6

chris, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

b-b-but surely alcohol goes in the "drug of choice".

Ronan, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: richard john gillanders
Age: twenty-one
Height: six feet and two inches
Fav Band: the lovin' spoonful
Fav Movie: hannibal brooks
Fav TV Show: diagnosis murder
Fav Actor: dean stockwell
Fav Actress: bre day
Fav Food: bread
Fav Sport: kelvingrove park football w/ in-pitch trees
Drink of Choice: not too fussy
Smoker? : you'd think so
Occupation: student, architecture
Do you work out?: not actually
On a scale from 1- 10 how would you rate your looks?: 10
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 1

[a lot of these answers are true].

RJG, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

aw.
missed:

Fav Book: the third policeman
Fav Athlete: ally cook
the drug of choice thing: not too fussy

[some of these ones are too].

RJG, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh man i so could've said a bunch of bullshit in this question that would've made people like me. i sort of wish i had.

unknown or illegal, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Andrew Littlefield

Age: 36

Height: 5ft 10"

Fav Musicians: Oval, Sonic Youth, Can, Neu, Kraftwerk, Acid Mothers Temple, the Dead C, Maurizio, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Derek Bailey, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, the Stooges, Television, This Heat, Gastr Del Sol, Fushitsusha, Destiny's Child blah blah

Fav Movie: 'The Mother and the Whore' and most things by Michael Haneke, Godard, Bresson, Argento, Bava, Kubrick etc. etc.

Fav TV Show: 'Larry Sanders' (all-time) and 'Hollyoaks' (on-going)

Fav Book: 'The Purloined Clinic' by Janet Malcolm or 'A Whore Like All the Rest' by Richard Meltzer (NonFic); 'Sixty Stories' by Donald Barthelme or 'A Scanner Darkly' by Phillip K Dick (Fic)

Fav Actor: James Woods or Gene Hackman

Fav Actress: Anna Karina or Janeane Garofalo

Fav Food: Curry

Fav Sport: Football

Fav Athlete: Tony Adams

Drink of Choice: Red Wine

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): it is my thing

Smoker? : oh god yes

Occupation : freelance writer/bum

Do you work out? : i work out of my house

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : the low end

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : i am a grumpy old git

Andrew L, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: rosemary
Age: 25 years and 7 months
Height: 5'6"
Fav Music: 60s US/UK/France girl groups and singers, plus whatever records I find at garage sales
Fav Movie: The Manchurian Candidate, The Wicker Man, Don't Look Now, A Ma Soeur, The Sound of Music, A Clockwork Orange, Mary Poppins, Time Bandits, Velvet Goldmine
Fav TV Show: Simpsons, Buffy, Kids in the Hall, Eastenders, Law and Order
Fav Book: Hollywood Babylon, Angry Women. I love books but I do not like novels that much.
Fav Actorz: Clive Owen, Catherine Deneuve, Julie Christie, Albert Finney, Richard Burton, Terence Stamp, etc.
Fav Food:I can't decide
Fav Sport: ha ha ha
Fav Athlete: see above
Drink of Choice: vodka
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Exedrin Migraine
Smoker? : when drinking
Occupation : looking for work!
Do you work out? : no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7

rosemary, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

name: maura k johnston age: 27 height: 5'5" last record purchased: gerty farish, 'gerty farish bulks up' last tv show watched: the brak show, the episode where zorak kidnaps hippo book currently reading: 'word freaks' (it's about the world of competitive scrabble) last food eaten: brioche last sporting event attended: mets 4, phillies 2, 14 july 02 periodical subscriptions: new york times, harper's, atlantic monthly, nation, new republic drink of choice: moscow mule drug of choice (if that's your thing): i can't afford to get more boring, so no drugs for me smoker? : no occupation : picking the best places that i've never been to all around the country, and sometimes writing about them work out? : my gym membership costs $87/month but i haven't gone at all since july started rate your looks/personality : dance 10, looks 3

maura, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I cannot be bothered to answer everything in order cos I am idle but here are an assortment of answers, see if you can guess which question they go with:

Emma, 5' 5'', 27, 10, 10, coke, white wine / vodka, Evil Dead II or the Slipper and the Rose (I WANT A SWING WITH FLOWERS GODDAMMIT), Marlboro lights mmmmm, Eastenders, very expensive food.

Emma, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: nta / nabisco
Age: 24
Height: 5'8"
Fav Band: for the next 10 minutes it's Interpol
Fav Movie: Surviving Desire
Fav TV Show: Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Fav Book: Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics
Fav Actor: Martin Donovan
Fav Actress: Anna Paquin
Fav Food: minchet abish
Fav Sport: soccer
Fav Athlete: corrupt cricketers
Drink of Choice: gin and tonic
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): weed
Smoker?: unfortunately
Occupation: book publicist
Do you work out?: hahahaha
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 14
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 38.7

nabisco, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Ned Raggett. No, really.
Age: 31
Height: A hair under six foot
Fav Band: Will I never not say My Bloody Valentine? NO I WON'T!
Fav Movie: I don't think I have one anymore.
Fav TV Show: Mystery Science Theater 3000, source of life and light
Fav Book: The Lord of the Rings, oh yes.
Fav Actor/Fav Actress: Eh.
Fav Food: Any number of fried rice variations. Num.
Fav Sport: Football (non-American variety) -- just so fun to watch.
Fav Athlete: Any athlete who came out and didn't give a shit, thus causing heart attacks among many PE coaches nationwide.
Drink of Choice: Moet et Chandon, when indulging.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Never interested.
Smoker? : A horrifying prospect (literally, I've had relatives die early from it)
Occupation : Library worker, writer, general goof.
Do you work out? : Walking, that's about it.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : i
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Unknown, really.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

n****h i dont think somethin can be your favourite game if you dont even know the correct name

Chupa-Cabras, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: assumed name Maria

Age: 17 in nine days

Height: 5'1" (officially the shortest person on this thread)

Fav Band: Today I was listening to Momus and Rimsky-Korsakov. Neither qualifies as a band. I listen to Belle & Sebastian more than any other band, though.

Fav Movie: The Princess Bride, Velvet Goldmine

Fav TV Show: I don't have one, but last week I watched Mole and Buffy and they were entertaining.

Fav Book: This is worse than the favorite band question. I really love fairy tales: The Once and Future King (and whatever other King Arthur books I can find), Oscar Wilde's fairy tales, Diana Wynne Jones books, and The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery.

Fav Actor: currently Jude Law

Fav Actress: still Julie Andrews

Fav Food: whatever tastes good

Fav Sport: biking or canoeing or kayaking

Fav Athlete: i don't watch sports

Drink of Choice: i don't drink either

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): or do drugs

Smoker? : nope

Occupation : unemployed high school student

Do you work out? : once every couple of months i go on a long run. then i remember that I HATE RUNNING and stop.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5. i'm not good- looking by any means, but i need room to get uglier as i get older.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : maybe a 7 when i'm given time to just sit around alone, a 2 when i'm around people.

Maria, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

(I just want to point out that I was picked on for saying "flatmate" and now I'm being picked on for saying "soccer" -- there is no fucking winning around these parts.)

nabisco, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Gale Age:54 Height:short eyes: dark Hair: silver/dark Fave drink: cola Fav. athelete: Curt Browning/Elvis S. Fave foods: Italian/ Chinese. Fave band/singer: C de B. (Natch!) Fav show on t.v.: Crockodile Hunter.

Gale, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Dan
Age: 29
Height: 5'7"
Fav Band: The Cure, Prince
Fav Movie: Jacob's Ladder
Fav TV Show: South Park
Fav Book: _The Diamond Age_ by Neil Stephenson
Fav Actor: Tim Roth
Fav Actress: Halle Berry
Fav Food: THAI
Fav Sport: Right now? Tennis
Fav Athlete: Serena Williams
Drink of Choice: gin martini, straight up with olives
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Nope.
Smoker? : Nope.
Occupation : Software geek.
Do you work out? : No, but I should. *sigh*
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Going by what people have said to me, I'd say 8. Going by how I feel, 4.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 9, except for the whole modesty thing.

Dan Perry, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Most of this will change tomorrow. Except for my name, which likely won't change until after the 'accident':

Name: Hello, Mark Pytlik. We have recommendations for you. (If you're not Mark Pytlik, click here.) Age: 24 Height: 6 feet of skinny Fav Band: Boards Of Canada, Eno, Radiohead (don't shoot!) Fav Movie: Waking Life? Rushmore? Fav TV Show: Simpsons (old eps obv) Fav Book: Sadly, I've not read a book in months. Everything else, I've forgotten. Fav Actor: Lately, Luke Wilson makes me laugh like a drugged loon. Fav Actress: Toni Collette is cool. Fav Food: Italian. Carbs + cheese == Mm. Fav Sport: Hockey. Fav Athlete: What a silly question. Drink of Choice: Anything with vodke. Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): There's lots. Smoker? : In denial. Occupation : 'Music' 'writer' Do you work out? : On and off. On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Judging from the girls who seem to date me, about an eight or nine. Otherwise, I'd say sevenish. On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : If I don't like you or have just met you, two. Otherwise, eightish, with points off for compulsive, geeky behaviour and for my tendency to lapse into complete fuckwaddishness from time to time.

Mark, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bloody HELL. You'd think I was new. Most of this will change tomorrow. Except for my name, which likely won't change until after the 'accident':

Name: Hello, Mark Pytlik. We have recommendations for you. (If you're not Mark Pytlik, click here.)
Age: 24 Height: 6 feet of skinny
Fav Band: Boards Of Canada, Eno, Radiohead (don't shoot!)
Fav Movie: Waking Life? Rushmore?
Fav TV Show: Simpsons (old eps obv)
Fav Book: Sadly, I've not read a book in months. Everything else, I've forgotten.
Fav Actor: Lately, Luke Wilson makes me laugh like a drugged loon.
Fav Actress: Toni Collette is cool. Fav Food: Italian. Carbs + cheese == Mm.
Fav Sport: Hockey.
Fav Athlete: What a silly question.
Drink of Choice: Anything with vodka.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): There's lots.
Smoker? : In denial.
Occupation : 'Music' 'writer'
Do you work out? : On and off.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Judging from the girls who seem to date me, about an eight or nine. Otherwise, I'd say sevenish.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : If I don't like you or have just met you, two. Otherwise, eightish, with points off for compulsive, geeky behaviour and for my tendency to lapse into complete fuckwaddishness from time to time.

Mark, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Kris
Age: 25
Height: 5'11"

Fav Band: Sabbath, Zeppelin, T. Rex, Angry Samoans, CCR, The Raincoats, Ornette Coleman, Turbonegro

Fav Movie: Revue Um Mitternacht

Fav TV Show: The Cosby Show

Fav Book: Notes From Underground

Fav Actor: don't really have one

Fav Actress: Reese Witherspoon, easily

Fav Food: Steak & Eggs, pretty much everything else too

Fav Sport: Baseball

Fav Athlete: Albert Belle

Drink of Choice: bourbon

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Alcohol. I've never done speed or heroin or any real drugs like that

Smoker? : sometimes

Occupation : grad student

Do you work out? : I get plenty of exercise without "working out"

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 11

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 11 to me, but to others it definitely is a mood dependent thing

Kris, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Spencer
Age: 29
Height: 6'1"
Fav Band: My Bloody Valentine, New Order, Pulp, Roxy Music
Fav Movie: It's a Wonderful Life, 8 1/2, Last Year at Marienbad, The Night Porter, 2001, In the Mood for Love
Fav TV Show: Family Guy (RIP), Conan O'Brien
Fav Book: Ecrits, American Psycho, London Fields
Fav Actor: James Spader
Fav Actress: Anouk Aimee
Fav Food: Steak
Fav Sport: (American) Football
Fav Athlete: none really
Drink of Choice: Stoli martini, dry, twist
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): over it
Smoker? : I average about one cigarette a day
Occupation : Graphic Designer/Web Producer - branching out into Glitchy home audio recording, screenwriting and acting (moving back to LA puts all sorts of wacky ideas in my head).
Do you work out? : sometimes
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 9
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8

Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Owen Hatherley Age: 20 Height: 6 ft Fave Bands etc: Joy Division, Pulp, The Fall, The Slits, Magnetic Fields, The Cramps, Keith Hudson, Outkast, Kraftwerk Fave Movies: Naked, A Matter of Life and Death, Eraserhead, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Suddenly Last Summer TV Shows: Buffy, Twin Peaks, Jaaaaam Books: Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson, I Knew I Was Right by Julie Burchill, The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg Actor: none in particular Actress: Elizabeth Taylor Food: Dumplings and Stew Sport is evil Athlete: Matt Le Tissier Drink: Red wine or Newcastle Brown Drug of Choice: collie Smoker: yup Occupation: part time assistant to takeaway owner Do you work out? certainly not Looks: 7 on a good day Personality: not for me to say Actor:

owen hatherley, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Michael Bourke
Age: 25
Height: 5 foot 8 Fav Band: Pavement Fav Movie: One flew over the cuckoos nest, Wild strawberries Fav TV Show: The Simpsons,futurama, Oz Fav Book:Catch-22, Trainspotting Fav Actor:Paul Newman Fav Actress:Jodie Foster Fav Food:Junk food Fav Sport:Soccer Fav Athlete: dont have one Drink of Choice:Heineken, Miller Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Hash and the odd E Smoker? : yeah, I smoke Benson and Hedges Occupation :None Do you work out? :Yeah, i go to the gym but only about once a week On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : ehh 6 or 7 On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : dunno

, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

nitsuh don't listen to that bitch, if you like soccer you say 'soccer'. except that, what a lameass sport to like. what country do you think this is, anyway?

Josh, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Sir Paul McCartney Age: Officially, I am ageless.
Height: Bigger than Jesus Christ.
Fav Band: Wingz was very underrated, in my opinion.
Fav Movie: Help!
Fav TV Show: Magical Mystery Tour was pretty good. Not great, but pretty good, considering.
Fav Actor: After me? Maybe Ringo Starr. Maybe.
Fav Actress: Linda was very underrated, in my opinion.
Fav Food: Honey pie!
Fav Athlete: Pele
Drink of Choice: My publicist says all that is behind me now.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): My publicist says all that is behind me now.
Smoker? : Please speak with my publicist.
Occupation : Soaking up public adulation.
Do you work out? : We can work it out.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : I'm the cute one.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : I told you already, I'm the cute one.
Add anything you want people to know: Yes. Emphatically! People must know that, even though the credit says "Lennon-McCartney", it was me who wrote Yesterday. Me. Just me. All me.

Sir Paul McCartney, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i forgot to say that sapphire and steel, the prisoner, bad girls, buffy, that 70s show are also my fave programmes, and i'm sure JEM will be too when i visit andrew and elisabeth in auckland. liz forgot to mention that she is at least a 9/10 in the looks department. i bet elisabeth and andrew are real spunky too tho i have not seen them and its about time they started plastering their photos all over the net!

di, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name:ron
Age:30
Height:6'3"
Fav Band:acetone, x, the gits, cat power, breeders
Fav Movie:buffalo 66, rushmore, run lola run, box of moonlight, waiting for guffman
Fav Book: the journey to the east? not sure
Fav Actor:ossie davis, jean reno, pruitt taylor vince, john cusack, m. emmet walsh
Fav Actress: amanda plummer, lili taylor, martha plimpton, jane adams, catherine keener
Fav Food:pizza, thai
Drink of Choice: sapphire tonic but i had a vodka tonic last night and i think i might switch over
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not doing it for me anymore
Smoker? : ex- (4+yrs)
Occupation :furniture maker
Do you work out? : no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7 (i am very nice but have serious flaws)

Ron, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anyone who lists Gang of Four in their favorite bands is alright by me (FYI).

Ally, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Damian Age: 23 Height: 5' 8" or so Fav Band: Eno, Faust, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Idaho, Kraftwerk, My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead, Stereolab Fav Movie: 2001 Fav TV Show: Seinfeld, Father Ted, The Young Ones, The Simpsons Fav Book: A Clockwork Orange, Head On Fav Actor: maybe Bruno S Fav Food: Custard Fav Sport: Soccer! Fav Athlete: Vala Flossadottir Drink Of Choice: Wave, iced coffee flavour Occupation: Music retail slut Do you work out?: I walk lots, and that's about it On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: Round up to 7 On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 3.5

Damian, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: jack
Age: 24
Height: 5' 4" 115 lbs..it's ok, i'm asian
Fav Band: wilco, fugazi
Fav Movie: vertigo, roman holiday, ran, deuce bigalo male gigalo
Fav TV Show: simpsons, three's company
Fav Book: i tend to enjoy magazines much more...comparitively, reading a book makes me feel like i'm in a long term relationship
Fav Actor: steve buscemi
Fav Actress: kirsten dunst
Fav Food: anything served at dim sum, especially pot stickers and marinated chicken's feet (mmmmmm), sashimi, porkchops
Fav Sport: sports are a waste of time
Fav Athlete: what did i just say?
Drink of Choice: cherry coke, chinese chrysanthemum tea
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): nyquil
Smoker? : haha, no way
Occupation : chemical engineer working for a government contracted company building "defensive" weaponary
Do you work out? : does jogging count?
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 10...though i was asked for an id while purchasing tickets to [i]road to perdition [/i] which was a horrendous movie
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10...charm, beauty, and intelligence...please please, take a number ladies

jack, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Douglas

Age: 31

Height: 5'8"

Fav Band: James Brown's touring band, early 1970-early 1971. Either that or Wire.

Fav Movie: What's Up, Doc?

Fav TV Show: The Prisoner

Fav Book: Infinite Jest

Fav Actor: Toshiro Mifune

Fav Actress: Sherilyn Fenn

Fav Photograph of an Actor/Actress: the one of Zero Mostel where he's turning himself into a rhinoceros using only his facial expression and body language

Fav Food: marzipan

Fav Sport: competitive interactive fiction design

Fav Athlete: n/a

Drink of Choice: peach Vitamin Water

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): it isn't at all

Smoker?: nope!

Occupation : writer

Do you work out? : At least a few times a week.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : "I don't get high on my own supply"

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : "No credit will be given for plagiarized work"

Douglas, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've posted like three times total on ILE, but I can't resist self-description.

Brad Luen, 22 years in Manukau City, 1.73m (go metric).

OK Jazz... nah, who am I kidding, the Beatles.

As of last Thursday, Laurent Cantet's Time Out.

Simpsons, Sound and the Fury, Denzel, Maggie Cheung.

Tikka masala, cricket, "Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit.

Penfolds Rawson's Retreat, not right now, never.

Student/teaching assistant, purely cardiovascular.

10, 10 - anything lower would suggest some form of modesty, which would just be wrong.

Perhaps unlike most (young) people, I would've given much the same answers a year ago.

B-Rad, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

OMG Petra you are the NZ Rattail Jim/Bob!!! *faints*

err...who? is that a good thing? i bet elisabeth and andrew are real spunky too tho i have not seen them

too right they are! 10s all round. what is it about ILE that attracts such foxxy foxes? and short-arses?

petra jane, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i am not short, i am vertically challenged.

di, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

nitsuh don't listen to that bitch, if you like soccer you say 'soccer'. except that, what a lameass sport to like. what country do you think this is, anyway?

Haha josh, that's a bit rich coming from someone who uses "'inverted commas'" for quotation marks. At least nitsuh knows that it's "soccer" and not 'soccer'.

felicity, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Vinnie
Age: 20
Height: 5'11"ish
Fav Band: Depeche Mode, XTC, PSB
Fav Movie: Goonies, Princess Bride
Fav TV Show: Simpsons, Seinfeld, Kids in the Hall
Fav Book: Foundation's Edge
Fav Actor: John Cusack
Fav Actress: Julia Stiles
Fav Food: Mashed potatoes
Fav Sport: Soccer
Fav Athlete: bah
Drink of Choice: anything sour
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not mine
Smoker? : nope
Occupation : Student, eventually something with programming
Do you work out? : nope
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5. This quiz suddenly got a lot tougher.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8. I like people, honest!

Vinnie, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Justyn
Age: 20
Height: 5'11'
Fav Band: Manics, Sex Pistols, Le Tigre, Kenickie, White Stripes, Sleater-Kinney, Rolling Stones, The Who, Sly and the Family Stone, Bikini Kill, Stone Roses.
Fav Movie: Rushmore, Ghost World, 8 1/2, The King of Comedy, Blue Velvet, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Almost Famous, The Graduate, Heathers, Being There, and Only Angels Have Wings.
Fav TV Show: The Simpsons of course.
Fav Book: Where to begin? Lipstick Traces, Catcher In The Rye, Junky, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Cat's Cradle, Less Than Zero, The Stranger, and whatever I've read last by Gore Vidal.
Fav Actor: Peter Sellers, Cary Grant, Jack Nicholson.
Fav Actress: Audrey Hepburn, Winona Ryder, Thora Birch.
Fav Food: None, really. I like different things at different times.
Fav Sport: Kicking the crap out of a chair for no particular reason.
Fav Athlete: Muhammed Ali
Drink of Choice: Coke
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Opium (well, it would be if it was)
Smoker? : No
Occupation : Student
Do you work out? : Haphazardly.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Depends. On a good day maybe an 8, on a bad day a 4.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5

Justyn Dillingham, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

'shut up' 'felicity'

Josh, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jeff and Graham, shut UP, you know you both look and are better than those pathetic marks you gave yerselves.

Kodanshi's back? I need to get my act together and spend more time behind my screen again. hahahaah Sorry. Life's been a bit too hectic the last couple of weeks. hah

nathalie, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh Lek, Kodanshi. *duh*

nathalie, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name:Dave

Age: 25

Height:6'2"

Fav Band: Changes every day this morning I would have to say Parliment.

Fav Movie: Again changes all the time at the moment it is All About My Mother because I saw it again at the weekend, although it will be different tommorrow.

Fav TV Show: 24 at the moment Fav Book: Down and Out in Paris and London

Fav Actor: Robert De Nero

Fav Actress: Audrey Hepburn

Fav Food: Lobster

Fav Sport: Football

Fav Athlete: Phil "The Power" Taylor

Drink of Choice: Exotic continental Larger

Smoker? : I am a lapsed reformed smoker.

Do you work out? : Oh yeah!! (Sometimes up to once a month)

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Not sure I leave that to other people to judge, Oh fuck it 10!

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Not sure I leave that to other people to judge, Oh fuck it 10!

Davel, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

BE THAT WAY, "Kortbein".

felcity, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Alan, 32, 5' 10", Pad Thai, vodka-tonic / hoppy bitter, gravity's rainbow, Spaced, sport is rubbish, E, i run for an hour or so each week, 6/10 twice. i like pictures of odd looking cats, and kittens, and odd looking kittens and my favourite colour is auburn (not ginger)

Alan T, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

least fave band: most brit pop, quite a few dance type groups
least fave film: pulp fiction, harry potter
least fave TV show: southbank show
least fave actors: richard gere, judi dench, kate winslet
least fave book: ?
least fave food: bananas
least fave sport: golf, tennis
least fave drink: beer

I thought it was important to provide some contrasting information about myself.

jel --, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tom, 29, about six foot, let's say ABBA, let's say It's A Wonderful Life, recently Big Brother, let's say The Marriage of Cadmus And Harmony by Roberto Calasso, don't care about actors, ditto actresses, let's say steak (cooked rare), to play none; to watch football, don't care about athletes, gin and tonic, none but there are a few i'd like to try, no, 'internet analyst', no, 2-4, 7-9.

Tom, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Sundar Subramanian

Age: 23

Height: 5'9" - 5'10"

Fav Band: Led Zeppelin/Sonic Youth

Fav Composer: La Monte Young

Fav Movie: Annie Hall

Fav TV Show: Haven't had TV for about 3 years

Fav Book: Notes From Underground

Fav Actor: d/k

Fav Actress: d/k

Fav Food: tacos

Fav Sport: Tae Kwon Do

Fav Athlete: d/k

Drink of Choice: gin and grapefruit juice

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): marijuana

Smoker? : no

Occupation : guitar teacher/phone surveys, will be grad student soon

Do you work out? : Yeah, but it's been too hot to move

sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Colin, 33, 195cm, Mission of Burma/Joseph Holbrooke Trio/Booker T & the MGs, Ran/Die Ehe von Maria Braun/Godfather Part II, ZiB II, Lolita, Klaus Kinski, Lili Taylor, fried softshell blue crab sandwich, croquet/rally (doing/watching), Rick Dempsey, Wieselburger Stammbräu/mojito, it's not my thing, no, lawyer/musician, yes but not enough, between 3 and 8, between 1 and 10.

Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Steve
Age: 28
Height: um, not sure, 5' 10 ish, certainly less than 6'
Fav Band: b&s
Fav Movie: Spinal Tap, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, Mary Poppins, Casablanca
Fav TV Show: south park, newsnight, west wing
Fav Book: possibly hitchhikers, i just like reading any old junk really, although i don't seem to have read any fiction since the motley crue biog...
Fav Actor: Andrew McCarthy, James Stewart
Fav Actress: um, dunno
Fav Food: oh, loads of stuff, possibly the knuckle of lamb from gallipoli on upper street, numnumnum
Fav Sport: long distance running and football (association) although I will sit and watch absolutely any sport on the telly (cf curling at the winter olympics, and probably bowls at the commonwealth) ooh and darts is great also...
Fav Athlete: Bosman
Drink of Choice: Guinness
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not really, apart from above and below
Smoker? : mmm, mayfair, fag of kings and only £3.50 for 20
Occupation : database monkey at futher education college (not university)
Do you work out? : no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : i don't think i would
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : or this either...

CarsmileSteve, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Archel
Age: 24
Height: Dunno, about 5'6" in old money
Fav Band: Belle & Sebastian, Buck 65 (ok, technically he's not a band) and others
Fav Movie: Gregory's Girl, Breakfast At Tiffanys, Funny Face, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Pretty In Pink, The Princess Bride, um loads more
Fav TV Show: Simpsons
Fav Book: The Princess Bride, Watchmen (if counts), Persuasion
Fav Actor: John Cusack
Fav Actress: Audrey Hepburn
Fav Food: CHEESE!
Fav Sport: Football or tennis
Fav Athlete: Anyone who's WINNING
Drink of Choice: GUINNESS mmmmmm
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Just alcohol and caffeine
Smoker? : No
Occupation : Library assistant
Do you work out? : Haha that's a good one
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6?
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7?
Add anything you want people to know: (if anyone wants to put the above numbers higher, I'll happily defer to your judgement...)

Archel, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Gavin Age: 29 Height: 6 ft 1

Fav Band: Palace/Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy

Fav Movie: Life is Sweet

Fav TV Show: The Simpsons

Fav Book: The Man Who Was Thursday

Fav Actor: John Cusack or Timothy Spall

Fav Actress: v. specifically Julie Christie in Billy Liar

Fav Food: Artichokes. Sea food. Crisps. All of them at the same time

Fav Sport: To watch, football. To play, golf.

Fav Athlete: Don't have one

Drink of Choice: Wray and Nephew's Overproof Rum. and Coke

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Other people's cocaine and the odd pill. Definitely not weed.

Smoker? : No.

Occupation : I do the odd bit of freelance journalism, mainly books and music orientated, but I graft in Uni admin but I am shortly moving to my friend's landscape charcter use firm where I will continue blazing new trails in quality and excellence and best value. And admin.

Do you work out? : Only hard sums, I'm afraid.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 8 on a good day. 4 on a bad day.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : the same as the above.

misterjones, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name:nalini Age: 25 Height: 5 ft 4'

Fav Band: lamb, lucious jackson, massive attack, bjork,

Fav Movie: wings of desire, crouching tiger hidden dragon, lord of the rings , orlando , star trek: first contact, anything with: carrie grant, audrey hepburn, marilyn monroe

Fav TV Show: buffy, angel, will and grace, star treck the next generation

Fav Book: classics ( jane autstin) si fi , and fantasy Fav Actor: heath leader, russel crowe, brad pitt (yum)

Fav Actress:audry hepburne

Fav Food: cherris, strwaberries, melon, chocolate ice cream , the list gos on and on Fav Sport: none

Fav Athlete: non

Drink of Choice: gin and tonic, cowboy (biterscotch schnapps and bailys) strawberry daquri ( yes i am an alchoholic)

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): I would never do such a things ( i am using work email)

Smoker? :no

clubber: yes (trance/hardhouse) I am australian its compulsary for us to love hardhouse, and carry glow sticks at all times

Occupation : customer services . i have a degree in applied arts

Do you work out? :no, never set foot inside a gym

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : thats in the eye of the beholder

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : I don't know about raiting, but i am a big softy, I cried when the lion cubs dad dies in the Lion King. and when bambi's mum died and when leon dies in the professional etc fave color: blue

next project: sort out my life: i really want t o find a job I enjoy, customer services is slowly killing me

nalini, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chris Nofunintended - I'll fight you for Milla Jovovich! She = my dream woman.

Lek Dukagjin, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sundar, is that gin + grapefruit juice, or the two separately? I am curious because my consumption of non-water liquids is about 40% gin/tonic and 50% grapefruit juice (10% Guinness -- I only drink things that start with G?), so your answer struck me as in very good taste.

nabisco, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gin + grapefruit juice. Like vodka + orange juice. Better for you than tonic, you know.

I guess Orlando might rival Notes From Underground as my favourite book.

sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Dave
Age: 22
Height: 6' when not slouching
Fav Band: Elvis Costello, Richard Hell, Ornette Coleman
Fav Movie: When Harry Met Sally, Trainspotting (thus eliminating all hipster points scored on the last question)
Fav TV Show: movies on TV
Fav Book: The Rules of Attraction (yeah petra jane!), The Liar, The Cantos, Naked Lunch
Fav Actor: John Cusack
Fav Actress: Fav Food: Proscuitto & Mozza Panini Sandwich
Fav Sport: bleh
Fav Athlete: bleeah
Drink of Choice: Molson Export
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not really anymore
Smoker? : Marlboro Lights as well...ps i am a gurl
Occupation : Student
Do you work out? : I have before, probably will again
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Alpha
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Xenon

Dave M., Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm desparately stalling on homework so will answer this long, silly thread.
  • Name:ssssssssss. . .like a snake hiss
  • Age: 29
  • Height: 5,4
  • Fav Band: pbbt. . .how about music i like? ruth brown, hank williams, the deadly snakes, the dishes, the forty fives (from atlanta), some others. . .
  • Fav Movie: Giant, Fargo, other one-word titles
  • Fav TV Show: Six Feet Under, The Simpsons
  • Fav Book: currently the His Dark Materials series, the lemony snicket series, Bastard Out of Carolina
  • Fav Actor: Steve Buscemi
  • Fav Actress: Jodie Foster
  • Fav Food: salsa
  • Fav Sport: ?
  • Drink of Choice: barley pop
  • Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): drugs? well I never! *wink*
  • Smoker? : *cough* no
  • Occupation : teacher
  • Do you work out? : when my man's around
  • On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7 i think
  • On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : i'm bipolar, it depends
  • Add anything you want people to know: i hate you all. (i'm trying to be ally. ha ha)

Ms. S., Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Dan
Age: 40
Height: 5'10"
Fav Band: Kinks, Buzzcocks, Go-Betweens, Loud Family
Fav Movie: Hana-Bi, Crimes and Misdemeanors
Fav TV Show: nope
Fav Book: Revolutionary Road, Oscar and Lucinda, Frank O'Hara anthology, Mary Oliver anthology
Fav Actor: Albert Finney
Fav Actress: Christina Ricci
Fav Food: Japanese or maybe something involving risotto
Fav Sport: Basketball to watch, tennis to play
Fav Athlete: Nick Van Exel
Drink of Choice: Diet Dr. Pepper
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not my thing
Smoker? : not something I'm proud of
Occupation : magazine circulation
Do you work out? : lately yes
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7 on a good day
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : between 2 and 6

dan, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

how come so many of you went with the actor/actress division (funny how actress is 2nd)...I want you to justify or explain why you did this if you did: lazyness? you actually separate people who act by their sex??

halo halo, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Speaking only for myself, I did it to piss you off.

Colin Meeder, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes I spend weeks of my life separating professions into sexes, and I'm going to hell.

Ronan, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was 'influenced' by the Academy Awards.

Andrew L, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, in practice actresses and actors do fundamentally different things, just like female and male tennis players. The overlap between the performances of two actresses is much greater than the overlap between the performances of an actress and an actor. But yeah, I should've put Maggie ahead of Denzel.

B-Rad, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: webber
Age: 18
Height: 5'11
Fav Band: i dunno. i'm listening to the violent femmes now. they'll do.
Fav Movie: bill and ted's excellent adventure
Fav TV Show: family guy
Fav Book: are you my mother?
Fav Actor: john cusack
Fav Actress: the queen mum
Fav Food: meat of some sort
Fav Sport: football
Fav Athlete: thierry henry
Drink of Choice: snot
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): yes
Smoker? : unlikely
Occupation : student
Do you work out? : no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : one of my nostrils is larger than the other
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : i don't have a personality

does anyone actually bother to read these?

webber, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's either that or get my sixth hour of sleep in three days.

B-Rad, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Webber: no of course not. i mean...damn...err...YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP!

petra jane, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Age: 28
Height: 177 cm (~5'10")
Fav Band: I honestly don't have one.
Fav Movie: Anything with martial arts in it especially if it's really tacky, The Horseman on the Roof, Biloxi Blues, Bladerunner, Out of Site (the scene in the boot between George Clooney & JLo is *amazing*), Interview with a Vampire, Harry Potter
Fav TV Show: Buffy, Angel, Six Feet Under, Queer As Folk, Get Real, Smallville, Eat Carpet
Fav Book: Magician, Under The Mountain, Shogun - I'm doing well in the books written by females thing.
Fav Actor: Tommy Lee Jones
Fav Actress: Cyd Charisse
Fav Food: Fairy Floss
Fav Sport: F1
Fav Athlete: Michael Schumacher
Drink of Choice: Vodka, Cointreau or VB
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Valium, Xanax - but they are *evil*
Smoker? : When drinking
Occupation : Student
Do you work out? : Sort of - Karate
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : They vary from 1 to 10
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : It varies also.

toraneko, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: sandy

Height: ummm...i think it's somewhere between 5'3" and 5'5" not really sure. but i'm not tall.

Fav Band: b&s, smiths

Fav TV Show: sex in the city, 70's show, gilmore girls, 24

Fav Book: catcher in the rye, but i haven't actually read a book in ages. unless programming books count. and they are NOT my favourite.

Fav Food: indian, italian, japanese


Fav Sport: i guess football/soccer (whatever the hell you want to call it), but i don't usually go out of my way to watch matches, i only really watch them with my boyfriend, but enjoy watching when i do.
Fav Athlete: i'll be shallow and go by looks. michael owen, vladimir smicer or umm...danny murphy

Drink of Choice: orange juice, vodka, alcopops

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not really my thing

Smoker? : no

Occupation : webdesigner/developer

Do you work out? : i always plan to...

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : ummm, usually 4-8, depending on various things. today is a 2.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : if i don't know you too well, or am not comfortable around you, or you are creeping me out, it's 0-2, but if we're close or you have a good sense of humour and are taking the piss out of me in a lighthearted fashion it's 7-10.

Add anything you want people to know: alex to win bb!

sand.y, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've just decided that Kosheen are my favourite band. But that may not last for long.

toraneko, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: geeta
Age: 22
Height: 5'6"
Fav Bands: bowie, wire, burma, the minibosses
Fav Movies: "the blue angel", "m", "notorious", "wings of desire"
Fav TV Show: i don't watch much tv! uh 'nova' cuz i used to work for 'em
Fav Book: 'biochemistry and pharmacology of synaptic transmission'
Fav Actor: ??
Fav Actress: ingrid bergman
Fav Food: bagels, seaweed
Fav Sport: basketball, tag-team soulcalibur
Fav Athlete: don't have one
Drink of Choice: beer!!! also sundar this grapefruit/gin thing sounds good
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): downers - fuck uppers
Smoker? : don't anymore
Occupation : grad school
Do you work out? : um - i run around NYC and carry heavy things
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : haha uh "x"
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10^x where x is [1, infinity]

geeta, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: brent d Age: the skin painted on my face looks ageless Height: 6'7" (yes, seriously.)

Fav Band: uh...the fall, the pixies, ar kane, piano magic, talk talk, talking heads, wu tang, prince, james brown...

Fav Movie: mitchell

Fav TV Show: simpsons

Fav Book: um...city of glass. or the wind up bird chronicle. do comics count?

Fav Food: burritos.

Drink of Choice: beer. whisky. gin. vodka. rum.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): too many to count. (the last one i did was weed, though, and even that was ages ago.)

Smoker? : i miss it so.

Occupation : unemployed.

Do you work out? : i am a fat ass.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Q

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Z

jess, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

liz - if i didnt separate out male/female actors, then i would have listed no men, and that wouldn't have been very sporting. actually, it's more cuz i just copied the list that cj made and started filling in the blanks. i don't really think it's that big of a deal but you can lay into me and rip me a new one if you'd like. :-)

Ron, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: lyra
Age: 25
Height: 5'5"
Fav Band: at the moment, Belle and Sebastian
Fav Movie: Empire Strikes Back
Fav TV Show: Jon Stewart's Daily Show and Simpsons
Fav Book: The Dharma Bums (Kerouac hated this one, but I think it's his best)
Fav Actor: off the top of my head, the guys who play Randall and Dante in Clerks
Fav Actress: Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You
Fav Food: green tea ice cream
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete: I don't think I have one, but my favorite team is the Yankees
Drink of Choice: double americano with room
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Guinness
Smoker? : no
Occupation : perl hacker
Do you work out? : running and yoga
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 1 right now, because I'm in the process of moving out of the apartment I shared with a guy I dated for a few years. There's no graceful way to go through something like that.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : no higher than a 5- I'm too much of a geek.

lyra in seattle, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I reckon for everyone who's not a totally balanced bisexual then separation of Actor & Actress is valid - favourite actors and actresses are nothing to do with acting and everything to do with sex.

toraneko, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

admittedly I'm an UNbalanced bisexual, but I only have any sexual thing for 4 to 5 of the 20 acting faves I listed.

halo halo, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

if i didnt separate out male/female actors, then i would have listed no men, and that wouldn't have been very sporting.
why? doesn't make sense to me. Why sshouldn't all your favourite actors be female?

halo halo, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

favourite actors and actresses are nothing to do with acting and everything to do with sex.
oh that must be why i don't have any, right.

unknown or illegal user, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

ok, and what doesn't make sense to me is why this is a big deal. are we saying there is no difference between men and women?

Ron, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think we're disagreeing over whether acting simply counts as a craft or profession. It it does, why would you make a distinction? Would you ask 'favourite male architect' and 'favourite female architect'? or even favourite male vs female artist? Insofar as most (screen) actors are as much attraction fetishes as professionals/artist, then a distinction is made.

Ellie, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

sure, its a profession but that's a small part of the interest. i think i need liz or someone to explain to me carefully what the problem is, so that i can think about it. also, because of the sex element, 'favorite' really has little to do with whether they are technically good or not. good and hott would be a great combo though. i maybe should not be talking about this

Ron, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've decided my favorite actor is Bill Murray.

Kris, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

How often does someone say "of course it will have to be a male architect"? How often do movie producers say "I don't mind if a man or a woman plays this major role"? Of course it's not remotely the same thing.

Martin Skidmore, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kris, have you seen "The Man Who Knew Too Little"?

rainy, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Ramosi Franco but close niggas call me Mo
Age: 20
Height: 5'6......fuck you

Fav Band: Geto Boys, KMD, Pulp, Daft Punk
Fav Movie: Scarface, Screwed, Money Talks, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Juice, I Got The Hook Up!
Fav TV Show: Daily Show, Croc. Hunter, Kratt's Creatures, SNL.
Fav Book: Hardy Boys, this fucking GORY industrial first aid book my dad had with full color pics of tibias hanging about a foot out of niggas leg skin, eyeballs, degloved torsos, all that shit!
Fav Actor: NORM MACDONALD, Luis Guzman, Master P, Bernie Mac before he turned g-rated bitch
Fav Actress: Sarah Silverman, Alyssa Milano, Penelope Ann Miller.
Fav Food: Classic Ice Cream Sandwich.......fuck all that thick shit like Klondike and Oreo that makes you all tired and your mouth look out of control pregnant after you grub it
Fav Sport: City bicycling at night while stoned out of my mind, a game of 21 (basketball), water balloons
Fav Athlete: Mike Tyson, Arturo Gatti.....and by the way, i want to baseball bat Tiger Woods fucking grille about 500 times, make him swallow and digest his big ass teeth and then shit them shits out onto a plate and make him sift through the shit with tweezers to find them shits and make him try to re-implant them shits back into his shitty gums
Drink of Choice: Milkshits.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): A few fat ropes of up and a good video to watch with true blue crew
Smoker? : Marlboro Menthols only on weekends (friday evening to sunday morning......my self-control is rugged like Osama)
Occupation : Office guy/furniture store salesman.
Do you work out? : Hell no.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10 if I like you, -100 if you done pissed me off
Add anything you want people to know: i'm back like your athlete's feet......i hear if you piss on them it helps.....that's what the abused miners and factory workers did during the industrial revolution to soothe the burn.....though i may have dreamed that......let me know how it's going bro, you gotta believe!!!

Ramosi, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

How often do movie producers say "I don't mind if a man or a woman plays this major role"? Of course it's not remotely the same thing

I wish they would think like that more often - so often there are roles that just automatically go to men (ie the main roles) that could just as easily have gone to women...just because women are cast in and take part in roles that have some particular gendered aspect tthem doesn't mean there is fundamentally something different about acting and "actressing".
I don't think architecting or acting are merely professions but I think maybe a singer/singess analogy would fit better...?

halo halo, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Andy
Age: 26
Height: 5'8"
Fav Band: Bark Psychosis, Prince, Metro Area, Moodymann, AR Kane
Fav Movie: Dead Ringers, The Last Picture Show, Ghost Dog
Fav TV Show: Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, The A-Team
Fav Book: The Third Wave, The Zinn Reader, Concrete Island
Fav Actor: Don Cheadle
Fav Actress: Kathleen Turner
Fav Food: Indian
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete: any pitcher who has ever thrown a knuckleball
Drink of Choice: Diet Coke
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): caffeine
Smoker? : no
Occupation : editor
Do you work out? : yes
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your car? : 8
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate SUVs? : 1

Andy K, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

singess is not a word

Ron, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

singes?

jel --, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kris, have you seen "The Man Who Knew Too Little"?

No! Should I? My opinion is based mostly on Caddyshack and Kingpin.

Kris, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah, you should definitely see it!

rainy, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah it's good, best Bill murray since groundhog day... I forgot to mention twin peaks, cos I'm dumb.

Andrew, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm late but oh well, Andrew bugged me to do this ages ago.
Name: Elisabeth
Age: 18
Height: 5'2
Fav Band: Blondie, Sleater-Kinney, Wire, Aislers Set, the Gist/Young Marble Giants
Fav Movie: Firewalk with me, Polyester, Welcome to the Dollhouse, My Fair Lady, Gloria
Fav TV Show: Buffy, Six Feet Under, Family Guy, Simpsons
Fav Book: Lotta, Animal Farm, Nights at the Circus
Fav Actor: Divine, John Cusack, Anthony Stewart Head, John Malkovich
Fav Actress: Mink Stole, Gena Rowlands, Janeane Garofalo
Fav Food: chips and dip, wedges, sushi
Fav Sport: bike riding, video games
Fav Athlete:
Drink of Choice: nothing at the moment, my liver is screwed and drinking means horrible pain.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): pot
Smoker? : no
Occupation :student, yikes
Do you work out? : no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7
7 seems safe.

Elisabeth, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

seven months pass...
Name: Horace Mann
Age: 25
Height: 5'10"

Fav Band: Today, I'm going to say...Morphine. I get more consistent pleasure out them than anyone else, except maybe the Kinks
Fav Movie: A Day At The Races
Fav TV Show: Homicide: Life On The Streets, then Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Fav Book: The Night (Alone) by Richard Meltzer
Fav Actor: Walter Matthau
Fav Actress: Sophia Loren, yowza

Fav Food: i like a good tortellini
Fav Sport: dog-sledding
Fav Athlete: dogs
Drink of Choice: scotch, bourbon
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): caffeine mostly

Smoker? : y
Occupation : writer
Do you work out? : n

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 9
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 2

Add anything you want people to know: i'm a big fat liar

Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 March 2003 18:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

This thread annoys because it was such a good intro to people, yet it didn't say where they Are which might encourage understanding and FAPs!

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 March 2003 18:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Sarah
From: Richmond, VA USA
Age: 25
Height: VERY TALL 5'11"
Fav Band/s of all time: the pixies/breeders/amps/kd6k, veruca salt, sleater-kinney, smashing pumpkins, belly/throwing muses, sonic youth, MBV, slowdive, there are too many to list...
Fav Band/s today: Sahara Hotnights, Zwan, Ikara Colt
Singers: Bjork, Tonya Donnelly
Fav Movies: Office Space, Spinal Tap, a bajillion romantic comedies
Fav TV Show: Six Feet under, Trading Spaces(I miss Freaks & Geeks)
Fav Book: The Sexual Politics of Meat, but mostly I read silly romantic comedies
Fav Actor: James Spader
Fav Actress: Catherine Keener
Fav Food: sour pickles
Drink of Choice: pina colada
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not my thing - caffeine
Smoker? : never
Occupation : real estate assistant (blah-day job)/musician (yay!)
Do you work out? : I go on walks
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 8.5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 9

Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: a.k.a. Don Weiner
Age: 34
Height: 5?11?
Fav Band: The Replacements
Fav Movie: The Silence of the Lambs
Fav TV Show: The Larry Sanders Show or the Simpsons
Fav Book: To Kill a Mockingbird
Fav Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
Fav Actress: Julianne Moore
Fav Food: pizza
Fav Sport: college football
Fav Athlete: Tiger Woods
Drink of Choice: Scotch, but I pretty much like anything with alcohol in it.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing):
Smoker? : nope
Occupation : full time dad, part time grad student, freelance writer
Do you work out? : if that?s what you call chasing around a couple of toddlers
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : too old for the rave scene
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : if I had a vibrating tongue it would be a 10 for sure

don weiner, Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I already filled the other version of this in... the one with location instead of height. (5'8", FWIW.)

Oh, to repeat, my location is somewhere near Birmingham, UK. If there's anyone nearby who wants to be my friend/lover/patron, do get in touch! :)

At least someone else likes To Kill a Mockingbird. I thought it was just me. :)

I thought I'd use two smileys today because I don't feel quite as crapped-out as yesterday...

ChristineSH, Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Rah! That is good to hear.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm sorry about the things I said on the list Christine is speaking of. I would say my looks are a 5 and my personality is a 7, speaking honestly. I sure do love myself!

Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 20:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm sticking with 2.363 and 4.

Although I do try to love myself a bit more sometimes. The trouble is, it's really hard because I'm SUCH A CUNT!!

And... er... proud of it...?!

ChristineSH, Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Don, you have annoyed me by ignoring my criticism of this thread. Ned, hold him down til he tells us where he is!

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Stop it Christine! You're worse than me! I say we decide where Don is for him. I vote for Ottumwa, Iowa.

Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

I only say "stop it" Christine because I know that my self-deprecation is my most annoying habit, and in your case it seems to be even less true than it is when I do it. You seem perfectly fine, except for all the sad stuff.

Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

And no Christine, you're not necessarily annoying!

Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ned, hold him down til he tells us where he is!

Can't I just bore him with a list of the 500 reasons why I like the Smashing Pumpkins?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can help! (With the list, not holding down Ned)

Sarah Mclusky (coco), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, if it's about holding me down...

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I only say "stop it" Christine because I know that my self-deprecation is my most annoying habit, and in your case it seems to be even less true than it is when I do it.

Did you really just say that? ;-)

Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Stinky Weezleteagues (okay, actually Nick Coleman)

Age: 24

Height: 6'4"

Fav Band: For fear of coming off as trying to seem so eclectic as I've been accused of before, I'm not even gonna begin.

Fav Movie: I dunno, Pootie Tang?

Fav TV Show: Either Simpsons or Futurama.

Fav Book: Right now prob'ly Pimp by Iceberg Slim.

Fav Actor: Possibly Chris Walken or Steve Buscemi.

Fav Actress: Today? Annette Benning and Kirsten Dunst.

Fav Food: I'm a vaginatarian. :D

Fav Sport: hackysack, rock climbing, swimming

Fav Athlete: um...

Drink of Choice: tonight it'll be Fuller's ESB (mmmmmmm)

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): coffee, ganj, mushrooms

Smoker? : only tobacky what is wacky

Occupation : Mild-mannered data entry drone by day, but by night...

Do you work out? : Not enough.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Google. Squared.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : F.

Add anything you want people to know: Soylent Green is made of people!

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Stinky Weezleteagues

Happy happy...

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

(I love me a good hacky-sacking, but it's not a sport)

Christine: go up to the next five guys you see and ask them if they want to shag. I'm betting only one wouldn't.

oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

oops: OTM!!!

Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why would one say no? One in 5 guys is gay?

Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sure!

Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chris: why do you think I back-pedalled in my next post!?

Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 21:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

It wasn't the "annoying" part that amused me, it was how you bemoaned your self-depricating habits in a self-depricating manner! "I don't like it when I self-depricate, and you have even less of a reason to do it than pathetic ol' me does!"

Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 6 March 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm pretty slick that way!

Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 22:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

It was smooth and subtle and I was impressed.

Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 6 March 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

When you've been putting yourself down as long as I have you learn a trick or two along the way.

Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why would one say no? One in 5 guys is gay?

That, or he's on his way to get some better cootch

oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 March 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay, I've not done it in a while so it might turn out different...

Name: Martin Skidmore
Age: 43
Height: 5'7"
Fav Band: Al Green, Pulp, James Brown, Louis Prima, Rolling Stones, Jimmy Cliff, Willie Nelson, T. Rex.
Fav Movie: Seven Samurai, Bringing Up Baby, Manhattan, Philadelphia Story.
Fav TV Show: Homicide, Simpsons, Twin Peaks, Bilko, Match of the Day.
Fav Book: 1001 Nights, Dhalgren (Sam Delany), Les Miserables (Hugo), Labyrinths (Borges), Seventh Heaven (Alice Hoffman).
Fav Actor: Jean Gabin, Cary Grant, Toshiro Mifune.
Fav Actress: Gloria Grahame, Barbara Stanwyck, Katherine Hepburn.
Fav Food: Italian. Had a great veal in a white wine and sage sauce once.
Fav Sport: Football, WWF wrestling (sports entertainment!), sumo wrestling.
Fav Athlete: Pele
Drink of Choice: Robinson's original orange squash, diluted 50:50 with water, ice cold.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): cannabis, cocaine.
Smoker? : gave up 15 months back. Bum the occasional one from Anna and other people.
Occupation : Systems analyst/programmer at a top London university.
Do you work out? : Good grief no.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Realistically, about 3
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Maybe 6.
Add anything you want people to know: I think I've already talked about sex far too much on ILX.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 6 March 2003 22:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

oops: NOT ON THE FUCKIN' MONEY!!!

Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

*shed one lonely tear*

oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 March 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

um, sheds

oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 March 2003 22:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry there, bub. Maybe the 5th guy is the one who says he's gonna wait to get better "cootch" when really he just has such a super small bean dink that he's afraid to be found out?

Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 22:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

OMG, that was my alternate explanation!

oops (Oops), Thursday, 6 March 2003 23:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Daniel Sylvester Reifferscheid

Age: 18

Height: no idea, haha!

Fav Band: My favourite band that's still around is probably The Divine Comedy, but the band that I've been most obsessed with my whole life is, regrettably, The Beatles. They marked my entry into music- nothing before them, be it my dad's Ry Cooder and Caetano Veloso or my friend's Snap! and Michael Jackson, made the slightest impression on me.

Fav Movie: I still stand by my opinion that Gremlins 2:The New Batch is the greatest piece of art ever released, because it's basically just funny little green monsters running around doing everything everyone else secretly wants to do, but doesn't because we don't wanna be shunned by society and because, y'know, we know it'd hurt.

Fav TV Show: Buffy The Vampire Slayer reprezent, of course, and usual suspects like South Park, Red Dwarf, Monty Python's Flying Circus, too. And I'm a big fan of those old sci-fi shows- The Outer Limits is my fave.

Fav Book: Oooer, toughie. Random selection of favourites: The Hitch Hyker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster, Another Country by James Baldwin, The Heart Of Rock & Soul by Dave Marsh, The Hobbit by Tolkien and On The Road by Jack Kerouac.

Fav Actor: Cinema is my least favourite type of art, I really dunno what to answer here. I mean, of course Bogart rules, but that's quite a dull thing to say innit?

Fav Actress: Erhm, I like Janeane whatshername.

Fav Food: Enchiladas!

Fav Sport: I enjoy skiing and swimming (as relaxation, not competition); mostly I hate sports cos I've got a leg problem and also I'm a wimp.

Fav Athlete: Now you're just kidding me, aren't ya?

Drink of Choice: Used to be addicted to Coca-Cola; now I just stumble through the wilderness and drink whatever's there. If you mean alcoholic beverages, a Smirnoff Ice is always nice.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): I smoke the occasional joint, that's about it.

Smoker? : Apart from the stuff referred to above, no.

Occupation : Student.

Do you work out? : No, I work it.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Oh, I'd say 7 bordering on 8, according to my own taste. According to "conventional" tastes, I suppose I might be around 4ish.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : I don't think I can answer that. I reckogn I'm Cool Enuff- I can be arrogant and insecure and show-offy, and I can also be excessively introverted and shun human company altogether (I'm a terrible introextrovert), but I'm occasionaly amusing, mostly compassionate and at any rate I'm alot cooler than any of you bitches will ever be.

Add anything you want people to know: That Kelly Osbourne album really is quite good!

Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 6 March 2003 23:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can't say it's really my style to proposition random people like that. I have trouble even talking to people sometimes. (Sad but true...)

So I can't put your theory to the test, dammit. Even though I reckon that one in five *being* interested would be a stupendous result. (Surreal, even.)

The 'sad stuff'... hell, even I consider that annoying! I don't have much hope of anyone else digging it. :)

ChristineSH, Friday, 7 March 2003 00:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

I didn't mean to say you were annoying! I'm very sorry! And there are lots of guys out there who say stuff like, "I fucking hate happy people. They can eat shit and die." or whatever, so maybe you'll just have to find one of those guys. WHY DON'T I HAVE ANY STEAMED CARROTS!?!?!?!?

Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 7 March 2003 03:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

ChristineSH: best chat up line for a girl to use on a guy: "Hello"

gaz (gaz), Friday, 7 March 2003 03:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Then watch him freak out!

Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 7 March 2003 03:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

NOT BECAUSE IT'S YOU ASKING, CHRISTINE!!! I've put my foot in my mouth one too many times in this thread. Crap on a stick.

Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 7 March 2003 03:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

be careful if the guys are all together though

gaz (gaz), Friday, 7 March 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name:
Age: 29
Height: 5'9"

Fav Food: tough choice! Indian, Thai, Sushi?? Pizza??

Drink of Choice: vodka tonic

Smoker? : mild

Occupation : graphic designer

Do you work out? : yes

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5

Add anything you want people to know: I don't have a lot of favorites, my tastes are varied and I often flip-flop on opinions because I tend to see things from many angles (just not all at the same time). I can argue a point (not to be argumentative) for something I don't believe in, just to get "all the ducks in a row" maybe to understand a situation better, but I don't spend a lot of time actually arguing "for" or "against" many things because I'm not really for or against much, therefore any arguing is usually in a purely philosophical sense. I'm not a passionate defender of causes or art and I'm not a compassionate conservative. The world is strange and I'm often confused.

Scaredy Cat, Friday, 7 March 2003 04:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

(SF) Sean, your favourite movie is Suspiria? That's so cool.

(My favourite musical artists at the moment are Beethoven and Django Reinhardt though I'd probably still rate LZ as greatest band. Martial arts is by default my favourite sport but I missed today's class because I'm sick and Tuesday's to hang out with a girl I like. Wait, does non-competitive cycling count as a sport? That might win then. I guess Clone High is my favourite TV show. I'm a grad student now. Other than that my answers probably still stand.)

sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 7 March 2003 05:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hey, I'm not getting offended or anything. I meant it when I said I find that stuff annoying. Whether anyone else does or not!

But, anyway... me say hello to a complete stranger? Well, that's sort of 50/50 if they say hello to me first. :)

ChristineSH, Friday, 7 March 2003 07:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hi Sundar. Sorry if I pissed you off at the FAP. As you may have noticed, I was pretty fucked up.

Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 7 March 2003 14:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Leigh
Age: 27
Height: 5'8"
Fav Band: Radiohead
Fav Movie: Roman Holiday
Fav TV Show: ER
Fav Book: Eureka Street - Robert McLiam Wilson
Fav Actor: Gregory Peck
Fav Actress: can't think of a particular fave just now
Fav Food: curry
Fav Sport: football
Fav Athlete: Luis Figo
Drink of Choice: vodka, lime and soda
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): caffiene
Smoker? : yes
Occupation : civil servant
Do you work out? : does walking to the bus stop count?
On a scale from 1-10 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6ish

leigh (leigh), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bryan, you weren't offensive or objectionable in the least (or particularly fucked up). Did I seem pissed off? All I remember is talking about prog records. What prompted this? You weren't joking about being self-deprecating, were you?

sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm not sure. I've been thinking about my behaviour that evening and I'm pretty sure it wasn't the best. You guys are all pretty terrific, and I was worried that you wouldn't want me back for another one. I got a little carried away with the bourbon and Irish whisky. Of course, you got carried away with the pickled egg.

Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Who is going to get the most annoying prize then? I want it to be me. I never win anything.

ChristineSH, Friday, 7 March 2003 15:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

ME ME ME!!! I've been reading some of the posts I've made over the last couple of days and I'm EASILY more annoying than you, Christine! I mean, all the phony self-deprecation, the begging for approval, the sudden bursts of nonsense... The only way I can top myself is to pull a Ving Rhames when I'm handed the award and pass it off to you (being the Jack Lemmong stand in).

Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Can you get to Oxford Christine?

Graham (graham), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Matt
Age: 24
Height: 6'
Residence: Boston

Fav Band: Right now I'm really excited about MP3 only labels. Specifically, labels that specialize in minimal abstract electronics (I guess "microsound" is the term of choice?). I recommend http://fals.ch, a Mego sublabel that has an incredible mindfuck of a layout. It took me three visits to figure out where the music was. Wheee. Also, http://www.tu-m.com/tump3.htm has tons of great music from people like Greg Davis, Keith Whitman, Kim Cascone, Si-Cut.Db... And http://www.notype.com is one I've just started looking into. Also, I've been listening to the Kinks, the Other People Place / Drexciya, T. Rex...

Fav Movie: I really like Easter Parade. Also, I love Casino Royale for being style over substance, for pissing off James Bond fanboys (no offense, I was bred to be one), and for having a killer soundtrack. Monkey Business and Duck Soup are also great.

Fav TV Show: Futurama was really funny. Though it's cancelled now, right?

Fav Book: I mention Balzac whenever this question comes up, but I should also namedrop the book that turned me on to Balzac--S/Z. What a joyful, exciting book. I really liked Anna Karenina. It drags towards the middle, but the last chapter redeems the whole book. And, Life: A User's Manual, by Georges Perec. I hate authors who beat over the head with their post-modern play: If On A Winters Night A Traveller, and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch bothered me for their heavy-handed cleverness. Perec, at least in this book, keeps it in check.

Fav Actor/Actress: No answer.

Fav Food: I like a good stir-fry with bok choy. Thai, Indian. And cheese sandwiches.

Fav Sport/Athlete: No answers.

Drink of Choice: Stout in winter, wheat beer in summer, Scotch anytime.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Nope.

Smoker? :Nope.

Occupation : Nope.

Do you work out? :Nope.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : I have a very narrow face with beady eyes, and a scrawny body. But my complexion is clear. Therefore, 10.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : I have a persecution complex, and too much self-pity. And I'm a foul-tempered grouch. But I happen to find foul tempers charming. So 10.


Add anything you want people to know: Did you really read all that? God, that was sweet of you.

Matt B. (Matt B.), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

I had to look Ving Rhames up on imdb.com. I'm not much wiser. :)

Oh well. You know, I can *really* annoying if I try hard enough. I've been restraining myself very stolidly.

Oxford? My ability to get anywhere is hugely depedant on how broke I am at the time, so the answer is... sometimes. I'm told it's a very nice place, but I've never been. (Nearest I've been: Bicester.)

I really have to get a job. That's another thread, tho'...

ChristineSH, Friday, 7 March 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

I just tried registering this thing, BTW. I guess this prevents any forgers posting anything non-annoying in my name. :)

ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Christine: look at Ving Rhames' awards on IMDb, then scroll down to his Golden Globes win.

Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ah. I figured it was something like that.

I should've known who Ving Rhames was, really, shouldn't I? I'm possibly the only person in the world who never saw Pulp Fiction (although I did see Mission: Impossible and Con Air).

ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: John
Location: Washington, DC
From: Pittsburgh, PA
Age: 31
Height: 6’4”
Fav Band/s of all time: Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, Afghan Whigs, etc.
Fav Band/s today: I’ve had this Spoon song in my head all day…
Singers: Chan Marshall, Rebecca Gates, Polly Harvey, Elvis Costello (no kidding)
Fav Movies: Fearless maybe
Fav TV Show: Simpsons maybe
Fav Book: The Gold Bug Variations
Fav Actor: Yaphet Kotto
Fav Actress: Maura Tierney
Fav Food: I-talian
Drink of Choice: Mt. Dew by day, beer by night
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Mt. Dew by day, beer by night
Smoker? : nope
Occupation : editor
Do you work out? I play basketball and ice hockey
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7.5?
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 9 but I wouldn’t dance to me
How do you measure yourself against other golfers? : by height

mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hi John. Yaphet Kotto is a nutso choice for fave actor! Are you any good at hockey?

Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Carey
Age: 24
Height: 5'5"

Fav Band: REM X Ray Spex The Jam Replacements Pavement

Fav TV Show: Buffy TVS

Fav Book: Fountainhead (for not the obvious reasons)

Fav Actor: Ewan Mcgregor's penis

Fav Actress: Angelina Jolie (because we kept ending up in the same store while shopping in Camden and she's hot)

Fav Food: Cheese, sushi

Fav Sport: Tennis

Fav Athlete: ummmmm... Ewan Mcgregor's penis

Drink of Choice: ummmm... Ewan Mcgrego...um whiskey and ginger ale

Smoker? : Nah

Occupation : Uhhh, I do this thing where I stay at home a lot and play on the computer and sometimes I leave home to interview people and run record checks and then I type something up once a week and then these people can become border patrols or air marshalls or they can handle classified information or whatever it is they want to do and then I go back and watch some more TV and eat some ravioli and then the cycle repeats itself and I get paid regardless. But technically my title is Special Investigator. (Don't ask).

Do you work out? : Unfortunately, yes, 5 days a week.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Anywhere from a 1-10.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Anywhere from a 1-10 (i'm a gemini damnnit!)

Carey (Carey), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fav Actor: Ewan Mcgregor's penis

Ah, so it is just acting...

Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yaphet Kotto = sublime. And he's Jewish, which is extra nutso!

I'm a crap hockey player, but I've got a good forehand wrist shot. Can't skate, can't defend, no slap shot. But a few years ago I led a (bad) league in North Carolina in scoring because we had a defenceman named Woody from Manitoba who kept the puck in while I just stood in the slot until the puck came near me... :)

mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 7 March 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

So what's the deal with his hair? I've never seen him in anything looking even slightly bald (even stuff from the '70s), but sometimes in the last decade or so that hair is *so* bizarre...

ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Chris
Age: 37
Height: 6' 3"
Fav Band: The entire Spacemen 3 axis, The Church, Roxy Music, Link Wray, '67-'71 Pink Floyd, VU, Savage Republic/Scenic, whoever is playing at Terrastock
Fav Movie: His Girl Friday, Blue/White/Red trilogy, Vanishing Point, The Monolith Monsters, Godzilla vs. Mothra
Fav TV Show: The Prisoner
Fav Book: Snow Crash (fiction), City Of Quartz (non-fiction)
Fav Actor/Actress: mostly folks who aren't alive any more
Fav Food: manchego cheese and serrano ham sandwiches. artichokes. bisteeya. most Spanish tapas dishes and Thai food.
Fav Sport: classic early 80s video games
Fav Athlete: Minnesota Fats
Drink of Choice: triple espresso
Smoker?: no
Occupation: System/Network Admin and roving computer freelancer.
Do you work out?: Constant working out my personality problems and my general distaste for the human race without much success.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: I'd probably use some half-assed 1-10 scale
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: Ditto.

Chris Barrus (xibalba), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Did somebody just say Yaphet Kotto is Jewish?

slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yaphet Kotto is a mishpacha! (p.s. I don't know what that means)

http://www.jewishsf.com/bk990402/etjewishtv.shtml

mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hey! I know Woody! Well, no, I'm just kidding, but I am from Manitoba.

Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

my name is donna, i am short of stature and i can never manage to list fave ' anythings' because i change my mind about it all on a daily basis.
i smoke and still cant believe i do it having pretty much quit whilst pregnant with my son ( now 1 yr old ).
my current occupation is full-time sole parent, but i am qualified as a naturopath.
personality-wise - i have been described as 'difficult' amongst other even less flattering things.
looks? im ok.

donna (donna), Saturday, 8 March 2003 02:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hi, Donna...nice to meet you...

here goes:

Name: BurmaKitty
Age: Watch it, Buddy.
Height: Meets minimum height requirements

Fav Band: Mission of Burma, in case you haven't noticed

Fav Movie: Mission of Burma, Live at the Bradford Ballroom

Fav TV Show: My tv when I am playing "Mission of Burma, Live at the Bradford Ballroom" video

Fav Book: "Our Band Could be your life"...ok, just chapter three...the one about MISSION OF BURMA

Fav Actor: Mark Kates when he gets up on stage and introduces Mission of Burma to the audience...as if everyone in the audience doesn't already know who they are!

Fav Actress: Screwball when she acts like she can no longer here me when I say how freaking good looking Mission of Burma are.

Fav Food: The backstage cold cuts in 1981-82 I was allowed to eat, out of pity from Mission of Burma or out of the band's sense of psuedo parental obligation, ...either that or THEY JUST WEREN'T LOOKING.

Fav Sport: Waiting for Clint Conley to turn around and face Peter Prescott so I can get a better look.

Fav Athlete: Bob Weston...spinning the reels back and forth.

Drink of Choice: Most local cab's ...no, no silly Mission of Burma answer for this one.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): MISSION OF BURMA

Smoker? : Clint Conley. ...OH, I thought it said "FAVORITE SMOKER"

Occupation :a PRE-OCCUPATION with MISSION OF BURMA!!!!!!

Do you work out? : What would you call SHAKING MY ARSE TO MISSION OF BURMA???

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : All Mission of Burma fans are fantastically good looking.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? :
If quantity is a factor, then 10.

Add anything you want people to know: oh, yeah, by the way, I like MISSION OF BURMA

BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Saturday, 8 March 2003 03:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

BurmaKitty and Clint Conley starring in a remake of Misery in a few years, when they give up music for good. ;-)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 March 2003 03:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ned,

YOU had that dream too!!!!!!

BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Saturday, 8 March 2003 04:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mishpacha means family.

slutsky (slutsky), Saturday, 8 March 2003 04:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

YOU had that dream too!!!!!!

Astounding.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 March 2003 05:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah! Let's just hope he can keep it up for a while and...

KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE

http://missionofburma.com/bgu/original/photo/eastcoast2003/atlanta/Roll2DX-21450.jpg

BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Saturday, 8 March 2003 05:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

My....what a big bass he has.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 March 2003 05:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, indeed.

Alex, you were supposed to be "representing" the ILX-faction of Clint Conley Worshippers at Clint's Solo show at North Six in Brooklyn.

What's wrong with you? Why are you on the computah?

BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Saturday, 8 March 2003 05:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

I work on Friday nights.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 March 2003 06:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm here at the office all night, sister, 8pm to 8am....the newswatch never stops.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 March 2003 06:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh, then we can cry together here in the virtual world...

whaaaaaa!!!!! Clint is playing and I'm not there.

boo hoo

BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Saturday, 8 March 2003 06:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Nathan Patrin
Age: 25
Height: 5'9"

Fav Band: Beck is not a band, so Clinic.
Fav Movie: Repo Man, probably. Sentimental reasons.
Fav TV Show: MST3K.
Fav Book: Tie: Ben Hamper's Rivethead and the Ego Trip Big Book of Racism.
Fav Actor: Shit, I dunno. David Cross. He acts, right?
Fav Actress: Uma Thurman?
Fav Food: Angel hair pasta with pesto
Fav Sport: Real or fake? If real, basketball. If fake, professional wrestling (especially lucha libre)
Fav Athlete: Kurt Angle.
Drink of Choice: Vanilla Coke. I'm so sXe, dude.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): My own self-delusion.
Smoker? : Christ, why did I think of Waterworld just now? Argh.
Occupation : Mailroom clerk
Do you work out? : Well, I walk a lot and occasionally lift/lug around heavy stuff (see above)
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 4

Add anything you want people to know: If this is for a marketing survey I will not be especially pleased.

Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 8 March 2003 06:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm more upset about missing Liquid Liquid at the Knitting Factory, honestly.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 March 2003 06:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

You are not honouring Mission of Burma's fire.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 March 2003 06:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, it's more likely I'd have the opportunity to see the revived Mission of Burma again than Liquid Liquid again.

Incidentally, there is only *ONE* fire to be honored, and it burns exclusively for the Joke.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 March 2003 07:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Donna, what is a naturopath? Is it like a psychopath, and if so how do you get qualified?

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 8 March 2003 12:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Forget naturopaths. No one explained Yaphet's hair to me.

(I'm still bored. And I need a break from my past lives.)

ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Saturday, 8 March 2003 16:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha yes martin you must be pshychotic to even consider becoming a naturopath.
it is the term for someone trained in healing, treating the 'entire person' rather than just the symptoms. we use herbal medicines, bach remedies, nutrition, and iridology ( as a diagnostic tool ).
the idea is quite simple - treat the person, not the disease.
i trained at one of australias many colleges for this but am a little disillusioned with it all now, as i found that even though natural medicines are very effective, most people still want a 'quick fix' and are not prepared to make any effort themselves to feel better.

donna (donna), Saturday, 8 March 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

I just realised how horrible that sounded. Sorry. For once, I wasn't being intentionally dismissive.

I am, however, being obsessive about that hair...

It's a rather lonely obsession, it seems. *sigh*

ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Saturday, 8 March 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Domenico Francesco Passantino

Age: 20

Height: 5'7"

Fav Band: Belle and Sebastian, Eels, Violent Femmes

Fav Movie: The Breakfast Club, 12 Angry Men, Heavenly Creatures

Fav TV Show: The Sopranos, Jackass, The Office

Fav Book: "Jack Frusciante Has Left The Band" Enrico Brizzi, "Microserfs" Douglas Coupland

Fav Actor: Err... Jackie Chan. I dunno.

Fav Actress: Kate Winslet and her breasts.

Fav Food: Blue steak

Fav Sport: Football

Fav Athlete: Hristo Stoichkov

Drink of Choice: Jack Daniels and Coke/Blackthorn's Dry

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Alcohol, the drug of choice for non-twats.

Smoker? : No. No. No. No.

Occupation : Creative writing student/potential future stalker

Do you work out? : No. No. No. No.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 2

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5

Add anything you want people to know: I'm desperate.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 8 March 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Kirsten
Age: 21
Height: 5'9"

Fav Band: Chopin...? I don't know.

Fav Movie: I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! Songs From the Second Floor. Dirty Dancing.

Fav TV Show: Antiques Roadshow.

Fav Book: The Little Prince. Lolita. Metamorphoses. Birds of America.

Fav Actor: Fred Savage.

Fav Actress: Judith Light.

Fav Food: Olives.

Fav Sport: Water aerobics.

Fav Athlete: Richard John Gillanders.

Drink of Choice: Currently, scotch & soda.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Not really.

Smoker? : I guess so.

Occupation : Creative writing student. Bakery employee.

Do you work out? : Sometimes I do leg-lifts while I watch Ricki Lake.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : At this moment, I'd say 2.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : At this moment, I'd say 2.


kirsten (kirsten), Sunday, 9 March 2003 04:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Mark P
Age: 25
Height: 6'0"
Fav Band: Radiohead, Boards Of Canada.
Fav Movie: Rushmore is the only film I know by heart.
Fav TV Show: Old Simpsons.
Fav Book: Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
Fav Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman? Edward Norton?
Fav Actress: Katherine Keener? Toni Colette?
Fav Food: Angel hair pasta, fresh basil, lemon juice, olive oil + real parmesan cheese.
Fav Sport: I am Canadian, therefore -> baseball.
Fav Athlete: Today, Owen Nolan.
Drink of Choice: Vodka + Coke.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Sometimes I smoke the odd doot.
Smoker? : When I'm drinking or at a show or bored. So, yeah.
Occupation : Music writer.
Do you work out? : Used to, not anymore.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8

mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 9 March 2003 04:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Too bad you didn't make it to the Feb. 16th FAP, Mark.

Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 9 March 2003 04:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

:(

mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 9 March 2003 05:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

The title of this thread is so goddam creepy

N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 9 March 2003 13:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...
Name: The Jews are alright (my name is Hebrew so don't call me an anti-semite!)
Age: yeah
Height: ole

Fav Band: it ain't no fucking bunch of worthless 2 bit hacks

Fav Movie: Skyggen af Emma

Fav TV Show: Wonderama

Fav Book: The Idiot

Fav Actor: O.J. Simpson (he was great in the Naked Gun)

Fav Actress: Christy Canyon

Fav Food: Almonds

Fav Sport: Unprotected Sex

Fav Athlete: Christy Canyon

Drink of Choice: Propel

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Caffeine

Smoker? : No fucking way

Occupation : CA/CLS

Do you work out? : Yes but not much

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : A+

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : B-


Add anything you want people to know: I can't respect a skank.

The Jews are alright. (The Jews are alright), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 01:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Fred Nerk
Age: 45
Height: 5'9"
Fav Band: Beatles, U2, Elton J, Bob Seger, Who, Redgum, Cold Chisel, also love jazz, classical, folk
Fav Movie: The Ice Storm, Billy Jack, Life of Brian
Fav TV Show: West Wing, The Games
Fav Book: The Things We Did Last Summer (Bob Ellis)
Fav Actor: Chris Heywood, John Clarke, Meryl Streep
Fav Food: Curry, spaghetti bolognese, parmigiana
Fav Sport: AFL Aus Rules (Carlton), cricket, EPL soccer (West Ham), tennis, golf
Fav Athlete: Cathy Freeman, Steve Waugh
Drink of Choice: Bundy & coke or dry gigner, beer, red wine (alc); iced coffee, Schweppes bitter lemon (non-alc)
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): It ain't.
Smoker? : Not for 15 years
Occupation : Market researcher, permanent student, smart-arse, all-purpose waste of time and space
Do you work out? : Will eventually
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7


Fred Nerk, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 01:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hooray for Fred! He's older than me! What is this EPL Soccer thing that West Ham are involved in? I live walking distance from their ground, by the way.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

revised version

Name: Horace Mann
Age: 25
Height: 5'9 1/2"

Fav Band: Today, I'm going to say...Morphine. I get more consistent pleasure out them than anyone else, except maybe the Kinks
Fav Movie: A Day At The Races
Fav TV Show: Homicide: Life On The Streets, then Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Fav Book: The Night (Alone) by Richard Meltzer
Fav Actor: Walter Matthau
Fav Actress: Sophia Loren, yowza

Fav Food: i like a good tortellini
Fav Sport: dog-sledding
Fav Athlete: dogs
Drink of Choice: scotch, bourbon
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): caffeine mostly

Smoker? : y
Occupation : writer
Do you work out? : n

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 9
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 2

Add anything you want people to know: i'm a great dancer

Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Karen Elizabeth McDonald
Age: 42
Height: Just above average, about 5-7, don't bother asking about metrics
Fav Band: Grew up with Beatles etc but now Yvonne Kenny, Dame Kiri, Eva Cassidy, Aretha
Fav Movie: When Harry Met Sally
Fav TV Show: At the mo, Grass Roots
Fav Book: Modern Interiors, by local Melbourne writer Andrea Goldsmith
Fav Actor: Tom Hanks
Fav Actress: Helena Bonham Carter
Fav Food: Apricot chicken, mango, CHOCOLATE!
Fav Sport: Casually follow Essendon in local football, play a bit of tennis, pretend to follow basketball to keep kids happy
Fav Athlete: Evonne Cawley, Pat Rafter, Lleyton Hewitt
Drink of Choice: Black Tower, Lemon Ruski, Bacardi and coke, but a hot cup of Milo on a cold night beats the lot.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Life, my children's energy and enthusiasm
Smoker? : Alas, yes, but will quit soon (Yeah, really, fair dinkum!)
Occupation : Full-time single parent to son 12 & daughter 10, home tutor in VCE (last year secondary school in Aus) art & music, library assistant. That's in order of importance and fulfilment.
Do you work out? : Play bad tennis and worse golf, walk a lot
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6 which is a good mark in the circumstances. I regard coming out of my 'marriage' only mildly neurotic (and raising my children, so far, to be the same), instead of raving psychopathic, as my greatest triumph.

Add anything you want people to know: Sorry fellas, I'm off limits.

Karen, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 04:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

But are you off limits for the ladies as well, Karen? *wink*

Anyway - hello and greetings and all of that, from Florida.

I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 04:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

'I'm sure I haven't the slightest idea what you mean!' (wink)
I suspect I am, Laura (if thats your name). I've had about 28 years to suddenly discover otherwise. (Greetings from Melbourne, Australia anyway!)
I doubt if I'd be any less of a danger to myself when I start fooling about with Relationships whether they're hom or het, if there was a loser to be had I'd find him/her and get tangled. I'm much, much better at ordinary friendships where I don't get any big ideas.

Karen, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 05:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name:Chris V.
Age:28
Height:5'11

Fav Band: Kings of Convenience, Love, Simon and Garfunkel, Beach Boys, Red House Painters, Do Make Say Think, Matt Pond PA, Archer Prewitt, Iron and Wine, Nick Drake, Van Morrison, Pinback, Yume Bitsu...

Fav Movie:Kicking and Screaming, Dirty Dozen....

Fav TV Show:CSI, Seinfeld, Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm

Fav Book: Stay Here With Me - Robert Olmstead

Fav Actor: Tom Hanks, DeNiro, Pacino, Walken
Fav Actress: Kate Hudson, Jennifer Garner

Fav Food: Pizza, Sushi, BBQ

Fav Sport: Baseball, Hockey

Fav Athlete: Cam Neely, Nomar

Drink of Choice: Beer

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Not my bag.

Smoker? : Used to be

Occupation : QA/ Software Testing Manager

Do you work out? : I've been playing hockey again and will start playing baseball soon, so that qualifies.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : oh a 10.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10


Add anything you want people to know: I'm a sexy bitch with mad dance moves.

Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes Martin, I follow the (very occasionally) (very slightly) Mighty Hammers from the safe distance of 20 000 km. They seem to have come good (well, improved towards mediocre) over the last month or so, but even if they do stay up it won't do them the blindest bit of good. Roeder couldn't inspire a fish to wet its backside.

Fred Nerk, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Tuomas Tapani Alho
Age: 23
Height: 180 cm

Fav Band: Don't like bands.

Fav Movie: Dr. Strangelove or Ressources humaines

Fav TV Show: The Maxx

Fav Book: A Story of Blindness

Fav Actor: Katherine Hepburn

Fav Food: Vegan lasagna

Fav Sport: Football

Fav Athlete: None

Drink of Choice: Beer

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Ganja

Smoker?: Occasionally.

Occupation: Student

Do you work out?: No.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 6

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality: 8

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

9, Horace? Let's see some pix!

Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 18:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Doing this thing once simply wasn't enough:

Name: The Nza/El Nenius aka Reverend William Nicholas Coleman

Age: 24 human years

Height: about 6'4" above sea level

Fav Bands/musicians: Fishbone, The Roots, Ween, Buckethead, Talking Heads, Kool Keith, Ani DiFranco, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Beck, They Might Be Giants, System of a Down, Wu Tang, Bjork, Miles Davis, Amon Tobin, Talvin Singh, Dan the Automator, Beastie Boys, Primus, Cornelius, Mike Patton, Skerik, Funkadelic, Medeski Martin and Wood

Fav Movie: anything done by the Coen brothers or Terry Gilliam

Fav TV Show: all-too-predictably, The Simpsons

Fav Book: Hrm. Maybe Bucky Fuller's Critical Path, maybe Tom Robbins' Jitterbug Perfume, possibly Robert Anton Wilson's Shroedinger's Cat, definitely not anything by Robert Jordan (but why oh why can't I stop reading those books!?!)

Fav Actor: Steve Buscemi, John Goodman

Fav Actress: Maggie mufuggin Gyllenhaal

Fav Food: mediterranean

Fav Sport: anything that involves frisbees

Fav Athlete: I like how Kobi's always fuckin' shit up!

Drink of Choice: eightch two oh

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): certain things that grow in nature

Occupation : musician, dad, insurance man, priest, take yr pick!

Do you work out? : Why, yes! Are you looking at my ass?

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : yes

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : definitely


Add anything you want people to know: I'm left-handed.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 19:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Not my bag.

Yeah, it's not mine either, officer...I've never seen it before in my life *points surreptitiously to nickalicious*

oops (Oops), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 19:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sheriff: Book 'im, boys.
Officer1: Hold on chief, it might be medicinal.
Me: Uh, yeah, uh, medicinal. Without it I could go...even...blinder?

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Name: Becky
Age: 27
Height: 5'4"
Fav Band: Don't really have a favorite but I'm going to see Black Dice tonight and they make me happy
Fav Movie: Just bought Anne of Green Gables. And so it's my favorite for a while.
Fav TV Show: No TV, except for Buffy.
Favorite authors: David Foster Wallace, Tom Bissell
Fav Actor: Ok, Owen Wilson.
Fav Actress: Frances McDormand, I like Sandra Bullock too, I love fluff
Fav Food: Avocados
Fav Sport: I like to swim
Fav Athlete: None
Drink of Choice: I'm a lightweight, beer, wine
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not lately
Smoker? : Screw Bloomberg, I smoke more now 'cause I'm annoyed
Occupation : Paralegal, about to start grad school
Do you work out? : No
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : This varies daily. But my hair was a 10 this morning. Good day.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Also, varies depending on my morning commute, my boss, my shoes, my credit limit, the evening before etc.

Add anything you want people to know: Hi.

Becky (Rebecca), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 20:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

eleven months pass...
Name: Jacinta Walker
Age: 13
Height: 160cm

Fav Band: Moving Pictures

Fav Movie: The Fight temptations

Fav TV Show: Rove Live

Fav Book: Anything y matt reilly or dan brown

Fav Actor: johnny depp

Fav Actress: Kiera Knightly

Fav Food: Gelato

Fav Sport: Aths, swimming, dance

Fav Athlete: Cathy Freeman

Drink of Choice: Nudie Crushie

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Adrenalin

Smoker? : Nup NEVER EVER

Occupation : Student - Dream - fashion designer

Do you work out? : yes

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : depends on my mood.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : ohhh a 10 for evilness

Snannabelle, Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:24 (twenty years ago) link

you're australian annabelle, i can telle

the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:42 (twenty years ago) link

Ahhhh, to be 13 again.

ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link

i would rather eat an entire motor vehicle

the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link

I was at the height of my irish trad. music phase.

ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago) link

I was even more of a wanker than I am now.

the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link

me too!

ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago) link

i definitely wank far more often these days than i did at 13

the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:51 (twenty years ago) link

now that surprises me.

ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:52 (twenty years ago) link

rarely more than once a day back then. i didn't have the house to myself that often!

the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

you still don't.

ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

more often than then!

the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:55 (twenty years ago) link

okay okay, i'll back off.

ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:56 (twenty years ago) link

HE SAID BACK OFF, SICKOS.

Sarah (starry), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:57 (twenty years ago) link

wibble

the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:59 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Chris

Age: 24

Height: 5'8"

Fav Band: Jazz. Favorite musician changes frequently.

Fav Movie:-

Fav TV Show: I don't even have a TV.

Fav Book: Wealth of Nations

Fav Actor/Fav Actress: Philip Seymour Hoffman is pretty good.

Fav Food: Pizza.

Fav Sport: I used to skateboard.

Fav Athlete: -

Drink of Choice: Never drink.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Not for me.

Smoker? : Never.

Occupation : Economist at the Chicago Board of Trade.

Do you work out? : Never.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 3

Add anything you want people to know: I have never posted under the same nic more than once on this board. You will never catch me!


isee, Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:36 (twenty years ago) link

Holy crap! A genuine dark horse.

the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 25 March 2004 12:45 (twenty years ago) link

we need more economists on ile.

teeny (teeny), Thursday, 25 March 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago) link

Fuck, I just noticed my two year old entry. I ganied a few kilos. But I am HAPPY and HAVE A GREAT BOYFRIEND NOW. :-))))

jesus nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 25 March 2004 13:45 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Jen
Age: 24 (25 in July)
Height: 5"5
Fave Band: Varies depending on mood, Carpenters today, Matthew Herbert tomorrow
Fave Movie: Watership Down
Fave T.V: Brat camp
Fave book: Four Corners by Kira Salak
Sport: Bobsleighing looks like fun
Athlete: The woman who ran in her bare feet. What was she called again?
Drink of Choice: Thorntons Caramel Indulgence Liqueur
Drug of Choice: Mary-Jane, it chooses me :( Seroxat
Smoke: Only the green
Occupation: I.T Support Analyst
Do you work out: No
Looks 1-10: 8
Personality 1-10: Depends who you ask

Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

Name: gazza
Age: old (over 40)
Height: 5'11"
Fav Band: pere ubu
Fav Movie: taxi driver, or a weddding
Fav TV Show: the news
Fav Book: nah
Fav Actor: nah
Fav Actress: jenna
Fav Food: lemongrasschilitofuvietnemese
Fav Sport: socccer
Fav Athlete: nah
Drink of Choice: shit ausssie beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): acieeeed or E
Smoker? sometime
Occupation : you want music to illustarte a story on prehistoric skulls in argentina?
Do you work out? : in a gym? in lycra? nah
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? 8
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8

mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Matt
Age: 24
Height: 5'10"
Fav Band: At the moment, probably Nirvana
Fav Movie: Henry Fool
Fav TV Show: The Daily Show
Fav Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Fav Actor: blah
Fav Actress: blah
Fav Food: Pizza, unfortunately
Fav Sport: blah
Fav Athlete: blah
Drink of Choice: Don't drink
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Don't indulge
Smoker? Nope
Occupation: Grad student
Do you work out? Not if I can help it
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? 4
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? 7

Prude (Prude), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Mark
Age: 43
Height: 6' 1"
Fav Band: Libertines
Fav Movie: Help
Fav TV Show: Still Game
Fav Book: The Bridge - Iain Banks
Fav Actor: Sam Jackson
Fav Actress: Anna Friel
Fav Food: Thai
Fav Sport: null
Fav Athlete: null
Drink of Choice: Budwar / Long Island Ice Tea
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): too long ago
Smoker? : no
Occupation : IT
Do you work out? : no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6
Add anything you want people to know: My kids are cooler than your kids.

mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Dave
Age: 38
Height: 6'4"
Fav Band: Right now, um, the Jazz Butcher
Fav Movie: Ghost & Mr. Chicken
Fav TV Show: Green Acres
Fav Book: Galapagos - Vonnegut
Fav Actor: Al Pacino?
Fav Actress: Joan Allen
Fav Food: Key Lime Pie
Fav Sport: No time
Fav Athlete: hmmm
Drink of Choice: Three Floyd's Alpha King IPA
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): now a responsible adult..
Smoker? : nope
Occupation : qualty analyst (as boring as it sounds)
Do you work out? : sort of. quick workout in the morning.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7?
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8? (to whom?)
Add anything you want people to know: I'm shy.

dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 25 March 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link

How shy? Are you a blusher?

Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 25 March 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago) link

Name: vahid
Age: 26
Height: 6'1"
Fav Bands: daft punk, miles davis 60s groups, detroit techno, sunroof!
Fav Movie: blade runner, anything by hawks, japan 40s-50s, france/italy 60s, lynch, anything relaxing
Fav TV Show: nature shows, 106+park, mtv jams
Fav Book: borges' "labyrinths" maybe, "place of dead roads" or "cities of the red night" maybe
Fav Actor: clint eastwood
Fav Actress: lauren bacall
Fav Food: is sold in taco shops, costs less than 5$, tortas and tamales esp.
Fav Sport: soccer
Fav Athlete: tony alva
Drink of Choice: orange bang! or horchata
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): nope
Smoker?: quit in 2003
Occupation: post-college burnout, aspiring librarian, therapist to strangers
Do you work out?: every day
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 3

vahid (vahid), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Matt C1bula
Age: 37
Height: almost six feet tall, not quite though
Fav Band: Parliament/Funkadelic
Fav Movie: Brooks' Young Frankenstein or Tarkovsky's Nostalghia, same thing really
Fav TV Show: "The O.C.," "Alias", "The Simpsons," "Fillmore"
Fav Book: Cortazar's Cronopios y Famas, O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds, Raskin's The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel)
Fav Actor: John Cusack
Fav Actress: Katharine Hepburn in the 1930s and 1940s
Fav Food: Thai hybrids, but then again I'm vegan
Fav Sport: basketball
Fav Athlete: Maurice Lucas
Drink of Choice: usually red wine, but gimlets as outlined in Chandler's The Long Goodbye are the perfect drink
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): never did
Smoker? : never did
Occupation : writing / marketing / sales / consultant, hopefully publisher soon
Do you work out? : haha no. sometimes walk in the morning, chase my kids all around the house and yard and park but not often enough
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7 when I'm on an up-cycle, 2 when plunged deep in depression
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 9 / 3
Add anything you want people to know: I have spoken to both Grandmaster Flash and Frederick Wiseman.

Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Captain Fargo Van Winterkeys, Nickolatapi, Nickolai Leipshin
Age: of aquarius
Height: of the Roman Empire
Fav Band: rubber
Fav Movie: Blood In Blood Out ("Vatos locos SIEMPRE!")
Fav TV Show: Nads face-cream infomercials
Fav Book: Everyone Poops
Fav Actor: Joey Tribiani
Fav Actress: Morgan Fairchild
Fav Food: whatever I can find stuck to the bottom of my desk
Fav Sport: extreme ironing
Fav Athlete: Amiri Baraka
Drink of Choice: still warm deer's blood mixed with liquid opium
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): anything with a 3-letter name, embalming fluid
Smoker?: i'm a smoker, i'm a joker, and i'd like to poke her
Occupation: MAASTEEEEEER OOOOF THEEE UUUUUUUUNIVEEEEEERSE!
Do you work out?: my physical trainer has me in the midst of a grueling groin program
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: purple
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: annoying
Add anything you want people to know: If you're gonna drive drunk, make sure you have a car.

dude ain't got no kinda authenticity (nickalicious), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Jonathan
Age: 22
Height: 5'11"
Fav Band: Boredoms
Fav Movie: Better Off Dead
Fav TV Show: Battle Star Galatica
Fav Book: Snow Crash
Fav Actor: Woody Allen
Fav Actress: Winona Rider
Fav Food: Pakoras
Fav Sport: Wiffleball
Fav Athlete: VINNY PAZ
Drink of Choice: Blue Moon
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): MDMA
Smoker? : Sometimes
Occupation : Student
Do you work out? : No
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 8
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 9

LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Mark C4s4r0tt0
Age: 30
Height: 6 foot dead
Fav Band: This question would have been very very easy to answer any time over the last 6 years, but not any more. Band I listen to most right now: The Magnetic Fields? but it doesn't really count as I have muh iPod set to shuffle and that's all I need.
Fav Movie: Unanswerable. But right now, Annie Hall.
Fav TV Show: at the moment, The Sopranos
Fav Book: at the moment, Umberto Eco's Baudolino, Jan Morris's Venice, and Chabon's Kavalier & Clay
Fav Actor: Thora Birch, Diane Keaton.
Fav Food: deep fried squid with chilli and salt; proper Italian peasant food
Fav Sport: Association football, badminton
Fav Athlete: Gianfranco Zola
Drink of Choice: Red wine, Bombay Sapphire gin
Drug of Choice: Nuh huh
Smoker? : Nuh huh
Occupation : Film agent's assistant
Do you work out? : Nope. I play football whenever I can, and walk a bit.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : If I'm feeling confident and skinny and wearing nice cloths, 7. On a regular day, 5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6 - genuine niceness and caring nature sometimes obscured or warped by temper, selfishness and malice
Add anything you want people to know: I just want to be loved. Really.

Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

Name:Donna "Most Boring Name Ever" Brown"
Age:34
Height:5"7'

Fav Band:the Fall

Fav Movie:Crimewave (no, the other one)

Fav TV Show:Chappelle's Show

Fav Book:The Secret History

Fav Actor:Martin Donovan, Mark "Lights-Out" Ruffalo

Fav Actress: Maggie Gyllenhaal

Fav Food:ice cream w/extra fat

Fav Sport:extreme masturbating

Fav Athlete:Bill Buckner (he needs the love)

Drink of Choice: gin/tonic

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing):much like Dave Chappelle, I take the Fif

Smoker? :'fraid so

Occupation :writer. Oh, you mean PAID occupation

Do you work out? : Punk Rock Aerobics, baby

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :aw, jeez-7ish

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? :my core audience is very small, so probably a 5 (too damn chatty)

Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Chris
Age: 20
Height: 6' 3"

Fav Band: Pixies

Fav Movie: American Beauty

Fav TV Show: Spaced

Fav Book: Mr Nice

Fav Actor: Kevin Spacey

Fav Actress: pass

Fav Food: Italian

Fav Sport: Football (soccer, if you must)

Fav Athlete: Steven Gerrard

Drink of Choice: Pint of Foster's

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Weed

Smoker? : No

Occupation : Student

Do you work out? : No

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7


Add anything you want people to know: I'm from Northern Ireland, which is a beautiful place and deserves more visitors. There, I should work for the Tourist Board.

Crackity (Crackity Jones), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link

Name: g--ff
Age: 26
Height: 6'2"
Fav Band: sorry
Fav Movie: logan's run
Fav TV Show: l & o
Fav Book: without feathers, dune
Fav Actor: elliott gould
Fav Actress: allison janney
Fav Food: marzipan
Fav Sport: sorry
Fav Athlete: KG
Drink of Choice: negra modelo
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): adderall
Smoker? : no
Occupation : grad school
Do you work out? : no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7.5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 4

g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 25 March 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

I'll bet I've done this before, but I'm gonna do it again.

Name: Bill or Tep or whatever
Age: 28
Height: 5'11"

Fav Band: Oh, let's say the Pixies this time.
Fav Movie: The Graduate or Fight Club
Fav TV Show: The Sopranos, at the moment.
Fav Book: Great Gatsby.
Fav Actor: The Depp.
Fav Actress: Ann-Margret.
Fav Food: Duck.
Fav Sport: Baseball.
Fav Athlete: Ted Williams.
Drink of Choice: Moxie.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): I guess caffeine at this point.
Smoker? : Not anymore.
Occupation: Occasional.
Do you work out?: Rarely.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 6, 7?
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 9. I'm swell.

Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Colin
Age: 18
Height: 5' 11"

Fav Band: As of this second, the Hold Steady or Lil' Flip, but I don't really know.

Fav Movie: 39 Steps or Metropolitan

Fav TV Show: Seinfeld/Curb Your Enthusiasm

Fav Book: Mr A Bend in the River

Fav Actor: Chris Eigeman or Walter Matthau or Edward G. Robinson or Woody Allen, maybe.

Fav Actress: Lauren Graham

Fav Food: Coffee or crunchy spicy tuna roll or lamb vindaloo or grits or panckaes.

Fav Sport: Baseball

Fav Athlete: Mike Mussina

Drink of Choice: Maker's Mark or Red Stripe

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): pot or adderall

Smoker? : No

Occupation : Student

Do you work out? : I go to the gym, but in a much gayer capicity than "working out"

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Haha, no idea.

C01in B3ck3ett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link

memememememememememe

Name: Charlie
Age: 28
Height: 6'11"
Fave Band: er, Pulp/The Cure/Cornelius/Flaming Lips/changes a lot
Fave Movie: Back To The Future/Heathers
Fave T.V: Black Books/Hustle right now
Fave book: Eats, Shoots & Leaves has just flown to the top of my chart
Sport: watching couples arguing
Athlete: n/a
Drink of Choice: a decent pint of ale/Guinness
Drug of Choice: see above, and too many fags
Smoke: see above - cheap shit like Dorchester
Occupation: journalist/press officer
Do you work out: do I bollocks
Looks 1-10: 6.5
Personality 1-10: 7

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link

I can't remember if I've done it before, but what the hell.

Name: Aimee

Age: 31

Height: 5'7"

Fav Band: Right at this moment, the Paybacks

Fav Movie: Say Anything, A Guy Named Joe

Fav TV Show: the Family Guy, MST3K, Futurama

Fav Book: A Short History of a Small Place

Fav Actor: Johnny Depp

Fav Actress: Katharine Hepburn

Fav Food: Cheeseburgers

Fav Sport: Baseball

Fav Athlete: Old: Ted Williams; New: Marshall Faulk

Drink of Choice: Alcoholic: Jack & Coke; Non: OJ

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Depends on my mood, but I try and stay away

Smoker?: Not anymore

Occupation: Acolyte of the Devil

Do you work out?: Occasionally

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 8

Add anything you want people to know: Right now I smell like vanilla.

luna (luna.c), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link

Name: strongo
Age: 26
Height: 6'7"
Fav Band: basement jaxx
Fav Movie: mitchell
Fav TV Show: law & order
Fav Book: the trial
Fav Food: burritos
Fav Sport: basketball
Fav Athlete: manute bol
Drink of Choice: yuengling
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): weed
Smoker? : yes
Occupation : writer
Do you work out? : i tried to
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 4
Add anything you want people to know: I have no idea what I am doing with my life.

strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Jesus Nathalie
Age: 30
Height: 1,67 meters
Fave Band: Bands? Right now it's Luomo.
Fave Movie: It ain't frigging Texas C.Massacre.
Fave T.V: I wish I could watch Simple Life.
Fave book: Anything by Barthes
Sport: Tennis and soccer
Athlete: My boyfriend.
Drink of Choice: Coke Light Lemon
Drug of Choice: I rarely if ever do drugs
Smoke: A few cigs a day.
Occupation: Sales
Do you work out: I have sex.
Looks 1-10: 5
Personality 1-10: 6,5

jesus nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

I've done this at least once before, but I'm fickle and all my favorites change every six months:

Name: @d@m
Age: 25 and three-quarters
Height: 5ft nothing
Fav Band: ? errrr...I really don't know anymore. Prince? Daft Punk?
Fav Movie: The Shining/Shock Corridor/Ariel/Wisconsin Death Trip
Fav TV Show: The Shield/Curb Your Enthusiasm
Fav Book: Master & Margarita/The Verificationist/The Big Con (thanks to s1ocki for reminding me about that)
Fav Actor: Monty Clift?Pacino?
Fav Actress: Lili Taylor when she's Valerie Solanas-good, Kirsten Dunst because y'know...
Fav Food: Burritos, Southwestern fare
Fav Sport: Football (the one with the round ball), Ice hockey
Fav Athlete: Diego Maradona
Drink of Choice: Red wine recently, Caipirinhas, eve though they're sooooo 2002
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Reformed mentalist, coffee now
Smoker? : also reformed
Occupation : FIlm school camera/lighting/audio equipment guy, and not a very good one at that
Do you work out? : Reformed workout merchant
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5
Add anything you want people to know: Funkmaster Flex designed my shoes!

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

"5 ft nothing"? You're just an inch or two shorter than me, and I'm 5'8"!

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Kirsten
Age: 22
Height: 5'9"

Fav Band: Me.

Fav Movie: The Phantom Tollbooth.

Fav TV Show: Arrested Development. And sewing/quilting shows.

Fav Book: The Quick and the Dead - Joy Williams

Fav Actor: Me.

Fav Food: Bacon.

Fav Sport: Air hockey.

Fav Athlete: Rollie Fingers.

Drink of Choice: Old Thompson.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Unfortunately, I'm back on the caffeine...

Smoker? : ...And the Lucky Strikes.

Occupation : Creative writing student, part-time bakery clerk.

Do you work out? : In my own way, I guess so.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 9.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10.


Add anything you want people to know: I can punch surprisingly hard. Don't try to steal my lighter.

kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago) link

Jon Williams wrote you favorite book? Oh wait...

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 March 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Verbal

Age: 29

Height: 5'11"

Fav Band: The Miles Davis Quintet circa 1965

Fav Movie: The Godfather

Fav TV Show: The Daily Show, of course.

Fav Book: Lolita

Fav Actor: Dirk Bogarde

Fav Actress: Ingrid Bergman

Fav Food: pork chops and applesauce

Fav Sport: Baseball

Fav Athlete: ever? Roberto Clemente, I guess.

Drink of Choice: Jim Beam

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): the weed

Smoker? : oh yeah.

Occupation : developer

Do you work out? : only in very specialized ways

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 8

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8


Add anything you want people to know: I don't like dogs, and I don't understand people who do, and I don't *want* to understand. Get that awful animal away from me.

Verbal (Verbal), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

I am going to send my dog to your house to give you a big cuddle and kiss, and you will become a dog lover, whether you want to or not.

kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

ew. cooties.

Verbal (Verbal), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago) link

I hope you like 4-eared kitties. They're very cute.

dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Bryan
Age: 33
Height: 6'3" ("I didn't know they piled shit that high! HAR HAR")
Fav Band: these days Camera Obscura
Fav Movie: Rushmore
Fav TV Show: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge
Fav Book: The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
Fav Actor: Bill Murray
Fav Actress: Helen Mirren
Fav Food: steak; unagi
Fav Sport: American football
Fav Athlete: Donovan McNabb
Drink of Choice: dark brown beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): weed if you're sharing; Celexa
Smoker? : never
Occupation : nothing. I'm trying to talk myself out of my belief that work is for suckers.
Do you work out? : rarely
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6
Add anything you want people to know: I'm not worth the bother.

Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Milo
Age: 22
Height: 6'1"
Fav Band: the Buzzcocks, Old 97's, Descendents, poss. the Breeders/Amps
Fav Movie: Dr. Strangelove, The Straight Story, Crazy/Beautiful
Fav TV Show: Buffy, the West Wing
Fav Book: Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Fav Actor: don't have one
Fav Actress: don't have one
Fav Food: rare prime-rib
Fav Sport: basketball
Fav Athlete: Steve Nash, Peja Stojakovic
Drink of Choice: formerly Crown and water
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): formerly many things
Smoker? : not anymore, but the new Camel Back Alleys are tempting me again

Occupation : student, construction/painter
Do you work out?: If lifting heavy things and sweating like a pig during the summer count, yes

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 6

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

haha crazy/beautiful

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

we're all crazy/beautiful in my book

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Ian
Age: 19
Height: a bit under 6
Fav Band: Olneyville Sound System
Fav Movie: Strangers on a Train
Fav TV Show: Daily Show or Simpsons or Family Guy
Fav Book: surely yr joking mr. feynman (totally random choice)
Fav Actor: don't have one
Fav Actress: don't have one
Fav Food: MEAT
Fav Sport: i used to like watching american football on tv. now i don't really have any relation to sports. i guess i kind of like boxing in that fascinating "they're beating the shit out of each other!!!!" way
Fav Athlete: no idea
Drink of Choice: dr. pepper!!!!@^&!@! alcoholic? i don't really know. i drink old english more than anything, but i'd hesitate to call that a "drink of choice"
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): SO MUCH POT
Smoker? : no sir
Occupation : student
Do you work out?: no sir

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 4
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 4


Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Matos
Age: 29
Height: 5-9
Fav Band: Basement Jaxx
Fav Movie: The Godfather
Fav TV Show: Iron Chef
Fav Book: Energy Flash/Generation Ecstasy
Fav Actor: Orson Welles
Fav Actress: Carole Lombard
Fav Food: cheese
Fav Sport: bridge
Fav Athlete: Kirby Puckett
Drink of Choice: white Russian
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): 'shrooms
Smoker?: yes but not of cigarettes
Occupation: writer/editor
Do you work out?: haha no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 6
Add anything you want people to know: I wuv u all

Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 25 March 2004 20:58 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Chris
Age: 28
Height: 6'3"
Fav Band: Mtn Gtz
Fav Movie: quite possibly the South Park movie.
Fav TV Show: canonically MST3K but these days I'm really into the Brak show.
Fav Book: the OED
Fav Province: Saskatchewan
Fav Pocket-sized Musical Instrument: Kazoo
Fav Food: Bagels
Fav Sport: Bowling
Fav Irrational Number: pi
Drink of Choice: Whiskey on the rocks
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Caffeine
Smoker?: Nope
Occupation: Roustabout
Do you work out?: Nope
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate Kid A?: 8
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate Josepf Haydn?: 8
Add anything you want people to know: Vote if you got 'em.

Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Jeanne
Age: 26
Height: 5'2"
Fav Band: Lunachicks (live band, anyway)
Fav Movie: Annie Hall
Fav TV Show: Law & Order
Fav Book: To Kill A Mockingbird
Fav Food: Italian, Middle Eastern
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete: Billie Jean King
Drink of Choice: Dos Equis Amber
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Advil (I'm a woman, dammit)
Smoker? : not for quite some time
Occupation : writer/editor
Do you work out? : yup
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : I look young
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Wiseass
Add anything you want people to know: I like to rock.

Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Dan
Age: as of last friday, 29
Height: 5 ft 11 and 3/4s of an inch
Fav Band: The Homosexuals or Roxy Music
Fav Movie: Le Samurai or the Apartment
Fav Clint Eastwood movie: The Beguiled
Fav TV Show: Law and Order, the Simpsons, Blind Date
Fav Book: Foucoult's Pendulum
Fav Actor: Richard Widmark
Fav Actress: Judy Davis
Fav Food: Difara's Pizza
Fav Sport: Tennis
Fav Athlete: I have none
Drink of Choice: red wine
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): zantac
Smoker?: nope
Occupation: print production/prepress
Do you work out?: Once every 3 months, depending on the weather
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 0
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 100
Add anything you want people to know: be nice to everyone

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago) link

i remember doing this but cant seem to find it...

Name: Phil
Age: 24
Height: 5'9"
Fav Band: Belle & Sebastian. Lifter Puller. Aislers Set
Fav Movie: I Claudius
Fav TV Show: Cosby Show
Fav Book: Everything is Illuminated
Fav Actor: Acting - Jeremy Irons.. Looks - The Verizon Guy :)
Fav Actress: Catherine Deneuve
Fav Food: PORK CHOPS
Fav Sport: Basketball
Fav Athlete: Skill - Venus Williams. Looks - Peja Stojakovic :)
Drink of Choice: Bourbon on the rocks
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): schnay.
Smoker? : yes
Occupation : Music fraud
Do you work out? : no.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 10!
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10!

phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:18 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Mary
Age: 31
Height: 5'5''
Fav Band: Smiths
Fav Movie: The Sheltering Sky
Fav TV Show: Dawson's Creek
Fav Book: Under the Volcano
Fav Actor: Robert Downey Jr.
Fav Actress: Claire Danes
Fav Food: Sushi
Fav Sport: Gymnastics
Fav Athlete: Taka no Hana
Drink of Choice: Brooklyn Lager
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Paxil
Smoker? : No
Occupation : Slacker
Do you work out? : No
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7.5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7.5
Add anything you want people to know: I'm better than you.

Mary (Mary), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Charlie F
Age: 23
Height: 6ft

Fav Band: The Beach Boys

Fav Movie: At the moment, Spirited Away

Fav TV Show: League of Gentlemen

Fav Book: Alasdair Gray "Unlikely Stories Mostly"

Fav Actor: Robert DeNiro

Fav Actress: Christina Ricci (still!)

Fav Food: (a decent, hot) Curry

Fav Sport: Tennis, though I don't play enough.

Fav Athlete: I don't like watching sport at all.

Drink of Choice: Beer

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Mushrooms!

Smoker? : Trying hard not to...

Occupation : Marketing

Do you work out? : Heheh!

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 8

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 8

Add anything you want people to know: Watch your back.

dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 26 March 2004 00:55 (twenty years ago) link

Name: richard
Age: 22
Height: 6'2"
Fav Band: lyte funky ones
Fav Movie: shoot the pianist
Fav TV Show: columbo
Fav Book: tender is the night
Fav Actor: dean stockwell
Fav Actress: -
Fav Food: bread/cheese
Fav Sport: boxing
Fav Athlete: RJG
Drink of Choice: gin and tonic
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): depends
Smoker?: yes
Occupation: student
Do you work out?: no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 10
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 0
Add anything you want people to know: 10-0

RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 March 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link

Think I have done this before, but this is a snapshot of me right now

Name: ailsa
Age: 31
Height: 5'8"
Fav Band: belle and sebastian
Fav Movie: ferris buellers day off
Fav TV Show: the west wing
Fav Book: breakfast at tiffanys
Fav Actor: tim roth
Fav Actress: katharine hepburn
Fav Food: my own home cooking
Fav Sport: football
Fav Athlete: today, it is david marshall after celtic v barcelona. it is usually henrik larsson or thierry henry
Drink of Choice: red wine (shiraz)
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): nah
Smoker?: depends
Occupation: temp drone
Do you work out?: not really
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: i don't
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: ditto
Add anything you want people to know: nah

ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 26 March 2004 01:28 (twenty years ago) link

I could've sworn I did something like this before...

Name:  Deanna/Dee
Age:  24 yrs, 2 mos, 25(ish?) days
Height:  5'8" tall
Fav Band:  I am almost unhealthily obsessed with a band who formed in Birmingham, England, in 1978, as a "Sex Pistols meets Chic" group. But I do listen to other things. I've just gotten over a huge Kajagoogoo phase, and I'm excited by what I've heard of The Stills and Ascii Disko. I also love Japan, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, Ultravox, Visage, Human League, Heaven 17, Soviet, Ladytron, Roxy Music, Fischerspooner, Goldfrapp's Black Cherry, and almost anything else New Romantic/New Wave, electro, and swoony glam rock.
Fav Movie:  Of all time? Still Pump Up The Volume. (It captured my heart as a teen -- what can I say?) Of the moment? Probably House of Sand and Fog, though Monster was very, very, very good.
Fav TV Show:  Definitely "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy". I'm hoping this will be the first "favorite TV show" of mine that will actually stick around long enough for me to be fanatical about it. (I'm miffed that "Keen Eddie" didn't stick around, BTW -- I'm just starting to get into it now.)
Fav Book:  I'm not a really big fan of books because of the sheer number I had to read in HS/college (I'm more of a newspapers and magazines kind of person), but I'm really into The Andy Warhol Diaries right now.
Fav Actor:  I'm really fond of Sir Ben Kingsley right now.
Fav Actress:  Dame Judi Dench now and forever.
Fav Food:  Chinese and Japanese food; patty melts with onion rings; cereal; Wheat Thins (*winks*); almost all kinds of cookies
Fav Sport:  (spectator) basketball; (participant) tennis
Fav Athlete:  Martina Navratilova and David Robinson, now and forever.
Drink of Choice:  Diet Coke with Lime, Diet Cherry Coke, Diet Coke, iced coffee, hot coffee -- caffeinated heaven, essentially.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing):  caffeine (ha), Lo-Ovral (for regulation purposes)
Smoker? :  Not in forever and a day, practically.
Occupation :  Payroll clerk and "frugal because I have to be" student.
Do you work out? :  Not in like ten years. I need to start up again.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :  3 on a good day and -5 on a bad day.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? :  9 on a good day and 1 on a bad day.
Add anything you want people to know:  You know how I have that almost unhealthy obsession thing going on? Well, it's permeated my being so much that I can bring up the band on almost any discussion. For example -- talking about the Middle East? "Hey, did you guys know that Simon once worked in a kibbutz in Israel? And you know about their song 'Tel Aviv', right? Hey, wait a second, where are you guys going? I'll stop it, I swear! Just 'hey mister, say something, say the word!' Ok, that's it! I'll be good from here on out! I promise you!"

Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Ben
Age: 28
Height: 5'8&1/2"
Fav Band: Phish
Fav Movie: The Right Stuff
Fav TV Show: C-Span's Road to the White House
Fav Book: Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
Fav Actor: Burt Lancaster
Fav Actress: Helen Hunt
Fav Food: whatever's in season, cooked by John Cochran and Sidra Forman
Fav Sport: Tennis
Fav Athlete: Andre Agassi
Drink of Choice: Water
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Information
Smoker? : No
Occupation : Democracy-promoter, right protecter, language artist, needle-locator, corporate shill (not necessarily in that order)
Do you work out? : Yes, but not regularly
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 3
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 2
Add anything you want people to know: (...)

gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:10 (twenty years ago) link

I think I need to update..

Name: Matt
Age: 26
Height: Five nineish
Fav Band: anyone who isn't arsed about their fucking haircut
Fav Movie: The Princess Bride
Fav TV Show: none to speak of
Fav Book: Writer's yearbook
Fav Actor: whoever it is that plays Karl Kennedy in neighbours
Fav Actress: whoever it is that plays Susam Kennedy in Neighbours
Fav Food: fried chickpeas
Fav Sport: cricket
Fav Athlete: grievous bodily Harmison
Drink of Choice: tempranillo
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): I want pills
Smoker? : yes
Occupation : Restaurant manager (see how I've moved forward in the last two years? Go me)
Do you work out? : Obsessively
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : I think a 7 is reasonable
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : as before, I'm afraid I'm still prone to the staggeringly unfortunate
Add anything you want people to know: my mission continues

Matt (Matt), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:38 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Kate O'Brien
Age: 24
Height: 174cms

Fav Band: Hard to say.

Fav Movie: Crooklyn

Fav TV Show: Critical Mass

Fav Book: XONNOX by Fakie Wilde

Fav Actor: None.

Fav Actress: None.

Fav Food: Yum Nua

Fav Sport: Don't like sport.

Fav Athlete: See Above

Drink of Choice: Margaritas

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Haven't had enough to know.

Smoker? : Ocassionally

Occupation : Student

Do you work out? : Rarely

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6

ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:45 (twenty years ago) link

(I'm miffed that "Keen Eddie" didn't stick around, BTW -- I'm just starting to get into it now.)


Keen Eddie's back, bitch! Only on Bravo, so if you don't have Bravo forget I said that :)

Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:52 (twenty years ago) link

Name: ???
Age: 21 (and a half!)
Height: 5'10" - 5'11"
Peepee: 7.5"
Fav Band: Replacements, Beat Happening, Ramones, Clash, Soda Stereo, Stooges, Smiths, Stone Roses, T. Rex, Pixies/Breeders, Men At Work (yes, it's true), MBV, GBV, Manu Chao, Willie Colón/Hector Lavoe, A Tribe Called Quest, The Jam
Fav Movie: Do The Right Thing, Mulholland Drive, The Wanderers, Johnny Suede, Akira, The Holy Mountain, A Clockwork Orange, Dead Alive, A Better Tomorrow, Hard Boiled, Slums of Beverly Hills, Pixote, Salaam Bombay!, Cool World, Crumb
Fav TV Show: Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Benny Hill Show, Faulty Towers, SNL, The Simpsons, Twin Peaks, South Park
Fav Book: 1984, On The Road, The Importance Of Being Earnest, Sifting Through The Madness For The Word, Snobbery, The Rum Diary, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Please Kill Me, Lobotomy
Fav Actor: young Al Pacino, Tim Robbins, John Turturro, Benicio Del Toro, Damon Wayans, Gael García Bernal
Fav Actress: Marisa Tomei, Natasha Lyonne, Julianne Moore
Fav Food: Tex Mex, Italian, good burger and fries joints, Middle Eastern, Greek, Puerto Rican, Cuban
Fav Sport: walking, soccer, boogie boarding, sexxx
Fav Athlete: Piculín, 'cuz he never broke through like he should've
Drink of Choice: Mexican beer, tequila, white wine (preferably Australian or South African), piña colada, whiskey on the rocks, white russian, Bailey's
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): *coughs*
Smoker?: well, if by smoke you mean cigarettes, then...noooo, nicotine is nasté
Occupation: STUD-ent, aspiring Renaissance man
Do you work out?: I walk. A LOT. Pretty much everywhere.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: Numbers don't do me justice, suckaz.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: Wot me worry?
Add anything you want people to know: I have formulated this theory...if I manage to make 3 mil by the time I'm 30, I won't have to work a day in my life past that. I figure I'd have to reach the 750,000 mark of copies sold to break even if I were to sell my CDs for five bucks a pop, which is hella cheap, so there's yr bargain right there. I can do this. We can do this. Help a brudda out when the fuXor drops in an internet forum near you!

Fr4ncis W4tlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 26 March 2004 02:55 (twenty years ago) link

"Fav Book: I'm not a really big fan of books because of the sheer number I had to read in HS/college (I'm more of a newspapers and magazines kind of person), but I'm really into The Andy Warhol Diaries right now."

Keep me updated, Dee! My copy is sitting idle on the shelf, and I've hardly had the time to keep up with the reading. My copy is used and in Spanish. Got it at a book fair in rural Mexico, so I thought it would be a kick to purchase it in those circumstances. Diarios de Warhol!

Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago) link

I hate myself, 'cuz after all that fuss, I left out vodka + cranberry as one of my favorite all-time drinks and The Misfits, which were of course, the perfect pop group.

Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Alex
Age: 28
Height: 6'2"
Fav Band: Woo boy. Um if pushed I'd probably say the Fall, but my heart probably wouldn't be in it anymore.
Fav Movie: Dr Strangelove
Fav TV Show: The Sopranos (up til season 4 anyway)
Fav Book: A Scanner Darkly
Fav Actor: Marlon Brando
Fav Actress: Glenda Jackson
Fav Food: BBQ
Fav Sport: To play: basketball To watch live: baseball To watch on TV: tennis
Fav Athlete: Dick "Night Train" Lane (Cuz you can't fuck with a nickname like "Night Train"--number two is Darryl "Chocolate Thunder" Dawkins and number three is World B Free)
Drink of Choice: Beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Crystal Meth
Smoker?: Not currently
Occupation: Wageslave
Do you work out?: Not currently

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:19 (twenty years ago) link

Name:Aja
Age:13
Height:4' 11" (I think)

Fav Band:Foo Fighters

Fav Movie:Iron Ladies (maybe)

Fav TV Show:The Simpsons

Fav Book:Born Blue Maybe? Not sure. Really liked it though

Fav Actor: none

Fav Actress: Courtney Love!! (Ummm, no.) Don't have one

Fav Food: I don't know. Chicken

Fav Sport: Basketball or Volleyball

Fav Athlete: Me

Drink of Choice: umm, does a Roy Rogers count?

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): umm, do Halls coughdrops count?

Smoker? : second hand at times

Occupation :student

Do you work out? : only at practice and PE

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5 1/2


Add anything you want people to know: I want a cat. And uh, I'm tired.

Aja (aja), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:20 (twenty years ago) link

Can I just say "Night Train" Lane again? Thanks.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 26 March 2004 03:23 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Andy
Age: 25
Height: 6'
Fav Band: um, let's say Roots Radics
Fav Movie: Dazed and Confused
Fav TV Show: Simpsons
Fav Book: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Fav Actor: Robert Mitchum
Fav Actress: Vicki from Small Wonder
Fav Food: stuffed pizza
Fav Sport: basketball
Fav Athlete: at the moment Kirk Hinrich. Jordan all-time.
Drink of Choice: scotch
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): cannababis
Smoker? : you mean cigarettes, right?
Occupation : *shrieks for a minute straight*
Do you work out? : every other day
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7ish
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6ish
Add anything you want people to know: Hahguhnunga!!

oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 04:16 (twenty years ago) link

I think this is my third time doing this.

Name: Sundar

Age: less than a month till I'm 25, which scares me but looks better in print than I thought it would

Height: 5'10"

Fav Band: Probably Radiohead, if we're sticking to bona fide bands. I'm on a real Ornette Coleman kick though.

Fav TV Show: That 70s Show, sadly enough. Although it was much better before they replaced the old Laurie and before Jackie became evil personnified, when she was just lovably shallow.

Fav Food: nachos

Fav Sport: martial arts, definitely

Drink of Choice: herbal tea, coffee

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): haha Bryan I'm on Celexa too

Smoker? : no

Occupation : still a grad student for now; hopefully teaching or something not-totally-miserable in the near future

Do you work out? : Totally, but not so much lately because I've been really busy (though I still waste time here). I feel bad about it.

I haven't read a good book or seen a movie in a long time.

sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 26 March 2004 05:34 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Byron
Age: 28
Height: 70"
Fav Band: manual's until tomorrow is playing right now
Fav Movie: delicatessen, sweet hereafter, blood simple
Fav TV Show: the office, dave chappelle, daily show, conan. rip: west wing, 24
Fav Book: maybe "human wishes" by robert hass, or "skipped parts" tim sandlin, or "where i'm calling from" raymond carver
Fav Actor: Cusack maybe, or the guy in Croupier
Fav Actress: Sarah Polley
Fav Food: toasted ravioli
Fav Sport: baseball/hockey
Fav Athlete: maybe renteria or barrett jackman
Drink of Choice: rum and coke/whiskey sour
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): just say no
Smoker? : yuck
Occupation : interview rejectee
Do you work out? : not often enough
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : i am pretty sexy
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : only ugly people care about this
Add anything you want people to know: that was a joke. but not the sexy part.

bnw (bnw), Friday, 26 March 2004 05:39 (twenty years ago) link

Wow I thought I did this but I didnt, so... I shall.

Name: Tracy F
Age: 33 (almost 33 1/3 which is cool as)
Height: short (5'3 i think?)

Fav Band: there's no one fave. Cocteaus, MBV, They Might Be Giants, Infected Mushroom, Throwing Muses... dont make me choose *cries*
Fav Movie: Pi
Fav TV Show: Futurama & Simpsons in a tie
Fav Book: "Perfume" - Patrick Susskind or "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks
Fav Actor: at the moment I'd say Johnny Depp, obvious as that is.
Fav Actress: wow. None come to mind. How odd.
Fav Food: FOOD. Anything savoury really.
Fav Sport: changing TV channels, amateur sculls (of booze), golf, strangling animals and masturbating (this last part may be a lie).
Fav Athlete: I totally dont grok sport.
Drink of Choice: chardonnay, gin, cider, cranberry juice, peach iced tea.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): da w33d, mon.
Smoker? : yes, and sorta annoyed that I do.
Occupation : IT admin techy type person
Do you work out? : only walking, I'm pretty unfit
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : I cant answer this question. I'll say 5 cos thats neutral.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : How can a personality be good or bad? I cant answer this one at all! :/

Add anything you want people to know: I am an engima, wrapped in a riddle, wrapped in day-old newspaper.

Trayce (trayce), Friday, 26 March 2004 05:49 (twenty years ago) link

wait, you strangle animals while you masturbate? hey, whatever lubes your chassis i guess.

oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 05:53 (twenty years ago) link

Heh. It was a monty python quote, I always get it out (the quote, pervo) when someone asks me about "hobbies" or whatever. It always backfires too, strangely =)

Trayce (trayce), Friday, 26 March 2004 05:54 (twenty years ago) link

Keen Eddie's back, bitch! Only on Bravo, so if you don't have Bravo forget I said that :)

Ha ha ha... well, since I'm actually catching "Keen Eddie" eps on Bravo, I'm well aware of this. I'm referring to the fact that it's no longer going as a series. I'd have loved to have seen several seasons of this.

Keep me updated, Dee! My copy is sitting idle on the shelf, and I've hardly had the time to keep up with the reading. My copy is used and in Spanish. Got it at a book fair in rural Mexico, so I thought it would be a kick to purchase it in those circumstances. Diarios de Warhol!

Wow, the Diaries in Spanish?! Found in MEXICO?! The mind boggles. But yes, I will keep you updated. So far, it's fantastic for someone such as myself, but then again I really care about little sad bits of info such as how much someone paid for something.

(FYI, I was once on Celexa, and then I took myself off it. Whee.)

Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 26 March 2004 05:55 (twenty years ago) link

Name: James Blount
Age:
Height:

Fav Band:

Fav Movie:

Fav TV Show:

Fav Book:

Fav Actor:

Fav Actress:

Fav Food:

Fav Sport:

Fav Athlete:

Drink of Choice:

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing):

Smoker? :

Occupation :

Do you work out? :

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? :

cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:04 (twenty years ago) link

aw fuckit

cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:05 (twenty years ago) link

talk about a mystery wrapped in an enigma

oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:09 (twenty years ago) link

I'm just gonna say Dick "Night Train" Lane again.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:10 (twenty years ago) link

This thread is making me giggle.

Trayce (trayce), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:15 (twenty years ago) link

Aja, you're not a real student.

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:29 (twenty years ago) link

Name: jeremy
Age: 27
Height: 6'-1"

Fav Band: husker du / replacements / descendents / the beatings / ride / Slowdive / MBV / New Pornographers / Neko Case / Slim Cessna's Auto Club

Fav Movie: Young Frankenstein / Aliens / Big Sleep / 3 Musketeers / Empire Strikes Back / Real Genius / 12 Angry Men / M*A*S*H / Rushmore

Fav TV Show: Chappelle's Show is the only one i never miss, and the Daily Show

Fav Book: Currently reading the Dark Tower series, which is much fun

Fav Actor: chow yun fatt / oliver reed / bill murray

Fav Actress: anna malle

Fav Food: greek / indian

Fav Sport: college hockey

Fav Athlete: Muhammed Ali / Ric Flair

Drink of Choice: PBR / vodka tonic

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Caffeine / Beer

Smoker? : nope

Occupation : Cube Veal / occasional music sound guy/writer

Do you work out? : not as much as i should

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8


Add anything you want people to know: ADD 4 LIFE. also, needs a new job and a massive amount of willpower/discipline to go get a new job

Kingfish Hypercolor (Kingfish), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:29 (twenty years ago) link

pick one favorite you indecisive weenies!

oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:39 (twenty years ago) link

Dammit you can't blame me for wanting to mention Daryl "Chocolate Thunder" Dawkins and World B Free in addition to Dick "Night Train" Lane, can you?

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:41 (twenty years ago) link

no / fuck off

xpost maybe

bnw (bnw), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:43 (twenty years ago) link

no

xpost will do!

oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:43 (twenty years ago) link

(x-post)You're cruel.

Maybe.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:44 (twenty years ago) link

hahaha was his nickname really "Chocolate Thunder"?? That's almost as good as Sexual Chocolate.

oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:44 (twenty years ago) link

Hahaha I can't wait for random Dick "Night Train" Lane googlers to show up and start writing ALL CAPS threads to him.

Unfortunately I think he may be dead. :(

(x-post) Hahaha it was.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:46 (twenty years ago) link

MR NIGHT TRAIN LANE YOU ARE THE GREATEST ALL MY FRIENDS DON'T BELIEVE YOU REALLY EXISTED BUT I SHOULD THEM THE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME WEBSITE AND NOW THEY DO I THINK YOU MAY BE DEAD BUT IF YOU ARE READING THIS YOU ARE THE BEST FUCK RONNIE LOTT HE COULDN'T CARRY YOUR JOCKSTRAP YR THE BEST AND IF YOU ARE IN SACREMENTO DROP ME A LINE THANKS
JARED

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:49 (twenty years ago) link

I still say this thread is maddening without a "where do you live?" question.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:51 (twenty years ago) link

BTW MR LANE CAN YOU PIMP MY RIDE AND/OR FIND ME A SERIOUS GIRL WHO AIMS MARRIAGE??????

oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:52 (twenty years ago) link

I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, home of Clodhoppers candy.

Bryan B Sure (Bryan), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:55 (twenty years ago) link

Louis Riel didn't die in vain, then.

mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 26 March 2004 06:58 (twenty years ago) link

OMG there is a "Night Train" website!

Not a terribly flattering picture though.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 26 March 2004 07:02 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Melissa Witkowski
Age: 20
Height: 5’3”

Fav Band: Radiohead

Fav Movie: The Apartment

Fav TV Show: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Fav Book: The Waves

Fav Actor: Cary Grant

Fav Actress: Kate Winslet

Fav Food: sushi

Fav Sport: gymnastics or anything girly and pretty

Fav Athlete: no idea

Drink of Choice: sparkling water

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): valium

Smoker? : nah

Occupation : unemployed

Do you work out? : no

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 1

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 2

Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 26 March 2004 08:43 (twenty years ago) link

"Fav Band: husker du"

See...*sigh* I'll always keep on forgetting someone...it's not fair to the musicians who've worked so hard to provide me with lifesource.

Sundar, it's okay, mang...you are not alone. I also used to think That 70's Show was pretty brilliant in its stupidity up until Donna broke up with whatshisname for the first time. See, I can't remember, 'cuz I just lost interest after that. I remember it getting pretty dull afterwards.

Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 26 March 2004 12:52 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Dave
Age: 13 days off 30
Height: 5 ft 8.5inches
Fav Band: Belle and Sebastian
Fav Movie: Goodfellas
Fav TV Show: 24. Sob...
Fav Book: Name of the Rose
Fav Actor: Lots. My brother is a perennial favourite
Fav Actress: Jodie Foster
Fav Food: Chilli
Fav Sport: Football and Darts
Fav Athlete: Zinedine Zidane
Drink of Choice: Bitter
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Alcohol
Smoker? : Used to be. 3 months stopped
Occupation : Football gimp
Do you work out? : Nah
Looks : 7
Personality : 8


Dave B (daveb), Friday, 26 March 2004 13:23 (twenty years ago) link

My brother is a perennial favourite

The questions this raises!

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 March 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link

OK, I'm actually this bored today. Friday is a slow day.

Name: Kate
Age: 33 (but it doesn't bother me)
Height: 5'8"
Fav Band: Spacemen 3
Fav Movie: Performance or Barbarella (can't decide)
Fav TV Show: Time Team
Fav Book: Argh... can't decide. I always just put Brideshead Revisted
Fav Actor: I hate these questions! Gary Oldman? Ewan McGreggor? That bloke named James wot was in Revelations?
Fav Actress: Judging by my fave films, Anita Pallenberg
Fav Food: Pizza
Fav Sport: Sport is ghastly
Fav Athlete: ???
Drink of Choice: Scotch and Ginger Beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): CAFFEINE!!!
Smoker? : Never
Occupation : I fix databases
Do you work out? : No but I walk about 4 miles a day
Looks : 5
Personality : 3

Psycho Kate (kate), Friday, 26 March 2004 13:38 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Rachel

Age: Will be 26 in June

Height: still 5'6" I guess

Fav Band: Currently it's probably Camera Obscura, Be Good Tanyas, and Belle & Sebastian, and Ty and Buck 65 on the solo end

Fav Movie: Goodfellas, The Big Lebowski, Funny Face, Annie Hall and recently Finding Nemo :)

Fav TV Show: The West Wing, Twin Peaks, Spaced

Fav Book: cannot answer this question. oh all right The Princess Bride

Fav Actor: Currently Owen Wilson, Adam Sandler, Bill Nighy, Robert de Niro, John Cusack, Jeff Bridges, Chris Rock

Fav Actress: Hepburns Katherine & Audrey, Jessica Stevenson, Frances McDormand, Marisa Tomei

Fav Food: Cheese, mayonnaise, curry, chocolate

Fav Sport: I would be lying if I typed anything here

Fav Athlete: See above

Drink of Choice: Strong brown tea and Guinness

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Not much of the illegal or prescription nature, just alcohol and caffeine

Smoker? : No

Occupation : Library assistant, part-time PG student, part-time poet and editor

Do you work out? : Not as such no

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8


Archel (Archel), Friday, 26 March 2004 13:38 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Nick
Age: 24 for another 6 or 7 weeks
Height: 5'8", 175cm
Fav Band: Talk Talk, Orbital, The Stone Roses, various others as and when
Fav Movie: Badlands, Jaws, Koyanisqaatsi, various others as and when
Fav TV Show: The Simpsons
Fav Book: The Wind In The Willows, Nausea, Northern Lights
Fav Actor: Don't really have one
Fav Actress: As above
Fav Food: Curry (not yoghurt muck, a good jalfrezi or bhuna or tandoori lamb or something), chinese roast pork, stew and dumplings, Nutella, cheese on toast, lasagne, chilli, many many many more
Fav Sport: Football
Fav Athlete: Antonio Cassano, Thierry Henry, Patrick Viera, Francesco Totti
Drink of Choice: Rioja, Guinness, Becks
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Nothing
Smoker? : No
Occupation: Library AV guy, 'amateur' writer
Do you work out? : Football twice a week
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7
Add anything you want people to know: Right now? Nothing

Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link

Melissa, *please* put your looks and personality higher next time or you will have the whole of ILx to answer to.

Archel (Archel), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago) link

There's a definite trend for blokes markign themselves much higher than girls in those questions. Sort it out, girls.

Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:07 (twenty years ago) link

Who says it's the girls that need to sort it out? Perhaps the girls are being honest, and the blokes are suffering from over-exaggerated self esteems and need to lower their ticks a bit!

Bear in mind that "5" is average on this scale.

Psycho Kate (kate), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, but I'm great!

Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

And "callibrated for killing", too.

Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

Haha I see that I've rated my looks lower but my personality higher than last time I did this. Meaning that I've got uglier but nicer?

Archel (Archel), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:15 (twenty years ago) link

Helen Hunt??!? wtf

Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

Is there a problem?

gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link

excuse me, for some reason I didn't list Days of Heaven as my favorite movie, a terrible mistake.

Favorite Movie: Days of Heaven

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 March 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

Great film, Dan.

Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 March 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Ian
Age: 31
Height: 5'11''
Fav Band: right now, French Kicks/Sleepy Jackson/Elvis Costello/Sufjan Stevens
Fav Movie: In the Mood for Love/Repo Man/Bob le Flambeur/Band of Outsiders
Fav TV Show: Don't watch enough to have one
Fav Book: The Tale of Genji, Narcissus and Goldmund, Love and Rockets
Fav Comic Artist: Jaime Hernandez, Scott McCloud, Steve Rude
Fav Actor: Maggie Cheung, Audrey Hepburn, Harry Dean Stanton
Fav Food: all of it
Fav Sport: Disc Golf
Fav Athlete: Me
Drink of Choice: Red Wine, pref. Barolo or Barbaresco
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Espresso
Smoker? : ex-smoker for almost 10 years now
Occupation : grad student
Do you work out? : yes, but not heavily
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 4 or 5

webcrack (music=crack), Friday, 26 March 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

I still say this thread is maddening without a "where do you live?" question.
-- Spencer Chow (spencercho...), March 26th, 2004.

B-b-b-but what about my privacy?! *shakes nervously*

Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

Name: John
Age: 25 as of yesterday
Height: 5'8'
Fav Band: Stereolab
Fav Movie: Waiting for Guffman
Fav TV Show: currently, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Fav Book: Underworld, Don DeLillo
Fav Actor: Mark Ruffalo
Fav Actress: Zooey Deschanel
Fav Food: Thai, probably
Fav Sport: Baseball
Drink of Choice: Beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Pot (only a few times a year)
Smoker?: Not anymore
Occupation: Textbook editor
Do you work out?: No. I really, really should.
On a scale from 1-10 ...: I hate 1-10 scales. I need something more tangible to rate myself against.

And I live in Chicago.

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago) link

Some of the most absurd opinions ever offered on ILE are the women's rating of their looks here - Luna at 5 is the one that stood out to me as patently insane, but Melissa at 1 and Archel and Trayce at 5 are utterly mad too.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

they have all shown themselves to be very modest women

oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

and while not a woman, gabbnebb is no 3/2. even after the phish deductions.

bnw (bnw), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:55 (twenty years ago) link

like so many others have said i have done this before but will do it this time by limiting myself to one answer each, first one to mind:

Name: Ms. S. to you
Age: 30
Height:5'4"

Fav Band: at the moment Riverboat Gamblers

Fav Movie: Giant

Fav TV Show: Chapelle's Show

Fav Book: Jane Eyre

Fav Actor: Bam Margera

Fav Actress: Charlize Theron


Fav Food: popcorn

Fav Sport: skateboarding

Fav Athlete: Bam Margera

Drink of Choice: beer

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): the ones that keep me alive

Smoker? : no

Occupation : teacher/bartender/sort of writer

Do you work out? : no

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6


Add anything you want people to know: i'm a slob.

Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

Name: kyle
Age: 21
Height: 6 foot 3ish

Fav Band: toady, the smiths, tomorrow, the world

Fav Movie: all the real girls

Fav TV Show: 24

Fav Book: 1984 or the plague

Fav Actor: either johnny depp or mark ruffalo

Fav Actress: right now, maggie gyllenhaal

Fav Food: boiled crawfish

Fav Sport: ehhh, football? (american)

Fav Athlete: deuce mcallister

Drink of Choice: RC

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): N/A

Smoker? : only on thursdays and special occasions

Occupation : student/filing bitch

Do you work out? : i do pilates irregularly

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7


Add anything you want people to know:
Baby, Baby, Baby oh believe me, oh please don't leave me, all by myself, I've got this burning, burning, yearning feeling inside me, oooh, deep inside me, and it hurts so bad!

Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Ms. S. to you
Height:5'4"

AY, SHAWTEE...

Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

Name: jel
Age: 27 almost 28
Height: 6'1"
Fav Band: Poison, La Casa Azul, Megadeth, Philistines Jr
Fav Movie: American Movie, Spirited Away, Bill and Ted, ROTJ
Fav TV Show: Dick and Dom in da Bungalow, Yugi-oh, Black Books, Harry Hill
Fav Book: The Summer Book; Death and the Penguin; Victoria; Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Fav Food: Doughnuts; Spaghetti; Peas; Bacon; Scotch Pancakes
Fav Sport: Cricket
Fav Athlete: Matthew Hoggard; Mark Butcher; Rahul Dravid
Drink of Choice: Tea
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing):
Smoker?: nope
Occupation: library assistant
Do you work out? : I feel good when I do Yoga, but I don't really do Yoga very often. Walking
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5

On this scale thing, I'm assuming 10 = the best.

Add anything you want people to know: I can not choose one thing.

jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link

:(

Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

I don't have fave actor or actresses coz they get enough love as it is.

jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

Name: David
Age: 21
Height: 5'10" (??)
Fav Band: Lali Puna, Barbara Morgenstern, The Blue Nile
Fav Movie: Ratcatcher, Tremors, Celine & Julie Go Boating.
Fav TV Show: Seinfeld
Fav Book: 'So I Am Glad'; 'God's Gift to Women'
Fav Food: lamb.
Fav Sport: football.
Fav Athlete: Paula Radcliffe
Drink of Choice: Irn-Bru
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): alcohol, I guess.
Smoker?: nope
Occupation: student.
Do you work out? : I play football three times a week, most weeks.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : I do ok.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : less ok here but still -.

Add anything you want people to know: I have a child's indecision.

cozen (Cozen), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago) link

Name: johnny
Age: 29
Height: 5 11

Fav Band: at the moment: pixies, loop, cocteau twins, cure

Fav Movie: at the mo: annie hall, king kong, giant, frogs, repo man (i worked a repo office once).

Fav TV Show: twin peaks, Nature(pbs). (i don't watch tv, i watch dvds)

Fav Book: 1984 , jg ballard collected short stories

Fav Actor: lee marvin, leonard nimoy, james dean, sonny chiba, oscar the grouch

Fav Actress: marilyn monroe

Fav Food: ribs, steaks, milkshakes. sushi. i miss my mums cooking.

Fav Sport: fishing, pinball, roulette

Fav Athlete: larry bird. willie may, (not a sports fan ), the chinese kid who can eat hotdogs real fast.

Drink of Choice: iced water, coffee, beer, chambord and pinapple juice

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): mary mary

Smoker? : cough cough wheres my lighter? not addicted. i know its unheard of.

Occupation : 'problem resolution' no, not karate, i fix lines of code for financial exchanges, not a programmer either, just a trained monkey

Do you work out? : i just started running again. and taking the garbage out can be a workout sometimes.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : i dont do 1-10's. ive been told i resemble: grover, nick cave, ani de franco (what?), prince, dave grohl. got an image in your head now?

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : after i get to know you, 8


Add anything you want people to know: i am looking for a drummer in the boston area to make spacezy shoegazey noisey music.
i prefer the company of cats and pagans. i wear disguises. it is 90' in the office as i type this. i hate computers. i have a flip squad. i love breakfast. i have a bit of an obsession with things nobody cares about: abandoned buildings, odd toys, trash on the sidewalk, dancing in closets with heads of state.

kephm, Friday, 26 March 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago) link

Name: lauren
Age: nearly 28
Height: 5'5"
Fav Band: really can't pick one. my favorite cd at the moment is the blue orchids.
Fav Movie: valley girl or it's a wonderful life
Fav TV Show: the chapelle show, currently
Fav Book: again, difficult to pick. persuasion, maybe?
Fav Actor: robert mitchum
Fav Actress: marlene dietrich
Fav Food: i've never tried an asian cuisine that i didn't love.
Fav Sport: to play? tennis, probably, or slow lap swimming.
Fav Athlete: ?
Drink of Choice: vodka&soda, jamesons on the rocks, red wine
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): depends, but caffeine over all
Smoker? : yes
Occupation : catering to nutcases
Do you work out? : yes, 4x/week
Looks : 7
Personality : 8
Add anything you want people to know: i love poodles.

lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 March 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Jason
Location: San Francisco
Age: 27.75
Height: Six feet deep
Fav Band: at one point or another: Robert Wyatt, Talking Heads, Jay Dee, Alice Coltrane,
Fav Movie: the funny ones
Fav TV Show: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mythbusters, Even Stevens
Fav Book: I'm a magazine reader
Fav Actor: the funny ones
Fav Actress: the cute ones
Fav Food: Cheese*
Fav Sport: Mexican Wrestling - LUCHA LIBRE!!
Fav Athlete: any of the Mexican Wrestling stars that are midgets or wear fur suits
Drink of Choice: Gin Gimlet, Hefeweizen, Coca Cola
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): I used to like lots of drugs but seem to throw up when i take any of them anymore
Smoker? : every once in a while i'll want one when i'm drinking and i always remember that i don't like to smoke
Occupation : Web Designer
Do you work out? : i keep my girlish figure by walking a lot
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : they say you can rate your looks based on the company you keep. well i have a gorgeous wife and all my friends are fuckable.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : i think i'm a nice enough, happy-go-lucky kinda guy
Add anything you want people to know: in college my nickname was Teets. it got so bad some people didn't even know my real name
* In college i started a club called GMC. the three things that made us happy. Girls, Music & Cheese.

JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 26 March 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

and while not a woman, gabbnebb is no 3/2. even after the phish deductions.

You're very kind, bnw. Let me assure you, however, that I am a woman.

gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 27 March 2004 02:03 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Zach

Age: 17

Height: 5 feet 10 inches

Fav Band: Lots of them. Pavement, Lightning Bolt, Radiohead, Mission of Burma, The Fall, The Shins, The Beatles

Fav Movie: Alien, or Network

Fav TV Show: haven't watched TV in ages. Probably The Adventures of Pete and Pete or something on Adult Swim

Fav Book: Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, 1984 by Orwell, need to read more often

Fav Actor: Peter Sellers

Fav Actress: eh, I dunno.

Fav Food: chinese food rocks

Fav Sport: Don't really follow sports, but football and soccer are fun to watch

Fav Athlete: eh, I dunno.

Drink of Choice: If I drank alcohol, beer, but since I don't: Coffee

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): don't do drugs, they kill people
Smoker? : nope

Occupation : student, bad amatuer music writer

Do you work out? : no, I've been meaning to start

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : also 7


Z. Ayres (Z_Ayres), Saturday, 27 March 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago) link

Can I change one of my answers? The Miles Davis Quintet circe 1965 is great, and certainly up there, but that answer was designed mostly to impress people with my blinding sense of the urbane.

After a cpuple drinks, I can see the truth. The Rolling Stones are my favorite band. Easy. Every day of the week.

Verbal (Verbal), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...
Name: Roger Adultery

Age: 25

Height: 6'1

Fav Bands: Royal Trux, Crazy Horse, Drive By Truckers

Fav Movies: Paper Moon, Big Lebowski

Fav TV Shows: The Honeymooners, Deadwood, Monster Garage, Dark Shadows

Fav Books: anything by David Sedaris or Jim Goad

Fav Actors: Mickey Rourke, Clint Eastwood, Michael Madsen, Charles Bronson, Billy Bob Thorton

Fav Actress: Renee Zellweger

Fav Food: Indian, Burritoville

Fav Sport: boxing

Fav Athlete: don't have one

Drink of Choice: certified Jim Beam loyalist

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): pills

Smoker? : never

Occupation : Head photo technician, freelance rock crank

Do you work out? : In spurts

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 10

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10

Add anything you want people to know: I'll kill you at Boggle

roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Adrian Langston
Age: 18
Height: 6'1"
Fav Band: Nick Cave
Fav Movie: The Third Man
Fav TV Show:
Fav Book: "Bunnicula: The Celery Stalks At Midnight"
Fav Actor: Daniel day-lewis
Fav Actress: Deborah Kerr
Fav Food: BABY LOBSTERS
Fav Sport: Calvinball
Fav Athlete:
Drink of Choice: Diet coke
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): coke
Smoker? : n
Occupation : uh
Do you work out? : uhhh
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Ham
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? ):
Add anything you want people to know: My dreams are just like real life, except that in them I'm a giant and I smash churches with my fists.


http://i.myspace.com/71/19/49117/82804_l.JPG

ARL (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 08:11 (nineteen years ago) link

okay change favorite band from nick cave to led zeppelin. and uh, change everything else to hedgehogs. That's better.

ARL (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 08:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Spencer
Age: 25
Height: 6ft
Fav Band: Today? Fennesz
Fav Movie: Godfather 1&2
Fav TV Show: Grand Designs
Fav Book: Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
Fav Actor: Pacino
Fav Actress: Audrey Hepburn
Fav Food: Tuna Pasta
Fav Sport: Football to watch, Hockey to play
Fav Athlete: Terry Henry
Drink of Choice: Arsenic
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Citalopram
Smoker? : Yes
Occupation : Risk Analyst
Do you work out? : Yes
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 2

___ (___), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Gear (J.M.)

Age: 29

Height: 5'11"

Fav Bands: Low, Saint Etienne, Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers, Handsome Family, Royal Trux, Deadly Snakes, Yo La Tengo, Aislers Set, U2

Fav Movies: Once Upon a Time In the West, The Wild Bunch, Fallen Angels, Rushmore, La Dolce Vita

Fav TV Shows: WKRP, 24, Alias, King of the Hill

Fav Books: The Master and Margarita, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, Ham On Rye, The Glass Key

Fav Actors: Robert Mitchum, James Stewart, Nick Nolte, Warren Oates, James Coburn, James Cagney, Tony Leung, Cary Grant

Fav Actress: Maggie Cheung, Susan Sarandon, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman

Fav Food: Chinese, Japanese, Argentine, Italian

Fav Sport: baseball

Fav Athlete: http://users.ev1.net/~hlsports/k0491.JPG

Drink of Choice: Guinness draught

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): none

Smoker? : making an effort at quitting, down to three a week, no inhaling

Occupation : television

Do you work out? : I go hiking 3-4 times a week

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 8.4

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10

Add anything you want people to know: damn you guys, Kish Kash really blows

Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Barima O-N

Age: 22

Height: 6'1"

Fav Band: Basement Jaxx, Cornelius, The Avalanches, The JBs, the Beta Band, The London Funk Allstars, The Jackson 5, Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, Blur, The Human League, The Gravediggaz, The Beastie Boys, The Roots, The Ratpure and the The Revolution.

Fav Movie: Fight Club, others include Alien and Aliens, Lawn Dogs, CB-4, Do The Right Thing, Clueless, In The Heat Of The Night, The Last Starfighter, Deep Cover, Beavis and Butthead Do America, When We Were Kings, The People vs Larry Flynt, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Carlito's Way, The Game, Scrooged, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Batman, T1 and T2, Basil The Great Mouse Detective, The Crow, Ferris Bueller (and John Hughes' teen 'oeuvre'), Boogie Nights, Jackie Brown and Empire Records.

Fav TV Show: Anything Ianucci, The Office, Alias, Pop Idol, Desmond's (how I miss thee), the Wade Robson Project (dancing spaz, early 20s, seeks same for skillz-showing sessions. Silly names a bonus, fun an essential), Daria, Angel, Spaced, EastEnders, Soul Food, The Simpsons/Futurama, Family Guy, Ninja Turtles, the DC Comics adaptations and any combination of music channels/shows.

Fav Book: American Psycho and anything by Thomas Hardy, Roald Dahl and Chuck Pahlahniuk. Hard to tell, really.

Fav Actor: Bill Murray, Ed Norton, Samuel L. Jackson, Yaphet Kotto, Sam Rockwell, Chris Rock, Owen Wilson, Jack Nicholson, Chow Yun-Fat, Laurence Fishburne, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Al Pacino

Fav Actress: Halle Berry, Emily Mortimer, Mischa Barton in Lawn Dogs, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Cathleen O' Hara, Frances McDormand, Marisa Tomei, Julianne Moore, Sigourney Weaver

Fav Food: Italian, then Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian and Ghanaian. Individually, nothing beats a good pizza, cous cous, etoh (Ghananian egg/yam mash-up) or paella.

Fav Sport: Football

Fav Athlete: Thierry Henri

Drink of Choice: Gin and Tonic

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): The occasional drink

Smoker? : Smoker no longer.

Occupation : African prince, prospective postgrad, intern

Do you work out? : Yep. Max 5 times a week.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5. I'm adaptable to almost anything and anyone, but I lack a bit of attractiveness and occasionally drive. Occasionally, I ramble.

Anything else? Gosh, would you want to?

Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: spittle
Age: 34
Height: 5'10" (or 1.77 meters)

Fav Band: at age 8, The Beatles; at age 12, The Police; at age 15, The Replacements; at age 19, Public Enemy; at age 25, Steve Earle; at age 28, Sleater-Kinney; at age 30, Eminem; now...fuck if I know

Fav Movie: uh...least obvious favorite (i.e. not a Golden Oldie or a Lynch/Jarmusch/Wong) would be My Twentieth Century, Hungarian film from the early '90s, utterly fantastic. Oh, also Ruby in Paradise.

Fav TV Show: Buffy (more recently digging The Wire and Deadwood)

Fav Book: how about best book I read in the last 2 weeks? Atonement, Ian McEwan

Fav Actor: Humphrey Bogart (I mean, c'mon)

Fav Actress: Anyone named Hepburn

Fav Food: Indian (with Ethiopian trailing close; also a weakness for cheese sandwiches)

Fav Sport: up to about age 25, baseball; since then, tennis

Fav Athlete: Nolan Ryan (more recently, Andy Roddick)

Drink of Choice: Chianti Classico

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): pot's nice, caffeine's crucial, not much interest in anything else (a few pleasant mushroom experiences)

Smoker? : nah, except the occasional cigar

Occupation : editor/writer/reporter

Do you work out? : erratically

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : er...7?

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : er...7?


Add anything you want people to know: I once rode in a limousine with B!ll Fr!st. And didn't punch him in the nose. If I'd known then what I know now...

spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Tim
Age: just weeks shy of 30
Height: 5'8"
Fav Band: always changing but The Fall is consistently near the top
Fav Movie: L'avventura
Fav TV Show: Chappelle's Show
Fav Book: way, way too hard; right now am reading "The Elegant Universe" and Michael Chabon's "Werewolves in Their Youth"
Fav Actor: Johnny Depp
Fav Actress: Joan Crawford
Fav Food: ahi tuna, anything grilled
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete: Manny Ramirez
Drink of Choice: Jameson & ginger
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Caffeine
Smoker? : No
Occupation : Newspaper reporter
Do you work out? : Not nearly as often as I should
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : eh
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : um

rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: gygax!
Age: freshly 32
Height: 6'2"
Fav Band: boredoms (or drive like jehu)
Fav Movie: sans soleil
Fav TV Show: pardon the interuption
Fav Book: the sound and the fury
Fav Actor: christopher eigeman
Fav Actress:
Fav Food: okinawan
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete: barry bonds
Drink of Choice: orion beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): caffeine (alt: love)
Smoker? : no
Occupation : FASHIONY FASHION FASH, uh clothes
Do you work out? : i am an avid jogger i ran 5 miles last night against a ferocious headwind
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Henry
Age: 23
Height: Dunno, 5'10. Ish

Fav Band: Daft Punk

Fav Movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Trouble in Paradise, Fight Club, Chinatown, L'Eclisse, His Girl Friday, Zoolander, The Big Lebowski, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Fav TV Show: S&TC, Sopranos, I'm Alan Partidge

Fav Book: Impossible question

Fav Actor: Alain Delon

Fav Actress: Anna Karina

Fav Food: Chinese

Fav Sport: None

Fav Athlete: None

Drink of Choice: red wine

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not any more

Smoker? : until January

Occupation : this and that (literally)

Do you work out? : Cycle a bit

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : wtf, 5, I dunno

Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Michael White
Age: 36
Height: 6'2"

Fav Band: Luna

Fav Movie: Brazil

Fav TV Show: Six Feet Under

Fav Book: 'Fictions' by J.L. Borges

Fav Actor: Herbert Marshall

Fav Actress: Jeanne Moreau

Fav Food: French

Fav Sport: Futbol

Fav Athlete: Harry the Horny Hunter

Drink of Choice: Wine or Gin & Tonics

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait.

Smoker? : Avid

Occupation : Office Drone

Do you work out? : I jump to conclusions and run off at the mouth.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : With a personalitometer, naturally.

Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Nick

Age: 28

Height: 6'3"

Fav Band: Zep

Fav Movie: Goodfellas

Fav TV Show: Sopranos

Fav Book: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Fav Actor: Pacino

Fav Actress: ?

Fav Food: Fried Chicken

Fav Sport: Baseball

Fav Athlete: Don Mattingly

Drink of Choice: Duvel

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Maryjane

Smoker? : 1 per day

Occupation : Computers

Do you work out? : Weightlifting

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : ?

57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...
Name: Akira Konya
Age: 17
Height: 6'0"

Fav Band: A bizzare mix of metal, punk and 1930s jazz (Rammstein, Green Day, Ramones, Foreigner, GWAR, Weezer, Chicago Rhythm Kings, Orbert Davis Sextet, and Sharkey Bonano.)

Fav Movie: Once Upon a Time in America

Fav TV Show: The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Mr. Show with Bob & David

Fav Book: Wiseguy (Basis for the film Goodfellas)

Fav Actor: Robert DeNiro

Fav Actress: Anyone who gets naked... huh huh... cool...

Fav Food: Anything Chinese

Fav Sport: Stalking people at night

Fav Athlete: I hate sports.

Drink of Choice: Baileys Irish Cream

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Marijuana... But dont tell my mommy and daddy.

Smoker? :Yes (7 a day)

Occupation : Manufacturer of small automotive parts (Clips, latches, etc.)

Do you work out? : 20 push ups a day

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :8

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : -4


Add anything you want people to know: I hate President Bush. I think gay people should be allowed to get married and fuck all they want. I am taking Auto Collision Repair at the local Vocational School. I hate cowboys, skaters, preps, and posers. I never wear jeans. Ever. I dont even own a pair of jeans. I hate a lot of people. I like to smoke Parliament Cigarettes and Garcia Y Vega Cigars. I want my licence really bad, but my parents wont let me because of ONE F on my grade card a year ago. Bullshit. I really want to be out on my own, i dont care how much it costs. I love them and all, but come on... No girls like me. Probably because I'm so negative and I'm Japanese.. By the way, I hate racists. I'm full of hate for all kinds of people.

Akira Konya, Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you wear other kinds of pants?

sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't own any jeans either. 7 cigarettes a day? That's kind of precise. Were you on 8 and decided to cut back?

Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link

ENLIST IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE

TOMBOT, Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Wayne
Age: 21
Height: 6'0"

Fav Band: Varies

Fav Movie: Gattaca

Fav TV Show: I don't have a tele

Fav Book: The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky

Fav Actor: either Christopher Walken or Steve Buschemi

Fav Actress: whichever hot bitches takes her clothes off

Fav Food: pizza/tuna sammiches/schnitzel

Fav Sport: badminton

Fav Athlete: they're all buncha weenies

Drink of Choice: Brandy (at least VSOP)

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): EPHEDRA

Smoker?: Sometimes

Occupation : student ... at least until May.

Do you work out? : that depends on if you count masturbation ...

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : OH I'M DROP-DEAD SEXXXY, BABUH

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Parents love me! Kids cry when I'm around! Teenage girls want me in their beds! The 'scene' wherever I go thinks I'm a wacky but fun outsider!


Add anything you want people to know:
Public Transit 4-eva

trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I never did this!

Name: Orbit (Chelsea)
Age: 40
Height: 5'8

Fav Band: That's hard. The Clash, Blondie, The Charlatans a million others

Fav Movie: Casablanca

Fav TV Show: Sex and the City and Rockford Files re-runs

Fav Book: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Fav Actor: Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant

Fav Actress: Doris Day! (perky perky!)

Fav Food: oh geez! Lamb, bastillah, foie gras in context....

Fav Sport: Hockey and baseball

Fav Athlete: I used to like Luc Robataille but now I don't really have one.

Drink of Choice: WINE!!!

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Context-dependent.

Smoker? : No.

Occupation : Consultant

Do you work out? : NO. I am a flab monster.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7. (10 if you like pudgy cheerful brunettes.)

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : You either like me or you hate me.


Add anything you want people to know:
I am a collosal feminine failure. I need liposuction, botox, collagen, breast implants or reduction, a wax job, unassertiveness training, cash, and a future. I desperately need to avoid signs of aging, feminine odor, dry eye, dishpan hands and spots on the china, can you help me?

Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: maria tessa sciarrino
Age: 26
Height: 5'5"

Fav Band: pavement

Fav Movie: spaceballs

Fav TV Show: all of them

Fav Book: shampoo planet, douglas coupland

Fav Actor:

Fav Actress:

Fav Food: pizza

Fav Sport: figure skating [i used to skate competitively] or ice hockey

Fav Athlete:

Drink of Choice: tomato juice with lemon / cosmopolitan

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): ew, gross!

Smoker? : ew, gross!

Occupation : paying gig: assistant to the director, kelly writers house, university of pennsylvania; non-paying gig: promoter, plain parade

Do you work out? : 3 times a week, plus i ride my bike all over this city. doesnt help, since im borne into a family of fat people.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6, if im wearing my nice clothes: 7

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5


Add anything you want people to know: im allergic to seafood and shellfish. i dont like mayonnaise. doritos and peanut butter cups are my downfall.

maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Remy C00mb5
Age: 24
Height: 6'0"

Fav Band: XTC, Cure, Blackalicious, Wu Tang Clan, T. Rex, Mott the Hoople

Fav Movie: Five Easy Pieces

Fav TV Show: Freaks and Geeks

Fav Book: Goodbye to Berlin

Fav Actor: Burt Reynolds

Fav Actress: Bette Davis

Fav Food: Homemade bread

Fav Sport: Swimming

Fav Athlete: Fuckin' ... Mo Vaughn back in the day.

Drink of Choice: Belgian Ale

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Dope

Smoker? : Recovering, but occasionally relapsing.

Occupation : Screenwriter / Grad Student

Do you work out? : Daily.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : ihttp://img68.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/?

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? :
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/profx02.gif

Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Err,

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/Picture5.jpg

Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Adam
Age: 30
Height: 5'11"

Fav Band: XTC

Fav Movie: Brazil

Fav TV Show: Goodies

Fav Book: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Fav Actor: n/a

Fav Actress: n/a

Fav Food: chocolate

Fav Sport: cricket

Fav Athlete: n/a

Drink of Choice: ouzo & coke

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): alcohol

Smoker? : no

Occupation : IT

Do you work out? : yes

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : i wouldn't

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : yes

Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:51 (nineteen years ago) link

i never knew you liked cricked adam!

bulbs (bulbs), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Then this thread has justified its existence.

Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I never knew you liked ouzo either, ew. You're so dropped.

Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Never filled this in before.

Name: Andrew
Age: 21
Height: 184cm

Fav Band: WHAT?! Impossible to answer.

Fav Movie: The Blues Brothers

Fav TV Show: Family Guy (Comedy), Six Feet Under/Twin Peaks (Drama)

Fav Book: A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick

Fav Actor: Edward Norton

Fav Actress: Franka Potente or Audrey Tautou

Fav Food: I've no idea.

Fav Sport: No sport for me!

Fav Athlete: I don't care enough to have a favourite. Does Anna Kournikova count?

Drink of Choice: Vodka Tonic

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Weed, although I like it a lot less these days.

Smoker? : Not when I can help it.

Occupation : Software Developer

Do you work out? : Just started - let's see how long it lasts.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : I prefer to let other people do this for me. I'm not that egomaniacal.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 4

Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Trayce: Bahahaha.

Nobody fucking stocks ouzo anymore. Now I have to give it up for the same reason I stopped drinking Pernod in the '90s.

Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Because it's fucking nasty?

Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I want to get hooked on Goldshlager. The idea of cinnamon schnapps with fecking GOLD in it floats my boat somehow. Also, its impossible to find here.

Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I've never filled this in either.

Name: Kenan
Age: 30
Height: 5'11"

Fav Band: fuck you very much for asking

Fav Movie: hmmm... maybe Goodfellas?

Fav TV Show: easily The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Fav Book: hmmm... maybe Lolita? (BTW... I hate the way "lolita" has come to mean an innocent young girl. People should read more.)

Fav Actor: Dirk Bogarde, or maybe the young David Hemmings

Fav Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Faye Dunaway, maybe Nathan Lane

Fav Food: ass falafel

Fav Sport: baseball, by a wide margin

Fav Athlete: Freddy Roach

Drink of Choice: bourbon

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): pot, if that's my thing at the moment

Smoker?: sadly, yes. I don't apologize in font of people, but I will here.

Occupation: butt-monkey for people who make a lot more money then me

Do you work out?: No. I should, but then again, I shouldn't. I want to look good and be healthy, but I don't want to be vain. (too late.)

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: Zero. I am a horribly disfigured monster.*

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: I can't rate it on a scale, but I can say that some people find me charming, some find me charming enough, some find me a bit cloying, and some find me completely disingenuous and distasteful. These reactions, if charted, would almost certainly directly relate to the degree of discomfort I felt around that person.

Add anything you want people to know: I'm a really good kisser.


*This answer given on the assumption that false humility makes you more attractive.

Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I never saw this thread either.

Name: Barry
Age: 30
Height: 6'3"

Fav Band: Too many to mention, Google my name on ILM and you'll be spoilt for choice

Fav Movie: I am not a movie person.

Fav TV Show: The Apprentice, WWE RAW, ER (I am not really a TV person either, I watch TV less out of love and more out of habit)

Fav Book: V/A -- All Music Guide to Electronica, Walter Koechner -- Solid State Laser Engineering, Werterbukh English-Yidish Yidish-English Modern -- Weinreich Uriel

Fav Actor: Chris Jericho

Fav Actress: can't pick

Fav Food: beer

Fav Sport: baseball

Fav Athlete: can't choose

Drink of Choice: rye and ginger

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): music

Smoker? : no

Occupation : student

Do you work out? : I'm in shape.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 2 if you hate long hair, 8 if you like long hair

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 2 if I'm in a good mood, 8 if I'm in a bad mood

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link

some people find me charming, some find me charming enough, some find me a bit cloying, and some find me completely disingenuous and distasteful. These reactions, if charted, would almost certainly directly relate to the degree of discomfort I felt around that person.

You've got me pretty-much spot on there.

Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:42 (nineteen years ago) link

wow this is an oldie but goodie. I'm positive I've done it more than once but I'm going to do it again and go back to compare. Growth is fun.

Name: Samantha
Age:30
Height: 5'4"

Fav Band: this year - the Riverboat (motherfucking) Gamblers, best rock band evah! ; elliott smith ; Slick 57 and still on top for 19 years running. . . .the Beastie Boys!!! yay! What's 2400 miles when it's for guys you love?

Fav Movie: Giant (1956)

Fav TV Show: Don't have TV anymore but when I did I was into Law&Order (svu please) like it was a bag of potato chips.

Fav Book: Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte. Read it at least once a year.

Fav Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal. Come sit in mommy's lap.

Fav Actress: I liked his sister when she was getting her ass spanked but let's see. . . Christina Ricci continues to surprise me.

Fav Food: currently Paydays. Overall, whatever's easy.

Fav Sport: skateboarding

Fav Athlete: who to choose, who to choose, Bucky and Bam

Drink of Choice: water, especially Evian. Sonic slushes aren't bad either.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Wellbutrin has done me well over the years in a plodding, loyal dog kind of way. Fancy a bit of Xanax when I'm feeling nervous.

Smoker? : nope. Have you heard that shit gives you cancer?

Occupation : secondary English teacher

Do you work out? : unfortunately no. I do walk about half a mile each day at school and must sometimes walk when using the bus. Thankfully my rainbow of prescribed pills keep me generally thin.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7. when in stockings and tall boots, straight devestating.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : hmm, hard to say. Depends on how well you like fast-talking, strong-headed, too honest, bipolar bitches. Personally I'd say about a 6.


Add anything you want people to know: I'm currently eating from a bag of inside-out Reeses. Excellent. I choose to live in poor, non-white, "dangerous" neighborhoods and would do so even if I became suddenly wealthy. I have a beastie boys and an elliott smith tattoo. My brother's a rapper who's recently begun performing in Europe. If you're German, you might have saw him on MTV last month.

enough. night night.

Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, Kenan. I thought the adopted use of "Lolita" implied a seductive young woman. (seductive as in "she's asking for it." bullshit, obv.) My rememberence of the book was that she was not written in a way to encourage the reader holding her responsible for abuse and that it did quite harm her.

Also, was I the first person here to declare you an asshole? You were far less-assholish in person so I've gathered it's just a Web thang.

sorry, hijack

Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:55 (nineteen years ago) link

You're right, Sam, but you're wrong to imply that I though that Lolita was responsible for her won exploitation. Humbert = monster, plain and simple. But weak and wrong in so many humorous and nearly understandable ways. That's why the book is one of my favorites, actually -- it's so much more complicated than any simple morality.

What I meant was, I've heard "lolita" used to describe young girls in many contexts, none of them true to the book's intention. The book's intention, as I read it, was that she was a young girl who aspired to dirtiness but had no idea what it meant. This certainly makes no less a monster of Humbert, who is IMO one of the greatest villians of literature, but it makes Lolita no more "innocent." So you have the dirty little girl and the exploitative old man. To cast Lol as a complete innocent is not.. right. Not getting it. Not getting the give and take that makes the book so interesting. Of course Humbert is an awful man, but throwing the word "lolita" around as if it has an unsubtle definition hurts the work of art that Lolita is. It doesn't get it.

Anyway.

Sam, has anyone already expressed the degree to which we're all happy you're back? I don't want to bandwagon or anything, but it's really nice to see you.

Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I dunno, Kenan. I think Nabokov wants us to sympathise with Humbert, and that (at least in my reading) he responds to her come-ons... she's party to her own exploitation; albeit as a naiive and playing-with-fire type. Nabokov is the type of author who loved to make his readership feel dirty, exploitative, and identify with a pederast before an abused child.

Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Wrong.

albeit as a naiive and playing-with-fire type

Makes all the difference, don't it? If you didn't read that book and think that Humbert was an awful man, however charming, there's something wrong with you, and I'm sure Nabokov would agree.

Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean, it's all laid out there in the end, isn't it? When Quilty reads him his own poem and mocks him all through it? Brilliant, so brilliant.

Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link

"Because you took advantage of a sinner
because you took advantage
because you took
because you took advantage of my disadvantage
when I stood Adam-naked
before a federal law and all its stinging stars

Because you took advantage of a sin
when I was helpless moultng moist and tender
hoping for the best
dreaming of marriage in a mountain state
aye of a litter of Lolitas

Because you took advantage of my inner
essential innocence
because you cheated me--

Because you cheated me of my redemption
because you took
her at the age when lads
play with erector sets
a little downy girl still wearing poppies
still eating popcorn in the colored gloam
where tawny Indians took paid croppers
because you stole her
from her wax-browed and dignified protector
spitting into his heavy-lidded eye
ripping his flavid toga and at dawn
leaving the hog to roll upon his new discomfort
the awfulness of love and violets
remorse despair while you
took a dull doll to pieces
and threw its head away
because of all you did
because of all I did not
you have to die"

Read together the first and last lines. The rest is tapdancing.

Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, I get it. I'm not just wandering into this argument, Kenan -- I think Nabokov's genius in this book is twisting a traditional innocent (Lolita) into a monster by way of her dramatic introduction, and a traditional monster (Humbert) into an innocent-by-way of the dramatic resolution.

Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:34 (nineteen years ago) link

No no no! UNRELIABLE NARRATOR ALERT! Humbert is not meant to be an innocent at any point in the book. Um... did you think he was an innocent when he fantasized for 20 pages about killing his wife? His wife that he married just so he could have sex with a minor? If you were so charmed by his language that you missed all that, I'm afraid of you.

Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link

(you must know, I don't mean that I'm really afraid of you. Pure ad hominem.)

Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Nabokov was a pedophile, Kenan. Sorry to rain on your parade.

From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:43 (nineteen years ago) link

(He was quite notorious in literary circles for checking into motels with underage girls)

From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't see how that changes the moral of the book at all. If Nabokov was a pedophile, he cartainly wasn't setting out to excuse himself with this book. If he was a pedophile, Lolita is some very acidic self-hatred.

Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:48 (nineteen years ago) link

we ('we' as readership, not royalty) recognize humbert is a monster, a pederast, murderer, and masterful manipulator. but strictly in the context of the book he's not just protagonist, he's an honest-to-goodness narative hero. and while we (again, 'readership we') recognize lolita as utterly victimized from our own a priori understanding of molestation, in the book she's (because of nabokov's willful subersion of the moralistic narratological paradigm) she's presented a willing participant.

Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:49 (nineteen years ago) link

let's move this to another thread?

Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I think that's probably exactly what it was. Authors exorcise their demons in their work all the time. See Burroughs, another pedophile.
x-post

From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link

we ('we' as readership, not royalty) recognize humbert is a monster, a pederast, murderer, and masterful manipulator. but strictly in the context of the book he's not just protagonist, he's an honest-to-goodness narative hero. and while we (again, 'readership we') recognize lolita as utterly victimized from our own a priori understanding of molestation, in the book she's (because of nabokov's willful subersion of the moralistic narratological paradigm) she's presented a willing participant.

How could Nabokov done that accidentally, though? How can you read that from even the subtext of a book and not understand that it's the whole point?

Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:53 (nineteen years ago) link

how is humbert humbert a monster?

Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Katherine
Age: 25
Height: 174cm

Fav Band: Couldn't say.

Fav Movie: Prob. Crooklyn or something.

Fav TV Show: Mr. Show (I know, I know, it's not on anymore)

Fav Book: Hebrew-English/English-Hebrew Dictionary

Fav Actor: Ronnie Burkett

Fav Actress: No idea

Fav Food: Thai (anything hot sweet and sour)

Fav Sport: Sitting on my arse

Fav Athlete: None.

Drink of Choice: Mohito

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): extacy

Smoker? : Occasionally

Occupation : Student

Do you work out? : I go to gym every day of the working week.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 2

papa november (papa november), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:31 (nineteen years ago) link

papa november is a girl? I love her.

Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:37 (nineteen years ago) link

hmmm i thought you were a fella too papa november! dunno why

Name: Gemma
Age: 28
Height: 5'4" (i think)

Fav Band: too many

Fav Movie: i have a lot, i guess maybe cinema paradiso, city of the lost children and metropolis are pretty important ones though.

Fav TV Show: lateline. and i used to love the fast show when it was on. and blackadder.

Fav Book: too many too. but definitely heroes and villains by angela carter; perfume by patrick suskind; the outsider by albert camus

Fav Actor: i don't really have one

Fav Actress: ummm audrey tautou, audrey hepburn, frances mcdormand

Fav Food: roast lamb/japanese/thai

Fav Sport: i don't play or follow any sport

Fav Athlete: *shrug*

Drink of Choice: vodka and soda.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): i like recreational drugs although i rarely use them these days. no pot anymore.

Smoker? : reformed.

Occupation : policy writer/law student

Do you work out? : no. but i go to the beach most days for a walk and do yoga.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : about the middle. probably a 6.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : same same as for looks.

gem (trisk), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Half of these answers are from when i was 19 because the answers to them have been of no interest to me since then.

Name: bulbous
Age: 42
Height: 5'11"

Fav Band: 23 skidoo

Fav Movie: taxi driver

Fav TV Show: iron chef

Fav Book: the erl king

Fav Actor: dirk bogarde

Fav Actress: molly ringwald

Fav Food: masala paneer or rocket dhosa

Fav Sport: soccer

Fav Athlete:

Drink of Choice: pleb beer

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): acid

Smoker? : vaguely

Occupation : information management

Do you work out? : no

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : erratic

bulbs (bulbs), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:49 (nineteen years ago) link

hi gem! that filled in a few blanks. there should be a question about which pastry your arse is like though!

;-)

bulbs (bulbs), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:51 (nineteen years ago) link

haha i'm going to have to give it some consideration and get back to you on that one.

gem (trisk), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:53 (nineteen years ago) link

RECOUNT!

Half of these answers are from when i was 19 because the answers to them have been of no interest to me since then.

This is great, and truer for me than I was willing to admit before. Thanks, bulbs, for breaking the barrier.

Fav Band: If I said the Mile Davis Quartet in 1958, you'd think I was a pretentious asshole, wouldn't you? I can't win.

Fav Movie: If I cited something from Bergman, you'd think I was a pretentious asshole and a tremendous downer, wouldn't you? I can't win.

Fav TV Show: If I said that I wouldn't watch TV at all ever if I wasn't otherwise forced to, you'd think I was a pretentious asshole, wouldn't you? I can't win.

Fav Book: If I said that I don't actually read much fiction anymore, you'd think... I don't know what you'd think. I don't care much, either. The best books I've ever read and that I continue to read do not have plots, themes, or characters, except for the naturally occurring ones. My favorite books are good journalism.

Fav Actor / Fav Actress: same as before.

Fav Food: pie

Fav Sport: fucking

Fav Athlete: me, while fucking

Drink of Choice: same as before

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 7

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 7

Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 08:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Aaron
Age: 24
Height: 5'9"

Fav Band: Steely Dan

Fav Movie: The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant

Fav TV Show: Twin Peaks

Fav Book: Naked Lunch

Fav Actor: Marlon Brando

Fav Actress: Catherine Deneuve

Fav Food: peanut butter and jelly

Fav Sport: no

Fav Athlete: no

Drink of Choice: ginger ale

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): w33d

Smoker? : yes

Occupation : no

Do you work out? : used to, meaning to start again

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7


Add anything you want people to know:
all above answers (except maybe height) subject to change at any time.

From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Thursday, 4 November 2004 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link

ah kenan...you know how i feel about you

bulbs (bulbs), Thursday, 4 November 2004 08:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Doug
Age: 27
Height: 5'10"-and-a-bit
Fav Band: Changes every day. Rolling Stones today. Beach Boys yesterday.
Fav Movie: Also changes every day. The Hustler I think today. Or maybe Bugsy Malone.
Fav TV Show: Henry's Cat or University Challenge. Seriously.
Fav Book: A Confederacy of Dunces
Fav Actor: Johnny Depp on a good day
Fav Actress: Samantha Morton
Fav Food: Right now I want pasta with tuna/tomato/chilli.
Fav Sport: Football (watching), snooker (playing)
Fav Athlete: Ian Wright at his peak
Drink of Choice: Lager, vodka+coke, red wine
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Weed but rarely now
Smoker? : Oh the shame.
Occupation : Journalist
Do you work out? : Yeah right
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Pass
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Pass
Add anything you want people to know: I like this thread

beanz (beanz), Thursday, 4 November 2004 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Chris
Age: 30
Height: 5'11"

Fav Band: Nick Drake, Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, Ray Lamontagne, Red House Painters, Kings of Convenience, John Martyn, Matt Pond, Black Keys, Cream

Fav Movie: Kicking and Screaming

Fav TV Show: Currently "Lost", Seinfeld, CSI

Fav Book: Stay Here With Me

Fav Actor: Deniro, Pacino, Tom Hanks

Fav Actress: n/a

Fav Food: Ice Cream, Pasta, Sushi

Fav Sport: Baseball and Hockey

Fav Athlete: Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Cam Neely

Drink of Choice: Wachusett Ales...local flava.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): beer and nicotine, xanax

Smoker? : yes, unfortunately

Occupation : Financial Analyst, my title has changed over the years.

Do you work out? : used to, meaning to start again

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7


Add anything you want people to know:

Im really not such an ass in real life.

Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 4 November 2004 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Alex R
Age: 21
Height: 5'11"

Fav Band: probably Wire or Aphex Twin

Fav Movie: Alien and This is Spinal Tap

Fav TV Show: Probably "Aquateen Hunger Force"

Fav Book: A Maggot (by John Fowles)

Fav Actor: i don't know

Fav Actress: i don't know

Fav Food: Italian

Fav Sport: I fucking hate sports

Fav Athlete: I fucking hate sports

Drink of Choice: ice water

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): marijuana (but only once i a while)

Smoker? : no

Occupation : unemployed dipshit/wannabe "musician"

Do you work out? : hell no

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5


Add anything you want people to know: I just want to be loved.

latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 4 November 2004 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Tuomas 4lh0

Age: 25 this June

Height: 5'11"

Fav Band: It's hard to say... Air Liquide, Dead Prez, Outkast, Pole, Flora Purim, Eve, Pharoah Sanders, and Herbie Hancock are the first to spring to mind.

Fav Movie: Farewell My Concubine, Down by Law, Rashômon, Mary Poppins, Street of Shame, Dr. Strangelove, My Neighbor Totoro, Human Resources, Stalker. This is the official cineaste list, but generally speaking I love musicals, animated features and romantic comedies.

Fav TV Show: Downtown, The Maxx, Northern Exposure. Nowadays I don't own a TV set, so I have no idea about the current shows.

Fav Book: "Blindness" by José Saramago, "Notes from the Underground" by Dostoyevsky, "Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis, "Winnie the Pooh" by Milne, "Tintin" by Hergé, "Corto Maltese" by Hugo Pratt, "Ghost World" by Daniel Clowes.

Fav Actor: Cary Grant, Koji Yakusho

Fav Actress: Catherine Deneuve, Angela Basset

Fav Food: Falafel, beetroot steak.

Fav Sport: I don't really follow sports, but I guess it's football.

Fav Athlete: None.

Drink of Choice: Dark Beer.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Weed, though I don't do it regularly.

Smoker?: Used to be, nowadays I only smoke when drunk.

Occupation: An uni student, hoping to pass my master's degree on Third World studies next year.

Do you work out?: Occasionally.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 6.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 8.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 4 November 2004 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I see I already did this last year. Anyway, my answers are kinda different now.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 4 November 2004 11:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Laura
Age: 23 (24 in December)
Height: 5'2
Fav Band: This changes with great regularity.
Fav Movie: Kill Bill 2, Mulholland Drive.
Fav TV Show: The West Wing, The Simpsons.
Fav Book: "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men," by David Foster Wallace.
Fav Actor: Johnny Depp
Fav Actress: Uma Thurman, Naomi Watts
Fav Food: Pad Thai made just right.
Fav Sport: I'm not a huge sports fan, but I do love the Red Sox.
Fav Athlete: Whatever.
Drink of Choice: Tequila.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Alcohol, of course, dope.
Smoker?: Only when drinking.
Occupation: An English teacher in Japan
Do you work out?: In fits and spurts. Right now I just ride my bike a lot.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: I don't feel able to objectively answer this question. There're plenty of photos of me floating around.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: I don't feel able to objectively answer this question.

Laura E (laurae55), Thursday, 4 November 2004 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: CHINGFORD TOR ASCENDER
Age: MATURE AN RIPE FOR THE LADIES
Height: KNEE HIGH WITH CLACTON PIER INNIT
Fav Band: CHAS N DAVE
Fav Movie: NIL BYMOUTH THAT RAY WINSTON IS 'ARD DONE BY 'ES A HEROE OF OUR TIMES
Fav TV Show: UP THE ELEFANT AND ROUN THE CASTEL
Fav Book: BOOKS IS FOR POOFS AN PEDOS ONLY THING I KNOW ABOUT BOOKS IS HOW TO FIDDLE EM
Fav Actor: BRIAN CONLEY YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN HIM DO JOLSON MAAAAAMY WE WOS WEEPIN
Fav Actress: KAT SLATER OUT OF EASTENDER LOOKS LIKE GIANT SIZED ORANGE SPACEHOPPER BUT STILL FITT
Fav Food: BANGER AND MASH DON'T NEED THE MASH SO MUCH HAVE CHIPS INSTEAD FRY EM UP IN MAXOLA AN THEN PIES N PIES AN MORE PIES
Fav Sport: WEST AM OH BOBBY YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU NOW GET UP OUT OF YOUR FUCKIN GRAVE THEN LAZY CUNT
Fav Athlete: PAULA RADCLIF SHE'S FIT SHE CAN RUN ALRIGHT I COME UP TO HER AND SAID DO YOU WANT A NIBBLE OF MY ROAST STUFFING SHE WENT 200 TO THE KLAPPER GAWD BLESS PAULA BRITISH
Drink of Choice: SHULDNT BE A CHOICE SHOLD BE COMPELL COMPOLS CUMPOL EVERYONE SHOUD BE MADE TO DRINK
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): NO IT FACKEN AINT DRUGS IS FOR WOOLY WOOFTERS AND WINOS I SAY SHOOT THE FAKEN WINOS NO LEGS ONE ARM YOU COULD GET A JOB IF YOU WANT FACKIN DISABLED STAND ON YER OWN TWO FEET INNIT
Smoker? : 20 A MINUTE CAPSTAN FULL STRENGTH
Occupation : SLABS N SLAGS
Do you work out? : CANT WORK OUT HOW TO TUNE THE DVD I WANNA GET TALKSPORT WAD THE FUCK THE MATTER WITH IT
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : FUCKIN 200 MILLION IF YOU IS WANTIN A REAL MAN NOT SOME STUDENT POOFY PONCE
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : FCKIN 0-100000 IN 0.0003 SECONDS INNIT. TRIPLE DECKER NO MISSUS THAT AINT NO FUCKIN LINCONSHIR SOSAGE!

Chingford Tor Ascender, Thursday, 4 November 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

ummmmm, ok then....


Name: Rob Bolton
Age: 34
Height: 6'
Fav Band: Almost impossible to answer, but I'll try. Of all time: Depeche Mode, Smiths, Cure, Talk Talk, MBV, House of Love, New Order, Marc Almond, Slowdive/Mojave 3, Trashcan Sinatras, Stone Roses, The Beloved, Belle & Sebastian, Ride, Red House Painters, Beatles & the Stones... This week: Ulrich Schnauss, Jens Lekman (and load of other Swedish stuff), Hidden Cameras, Dakota Suite, andohgodwhydidibothertryingtoanswerthis...
Fav Movie: 2001, Withnail & I, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Baraka, Ghost In The Shell, Royal Tennenbaums...
Fav TV Show: Simpsons, Hockey Night In Canada, Lonely Planet, WKRP
Fav Book: also tough.. George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Hitchiker's Guide books, so many more...
Fav Actor: Not really bothered
Fav Actress: Dunno
Fav Food: I'm a food FANATIC - Thai, Indian, Italian, French... but if I was on death row and had to pick my last meal it might be a nice filet steak, medium rare.
Fav Sport: HOCKEY (fuck you NHL players for being on strike this year)
Fav Athlete: No real preference, maybe Wayne Gretzky?
Drink of Choice: Beer (Creemore Springs) or Gin (Bombay) and Tonic
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Weeeeeeeed
Occupation: Communications Consultant, but I've recently quit and will be 'walking the earth' for a while starting in 3 weeks...
Do you work out?: Used to semi-regularly. But I haven't in ages. I do jog occasionally, and wish I did so more often.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 7 or 8
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 8 or 9

Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 4 November 2004 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Jocelyn K@rlan
Age: 24
Height: 5'5"
Fav Band: Bowie, Eno, Taraf de Haidouks, Old 97s, The Cure, all "classical" music from Beethoven through Rachmaninoff
Fav Movie: The Last of the Mohicans
Fav TV Show: I don't have TV, but I do like Adult Swim
Fav Book: Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Jane Eyre, The Fortress of Solitude, Dr. Zhivago
Fav Actor: Johnny Depp, Orson Welles, Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody
Fav Actress: Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett
Fav Food: I love food
Fav Sport: Soccer/Football
Drink of Choice: Black and Tan or Rum and Coke
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not really
Occupation: Library clerk
Do you work out?: I'm trying to more often
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: subjective
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: subjective too

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Pete
Age: 22
Height: 5'10"
Fav Band: Oneida, Unrest, Boredoms, Blue Cheer, Scott Walker, Strokes
Fav Movie: Bottle Rocket
Fav TV Show: Real World/Road Rules Challenges
Fav Book: Breakfast of Champions
Fav Actor: Jimmy Stewart, Charles Bronson, Orson Welles
Fav Actress: Scarlett Johansson, Lidsay Lohan
Fav Food: Turkey Salad, Pizza
Fav Sport: Basketball
Drink of Choice: Beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Eh
Occupation: Research Scientist-in-training
Do you work out?: Nope
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: Good
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: Good

peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

oh shit - i forgot all of my thai food favorites. umm, larb gai, satay, umm, also indian food - palak paneer.

peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link

(real) Name: Josh
Age: 25
Height: 5'9"
Fav Music: Miles Davis, William Parker, Reverend Gary Davis, Elizabeth Cotten, Joni Mitchell, Charles Mingus, Fugazi, Led Zeppelin, Tortoise, Will Oldham, DJ Shadow
Fav Movie: Dr. Zhivago
Fav TV Show: I don't have a television
Fav Book: "Seize the Day" by Saul Bellow
Fav Actor: Billy Bob Thornton, Alec Guiness, Jack Nicholson
Fav Actress: I'm ashamed to admit I don't really have one (latent sexism?)
Fav Food: chicken makhni
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete: none
Drink of Choice: lately, maker's mark with ginger ale and lime
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): pot, but I haven't done any drug in over two years
Smoker? : no
Occupation : I'm a reporter for a legal news service
Do you work out? : I intend to
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7 or 8 -- I'm rather handsome but a bit flabby (see above)
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7 -- I'm usually interesting to talk to but often too dour to be "fun"

Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Hanna
Age: 26
Height: 161 cm
Fav Band: All time - Go-Betweens, Pet Shop Boys, The Sundays, Prefab Sprout, Orange Juice, My Favorite. Today - Khonnor, Action Biker, Efterklang, El Perro Del Mar.
Fav Movie: The Matrix, Outbreak, Gregory's Girl.
Fav TV Show: Gilmore Girls, Popular, The West Wing, ER.
Fav Book: Women in Love
Fav Actor: have none
Fav Actress: have none
Fav Food: Lasagna, grilled salmon and other fatty fishes, avocado
Fav Sport: Curling (to watch, I don't do sports myself)
Fav Athlete: None
Drink of Choice: Wine (red and white)
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Not really
Smoker? : Yes, Marlboro menthols
Occupation : Radio dj & freelance music writer.
Do you work out? : No, not right now, but I have sporadic periods of exercise.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7 (I think I'm reasonably smart and nice, but a tad boring)

Hanna (Hanna), Thursday, 4 November 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Reprise:

Name: Aimee

Age: 32

Height: 5'7"

Fav Musical Artist(s): Miles Davis, Bill Withers, Nick Drake, the Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, Aretha, etc, et al.

Fav Movie: Say Anything, A Guy Named Joe

Fav TV Show: the Family Guy, Futurama

Fav Book: A Short History of a Small Place, Memoirs of a Geisha

Fav Actor: Johnny Depp

Fav Food: Cheeseburgers, Indian, Middle Eastern, Chinese

Fav Sport: Baseball

Fav Athlete: Old: Ted Williams; New: David Ortiz

Drink of Choice: Alcoholic: Jack & Coke; Non: OJ

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): weeeeeed

Smoker?: Not anymore

Occupation: Acolyte of the Devil

Do you work out?: Occasionally

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 8

Add anything you want people to know: I'm wearing a pink shirt, I loathe the texture of pumpkin pie and I throw like a girl sometimes.

luna (luna.c), Thursday, 4 November 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm still really annoyed that this list didn't include 'location' from the beginning.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 4 November 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Emily
Age: 26
Height: 5'5"

Fav Band: the shins, apples in stereo, iron and wine, my morning jacket, catpower, others.

Fav Movie: the eyes of tammy faye, ghost world, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, zelig, sleeper, jaws, 12 angry men, lots of others that i don't wanna type.

Fav TV Show: curb your enthusiasm, the mclaughlin group, buffy, hardball with chris matthews, desperate housewives, seinfeld, strangers with candy, mst 3000, conan, meet the press.

Fav Book: the plot against america, pride and prejudice, to kill a mockingbird, noisy nora, confederacy of dunces, something wicked this way comes, and on and on.

Fav Actor: richard dreyfuss

Fav Actress:angela lansbury

Fav Food: wedding cake

Fav Sport: n/a

Fav Athlete: n/a

Drink of Choice: dry martini, gin and tonic, beer, bubbly. sadly i cannot imbibe due to the womb being inhabited.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): n/a

Smoker? :not really now due to impregnation. hope to become readdicted in a few months. i love those smoky treats.

Occupation :legal assistant/paid to surf internet all day.

Do you work out? :no, not right now. occassionally i get on a serious fitness kick. i once had a personal trainer who was amazed at my body's capacity to become toned and develop muscle quickly. he tried to convince me to become a disgusting female bodybuilder. sick!

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :7. though right now i will just say two words "giant uterus"

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : also "giant uterus".


Location: lexington, ky

Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 4 November 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Kelsey
Age: 26
Height: 5' 5 or 6"
Fav Band/solo artists: neil young, sonic youth, tribe, de la soul, the books, jim o'rourke, dirty three, um. . . .lots.
Fav Movie: waiting for guffman, koyannisqatsi, the cruise...
Fav TV Show: the office
Fav Book: waaaay too many
Fav Actor: hmm.
Fav Actress: ditto.
Fav Food: veggie sushi, pot pie, vegan cookies (that i make--not too dry!)
Fav Sport: cycling, soccer
Fav Athlete: none?!
Drink of Choice: whiskey
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): pot i guess? although i smoke so rarely.
Smoker? : of the hookah
Occupation : radio producer / development assistant
Do you work out? : i was biking to work before my handlebars got stolen. i hope that'll return after this weekend. i would like to do more yoga & things with weights, though.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : depends on the day
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : also, depends on the day

kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 4 November 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Nickalicious, circa right now, at a glance:

Name: Teh Nick
Age: 26
Height: 6'4"
Fav Band: Morphine/Treat Her Right
Fav Movie: City of God
Fav TV Show: the office
Fav Book: meh...reading
Fav Actor: Jeff Bridges
Fav Actress: Julianne Moore
Fav Food: moo shu pork, fried chicken, cornbread, baklava
Fav Sport: basketball
Fav Athlete: Jon Williams
Drink of Choice: Makers & ginger ale, Miller High Life, tequila
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): teh psychedelicals and teh ganj
Smoker? : I used to like cloves
Occupation : sofa management specialist
Do you work out? : if games of "airplane boy" and lifting beer bottles to mouth = working out, then yes
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Dan Perry said I looked like Justin Timberlake in that one picture
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : odd
Add anything you want people to know : I am so fucking hungry right now I could eat the fur off a rotten roadkill and say "mmm".

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 4 November 2004 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Name:ddb

Age:29

Height:6'2

Fav Band: The Melvins

Fav Movie: Weird Science/Dune/Alphaville

Fav TV Show: Law and Order

Fav Book: Wind Up Bird Chronicle

Fav Actor: Peter Sellers

Fav Actress: Anna Karina

Fav Food: Coffee

Fav Sport: Biking/Basketball

Fav Athlete: Latrell Sprewell

Drink of Choice: Coffee/Beer/Water

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Anger

Smoker? : No

Occupation : Graphic Design

Do you work out? : Bike/Jog

ddb (ddb), Thursday, 4 November 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I think that this is the 3rd time I've done this, but I am fickle, things change.

Name: Adam Levine. yeah, like that guy.
Age: 26
Height: 5'7 or8 or something
Fav Band: Prince, Luomo, Tom Waits, Dizzee, Pavement, Ludacris, TLC, Pet Shop Boys. Today anyway.
Fav Movie: Songs From The Second Floor, The Shining, Kasper Hauser, Key Largo, London/Robinson In Space
Fav TV Show: The Shield, Homicide
Fav Book: Empire:The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes, Once Upon A Time In The East, The Hundred Brothers, Ask The Dust, Ham On Rye, Kavalier And Clay, The Uncanny X-Men, Daredevil
Fav Actor: Dunno, whatever I said last time.
Fav Actress: Ditto
Fav Food: Burritos, shrimp, French peasant food
Fav Sport: Football
Fav Athlete: Maradona
Drink of Choice: Red wine, now
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Vicodin
Smoker? : not any more
Occupation : Development Analyst! hahahaha!
Do you work out? : Yes
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6
Location: Berkeley/San Francisco, CA
Add anything you want people to know: Hate dogs and people watching me eat.

adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 November 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Pangolino

Age: 32

Height: 6' 2"

Fav Band(s): The Cravats, Radierer, Cluster, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Malaria!, Univers Zero, Blurt, Cosmic Overdose, Cirith Ungol, The Fall, Grauzone, Metamorfosi, LiliPUT, The Names, Shadow Ring, Heldon, Einstuerzende Neubauten, T.C. Matic, Balletto di Bronzo, etc., etc. (many others not in "band" but "person" format)

Fav Movie: Fitzcarraldo, Quiemada!, M, At the Circus

Fav TV Show: Columbo

Fav Book: Mr. Palomar,

Fav Actor: Edward G. Robinson

Fav Actress: I'm not sure! Either Jodie Foster or Anna Maganani.

Fav Comedian: Gilbert Gottfried

Fav Food: I'm blanking on this one because I'm too hungry. An image of food I like enters my head and I lose concentration.

Fav Sport: I'm not too keen on sport. I enjoyed fencing when I was a kid but didn't take it up; I enjoy swimming; I don't mind being with people who are themselves watching baseball.

Fav Athlete: Rollie Fingers w/ Best Moustache Ever

Drink of Choice: Iced Tea

Smoker? : No

Occupation : Artist / Admin. Assistant

Do you work out? : No, though do lots of walking and tend to be something of a packhorse.


Add anything you want people to know: I don't know too much about music that's discussed, but appreciate thoughtful threads and many intelligent posters here. I wish I were more articulate most times, but sadly am not. Can't think; will eat coffee, mug or roll of tape soon, may help.

Pangolino Who Can't Log In, Thursday, 4 November 2004 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I hate cutting and pasting on the laptop, so won't:

Tep
29
5'10" or 11"
Indiana

Bowie, PWEI, Sister Machine Gun, Eminem, Alizee, the Eels, the Faint, Radio Iodine, Belle & Sebastian, Van Morrison, Neil Young. I like Christina better than Britney, the Beatles better than the Rolling Stones, and Elvis better than either.

The best movies I've seen this year were Annie Hall, Zoolander, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Bad News Bears, the Empire Strikes Back, and You Got Served.

Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck, and Dead Like Me just ended their seasons, so the only show really grabbing me right now is Lost. I've been downloading episodes of Fastlane since it looks like the DVD set for that will probably not come out until just after He's The Mayor does.

The best books I've read this year were Bridge of Birds, It Must've Been Something I Ate, The Whole Beast, The Box Man, Ball Four, Things Fall Apart, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, and the conclusion of the Dark Tower series.

I don't think I have any favorite actors or actresses.

I had some great French fries with lunch. Moxie is terrific. Pies are good. Duck is the king of meats.

Baseball. Only a few months till pitchers and catchers.

My firstborn child, regardless of sex, will be named Theo David Varitek Schilling Tep.

I'm out of tequila. Scotch. I made gin and tonic truffles the other day, though.

I haven't been able to get acid since before the drought, and don't bother with the pansy-ass shit.

Haven't smoked in eleven months.

Part-time student beginning thesis, part-time writer shopping several books around.

I played tennis until I hurt my knee and have been lazy about starting again.

Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 4 November 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like to amend my recentest entry for FAVORITE TV SHOW as such:

+ ABC's LOST

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 4 November 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

CIRCA NOW:

Name: James E L
Age: 28
Height: 6'1
Fav Band: I can no longer answer this, or am too lazy to type out some long friendster style list again
Fav Movie: From this year...Some Kind of Monster, 13 Going On 30, 50 First Dates, I Robot, Zatochi, Eternal Sunshine
Fav TV Show: Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow, Byker Grove, Rosemary and Thyme, Himalaya with Michael Palin
Fav Book: James Kochalka Sketchbook Diaries, Sound of the Mountain, Victoria, Dharma Bums, Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Fav Actor: Ben Stiller
Fav Actress: Reese Witherspoon
Fav Food: Cakes
Fav Sport: Cricket
Fav Athlete: Mark Butcher
Drink of Choice: Tea
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): nilch
Smoker? : nope
Occupation : Library assistant
Do you work out? : NO!!!
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4.7984759359623
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?:5.9064764798908
Location: West
Add anything you want people to know: I'm quite neurotic. I am disorganised. I can't get rid of things. I need some motivation.

jel -- (jel), Thursday, 4 November 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Geoff Stahl
Age: 36
Height: 5’10”
Fav Band: The Clean, Yo La Tengo, Nick Cave, David Bowie, Eno, Dean Wareham in his various incarnations, various one-hit wonder bands of the bubblegum variety, plenty of synth-pop (preferring the central European kind), a good dose of country (Red Sovine, Tex Ritter/Williams, hillbilly, country boogie and some Western Swing, and so on), Italo disco, and plenty of faceless electro bands/artists.
Fav Movie: Tokyo Drifter, Trust, Rififi, Night and the City, Ariel and Match Factory Girl (Kaurismäki)
Fav TV Show: Law and Order, Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sopranos
Fav Book: Pleasure of the Text (Roland Barthes); Society of the Spectacle, anything by Chandler, DeLlillo
Fav Actor: Richard Widmark
Fav Actress: Marilyn Monroe
Fav Food: Gnocchi, a good veggie Thai meal, a proper Montreal diner fry up, salmiakki, German bread, Finnish mushrooms in just about anything (but picking them can be fun, too), voisilmapulla and the odd grilled cheese sandwich.
Fav Sport: Snooker
Fav Athlete: Victor Davis (RIP)
Drink of Choice: Scotch, with a nice Salmiakkikoskenkorva as an evening closer.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): A good German beer works for me. Weed, if it can be had (always looking for a source).
Smoker? : Not of cigarettes
Occupation : University Lecturer (Helsinki and Humboldt University), flaneur.
Do you work out? : Just walking, occasionally swimming, plus the odd long cycle (when I have access to my bike)
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Depends on the day, my sleep/waking ratio and lighting.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : see above and depends on context.
Add anything you want people to know: Happy to be here most days.

Guymauve (Guymauve), Thursday, 4 November 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Sundar
Age: 25
Height: 5'10"

Fav Musical Artist: Led Zep #1. Other big 'uns include: Hendrix, Ornette Coleman, Yes, Radiohead, Philip Glass, L. Subramaniam, Joy Division, Aphex Twin, Diamanda Galas, Fred Frith, Miles Davis in the 70s, John McLaughlin, Sonic Youth, John Cage, Bill Frisell, James 'Blood' Ulmer, Jane's Addiction, Ratatat, Immersion, Pan Sonic, Stars of the Lid, Head Phone Over Tone, Oren Ambarchi, . . .

Fav Movie: Annie Hall, Euro Trip

Fav TV Show: My So-Called Life

Fav Book: Well, Samuel Adler - The Theory of Orchestration is the one I use the most these days

Fav Actor: I dunno, Ben Stiller?

Fav Actress: Dunno, Winona Ryder, Lindsay Lohan, Gwyneth Paltrow?

Fav Food: the lamb souvlaki dinner at the Falafel Village on York campus

Fav Sport: martial arts but I can't go anymore

Fav Athlete:

Drink of Choice: coffee

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Grateful for Celexa but even gladder to be halving my daily dose

Smoker? : Hell no

Occupation : grad student and guitar teacher

Do you work out? : I try to

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5.5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5

sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I forgot Angelina Jolie.

sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say but nothing comes out when they move their lips just a bunch of gibberish 'cause everybody acts like they forgot about Angelina Jolie.

n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Sexy Dancer
30s
6ish
The Fall
Holy Mountain
Law & Order
Moby Dick
Clint Eastwood
Louise Brooks
Tacos
Skiing
Muhammad Ali
Beer
Marijuana
No
Research
No
8
9

Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: caitlin
Age: 20
Height: 5'10"

Fav Band: hmmmmmmmmmmmm wire, david bowie, boredoms currently.

Fav Movie: stroszek, the mirror, documentaries, can't remember.

Fav TV Show: i like getting drunk and watching the fox news.

Fav Book: all books. philosophy, sociology, politics, mostly nonfiction. can't remember specifically.
Fav Actor: ???

Fav Actress: ???

Fav Food: indian, mexican, chinese, italian.

Fav Sport: bikes, swimming, badminton.

Fav Athlete: ???

Drink of Choice: apple juice. occasional beer.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): i quit.

Smoker? : no.

Occupation : student.

Do you work out? : i like running and bicycling. not much lately, though.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7


Add anything you want people to know: when i grow up i want to be either a librarian, a mathematician, a congresswoman, an international aid worker, an ice climber, or a deer.

caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Scott
Age: 30
Height: 5'8

Fav Band: Hot Snakes, Feelies, The Clean, Albert Ayler, Alan Silva, Roland Kirk, Cecil Taylor, Rashied Ali, more.

Fav Movie: The Thin Red Line, Big Lebowski, Annie Hall, Star Wars

Fav TV Show: Pardon the Interuption, The Sopranos

Fav Book: Catcher in the Rye, Grapes of Wrath,

Fav Actor: Jeff Bridges, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Fav Actress: Diane Lane, Brigitte Bardot, Scarlett Johansen, Diane Keaton

Fav Food: bbq pulled pork, mole enchiladas

Fav Sport: basketball, tennis

Fav Athlete: Ben Wallace maybe

Drink of Choice: beer, bourbon, wine

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): weed but rarely

Smoker? : Once in a while.

Occupation : Executive Search Consultant

Do you work out? : Yes, I run 15-20 miles week.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7

Add anything you want people to know: not really

mcd (mcd), Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Sundar - thumbs up for Fred Frith! "The Top of His Head" played here recently, and I didn't know until afterwards, god damn it, but I did walk right into a Nits concert with R.J. Stips without knowing it would happen, too, so I guess the consequences of ignorance retain some sort of balance.

Also, caitlin, teary-eyed thumbs up for Stroszek.

Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Thursday, 4 November 2004 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Jim
Age: 29
Height: 5'11

Fav Bands: Fleetwood Mac, Galaxie 500.

Fav Movies: Withnail & I, This Is Spinal Tap

Fav TV Show: The Simpsons

Fav Book: Zig Zag Street, Watership Down.

Fav Actor: Richard E Grant

Fav Actress: Christina Ricci

Fav Food: Bacon

Fav Sport: walking

Fav Athlete: i don't know. maybe one of those female weightlifters.

Drink of Choice: red wine

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): acid but i can't say i'm terribly experienced in this regard

Smoker? : Former. smoked for 7 years until July this year.

Occupation : QA analyst

Do you work out? : Dear god no.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 4

the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 5 November 2004 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Everytime I read the title of this fucking thread I start singing 'Getting to know you' from The King and I. It's driving me and those around me a little mad.

papa november (papa november), Friday, 5 November 2004 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Lucy
Age: 29
Height: five feet nine and a half inches
Fav Band: I really cannot choose one but the CDs currently by my stereo are the Magnetic Fields, Scissor Sisters, an old soul comp and Emma Bunton. So that's 'anything' then.
Fav Movie: I really cannot choose... etc.
Fav TV Show: The OC and The Antiques Roadshow are the only two programmes I would rather not miss. I supplement this diet with generous portions of Home & Away and QVC. The Box of Delights DVD is pretty good.
Fav Book: As with bands and movies.
Fav Actor: Well, I fancy Adam Brody and Orlando Bloom, will that do? Least Fav is easier - I refuse to see any film if it has Jim Carrey in it.
Fav Actress: I have no favourite actress.
Fav Food: Cheese, mushrooms, malvern pudding, polenta with rabbit, fish supper, cornish fairlings, kfc, nan bread, nocciola ice cream, french bread in France, Nutragious, my Mum's roast potatoes, buckets of mussels, tablet.
Fav Sport: Athletics
Fav Athlete: Carolina Kluft
Drink of Choice: Vodka and diet Irn Bru
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): See above
Smoker? : Nein
Occupation : Conference Organiser
Do you work out? : Currently 10 minutes each morning before I get in the shower. I will have a gym membership by the end of the weekend though.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Today, about a 4
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 0

Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 5 November 2004 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I see your personality and raise you 9.

Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: NICK!
Age: 25!
Height: like 5'8"
Fav Band: Right now, Eno, the Fall, Royal Trux.
Fav Movie: Dawn of the Dead (o.g. version), Night of the Living Dead (o.g. version), Playtime.
Fav TV Show: Laws & Orders, Arrested Development, Freaks & Geeks.
Fav Book: Lolita/Pnin/Pale Fire by V. Nabokov, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
Fav Actor: Martin Starr, who played Bill on Freaks & Geeks, Crispin Glover.
Fav Actress: I can't think of any right now. I'd say Zooey Deschanel but mainly I just think she's pretty. I'm a terrible sexist pig.
Fav Food: Cheese, pizza, asparagus.
Fav Sport: Is pool a sport?
Fav Athlete: None.
Drink of Choice: Gin and tonic or beer.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): See above.
Smoker? : No.
Occupation : Office lackey.
Do you work out? : No. But I walk part of the way to work.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8

n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 November 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

It's no good people rating their own looks and personality - everyone is wildly wrong. I mean, Mark C just corrected Madchen on her personality, and rightly, but she had 4 for looks! Luna had 5! What sort of crazed criteria are they applying?

We should all rate each other's looks and personality out of 10. That would be much better*.

* read 'infinitely more disastrous', obviously.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 5 November 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Everytime I read the title of this fucking thread I start singing 'Getting to know you' from The King and I. It's driving me and those around me a little mad.

I'm really going to miss Theresa Heinz Kerry, I just realized.

Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 5 November 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Drew Daniel
Age: 33
Height: 5 feet 9 and a half inches

Fav Musicians: TG, The Misfits, Enoch Light, Nurse With Wound, Iannis Xenakis, Doctor Rockit, The Velvet Underground, Robbie Basho . . .

Fav Movies:Rebecca, Ran, Barbarella, Andrei Rublev, The Pawnbroker

Fav TV Show:The Simpsons, bad true crime re-enactment stuff

Fav Book: Shakespeare, Plato, and Freud are the holy trinity. For fun it is more like Highsmith, Dick, Nabokov, Firbank, Cooper etc

Fav Actor:Kurt Raab in Satansbraten (Fassbinder)

Fav Actress:Jane Fonda in Barbarella

Fav Food: coffee and eggs the morning after

Fav Sport: rowing

Fav Athlete: Igor Cassino (sp?) the Italian gold medalist / gymanst

Drink of Choice: champagne

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): LSD (but it has been awhile), Es are good too

Smoker? :Nope

Occupation : graduate student / musician (?)

Do you work out? : maybe twice a week or so

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : I am doing okay but 33 is old in gay years

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : It oscillates wildly . . .

Drew Daniel, Saturday, 6 November 2004 11:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Emily
Age: 23
Height: I don't know. I am more than 5 foot and less than 6.
Fav Band: [Mix of stuff that will always be favourite and stuff I'm finding new shiny and exciting] Telescopes, Tindersticks, Can, Morton Subotnick, Mouse On Mars, Art Bears, The Books, Residents, Devo, Hrvatski, Wolves (Of Greece!)
Fav Movie: Wise Blood (closely followed by Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls)
Fav TV Show: I watch too much and like too little. The Prisoner? The Simpsons? Brass Eye/Day Today? BUFFY?!
Fav Book: Nausea by J-P Sartre
Fav Actor: I don't know. The only one I can think of who I have actually liked for more than one film is Dustin Hoffman, but that doesn't sound right to me.
Fav Actress: Isabelle Huppert (possibly)
Fav Food: Food is a lie propagated by industry. Don't eat!
Drink of Choice: Lager, red wine, Vodka
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Mostly drink, don't do drugs very often but enjoy E, K, LSD very much thank you.
Smoker? : Ja
Occupation : 'Mature' Student
Do you work out? : Only complex philosophical questions (well, I try).
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 0
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 2

emil.y (emil.y), Saturday, 6 November 2004 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I should also try to do this again.

Name:  Deanna A. (you can call me Dee, though)
Age:  24 -- to turn 25 late next month (where has the time flown?)
Height:  5'8" (short for this forum, it seems)
Fav Band:  C'mon, do I have to answer this? ;) Really, though, Duran Duran, first and foremost. Other loves -- Japan, Roxy Music, Human League, Spandau Ballet, Nirvana, The Breeders, Gang of Four, Comsat Angels, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Tears for Fears, and Heaven 17.
Fav Movie:  Forever and always -- Pump Up The Volume. I think very highly of most documentaries, too, save for the highly political ones which could possibly end up being sneakily propagandistic.
Fav TV Show:  "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"!! I also love VH1C's "The Alternative", the Food Network's "Unwrapped" and anything with Alton Brown in it, and I will always love "Northern Exposure". Am currently getting into -- "Desperate Housewives" and "Buffy" (hey, I missed that boat the first time around!).
Fav Book:  Currently, Lorrie Moore's Birds of America and anything to do with Lenore/Roman Dirge.
Fav Actor:  You're not going to believe this, but I think I could say Susan Sarandon in this category. Uh... Russell Crowe? Even though he's rumored to be an asshole off-camera? Um, yeah, that's it.
Fav Food:  Wheat Thins, seven-layer dip, Chinese and Japanese food (lovelovelove rice noodles, stir-fry, sushi, and Japanese rice crackers), chicken, cookies, broccoli, cheesecake, carrots, most cold cereals, and Italian food (from chicken cacciatore to fetuccine alfredo).
Fav Sport:  Spectator-wise -- basketball. Participant-wise -- tennis (though I haven't played in ages).
Fav Athlete:  David Robinson, Martina Navratilova, Tony Parker, Maria Sharapova. That's it.
Drink of Choice:  Diet Coke with Lime, Diet Cherry Coke, Diet Sprite, a local grocery store chain's bottled water that's actually Canadian spring water, iced tea, slushy cold coffee drinks.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing):  prescriptions, dude
Smoker?:  No, but I'm not sanctimonious about it.
Occupation:  Payroll clerk/college student
Do you work out?:  Not if walking to/from parking lots and carrying around things from place to place don't count as "working out". I need to change this strange behavior.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?:  Ha. Maybe a 2 -- and that's pushing it.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?:  If I'm passionately angry -- a zero. If I'm thinking rationally -- an eight, maybe.
Add anything you want people to know:  I am a huge fan of riding rollercoasters. I haven't had a tumor-like flareup on my back in almost three years, which is cool. I'm alive, which is also cool. I used to be a huge '80s fanatic, when I was a stupid little teenybopper. I'm still insanely jealous of anyone who was a teenager in the early - mid '80s. And I live in a city filled with the most narrow-minded and macho "guys" ever to exist.

Accept No Substitutes (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 7 November 2004 06:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Sarah Christine Johnson
Age: 27
Height: 5'11", but some people say I'm taller and my sister says I've gotten shorter

Fav Band: Tonight? Hot Snakes

Fav Movie: NOT the Dawno fh te Dead remake

Fav TV Show: Arrested Devemopemntkel;jkl;tjkel

Fav Book: The one I'm writing now (Psyche!)

Fav Actor: John cusack cuz he's hot

Fav Actress: I dunno

Fav Food: pickles

Fav Sport: blah

Fav Athlete: double blah

Drink of Choice: gin and tonics

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not my thing

Smoker? : no

Occupation : no. ha, I'm a secretary type I guess

Do you work out? : I walk alot

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : um, which is best? I guess 10 would be... um... I'm a ... um... 2 right now because I'm drunk and keep forgetting to shut my mouth properly

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : I don't know. That's a weird question. I'm going with 8.

Sarah McLusky (coco), Sunday, 7 November 2004 06:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: William Crump
Age: 41 tomorrow!
Height:5'10"

Fav Band: The Necks, YLT, Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, Electric Masada, depending

Fav Movie: Generally whatever I enjoyed most recently, which would make it The Incredibles. But I go back to Apocalypse Now fairly often.

Fav TV Show: The Brak Show, Lost.

Fav Book: Dhalgren

Fav Actor: Nobody recent, that's for sure. Probably Marlon Brando.

Fav Actress: Some days Helen Mirren, some days Myrna Loy.

Fav Food: Can't specify a dish, but favorite cuisines are Japanese and Vietnamese.

Fav Sport: BASEBALL

Fav Athlete: I'm down on individual athletes; most of them are spoiled overpaid children and Republicans to boot. Current athlete, Ichiro Suzuki. Historically...uh... Archie "Moonlight" Graham.

Drink of Choice: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Lagavulin.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): See above. I've had and enjoyed stronger, but not enough to care whether I ever had it again.

Smoker? : No thanks. What a stupid delivery system for a high (nicotine or THC).

Occupation : Freelance graphic designer, magazine art director and wastrel.

Do you work out? : Sadly, no.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Above the neck: 6. Below the neck: 4.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Usually 7 or 8, but that can plunge to negative numbers when I turn into The Micromanaging Control Freak.

Location: Amory, Mississippi. I've jumped back and forth between Mississippi and California all my life and it's turned me into a rootless mess with no notion of national allegience.

the apex of nadirs (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 7 November 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow, happy birthday for tommorrow! (unless you post tommorrow, and I can say happy birthday then).

Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 7 November 2004 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

After watching tonight's rerun of My So-Called Life (the 'rebellious' substitute teacher one wherein Don McKellar or a lookalike belittles and harrasses students, throws their work out the window, offers no creative writing instruction whatsoever beyond telling them to "be real" and let it all out and not care for petty matters like spelling or grammar, thus inspiring them to produce melodramatic angst-riddent tripe and really tame erotic poetry which ends up being censored by the evil principal who happens to be the only non-white authority figure on the show THIS WAS THE MOST ACCLAIMED TV SHOW PROBABLY OF THE ENTIRE 90s) with a new perspective and realizing it was easily the kitschiest hour of television ever (down to the stirring words "Question Everything" scrawled on the blackboard), I don't know whether to change my pick or to be even more committed to it.

sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 07:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Happy belated birthday, Rock Hardy!

Sundar -- I suppose one has to look at that show in perspective, i.e. compare it to all the other programs that were out there during that time period. Perhaps at that point and time, it was the most provocative program around, and perhaps with the passing of time and the creation of numerous other programs, it has lost that allure. Which means that if you still love that program, hey, it's still quite all right.

(At least it's not as embarrassing as having once enjoyed DeBarge's "Rhythm of the Night" is. Um, not that I ever did that, no, no way.)

Accept No Substitutes (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 08:18 (nineteen years ago) link

"my so-called life" was on before "beverly hills 90210". or after, i don't remember. so, yeah, perspective.

i haven't seen it in an age, though, i wonder if i'd think differently of it now (loved it before).

JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link

realizing it was easily the kitschiest hour of television ever (down to the stirring words "Question Everything" scrawled on the blackboard)

I used this in my chapter! I have an essay in the Byers-Lavery book on MSCL that argues that the Magic Teacher episode was so ludicrous it must not have actually happened.

Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Ronan
Age: 21
Height: 5' 10" (maybe an inch or so less, I'm not certain)

Fav Band: The Pet Shop Boys, Daft Punk, Superpitcher, Dizzee Rascal, lots of others.

Fav Movie: Midnight Express.

Fav TV Show: Brasseye, the Simpsons.

Fav Book: it's hard to pick one, the Butcher Boy, by Patrick McCabe.

Fav Actor: don't care about actors

Fav Actress: or actresses.

Fav Food: chinese, thai, indian, all sorts of stuff.

Fav Sport: football.

Fav Athlete: emile heskey

Drink of Choice: coke, beer, vodka.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): es I suppose. maybe "choice" doesn't come into it anymore.

Smoker? : not for the last 8 months, though I rob an occasional one.

Occupation : journalism student/freelance music writer/record store worker

Do you work out? : no, I should though.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6 or 7. 6.5.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : I don't know, I think some people love me and others find me either silent and withdrawn or rude and arrogant. So I suppose 6 or 7 also. I know I have great fun with my friends.


Add anything you want people to know: I bought a new sweater yesterday because I felt miserable. it has actually cheered me up somewhat.

Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Sarah is much more than a 2 in looks. That is all.

n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Jay

Age: 25

Height: 5'7

Fav Band: Changes constantly (probably Sparklehorse right now).

Fav Movie: "Weekend" (JL Godard) & "Lost Book Found" (Jem Cohen)

Fav TV Show: Family Guy

Fav Book: "Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas"

Fav Actor: Don't have one

Fav Actress: Don't have one

Fav Food: Indian

Fav Sport: Baseball

Fav Athlete: David Ortiz

Drink of Choice: Scotch

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Percocet

Smoker? : On again, off again

Occupation : Multimedia

Do you work out? : Hell no.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 8

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8


Add anything you want people to know: I'm a corporate working stiff & an experimental filmmaker in my free time. I also love music (listening and playing), Pinot Noir & hanguns. I've been dating my girlfriend for four years, and we have two cats (Isis & Petu).

jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...
Age: 21

Height: 6'2

Fav Band: My Bloody Valentine, Daft Punk

Fav Movie: Amarcord, Before Sunrise(go ahead and shoot me!)

Fav TV Show: Six Feet Under, The Wire

Fav Book: The Lord of the Rings

Fav Actor: Don Cheadle, Tony Leung

Fav Actress: Kathy Bathes, Isabelle Huppert

Fav Food: Ethiopian

Fav Sport: Football

Fav Athlete: Kaka!!!

Drink of Choice: Water, Sainsburys apple/raspberry juice

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Weed, but very rarely

Smoker? : No

Occupation : Student

Do you work out? : No, but I walk for atleast 50 minutes every weekday(to uni and back).

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7

Lovelace (Lovelace), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Name: QUEEN

Age: 23

Height: 5'2

Fav Band: LES RALLIZES DENUDES / OPUS AVANTRA / PIERROT LUNAIRE

Fav Movie: AGUIRRE

Fav TV Show: THE OC / ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT / TWIN PEAKS

Fav Book: THE VOYEUR - ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET

Fav Actor: KLAUS KINSKI

Fav Actress: SCARLETT JOHANSSON (NOT REALLY BUT SHE'S SO HOT)

Fav Food: VEGETABLE KOORMA

Fav Sport: STREET HOCKEY

Fav Athlete: I DONT KNOW ANY...

Drink of Choice: WHISKEY ON THE ROCKS

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): LSD

Smoker? : NO

Occupation : SECRETARY

Do you work out? : SOMETIMES

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8


Add anything you want people to know: I AM MOVING FROM AUSTIN, TX TO SUBURBAN PHILADELPHIA IN 5 DAYS

killy (baby lenin pin), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Name: j.d.
Age: 23
Height: 5'11
Fav Band: public image ltd
Fav Movie: the manchurian candidate
Fav TV Show: simpsons
Fav Book: oranges are not the only fruit (winterson), parting the waters (branch), studies in classic american literature (lawrence)
Fav Actor: cary grant
Fav Actress: ingrid bergman
Fav Food: indian, soft pretzels, ritz crackers
Fav Sport: none
Fav Athlete: muhammed ali
Drink of Choice: cherry limeade, vodka tonics
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): it's not, really
Smoker? : no
Occupation : semi-employed journalist
Do you work out? : no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7 on a good day, generally 5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6

J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Name: Dr Bill Morbius
Age: young, like JFK when elected prez
Height: 5'10"

Fav Band: it's been so long. Yo La Tengo, Magnetic Fields, Kinks

Fav Movie: Duck Soup

Fav TV Show: The Singing Detective

Fav Book: Howards End, Our Mutual Friend

Fav Actor: Spencer Tracy

Fav Actress: Jeanne Moreau

Fav Food: shrimp any ol' way you choose it

Fav Sport: baseball

Fav Athlete: David Wright

Drink of Choice: Stoli Vanil + ginger ale

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): see above

Smoker? : never

Occupation : word surgeon

Do you work out? : walk lots, otherwise not in this century

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : between 3 and 9

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : I wouldn't

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 January 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Name: Katarina

Age: trenta tre

Height: 5'7"

Fav Band: silver jews, frogs, dee-lite

Fav Movie: texas cheerleader murdering mom or the one with tori spelling in it, christiane f

Fav TV Show: curb yr enthusiasm, larry sanders

Fav Book: rum diary, factotum

Fav Actor: ummmm

Fav Actress: mila kunis

Fav Food: pavolva

Fav Sport: skiing

Fav Athlete: bob burnquist

Drink of Choice: stoli straight up or w/ coke or vodka7 when pressed

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): ummm

Smoker? : i dont know why

Occupation : cereal killer

Do you work out? : can you say dance dance revolution?

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 2 but in the right light can peak at a 9

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6 amongst close friends, 1 amongst friend's friends, 11 amongst total strangers

sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Name: Phil
Age: 36
Height: 5'9"

Fav Band: Beatles

Fav Movie: Alien or Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Fav TV Show: The Simpsons

Fav Book: The Essential Ellison, Harlan Ellison

Fav Actor: Cary Grant

Fav Actress: Jodie Foster

Fav Food: Ravioli

Fav Sport: Baseball

Fav Athlete: Hank Aaron

Drink of Choice: Beer - Heineken, Liquor - Macallan 12-yr-old

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): none

Smoker? : emphatically not

Occupation : Marketing

Do you work out? : Yes, 4-5 times per week

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4, but I don't have to date me

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7

phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Name: Emily Suzanne Robinson
Age: 28 years and 5 months exactly
Height: 5'8"
Fav Band: Underworld
Fav Movie: Andrei Rublev
Fav TV Show: Twin Peaks
Fav Book: Pale Fire, a popular choice.
Fav Actor: Buster Keaton
Fav Actress: the Falconetti
Fav Food: Mushroom Mataar
Fav Sport: Soccer
Fav Athlete: Ruud Gullit
Drink of Choice: Whiskey and Coke, Gin and Tonic (seasonal)
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): weeeeeed
Smoker? : Not for a year and a few months.
Occupation : Social work, music.
Do you work out? : Hiking and swimming.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 20
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 2

○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link

Fav Athlete: Ruud Gullit

ha ha wtf

Annoying Display Name (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm 32 and a half now, and my favourite band today is Battlelore. I am more inclined toward scones and hot cross buns than cakes. I might get my hair cut soon.

Autobot Lover (jel --), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link

This is from where I orginially answered one of these other threads. Any changes have been bolded:

Name: Expatrica enbb/Erica
Location: Boston, MA
Age: Nearly 29 nearly 31
Fave bands: Always: Pulp, The Smiths, Queen what that?, The Jam, The Clash, Luna, Pet Shop Boys Currently: The Blow, The Grates I hate these questions
Fave movies: Harold and Maude, Mean Girls, John Hughes stuff, The Maltese Falcon, Kicking and Screaming
Fave TV: Scrubs, The Mighty Boosh, Twin Peaks
Fave books: Lolita, The Stranger, American Psycho, Confederacy of Dunces
Fave actor: Not sure I have one.
Fave actress: See above.
Fave food: Cheese
Fave sport: Yeah, right.
Fave athelete: -
Drink of choice: Coffee or Diet Coke - I've quit drinking alcohol LOL
Drug of choice: Weed
Smoker: Yes but trying (rather halfheartedly) to quit.
Occupation: "Staff Assistant" at a University grad student/intern
Do you work out: No
Looks: I just asked my husband to which he responded "4, but I'm a really tough marker and that's as high as anyone gets."
Personality: To this he said, "Hmmmmmm, 4 again. You're right up there."
Fave comics: Hmmmm. Modern Toss was pretty funny.
Height: 5'9.5"

Lil Nunu (ENBB), Wednesday, 22 October 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link

haha wtf

he was splendid! lol

○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: Jack
Age: 26
Height: 5'10"
Location: Toronto

Fav Band: Talk Talk

Fav Movie: Annie Hall

Fav TV Show: The Wire

Fav Book: Plato, Republic

Fav Actor: Jean-Paul Belmondo

Fav Actress: Grace Kelly

Fav Food: Indian

Fav Sport: Hockey, Football

Fav Athlete: Troy Polamalu

Drink of Choice: Wine

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): weed, occasionally

Smoker? : nope

Occupation : student

Do you work out? : just started swimming

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6.5

jackl, Thursday, 23 October 2008 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link

<3 Talk Talk.

○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Saturday, 25 October 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: Omar

Age: 33

Height: 6'

Location: Los Angeles

Fav Band: Saint Etienne, Underworld, Stereolab, Compulsive Gamblers

Fav Movie: Fallen Angels, Repo Man, The Double Life of Veronique

Fav TV Show: The Wire

Fav Book: The Master and Margarita

Fav Actor: Robert Mitchum, Lance Henriksen, Anthony Wong

Fav Actress: Naomi Watts, Ingrid Bergman

Fav Food: Mexican, "asian fusion"

Fav Sport: NFL, MLB

Fav Athlete: Ichiro

Drink of Choice: Red wine, Belgian ale

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): super-occasional weed way back in the day, nothing these days

Smoker? : quit

Occupation : writer/producer [Removed Illegal Image]

Do you work out? : running, hiking

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7.7

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 77

omar little, Saturday, 25 October 2008 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: the god of hellfire

Age: 25 and 99/100ths

Height: 5'11"

Location: south cackalacky

Fav Band: aphex twin, wire, mbv, slayer, minor threat, sabbath, stooges, eno, wipers, misfits

Fav Movie: alien (no shit)

Fav TV Show: battlestar galactica

Fav Book: make way for ducklings

Fav Actor: christopher walken in "communion"

Fav Actress: don't really have one

Fav Food: italian

Fav Sport: freestyle slacking

Fav Athlete: yours truly

Drink of Choice: water

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): weed, once in a while

Smoker? : no

Occupation : temporarily unemployed, should be starting a crappy retail job soon though!

Do you work out? i take walks sometimes

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7.7

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 77

I'm glad the chihuahua beat it this wkend (latebloomer), Saturday, 25 October 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: M.C.
Age: 22
Height: 5'11"
Location: south texas
Fav Band: steve reich and p-funk!
Fav Movie: children of mans
Fav TV Show: simpsons
Fav Book: john waters autobiography, the singing neanderthals
Fav Actor: billy bob thornton and paul rudd (yes homo)
Fav Actress: frances mcdormand, if pressed to choose, i always end up liking what she do
Fav Food: chana masala!
Fav Sport: we go hoop
Fav Athlete: jordan for all times, have to be a homer and say tony parker is fun to watch for present times
Drink of Choice: tee-totally
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing):
Smoker? : no
Occupation : "program advisor" for teacher certification program
Do you work out? : wii fit shouldn't count
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : ???? never know how to answer this
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6, i think i am getting boringer as i lurch into adulthood

al gore rhythm nation (m bison), Saturday, 25 October 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link

wii fit counts

○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Saturday, 25 October 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link

Name:"m" as in Mark
Age:50
Height:6'0

Fav Band: MC5/Stooges

Fav Movie: Psycho

Fav TV Show: Hawaii 5-0

Fav Book: Lolita

Fav Actor: Burt Lancaster

Fav Actress: Ingrid Bergman

Fav Food: pasta

Fav Sport:swimming

Fav Athlete: none

Drink of Choice: gin martini

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): pot

Smoker? : no (tobacco)

Occupation : writer/housewife

Do you work out? : 1 or 2 x per week @ gym

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7

m coleman, Saturday, 25 October 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: Nathalie

Same.

Age: 28

Jesus. WTF. I'm turning 35 next week. What. The. Fuck.

Height: 167 cm 59/58 kilos

Sadly I still gotta lose those 3 kilos to get back at the same weight. I'll get there. Eventually.

Fav Music: Fleetwood Mac, dEUS, Madonna, Joni M, Northern Soul, Spector, No New York comp,... too much to list here

I rarely listen ti music these days. Keep losing my headphones and the rest of the time I can't turn on the stereo.

Fav Movie: I quite like Fast Times At Ridgement High but Hitchcock, Scorsese and David Lynch are excellent as well.

I just saw No Country for Old Men. Fantastic movie. Still like the ones I mentioned three centuries ago.

Fav TV Show: Young Ones.

I'll add House, the Wire, The Shield. Oh and Veronica Mars and the Sopranos. Yep, I like telly.

Fav Book: Most recently: Anything by Barthes.

I'm happy if I can read more than one page these days. I did like Master & Margarita. Trying to finish that shitty but well written book about beauty EDITED by Umberto Ecco. Bastard, thought he had written it.

Fav Actor: A young Robert DeNiro

God, was I boring.

Fav Actress: I don't have a fave (sadly?)

Hmm.

Fav Food: Japanese, yoghurt and banana-bread

Hardly eat yoghurt these days. Still like Japanese. And Indian. And my own cooked meals.

Fav Sport: tennis

Still do.

Fav Athlete: Hmm, I quite like the curent crop of Belgian tennis playaz

What the fuck was I on? Clijsters stinks.

Drink of Choice: Diet Sprite/Coke, fruit flav. tea and alcohol (rum especially)

Breastfeeding and rhum don't mix. Sadly. Fruit flavoured teas stink.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): I haven't tried any yet.

Weed.

Smoker? : Nope, I get nauseous

hahaha. Oh boy, when I quit breastfeeding... Well, I hope I won't take it up again.

Occupation : Sales

Still do.

Do you work out? : Nope, but I plan to take up tennis again

Finally after about six years I did!

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :I don't rate my looks

Compared to what?

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Nor my personality.

Again, compared to what?

stevienixed, Saturday, 25 October 2008 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: Stan M. (difficult name I have to spell for everyone not from my home town, where lots of 'em live)
Age: 36
Height: 5' 8"
Fav Band: loads! Coil, Foetus, Underworld, Bad Religion, Melvins, Birthday Party, Swans, Elbow, PIL, Nine Inch Nails, Sigur Ros, autechre, Tool, Various Production, Morphine, Can, Butthole Surfers, Radiohead, Aereogramme, Big Black, Tortoise, Plastikman, Mogwai, Low, Daft Punk, Isis, iLiKETRAiNS, The God Machine, Kraftwerk, Front 242, Fugazi, Nomeansno, Boards of Canada, Stooges, Sonic's Rendezvous Band, Banco De Gaia, Daft Punk, Empirion, Burial, Mew, Explosions in the Sky, Handsome Furs, Fluke, Crime & The City Solution, Dinosaur Jr, South San Gabriel, Pan Sonic, Neil Young, PJ Harvey, Downy, Portishead, !!!, more (and I forgot the most important ones, I bet)
Fav Movie: Paris, Texas
Fav TV Show: The X-Files (then), House MD (now)
Fav Book: The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Foucault's Pendulum, anything by Philip K. Dick
Fav Actor: none (ok, Kyle MacLachlan because he was in all those David Lynch things)
Fav Actress: none
Fav Food: I like a lot of stuff, nothing's my favourite, really.
Fav Sport: watching snooker on TV
Fav Athlete: none
Drink of Choice: that Green Ice Tea thing at the moment. Don't really do alcohol since I don't have a social life (not sad though)
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Nope
Smoker? : Not anymore, quit about 4 or 5 years ago.
Occupation : server operating system management @ big belgian bank (yeah, we're having a creepy couple of weeks right now)
Do you work out? : no. Never have, so I'm not only lazy but also overweight now.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : -4
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6

StanM, Saturday, 25 October 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: snoball
Age: as old as the hills
Height: 5'11"
Fav Band: elastic
Fav Movie: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Fav TV Show: what's TV?
Fav Book: Yellow Pages
Fav Actor: thingy, you know, the guy that was in that movie with those people in it?
Fav Actress: Marilyn Monroe
Fav Food: Apple pie and ice cream
Fav Sport: soccer
Fav Athlete: the one who, when I say jump, asks "how high?"
Drink of Choice: coke
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): clean/teetotal since 2002
Smoker? : no
Occupation : international jetsetting playboy
Do you work out? : with a calculator, is that cheating?
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : don't know, I don't even own a mirror
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : I don't have a personality...

snoball, Saturday, 25 October 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link

I want to play!

Name: David
Age: 31
Height: 6'0"
Fav Band: Neil Young, Kinks, Steely Dan, Go Betweens, and many more.
Fav Movie: Fargo, Dr. Strangelove, High & Low
Fav TV Show: The Office, 30 Rock, The Wire
Fav Book: Sorekara (I suck at remembering books I've read, even ones I loved)
Fav Actor: Steve Buscemi
Fav Actress: Gong Li
Fav Food: pizza, sushi, mango, avocado
Fav Sport: American football
Fav Athlete: Sean Taylor, RIP
Drink of Choice: Red wine
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Nope
Smoker? : Nope
Occupation : High school history teacher
Do you work out? : Bicycle commuter
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7.5

Super Cub, Saturday, 25 October 2008 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: blah
Age: 23.991780822 :(
Height: 5'10"
Fav Band: don't know anymore
Fav Movie: any fassbinder, harlan county usa, etc.
Fav TV Show: COPS
Fav Book: native son, a lot of other boring books
Fav Actor: none
Fav Actress: none
Fav Food: tacos, ethiopian food
Fav Sport: running, swimming, sports you do by yourself
Fav Athlete: none
Drink of Choice: beer, apple cider
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): nah
Smoker? : no
Occupation : future lawyer
Do you work out? : i guess
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7

horrible (harbl), Saturday, 25 October 2008 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: Carl (definitely) not_goodwin
Age: 35
Height: 6’4
Fav Band: used to be the stone roses now it’s radiomuse, but then I’m leaving zep, the beatles and the smiths out, oh and even the wedding present.
Fav Movie: Amalie, Poltergeist or Jaws
Fav TV Show: brass eye/ the day to day
Fav Book: usually the one I’m reading when this question comes up. At the moment it’s Iain Banks Raw Spirit.
Fav Actor: will get back to you on that.
Fav Actress: ditto
Fav Food: love a proper Sunday roast, preferably after a walk or hike somewhere
Fav Sport: To do; cycling, pool & swimming. To watch; none!
Fav Athlete: don’t follow sport
Drink of Choice: Nice wheat beer or red wine
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not dabbled for ages, an old fave’ was ketamine, but coke’s always nice to have, oh and you can’t forget weed.
Smoker? : no, can’t stand it, but strangely enough I can smoke weed ok.
Occupation : lost job a week ago :(
Do you work out? : I did once
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : like I’ve said before, I’ll let others decide.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : see above
Add anything you want people to know: I’ve pretty much wasted my life.

not_goodwin, Saturday, 25 October 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: Libby Crypt
Age: 40
Height: 6 feet
Fav Band or Musical Artist: Pussy Galore or John Coltrane or Black Sabbath or Bobby Bland or ...
Fav Movie: Cool Hand Luke
Fav TV Show: Davey & Goliath
Fav Book: The Foundations of Arithmetic
Fav Actor: Paul Newman
Fav Actress: Grace Kelly
Fav Food: (Vegetarian) chili, my recipe
Fav Sport: Curling
Fav Asslete: Andy Warhol
Drink of Choice: Good scotch, hold the Talisker pls
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): What d'you got? Look, let's talk, K?
Smoker? No, never
Occupation: Overpaid computer dude
How do you work it out? With a pencil
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? Don't be such a shallow cunt.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? I said fuck off, you messageboard-hookup-trolling loser.

№ 1 (libcrypt), Sunday, 26 October 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: 3vander 5kowlyfi3ld
Age: 27
Height: 5'7
Fav Band or Musical Artist: uh, Neil Young? Trane? I don't even know any more.
Fav Movie: Jackie Brown
Fav TV Show: The Wire
Fav Book: can't read
Fav Actor: I guess I'll homo down for Paul Rudd
Fav Actress: I don't know!
Fav Food: curry!
Fav Sport: the rock climbing
Fav Athlete: Peter Croft?
Drink of Choice: beerzo
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): JAH
Smoker? DURNK
Occupation: unpaid medical student
How do you work it out? I like to do fun stuff outside
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? smashable
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? a billion

my other son is a zamboni (gbx), Sunday, 26 October 2008 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: mark
Age: 27
Height: 6'1"
Fav Band: The byrds
Fav Movie: a fistful of dollars
Fav TV Show: twin peaks
Fav Book: don't know
Fav Actor: ?
Fav Actress: isabelle huppert
Fav Food: palak paneer
Fav Sport: cycling, rugby league
Fav Athlete: richard virenque
Drink of Choice: scotchhh
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): weed sometimes
Smoker? : quit after uni.
Occupation : accountant (quit current job on friday!! new one starting mid nov)
Do you work out? : irregular cycling (more regular soonish hopefully)
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : sdfgsdfgdfgdfgdfgdfgfdgdfgdfgdfg
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : dfgdfgsdfgdfgdfgdfgdfgdfgdfg

when the döner becomes döne (wilter), Sunday, 26 October 2008 00:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: jim, latino surname.
Age: 24
Height: 6'3"
Fav Band: Dunno.
Fav Movie: Pierrot le fou, Ladri di biciclette, Commando
Fav TV Show: The Wire, 30 rock, Seinfeld, Sopranos, Twin peaks
Fav Book: The Fall by Camus or La Ciudad y los Perros by Vargas Llosa.
Fav Actor: Jean-Pierre Léaud
Fav Actress: ?
Fav Food: Char sui cheung fun, Chilean hot dog.
Fav Sport: Football.
Fav Athlete: Henrik Larsson.
Drink of Choice: Guinness, whisky.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Ecstasy.
Smoker? : No.
Occupation : Unemployed.
Do you work out? : No.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6 (moderately handsome, bad skin).
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5 (good sense of humour but a bit of a dick and lacking in social graces).

what U cry 4 (jim), Sunday, 26 October 2008 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: Abb-i-e
Age: 329 minus 304
Height: five foot nine inches

Fav Band: Maybe Kate Bush or Peter Gabriel or Sleepytime Gorilla Museum...

Fav Movie: Newsies & Fantastic Planet

Fav TV Show: Star Trek: TNG

Fav Book: fiction: Demolished Man by Alfred Bester ; non-fiction: Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer

Fav Actor: Buster Keaton

Fav Actress: Lily Tomlin

Fav Food: Curry, shrimps, rice, potatoes, ice cream w/Kahlua

Fav Sport: croquet

Fav Athlete: Jackie Robinson

Drink of Choice: Dark & Stormy

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): antidepressants

Smoker? : yes

Occupation : Pretend Professor

Do you work out? : No.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? :

I do not know how to rank and evaluate myself.

Add anything you want people to know: No sense of smell! Which was one of the best parts of "Walk Hard."

Abbott, Sunday, 26 October 2008 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: you all know my name
Age: 21
Height: 5'10"
Fav Band: Cardiacs
Fav Movie: Oldboy
Fav TV Show: Arrested Development
Fav Book: An "Objectivists" Anthology
Fav Actor: wtf
Fav Actress: wtf
Fav Food: Cypriot meze tbh
Fav Sport: Cricket
Fav Athlete: Torbjorn Blomdahl (Youtube him!)
Drink of Choice: OJ for sober, some sort of cranberry/amaretto girly thing for soused.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): it ain't tbh
Smoker? : Never, unless there's wacky stuff in there too, and even then probably <30 times ever.
Occupation : Unsure, but some tutoring is likely to figure in the near future.
Do you work out? : Play cricket and football regularly.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Rockall, Malin, Hebrides

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 26 October 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link

latebloomer –

<3 make way for ducklings

Abbott, Sunday, 26 October 2008 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link

I need to finally make yr chili, libs.

Abbott, Sunday, 26 October 2008 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link

This thread is reminding me.

Of many
thing.

Abbott, Sunday, 26 October 2008 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Seriously, if there's one thing I want to leave ILX with before I'm suggest banned, it's a burning inquisitivity with regards Torbjorn Blomdahl, the sport of Carom Billiards, and Youtube.

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 26 October 2008 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link

You do, Abbs. You do.

№ 1 (libcrypt), Sunday, 26 October 2008 01:05 (fifteen years ago) link

Thanks for giving me what is Youtube!

Abbott, Sunday, 26 October 2008 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link

Semih Sayginer is also totally the awes.

100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 26 October 2008 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link

make way for ducklings, A+++

Name: oliver
Age: 22
Height: 5'9"
Fav Band: Mekons.
Fav Movie: Repo Man, Aguirre, Holiday
Fav TV Show: Rocky and Bullwinkle, Doctor Who, The Prisoner
Fav Book: The Master and Margarita
Fav Actor: Roger Livesey, Robert Mitchum
Fav Actress: Katharine Hepburn
Fav Food: chicken saag, or some real good peanut curry
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete: i dunno, Bill Lee was a cool dude.
Drink of Choice: ginger bourbon, gin and tonic
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): weeed
Smoker? : No excepting ^
Occupation : grumble grumble
Do you work out? : No.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6-7 on a good day
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7 on a good day, 5 on a bad one (don't think I usually have a shitty personality, just sometime fade into the background and leave no impression)

clotpoll, Sunday, 26 October 2008 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: justin or hoos grande alias conductor of the steen
Age: 22
Height: 5'3

Fav Band: right now black sabbath

Fav Movie: double indemnity

Fav TV Show: buffy or the wire

Fav Book: the sun also rises

Fav Actor: cusack

Fav Actress: cusack

Fav Food: thai or my mom's rice n beans

Fav Sport: football in front yard w/little bro

Fav Athlete: srsly though i'm not really a sports dude

Drink of Choice: vodka + anything, really

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): does BIG HOOS smoke WEED

Smoker? : socially

Occupation : "front desk manager" in name only

Do you work out? : morning calesthenics type shit pushups and crunches etc

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : i will not lose.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : ever.

Add anything you want people to know: fucka.

8 HOOS Dog (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: Oskar
Age: 22
Height: would write in centimeters but no one would understand

Fav Band: CAN

Fav Movie: blade runner

Fav TV Show: at the moment; Arrested development AND buffy (not just to fit in with above posters I swear)

Fav Book: catch 22

Fav Actor: paul newman

Fav Actress: sarah michelle gellar

Fav Food: any italian

Fav Sport: football

Fav Athlete: francesco totti

Drink of Choice: newcastle

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): if it is weeds

Smoker? : only among ladies who smoke

Occupation : student of analytic philosophy

Do you work out? : not really

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 3

Add anything you want people to know: a bit drunk right now

sonderangerbot, Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:21 (fifteen years ago) link

i'm rewatching buffy from the beginning for gf's benefit and i'd forgotten how awesome giles gets in latter seasons

8 HOOS Dog (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:23 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm watching season 4 right now and yes he is totally cool, all unemployed and having sleep overs, a hero of sorts

sonderangerbot, Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:25 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah we're halfway through 3 and bitter bored giles is incredible

8 HOOS Dog (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Fav Athlete: francesco totti

Good choice. Though almost can't belive his autobiog is Tutto Totti: Mo je faccio er cucchiaio

what U cry 4 (jim), Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:28 (fifteen years ago) link

well...
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/7889/cucchiao7kw.gif

sonderangerbot, Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: justine
Age: 28
Height: 5'6" i think
Fav Band: smashing pumpkins, faith no more, frank black, neko case
Fav Movie: paris, texas; dead man; pi; donnie darko; bagdad cafe; northfork; best in show; city of god; city of the lost children; and a ton of others, plus a bunch of documentaries like: capturing the friedmans; dark days; unknown white male
Fav TV Show: weeds, grey's anatomy
Fav Book: jesus' son (denis johnson); weep not, my wanton (maggie dubris); anything by bukowski, raymond carver, alice munro, carson mccullers, truman capote, tobias wolff. and a few more.
Fav Actor: phillip seymour hoffman, william h. macy, thomas c. reilly
Fav Actress: not sure
Fav Food: potatoes, in almost any form. and lamb. oh god i miss lamb. mee goreng.
Fav Sport: i'm learning to enjoy hiking
Fav Athleteartist: ray caesar, blaine fontana, robert and shana parkeharrison, giotto, luke chueh, joe vaux, luigi serafini, joel-peter witkin, jim woodring.
Drink of Choice: tea
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): tried a few things in my youth, but no
Smoker? : kind of - have cut down drastically since moving to the US, from about 15-20 p/day to 1-2 p/day.
Occupation : retail bitch / CEO of a small press with one other employee
Do you work out? : walk every day
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : with some effort, 5-7. i have fat knees.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : pretty much the same as sunny - close friends would say an 8, strangers a 7, acquaintances a 2. people make me nervous

Add anything you want people to know: i love books, book design, making books. finally am doing something about it and am producing a poetry anthology which has already sold out (before it's even been made!).

undiscovered cuntry (Rubyredd), Sunday, 26 October 2008 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Fav Food: potatoes, in almost any form. and lamb. oh god i miss lamb. mee goreng.

Yeah, this country is not exactly Lamb Central like NZ. :-(((((

Joe the C.R.E.E.P. Operative (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 26 October 2008 03:24 (fifteen years ago) link

p/day means PER day and not PACKS a day? I hope?

Abbott, Sunday, 26 October 2008 04:00 (fifteen years ago) link

btw what three books cost $1500?!???!?

Abbott, Sunday, 26 October 2008 04:00 (fifteen years ago) link

PER day!!

ahhh the books... well, one is a publisher's copy of a bukowski book ($400), the other is a limited edition letterpressed book of celine's first manuscript chapter, followed by the published first chapter, from journey to the end of the night (450 euros), and the limited edition, collector's edition of ray caesar's first art book ($650).

undiscovered cuntry (Rubyredd), Sunday, 26 October 2008 04:32 (fifteen years ago) link

that episode where they have the huge fight and Giles gets drunk and cracks up at the mention of Fort Dix = good times

clotpoll, Sunday, 26 October 2008 05:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: jeff
Age: one year more than jesus
Height: 6 feet
Fav Band: pixies, de la soul, pavement, old country dudes
Fav Movie: goodfellas, probably.
Fav TV Show: the wire, this old house, jeopardy, mythbusters
Fav Book: never really read things more than once - too many other things
Fav Actor: nobody I seek out necessarily
Fav Actress: same as above
Fav Food: indian, vienamese, mexican/spanish/thai/japanese/french/italian/chinese
Fav Sport: american football
Fav Athlete: ray barbee, natas kaupas, the gonz, ed templeton
Drink of Choice: belgians, IPAs, wine, bourbon
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): the boring one at times
Smoker? : depends
Occupation : designer / programmer
Do you work out? : biking, gym, should do more
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : who knows, not terrible, not HOTT
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : I think I'm alright, sometimes too talkative, sometimes too sullen. A 7, maybe?

a better command of the mummy language (joygoat), Sunday, 26 October 2008 07:45 (fifteen years ago) link

5'8
aliens
tv is the new movies is the new internet
we have found a better way
monkeys should have never been allowed in space it just made them seem better than they actually are; we will transcribe our desires onto anything out of fear
five million years
cary grant
anything raw
LOUDER AND WEIRDER
sonic youth neil boredoms zeppelin sabbath who can really make these choices, i question their reality
scotch that's the truth
biking walking fucking running away heart-pounding intellect
33
fields inside cities

i am not an idle hunter-gatherer, i am a scientist (rrrobyn), Sunday, 26 October 2008 08:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Clotpoll rocks this thread.

stevienixed, Sunday, 26 October 2008 08:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Name:Edward T. Rifle III
Age: 44
Height: 5'8"
Fav Band: Joy Division/New Order
Fav Movie: Local Hero
Fav TV Show: Seinfeld
Fav Book: Microserfs
Fav Actor:
Fav Actress: Glenda Jackson
Fav Food: Methi Chicken
Fav Sport:Table tennis
Fav Athlete: Maradona
Drink of Choice: Laphroaig
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing):Syndol
Smoker? : No
Occupation : Housekeeper/part time treasurer
Do you work out? :No
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 2
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? Between 1 and 10

A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 26 October 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: Helga
Age: 24
Height: 5'4''

Fav Band: TISM

Fav Movie: Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Fav TV Show: Seinfeld/ Ab Fab/ Kids in the Hall (thanks J0n)

Fav Food: pizza, caviar

Fav Sport: bzbl

Fav Athlete: Joba Chamberlain

Drink of Choice: dirty vodka martini

smoker? : only when drunk

Occupation : stewdent

Do you work out? : I'm an avid jogger

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 8

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 3

warmsherry, Sunday, 26 October 2008 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: Dave, unless you're related to me or communicating formally with me, then David
Age: 29
Height: 6'2" (187cm)

Fav Band: (extant?) Spoon (ever? uh, too many)
Fav Movie: A Thousand Clowns
Fav TV Show: (on now?) 30 Rock, Mad Men
Fav Book: Invisible Man, The Ghost Writer, Lolita

Fav Actor: John Cusack? Jason Robards? Philip Seymour Hoffman? Campbell Scott?
Fav Actress: Katharine Hepburn? Dianne Wiest? Hope Davis?
Fav Food: My mom's lasagna, but only if I'm eleven years old
Fav Sport: Baseball
Fav Athlete: Manny Ramirez ;_;

Drink of Choice: Scotch on ice, beer, red wine, vodka tonic
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Weed I guess, though I think it's been years
Smoker? : Smoke-free since March!
Occupation : Out-of-work Philip Roth 'expert'
Do you work out? : Nah. Tennis tho.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10, obvs.

Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (G00blar), Sunday, 26 October 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Fav Band: TISM

ha awesome.

wilter, Sunday, 26 October 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: Sharon
Age:32
Height: about 5'6"?
Fav Band: Pearl Jam, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, etc
Fav Movie: Down By Law
Fav TV Show: ever? Buffy, Sopranos, Deadwood. now? Friday Night Lights, Chuck, Heroes
Fav Book: Franny And Zooey, JD Salinger; American Gods, Neil Gaiman; Dark Tower series
Fav Actor: Johnny Depp, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr
Fav Actress: Laura Linney, Uma Thurman, Cate Blanchett
Fav Food: Thai, lamb, steak, bbq
Fav Sport: football (NFL mainly, but still love a bit of Aussie Rules)
Fav Athlete: As a kid: Steve Silvagni (AFL, Carlton). Now? Asomugha or Fargas, I guess, but it's slim pickings on my craptastic Oakland Raiders. I still miss Zack Crockett. He was a good hammer.
Drink of Choice: alcoholic? Gin & tonic. sober? latte.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): i love nyquil when I'm sick but that's about it.
Smoker? : tourist. only when drinking.
Occupation : sales.
Do you work out? : hell no.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 3
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8

VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 27 October 2008 05:04 (fifteen years ago) link

my answers from 2002 are predictably annoying. why did i say I am 5'7" -- i have been 5'8" since 1996.

homosexual II, Monday, 27 October 2008 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah, im glad i didnt answer these originally

○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:11 (fifteen years ago) link

also: I love Uma, acting abilities notwithstanding

warmsherry, Monday, 27 October 2008 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link

oh this sounds fun.. the internet is boring me today

Name: Lex
Age: 25 (26 in three weeks' time)
Height: 6'1"
Fav Band: Modest Mouse, Yoko Ono, Jay-Z, the Andrews Sisters, Belle & Sebastian
Fav Movie: Anchorman, Old School,
Fav TV Show: The Office, 30 Rock, The Wire
Fav Book: Blindness by Saramago; The Catcher in the Rye; God of Small Things by Roy; just read & Loved The Road by Cormack McCarthy.
Fav Actor: Jason Segal
Fav Actress: Tina Fey
Fav Food: pizza, chicken breasts, pickles, banana peppers, macaroons.
Fav Sport: poker
Fav Athlete: Terry Fox
Drink of Choice: Zywiec, Steamwhistle or red wine.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): ...I forget.
Smoker? : Unfortunately and obsessively. I love smoking, I hate smelling bad.
Occupation : Administrative assistant
Do you work out? : I used to, but then I started smoking again. Now I am too wheezy. Next time I quit though, promise.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7 (Very tall and nice cheekbones, but heavier than I have been in the past. Blah.)
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6 (I am very quiet and avoid conversations whenever possible. I'm sure this makes me boring. Luckily I've been told I'm also pretty funny.)

skeletal lexing (Finefinemusic), Monday, 27 October 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Name: Ioannis (or John, duh!)
Age: 43
Height: 5’11”

Fav Band: Sex Pistols

Fav Movie: Rashomon

Fav TV Show: Star Trek

Fav Book: Barabbas – Par Lagerkvist

Fav Actor: Toshiro Mifune

Fav Actress: Katharine Hepburn

Fav Food: …anything good…

Fav Sport: Swimming

Fav Athlete: Me

Drink of Choice: Vodka + OJ or JD

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Caffeine

Smoker? : No

Occupation : Retired

Do you work out? : Occasionally

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : ?

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : ....

Add anything you want people to know: you gotta stay fly… till you die!

Ioannis, Thursday, 6 November 2008 07:34 (fifteen years ago) link

its weird to me that people say "chicken breasts" as their favorite food!

corrie ham (roxymuzak), Thursday, 6 November 2008 07:36 (fifteen years ago) link

pickles?

Ioannis, Thursday, 6 November 2008 07:48 (fifteen years ago) link

no its just me, emily

corrie ham (roxymuzak), Thursday, 6 November 2008 07:49 (fifteen years ago) link

har!

Ioannis, Thursday, 6 November 2008 07:56 (fifteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

the good ol days

i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 30 June 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link

three years pass...

Nineteen years later ......

Name: Alex in NYC
Age: 53
Height: 6'1"

Fav Band: Killing Joke (duh!), Cop Shoot Cop

Fav Movie: "After Hours"

Fav TV Show: Ah, who cares? I'm looking forward to the return of "Succession."

Fav Book: "Please Kill Me" by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain

Fav Actor: Don't know that I have one.

Fav Actress: I think Hayley Atwell is quite striking.

Fav Food: Depends on the mood, but I'm a sucker for a good Caprese.

Fav Sport: Fuck sports.

Fav Athlete: Fuck athletes

Drink of Choice: Beer and lots of it, thank you.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Not anymore.

Smoker? : Never my thing.

Occupation : I was a journalist for many years, but now work in corporate communications for a performing rights organization.

Do you work out? : I used to.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : I wouldn't.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : I would't.

Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link

Glad I never did this. I can only imagine how embarrassing my 2002 answers would have been.

Jeff, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link


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