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!)

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.

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'...

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).

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!)

Ah, so it is just acting...

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... :)

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

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

YOU had that dream too!!!!!!

Astounding.

KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE

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

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?

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

boo hoo

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Fav Band: http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~shink/baxendale.jpg

Fav Movie: http://www.xenixfilm.ch/img/aktuell/fils_vs.jpg

Fav TV Show: http://members.aol.com/CDPviola/areyou30.jpg

Fav Book: http://members.rott.chello.nl/e.visser25/Kladder4.jpg

Fav Actor: http://c.golbey.free.fr/CONTES/ct991_5.jpg

Fav Actress: http://ibelgique.ifrance.com/cinedestin/films/l/la/laj/lajeunefilleetlamort2.jpg

Fav Food: http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/gdg/magritte.jpg

Fav Sport: http://uchronia.free.fr/images/Dime%20Penny/Incendie%20watson%20fils.jpg

Fav Athlete: http://medias.lemonde.fr/medias/image_article/chambrefilsbis250.jpg

Drink of Choice: http://www.absinth.com/images/louche_close_150_new.jpg

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): http://notrefamille.tiscali.fr/images/siteressources/210.jpg

Occupation : http://www.toros2000.com/images/Biographie/ROrdonez/bio_ordonez1.jpg

Do you work out? : http://www.imagidanse.com/graphismes/presse/casse_noisette/photo9.jpg

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :
http://www.etab.ac-caen.fr/lescourtils/images/lat41.jpg

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : http://www.jeannot.org/photos/400x300/DSCF0961.jpg

Add anything you want people to know:

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.

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

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

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

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.