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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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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

"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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

(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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

(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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

let's move this to another thread?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

how is humbert humbert a monster?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

papa november is a girl? I love her.

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

ah kenan...you know how i feel about you

― bulbs (bulbs), Thursday, 4 November 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I see I already did this last year. Anyway, my answers are kinda different now.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 4 November 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

(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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still really annoyed that this list didn't include 'location' from the beginning.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 4 November 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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