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
― RickyT, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Billy Dods, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― Nathan Barley, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
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
― Caitlin, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
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
― zebedee, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― RJG, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― unknown or illegal, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― rosemary, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― maura, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― nabisco, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chupa-Cabras, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― Gale, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― Kris, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Josh, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sir Paul McCartney, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ron, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Damian, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jack, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― B-Rad, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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?
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
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one 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
the good ol days
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 30 June 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
Nineteen years later ......
Name: Alex in NYC Age: 53Height: 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