Introduce Yourselves!

London. 31. I do stuff.

Cork in Ireland be my place.

I never did this either despite having been a semi-regular poster for a couple of months now. It's about time, I imagine.

My name is Dave, I am 21 and a sophomore at Princeton U. in New Jersey. I am Canadian, and my parents live in Toronto (although my family and I are originally from Newfoundland). I've been a sax player for about eleven years now, and also play bits of piano, drums, bass and guitar. When I was a kid, I sang in a lot of classical choirs until my voice broke, and listened to my parents' Beatles records as well as Roxette, C + C Music Factory and MC Hammer. After a big Nirvana phase, I now listen to Aphex Twin, Peter Brotzmann, P.I.L., Big Black/Rapeman/Shellac, John Zorn, Radiohead, Pussy Galore and Lester Young.
I am the Program Director for WPRB, a station in New Jersey. If you'd like to listen, there's a RealAudio link at http://wwww.wprb.com and if you like any of the stuff on this list, you'd probably dig us. Nice to meet you, by the way.

Hi there. Born Minneapolis, university in NYC, live in London. Graduated college 1990 - you do the maths. Started writing for magazines and newspapers the second I arrived here but really consider it the waiting tables of writing. Curate art events, write and edit books too. Happy to consider self a feminist but I wish it didn't still have to be so necessary. First record bought: Johnny Cash Sun sessions, age 5. Was obsessed with the Orient as a small child. Spent most of childhood outdoors, building civilisations in woods, swamps, vacant lots. Or indoors writing stories. Saved from annihilation by mall bitches at school by feisty punk rock girls, repaid karmic debt setting up riot grrrl events in London. Trying to rekindle excitement I had for music but writing about it can make you seriously jaded and cynical towards motives of biz. Lead champagne lifestyle on beer budget. Procrastinate too much. Like now. Also try hard to walk it the way I talk it, let's hope I succeed...

Ah, what the heck... 29 y.o., Asian-American, grew up in Connecticut, living in Seattle, currently a grad student in clin. psychology and psychotherapist (seriously) at Harborview Med. Cen. (the birthplace of "911"; don't tell Flavor Flav). Appallingly polite, formal, and quiet in real life. What else? Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. The original drummer in the Mothers of Invention was Jimmy Carl Black, Walter. I'm as tired of it as you are, and I hope that our children will come to love us again, in some better world than this. (Sigh) AND...I deeply miss Geir Hongro. REALLY. I do.

This is cool; so much diversity & enthusiasm. I am 33, live in Bakersfield CA, music lover above all else. I like many, many musicians & bands, almost all in 40s-60s "roots" genres (C&W, R&R, R&B) + some 70s-80s rockabilly-punk. It's elaborated on a link page below ... We have a music site & more minutiae at http:mp3.com/TheDuskDevils or http://artists/mp3s.com/artists/207/the_dusk_devils.html Bakersfield Sound C&W, honky-tonk & country blues w/emphasis on songwriting. Strong melodies & lyrics for artists looking for songs.

AND...I deeply miss Geir Hongro. REALLY. I do.

Ha! I thought you were Joe McGlinchey! Welcome aboard.

George, notyetthirty, make Computer things for Interactive TV, used to play in pop group Jack, used to be more exciting than I am now, right now listen to: Frank Sinatra, Squarepusher, Abba, Bobby Womack, Mag Fields, shit garage, the Fall, Wu-Tang Clan, blah

some old nonsense is at http://fiddlesticks.com

I'm a student, just graduated in fact, and am now working to pay off my not inconsiderable debts at some dead-end call centre. I'm currently listening to loads of krautrock - Neu!, early Kraftwerk, Amon Duul II, Ash Ra Tempel, etc. Also many of these grooving hipsters: Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips, The Strokes (boo, hissss!), Smashing Pumpkins (still), Belle and Sebastian, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Ride, MBV, 13th Floor Elevators, Primal Scream and so on. I love this board, it makes my working life that much more bearable, so big thanks to whoever tames the technological beast of the cyber- lands to bring us such future-visions.

Just introduced myself on ILE so it's about time I got around to this board. Just turned 40, born in Connecticut, moved to NYC when I was 18, have lived in LA since '96. Work at various crappy jobs within the commercial production world. I used to be a Teamster-a rainbow Teamster! Once wrote for a local LA music rag but I thought I was terrible and I'm glad I got out of that racket.

My first rock idols were Mama Cass and Janis Joplin. I had all the usual adoption/houseboy fantasies one has at that age. Then they went and died on me. So I replaced them with Bowie and Patti Smith. My pop development: went from Have a Nice Day Top 40/bubblegum stuff to glam to punk to...oh, you know, all kindsa stuff. Current faves: Stereo Total, Super Furry Animals, Clinic, Makeup, White Stripes, Turbonegro. All Time Faves: Kinks, 60s pop Stones, Bowie, George Jones, Love, Ike & Tina, Giorgio Moroder, Roxy, Kraftwerk, Sparks, T. Rex, Birthday Party, Pixies, Marc Almond, French Pop, Sylvester.

Don't post much, but I love reading you all! I wish to broaden my listening tastes and I'm very happy to have discovered this board. I used to work at a gay disco in the late 80s/early 90s but haven't been exposed to much dance music, intelligent or otherwise, since then. So I wanna catch up. It's a drag I came upon ILM (through the Momus website, in case you're interested) just as the Napster filters really kicked in. I want to hear all these records you're recommending!

Currently the things I hate include: Dave Navarro, most queercore, aging LA punkers who won't shut up about their golden era (e.g. Exene "Hey kid's, culture's over, what a drag, let's open up a punk rock museum and knickknack shop and start a band with Rancid" Cervenka), Betty Page 'dos, Laker flags, most sports, that cliched LA vs. NY rivalry... um, um, um, guess I don't really hate that much these days.

Shit, this is longer than I intended. My name is Arthur, I was born on Bloomsday, my father's name is James, my mother's name is Joyce. Bye...

GOD Dave Navarro sucks.

Bare facts, my names Bill (but my family still calls me William). I'm 35 and married with a cracking wee lad who's 6 years old. I'm a Scorpio into supporting deadbeat Scottish 2nd division football teams, wine, beer, curry, food, art (modern or otherwise), pub lunching, more wine and some more beer.

I live in a village in picturesque North Yorkshire, nice but it can be boring as fuck sometimes. Needless to say don't get many top bands playing locally.

I got into music as a 14 year old, my first record was Angel Eyes by Roxy Music from Woolies in Berwick on Tweed. Since then I've never looked back. I went through a phase as a heavy metal freak for a couple of years then heard Love Action by the Human League and then opened my ears to pretty much anything, no preconditions or rules. It's lead me up a few blind alleys but i'm probably more enthused now then I ever have been.

Currently grooving to Bonnie Prince Billy, Curtis Mayfield, AC/DC, Johnny Cash, Auteurs, Jackie Leven, Radiohead and Basement Jaxx and Sir John Peel.

Arthur: love the amazing litterary facts.

I'm 18, originally from Aberystwyth, Wales; Mostly from Somerset; currently from Rye, Sussex and soon to be from either Salford or Oxford Brookes university, doing Media Technology, depending on how much time I wasted on ILM during my exams. My eccentric-to-everyone-I-know but horribly-boring-and-predictable-to-everyone-here favourite bands: The almighty Helen Love, Drugstore, Kenickie/Lauren Laverne, Angelica, Belle and Sebastian, Beth Orton, Catatonia, Air, Saint Etienne, Blondie, Hefner, etc. etc. Randomly chosen songs that I like by other bands: "Bring It On" Mekon ft Roxanne Shante, "The Light 3000" Schneider TM ft KPT.michi.gan, "Swefn G Endlar" Sigur Ros, "Goodnight Moon" Shivaree, "Criminal" Fiona Apple, "No Danger" The Delgados, "When I Fall In Love" Ant and Dec. Personal anthem: "Selfish, Lazy and Greedy" Go-kart Mozart. Clearly I'm not going to convince anyone here I'm hip.

I'm not particularly interested in digging through musical history, even if it sounds exactly the same I'd rather have new stuff, sorry. I just bought the Destiny's Child LP and it rocks, and I have an unhealthy obsession with pop videos and adverts, and TV generally.

What else? I could show off about my obscenely expensive inch-thick widescreen titanium supercomputer, but I won't. Damn.

Go to hell. :P

well, that's lovely talk, i must say.

i started my first ever thread on ILM yesterday, but i've been reading and very occasionally posting for a long time. i live in dublin and like this thing we call pop music. i also like folk and trad and a good few other things besides. at the moment i can't get enough of belle and sebastian. i write for a zine called frank's apa that wor tom used to write for. i've just had an interview for a senior position in my workplace. ever notice how you're never quite sure afterwards whether you did well or badly in an interview?

I happened upon this forum and was feeling sort of cut off from the world, so I've decided to try to follow along for a while. So far I've noticed one poster I know; many many bands I don't know; a topic about my best friend; and a lot of raves about the music my 6-year-old son listens to. Mostly I listen to jamaican roots reggae, dub, bluegrass, and old-time music. My own rock and pop tastes are sort of skewed by my aforementioned cut-off-from-the-worldness: love lots of relatively unhip obscure stuff (FSK, Jeb Loy Nichols, Califone, Souled American).

I'm 37 years old and live in New York City with my wife and kids. I'm a graphic designer and musician. I look forward to learning lots from you all.

NYC graphic designer and musician who's spotted a topic about his best friend? Are you sure you're not really ld beghtol, and just making up the 'wife and kids' stuff?

My wife and kids are real! You couldn't make up a family like mine if you tried. My pal is a writer named Camden Joy, whose name came up briefly a ways back.

Hey, Stevie! Quick!! Friend-of-Camden Joy alert!!!

So I have found this website. Its very good to hear peoples commments. I'm Ukrainian studying in LOndon. And I listened to the BBC World service and MTV for my music. I like polka, tangos, folk, usual English pop, and sixties music. Like Nick Cave and Scott Walker and Goldfrapp and Tindersticks. I like French and Russian films, especially comedies. I like the people here, they know a lot, and I am studying so hard now.

My name is Alex. I am a 37 year old from Germany. Now living near and working in Frankfurt (only German town with skyscrapers therefore also called Mainhattan, with Main being the local river). Found ILM via Josh Blog which I somehow must have found via another blog (robotwisdom?). Have been buying 1-2 cd's per week (music is a drug) from 1991 onwards. Just did a count in my Access Database: currently 1178 cd's. I like indie music. My first two records when getting more into this music where "Swagger" by the Blue Aeroplanes (in my memory one of those few perfect albums) and "Bossanova" by the Pixies.

Favourite artists: Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo, Giant Sand, Gun Club, Sonic Youth, Joy Dividion, Swell, Red House Painters, Joni Mitchell (from another life in the 80s), the Smiths, the Cure, Laurie Anderson, Keith Jarrett and Nick Drake (from my first life in the late 70s/early 80s), Cocteau Twins, Cowboy Junkies etc.

26-year-old music critic/journalist, relocated to New York mid-March, still looking for work but (barely) making do with freelancing for the moment. If you want to peg my tastes they're somewhat of a mutant offspring of Robert Christgau's and Simon Reynolds's. I write a lot about postrave dance music and it's probably about 1/3 of what I listen to, the rest being divvied up among a bunch of things. I contribute to a bunch of magazines that don't pay on time and a bunch of alt-weeklies that do. Staying w/girlfriend until relocation in September to a roommate situation. Size 10 1/2 shoe. Recently shaved head. Anything else you wanna know, email me.

Um... 22, just graduated in Popular Culture and Philosophy. Music fan. Zen master. www.lushalcoholsaint.co.uk is my website. I'm a part-time barman for a bit so I can afford to buy records and other assorted crap. My friend Mary showed me here. That's all.

BEWARE SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION If anyone is interested in what I think about alternative music, books, movies, travels, chess etc. you can visit my blog which I started a little more than a month ago. It is aptly titled sex and sunshine as it hardly ever mentions those two necessities of life.

Alex, you ought to put that on the "Your Blog" thread too. Which I can't find.

Tracer Hand - Where is the Your Blog thread? There is something like that down at ILE but here I have not found it. I have not got the time to check all folders!

This place is getting messier and messier. Could someone, I think of you Josh e.g., please install a search like Atomz on this site? It should be possible. I have even succeeded in doing it for my small little blog.

I will look into it in, uh, August. After I get my MS. And move. (Maybe I can leave it for the next moderator, ha.)

I'm 16, live in the middle of nowhere in New York, and love whatever strikes me as unusual and interesting (Latin, glam rock, words, pretentiousness). I'm under strict orders not to tell my name on the Internet (everyone else on there is a pedophiliac, middle aged stalker, you know), so I'm going to use a new one every day and see how long I can keep that up.

Music I love or have loved: Velvet Underground, In Flames, Goo Goo Dolls, Momus, Belle & Sebastian, Nine Inch Nails, some Radiohead, some Bach, some Beethoven, Vince Guaraldi, George Winston

Music I like: Vintersorg, Thyrfing, Therion, David Bowie, Neutral Milk Hotel, some Radiohead, Pedro the Lion, Nirvana, Bush, Iron Maiden, Sex Pistols, the Clash, U2, Dead Kennedys, Iggy Pop, Apocalyptica, Madonna, Fiona Apple, Filter, Olivia Tremor Control, Hum, Neil Young, Matthew Sweet, Pink Floyd, the Who

Music I really can't stand: Beach Boys, Britney Spears, rap in general, blues in which every line must be repeated several times, Creed

Authors I love: Neil Gaiman, Madeleine L'Engle, C.S. Lewis, Ayn Rand, Phillip Dick

Hello. I'm 20. I'm 5'9". I really like Susan B. Anthony dollars. Here's some musical stuff about me:

The first music I listened to that wasn't baroque classical, when I was nine: The Beatles.
The first music I listened to that made me realize what music was capable of, cartoon-epiphany style, when I was fourteen: Brian Eno (it was Another Green World).
"Older" music I really like: Millennium. (Apparently, these guys have been a recent topic of discussion, and nobody said 'dud,' which is great.)
"Older" music I've recently been interested in: Pharoah Sanders.
"Newer" music I really like: Spiritualized.
"Newer" music I've recently been interested in: Icebreaker [International].
Little-known band I like who I'd like to plug (I don't know them personally): Optigonally Yours.
Music to which I've most recently introduced someone: Eric Dolphy.
Music I enjoy to which I've been most recently introduced: Prefuse 73.
Music of which I am in perpetual awe: Laurie Anderson.
Music I think is staggeringly important: Boards of Canada.
Music I love of which people are frequently skeptical: Merzbow.
Music I formerly maniacally loved to which I have recently been re-awakened: King Crimson.
Music I've most recently acquired: Herbie Hancock's Fat Albert Rotunda.
Music I enjoy that you'd probably find incongruous with how I seem thus far: NON/Boyd Rice.
Music I like that most often gets me into trouble with people who "like music": Marilyn Manson.
Music I hate: I think that idea is sort of ridiculous.
Most recent concert: Add N to (X) at the Grog Shop, in Cleveland, on 18 July.
Currently listening to: Plone's "Plock" single.

I'm always reachable at the given email address, and always enjoy discussion of any kind. That's why I'm here, isn't it?

I have never been implicated in terrorism of any kind.

Didn't realize this was here. So ok:

I'm 33, male, live in San Francisco, Ca., and am a graphic designer.

I don't look much like a young Anthony Perkins, but have been told I do more than once.

I have broad musical tastes, and don't want to blather on about all my faves, but I don't care for dance, techno, and rap. I try to listen primarily to vinyl LPs, and own about 1700.

I'm the best person to ever live .

No offence, Mike, but you can't be. The Greatest Man To Have Ever Lived is David Hirst.

i am ambrose. i live in russia (although only for a week longer). i study russian, obivously at sheffield. my reason for going to sheffield? home of warp....they moved to london a year after i got there. dicks.... so i am into that sort of thing etc etc boring boring. also the usual high llamas stereolab tortoise (everyone hates them here dont they) shit. i like tortoise best though. now i am into garage as it is funkier than anything i have ever heard and i love dancing it makes sense to buy loads of garage tunes. io have a website which is almost defunkt cos i am about to leave russia: it is a sort of blog/journal about living hee, so if you want to read what a bunch of idiot students do in a country where beer costs 25p then go to http://www.geocities.com/ambrose_in_russia/home.html

also there are picutres of some constructivist buildings in moscow, russian graffitti, aforementioned students, other shit there.

i help run a night in sheffield that is called non.sense and is pretty turd. we dont really play any indie , or pop.

Oh sorry, I forgot this one.

Im a 23 year old finishing off a computer science/physics double major from the east coast of Canada. Currently working in Toronto as a programmer which is a nice break from my past incarnations as a midnight shift gas attendant.

Past 5 years I've held down a college radio show and a few years of editting the entertainment section of the student paper till I grew tired of filling at 2am in for contributers who didnt make their contributions so I switched to the radio station staff.

I spend too much time listening to indie music, I have a fear of silence and an extremenly short attention span if Im not wearing headphones. I am currently suffering through this recent trend towards roots/bluegrass in college music cause I tolerated enough celtic music in my life through over exposure due to a close proximity to Cape Breton. Bands I like include Eric's Trip, Sloan, Spiritualized, MBV, BJM, most of the whole postrawk thing and what little I've heard from Puffy In Japan. I dont hate pop music I just have a hard time stomaching commercial radio.

I tend to ramble.

Puffy In Japan = Puffy AmiYumi???

Aw, yeah.

I'm Andrew, I live in Dublin, and I like pop music as filtered into everything, followed shortly by everything (except post-rock). Dublin not being a large town, I know both Ian Moore and Irene O'Dowd. I don't post as much as I'd like, because ILM's download-read-reply- submit cycle isn't well suited to pay-per-minute internet connections like what I'm on now. Maybe I'll sort that out.

Everyone knows David Hirst comes second to me.

I'm 21. New River Valley/Southwest Virgina. Might hang around after I finish being a Va Tech Stud(ent). Self-amusing, obviously. I like to fish or pretend to socialize when not listening to, reading about, downloading, or buying music - in that order, simultaneously. I'll listen to anything once... or twice. Most of the time I keep quiet on ILM, but I'm paying attention. Been lurking since the begining, seems like. The nick came from "What color does a smurf turn when you freeze him?", but it doesn't go anywhere from there... it's a coincidence that my first post to ILM was in a blues-related thread. The nick's been around lots longer than that, though. I love you people. Later.

19 year old Japanese/Korean UC Berkeley Student. Grew up in 2story glass house in forest-like suburbs. Raised on and improper diet of undie hip hop, techstep (yes that dark putrid shit), assorted dance/IDM type things, and Japanese visual gender-bender glam rockers. As you can see I know nothing about music but.... I still love it......Oh yeah, to make matters worse I make music too.

OK, it took me two months to find this.

21, Montreal, Vietnamese, computer engineer 3rd year, Velvet Underground, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, procrastination, highway sightseeing, old decrepit buildings, painting landscapes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, misanthropy, 69 Love Songs, Old Port, Kids in the Hall, bored, bowling bag, immaculate freshly cut grass, mountain, Soft Bulletin, drugs, Japanese wrestling, Emergency & I, biking, $1 plastic guns, David Bowie, T-Rex, Trainspotting (the book), cubicle fever, Brian Eno, water fountains, Nirvana and the grunge era, white velcro shoes, night driving, waterfronts, High Fidelity (the book), the Beatles, Calvin & Hobbes, you.

My name's Greg. Do you mean David Hirst that used to play for Wednesday?

Me: 19 Yr old artist/ennui avoidance technician. Currently residing in Santa Fe, new Mexico. Going to ahrt skoo in Chicago Ill. Don't really know that much about music or anything else but a guy can DREAM right?

You: SWF, 5'6" 140-180 Lbs, Green Eyes, Dark Hair, Sense of humor a must.

Oh-wait-I'm on ILM.

My, this is a big thread. Does anybody even read the new posts?

Yes.

Age 47. In 1964 was a folk music fan hence the only person in Mr. Nielson's 4th grade homeroom not to watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Took me two years to realize this was a mistake. Been trying to catch up ever since. Am 20 to 30 years older than most of you. Am impressed by the fact that each of you has listened to more music than I have, more attentively. Can say with confidence, however, that I've read nearly half as many books as any of you has.

What I do with my time: There was a period of several months in the mid-'90s when I would get a word in my mind and just have to fit it into that awful Joyce Kilmer "tree" poem ("I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree" - except that, being a doubter more than a thinker, I misremembered it as "I doubt that I shall ever see/A poem lovely as a tree"). So one day my friend Elizabeth and I go to the tidal pool down on Half Moon Bay, and the phrase that embeds itself in my mind is "sea anemone." For three days I can think of nothing but how to fit "sea anemone" into the Joyce Kilmer format. Finally I come up with this:

I doubt that RuPaul, tall and feminy Has lips as gay as sea anemone.

The accents don't quite scan on "RuPaul," but it was the best I could do.

Grrr. HTML "corrected" my poem. How about this: I doubt that RuPaul, tall and feminy
Has lips as gay as sea anemone.

Or this:
I doubt that RuPaul, tall and feminy
Has lips as gay as sea anemone.

I feel kinda like a cad posting this after the poem...I also feel stupid for not posting here first, but hey, I never did read packaged directions anyway...

Jess, 23, live outside Philadelphia, currently unemployed and aimless (a catch, ain't I?), amateur writer but professional procrastinator, NOT a musician (I just can't bear to add more mediocre crap to the mountain) but I AM a critic (why else would I be posting here if I didn't think my opinion was god-like and unimpeachible), I likes...well, I likes what I likes, and there ain't a single genre I can think of (outside new age) that I don't likes somethin' from...but I've been an inveterate hiphop junkie since I was a wee lad and currently a recovering indie rock kid (who's finally almost worked through the alt-rock crock handed to me by the mass media *and* fanzine cartels while growing up in the 90s.)