― Mark, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ron, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
hee hee - very good point and i was just waiting for someone to pull me up about that. basically, a few years ago when i was computer illiterate my then girlfriend set it up for me without consulting me. my main email is actually a different .twitch address but i use the dj. one for when i have to leave an email addy on the internet.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― Nate Patrin, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Age 30, queer, smoker, coffee fiend, pop culture junkie.
Live in Addis Ababa and recently moved from working freelance to setting up my own company doing event-production (film festivals, concerts etc.) and promotional work. Do some writing on occasion and keep meaning to do more.
Music, listen to a little bit of everything though mostly world and hip hop these days. In my CD case right now: Ethiopiques Vol 6, the Roots, Karsh Kale, Geosonic Grooves Vol. 1, Los de Abajo, Basehead, Augustus Pablo, Susana Baca, Susheela Raman, Manu Chao, Olu Dara, Rachid Taha, Beastie Boys, Spearhead, Blind Boys of Alabama, Tabla Beat Science live featuring Gigi
― H, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Damn, how cool. You should chat with Nitsuh (aka Nabisco). Out of curiosity, what's the net service like there?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
net connection is dial up, controlled by monopoly and therefore expensive. It's pretty available though, if you don't have it at work or home there are lots o' cyber cafes around town.
― H, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― John Dahlem, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Only to lose to the Diamondbacks. *flees*
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lex leshawn, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J & H Productions, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nathalie, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Music I love: really good pop songs, singles where the B sides are even better than anything on the album (currently: super furry animals), exile on main street, and anything that will help me finish up a project the night before it's due
Music I don't like: albums where all the songs sound exactly the same as each other
Last CDs I bought and loved:
Last CDs I bought and didn't like:
― lyra in seattle, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Well, next time I go back, I won't give up so easily.
― nabisco%%, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kelly Su, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the pinefox, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bryan, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ron, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
My favourite bands are Radiohead, Super Furry Animals, Beautiful South, James and The Clash. My favourite 2 records I own are Ok Computer (Radiohead), Everything Must Go (Manics) and Automatic For The People (REM). I play bass and sing in a "band" of sorts with a friend, who plays guitar, and we've been covering stuff in our respective bedrooms for a couple of years but more recently have started writing songs.
I hope to befriend you guys soon!
― Colin Cooper, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Ron, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bryan, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Scary music, from the worst years of my life, but somehow part of the growing and thinking process.
I'll just cry.
― Frank Kogan, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Brad Luen, 22. Another NZer. Thought I was part-Mongol until a few weeks ago. Grew up in working-class Mangere, surrounded by minorities less fashionable than mine. Got a scholarship to the most expensive private school (UK=public school) in the country and stopped listening to hip-hop for seven years. Got to university and tried to make up for lost time. Currently doing a Masters in Statistics, which at the best of times is more rewarding than even the Pet Shop Boys. Write for Craccum magazine, where 28000 Auckland University students are regularly subjected to my four page essays on why Britney is better than Britpop. My one great idea is that since youth (say under 18) lack spokespeople who are articulate in adult forms of discourse, their culture is trivialised by society's tastemakers; which it shouldn't be, as anyone who's watched both The Fast and the Furious and A Beautiful Mind knows.
Sorry about that last sentence; imagine how much worse it would've been if I'd done an Arts degree. If anyone knows of a good forum for publishing Kross-Kultural Kriticism (w/jokes about trance fans) on this sort of stuff, please tell me. Anyway, music. If Michaelangelo Matos claims his tastes are "a mutant offspring of Robert Christgau's and Simon Reynolds's", that makes mine a mutant offspring of Robert Christgau's and Michaelangelo Matos's. Which I think makes me MOR by rockcrit standards and downright conservative around here. But I like pop, obviously. And rap-metal, but not nu-metal.
Partially connected thoughts - Greatest artist of the last millennium: Jean Renoir. Greatest artwork: The Simpsons, mostly for the second season. Greatest artwork of this millennium: Ian McEwan's Atonement, mostly for Part One. Greatest artist: Eminem (not solely on artistic ability, but largely so). In my spare time I think of ways to overhaul our crap excuse for an education system. I can understand why so many people are unhappy, but I still think they shouldn't be. I was National Universities Public Speaking champion once, but I got booed off stage the only time I did stand-up, possibly because I didn't have any jokes. I'm an activist by default, because most of my best friends are oppressed. Anyone who emails me and guesses both ethnic groups that I belong to wins a prize.
― B-Rad, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Magnum P.I. better than the Simpsons. King Lear and The Searchers possibly better than either.
Em could do it. We'll know more in a couple days.
Statistics fans: I'm the guy who invented the controversy rating.
― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
More seriously, welcome to Brad. I'll have to quibble with you regarding Eminem, though (heavens, man, the new album -- a couple of diamonds surrounded by dogshit, for a start).
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
but frank, we know now! in fact, i've had to listen to ethan blather about it all night!
(the record is out, in case you didn't know. pre-release to beat the bootleggers.)
― jess, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Thanks for your kind words, especially the extremist ones. My great idea applies more to mainstream thought than crit theory, and less to rock (a medium created for the youth audience) than movies or TV or whatever. But even though many pop writers know that youth in itself is worth celebrating, the geezers generally only study their own reactions, and I don't think they correlate sufficiently with the actual experiences the kids have. Though I might change my mind in a decade, just like I hope I will about John Ford...
Anyway, in this great country of mine, I think (I'll have to check) that I still have to wait till June 4 for the Eminem album, and I don't know if I'll have time to steal it before them. And since it's not an Osama concept album, I'm already disappointed. Still, E gets my millennium nod for a whole array of diamonds, bound together in a lattice to form a mega-meta-diamond, even if what binds them is shit.
― B-Rad, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ethan, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
JUST because I think "Stan" is the single most unfunniest single since "We Are the World"...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― geeta, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ron, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Name is Julio. I am 22 years old and I live in London, UK (as I write I am in Toronto though). I am currently doing a PhD in chemistry at University College, London.
I was Born in Brazil but I moved to England 10 years ago. Watching Ian Curtis on the telly did stir up an initial interest in music. Started buying rock/indie records but then watched a captain beefheart doc on the telly that led me to him. This completely changed my musical inetrests and led me to more marginalised musical forms such as free-improvisation and also some free-jazz. From the classical standpoint I seem to like things that are 'anti-classical' like morton feldman and Xenakis' electronic pieces but have maintained an interest in the walking corpse that is 'popular music'.
― Julio Desouza, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― commonswings, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link