Introduce Yourselves!

Oh I know that feeling. And welcome all.

HI DERE

I think I'll send these doctor bills to Whitey on the Moon

Welcome!! Whitey on The Moon we will have much to discuss

Still not sure why Ms. Houston is into space travel anyhow.

Welcome!

Oh, and an update on my own situation: I'm teaching English in Korea now. Still basically a bum.

Hi, I sniff glue here as well.

haha all entries should end w/ "Ladies...?"

black metal and ecstacy, etc.

Jimmy. White male. Likes a good time.

pix?

Hi, I'm new here too. British but living in Vienna, Austria. I do a bit of music writing and blogging in my spare time, and hang out on the Guardian music blog probably more than is healthy. So I kind of like the fact that there seems to be a slight music journo slant to this board.

what happened to Old Fart!!!?

oh and Im in New Haven CT now.. no longer Detroit (or B-more before that).

I'll make a note of it.

now I can rest easy

lol jaymc

Paul, almost 43, living in Seattle, working in interactive entertainment, married 2 kids, lived in Olympia WA, had radio show, very greedy music consumer.

Bradley, from New Jersey, student

8-year lurker, decided it was time...
(Toronto)

xp me too! what school?

penidsssssssssf

Captain Lorax, please to take teh crack pipe outta ya mouth, yous articulocution is unfathomanle!

jimmy_chop here - also long time lurker - live in rolling hills of carroll county, md, - wife, three kids, three cats - music fiend since a kid (now 43) - unemployed marketer type

who doesn't love rolling hills, who doesn't love sets of three. welcome jimmy

Hello. I recently broke through the lurker wall so I thought I'd introduce myself. In my late 20s, live in Baltimore with my wife, in a state of career flux. ILM makes me laugh, makes me think, and can also annoy the shit outta me. Looking forward to to posting more.

hello 'ello

Welcome indeed.

Longtime lurker, recent registrar.

Call me Slim. I live on Florida's gulf coast (the part that didn't get hit by the BP spill, thankyouverymuch), age 41 now, married, one child, another on the way. By day, a lawyer. By night, a bassist/backup singer in a covers band. I think I have a greater fondness for novelty songs and showtunes than the typical ILMer.

Eh, you'd be surprised on the showtunes part. (Novelty tunes, that depends...)

Novelty tunes? Slim, what do you think of Jedward?

Too novel for me - haven't heard 'em. I'm thinking about tunes that were "novelties" in their time, but are now just artifacts.

Which is another way of saying: I listened to Dr. Demento a LOT during the '80s and '90s.

Sup.

The name's Shasta.

And I'm out.

SHASTA OUT

Hi!

I've been lurking and occasionally posting since 2006 (!), but I never introduced myself. Now that I have a new job with a computer and a lot of free time, I've been spending a good portion of my waking hours reading ILX. One of these days I'm going to remember to write my login info down and bring it to work with me, so it seemed like a good time to say hello!

Anyway, I'm 30 and I live in Pennsylvania. I like Neil Young, Luis Buñuel, and Ross Macdonald. I have a wife and 2 cats. See you around!!!

walcome

hey! welcome!

I have a wife and 2 cats.

My first pass at this, I read "I have 2 wives and a cat."

Only found this place fairly recently... dig it SO much.
Me? I'm 41... I oversee the (steadily shrinking) music and movies purchasing department for a venerable left-of-center music/movies/clothes/thisnthat chain in New England (Boston is home). Play in a few bands. Uncommonly fond of Zillionaire-era ABC.

Cheers!

wonder what the average age of ILXORs is now.

Hi!

I've been lurking and occasionally posting since 2006 (!), but I never introduced myself. Now that I have a new job with a computer and a lot of free time, I've been spending a good portion of my waking hours reading ILX. One of these days I'm going to remember to write my login info down and bring it to work with me, so it seemed like a good time to say hello!

Anyway, I'm 30 and I live in Pennsylvania. I like Neil Young, Luis Buñuel, and Ross Macdonald. I have a wife and 2 cats. See you around!!!

― geode maze (cwkiii), Friday, June 8, 2012 4:18 AM (3 days ago)

i think you might be the platonic ideal of an ilx contributor

i don't know who ross macdonald is but i presume he is reflective of some sort of ilxische cultural debility

guessing a comedian

Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar (December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983). He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer.

not a comedian, my apologies

welcome cwkii

cwkiiw

otm

cwkiii, hi. i've had ross macdonald recommended to me several times in the past month, weirdly enough. what is the best book to start with.

I'd say either The Zebra-Striped Hearse or The Blue Hammer. If you like those enough, then just go through the rest at random until you can't stand him anymore.

thanks! there's actually a bunch of stuff about macdonald in the recent paul nelson anthology/bio. warren zevon idolized him or something.

Cool! Yeah, there's a part in Zevon's bio where Paul Nelson takes him to meet Ross Macdonald. I didn't even realize that Paul Nelson book existed! Just looked it up on Amazon and it looks pretty great...

it is good but very very very depressing.

Not sure if this thread still gets much action, but at the recommendation of the one and only Ned Raggett (a most noble person if I do say so myself), I will post a brief introduction for anyone who is interested. I am an adult female who lives in Hudson County, New Jersey. I'm heterosexual (to the best of my knowledge) and happily single. I'm pretty much a low-income person (I don't live in the expensive part of Hudson County, that's for sure). I've lurked for a few years, and I made two previous attempts to register, but each time the site was down! I've made a few posts before posting this introduction. Musically, some of my favorite artists are Nico (from the Marble Index onward), Stereolab (currently on hiatus), and Jason Falkner (I'm pretty sure he still records, but has trouble getting his stuff released). I like others, but those are three of my favorites. I'm also interested in animal welfare, but not the more 'extreme' animal rights movement. I'm an ovo-lacto-vegetarian, but not a vegan. I have no intention of trying to make everyone adopt a meatless diet, but I would like to see cruel factory farming replaced by humane farming practices. I'm currently thinking about creating a Twitter account for myself, but I have a few frustrating obstacles preventing me from creating my Twitter account, that I haven't been able overcome yet.