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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"Fav Band: husker du"

See...*sigh* I'll always keep on forgetting someone...it's not fair to the musicians who've worked so hard to provide me with lifesource.

Sundar, it's okay, mang...you are not alone. I also used to think That 70's Show was pretty brilliant in its stupidity up until Donna broke up with whatshisname for the first time. See, I can't remember, 'cuz I just lost interest after that. I remember it getting pretty dull afterwards.

Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 26 March 2004 12:52 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Dave
Age: 13 days off 30
Height: 5 ft 8.5inches
Fav Band: Belle and Sebastian
Fav Movie: Goodfellas
Fav TV Show: 24. Sob...
Fav Book: Name of the Rose
Fav Actor: Lots. My brother is a perennial favourite
Fav Actress: Jodie Foster
Fav Food: Chilli
Fav Sport: Football and Darts
Fav Athlete: Zinedine Zidane
Drink of Choice: Bitter
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Alcohol
Smoker? : Used to be. 3 months stopped
Occupation : Football gimp
Do you work out? : Nah
Looks : 7
Personality : 8


Dave B (daveb), Friday, 26 March 2004 13:23 (twenty years ago) link

My brother is a perennial favourite

The questions this raises!

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 March 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link

OK, I'm actually this bored today. Friday is a slow day.

Name: Kate
Age: 33 (but it doesn't bother me)
Height: 5'8"
Fav Band: Spacemen 3
Fav Movie: Performance or Barbarella (can't decide)
Fav TV Show: Time Team
Fav Book: Argh... can't decide. I always just put Brideshead Revisted
Fav Actor: I hate these questions! Gary Oldman? Ewan McGreggor? That bloke named James wot was in Revelations?
Fav Actress: Judging by my fave films, Anita Pallenberg
Fav Food: Pizza
Fav Sport: Sport is ghastly
Fav Athlete: ???
Drink of Choice: Scotch and Ginger Beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): CAFFEINE!!!
Smoker? : Never
Occupation : I fix databases
Do you work out? : No but I walk about 4 miles a day
Looks : 5
Personality : 3

Psycho Kate (kate), Friday, 26 March 2004 13:38 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Rachel

Age: Will be 26 in June

Height: still 5'6" I guess

Fav Band: Currently it's probably Camera Obscura, Be Good Tanyas, and Belle & Sebastian, and Ty and Buck 65 on the solo end

Fav Movie: Goodfellas, The Big Lebowski, Funny Face, Annie Hall and recently Finding Nemo :)

Fav TV Show: The West Wing, Twin Peaks, Spaced

Fav Book: cannot answer this question. oh all right The Princess Bride

Fav Actor: Currently Owen Wilson, Adam Sandler, Bill Nighy, Robert de Niro, John Cusack, Jeff Bridges, Chris Rock

Fav Actress: Hepburns Katherine & Audrey, Jessica Stevenson, Frances McDormand, Marisa Tomei

Fav Food: Cheese, mayonnaise, curry, chocolate

Fav Sport: I would be lying if I typed anything here

Fav Athlete: See above

Drink of Choice: Strong brown tea and Guinness

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Not much of the illegal or prescription nature, just alcohol and caffeine

Smoker? : No

Occupation : Library assistant, part-time PG student, part-time poet and editor

Do you work out? : Not as such no

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


Archel (Archel), Friday, 26 March 2004 13:38 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Nick
Age: 24 for another 6 or 7 weeks
Height: 5'8", 175cm
Fav Band: Talk Talk, Orbital, The Stone Roses, various others as and when
Fav Movie: Badlands, Jaws, Koyanisqaatsi, various others as and when
Fav TV Show: The Simpsons
Fav Book: The Wind In The Willows, Nausea, Northern Lights
Fav Actor: Don't really have one
Fav Actress: As above
Fav Food: Curry (not yoghurt muck, a good jalfrezi or bhuna or tandoori lamb or something), chinese roast pork, stew and dumplings, Nutella, cheese on toast, lasagne, chilli, many many many more
Fav Sport: Football
Fav Athlete: Antonio Cassano, Thierry Henry, Patrick Viera, Francesco Totti
Drink of Choice: Rioja, Guinness, Becks
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Nothing
Smoker? : No
Occupation: Library AV guy, 'amateur' writer
Do you work out? : Football twice a week
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
Add anything you want people to know: Right now? Nothing

Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link

Melissa, *please* put your looks and personality higher next time or you will have the whole of ILx to answer to.

Archel (Archel), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago) link

There's a definite trend for blokes markign themselves much higher than girls in those questions. Sort it out, girls.

Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:07 (twenty years ago) link

Who says it's the girls that need to sort it out? Perhaps the girls are being honest, and the blokes are suffering from over-exaggerated self esteems and need to lower their ticks a bit!

Bear in mind that "5" is average on this scale.

Psycho Kate (kate), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, but I'm great!

Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

And "callibrated for killing", too.

Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

Haha I see that I've rated my looks lower but my personality higher than last time I did this. Meaning that I've got uglier but nicer?

Archel (Archel), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:15 (twenty years ago) link

Helen Hunt??!? wtf

Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

Is there a problem?

gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 March 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link

excuse me, for some reason I didn't list Days of Heaven as my favorite movie, a terrible mistake.

Favorite Movie: Days of Heaven

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 March 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

Great film, Dan.

Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 26 March 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Ian
Age: 31
Height: 5'11''
Fav Band: right now, French Kicks/Sleepy Jackson/Elvis Costello/Sufjan Stevens
Fav Movie: In the Mood for Love/Repo Man/Bob le Flambeur/Band of Outsiders
Fav TV Show: Don't watch enough to have one
Fav Book: The Tale of Genji, Narcissus and Goldmund, Love and Rockets
Fav Comic Artist: Jaime Hernandez, Scott McCloud, Steve Rude
Fav Actor: Maggie Cheung, Audrey Hepburn, Harry Dean Stanton
Fav Food: all of it
Fav Sport: Disc Golf
Fav Athlete: Me
Drink of Choice: Red Wine, pref. Barolo or Barbaresco
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Espresso
Smoker? : ex-smoker for almost 10 years now
Occupation : grad student
Do you work out? : yes, but not heavily
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? : 4 or 5

webcrack (music=crack), Friday, 26 March 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

I still say this thread is maddening without a "where do you live?" question.
-- Spencer Chow (spencercho...), March 26th, 2004.

B-b-b-but what about my privacy?! *shakes nervously*

Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

Name: John
Age: 25 as of yesterday
Height: 5'8'
Fav Band: Stereolab
Fav Movie: Waiting for Guffman
Fav TV Show: currently, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Fav Book: Underworld, Don DeLillo
Fav Actor: Mark Ruffalo
Fav Actress: Zooey Deschanel
Fav Food: Thai, probably
Fav Sport: Baseball
Drink of Choice: Beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Pot (only a few times a year)
Smoker?: Not anymore
Occupation: Textbook editor
Do you work out?: No. I really, really should.
On a scale from 1-10 ...: I hate 1-10 scales. I need something more tangible to rate myself against.

And I live in Chicago.

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago) link

Some of the most absurd opinions ever offered on ILE are the women's rating of their looks here - Luna at 5 is the one that stood out to me as patently insane, but Melissa at 1 and Archel and Trayce at 5 are utterly mad too.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

they have all shown themselves to be very modest women

oops (Oops), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

and while not a woman, gabbnebb is no 3/2. even after the phish deductions.

bnw (bnw), Friday, 26 March 2004 18:55 (twenty years ago) link

like so many others have said i have done this before but will do it this time by limiting myself to one answer each, first one to mind:

Name: Ms. S. to you
Age: 30
Height:5'4"

Fav Band: at the moment Riverboat Gamblers

Fav Movie: Giant

Fav TV Show: Chapelle's Show

Fav Book: Jane Eyre

Fav Actor: Bam Margera

Fav Actress: Charlize Theron


Fav Food: popcorn

Fav Sport: skateboarding

Fav Athlete: Bam Margera

Drink of Choice: beer

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): the ones that keep me alive

Smoker? : no

Occupation : teacher/bartender/sort of writer

Do you work out? : 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? : 6


Add anything you want people to know: i'm a slob.

Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

Name: kyle
Age: 21
Height: 6 foot 3ish

Fav Band: toady, the smiths, tomorrow, the world

Fav Movie: all the real girls

Fav TV Show: 24

Fav Book: 1984 or the plague

Fav Actor: either johnny depp or mark ruffalo

Fav Actress: right now, maggie gyllenhaal

Fav Food: boiled crawfish

Fav Sport: ehhh, football? (american)

Fav Athlete: deuce mcallister

Drink of Choice: RC

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): N/A

Smoker? : only on thursdays and special occasions

Occupation : student/filing bitch

Do you work out? : i do pilates irregularly

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:
Baby, Baby, Baby oh believe me, oh please don't leave me, all by myself, I've got this burning, burning, yearning feeling inside me, oooh, deep inside me, and it hurts so bad!

Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Ms. S. to you
Height:5'4"

AY, SHAWTEE...

Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

Name: jel
Age: 27 almost 28
Height: 6'1"
Fav Band: Poison, La Casa Azul, Megadeth, Philistines Jr
Fav Movie: American Movie, Spirited Away, Bill and Ted, ROTJ
Fav TV Show: Dick and Dom in da Bungalow, Yugi-oh, Black Books, Harry Hill
Fav Book: The Summer Book; Death and the Penguin; Victoria; Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Fav Food: Doughnuts; Spaghetti; Peas; Bacon; Scotch Pancakes
Fav Sport: Cricket
Fav Athlete: Matthew Hoggard; Mark Butcher; Rahul Dravid
Drink of Choice: Tea
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing):
Smoker?: nope
Occupation: library assistant
Do you work out? : I feel good when I do Yoga, but I don't really do Yoga very often. Walking
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? : 5

On this scale thing, I'm assuming 10 = the best.

Add anything you want people to know: I can not choose one thing.

jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 March 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link

:(

Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

I don't have fave actor or actresses coz they get enough love as it is.

jel -- (jel), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

Name: David
Age: 21
Height: 5'10" (??)
Fav Band: Lali Puna, Barbara Morgenstern, The Blue Nile
Fav Movie: Ratcatcher, Tremors, Celine & Julie Go Boating.
Fav TV Show: Seinfeld
Fav Book: 'So I Am Glad'; 'God's Gift to Women'
Fav Food: lamb.
Fav Sport: football.
Fav Athlete: Paula Radcliffe
Drink of Choice: Irn-Bru
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): alcohol, I guess.
Smoker?: nope
Occupation: student.
Do you work out? : I play football three times a week, most weeks.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : I do ok.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : less ok here but still -.

Add anything you want people to know: I have a child's indecision.

cozen (Cozen), Friday, 26 March 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago) link

Name: johnny
Age: 29
Height: 5 11

Fav Band: at the moment: pixies, loop, cocteau twins, cure

Fav Movie: at the mo: annie hall, king kong, giant, frogs, repo man (i worked a repo office once).

Fav TV Show: twin peaks, Nature(pbs). (i don't watch tv, i watch dvds)

Fav Book: 1984 , jg ballard collected short stories

Fav Actor: lee marvin, leonard nimoy, james dean, sonny chiba, oscar the grouch

Fav Actress: marilyn monroe

Fav Food: ribs, steaks, milkshakes. sushi. i miss my mums cooking.

Fav Sport: fishing, pinball, roulette

Fav Athlete: larry bird. willie may, (not a sports fan ), the chinese kid who can eat hotdogs real fast.

Drink of Choice: iced water, coffee, beer, chambord and pinapple juice

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): mary mary

Smoker? : cough cough wheres my lighter? not addicted. i know its unheard of.

Occupation : 'problem resolution' no, not karate, i fix lines of code for financial exchanges, not a programmer either, just a trained monkey

Do you work out? : i just started running again. and taking the garbage out can be a workout sometimes.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : i dont do 1-10's. ive been told i resemble: grover, nick cave, ani de franco (what?), prince, dave grohl. got an image in your head now?

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : after i get to know you, 8


Add anything you want people to know: i am looking for a drummer in the boston area to make spacezy shoegazey noisey music.
i prefer the company of cats and pagans. i wear disguises. it is 90' in the office as i type this. i hate computers. i have a flip squad. i love breakfast. i have a bit of an obsession with things nobody cares about: abandoned buildings, odd toys, trash on the sidewalk, dancing in closets with heads of state.

kephm, Friday, 26 March 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago) link

Name: lauren
Age: nearly 28
Height: 5'5"
Fav Band: really can't pick one. my favorite cd at the moment is the blue orchids.
Fav Movie: valley girl or it's a wonderful life
Fav TV Show: the chapelle show, currently
Fav Book: again, difficult to pick. persuasion, maybe?
Fav Actor: robert mitchum
Fav Actress: marlene dietrich
Fav Food: i've never tried an asian cuisine that i didn't love.
Fav Sport: to play? tennis, probably, or slow lap swimming.
Fav Athlete: ?
Drink of Choice: vodka&soda, jamesons on the rocks, red wine
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): depends, but caffeine over all
Smoker? : yes
Occupation : catering to nutcases
Do you work out? : yes, 4x/week
Looks : 7
Personality : 8
Add anything you want people to know: i love poodles.

lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 March 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Jason
Location: San Francisco
Age: 27.75
Height: Six feet deep
Fav Band: at one point or another: Robert Wyatt, Talking Heads, Jay Dee, Alice Coltrane,
Fav Movie: the funny ones
Fav TV Show: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mythbusters, Even Stevens
Fav Book: I'm a magazine reader
Fav Actor: the funny ones
Fav Actress: the cute ones
Fav Food: Cheese*
Fav Sport: Mexican Wrestling - LUCHA LIBRE!!
Fav Athlete: any of the Mexican Wrestling stars that are midgets or wear fur suits
Drink of Choice: Gin Gimlet, Hefeweizen, Coca Cola
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): I used to like lots of drugs but seem to throw up when i take any of them anymore
Smoker? : every once in a while i'll want one when i'm drinking and i always remember that i don't like to smoke
Occupation : Web Designer
Do you work out? : i keep my girlish figure by walking a lot
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : they say you can rate your looks based on the company you keep. well i have a gorgeous wife and all my friends are fuckable.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : i think i'm a nice enough, happy-go-lucky kinda guy
Add anything you want people to know: in college my nickname was Teets. it got so bad some people didn't even know my real name
* In college i started a club called GMC. the three things that made us happy. Girls, Music & Cheese.

JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 26 March 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

and while not a woman, gabbnebb is no 3/2. even after the phish deductions.

You're very kind, bnw. Let me assure you, however, that I am a woman.

gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 27 March 2004 02:03 (twenty years ago) link

Name: Zach

Age: 17

Height: 5 feet 10 inches

Fav Band: Lots of them. Pavement, Lightning Bolt, Radiohead, Mission of Burma, The Fall, The Shins, The Beatles

Fav Movie: Alien, or Network

Fav TV Show: haven't watched TV in ages. Probably The Adventures of Pete and Pete or something on Adult Swim

Fav Book: Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, 1984 by Orwell, need to read more often

Fav Actor: Peter Sellers

Fav Actress: eh, I dunno.

Fav Food: chinese food rocks

Fav Sport: Don't really follow sports, but football and soccer are fun to watch

Fav Athlete: eh, I dunno.

Drink of Choice: If I drank alcohol, beer, but since I don't: Coffee

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): don't do drugs, they kill people
Smoker? : nope

Occupation : student, bad amatuer music writer

Do you work out? : no, I've been meaning to start

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? : also 7


Z. Ayres (Z_Ayres), Saturday, 27 March 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago) link

Can I change one of my answers? The Miles Davis Quintet circe 1965 is great, and certainly up there, but that answer was designed mostly to impress people with my blinding sense of the urbane.

After a cpuple drinks, I can see the truth. The Rolling Stones are my favorite band. Easy. Every day of the week.

Verbal (Verbal), Saturday, 27 March 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...
Name: Roger Adultery

Age: 25

Height: 6'1

Fav Bands: Royal Trux, Crazy Horse, Drive By Truckers

Fav Movies: Paper Moon, Big Lebowski

Fav TV Shows: The Honeymooners, Deadwood, Monster Garage, Dark Shadows

Fav Books: anything by David Sedaris or Jim Goad

Fav Actors: Mickey Rourke, Clint Eastwood, Michael Madsen, Charles Bronson, Billy Bob Thorton

Fav Actress: Renee Zellweger

Fav Food: Indian, Burritoville

Fav Sport: boxing

Fav Athlete: don't have one

Drink of Choice: certified Jim Beam loyalist

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): pills

Smoker? : never

Occupation : Head photo technician, freelance rock crank

Do you work out? : In spurts

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 10

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10

Add anything you want people to know: I'll kill you at Boggle

roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Adrian Langston
Age: 18
Height: 6'1"
Fav Band: Nick Cave
Fav Movie: The Third Man
Fav TV Show:
Fav Book: "Bunnicula: The Celery Stalks At Midnight"
Fav Actor: Daniel day-lewis
Fav Actress: Deborah Kerr
Fav Food: BABY LOBSTERS
Fav Sport: Calvinball
Fav Athlete:
Drink of Choice: Diet coke
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): coke
Smoker? : n
Occupation : uh
Do you work out? : uhhh
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Ham
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? ):
Add anything you want people to know: My dreams are just like real life, except that in them I'm a giant and I smash churches with my fists.


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ARL (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 08:11 (nineteen years ago) link

okay change favorite band from nick cave to led zeppelin. and uh, change everything else to hedgehogs. That's better.

ARL (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 08:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Spencer
Age: 25
Height: 6ft
Fav Band: Today? Fennesz
Fav Movie: Godfather 1&2
Fav TV Show: Grand Designs
Fav Book: Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
Fav Actor: Pacino
Fav Actress: Audrey Hepburn
Fav Food: Tuna Pasta
Fav Sport: Football to watch, Hockey to play
Fav Athlete: Terry Henry
Drink of Choice: Arsenic
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Citalopram
Smoker? : Yes
Occupation : Risk Analyst
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? : 2

___ (___), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Gear (J.M.)

Age: 29

Height: 5'11"

Fav Bands: Low, Saint Etienne, Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers, Handsome Family, Royal Trux, Deadly Snakes, Yo La Tengo, Aislers Set, U2

Fav Movies: Once Upon a Time In the West, The Wild Bunch, Fallen Angels, Rushmore, La Dolce Vita

Fav TV Shows: WKRP, 24, Alias, King of the Hill

Fav Books: The Master and Margarita, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, Ham On Rye, The Glass Key

Fav Actors: Robert Mitchum, James Stewart, Nick Nolte, Warren Oates, James Coburn, James Cagney, Tony Leung, Cary Grant

Fav Actress: Maggie Cheung, Susan Sarandon, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman

Fav Food: Chinese, Japanese, Argentine, Italian

Fav Sport: baseball

Fav Athlete: http://users.ev1.net/~hlsports/k0491.JPG

Drink of Choice: Guinness draught

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): none

Smoker? : making an effort at quitting, down to three a week, no inhaling

Occupation : television

Do you work out? : I go hiking 3-4 times a week

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 8.4

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10

Add anything you want people to know: damn you guys, Kish Kash really blows

Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Barima O-N

Age: 22

Height: 6'1"

Fav Band: Basement Jaxx, Cornelius, The Avalanches, The JBs, the Beta Band, The London Funk Allstars, The Jackson 5, Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, Blur, The Human League, The Gravediggaz, The Beastie Boys, The Roots, The Ratpure and the The Revolution.

Fav Movie: Fight Club, others include Alien and Aliens, Lawn Dogs, CB-4, Do The Right Thing, Clueless, In The Heat Of The Night, The Last Starfighter, Deep Cover, Beavis and Butthead Do America, When We Were Kings, The People vs Larry Flynt, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Carlito's Way, The Game, Scrooged, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Batman, T1 and T2, Basil The Great Mouse Detective, The Crow, Ferris Bueller (and John Hughes' teen 'oeuvre'), Boogie Nights, Jackie Brown and Empire Records.

Fav TV Show: Anything Ianucci, The Office, Alias, Pop Idol, Desmond's (how I miss thee), the Wade Robson Project (dancing spaz, early 20s, seeks same for skillz-showing sessions. Silly names a bonus, fun an essential), Daria, Angel, Spaced, EastEnders, Soul Food, The Simpsons/Futurama, Family Guy, Ninja Turtles, the DC Comics adaptations and any combination of music channels/shows.

Fav Book: American Psycho and anything by Thomas Hardy, Roald Dahl and Chuck Pahlahniuk. Hard to tell, really.

Fav Actor: Bill Murray, Ed Norton, Samuel L. Jackson, Yaphet Kotto, Sam Rockwell, Chris Rock, Owen Wilson, Jack Nicholson, Chow Yun-Fat, Laurence Fishburne, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Al Pacino

Fav Actress: Halle Berry, Emily Mortimer, Mischa Barton in Lawn Dogs, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Cathleen O' Hara, Frances McDormand, Marisa Tomei, Julianne Moore, Sigourney Weaver

Fav Food: Italian, then Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian and Ghanaian. Individually, nothing beats a good pizza, cous cous, etoh (Ghananian egg/yam mash-up) or paella.

Fav Sport: Football

Fav Athlete: Thierry Henri

Drink of Choice: Gin and Tonic

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): The occasional drink

Smoker? : Smoker no longer.

Occupation : African prince, prospective postgrad, intern

Do you work out? : Yep. Max 5 times a week.

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? : 5. I'm adaptable to almost anything and anyone, but I lack a bit of attractiveness and occasionally drive. Occasionally, I ramble.

Anything else? Gosh, would you want to?

Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: spittle
Age: 34
Height: 5'10" (or 1.77 meters)

Fav Band: at age 8, The Beatles; at age 12, The Police; at age 15, The Replacements; at age 19, Public Enemy; at age 25, Steve Earle; at age 28, Sleater-Kinney; at age 30, Eminem; now...fuck if I know

Fav Movie: uh...least obvious favorite (i.e. not a Golden Oldie or a Lynch/Jarmusch/Wong) would be My Twentieth Century, Hungarian film from the early '90s, utterly fantastic. Oh, also Ruby in Paradise.

Fav TV Show: Buffy (more recently digging The Wire and Deadwood)

Fav Book: how about best book I read in the last 2 weeks? Atonement, Ian McEwan

Fav Actor: Humphrey Bogart (I mean, c'mon)

Fav Actress: Anyone named Hepburn

Fav Food: Indian (with Ethiopian trailing close; also a weakness for cheese sandwiches)

Fav Sport: up to about age 25, baseball; since then, tennis

Fav Athlete: Nolan Ryan (more recently, Andy Roddick)

Drink of Choice: Chianti Classico

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): pot's nice, caffeine's crucial, not much interest in anything else (a few pleasant mushroom experiences)

Smoker? : nah, except the occasional cigar

Occupation : editor/writer/reporter

Do you work out? : erratically

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : er...7?

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : er...7?


Add anything you want people to know: I once rode in a limousine with B!ll Fr!st. And didn't punch him in the nose. If I'd known then what I know now...

spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Tim
Age: just weeks shy of 30
Height: 5'8"
Fav Band: always changing but The Fall is consistently near the top
Fav Movie: L'avventura
Fav TV Show: Chappelle's Show
Fav Book: way, way too hard; right now am reading "The Elegant Universe" and Michael Chabon's "Werewolves in Their Youth"
Fav Actor: Johnny Depp
Fav Actress: Joan Crawford
Fav Food: ahi tuna, anything grilled
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete: Manny Ramirez
Drink of Choice: Jameson & ginger
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Caffeine
Smoker? : No
Occupation : Newspaper reporter
Do you work out? : Not nearly as often as I should
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : eh
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : um

rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: gygax!
Age: freshly 32
Height: 6'2"
Fav Band: boredoms (or drive like jehu)
Fav Movie: sans soleil
Fav TV Show: pardon the interuption
Fav Book: the sound and the fury
Fav Actor: christopher eigeman
Fav Actress:
Fav Food: okinawan
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete: barry bonds
Drink of Choice: orion beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): caffeine (alt: love)
Smoker? : no
Occupation : FASHIONY FASHION FASH, uh clothes
Do you work out? : i am an avid jogger i ran 5 miles last night against a ferocious headwind
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

gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Henry
Age: 23
Height: Dunno, 5'10. Ish

Fav Band: Daft Punk

Fav Movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Trouble in Paradise, Fight Club, Chinatown, L'Eclisse, His Girl Friday, Zoolander, The Big Lebowski, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Fav TV Show: S&TC, Sopranos, I'm Alan Partidge

Fav Book: Impossible question

Fav Actor: Alain Delon

Fav Actress: Anna Karina

Fav Food: Chinese

Fav Sport: None

Fav Athlete: None

Drink of Choice: red wine

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not any more

Smoker? : until January

Occupation : this and that (literally)

Do you work out? : Cycle a bit

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? : wtf, 5, I dunno

Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Michael White
Age: 36
Height: 6'2"

Fav Band: Luna

Fav Movie: Brazil

Fav TV Show: Six Feet Under

Fav Book: 'Fictions' by J.L. Borges

Fav Actor: Herbert Marshall

Fav Actress: Jeanne Moreau

Fav Food: French

Fav Sport: Futbol

Fav Athlete: Harry the Horny Hunter

Drink of Choice: Wine or Gin & Tonics

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait.

Smoker? : Avid

Occupation : Office Drone

Do you work out? : I jump to conclusions and run off at the mouth.

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? : With a personalitometer, naturally.

Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Name: Nick

Age: 28

Height: 6'3"

Fav Band: Zep

Fav Movie: Goodfellas

Fav TV Show: Sopranos

Fav Book: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Fav Actor: Pacino

Fav Actress: ?

Fav Food: Fried Chicken

Fav Sport: Baseball

Fav Athlete: Don Mattingly

Drink of Choice: Duvel

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Maryjane

Smoker? : 1 per day

Occupation : Computers

Do you work out? : Weightlifting

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? : ?

57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...
Name: Akira Konya
Age: 17
Height: 6'0"

Fav Band: A bizzare mix of metal, punk and 1930s jazz (Rammstein, Green Day, Ramones, Foreigner, GWAR, Weezer, Chicago Rhythm Kings, Orbert Davis Sextet, and Sharkey Bonano.)

Fav Movie: Once Upon a Time in America

Fav TV Show: The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Mr. Show with Bob & David

Fav Book: Wiseguy (Basis for the film Goodfellas)

Fav Actor: Robert DeNiro

Fav Actress: Anyone who gets naked... huh huh... cool...

Fav Food: Anything Chinese

Fav Sport: Stalking people at night

Fav Athlete: I hate sports.

Drink of Choice: Baileys Irish Cream

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Marijuana... But dont tell my mommy and daddy.

Smoker? :Yes (7 a day)

Occupation : Manufacturer of small automotive parts (Clips, latches, etc.)

Do you work out? : 20 push ups a day

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :8

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : -4


Add anything you want people to know: I hate President Bush. I think gay people should be allowed to get married and fuck all they want. I am taking Auto Collision Repair at the local Vocational School. I hate cowboys, skaters, preps, and posers. I never wear jeans. Ever. I dont even own a pair of jeans. I hate a lot of people. I like to smoke Parliament Cigarettes and Garcia Y Vega Cigars. I want my licence really bad, but my parents wont let me because of ONE F on my grade card a year ago. Bullshit. I really want to be out on my own, i dont care how much it costs. I love them and all, but come on... No girls like me. Probably because I'm so negative and I'm Japanese.. By the way, I hate racists. I'm full of hate for all kinds of people.

Akira Konya, Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you wear other kinds of pants?

sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't own any jeans either. 7 cigarettes a day? That's kind of precise. Were you on 8 and decided to cut back?

Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link


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