Introduce Yourselves!

HAHAHAHA Whooo boy did I fail at that task spectacularly.

Never done any of the Introduce Yourselves thread yet but figured I should really cos I been hanging around for long enough. Been posting for ages under a stooped moniker but recently junked it cos it felt like time to move on. It’ll come back every now and then I guess, but for now I’m sticking with, uh, the real me.

So anyway, here’s me, Alex K, coming up for 25, first and foremost an artist, but also an idiot, music lover, bassist, writer, loon. I live next to a lovely park in South London and I do a rather dull editorial job by day from which I escape via ILM. Recently just started posting on ILE which I always avoided but realised I’ve missed out. Had some funny old times so far on these boards but I’m hoping that’s to do with my previous name rather than because I’m a cock. Anyway, I must say that these boards rool, and there are a hell of a lot of sound people at play who have given me hours and hours of amusement not to mention enlightenment, for which many thanks all round.

I’m a sarky fucker, but also a big dumb romantic. I like my psyche big time, west coast, late 60’s stuff; Love, Spirit, Blues Magoos, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, la la la. I like my guitars spangly and my harmonies soaring. Outside that, I’m into throbbing basslines with snappy drummers who love their hi-hats sort of stuff but I’m probably what these boards would classify as a rockist, not that I agree with the term anyway, but what the fuck; In no particular order, Verve, Lamb, Neil Young, Zeppelin, Beefheart, VU, The Band, CSNY, Television, Biosphere, Stone Roses, Rolling Stones, Doors, Aphrodite’s Child, Bert Jansch, Fairport Convention, The Pentangle, ah, too many names, oh, and most recently Cat Power. My biggest love though, is a man named Robert Zimmerman.

When I’m out, I’m usually supporting one of the bands that most of my friends seem to play in on the London circuit and getting messy. Or going to shows and stuff, whipping fools off the pool table and generally looking moody. Was in a band but my singer/songwriter recently had to jump back Stateside for a while. She’ll be back, I’m sure and I do miss making the beautiful music big time. We was doing some fucking storming stuff, all dark, swirly black psyche with breathless vocals – bah, I miss it.

One last thing, I gotta give a shout to Ned, dude, your obsession with Loveless got me to listen to it recently for the first time, after hearing about for the last ten years. Cheers. In fact, cheers all round. Hi.

i have shows in my basement so im always looking for good bands, im in the process of trying to set up a more permanant place around town with some people at a warehouse or something

im also moving to austin texas for the summer, so im looking for friends, jobs and possibly a design place to volunteer my services

people can email me if any of the above apply to them

I'm Kenan. I fill my days with a lot of temping, too. I write this little webzine, mostly by myself, but any of you could change that at any time. (wink.) I have soft spots for too many bands to mention, but I don't specialize in any one type of music. I'm a dilettante, and proud of it.

And I tend to get a bit pedantic when I've been drinking.

Usually I just lurk about ILM but I post occasionally. Reading some of the stuff on this board takes the edge off of work.

My musical tastes are wide and varied but I really go in for old skool jungle, breakbeat hardcore (Moving Shadow/Suburban Base stuff), Pavement (including the later albums), the Pixies, Sonic Youth, GBV, A Tribe Called Quest, Asian Dub Foundation The Smiths, as well as dub, reggae and ska. I could go on forever but I won't.

My current obsession is a Japanese band called Supercar and I've also got a lot of love for the Boredoms.

I don't write about music but my friends tell me that I should so that I shut up and stop bothering them with all of my opinions.

ILM has had a negative effect on my productivity at work but may have saved my sanity.

peace

I'm Deanna (Dee for short *ta-daaa*) and I'm hopelessly uncool. I am 23 years old and after earning a bachelor's degree in economics I came to the realization that there are no careers here for pure economics majors, so I'm going back to school to earn a bachelor's in computer science (still have a couple more years to go, but at least I can claim to be a double geek when it's all done).

According to what I have on my hard drive, I am ardently passionate about the following artists: A Flock of Seagulls, ABC, Adam & the Ants, Altered Images, a-ha, Alphaville, Arcadia, Badly Drawn Boy, Belfegore, Black Dyke Mills Band, Big Country, Blur, Bongos, Boz Scaggs, Buggles, China Crisis, The Clash, Classix Nouveaux, Comsat Angels, Curiosity Killed the Cat, Depeche Mode, Dif Juz, David Bowie, Doobie Brothers, Duran Duran, English Beat, Erasure, Frank Sinatra, Fleetwood Mac (the one with both Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie), Fun Boy Three, Gang of Four, Genesis, Gerry Rafferty, Haircut 100, Hunters & Collectors, Howard Jones, Human League, Japan, Icehouse, David Sylvian, INXS, Joan Osborne, Joe Jackson, John Taylor, Jose Nunez, Killing Joke (although ironically I think I'd only really be classified as liking their Chris Kimsey period), King, Kraftwerk, Ladytron, Liz Phair, Mamas & the Papas, Manic Street Preachers, Madness, Midnight Oil, (early!) Ministry, No Doubt, New Order, Nick Cave, Nirvana, Noise Khanyile, OMD (Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark), Our Daughter's Wedding, Psychedelic Furs, Public Image Ltd., Pete Shelley, Peter Gabriel, The Pixies, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Prefab Sprout, R.E.M., Scritti Politti, Simple Minds, The Breeders, The Cure, The Devils, The Lords of the New Church, The Police, The Ramones, The Smiths, The The, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Spandau Ballet, Sparks, Change, Steely Dan, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, The Church, The Specials, 'Til Tuesday, Tones on Tail, Toyah, Trio, Turin Brakes, U2, Ultravox, Wang Chung, Coldplay, Elastica, Oingo Boingo, and Yellow Magic Orchestra, among a few others.

(The names in bold are the ones I feel the most passionate about. Duran Duran are my # 1 alltime favorite artist, followed by David Bowie and David Sylvian.)

I also love Italian disco (heck, noncheesy disco that was really played in the clubs, period), "adult alternative" music from the '90s, British Invasion music from the '60s, New Romantic music in general, glam rock (not to be confused with hair metal "cock rock" from the '80s), Motown & Stax-Volt music from the '60s and early '70s, with the exception of the Jackson Five, and any modern "blip blip bleep" synthesized retro tributes to the disco era.

I hate: people who presume to know what I'm all about by a few short biographical details about myself (e.g. being Hispanic [half Mexican, half Spanish], being Texan, being Republican), most music critics (because they've often slagged what I've considered to be good music -- I'm just burned by the world of music criticism in general), petty fights about nothing at all, boybands, teenypoppers, Lou Pearlman (kinda hoping for a little Dante's Inferno action with this guy), homophobes, anti-Christians, intolerant people in general, cults, the RIAA, having surgery (although it does cause me to lose weight), vegans (vegetarians are totally ok in my book, though), Spanish-language music, little snotty kids with no respect for their elders, those who think on the far left or far right of the political spectrum, people who play the "blame game" (whatever happened to personal responsibility?), and socialism (I'm a capitalist, baby).

And now I need to return to the books. Hopefully this will give you guys a clearer picture of who I am. *grin*

I write (atrociously) for Pitchfork; there can be no doubt that I'm the worst on staff. I never claimed to be a writer, though.

What I like is irrelevant.

I hate: vegans

(Don't you see anything wrong with these two sentences?)
I'm a vegan. Do you hate me?

No offense.

Really, I don't hate or dislike vegans -- it's just beyond my realm of understanding. I think Anthony Bourdain disdains vegans, though -- he calls them the "Taliban of vegetarianism". With me, as long as you don't go preaching to me that I'm wrong to eat meat, you're totally ok with me. I have had a few nasty encounters with some sanctimonious vegans, though, so I do dislike them. I don't dislike you, serious.

*crawls on hands & knees for forgiveness*

*sighs* Ahhh, the politics of the table.

As for cultists -- well, I don't hate or dislike them either. I just feel a great sense of pity for them, that their lives were so spiritually empty that they were able to be seduced into a cult where they're brainwashed into destroying their own lives for the benefit of the cult leader. Maybe I should just refine that to say "cult leaders" instead of "cults".

So my new & revised paragraph would be as follows...

I hate: people who presume to know what I'm all about by a few short biographical details about myself (e.g. being Hispanic [half Mexican, half Spanish], being Texan, being Republican), most music critics (because they've often slagged what I've considered to be good music -- I'm just burned by the world of music criticism in general), petty fights about nothing at all, boybands, teenypoppers, Lou Pearlman (kinda hoping for a little Dante's Inferno action with this guy), homophobes, anti-Christians, intolerant people in general, cult leaders, the RIAA, having surgery (although it does cause me to lose weight), Spanish-language music, little snotty kids with no respect for their elders, those who think on the far left or far right of the political spectrum, people who play the "blame game" (whatever happened to personal responsibility?), and socialism (I'm a capitalist, baby).

Don't get me talking about capitalism and socialism, though... ;-)

last record played - john fahey - dance of death and other plantation favorites

I'm from Glasgow (perhaps you caught an Optimo reference?) Im kind of a lazy guy who works from home (and therefore does very little work, of course) Im sort of an architect (the sort that doesnt do much). I love these things -(smog), Talk Talk, Disco, House, Electro, Stuff that makes em happy-sad like Jeff Buckley, Nina Simone, Nina Nastasia, Spiritualized, Tilt by Scott Walker. My Favourite peice of Music is "For Bonita Marcus" by Morton Feldman. I dont care about categories in Music (they are only useful for finding things in shops) and i am as likely to be listening toThe Necks as Mary J Blige. I go to quite a few gigs which i occasionally write up for a website you probably all think is THE DEVIL and therefore i wont name it. I go dancing most weekends in Glasgow or Edinburgh - i Love Optimo and the Black Rabbit Whorehouse.

thats me - i had a look for yours (David) but i couldnt find it so maybe you could direct me to it!

Also i am going to see Buck 65 Tonight at king tuts. Antone else going?.....

I've never done a proper intro (always reluctant), will do so in the (very) near future

Ahem, I meant, of course, the sublime track 1. Oh, and album has now officially set me on fire.

Woah. < /keanu>

so: hello! (back to the manuscript...)

Music-wise, I'm pretty ILM-centric. Right this moment I'm listening to Kelis "Kaleidoscope". This morning I was listening to De La Soul "3 Feet High & Rising", Jacques Lu Cont "Blueprint" and N*E*R*D "In Search Of....". The last CD I bought was Dizzee Rascal "Boy In Da Corner", but Super Furry Animals "Phantom Power" is on order. My favourite album ever is Wu-Tang Clan "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" and my favourite song is Missy Elliot "Get UR Freak On".

It would take too long to list all my favourite acts but I like chart-pop, bling-rap, old skool hip-hop, some IDM, some punk, grime, and I'm trying to get into house and dancehall more.

To use what appears to be ILM parlance, I am very much anti-rockist. I like talking about myself, though not enought o continue this post any further.

Ailsa, 30, originally from Inverness, now of Renfrew (via ten years in Glasgow). I work for a large multinational insurance company doing corporate accounts, and I only post short answers to things on ILM because although I do love music, I'm not very good at writing about it. I like tuneful things with guitars, and lots of pop things too. Fave bands off the top of my head today are Belle and Sebastian, Trash Can Sinatras, Teenage Fanclub, the Cocteau Twins, Boo Radleys, the Lilac Time, JAMC, the Jam, Spiritualised, Aztec Camera, Furniture, the Orchids and the Pogues, but that list may well have changed by tomorrow. It will never include the Beastie Boys or REM though. I am also ridiculously fond of most chart music of the 80s and Brit-pop of the early 90s as they were my formative years of discovering and loving music the most.