― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
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
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
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 personality? : ?
― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Fav Band: Varies
Fav Movie: Gattaca
Fav TV Show: I don't have a tele
Fav Book: The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Fav Actor: either Christopher Walken or Steve Buschemi
Fav Actress: whichever hot bitches takes her clothes off
Fav Food: pizza/tuna sammiches/schnitzel
Fav Sport: badminton
Fav Athlete: they're all buncha weenies
Drink of Choice: Brandy (at least VSOP)
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): EPHEDRA
Smoker?: Sometimes
Occupation : student ... at least until May.
Do you work out? : that depends on if you count masturbation ...
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : OH I'M DROP-DEAD SEXXXY, BABUH
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Parents love me! Kids cry when I'm around! Teenage girls want me in their beds! The 'scene' wherever I go thinks I'm a wacky but fun outsider!
Add anything you want people to know:Public Transit 4-eva
― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Name: Orbit (Chelsea)Age: 40Height: 5'8
Fav Band: That's hard. The Clash, Blondie, The Charlatans a million others
Fav Movie: Casablanca
Fav TV Show: Sex and the City and Rockford Files re-runs
Fav Book: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Fav Actor: Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant
Fav Actress: Doris Day! (perky perky!)
Fav Food: oh geez! Lamb, bastillah, foie gras in context....
Fav Sport: Hockey and baseball
Fav Athlete: I used to like Luc Robataille but now I don't really have one.
Drink of Choice: WINE!!!
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Context-dependent.
Smoker? : No.
Occupation : Consultant
Do you work out? : NO. I am a flab monster.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7. (10 if you like pudgy cheerful brunettes.)
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : You either like me or you hate me.
Add anything you want people to know:I am a collosal feminine failure. I need liposuction, botox, collagen, breast implants or reduction, a wax job, unassertiveness training, cash, and a future. I desperately need to avoid signs of aging, feminine odor, dry eye, dishpan hands and spots on the china, can you help me?
― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Fav Band: pavement
Fav Movie: spaceballs
Fav TV Show: all of them
Fav Book: shampoo planet, douglas coupland
Fav Actor:
Fav Actress:
Fav Food: pizza
Fav Sport: figure skating [i used to skate competitively] or ice hockey
Fav Athlete:
Drink of Choice: tomato juice with lemon / cosmopolitan
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): ew, gross!
Smoker? : ew, gross!
Occupation : paying gig: assistant to the director, kelly writers house, university of pennsylvania; non-paying gig: promoter, plain parade
Do you work out? : 3 times a week, plus i ride my bike all over this city. doesnt help, since im borne into a family of fat people.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6, if im wearing my nice clothes: 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5
Add anything you want people to know: im allergic to seafood and shellfish. i dont like mayonnaise. doritos and peanut butter cups are my downfall.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Fav Band: XTC, Cure, Blackalicious, Wu Tang Clan, T. Rex, Mott the Hoople
Fav Movie: Five Easy Pieces
Fav TV Show: Freaks and Geeks
Fav Book: Goodbye to Berlin
Fav Actor: Burt Reynolds
Fav Actress: Bette Davis
Fav Food: Homemade bread
Fav Sport: Swimming
Fav Athlete: Fuckin' ... Mo Vaughn back in the day.
Drink of Choice: Belgian Ale
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Dope
Smoker? : Recovering, but occasionally relapsing.
Occupation : Screenwriter / Grad Student
Do you work out? : Daily.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : ihttp://img68.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/?
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/profx02.gif
― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:48 (nineteen years ago) link
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/Picture5.jpg
― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Fav Band: XTC
Fav TV Show: Goodies
Fav Book: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Fav Actor: n/a
Fav Actress: n/a
Fav Food: chocolate
Fav Sport: cricket
Fav Athlete: n/a
Drink of Choice: ouzo & coke
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): alcohol
Smoker? : no
Occupation : IT
Do you work out? : yes
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : i wouldn't
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : yes
― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― bulbs (bulbs), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Name: AndrewAge: 21Height: 184cm
Fav Band: WHAT?! Impossible to answer.
Fav Movie: The Blues Brothers
Fav TV Show: Family Guy (Comedy), Six Feet Under/Twin Peaks (Drama)
Fav Book: A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick
Fav Actor: Edward Norton
Fav Actress: Franka Potente or Audrey Tautou
Fav Food: I've no idea.
Fav Sport: No sport for me!
Fav Athlete: I don't care enough to have a favourite. Does Anna Kournikova count?
Drink of Choice: Vodka Tonic
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Weed, although I like it a lot less these days.
Smoker? : Not when I can help it.
Occupation : Software Developer
Do you work out? : Just started - let's see how long it lasts.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : I prefer to let other people do this for me. I'm not that egomaniacal.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 4
― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Nobody fucking stocks ouzo anymore. Now I have to give it up for the same reason I stopped drinking Pernod in the '90s.
― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Name: KenanAge: 30Height: 5'11"
Fav Band: fuck you very much for asking
Fav Movie: hmmm... maybe Goodfellas?
Fav TV Show: easily The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Fav Book: hmmm... maybe Lolita? (BTW... I hate the way "lolita" has come to mean an innocent young girl. People should read more.)
Fav Actor: Dirk Bogarde, or maybe the young David Hemmings
Fav Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Faye Dunaway, maybe Nathan Lane
Fav Food: ass falafel
Fav Sport: baseball, by a wide margin
Fav Athlete: Freddy Roach
Drink of Choice: bourbon
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): pot, if that's my thing at the moment
Smoker?: sadly, yes. I don't apologize in font of people, but I will here.
Occupation: butt-monkey for people who make a lot more money then me
Do you work out?: No. I should, but then again, I shouldn't. I want to look good and be healthy, but I don't want to be vain. (too late.)
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: Zero. I am a horribly disfigured monster.*
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: I can't rate it on a scale, but I can say that some people find me charming, some find me charming enough, some find me a bit cloying, and some find me completely disingenuous and distasteful. These reactions, if charted, would almost certainly directly relate to the degree of discomfort I felt around that person.
Add anything you want people to know: I'm a really good kisser.
*This answer given on the assumption that false humility makes you more attractive.
― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Name: Barry Age: 30Height: 6'3"
Fav Band: Too many to mention, Google my name on ILM and you'll be spoilt for choice
Fav Movie: I am not a movie person.
Fav TV Show: The Apprentice, WWE RAW, ER (I am not really a TV person either, I watch TV less out of love and more out of habit)
Fav Book: V/A -- All Music Guide to Electronica, Walter Koechner -- Solid State Laser Engineering, Werterbukh English-Yidish Yidish-English Modern -- Weinreich Uriel
Fav Actor: Chris Jericho
Fav Actress: can't pick
Fav Food: beer
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete: can't choose
Drink of Choice: rye and ginger
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): music
Occupation : student
Do you work out? : I'm in shape.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 2 if you hate long hair, 8 if you like long hair
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 2 if I'm in a good mood, 8 if I'm in a bad mood
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link
You've got me pretty-much spot on there.
― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Name: SamanthaAge:30 Height: 5'4"
Fav Band: this year - the Riverboat (motherfucking) Gamblers, best rock band evah! ; elliott smith ; Slick 57 and still on top for 19 years running. . . .the Beastie Boys!!! yay! What's 2400 miles when it's for guys you love?
Fav Movie: Giant (1956)
Fav TV Show: Don't have TV anymore but when I did I was into Law&Order (svu please) like it was a bag of potato chips.
Fav Book: Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte. Read it at least once a year.
Fav Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal. Come sit in mommy's lap.
Fav Actress: I liked his sister when she was getting her ass spanked but let's see. . . Christina Ricci continues to surprise me.
Fav Food: currently Paydays. Overall, whatever's easy.
Fav Sport: skateboarding
Fav Athlete: who to choose, who to choose, Bucky and Bam
Drink of Choice: water, especially Evian. Sonic slushes aren't bad either.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Wellbutrin has done me well over the years in a plodding, loyal dog kind of way. Fancy a bit of Xanax when I'm feeling nervous.
Smoker? : nope. Have you heard that shit gives you cancer?
Occupation : secondary English teacher
Do you work out? : unfortunately no. I do walk about half a mile each day at school and must sometimes walk when using the bus. Thankfully my rainbow of prescribed pills keep me generally thin.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7. when in stockings and tall boots, straight devestating.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : hmm, hard to say. Depends on how well you like fast-talking, strong-headed, too honest, bipolar bitches. Personally I'd say about a 6.
Add anything you want people to know: I'm currently eating from a bag of inside-out Reeses. Excellent. I choose to live in poor, non-white, "dangerous" neighborhoods and would do so even if I became suddenly wealthy. I have a beastie boys and an elliott smith tattoo. My brother's a rapper who's recently begun performing in Europe. If you're German, you might have saw him on MTV last month.
enough. night night.
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, was I the first person here to declare you an asshole? You were far less-assholish in person so I've gathered it's just a Web thang.
sorry, hijack
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:55 (nineteen years ago) link
What I meant was, I've heard "lolita" used to describe young girls in many contexts, none of them true to the book's intention. The book's intention, as I read it, was that she was a young girl who aspired to dirtiness but had no idea what it meant. This certainly makes no less a monster of Humbert, who is IMO one of the greatest villians of literature, but it makes Lolita no more "innocent." So you have the dirty little girl and the exploitative old man. To cast Lol as a complete innocent is not.. right. Not getting it. Not getting the give and take that makes the book so interesting. Of course Humbert is an awful man, but throwing the word "lolita" around as if it has an unsubtle definition hurts the work of art that Lolita is. It doesn't get it.
Anyway.
Sam, has anyone already expressed the degree to which we're all happy you're back? I don't want to bandwagon or anything, but it's really nice to see you.
― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:16 (nineteen years ago) link
albeit as a naiive and playing-with-fire type
Makes all the difference, don't it? If you didn't read that book and think that Humbert was an awful man, however charming, there's something wrong with you, and I'm sure Nabokov would agree.
― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Because you took advantage of a sinwhen I was helpless moultng moist and tenderhoping for the bestdreaming of marriage in a mountain stateaye of a litter of Lolitas
Because you took advantage of my inneressential innocencebecause you cheated me--
Because you cheated me of my redemptionbecause you tookher at the age when ladsplay with erector setsa little downy girl still wearing poppiesstill eating popcorn in the colored gloamwhere tawny Indians took paid croppersbecause you stole herfrom her wax-browed and dignified protectorspitting into his heavy-lidded eyeripping his flavid toga and at dawnleaving the hog to roll upon his new discomfortthe awfulness of love and violetsremorse despair while youtook a dull doll to piecesand threw its head awaybecause of all you didbecause of all I did notyou have to die"
Read together the first and last lines. The rest is tapdancing.
― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link
How could Nabokov done that accidentally, though? How can you read that from even the subtext of a book and not understand that it's the whole point?
― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Fav Band: Couldn't say.
Fav Movie: Prob. Crooklyn or something.
Fav TV Show: Mr. Show (I know, I know, it's not on anymore)
Fav Book: Hebrew-English/English-Hebrew Dictionary
Fav Actor: Ronnie Burkett
Fav Actress: No idea
Fav Food: Thai (anything hot sweet and sour)
Fav Sport: Sitting on my arse
Fav Athlete: None.
Drink of Choice: Mohito
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): extacy
Smoker? : Occasionally
Occupation : Student
Do you work out? : I go to gym every day of the working week.
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
― papa november (papa november), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Name: GemmaAge: 28Height: 5'4" (i think)
Fav Band: too many
Fav Movie: i have a lot, i guess maybe cinema paradiso, city of the lost children and metropolis are pretty important ones though.
Fav TV Show: lateline. and i used to love the fast show when it was on. and blackadder.
Fav Book: too many too. but definitely heroes and villains by angela carter; perfume by patrick suskind; the outsider by albert camus
Fav Actor: i don't really have one
Fav Actress: ummm audrey tautou, audrey hepburn, frances mcdormand
Fav Food: roast lamb/japanese/thai
Fav Sport: i don't play or follow any sport
Fav Athlete: *shrug*
Drink of Choice: vodka and soda.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): i like recreational drugs although i rarely use them these days. no pot anymore.
Smoker? : reformed.
Occupation : policy writer/law student
Do you work out? : no. but i go to the beach most days for a walk and do yoga.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : about the middle. probably a 6.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : same same as for looks.
― gem (trisk), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Name: bulbousAge: 42Height: 5'11"
Fav Band: 23 skidoo
Fav Movie: taxi driver
Fav TV Show: iron chef
Fav Book: the erl king
Fav Actor: dirk bogarde
Fav Actress: molly ringwald
Fav Food: masala paneer or rocket dhosa
Fav Sport: soccer
Drink of Choice: pleb beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): acid
Smoker? : vaguely
Occupation : information management
Do you work out? : no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : erratic
― bulbs (bulbs), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:49 (nineteen years ago) link
;-)
― bulbs (bulbs), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Half of these answers are from when i was 19 because the answers to them have been of no interest to me since then.
This is great, and truer for me than I was willing to admit before. Thanks, bulbs, for breaking the barrier.
Fav Band: If I said the Mile Davis Quartet in 1958, you'd think I was a pretentious asshole, wouldn't you? I can't win.
Fav Movie: If I cited something from Bergman, you'd think I was a pretentious asshole and a tremendous downer, wouldn't you? I can't win.
Fav TV Show: If I said that I wouldn't watch TV at all ever if I wasn't otherwise forced to, you'd think I was a pretentious asshole, wouldn't you? I can't win.
Fav Book: If I said that I don't actually read much fiction anymore, you'd think... I don't know what you'd think. I don't care much, either. The best books I've ever read and that I continue to read do not have plots, themes, or characters, except for the naturally occurring ones. My favorite books are good journalism.
Fav Actor / Fav Actress: same as before.
Fav Food: pie
Fav Sport: fucking
Fav Athlete: me, while fucking
Drink of Choice: same as before
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
― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 08:19 (nineteen years ago) link