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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.

Contact Millar for testimonial.

Well, I'm 30, and I am a music critic at Danish sort-of-leftist-in-a-really-soft-and-undangerous-kind-of-way broadsheet newspaper Politiken. I mainly deal with hip hop, r&b, techno, house, IDM, all kinds of post-ravey stuff. I also write about the odd indie rock record - and when everybody else is on vacation or really ill, they let me handle the major mainstream events such as the dreadful Elton John concert I recently reviewed.

I love Timbaland and Missy, some of The Neptunes' stuff, avant garde high brow electronic composition from all the way up through the 20th century, Basement Jaxx, Public Enemy, Dre, dancehall sound system battles, Tom Waits, UKG, Gutter Garage (or is it Grime these days), the first Rage Against The Machine record, schmoochy deep house, cheesy mash-ups, Kid 606, early Detroit techno, Radiohead, Stereo MC's 'Connected', brazilian baile funk, Anticon, some of Britney's stuff, some of Justin's stuff, whatever. I guess I'm pretty predictable. I love to watch new scenes emerge. I love music that is not quite ripe and/or self-conscious. Does this make sense? Probably not.

Anyway, I am also struggling with the final paper in my Master's Degree (rhetoric), and I have a girlfriend that I love. I live in Vesterbro, Copenhagen's would-be-equivalent to Brooklyn in a flat and I own a dark blue Fiat 500L from 1969, which I love almost as much as my girlfriend.

Looking forward to get to know everybody and please don't hesitate if you have any questions about Danish music (yeah right!)

JK

Names like Sterling Clover and Ned Raggett sound a bit like sinister fortysomethings who know much more about music than I ever will (you probably still do that, though)

It's all part of the act. ;-)