Introduce Yourselves!

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I did not have sexual relations with that man. Mr. Bergman.
*ha-ha.*

my home town has a bronzed sculpture of 3 corgie dogs on high street - the squickly swishified boutique type district of christchurch.. recently i developed the catch-phrase 'surfing the corgie' as some kind of anal sex analogy..

I'm here because I love everything from Carcass to Dylan to Boredoms to Waits to Sonic Youth to Neil Young to Phillip Glass to Joni Mitchell. My Morning Jacket and Yo La Tengo are my current fave bands which I cannot, for the life of me, stop listening to. I play in a band here called the Fragments and we will be great in about six months ;)

I'm 30 and from Toronto (and would be curious to hear from other Toronto ILMers). I freelance as a composer and producer - jingles, corporate video soundtracks, voiceover demos, you name it. I also do production and remixes for a couple of tiny dance labels. I have yet to give up my day job, as it involves flogging studio equipment and thus keeps me in reasonably priced gear and freebie software.

I've been obsessed with music and recorded sound for as long as I can remember - one of my earliest memories is of my Dad showing me how to handle LPs and work a turntable, and my Mom is convinced that I was born knowing how to play the drums. I have my favourite genres and artists (I have a serious soft spot for early house and techno, as well as late-80s hip-hop), but I'm open to anything that's good.

Currently shuttling me, myself and I between Montreal, Berlin, Helsinki and Linköping (Sweden). Researcher and lecturer at various universities in aforementioned cities. Doing work on scenes and subcultures, cities and culture.

Did a fair bit of radio in my Montreal days. Now a smattering of DJing in Berlin, not much though. Generally soaking up the vibe there (involved now with the Club Transmediale Festival). Off to Helsinki in two weeks.

At this very moment, I'm planning how to get my act together for a job interview at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Good fun.

a good name for a band - i'd remove the "the" though.

this older Jewish guy

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-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), August 23rd, 2004. (later)

AdamL, it was you, wasn't it?

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), August 23rd, 2004. (later)

since i have never seen a picture of him AdamL is black and shall remain so in my head.

I'm a 33 year old graphic designer in Portland, OR. Currently loving The Wrens, Pinback, New Pornographers, Rogue Wave, and Broken Social Scene. Also a big fan of most 60's British invasion stuff.

I should add that that you people are some insanely funny mother fuckers. These two threads had me in stitches:

In every Lemmy lyric, a PhD: Essay and thesis topics in honour of Motorhead

drug-addled artists you'd like to see in a roundtable discussion

(Rereading this it sounds like a music obsessive version of an AA introduction.)

that is all.

Nope - it's Mom, which is Standard Canuckian English.

I know that's a questionably structured sentence, but fuck it - I'm leaving it that way.

My tastes seem to be generally more pitchforkian then i'd like to admit, but that's changing i swear. I don't see why people should be hatin on certain bands, it just seems easier and more pleasing to just ignore what doesn't fit my style. I'd like to thank ILM for convincing me to get Capital Punishment, have me start listening to M.I.A., reaffirming my 80's guilty pleasures, and having a sense of fucking humor.

-- lemin (jlync...), August 26th, 2004. (later)

No shit? I'll be over at Hayden hall. Glad to see NYU has a small contingent on ILM.

this post so totally affirms why this place rocks!

All sarcasm aside, having the unofficial school hipster band be Interpol is better than what my high school has produced, namely Rose Hill Drive. God Boulder sucks.

I have a theory that if your first ILX post is on an "Introduce Yourselves!" thread, you will stop posting within a week.

Name: Joseph McCombs
Age: 31
Location: NYC

Bio: Grew up in the Pittsburgh, PA area. After college, spent almost 5 years in SF until an appearance on "Rock & Roll Jeopardy" helped convince a music-related dotcom startup to hire me to write music news and reviews in Orange County. That lasted about a year, long enough for me to decide to continue the pursuit of writing about music. Freelanced for some websites, mostly now defunct (Digital Music Weekly, ZDNet Music, OnAir.com), then returned to the east coast. Interned with Chuck Eddy at the Voice last fall (he's the one who got me interested in this board) and now copy edit there part-time. Currently writing reviews for the All Music Guide and StarPolish.com, actively looking for more writing and editing projects.

Favorite Songs Ever: 1. Jefferson Starship, "Miracles"; 2. Grass Roots, "I'd Wait a Million Years"; 3. Nina Simone, "Wild Is the Wind"; 4. Todd Rundgren, "I Saw the Light"; 5. Lighthouse, "One Fine Morning."

Favorite Radio Listening: KFOG's 10@10, Felix Hernandez's Rhythm Revue, Capital Gold.

Unknown Bands I Wish Would Break Big: The Rosenbergs, The Clarks, New Invisible Joy, Bran Van 3000.

Other Interests: British humor, playing softball, drinking, husband-hunting. Fortunately this city allows me to pursue all four simultaneously.

My name is Deanna (but you can call me Dee) and I do cringe when looking at my old "introduce yourselves!" post. I'm 24 years old, born December 29, with parents who luckily understood the necessity of STILL getting both Christmas and birthday gifts. Have matured and grown on the inside since I started throwing myself into discussions both here and ILE. I'm much more tolerant about a wide variety of things, happily enough.

I would still kill to have serious ILM-ish discussions about Duran Duran, though I fear that will never happen because of how strong I've come across in re: that musical artist. As a result of all this, I do sometimes feel quite alone in this forum, because I really haven't come across someone here who has felt even remotely similarly toward the band as I feel. I do listen to a lot of other musical artists, though, and I am sorta secretly hoping to wake up one day and discover that a musical artist I'm a huge fanatic of is also easily discussable here. (Though that could be the case with Japan, I'm currently in one of my "I'm sick of Japan" phases.)

I feel tons of regret about all sorts of things, but one of the things I regret most is that I was so obsessed with the '80s when I was a teenager. As a result, I haven't been able to get away from that sort of legacy and currently I'm berating myself constantly for not regularly listening to artists people around my age "should" be listening to. I'm perpetually uncool and unhip and unable to find a group of individuals I can blend into. I was born without the "irony" gene. I didn't even know such a thing could exist on a regular basis until I came here. I also now understand quite a number of other pop culture-y things I did not get at all when I first started posting here. As a result, I am perpetually in a state of embarrassment at how idiotic I must've come across when I started posting here.

I consider New Wave and New Romantic music to be my musical comfort food. I try to get into all sorts of musical things, though, and really, as long as it was released from 1964 onward and isn't country (or country-tinged), Spanish-language, or rap, I like it or would probably like it. I'm the only "minority" (of 50% Mexican extraction and 50% Spanish extraction) here in the U.S. without any "street cred" at all, and I actually kinda like that. I balance work and school and also help take care of my mother, whose arms and legs bedevil her on a daily basis. I've only ever had one boyfriend in my life -- it was an odd excuse for a "relationship".

And that's who I am.

And I'm still waiting for someone ELSE to list Duran Duran in one of these bloody lists!! (Even though I'm disgruntled by them, I still view them as my own personal # 1. Sickening, isn't it?)

Okay. Never mind. Asking the impossible.