― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link
I have a theory that if your first ILX post is on an "Introduce Yourselves!" thread, you will stop posting within a week.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Name: Joseph McCombsAge: 31Location: 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.
― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 26 August 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link
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?)
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 12 September 2004 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 12 September 2004 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 12 September 2004 10:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 12 September 2004 10:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Okay. Never mind. Asking the impossible.
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 12 September 2004 10:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― nameom (nameom), Sunday, 12 September 2004 10:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― snazz, Sunday, 12 September 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Hello
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 12 September 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
"Duran discussion"? No, not really. Just the usual bit of whinging on my part, though I was good this time and didn't break out the violins. I don't think.
I do like a lot of other stuff and am trying to concentrate on that, though every time I do that, my main huge fanatical thing keeps coming back to haunt me. It's a curse.
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 12 September 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link
I am completely average in every way.
― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Asthmatic Cajun (Asthmatic Cajun), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
"I like the way 'Snnnnrub' thinks!"
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 16 January 2005 07:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Okay Mr Burns, whats your first name?
I don't know!...
― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 16 January 2005 08:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 16 January 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Butler, Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Butler (Butler), Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link
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― owen reading, Monday, 17 January 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/weblogs/Grimly/
which is a shame, because he is way cooler than me.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link
gregory bowler. i do graphic design stuff and make music as the fawn for poppy techno-ish stuff and as bedroom eyes for music for people to have sex to (seriously, i hope some day they will be). i live in THE OC. but i want to move to new york. or berlin. or barcelona. or italy. or somewhere. like everyone, i guess. i write also, every once in a while, for a few publications...
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― ppp, Monday, 17 January 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Awesome Welles (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
I've been here for a while too... I live in Seattle but am originally from Nashville and did a long stint in NYC. I do web design and development (more dev cause for some reason I get those gigs more easily and they pay better). I have done some professional illustration (for websites), and I make online comics.
I have a small scale recording studio in my house and record my own stuff. I'm not in a band at the moment, but I have been in several over the years. I know (and probably care) too much about guitars, tube amps and effects pedals, which I both collect and build. (Okay, well I don't really build guitars, but I've modified or rebuilt the electronics on some.)
I think I am the resident hardcore They Might Be Giants fan, and I dunno if that's creepy or refreshing. They are far from the only band I like though.
― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Carel Fabritius (Fabritius), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link
so: simon, 29, glasgow, journalist, new order (or maybe wire ... or the wedding present ... or early OMD ... or the original human league), alcohol, sideburns. er, that's it.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
i totally loved walt mink in high school! i guess spoon would be the other bands from the 90s that went through label hell and back, but survived....
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
26 in Los Angeles and I work in "television". I don't like describing music to people because I suck at it. I like lots of stuff and I hardly ever hate anything even when it's bad because it makes me laugh. My copy of "Bootyz in Motion" is a testament to this...It has both "Whoot! There it is" and "Whoomp! There it is". Amen!
― rocknrolldetox (rocknrolldetox), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
also, I live in Reno, Nevada.
― miss chievous grin (miss chevious grin), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm joseph, 20, from new jersey, living in the financial district of manhattan and going to NYU currently (there seems to be a tiny NYU faction on ILX, which is pretty rad). ILM kinda changed how i thought about music (in that it got me to actually really think about music and how i respond to it in the first place) and have since been avidly perusing the music blogosphere, picking up little nuggets of wisdom/truth/free mp3s wherever i find them. my tastes seem to be largely grounded in whatever it was i was listening to when i was eight, for some reason (which was, by some weird coincidence, new order's singles and early '90s eurodance). and um my boss politely snickered under his breath when my copy of a history of miami bass accidentally found its way into my place of employment (fell out of a bag or something). so this is what it's like to be me hooraaaaaay
― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 10 February 2005 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy's secret childhood (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 February 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 10 February 2005 04:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― gallantseagull, Thursday, 10 February 2005 05:15 (nineteen years ago) link
mike aka mikebee, 31, san francisco for money i maintain the electronic(a) section at amoeba music in the cityi've also been a staff writer at XLR8R mag since 1997. i've been known as a freelance writer occasionally, at one time having a column in URB (96-97) and writing for horrible rags like Sweater and Revolution (remember them?) with the occasional respectable cover story in the SF Bay Guardian. i'm a DJ and have been spinning and promoting club nights in SF since 1995. a few of mine: La Belle Epoque (atmospheric d'n'b '96-'00), Bottom Heavy (breaks, d'n'b, uk/2-step garage, broken beat '01-'03), Safe ('03-04 UKG, grime, broken beat, future jazz). they were marginally successful. my motto: "languishing in obscurity"i have been heavily into at one time:kirk degiorgiomo'waxmadchestersonic youthharthousewarp recordsuk hardcore/"breakbeat house"depeche modepixies/4ADnick drakeplaidsquarepusherninjatunestaxgood looking records/ltj bukem4 hero/reinforced recordsbugz in the atticwookiethe orbshoegazerstevie wonderacid jazz
to name a few.
current favorites:m.i.a - arularcaribou - milk of human kindnessv/a - full body workoutame - s/tv/a - speicher 2primal scream - give out but don't give uplots of electrohouse singles - get physical, john dahlback, dirt crewlots of broken beat singles - domu, bugz, i.g. culturethe GAMM labeloctave one "blackwater" strings instrumental mixsteve bug presents bugnologythe dukes of stratospheardolly parton - the grass is blue
anyway you all seem like my kinda people, for the most part. i'm going to try and contribute a bit more. nice to finally meetcha.
mb aka hj
― heywood jablomi (heywood), Thursday, 10 February 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link
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