Introduce Yourselves!

Hello

"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.

I am completely average in every way.

"I like the way 'Snnnnrub' thinks!"

Okay Mr Burns, whats your first name?

I don't know!...

http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/weblogs/Grimly/

which is a shame, because he is way cooler than me.

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...

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.

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.

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....

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!

also, I live in Reno, Nevada.

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

mike aka mikebee, 31, san francisco
for money i maintain the electronic(a) section at amoeba music in the city
i'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 degiorgio
mo'wax
madchester
sonic youth
harthouse
warp records
uk hardcore/"breakbeat house"
depeche mode
pixies/4AD
nick drake
plaid
squarepusher
ninjatune
stax
good looking records/ltj bukem
4 hero/reinforced records
bugz in the attic
wookie
the orb
shoegazer
stevie wonder
acid jazz

to name a few.

current favorites:
m.i.a - arular
caribou - milk of human kindness
v/a - full body workout
ame - s/t
v/a - speicher 2
primal scream - give out but don't give up
lots of electrohouse singles - get physical, john dahlback, dirt crew
lots of broken beat singles - domu, bugz, i.g. culture
the GAMM label
octave one "blackwater" strings instrumental mix
steve bug presents bugnology
the dukes of stratosphear
dolly 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

Naturally!

I've lived in Copenhagen, Alexandria, Florence and Rome amongst others and have tried and given up on various instruments. I'm open minded, friendly and an amazing lover. Or at least I think so. I'm fast running out of things to say so I shall stop here and hopefully keep my dignity intact.

*Spills coffee on groin as he presses 'Submit' button*

And Sibsi, you're the first person I've seen mention Asthmatic Kitty on here. Do you like that crazy HalfHanded Cloud?

Hair-laden.

Hello, I'm Chris. I'm 21 and from Northern Ireland but studying French Studies with European Studies at Lancaster University in England. I graduate this year and I'm thinking of doing a Masters in Dublin in a coupla years, after I've earned a bit of money doing some shit job in Belfast. Musical passions are mainly what you might call indie, but especially with a post-punk/new wave kind of bent. Interpol, British Sea Power, Talking Heads, Pixies, Mclusky, MBV, Arcade Fire, Ikara Colt and LCD Soundsystem are all favourites. And I'm a big fan of Liverpool FC.

There you are, hello one and all.

and so on.
I've traded mix cds with Nate Patrin and Charlie Rose but otherwise haven't had any contact with anybody else on the board.
So there you go.
Hoping to drag myself out of lurkdom...