Introduce Yourselves!

Because I grew up in a place where good records/music mags were extremely hard to find, I've missed out on quite a bit so excuse me if I know next to nothing about records/artists/bands before 1995.

More of a lurker than a poster, until recently. But I'll probably go back to lurking soon.

Also enjoy Nina Simone, Tim Buckley, Missy Elliot, the Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, Basement Jaxx, Radiohead, Kylie, Blur, Madonna, Prince, the Shins and a lot of other crappy indie bands, and whatever bouncy pop nugget is assailing the charts at the moment. There's not much that I actively hate except maybe Simple Plan.

vanessa/novaeris/the axe - female 25 years old - student at UMASS Amherst - studying cinema, media studies & intensive japanese
I love to read & knit & watch films (usually foreign & kung-fu) & eat chocolate & hit things with my car & download music & take sedatives & sleep. I can only read science & non-fiction books because Im too dumb to follow complex narratives. I have a severely impaired memory & tend to foget things alot (like what year it is or in which city I forgot my car)

I grew up on britpop a la suede, blur, auteurs, etc. these days I'm much more of a robot with a preference for the electronic genres. but Im really Im really a musical schizophrenic - afx, akufen, arovane, bochum welt, bola, bonobo, brian eno, broadcast, casino v. japan, cinematic orchestra, claro intelecto, clifford gilberto, drexciya, dettinger, erykah badu, four tet, I am robot and proud, jaga jazzist, kraftwerk, lali puna, mara carlyle, markus guentner, marumari, monolake, mu, neu!, nobukazu takemura, proem, quantic, riow arai, stereolab, steve roach, swayzak, sugar plant, telepopmusik, tujiko noriko, vector lovers,, vladislav delay. etc. etc. Im totally forgetting a bunch but I love warp, kompakt, carpark, tomlab, some ant zen & ninja tune is okay, chain reaction, & rune grammofon.

as a rule I dont like vocals cos they piss me off, especially in english - I cant handle bad lyrics so most vocal stuff I cant understand one word of it.
aim = novaeris

ok I hope that was okay :P ....

I lurked here for a long time, finally registered and now post when I can bring something to the table, so an introduction was overdue. Like most people on ILM I'm into all kinds of music. Some long-term favourites include American Music Club, Felt, Boards of Canada, Kitchens of Distinction, Low, Seam, MBV and Fugazi.

Other interests include film (occasional ILF poster) and modern fiction.

These boards are the best distraction from the workday grind I can think of and I've learnt a lot about music and artists I knew nothing about before, thanks to all you good people.

I'm 32, dangerously partisan towards Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti and Dexy's, and becoming a Dad in July. My focus doesn't waiver far from that last point these days.

The rest of my life tends to revolve around going to football matches, drinking beer and trying to beat the NME in a weekly music quiz in a North London pub.

http://www.electroempire.com/miami.htm

Music that comes to mind, off the top of my head, stream-of-consciously: The Cure, The Smiths, The Fall, Pixies, Love, Magnetic Fields (I think '69 Love Songs' might be a Desert Island Disc), Nick Drake, Scott Walker, Burt Bacharach, New Order & JD, My Bloody Valentine, Smog, Cat Power, Dirty Three, The Sundays, Cocteau Twins, Cowboy Junkies, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Dead Kennedys, The Clash, The Cramps, Velvet Underground, Nick Cave in all incarnations, Will Oldham in all incarnations, Stone Roses, Moose, The Go-Betweens, The Clean, Pulp more than Blur and not Oasis much at all, Broken Social Scene, Feist, The Dears, The Arcade Fire, Destroyer, Mercury Rev, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, The Beatles, The Monkees (I know! I know! But I had a job closed-captioning the entire "Monkees" TV series and, well, developed a bit of a crush... guilty pleasure, OK?), The Beach Boys, ohGodwhoamIforgetting...

Other: Writing, reading, films, eating, daydreaming on the bus, wine.

I like sad things but I'm quite happy, really.

A perfectly fine state of mind! Hullo to you and Nic both. (And there's nothing wrong with the Monkees at all!)

and there is no such thing as a guilty pleasure! there is only pleasure.

Hi!

and there is no such thing as a guilty pleasure! there is only pleasure.
Ooh, I like that!
Voluptuarist indeed, or maybe a Head-On-ist, if you're a JAMC / Pixies fan... ?

Vicky

My name is Casey, I'm 37 and have been living in England with my wife since November 2002 (originally from the USA).

I have been lurking here for awhile and finally decided it was time to formally introduce myself.

Some of these threads are absolutely brilliant and I'm looking forward to putting my two cents in here and there.

(When the award is handed out for Most Boring Introduction on ILM, I'll make sure I'm there to accept in person so you won't have to see my (boring) videotaped acceptance speech.)

Brett Hickman

34 years old

I edit and write for an online magazine

My all-time five favorite albums are:
1. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
2. The Band - Music From Big Pink
3. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
4. Wilco - Being There
5. The Beatles - the White album

My e-mail address is real, but I am not.

five musicians i wish i could interview (some of which i can't, really):
emmylou harris
keith jarrett
frank black
marc bolan
buddy holly

it is merely coincidence that their names start with letters from the first half of the alphabet.

i might be able to help you there, dearie. cross my palm with silver ...

I like it here.

interesting. but which period specifically? or just "everything"?
dude, start threads on russian op 6 rock. do - now.

Now my friend Diego (who has been part of some Focus Group at freaky trigger, and has also been writing for Stylus Magazine) offered me to be part of Edward O's kinda classic "Cross Europe Charts", I did the first one, based on the charts from Denmark. Then he sent me yousendits for the one from Norway, which was really great, but I couldn't write anything because...well...life happened again. So if Edward gets back from wherever he is and sends me more yousendits, I hope I'll keep being part of that.

I really don't know if I'll ever get enough courage to be part of any of the wild discussions that take place here, but, well, I had to do this just in case.

i'm john, from chicago, 33 years old, first found ILM (via a link from woebot) to the covers drawn from memory threads last year. began posting as frankE, advocated strong for big & rich as album of the decade, stopped for a while after the 2004 election (nothing seemed to matter, woe is me and all that), came back as john'n'chicago, had some trouble logging in (apostrophes don't sit well with cookies apparently), settled with this new/improved name.

in a former life i was: high-school OCD record acquirer, college paper record reviewer, lackey for crappy teensy record companies, assistant to booking agent.

after all that, i stopped listening to music with any seriousness for years. not quite sure i do now.

Anyway, who reads this kind of thread???