Introduce Yourselves!

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???

welcome, new people. hope you like it here.

my name is jonathon, 29, married and father of 1, bachelor of arts in journalism, i'm in a touring band that i'd rather not name here because i'm too chicken ILMers will filet us alive and i'd rather post in obscurity, i've spent a lot of my twenties travelling and working for various music-related businesses in the US and Europe, have probably slept on every couch in North America, Eastern Canada, and Western Europe, i'm growing my first beard, my very first ILM post was locked by Ned Raggett, and i'm psyched to enter into these discussions, but i'll probably end up getting lazy and resorting to half-assed lurking most of the time.

nice to meet you all.
cheers

I can't spell or write very well. I'm not objective. I have less than 1% hate in my heart. I like to play electric guitars through amps with pedals, even though I'm no good. I like to play with Reason 3. I like to sing. I can sing a little I think. I love music!

"I'm in love with the radio on" - modern lovers

And Ned is like a greeter who stands at the entrance to the sanctuary.

(Amazing that people were already missing Geir Hongro before I first posted here.)

hello!

I've been a daily-lurker, sometimes-poster for maybe 6 months now. I've always loved music, but owing largely to an insanely conservative religious upbringing (Acquire the Fire rallies, CCM, reform party of canada, christian summer camps, you know the type), I've only got about 3-4 years of serious "secular" (ha ha) listening experience under my belt. So please forgive the occasional noob questions!

Two albums I've recently "discovered" thanks to ILM and absolutely adore: Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden and Villalobos' Achso EP.

No offense, but i was sort of hoping you were Hal Hartley. And...I just learned how to do the italics thing, thanks to BakedBeanTeeth.

Good lord, frightening thought.

I like all kinds of music, except rap and country*

* I like rap

Lately I've been heavily revisiting my musical formative years by digging a lot of 80's punk rock and hip-hop, but I like most everything cause I'm pretty sure theres lots of music I love that I haven't heard yet.

Hey weird, heywood! My name is Mike B. and I used to maintain the rock section at amoeba music in Berkeley.