Introduce Yourselves!

Jeff your name always makes me think of Belgian strong beers

Hahaha. I saw that reg in the new users lists and at first thought it might be LJ making a new account to get past his ban. :)

You caught me, Hurting. I'm actually a sentient beer.

Louis says it really is his brother.

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I'm Nick and I'm listening to The Very Best of Ethiopiques.

Happiness, happiness, the greatest gift that I posses
I thank the Lord I've been blessed
With more than my share of happiness

To me this old world is a wonderful place
And I'm just about the luckiest human in the whole human race
I've got no silver and I've got no gold
Just a whole lot of happiness in my soul

Happiness, happiness, the greatest gift that I posses
I thank the Lord I've been blessed
With more than my share of happiness

Happiness to me is an ocean tide
Or a sunset fading on a mountain side
Or maybe a big old heaven full of stars up above
When I'm in the arms of the one I love

Happiness is a field of grain
Lifting its face to the falling rain
I can see it in the sunshine, I breathe it in the rain
Happiness everywhere

Happiness, happiness, the greatest gift that I posses
I thank the Lord I've been blessed
With more than my share of happiness

A wise old man told me one time
That happiness is nothing but a frame of mind
I hope when you go to measuring my success
That you don't count my money count my happiness

Happiness, happiness, the greatest gift that I posses
I thank the Lord I've been blessed
With more than my share of happiness

Happiness, happiness, the greatest gift that I posses
I thank the Lord I've been blessed
With more than my share of happiness

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The other clerk was Pete Margasak

The biggest fish in a small pond.

I remember "Inside Track." That was a long time ago. I used to go there, then to the "Coffee and Tea Exchange" down the street.

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Uh. Hi there! I'm Nate.
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I live in a grubby college town in Minnesota and work the graveyard shift at a grocery store. I'm moving to New Zealand in August. I'm in bands with jerks, I'm a know-nothing from a nowhere small town and I'm here in some halfassed attempt to learn more about music (five+ years without the internet, trying to catch up). I'm on the myspace like every other jerksuck. Pleased to meecha.

do your bandmates know they are jerks?

...
I'm busy speculating whether or not I meant that. Regardless, I love them all.

okay, Welcome!

Thanks, buddy!

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fuck, at the start of this thread, Dr C says his kids are 8 and 5. They'd now be (approx) 15 and 12. That's kind of scary. Time flies.

Welcome to everyone, even especially the LJ sibling.

And he still plays rugby. The kids must keep him fit.
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That and not having butter on the canteen lady's crumpet.

Hello, I'm just some bodrick.

hello. i'm 25. Toronto, via Tokyo, via Newfoundland. i met a girl who lives here. my tastes are all over the place, and she can dance beautifully to any of it. i have a desk job downtown now. and i've read this board off and on for years. so now here i am.

last music i bought was the last Local Rabbits album. last thing i downloaded was a Cold Crush recording from thatrealschitt.blogspot.com

i hope this was the right thread.

It was. Welcome!

Local Rabbits, nice! :-) saw at Halifax Pop Explosion like 94? Great stuff

welcome, for what it's worth coming from me, I am pretty new too.

Hey, I've posted a handful of times, but just so that it's on the record and I'm not just some lurker when I sporadically post:

I'm Tal, and it's too bad that I didn't hear about this place six or seven years ago.

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Creepy thing is, no matter where you go in the room, his sausage seems to follow you.

Hi, all. I was posting for a while as Bob Standard, but had problems with that account (much too delicate to go into here). So now I'm this. Through it all, I've been a middle-aged database guy who likes to geek about music, go to shows, etc. I live in Seattle, up by Greenlake. It's nice, quiet. We have apple trees in the yard.

I was born in’67. I’ve been an Oakland Raiders fan since ’74 and a Chicago White Sox fan since about then as well. In the 70’s I thought the Rolling Stones were the greatest. In the Eighties I moved on to Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. I went to college and decided Mudhoney was where it’s at. Suddenly I was in musical heaven. Records by the Afghan Whigs, Breeders, Neil Young, Nirvana, Nick Cave, Sonic Youth all flooded my impressionable ears. I continued like this until the mid Nineties when I drifted back to “rock n roll” with the discovery of the Beasts of Bourbon and The Scientists.
I then jumped on the garage rock trolley with labels like Estrus, In the Red and Sympathy for the Record Industry. I quickly added the stoner rock of the Man’s Ruin label among others. Since the turn of the century I’ve been searching the bins for late sixties early seventies rarities and searching for that next revelation where ever it may come from.
Currently I live in upstate New York (outside Ithaca) with my girl friend and cat shaped poop machine. I’m taking IT classes in an effort to get a permanent job that will let me settle down in one place and buy way more records than I’ll ever be able to listen to.

What's up, cotenderizer? SeattILX rolls deep, and we're always looking to rolls deeper.

Steampig, welcome here.

OK, "cat shaped poop machine" is one of the greatest things ever posted to ILX.

What John said. That made me so happy when I read it. Welcome Steampig, you'll fit right in.

After lurking here for a few months I've decided to start posting, as this is a forum where I can actually learn a thing or two and actually discuss music--the other forums I've been on have devolved into pissing matches over proving how cool and obscure the music you listen to is.

I'm a huge krautrock/psych-rock/folk/noise fan, but in the past 2 years I've gotten caught into miminal techno and cosmic disco stuff (hosting an electronic music show throughout college made this inevitable, I suppose).

I figure, where the music crits are is where I'll learn the most.

also, I live in Atlanta which is in dire need of more deep house and minimal...even the Justices and MSTRKRFTs of the world don't come to town frequently, so the city is flooded with poor-man's Diplos and electro DJs.

the other forums I've been on have devolved into pissing matches over proving how cool and obscure the music you listen to is

If you've been here for a while you surely have noticed that here too! Anyway, welcome welcome.

oh come on ned, this place is oodles better than most others. even if it sucks donkey dick.

Sheesh, I'm years - YEARS! - overdue for doing this.

Hello, I'm Mike. I'm 45 years old, I'm British, and I'm based in Nottingham during the week and a village in the Derbyshire Peak District at weekends. I've been partnered since 1985, and legally man-on-man hitched since 2006. I work variously as an IT consultant (for the money) and as a freelance music journalist (for the love, and for the pathetic reflected glory of being a Confidante To The Stars). I've written for Stylus, Slate and Time Out London, but my regular gig is with my local paper, the Nottingham Evening Post. I review one or two live shows a week, and I bag phone interviews every couple of weeks or so.

I started blogging in 2001 and made my first posting to ILM a few weeks later, but didn't start hanging out here regularly until 2004. My ILM claim to fame was running the 1000 UK Number Ones poll in early 2005, but I generally keep a low profile around here. (You're all awfully clever, and I know my place.)

I've been "following the charts" since 1971, ever since "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" turned me on to rock and roll. I've been buying albums since 1973, my first purchase being The Beatles 1967-70. My last purchases were the Black Mountain, Beirut and Ungdomskulen albums, and I'll be buying Vampire Weekend at lunchtime.

History of musical interests as follows: The Sweet -> Slade -> Queen -> Yes -> Gong -> Kevin Ayers -> Eddie & The Hot Rods -> Clash/Damned/Pistols/Buzzcocks/Adverts/X-Ray Spex/Gen X/Slits/Banshees -> Devo/Pere Ubu -> Undertones -> Cure -> Blockheads/Costello/Blondie -> DISCO!!! -> Orange Juice -> ABC -> Bobby O/Patrick Cowley -> early electro -> Arthur Baker/John Robie -> New Order -> Smiths -> Frankie/Bronski/PSB -> Prince/Madonna -> James Brown/Aretha -> the New Authenticity! (whoops) -> Jam/Lewis -> Def Jam -> Chicago house -> dance music GOOD, guitar music BORING (club DJ from 86 to 89) -> acid house -> deep house/garage -> Soul II Soul/rare groove/jazz-funk/boogie -> snotty soulboy phase, causing me to miss rave entirely (double whoops) -> acid jazz/Talkin' Loud/Dorado -> Nirvana/Pixies/Sonic Youth/Teenage Fanclub (guitars GOOD AGAIN, thank you Volume/Select) -> Suede/Bjork/Saint Etienne -> Orbital/Leftfield -> handbag/hardbag/nu-NRG -> midlife crisis mad-fer-it tops-off Tradebabe phase -> Tony De Vit/Ian M/Tinrib/Reactivate -> Rollo & Sister Bliss/Faithless/Motiv8 -> Tribal Gathering/Oasis at Knebworth -> and I had a GREAT Britpop, thank you for asking -> nu classic soul/D'Angelo/Destinys Child/Kelis -> UK garage/2-step -> abandon clubbing in favour of newly resurgent live music circuit -> electroclash/early Scissor Sisters -> oh yeah, EUROVISION! -> Neil Diamond/Johnny Cash/Leonard Cohen/Brian Wilson -> Church Of Me (& spin-offs thereof) -> Fluxblog/Said The Gramophone/Music For Robots/Benn Loxo Du Taccu -> Mali/Senegal/Tuareg/Griot -> Cuba/Omara/Cesaria/Mariza -> British folk -> Hidden Cameras/White Stripes/Streets/Franz Ferdinand -> The Knife/Hot Chip/CSS -> Rufus Wainwright/Antony Hegarty/Joan As Policewoman -> LCD Soundsystem/Good Bad & Queen/Los Campesinos/Battles/Burial -> British Sea Power/Vampire Weekend -> ?????

Hello.

Yo.

been here since the greenspun days in various guises
i work for at&t and make shitty downtempo/elevator music in my spare time.
been an aspiring dj for awhile but always end up spending money on records instead of a 2nd turntable
just moved back to the bay area, love to dance but have no real dancing friends yet

Hey, I'm Stewart, a long time worker-lurker from a weird small town in Southern Minnesota. I'm bonkers over there being a forum where people can talk about The Shadow Ring, A.R. Kane and Brad Paisley without being too sneered at. It seems like someone could feasibly start a successful thread about Virgin Steele if he or she so desired (though I'll leave it to someone else). I think ILX's most underrated thread is "United Arab Amirites". Anyway, I probably I won't post too much; it just seems courteous for the guy who's been gawking in the corner all night to introduce himself and be a tad less creepy.

Big LURKS aka ?

Hey guys, I

Stewart=my friend.

OBD---wha?

i'm charlie
25
i like the beatles, the rolling stones and radiohead

Greets, Charlie!

:)
hola, right back

Hulloo, Charlie

I like a bit o' Teh Beatles & Them Rolling Stones too. And even a weeny bit o'Radiohead.
As for being 25, huh, my son'll be that age inna coupla months).

P.S. That wurst-like snaky thingy in the FREE HUGS! post upthread (Friday, 25 January 2008) musta be the peculiarest pictureosity posted on this thread, no ?

i'm 25, but have a few years on lj 'parrently

sup guys!