name: jen
ex-nicknames: i wasn't on the cmj board. however, nicknames i go by include: jenger, jenny-jen, jennydaystar, jennifa oh jenny, jen jen and sista souljah
age: 30.
locale: suburb of cleveland ohio.
status: single.
job: advertising account manager, advertorial writer, page layer outer.
favorite bands: the grateful dead, wilco, ani difranco, pavement, phish, built to spill ... just to name the #1 favorite(s).
interests: reading, camping, road tripping, music, crafty things, art, pop culture.
current guilty pleasure: american idol.
personal factoid: i've never been with a woman.

name: Jen

ex-nicknames: Charli_lady(on board), otherwise childhood one is Guinevere. Dad still calls me that instead of regular name.

age: 35

locale: Chicago

status: married to Josh, 8 1/2 yr old Son, and Daughter due in July

job: Assist Manage a Spa

favorite bands/albums: Whiskeytown/Ryan Adams, Josh Rouse, Rickie Lee Jones, T.Rex, Ed Harcourt, Joseph Arthur, Wilco, Riviera, Drive By Truckers

interests: sleeping, hanging with my son, Reading(a LOT lately), tv and movies, learning to cook better, looking for baby stuff, re-organizing our apt aka Nesting

current guilty pleasure: Addicted to General Hospital the soap.

personal factoid:Once the free spirited party girl, I've now become soooo domestic it surprises even me once in a while. And I love it. I'm happier this way.

name: Dave

ex-nicknames: just shoegaze666...when i couldn't figure out my password I signed up again with the added death to... In College my nickname was Dave-O, and my friends in PA call me Chait

age: 24
locale: Atlanta Suburbs

status: needs to get laid, needs a job, could really use a cigarette right about now.

job: rub it in my face why don't you

favorite bands/albums: SPOON! Wilco, Broken Social Scene, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, Johnny Cash, The CLASH, Serge Gainsbourg, My Bloody Valentine, Madlib, The Pixies, Ted Leo, Mogwai, Outkast, Trail Of Dead, Radiohead, The Wrens, REM, Sloan, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Beulah, American Analog Set, Teenage Fanclub Augustus Pablo, Studio One Comps, Belle & Sebastian, Superchunk, Buzzcocks, Television, Four Tet, Jesus & Mary Chain, !!!, Animal Collective, Talking Heads, Caribou, Super Furry Animals, Les Savy Fav, Velvet Underground, New Pornographers, Mountain Goats, Pavement, John Vanderslice, The Flaming Lips, The Polyphonic Spree, Wire, Mission Of Burma, Sonic Youth, Broadcast, Luna, A Tribe Called Quest, Kanye West, Coldplay, Brazilian Girls, Josh Rouse, The High Caliber, Motown, Northern Soul, Mingus, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Coltrane, The Blood Brothers, Interpol, The Features, Swervedriver, KaitO, Marvin Gaye, The Shins, Can, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Dinosaur Jr., The Killers, The Jam,The Futureheads, My Morning Jacket, Yo La Tengo, Untied States, Tortoise, The Walkmen, The Thermals, The Ronettes, The Smiths, The Cure, The Rosebuds, The Postal Service, The Pogues, Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, The National, Aesop Rock...OK YOU GET IT BY NOW
(Copied from myspace)

interests: smoking, drinking, fucking, listening, dreaming, loving, talking, spanking, watching, sleeping, living.

current guilty pleasure: Mainlining a combination of elmers glue and wasabi mayo.

personal factoid: everyone thinks I'm 100% gay...and there's a few people just waiting for me to finally admit it even though I know it will never happen. Trust me, you'd know by now.

dude, i'm on waubesa, down by bongo on atwood, and my lady's place is on the corner of spaight and dickinson. how 'bout that? chances are we've probably passed somewhere on willy. we've gotta do beers soon!

Oh here we go...

OPA!, only you could think moj means that they're being stickin' the empties up each others's asses.

where's that gigantic intro thread from 2 years ago?
i'm sure not that much has changed.

todd still loved shrimpboat.
everyone drank a lot or pretended to.
but i'm not sure if opa! was gay then.

Except now there's a lot more of us who auditioned for the part of Danny in The Shining.

name: Aaron
ex-nicknames: Haq till I die
age: 25
locale: Park Slope, Brooklyn
status: inextricably involved
job: Law Student
favorite bands/albums: Elliott Smith, Radiohead, Okkervil River, Spoon, Otis Redding, Animal Collective, Old 97s
interests: whatever comes along
current guilty pleasure: I can't think of anything. There must be something.
personal factoid: I imagine that lasers are emitted by the corners of the myriad rectangular objects I encounter when i'm walking, and make a half-assed effort not to step on these imaginary lasers.

name: Phil

ex-nicknames: Dorkestra Teacher, epa

age: 28

locale: chicago (in lovely logan square)

status: girlfriend, puppy, and satanic cat.

job: junior high music teacher in Chicago Public Schools. Ought to read junior high baby sitter. Also, bassist for Liquid Soul and a few other bands.

favorite bands/albums: beatles/White Album, raspberries/fresh, jellyfish/spilt milk, fiona apple/when the pawn, beach boys/pet sounds, The Grays/Ro Sham Bo, Queen/Queen II, Jon Brion/Meaningless, Otis Redding/Live in Europe, o.k. i'll stop.

interests: music, recording, cooking, biking, figuring out how to make as much playing music as I do teaching so i can stop teaching...

current guilty pleasure: pissing off the gf unintentionally by writing songs about ex-gfs that are, to her, undeniably good and catchy songs that she finds herself singing. I tell her to be glad that I haven't written one about her, because that would probably mean bad things.

personal factoid: B.B. King shared cheese and crackers with me after we opened up for him and he had finished his set too. He told me that I was a nice young man, and a very good bassist. Then he said "vaya con dios" and I thought if anyone else had said that, it would be stupid, but because it was him, it was one of the COOLEST moments of my life. Then he shook my hand and i was surprised by how uncalloused it was. At school, I wasn't surprised when my students had no idea who he was, but I was disheartened to know that some of the teachers also had no idea who he was.

Name: Tanner

Nickname: oldbullee for way too long

age: 25

status; married

Location: Houma, LA

job: Program Director for Non-profit

Bands: Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Strokes,...

Interests: Sports. specifically sports that involve LSU, recreational drinking

Facts: Pretty standard really

name: Cory
ex-nicknames: tcb; Dodi Let Me Drive; Kung Fu Reference; Wally Backman; Hootie Sans Blowfish
age: 29
locale: Annapolis, Maryland
status: Half-mast
job: Graphic design; separating realtors from their commissions
favorite bands listened to today:Doleful Lions; Songs: Ohia; The Band; Ice Cube
interests: Univers Condensed; alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.fullbush; U.S. Grant; Pink Flamingos
personal factoid: I will fuck your ass up like in a car crash.

elvis fu is dodi let me drive? how did I not know this?

Brilliant powers of deduction, there, F. Lee.

name: Chris
ex-nicknames: none, this is my only name (on board). other nicknames include Dutch, Doobster, and Stalker Boy (long story)
age: 21
locale: Ewing, New Jersey
status: lonely
job: engineering student, music reviewer
favorite bands listened to today: Doves, Josh Rouse, Candy Butchers, Gomez, Failure, Drive-By Truckers, Supergrass, Ryan Adams, the Pogues,
interests: Baseball; playing golf; sleep when i can get some; playing guitar; poker on occasion
current guilty pleasure: can't think of any right now, though I must have one.
personal factoid: My friends used to call me 'the Baseball Encyclopedia' cause they thought I knew absolutely everything about the game. For a while they were right...

my perception is nearly supernatural, what can I say?

name: Jay Ellesse, jls, uhuh-uh uhuh uhuh

ex-nicknames: Bonor Obnerst

age: quarter-cen

locale: Montreal

status: married to my job

job: Ninja (see above: there's no rest for a ninja)

favorite bands/albums: Animal Collective, Mouthus, John Fahey, Six Organs of Admittance, Neil Young

interests: tennis, skiing, single malts

current guilty pleasure: masturbation

personal factoid: I can shake my eyeballs rapidly

name: jon, though some members of my family call me chuck since my middle name is charles

ex-nicknames: shiverhead (on cmj)

age: 37

locale: brighton MA

status: single/kinda dating

job: delivery monkey

favorite bands/albums: jeff buckley, mclusky, sam cooke, faith no more, dj shadow, this moment in black history, etc.

interests: comic books, photography, travelling, getting drunk, making mix cd's, bad dj'ing

current guilty pleasure: flavor of love

personal factoid: i'm afraid of moths

Someone says this every time we do this.

name: Matt

ex-nicknames: always been DHRjericho

age: 27

locale: downtown Milwaukee (recently moved from Idaho)

status: engaged

job: serious business

favorite bands/albums: Suede, Radiohead, Built to Spill, Massive Attack, Pixies, Jesus Lizard, Chrome

interests: wisconsin sports teams; big beers; Seattle Mariners; making mixes; Movies

current guilty pleasure: too busy to have one currently

personal factoid: grew up in england. Almost got into fight with Ronny Turiaf in Spokane.

name: Mark

ex-nicknames: bort, evilhardcorebort, escapefromthomyorke

age: 29

locale: liverpool..............................................(new york)

status: happily married for 3.5 years!

job: i'm freelancing my way through life

favorite bands/albums: Beach Boys, Beck, Moby, the Kung Fu Monkeys

interests: reading, writing, board games, and spinning tunes.

current guilty pleasure: taking sleeping pills

personal factoid: my driver's liscence says I'm 6'2" but I'm really taller than that.

name: Andy
ex-nicknames: none
age: 34
locale: cincinnati
status: married 6 years; 2 year old daughter
job: high school english teacher
favs: wilco, american music club, xtc, springsteen, new pornos, lobos
interests: reading, cooking, movies, band-playin'
guilty: car seat warmer
factoid: I have never heard a Sleater-Kinney song

name: elizabeth
ex-nicknames: eliza (nickname in real life)
age: 17
locale: richmond va
status: bluemilk
job: cashier and student
favorite bands: tom waits, elvis costello, dead kennedys, big star, husker du, sun ra, nick cave
interests: literature, art, music, my boo, sloths, wearing flowers in my hair
current guilty pleasure: nothing
personal factoid: i can dislocate my shoulder. and i hate chicken.

name: eric
ex-nicknames: none
age: older than you, but not incontinent
location: Las Vegas
status: divorced, happily
occupation: mass transit construction
fav music: today- DBT's, Willie Nile, and most things twangy
interests: beer, cigarettes, stereo eqpt.
guilty pleasure: no guilt here
factoid: the incredible, edible egg