"I don't care if yr from Guadaloupe [actually, Martinique -- ed.] 'cause yr still a Got-damned Frog".

i knew it was there somewhere.

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not much has changed for me except i'm older and more fabulous.

name: shelley

ex-nicknames: always been bjw

age: 29

locale: hereabouts (baltimore, the greatest city in america)

status: single, tipsy

job: perfesser

favorite bands/albums this week: clash costello autuers dusty mclusky nina simone old rem etc

interests: stuff, also things

current guilty pleasure: self absorption, middle class privilege

personal factoid: not the fun kind

Name: Dalen

Nickname: Element

age: 35

status: married

Location: west palm beach, florida

job: production supervisor / graphic designer

Bands: recent likes: nathan fake, loka, milosh, the pistolas, darkthrone, concord dawn

Interests: my wife, music, music, film, vodka, kama sutra, home re-modeling/gardening

Facts: it's so big, i can suck it

Thank you, but I'll pass.

Name: Patrick
previous aliases: fightingliberal, Dr. Nguyen Van Falk
Age: 29
Job: Office Coordinator
Location: Lincoln, NE
Interests: Music, booze and politics
Marital status: Girlfriend for 2yrs and 2mos.
Favorite music: Currently listening to alot of Tapes N Tapes for upcoming show.
Factoid: Personally invited to sing backup for Rilo Kiley at a local bar show on the song With Arms Outstretched.

name: Mike

ex-nicknames: ChicagoMike

age: 27 (28 in 10 days)

locale: Chicago, IL

status: Single

job: Applications Support

favorite bands/albums: Elvis Costello, Fugazi, Shuggie Otis, Wire
interests: frisbee, movies, sushi, 80s sitcoms, biking

current guilty pleasure: Maury

personal super nerdy factoid: I never missed a single class in college or grad school

are you going to see elvis costello with the baltimore symphony? i think i am. i just have to find someone to go with and possibly drive because there's no way my car will make it out of this city

I dunno, it's pricey and he's bound to disappoint these days, I guess. I'm dithering. Haven't felt the same about him since he rain out on Cait. Let me know if you're in town, though. Also, go to Pratt.

i was really excited about him being so "close" to richmond. i was considering the 55 dollar seats. they're right next to the stage where the 70 dollar ones are, just on the opposite side.
i'll decide sooner or later. preferably sooner considering it is next month.

Yeah, but for 55 you could get four really good EC albums. This is what I keep thinking.

I could walk to the venue, which is a little tempting, I must admit. Also right by a good bar, though that's no help to you. And near MICA, of possible interest?

okay, fine.

name: laura
age: 49
residence in my head: florence, nyc or chicago (hometown)
residence in reality: northampton, ma

i am:
- a freelance art director
- the mudder of two
- the resident lesbo-gigio
- incapable of keeping my cd's alphabetized
- on medication to sleep

i believe that:
- god speaks to me through brian wilson records
- pudding is sublime
- painting the figure is my calling in life
- women have a right to choose (me)

i love:
- almost all types of music except reggae (wash your hair, fuckers)
- flannel sheets but not shirts
- william faulkner, gabriel garcia marquez, raymond carver, i could go on
- art, art museums, art galleries, art magazines
- to travel, although i haven't left the continent yet

You should leave the continent. We should go to NZ.

I have to go to Kyoto over the summer anyhow, halfway there.

There's only one small issue here keeping you from being my dream date.

never applied to mica, though i probably should have. my classmates did. i don't know. i had my heart set on pratt, though.
now i'm getting depressed so we won't talk college anymore.

i already have a lot of his albums. i want to shake his hand and thank him or just be in his presence and experience a live show.

Wait, are you decided? I haven't been around... if you are, and you're not going, sorry. Didn't mean to be flip.

If you come up, we should for-sure say howdy.

my parents made the decision for me about two nights ago. i may try to persuade them again. i might email pratt and tell them my situation not that it'd help, but it couldn't hurt much.

i figure... if i have to go to vcu i can do semesters abroad in italy, and move to NY when i'm done with college. i don't know. i guess whatever happens, happens for a reason.

wait'll you see her artwork, you'll fall in love.

Then there's the incredibly dry sense of humor.

Figures, quite possibly the most perfect woman on the planet thinks and acts like a straight dude.

Name: Michael
Ex-Nicknames: Wasn't on CMJ.
Age: 24
Locale: St. Louis (Born & raised in Sweet Home Chicago)
Status: Living with my girlfriend of 5 years, and our pup in an apartment.
Job: Merchandiser for a liquor company. Flexible hours rule.
Favorite Bands/Albums: The Doors (Self-titled), Ours (Distorted Lullabies), Devendra Banhart (Rejoicing in the Hands), New Pornographers (Mass Romantic), Days of the New (II aka the Green album) Left off my top five: Neutral Milk Hotel, Decemberists, Rogue Wave
Interests: Playing guitar, sports, booze, TV, my girlfriend (I am really bad at self-reflection. I'm sure I have better interests that I can't think of)
Current Guilty Pleasure: Top Chef, America's Next Top Model (but only because my gf watches them every Wednesday, I swear!)
Personal Factoid: I was born with three thumbs.

name: Lauren

ex-nicknames: not been here long enough for that (yet)

age: 21

locale: Sydney

status: single

job: student, sometime receptionist

favorite bands/albums: Sleater-Kinney, Radiohead, Art of Fighting, Augie March, New Pornographers, Gerling...

interests: (field) hockey, music, history, Arrested Development (yay season 2 finally released here), watching copious amounts of sport - football, athletics etc

current guilty pleasure: the mini easter eggs and twixs currently sitting next to my desk

personal factoid: trying to learn Japanese

if this is the NZ d&b group then they're one of my favourite live acts around

im Mikey, 20 and live in NZ

im not filling out the rest

it is indeed me friend. the new album is BAD!

i used to chat with Matty C quite a bit, but it's been ages.

occasionally the guy from Salmonella Dub (NZ Dub/Roots Reggae etc.) joins them on vocals for performances if theyre round the same area

soo soo good when this happens

havent got that album yet, been meaning to listen to a lot more d&b lately though

Name: Harley

Past Usernames: alongdrive

Age: 21

Locale: Oshawa, Ontario

Status: single, unemployed, unschooled, bored,

Job: fucking Zeller's and Grand & Toy won't even call me back after I hand in a resume. I don't understand it.

Favorite Bands: Belle And Sebastian, Eels, The Lowest Of The Low, Rilo Kiley, The Smiths,

Interests: comics, books, movies, the outdoors, writing,

Guilty Pleasures: professional writing, Survivor, anything twee (though I don't really feel guilty about that),

Fact: I was not named after the motorcycle.



I'm also quite glad polka, splates, and KOCF are around so I'm not the youngest person on the board.