help a brotha out with a round of introductions

f4df · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:46 pm

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

was at CMJ: saved

That is all

I was going to ask what happened to you

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Oh alright... make work then kids...

name: Alex

ex-nicknames: always been Polly

age: 30

locale: Toronto, Canaduh (from Mtl)

status: living with the honey

job: instructional designer / musician / lay-about

favorite bands/albums: I dunno. Stuff. Too many to list... dub, shoegaze, ambient stuff, punk rock, post-rock, bossa nova, pysch rock, the Smiths, Bjork, Velvet Underground, Billie Holiday.... Lately it's all about: Marine Girls, Sam Prekop, Goldfrapp, Colleen, David Sylvian, Neko Case, Philip Glass, Arthur Russell, etc...

interests: making music, photography, writing, drawing, cooking & eating, traveling, walking, hiking, cats, cozying up with my bf.

current guilty pleasure: clothes shopping (who knew?) (I honestly wasn't really into this before)

personal factoid: one-time singer of unknown Montreal (post)rock band.

iron_and_beer · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:29 pm

name: Mike

ex-nicknames: mikeyb317 (i suck at nicknames

age: 23

locale: los angeles

status: no kids, one girlfriend

job: public finance investment advisor (don't ask)

favorite bands/albums: Super Furries/"Radiator," Radiohead/"Kid A," The Fall/"Wonderful and Frightening World...", Olivia Tremor Control/"Dusk"

interests: baksetball, books, umm...music

current guilty pleasure: i don't think i have any right now

personal factoid: i've worked out to dungen

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Iron_and_Beer Wrote:

personal factoid: i've worked out to dungen

I've done aerobics to the Ramones and "Jesus Built My Hot-Rod". :wink:

soreal · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:08 pm

name: jamie

ex-nicknames: so_real (no more underscore!)

age: 29

locale: chicago

status: married

job: web designer/video editor

favorite bands/albums: flaming lips, nina simone, alkaline trio

interests: photography, beer, cooking

current guilty pleasure: every stupid HGTV show. i can't stop watching house hunters or any of the lame re-design shows.

personal factoid: i blush easily. about as fast as this guy: :oops:

Red House Vincent · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:59 pm

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name: Lance (or Gayface) to close friends, Vincent online

ex-nicknames: "Cupcake"

age: 21

locale: A part of Virginia that's very pretty yet very interesting.

status: single

job: none (yay!)

favorite bands/albums: MBV "Loveless", Low "Long Division", Stereolab "Emperor Tomato Ketchup", Radiohead "Kid" A, Suf-Jeezy, A.R Kane

interests: good movies, good music, good food, good people, good sex.

current guilty pleasure: Desperate Housewives (a.k.a Sex in the Suburbs)

personal factoid: i've never YSI'd an album

____

Well, that was dull. :wink:

k · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:14 pm

[quote="mojo"]

name: Jeff

ex-nicknames: just kochalka, haven't posted enough to change

age: 26

locale: just moved here to Tucson about two weeks ago from Hawaii

status: going through a divorce, have custody of my 13 month old daughter

job: defense spending analyst, love those government benefits

favorite bands/albums: sunburned hand of the man, double leopards, skaters, yellow swans, fahey, wooden wand

interests: have just recently started reading some "classic" russian lit. and like what I've read so far, college baseball, drink a lot of wine

current guilty pleasure: have to agree with whoever said top chef

personal factoid: am a cassette junkie

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Kabob · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:48 pm

name: Eric

ex-nicknames: Always some form of Kabob

age: 30!

locale: Seattle

status: I'll probably marry the girl I'm with now.

job: www.mtgsoldhere.com

favorite bands/albums: Throwing Muses, Billy Joel, Beulah, Afghan Whigs, Sleater-Kinney, so on and so on.

interests: The music, tennis, card and board games, i'm turning into a shoe fag, books.

current guilty pleasure: Not just current, but ongoing- I LOVE a good fart. Nothing like it. The afterglow I get from an extremely pleasing fart is beyond words. Few things are as gratifying as a good, solid fart.

personal factoid: I once spent 4 months living in a van with two other guys while we drove around the country. Good times.

wenchlette · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:33 pm

name: stacey

ex-nicknames: i was eyeSPy yesterday and hated it even more than i hate SpontaneousPoet, so changed it back.

age: 24

location: vermont

status: now accepting applications

job: manage a small retail store

favorite bands/albums: beatles, appleseed cast, soul coughing/mike doughty, guys with guitars

interests: music, writing (i wrote my first anything in at least a year a few days ago), frolicking in fields of flowers

guilty pleasure: bad kung-fu/action/spy flicks (basically anything with a lot of shit blowing up, but nothing with vin diesel. eww...)

personal factoid: i'm pretty huggable

chowgurt · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:07 pm

is that pretty AND huggable? :wink:

wenchlette · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:19 pm

chowgurt Wrote:

is that pretty AND huggable? :wink:

Well, I was told I was huggable yesterday. I can't really comment on my own prettiness, but I do like my hair today.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

i'm amazed how much I just learned about all of you from this thread. Kudos to all of us.

now i'ma go drink beer until I forget everything I've learned. except that bjw is awesome.

Fun Factoid: I'm inventing a new sport for this weekend. Knowing me, it will be good fun and have a woefully inappropriate name.

Chuck D · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:53 pm

the redworm Wrote:

i'm amazed how much I just learned about all of you from this thread. Kudos to all of us.

now i'ma go drink beer until I forget everything I've learned. except that bjw is awesome.

Fun Factoid: I'm inventing a new sport for this weekend. Knowing me, it will be good fun and have a woefully inappropriate name.

I liked the one that my friends and I had where we used tennis rackets and a tennis ball in the street with goals set up with cones about 20-30 yards apart and played sort of full-contact lacrosse/basketball/soccer. That was pretty good fun. Passing can be a bitch.

KPH · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:14 pm

name: kevin

ex-nicknames: always been either KPH or kphaley454

age: 30(-1)

locale: Jamaica Plain (Boston), MA

status: living with roommates, but soon back with my better half

job: art dept project manager / musician / considering a shift in careers

favorite bands/albums: DJ Shadow, Wrens, Bedhead, Night Rally, all the usual indie suspects, Joe Pernice, Wilco, etc.

interests: getting out and meeting people, etc.

current guilty pleasure: terribly innocent.

personal factoid: i'm late for practice.

bluejayway · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:15 pm

the redworm Wrote:

i'm amazed how much I just learned about all of you from this thread. Kudos to all of us.

now i'ma go drink beer until I forget everything I've learned. except that bjw is awesome.

Aw, I think you knew most of the stuff in my intro already. You're just saying that to cheer me up. Y'all are all sweet.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

but I learned that you're more awesome!

bluejayway · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:21 pm

Keep up with the beers!

e-stone · **Posted:** Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:24 pm

name: jason

ex-nicknames: nope. well i was "jim anchower" for a day

age: 32

locale: just outside of boulder, colorado

status: married, 2 dogs

job: computer stuff

favorite bands/albums: stone roses, wilco, belle & sebastian, sigur ros, my morning jacket

interests: skiing, photography, travel

current guilty pleasure: too many bad reality tv shows i'm sucked into right now

personal factoid: my online persona even bores me to death sometimes

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

ha, I forgot about Anchower.

bluejayway Wrote:

Keep up with the beers!

Done. and. done.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

telescope Wrote:

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

I guess 68 posts is too many to be considered a lurker, but ko-KNEE-chiwa.

sorry, I just think it's funny to pronounce it that way.

now back to my beers.

greezy · **Posted:** Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:47 am

name: drew

age: 23

locale: lawrence, ks

status: special ladyfriend

job: law student, coke mule

favorite record of the moment: elvis costello - get happy!!

interests: politics, records, music production, violent films, evading detection by law enforcement

current guilty pleasure: ween - "it's gonna be a long night" / motorhead - no remorse

personal factoid: i met elvis costello on the street in london and shook his hand like a tourist idiot.

beachy · **Posted:** Fri Mar 31, 2006 3:05 am

mojo Wrote:

i haven't seen it done 'round these here parts, but back in the old cmj days we regularly used to do this. there are many here that i know and recognize, but many of you have changed your nicknames and have left me for a loss. so without further ado:

name: Chris to most, Mr. Chris to many

ex-nicknames: Was CD ( pronounced and inferred "seedy") for many years
age: 38..yep

locale: live on the southeast side of ambergris caye

status: married for nearly nine years

job: restaurant owner

favorite bands/albums: Spearhead, radiohead, getting head(made you look) Poi Dog Pondering, bob marley, lucky Dube, beastie boys, any trip hop, and a more than casual interest in House, sorry...
interests: The beach, the sea, ecology, the carribean, food, booze and music, and the amalgamation of the three, obner, film and art, health, computers, really, most things 'cept sports ya watch.

current guilty pleasure: my wife's little toes

personal factoid: I support the local SPCA and the local school music program, I am also the treasurer of my Neighborhood watch.

thanks, who's next?

telescope · **Posted:** Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:41 am

the redworm Wrote:

telescope Wrote:

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

I guess 68 posts is too many to be considered a lurker, but ko-KNEE-chiwa.

sorry, I just think it's funny to pronounce it that way.

now back to my beers.

Yeah, I really need to start upping the post count.

I blame it not downloading leaks, so by the time I get something you lot are already over it - see Neko, B&S, Flaming Lips

That, and the fact that when I'm on at night you must all be asleep

Or maybe I just need to finish this uni thing and get a job so I studiously avoid doing it by posting

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

Name: Darrin

Ex-nicknames: The Indispensible Bakayoko

Age: 32

Locale: Glasgow, Scotland

Status: Inept, single

Job: Rejects employment for the austere, simple life of a freeman

Favorite bands/albums: Orange Juice, Smiths, Sonic Youth, Steely Dan, White Stripes, Pavement...many others

Interests: Photography, hiking, soccer, unattainable women.

Current guilty pleasure: Mint kit kats

Personal factoid: (1) Once sold my stereo to an ex drummer of Simple Minds. (2) Dated a monkey handler from Edinburgh zoo. (3) Had correspondance with former Stalinist dictator of Grenada, Bernard Coard.

Bee OK · **Posted:** Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:01 am

Other names will forever be Bee

status Slut in Los Angeles

job somehow get paid to bullshit with women all night

favorite bands Boo Radleys and the Cure

interest baseball, sex, drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll

current guilty pleasure all of them (also the drugs were amazing)

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