Is There an ILE Introduce Yourself Thread?

I searched and found a couple of "introduction" threads, but then lost my darn wireless connection and don't feel like arguing with my computer to do the search again.

I'm Laura - 29 - female - Orlando, Florida. Heck, just look at that little profile thingy if you want to know more about me :)

What's it like living in Orlando? I generally go there (well, at least Disney) once a year for conferences, and well, uh, heh, it's someplace I can't imagine living (not trying to insult, just wondering - my stepsis lived there once).

hi gaz. hi laura.

Bill or Tep (I picked the latter to use only because I figured there'd be Bills aplenty), either works. 27. Former New Englander, have permanently escaped to temporarily reside in New Orleans, but will always miss Moxie. Supposedly a graduate student in history, but that's pretty much an excuse to pay the rent while I write stories for pocket money -- and in the fall, I'll be a graduate student in something-else-altogether someplace-else-entirely. The plan is to keep increasing that "pocket money" before I max out my Stafford loans.

I have two cats and many plastic frogs.

Or I coulda just told you about how I was out your way last November for my bro's wedding.

But real-life encounters with online characters creep me outare so gratifying, just ask gygax!

(sorry I can't search on this dial-up connection),

the slowness of the search is to do with the server, not your connection.

Age 31, queer, smoker, coffee fiend, pop culture junkie.

Live in Addis Ababa, run my own company doing event-production (film festivals, concerts etc.) and promotional work. Do some writing on occasion and keep meaning to do more.

Music, listen to a little bit of everything though mostly 'world music' and hip hop these days. Semi-lurker, partly from being scared of finding yet another reason to procrastinate (I already spend too much time reading stuff let alone posting) and partly being scared of everyone. I've posted more today than I have in the last 3 or 4 months due partly to insomnia and being somewhat buzzed.
ok, done now.

(Maria, go to Settings at the bottom of the page and then you can create a Profile, change ILXor settings etc.)

Don't be scared of me, H. TOO much.

Actually, help me out here -- what's the best Ethiopian beer, anyway? I've tried several that are good enough but I'm wondering if there's a real standout.

About Orlando - I hate it I hate it I hate it! (Does that answer your question?) Actually, I am fascinated by the wilderness here, and the wildlife (can't get enough of those armadillos and aligators and gigantic tree frogs in my toilet!) but I pretty much dislike the people and the lack of culture and the urban sprawl and so forth. I guess that one of the problems with Orlando is that it's a relatively new city, and it grew so fast that it didn't develop any heart or center or sense of community. And most people view time in Orlando as being transitory, so they don't make the effort to try to improve things (me included - well, er, I don't make the effort rather than me needing to be improved). There are some good people, but most are underground and isolated - it's a community without much of a soul, sadly. But I really do love the wildlife - the gopher tortoises and sea turtles and manatees and (er, doesn't belong in this list of animals, but what the hell) the space program.

I'm a 35 yr old male livin' & workin' in Manhattan, New York City. I've been married for a little over a year & a half. I'm a News Desk Editor at a prominent weekly news magazine, and I freelance write on the side (although pretty much only for THE NEW YORKER's "Goings On About Town" section these days). I've become a regular on ILM after someone foolishly questioned the majesty of Killing Joke back in 2001, thus summoning me like Hastur the Unspeakable to protect Killing Joke's good name and to ensure the Fire gets duly Honored. I'm also a member of The Gathering ( http://www.misera.net/gathering/ ) and the Firewatercircus ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firewatercircus/ ). New York City is a scary place these days -- but there seems to be a lot of that going around.
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I have one week to go before I leave work forever and go back to uni to study journalism. I'm excited, and I'm feeling less guilt about being on the net at work. So, hi.

Favorite beer: Hoegaarden.
Favorite word at the moment: synecdoche.
Favorite Bowie cover in my Winamp playlist: Sister Machine Gun's "Suffragette City."
Favorite recently-purchased album: Sister Machine Gun's Metropolis, although that's a coincidence.
Favorite ice cream: Serious Burnt Sugar, from some local place.
Favorite vanilla clove cigarette: Djarum Vanilla.
Favorite Daredevil villain this thread has reminded me of: Mr Fear.

I do try.

Ethiopian beers are pretty crappy, so my advise is to avoid 'em. Well, uninteristing is a more accurate description - so if they have 'em try St. George for a lager, Harar Stout (which is closer to a Porter) or Bati. There are others but everything is pretty watered down for me as I miss ales, stouts and dark(er) beers generally.

and I just realised it is 7 and i need to start getting ready for work. aargh.

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(I removed height and added location)

Ned - I'm so glad you do work to keep us insane. It's a great relief that we don't have to assume that responsibility on our own. We should take-up a donation for you or something.

Name: hstencil

Location: Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA, Earth

Age: 27

Fav Band: none (see various lists on my web site if you want to get to know my musical tastes)

Fav Movie: probably either Straight and Narrow by Tony Conrad or Wavelength by Michael Snow or Pee Wee's Big Adventure by Tim Burton or Underground by Emir Kustiricia.

Fav TV Show: none (I only watch sports on TV, maybe once in a while Charlie Rose or Conan)

Fav Book: Light in August by Faulkner or The Recognitions by Gaddis.

Fav Actor: none that I know of

Fav Actress: only in a crush-ish kinda way - Maggie Gyllenhal (I don't get crushes on celebrities often, if ever)

Fav Food: anything without red meat, chicken or pork

Fav Sport: baseball

Fav Athlete: Eddie Murray (gonna go to his Hall of Fame induction, I hope)

Drink of Choice: bourbon (preferably Woodford Reserve or Maker's Mark)

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): marijuana, maybe other stuff on a very limited basis

Smoker?: not anymore

Occupation: financial services

Do you work out?: yes

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: yeeks!

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: well, it must be good if I won't rate my looks!

Add anything you want people to know: hmmm. dunno. have to come back to that.

Fav Band: Radiohead at the moment.
Fav Movie: Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Graduate.
Fav TV Show: Angel.
Fav Book: Great Gatsby.
Fav Actor: Edward Norton.
Fav Actress: Audrey Hepburn.
Fav Food: Right now it's pepper-jelly-glazed rainbow trout.
Fav Sport: Baseball, to watch; tennis, to play.
Fav Athlete: Ted Williams.
Drink of Choice: Tequila, coffee, Moxie, Dr Pepper. Separate containers. And any odd sodas: Pepsi Blue, Vanilla Coke, what have you; friends pick up regional oddities for me when they travel.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): The only drug I ever do, of the illegal sort, is acid. Not that I've been able to find it for years.
Smoker?: Yep. I've cut down from my height of three packs a day and rarely smoke more than 1/2 or 2/3 a pack a day now.
Occupation: "Student"/writer.
Do you work out?: Occasional weights. Tennis when I can find someone to play with. So, no.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: Gosh, I wouldn't.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: I like me.

Thank ya Ms. Laura. I would prefer checks in large amounts. ;-)

Name: Alex in NYC
Location: ummm....NYC
Age: 35
Fav Band: Killing Joke, Cop Shoot Cop, Stranglers, Misfits, Firewater
Fav Movie: (just one?) "After Hours", "Picnic at Hanging Rock", "Blow Up", "Man Bites Dog"...and many more.
Fav TV Show: "Insomniac with Dave Attel"
Fav Book: (just one?) "Please Kill Me" by Legs McNeil & Gilliam McCain
Fav Actor: Crispin Hellion Glover
Fav Actress: Kim Hunter (Zira from the original "Planet of the Apes")
Fav Food: Caprese (mozzarella with tomato and basil)
Fav Sport: To play? Softball.
Fav Athlete: Don't really have one.
Drink of Choice: Beer, specifically Yuengling, Modello Especial or maybe Dixie. Singha is pretty fine as well.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Not anymore.
Smoker? : No, but the wife is.
Occupation : News Desk Editor/Freelance Writer
Do you work out? : Not as often as I should, but yes.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Not sure how numbers would describe a personality.
Add anything you want people to know: Soylent Green is made out of people.

Boxcubed/Jason - details, darling. I demand details!

Location: Athens, GA

Age: 28

Fav Band: the minutemen, the kinks (today only)

Fav Movie: hell is for heroes (today only)

Fav TV Show: homicide, sportscenter

Fav Book: herzog (today; alternates with v., bill james baseball historical abstract)

Fav Actor: sam rockwell (today)

Fav Actress: joan fontaine (today)

Fav Food: southern

Fav Sport: baseball, football

Fav Athlete: michael vick

Drink of Choice: gin and tonic, cherry coke

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): whatever's around

Smoker? : yes

Occupation : "student"

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 1.37526

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 1.37524

Name: Tad (last name unpronounceably Polish, as if there's any other way a Polish name could be)
Location: live in Hoboken, work in midtown Manhattan
Age: 32, will be 33 in a month
Fav Band: dude, if you have to ask ... shit, mr. sinker or ned will tell you if you must know!
Fav Movie: scarface; eraserhead; nosferatu; night of the hunter
Fav TV Show: monday night football
Fav Book: invitation to a beheading, vladimir nabokov; tristram shandy, laurence sterne
Fav Actor: al pacino, jack nicholson, or clint eastwood
Fav Actress: Maggie Gyllenhal
Fav Food: italian or mexican
Fav Sport: NFL football (though the Jets weren't playing it till 1997)
Fav Athlete: latrell sprewell; alan iverson; chad pennington
Drink of Choice: johnnie walker black
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): won't you follow the sweet leaf?
Smoker? : cough!
Occupation: attorney
Do you work out?: hah!
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : i think i'm a 10; what other people think i dunno
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: no negative ratings?
Add anything you want people to know:

james, you are way better looking that you give yourself credit for

Location: Los Angeles

Age: 30

Fav Band: Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong; Aretha; Ben Haper; Cat Stevens; the Greatful Dead; the Black Crowes; Stevie Wonder; Third Eye Blind; Boston; the Cult; Jonny Lang... and about 5 million more

Fav Movie: Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Say Anything; A Guy Named Joe; Saving Silverman; Undercover Blues; and again, about a million more

Fav TV Show: That 70s Show, Frasier and the Osbournes

Fav Book: Memoirs of a Geisha; Divine Secrets; Confederacy of Dunces; A Secret History; Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; Where the Wild Things Are, and far too many more to list

Fav Actor: Terrence Stamp

Fav Actress: Don't have one currently

Fav Food: Prime rib, anything italian, thai, indian

Fav Sport: To watch? Football

Fav Athlete: Haven't got one at the moment

Drink of Choice: Jack Daniels; Coke

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Marijuana from time to time - but very rarely these days

Smoker? Quit after Mardi Gras '99

Occupation: Day job: Admin. Assistant in a law firm; otherwise, fledgling writer

Do you work out? I walk to work - otherwise I exercise mostly playing volleyball with friends, and playing with my son

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? Ohhh I dunno

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? I think I do ok...

Location: TX

Age: 28

Fav Band(s): VU, the Fall

Fav Movie: Pasolini's Gospel of St. Matthew

Fav TV Show: currently, Curb Your Enthusiasm

Fav Book: I don't read enough proper books lately but Crying of Lot 49 and Wuthering Heights

Fav Actor: i have some least favorites

Fav Actress: don't know

Fav Food: oysters mussels clams scallops

Fav Sport: tennis (to play); college hoops & boxing (to watch)

Fav Athlete(s): Michael Chang, Oscar de la Hoya

Drink of Choice: beer, Coca Cola

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): i would like to try the liquid Demerol from Winona's purse

Smoker? : 4-5 a day

Occupation : stock trader and occassional night jobs

Do you work out? : run and walk

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6

Location: NYC

Age: 26

Fav Band: Gah, "band" is so rockist. Suffice to say, I like postwar pop and R&B singles, "jammin' oldies" (disco/soul/house, esp. with shouty girl singers), punk-wave-powerpop-indie, mopey British nonsense, the piano as a rock instrument, experimental whatsis (turntables, tape loops, and all those crackpot Germans you read about), 20th c. classical, '60s British folk-rock, easy-listening & other AM-radio detritus, '70s Brazilian samba-funk, choral masses, Steely Dan, Bob Dylan, various singers and songwriters.

Fav Movie: Woody Allen's Love and Death

Fav TV Show: those horrible dating shows

Fav Book: There were five books I read as a kid that made me really interested in music -- the 1979 Rolling Stone Record Guide; Joel Whitburn's Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (1987); a British coffeetable book from the early '80s (can't remember the name) that had short articles and pictorials about rock bands like the Jam and Duran Duran; History of American Bandstand: It's Got a Great Beat and You Can Dance to It (1987); and a book about NYC hip-hop/breakdance/graffiti culture. For better or worse, these books helped turn me into the obsessive weirdo I am today, so they take precedence on the pecking order.

Fav Actor: Harry Dean Stanton, John Turturro, Gene Hackman

Fav Actress: Ruth Gordon, Anjelica Huston, Drew Barrymore, Ellen Burstyn, the four principals of Sex and the City

Fav Food: Cajun-Creole/Southern, Ethiopian, Italian, Mexican, Szechuan

Fav Sport: skeeball

Fav Athlete: Tonya Harding (serious answer: Muhammad Ali)

Drink of Choice: Grey Goose martini, dry, straight up, twist, no olive

Smoker? : sometimes

Do you work out? : I walk as much as I can.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : Face and hair, an 8. Body, a 3.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? :

Oh, I'm all personality. I'm that girl with the "good personality."

Location: san francisco

Age: 30

Fav Band: casiotone for the painfully alone, pita, drive like jehu, violent ramp/wolf eyes, black flag, dolphins of the forest

Fav Movie: sans soleil

Fav TV Show: twin peaks, jackass

Fav Book: the sound and the fury william faulkner, gravity's rainbow thomas pynchon

Fav Actor: steve mcqueen

Fav Actress: lee remick

Fav Food: sushi

Fav Sport: baseball, miniature golf

Fav Athlete: barry bonds (i have his rookie jersey from the pirates that i got signed by him at the san diego Murph in 1990).

Drink of Choice: tangerine juice

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): love

Smoker? : nope

Occupation : FASHION

Do you work out? : i live on a big hill in san francisco

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 2

Add anything you want people to know: i just ate half a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream and now i don't feel so good.

And I am male chocoholic = don't get laid.

Leee - do you have any See's truffles hidden in your house, by any chance? If you do, maybe I'll come pay you a visit after jason sends me the plane fare *grin*

Add anything you want people to know: I had the pleasure of meeting hstencil a couple of weeks ago, and he's a big old softie.

Name: Rob (only used "Mr.D." as that's my standard internet name / googler repellant - it's from Den of Thieves. After being here a couple months tho it looks like I may the only Rob?)
Location: Chicago
Age: 30 and 3 weeks
Fav Band: Rolling Stones, the Meters, Art Ensemble of Chicago
Fav Movie: L'Eclisse, Stalker, Playtime
Fav TV Show: Monday Night Football
Fav Book: The Tin Drum, At Swim Two Birds, short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fav Actor: Jimmy Stewart
Fav Actress: shit, I dunno .. Anna Magnani or Dominique Sanda
Fav Food: scallops, broccoli
Fav Sport: football
Fav Athlete: Steve Yzerman
Drink of Choice: Champagne or a gin martini
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): pills, preferably Vicodin or Valium
Smoker? : nope, save a cigar every month or two
Occupation : trader
Do you work out? : try to jog three miles twice a week
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : as Grace Slick sang "You're only pretty as you feel"
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5.5

Not that I am suggesting that this is going to be an interesting post.

But I already posted something not long ago in an "Introduce Yourself" thread (although, sure, that was before taking part in an explosive thread and working my way onto the top 50 users list) (ha! I'm exactly tied with Oops right now! But this post will push me over him... for now...).

So.

That, right there, that is me in a nutshell.

Or, in another nutshell: I'm 27, male, and I live in Portland, Ore., though like everyone else I used to live in Astoria, NY (1997-9, Grand Central Parkway and 36th). I, like, I'm in this band, and I'm in this other band, and I help organize this avant-garde poetry reading series, and I've edited this webzine for a few years, and I have this cat, and this job at an environmental advocacy group, and I do some web design, and I do all this other stuff, and so I keep busy. Which is weird, since I don't think of myself as a busy guy. I mean, I seem to spend most of my day goofing off on the Internet, so am I really that busy? I dunno. It would explain why I'm so frickin' tired all the time. Also I am single and something of a homebody and I live in a house where we aim to have books in every room (we are almost there) and I've got two turntables and two microphones so clearly, clearly I am doing pretty well in that department.

Height: 5'8" - 175cm

Weight: 13st - 180ish lbs

Eyes: Dark brown

Sex: Male / regular

Location: Dawlish / Exeter, Devon, South West England

Age: 23 (24 in May)

Fav Band: Don't know. The Stone Roses always used to be the stock answer but that has become somewhat subject to rapid and unpredictable change these days.

Fav Movie: As above, but with Jaws.

Fav TV Show: The Simpsons is about the only thing I watch with anything approaching regularity.

Fav Book: The Subtle Knife! For the next 113 pages, anyway.

Fav Actor: I have no favourite actor - I like films. It's kind of like asking me what my favoruite musical instrument is - I like music, as soon as I mention one, another comes to mind, and then another, and then their bad points, and so on and so on... It is not the individual components that matter, but the whole product.

Fav Actress: Monica Belucci. Emily Dequenne. Not necessarily for their acting ability (although both are very good!). See above.

Fav Food: And again. I like food. I really like food. Chocolate. Cheese. Toast. Bacon. Potatos. Eggs. Ice cream. Brownies. I could go on and on and on and on...

Fav Sport: There are three sports - hutning, shooting and fishing. The rest are just games. My favoruite game is football.

Fav Athlete: Maradona.

Drink of Choice: Water. Orange juice. Red wine. Guinness. German lager. Milkshakes. God, all of it except coffee.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Booze. Life. Music.

Smoker? : Nope.

Occupation: Audio/Visual Library Assistant / (unpaid) music writer / layabout / pontificater.

Do you work out? : I play football. I occasioanlly cycle. I walk lots. I intend to start swimming next week.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 10.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10 (is there ANY point in giving any other number?).

I would send you to the website but it's a bit threadbare and out of date (all my own damn fault)...

I'd no idea about IJ - someone sent it to me as a gift and it's sitting right next to "Mason & Dixon" and "The Recognitions" and "JR" and "Underworld", to name a few on my "unread as yet" shelfs - and it just looks so darn heavy! (Physically and mentally, I mean.)

I'm taking with me, in addition to The Intuitionist, a book on the Soviet Manned space program, a history of the word "Fuck," and something by Mahfouz, I think. And, just maybe, a book of interviews with Palestinians and Israelis about the current (well, semi-current, now) situation in that region. I need something cheery to read.

After that I read a lot of DFW's other work and enjoyed most of it.

(Similarly, I enjoyed Mason & Dixon until they actually started, you know, surveying the Mason-Dixon line. Then it suddenly got bland for me. But it is a wonderful book to have on your shelf, especially if it's the hardcover: It's a gorgeous object!)

Name: geeta
Location: NYC
Age: 23
Fav Band: the minibosses, wire
Fav Movie: der blaue engel
Fav TV Show: i don't watch tv
Fav Book: the one i am writing
Fav Actor: don't have one
Fav Actress: ingrid bergman
Fav Food: japanese, ethiopian, indian
Fav Sport: basketball
Fav Athlete: don't really care
Drink of Choice: beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): beer
Smoker? : not anymore.
Occupation : grad school
Do you work out?: nope
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 10000000
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 100000000

I also forgot in the TV column any historical documentary with Adam Hart-Davis. He's so cuddly!

Also, I'm another person who doesn't like fill-in-the-blanks surveys. My name is Caitlin, although that's not what it says on my birth certificate or my passport. I'm 25, I'm English but I've lived in Edinburgh since I was 18. My taste in anything - music, books, films, art, whatever - tends to be pretty eclectic, so whenever anyone asks: "Who's you favourite [blah]", I go a bit blank. I'm a computer geek - well, a geek generally - and I first found ILX via Sinister.

If you want to know anything else about me, go here.

It was fun to meet David, actually, although I was pretty drunk/drugged/nervous that night.

NYC FAP? Hmm, maybe I'd go. Details?

the album or the writer?

Name: Ally
Location: NYC
Age: 23 in a few months
Fav Band: I don't know. Maybe I like Jay-Z best but then sometimes I like the Ramones better, you know?
Fav Movie: I don't know this either. I like to quote Scarface.
Fav TV Show: I don't really watch TV, I think I like Third Watch but I haven't seen it in ages so maybe I don't anymore.
Fav Book: Fathers & Sons by Turgenev
Fav Actor: currently it is probably Edward Norton but I prefer to say Steve McQueen because he's just cool.
Fav Actress: Ummm...I like Catherine Keener, her role in Being John Malkovich is like an older me.
Fav Food: I like Italian.
Fav Sport: Football
Fav Athlete: currently I like Shockey.
Drink of Choice: beer, Amstels. hard liquor, vodka & cranberry. But generally I just drink water.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Not anymore.
Smoker? : Quitting.
Occupation : Corporate whore.
Do you work out? : I have a personal trainer!
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8
Add anything you want people to know: I'm really tired today.

Name: james
Location: west london
Age: 26
Fav Band's and musical stars: Poison, Megadeth, Slayer, Dinosaur Jr, Philistines Jr, Avril, Shakira, Kelly O, NMH, OTC, Smashing Zwan, Journey, Cheap Trick, Iron Maiden, Komeit, Juniper Moon, Sum 41, Beach Boys, Carpenters...that sorta thing
Fav Movie: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, American Movie, ROTJ
Fav TV Show: Grounded for Life
Fav Book: Mysteries - Knut Hamsun; Gatsby; Dance Dance Dance - Murakami; Confederacy of Dunces
Fav Actor: None really
Fav Actress: Ditto
Fav Food: Cakes of all sorts
Fav Sport: Cricket
Fav Athlete: none really, Kane?
Drink of Choice: Tea
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): no thanks
Smoker? : nope
Occupation : Library assistant
Do you work out? : nope
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 4
Fave comicbooks: All James Kochalka stuff, Transformers, Joe Matt, Urusei Yatsura, some superhero stuff
Height: 6 foot 1

I like painting pictures, and walking around aimlessly.

his last record was my #1 of 2002 (nobody voted for it on P+J).

he has a new song about a guy he summer camped with who listened to "there is a light that never goes out" on repeat for over 48 hours.

Name: schnell, schnell

Location: uk

Age: 20

Fav Band: hmmm... right now? kleenex ... pussy galore ... black dice ... scissor girls ... rolldeep ... heartless

Fav Movie: the apartment/back to the future depending on my mood

Fav TV Show: simpsons, eurotrash

Fav Book: wuthering heights

Fav Actor: none

Fav Actress: i guess j-lo has a nice ass

Fav Food: fry up

Fav Sport: cheking out chix0rs

Fav Athlete: kris akabusi

Drink of Choice: lillies wine from Tehran super on teh finchley road, london

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): E

Smoker? : camels

Occupation : student

Do you work out? : i try to do 10 press ups a day but it's killing

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 10

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 0

Number of employees in family-owned sweatshop:

Miss laura- you have a 'fascinating arrangement'.

Location: Bray, south of Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland

Age: 20

Fav Band: Low, My bloody Valentine, Aphex Twin, Black Box Recorder

Fav Movie: Jacob's Ladder / Mullholland Drive

Fav TV Show: Frasier / old Simpsons

Fav Book: Anne Tyler "The Accidental Tourist"

Fav Actor: Tim Robbins

Fav Actress: Nicole Kidman

Fav Food: Pasta with red pest sauce and bacon

Fav Sport: Football

Fav Athlete: Damien Duff

Drink of Choice: Vodka lime / budweiser

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): I don't take drugs

Smoker? : No

Occupation : Studying journalism, work part-time in a newsagents

Do you work out? : No

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : That's for others to decide!

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : See above answer

Add anything you want people to know:
I love you all (well, most of you) , and I extend this to users of ILM (where I post even more regularly than here).

pestO. Ahem.

Absolutely true. It's called Çe Moi. They're fab.

TV: add Sports Night
Drink: hot water with honey and half a lemon
Comix: Lanky's "Elektra: Assassin" (in truth I am unabashed Frank Miller slut), Hellboy

Name: David H.
Fav Band: Whiskeytown's first, Max Tundra's latest, t.A.T.u.'s last, Justin's few, I don't even know anymore.
Fav Movie: Eureka, Ratcatcher.
Fav TV Show: CSI Miami, CSI.
Fav Book: "So I Am Glad" AL Kennedy, "Nil Nil" Don Paterson, "The Asylum Dance" John Burnside.
Fav Actor: Chris Cooper
Fav Actress: Can't think presently.
Fav Food: Scallops.
Fav Sport: Football.
Fav Athlete: David Fernandez (Celtic).
Drink of Choice: Irn Bru. Talisker. Laphroig. Cognac. The other brandy.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): none, yet.
Smoker? : No.
Occupation : Student, 'revolutionary Glasgow connection', 'more adventurous one' (haha).
Do you work out? : No, but I do exercise. Five-a-side football every monday with Derek and on a Tuesday with Stuart Murdoch, Sci Fi Steve, Snow Patrol.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : online - 3. Offline in the right mood - 9.
Add anything you want people to know: I like you all, and want you all to like me, obv. Even Jess.

I'm a bored/boring slugabed, biding my time on the east coast (Boston), until the end of March, when it's back to Michigan with me. In the interim, with no job and nothing much to do, I imagine I'll post 'round here pretty often. To answer some of the questions floating around on this thread, I just read Balzac's Lost Illusions, and that's got me amped to read more of La Comédie Humaine (any recommendations?). When I had money I bought lots of music. I'm excited about the prospect of once again having money and being near Record Time and Stormy Records. I also look forward to listening to Gary Chandler on 'JLB. My favorite food is bok choy, which I like to fix up with tofu and garlic and rice. I can't recommend my looks or my personality. My fondest wish at the moment is that I could stop squandering my abundant free time--and I don't mean reading ILX, which is a much more constructive use of my time than, say, staring out the window for hours on end, then nervously pacing for a while, then contemplating starting smoking again, etc.

name: jeannot

location: north london

age: 25

band: velvet underground

film: a taste of cherry

tv: seinfeld

book: "the idiot", dostoevsky

actor: for talent, gene hackman, to look at, adrien brody

actress: for both, anna karina

food: french, italian

drink: brandy, tequila

drug: nice mellow grass

smoke? like the proverbial chimney..marlboro gold!! I like that
upgrade!

occupation: musician

work out? no. but i walk a lot. and i really want to take up
bowls/boules/bocce if the oldies'll let me!

looks: happy with them

personality: could do with some work!

people should know: nothing else. some mystery's a good
thing!

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Name: Amateurist

Location: Chicago

Age: 25

Fav Band: The Hi Records studio band. This should give some sense of the range (and limits) of my taste.

Fav Movie: Sansho the Bailiff or A Man's Castle--two (fairly arbitrary) choices among many.

Fav TV Show: The first season of "Twin Peaks" possibly; watching TV (I do it often) mostly inspires self-disgust these days.

Fav Book: The Aspern Papers by Henry James maybe, or The Professor's House by Willa Cather, or the collected works of Wodehouse (no I haven't read them all). Warning: I'm not half as literate as I often pretend.

Fav Actor: Marcel Dalio

Fav Actress: Judy Garland

Fav Food: Egg-lemon soup, or ice cream. Not at the same time.

Fav Athlete: V. I., the Stakhanovite figure skating champion in W. R.?Mysteries of the Organism.

Smoker? : Sometimes, alas.

Occupation : Asst editor.

Do you work out? : No.

Name: Curtis Stephens
Location: Georgia
Age: 15
Fav Band: I wuv them all too much to choose
Fav TV Show: Simpsons
Do you work out? : in gym class, yes
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : bah, I'll either be melodramatic or sarcastic
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : see above

Location: Suburban Chicago. Grew up in burbs of Olympia, Denver, Boston.

Age: 28

Fav Band: Lately I have a lot of Smiths and Camper Van Beethoven in my head. I was listening to Wilco, PJ Harvey earlier. I haven't answered this question at all. But favorites are hard to think of right now.

Fav Movie: My latest fascination is the director's cut of Blade Runner. I loved Memento and Fight Club. Also, Office Space. The Big Lebowski. The Wonder Boys. L.A. Story. Amadeus. Young Frankenstein. Hitchcock movies. Gaslight. Lots of good foreign films too. Haven't seen many lately, but Eat Drink Man Woman comes to mind offhand.

Fav TV Show: Alias. Simpsons. I watch a lot of TV, but a lot of the stuff that's on is crap.

Fav Book: I was very very fond of Crime and Punishment when I read it, though it's been quite a while. Moliere too. (ditto--been a while) I need to find some good short stories to read.

Fav Actor: Edward Norton can be a compelling actor.

Fav Actress: Audrey Hepburn. I was very impressed with Hilary Swank in Boys Don't Cry.

Fav Food: Homemade desserts of any sort. Indian food. Deep dish pizza with spinach and mushrooms.

Occupation: Er...Relaxation Consultant. I'm currently not working, save a bit of web design stuff. I'd like to go to vet school when I can. My circumstances are such that I'm in a strange limbo. Too long of a story.

Do you work out? : I used to work out hardcore (lotsa running, biking) but now do much milder stuff: bit of strength exercise, pilates, walking.

Add anything you want people to know: Hi.

Name: Michaelangelo Matos
Location: Manhattan
Age: freshly 28
Fav Band: hahahaha!!! there's like 8 million of them!
Fav Movie: My Man Godfrey, Farewell My Concubine, The Godfather, Duck Soup, A Hard Day's Night
Fav TV Show: The Simpsons, obviously
Fav Book: The Great Gatsby, Richard Kern's New York Girls
Fav Actor: Groucho Marx
Fav Actress: Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey--my dream woman!
Fav Food: "What is food?" [see above]
Fav Sport: baseball, bridge, chess, Scrabble
Fav Athlete: Kirby Puckett
Drink of Choice: apple martinis
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): mushrooms, E
Smoker?: fucking hell no
Occupation: freelance music journalist/critic
Do you work out?: unfortunately not
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: probably 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: anywhere between 3 and 10.
Add anything you want people to know: I'm much nicer in person

Location: Worcester, Massachusetts.

Age: 28

Fav Band: Kings of Convenience/Simon and Garfunkel/Beach Boys

Fav Movie: The Dirty Dozen

Fav TV Show: Seinfeld, Simpsons, CSI, Curb Your Enthusiasm

Fav Book: Stay Here With Me - Robert Olmstead

Fav Actor: Deniro, Pacino, Tom Hanks

Fav Actress: Kate Hudson

Fav Food: Pizza

Fav Sport: Hockey/Baseball

Fav Athlete:Cam Neely, NOMAH!

Drink of Choice: Beer

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing):none.

Smoker? : Used to be

Occupation : QC manager

Do you work out? : Hahaha.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :5

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? :10

Add anything you want people to know: I like all things Twee. Im married, may be a dad soon...

This is a really funny juxtaposition.

Name: Nathan Webb
Location: Suburban West Midlands, UK
Age: 29
Fav Band: historically: Joy Division. Recently: Black Dice, Boredoms, Lightning Bolt, and many many more.
Fav Movies: Rushmore, Chungking Express, It's A Wonderful Life
Fav TV Show: The Book Group
Fav Book: Lights Out For The Territory - Iain Sinclair
Fav Actor: Bill Murray
Fav Actress: Jeananne Garafolo (or however she spells it)
Fav Food: Thai
Fav Sport: Cricket
Fav Mathlete: Richard Dawkins
Drink of Choice: White Beer, a nice single malt
Drug of Choice: Nicotine
Smoker?: See above
Occupation: Data entry jockey by day, occassional music journalist at night
Do you work out?: Nothing ever works out
Add anything you want people to know: I was born on the stroke of midnight

Is There an ILE Introduce Yourself Thread? b/w On the Techniques of Hi Records Studio Drummers

It's a double A-side, obv.

Add anything you want people to know: If you were me you'd put yourself down all the time, too.

Name: Ailsa
Location: Renfrew (near Glasgow but a lot cheaper to buy a house there)
Age: 30
Fav Band: Belle & Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub, Spiritualised, Trash Can Sinatras, House of Love, Aztec Camera. Ask me tomorrow and it will all be different...
Fav Movies: Gregory's Girl, Pretty in Pink.
Fav TV Show: West Wing, Frasier, Coronation Street
Fav Book: Anything by Christopher Brookmyre, Breakfast at Tiffanys
Fav Actor: Douglas Henshall
Fav Actress: Audrey Hepburn
Fav Food: Virtually anything except seafood
Fav Sport: Football
Fav Athlete: Currently: Lubo Moravcik, Paolo di Canio, Zinedane Zidane. Non-football, Andre Agassi.
Drink of Choice: A good Australian Shiraz. Guinness. White coffee, milk, two sugars.
Drug of Choice: no ta
Smoker?: only (anti) socially these days.
Occupation: insurance customer account management type stuff
Do you work out?: only insurance premiums, and some numbers games on Countdown
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 1 (I was going to put 0 but realised that wasn't on a scale of 1-10)
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: depends how much i've had to drink, anything from 1 - 6
Add anything you want people to know: I'm sorry. (just pre-empting whatever I may do to offend in future...)

Behold!

Name: ChristineSH.
Location: The middle of England, i.e. not Swindon.
Age: 34, i.e. not 17.
Fav Band: A rubber one.
Fav Movie: The original King Kong, if I'm being sentimental about my childhood.
Fav TV Show: Can't pick one, so I'll say Columbo anyway.
Fav Book: The complete Sherlock Holmes collection. Or To Kill a Mockingbird. Or Misery.
Fav Actor: Gregory Peck.
Fav Actress: Kathy Bates.
Fav Food: Something with chicken in it.
Fav Sport: No.
Fav Athlete: No!
Substance abuse generally: Only drugs for allegedly medical reasons. Of course, I'd be much healthier without them.
Occupation: Just a lot of pre-occupations atm.
Do you work out? Things rarely work out where I'm concerned.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? 2.363. I'm fundamentally ugly and strange. (See: http://www.ampcon.freeserve.co.uk/jan03.jpg -- admittedly an extremely bad hair day, and Martin says it's very unflattering, but a nice hairdo can only do so much! Is there a plastic surgeon in the house?)
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? 4. Only because I've been told I'm interesting -- a description I think I'm failing to live up to very badly.
Add anything you want people to know: I'm half Irish, and don't I look it. I was raised as a Catholic but terminally lapsed when I was 15. I thought I might be a great artist but I was rubbish at drawing. (Damned inconvenient, that.) I still think I might be a writer, though not a great one necessarily. I'm writing a novel (or rather, novella) that I might finish before I'm 65. I'm fairly depressed and quite lonely and chagrined to be living in a little flea-pit town full of dull, unintelligent Wayne & Waynetta Slob clones. I used to read lots of comics but I got over it. Martin's right: Johnny Depp is incredibly sexy. But so is Denzel Washington. I didn't give a straight answer to the band question, but musically David Bowie still rules. I sometimes wear glasses.

I drone on too much.

Location: San Diego, CA, US of A

Age: Old enough to know better. I was two when man walked on the moon.

Fav Bands: Spacemen 3, Stooges, Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, Acid Mothers Temple

Fav Movie: _Blade Runner_

Fav TV Show: Hmm. _Twin Peaks_

Fav Book: Chandler's Philip Marlowe series. Not kidding.

Fav Food: Meat.

Drink of Choice: Guinness or Bass (which i'm sadly allergic to.) Moving onto the occasional scotch.

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Caffeine, television.

Smoker? : Not recently

Occupation : Author/artist/animator

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : I'm a geeky Adonis! But i don't photograph well.

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : Pet-rock like.

Add anything you want people to know: Blame Ned for my presence.

All part of the plan.

I grew up in the far northern suburbs of Detroit (I guess since all of America now speaks in terms of mile roads, I can tell you that I lived on 23 Mile), then I lived in Ann Arbor for a few years. I'm aiming to live in Dearborn when I get back.

What areas are you looking at?

christine: and that's good bcz 1 is best looking (yes it is!)

Ah, Basil Brush. Well, apparently, someone actually did a site about him -- http://www.cribba.freeserve.co.uk/ -- but I don't think it'll mean much. I liked him when I was a kid. We went to one of the shows in 1980. (Guest-star: Demis Roussos! Someone else hardly anyone's heard of!)

So, the name is Methuselah because I am 900 years old. I live in rural upstate New York (where it's still snowing, as I write). I'm married and have a 3 1/2-year-old son. My musical tastes are all over the map. My favorite movie is L'Atalante, by Jean Vigo. I have 300 favorite books. There's no TV reception here without a satellite dish, and I won't go that far. My favorite food is Indonesian. I used to smoke and am now addicted to Nicorette gum. I enjoy beer, red wine, brandy, ganja and its cousins, and the occasional mushroom. I pine for opium but haven't seen any in years. I do work out because otherwise I would die. I'm a writer. You really don't want to know about my looks. My personality's pretty thorny. I didn't get here by random googling: I know or semi-know a couple of other posters. They'll know who they are when they look at my e-mail address.

Name: Nordicskillz/Adam
Location:London,UK
Age: 24
Fav Band: Ach. Tom Waits, Stones, Boredoms, Prince, Black Flag, Liars
Fav Movie: Ach x2. Night On Earth, Underground, The Shining, Man Without A Past, Chungking Express, Day Of The Locust, Tirez Sur La Pianiste, Belle Du Jour, Buttoners, Dead Man.
Fav TV Show: Twin Peaks/The Shield/Six Feet Under/Cops
Fav Book: Anything by Bulgakov, Donald Antrim, or John Fante. And numerous books on the history of Berlin.
Fav Actor: Matti Pellonpaa/Takeshi Kitano
Fav Actress: Lili Taylor
Fav Food: Southwestern/Breakfast!
Fav Sport: Football
Fav Athlete: Diego Maradona
Drink of Choice: Coffee
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Coffee
Smoker? : Not any more
Occupation : Office temp/video editor, in that order
Do you work out? : Yes
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 3
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5
Add anything you want people to know:
1. I think that "The Boys Are Back In Town" is an amazing song.
2. I am an honorary American.
3. I like to write IN HIGHER CASE in my posts, which ar3 alzo ful of tpyos.

My entry above was really dull, too.

Incidentally, McLusty: "my shirt is too tight and skirt keeps almost falling off" - this is a bad thing, you're saying?

I turn 26 this year. That's not really young, right? (cuz of course I'm assuming you look up to me too ha ha)

I suppose since there is at least one other Martin around here, I may need to specify a last name. Or not. Perhaps I can be the Martin without a last name and still avoid confusion. Or I can just let the rest of you decide and watch the differentiation take shape organically. My last name is Mushrush, and I don't like nicknames. At least not any that have been given to me so far.

I am in Nashville, formerly from NYC (Hell's Kitchen and Carroll Gardens, respectively), and I'll be moving again around the end of September, this time to Seattle. I will be in NYC this weekend.

Jen Nstop pulled me into an IM chat not too terribly long ago, so I have met a handful of you folks in that capacity. I'm the guy who actually never did get tired of They Might Be Giants even though I am pushing 30. I am used to catching shit for this, though I still don't really understand it.

Everyone is moving to Seattle!

ChristineSH

http://www.ampcon.freeserve.co.uk/jan03.jpg

and

Fiona Allen, from Smack The Pony

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/faces/images/fiona_allen_small.jpg

Name: jennpb
Location: chicago
Age: 28
Fav Band: (historically) Stereolab, Pastels, Joy Division, The Smiths. (recently) The Aislers Aet, Television Personalities, Interpol
Fav Movie: Rushmore, Vivre Sa Vie, The Philadelphia Story
Fav TV Show: The Office is the one and only right now. I'm also mightily addicted to the Food Network (with the exception of anything Emeril).
Fav Book: Baron in the Trees - Italo Calvino
Fav Actor: Marcello Mastroianni
Fav Actress: Katherine Hepburn
Fav Food: Indian, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern. during the summer, usually not a day passes where i don't eat some sort of hummus/pita combination. it's sick, really.
Fav Sport: le croquet
Fav Athlete: er
Drink of Choice: i'm ashamed to say i'll drink almost anything: cheap beer or beligian ales, red wine, sometimes a gin & tonic, other times a whiskey sour
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): no drogas
Smoker? : when there are cigarettes to be had, i might bum a few; otherwise, not really.
Occupation : librarian
Do you work out? : i cancelled my gym membership after realizing that i'd rather just ride my bike everywhere.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8

the writer... he stole my XFM It's a Cool Cool Christmas CD

Name: al
Location: South London
Age: 24
Fav Bands: Bob Dylan, Stones, Spirit, Love, lots of psyche, Jane’s Addiction, Neil Young, Verve, Lamb
Fav Movies: Millers Crossing, Amateur, the Maltese Falcon, Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive, Christian F., anything with Humphrey Bogart in it, The Untouchables, Blade Runner, Gimme Shelter, Don’t Look Back, Stigmata
Fav TV Shows: Twin Peaks, the A-Team, and, for my sins, Buffy and Angel
Fav Book: Anything by Italo Calvino and JL Borges, Baudrillard, Dada and Surrealist literature, all that Tolkien stuff, Catch 22, The Alchemist, Freddie Nietzsche, Bataille
Fav Actor: Gabriel Byrne, Pacino maybe
Fav Actress: Lauren Bacall
Fav Food: At the moment it’s Halloumi cheese
Fav Sport: Football (with allegiance to Leeds Utd)
Fav Athlete: The Archangel Gabriel Omar Batistuta springs to mind. Or Zidane
Drink of Choice: Jimmy Beam, red wine, tea
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Grass
Smoker? : Yeah but trying real hard not to be
Occupation : Artist but I also suffer from a dayjob in an editorial dept
Do you work out? : Err, no. But I’ll rip you up at the pool table
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: Hot
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: Uhm, changeable
Add anything you want people to know
1. These boards rock
2. 3/4 trousers are cool
3. Wearing sunglasses all the time is the way forwards
4. Err
5. Hi

Name: Deanna

Location: Texas

Age: 23; going to turn 24 in December

Fav Band: Anything with lots of synthesizers or weird guitar playing, it seems (cf. Ladytron and the Cure, for example). At any length, it's a far too long list to narrow down.

Fav Movie: At the moment it's "Some Kind of Wonderful". Tomorrow it might be "All the President's Men".

Fav TV Show: "Unwrapped" with Marc Summers, though I do love British programming and think the best sitcom ever is "As Time Goes By"

Fav Book: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Coming Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan, Emma by Jane Austen

Fav Actor: Tom Hanks (such a boringly Middle America answer, but he's the only actor whom I will sit through anything to see)

Fav Actress: Helen Hunt (once again, maybe it's boring Middle America, but I do really like her work)

Fav Food: Asian (esp Chinese & Japanese), Italian, spicy, home cooking

Fav Sport: I used to be a tennis player when I was younger, so I like tennis. Purely spectator-wise, I like basketball.

Fav Athlete: Of the moment, it would have to be Tony Parker (San Antonio Spurs) and the Williams sisters. Of all time, it would have to be Martina Navratilova, Charles Barkley, and David Robinson.

Drink of Choice: iced tea, cold water, lemonade -- that sort of thing

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): I'm boringly straitlaced, though I did smoke for six months back when I was in some hideous telemarketing job. I was in it for eighteen months; it was after a year had passed that I was driven to smoking. Once I quit the job, I quit smoking.

Smoker? : *laughs* See above. I've been clean for three and a half years. Horrid job.

Occupation : I work part-time in payroll at a hospital while I'm going back to school to earn a degree in computer science. As I stated in my ILM introduction, I couldn't find a job for my economics degree. The Federal Reserve isn't exactly a big employer over here.

Do you work out? : Maybe twice a week now. Sad, isn't it?

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 0, although others might say differently. It depends. What do you rate the TV chef Rachael Ray? I've been told many times I look like her. (What I would give to look like TV chef Nigella Lawson, though.)

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : On a good day, 9. On a bad day, 1.

Add anything you want people to know: I don't bite. I've learned quite a bit from the short time I've been here. Thanks to certain posters, I am now actively seeking out techno recordings, Killing Joke songs, and more obscure stuff to like. Danke.

Name: Orbit (female)

Location: Long Beach, CA (former longtime denizen of Silverlake (L.A.)

Age: 39 Bday- July 21st 1964

Fav Band: The Clash; Blondie; Lynyrd Skinyrd; blair 1523; Charlatans; Teardrop Explodes; obscure 60s psych bands; old country

Fav Movie: At the moment it's still the French TV version of "Count of Monte Cristo" with Gerard Depardieu

Fav TV Show: Still AbFab

Fav Book: VALIS trilogy by Phillip K. Dick; Radio Free Albemuth by Phillip K. Dick. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco; The Everyday World as Problematic by Dorothy E. Smith.

Fav Actor: Cary Grant

Fav Actress: a toss up between Katharine Hepburn and Doris Day

Fav Food: all good food

Fav Sport: (to watch) Hockey and baseball Swimming, sailing (to do)

Fav Athlete: none really

Drink of Choice: Wine, esp big oaky reds; champagne, iced tea

Drug of Choice (in my wild youth) : LSD

Smoker? : Never.

Occupation : Education/Legal

Do you work out? : Does physical therapy count?

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 0 (I'm really really ugly.)

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? :10 for those that like me; 0 for those who don't.

I've posted a few times, have been lurking on and off for about... shit, 5 years, and tonight I thought it was time I do it proper. So hi dere.

I'm Laura - now in Pasadena, California. Where it's 2:50AM and I gotte be getting to bed, else I'll not make it to the Doo Dah Parade in the morning.

Name: james
Location: west london
Age: 30
Fav Band's and musical stars: Exciting heavy metal bands, Puffy AmiYumi, silly indie bands, "classics"
Fav Movie: This year it is "She's the Man"
Fav TV Show: I liked the Ghost Whisperer but I've gone off it, as it's basically the same episode every week.
Fav Book: I like Japanese authors, moomins
Fav Actor: I still don't have one
Fav Actress: Some random pretty one(s)
Fav Food: Cakes of all sorts
Fav Sport: Cricket
Fav Athlete: Monty Panesar
Drink of Choice: Tea
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): no thanks
Smoker? : nope
Occupation : Librarian
Do you work out? : nope
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 9
Fave comicbooks: The Fantastic Four, X-Men, She-Hulk, New Avengers
Height: 6 foot

I've shrunk!

The fact you were 15 then (when I started posting) and are now 20 makes me feel incredibly old. But that's okay. :-)

The mere fact that I've been posting here for 5 years makes me feel old.

Name: Jaq
Location: Seattle once again, though all-too-frequent and extensive work outings currently have me in Irvine CA.
Age: gah! - 46
Fav Bands: Pet Shop Boys, Amy Rigby, Marshall Crenshaw, Nick Lowe
Fav Movie: Seven Samurai, My Neighbor Totoro, Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Fav TV Show: I don't really watch tv, but I did get addicted last year to American Idol and Iron Chef is fun.
Fav Book: Biggest Elvis by P.F.Kluge, The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking, I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves
Fav Actor: Jeff Goldblum, Toshirô Mifune, Ian McKellen, Don Cheadle. Not Owen Wilson
Fav Actress: Faye Dunaway, Helen Mirren, Reese Witherspoon, Catherine Keener. Not Andie McDowell
Fav Food: Pretty much all of it.
Fav Sport: none really
Fav Athlete: none really
Drink of Choice: Tea, wine, water
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): alcohol administered as gin, bourbon, or single-malt scotch
Smoker? : never
Occupation : SCADA system programmer and controls engineer
Do you work out? : HA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! no.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7
Fave comics: The Tick, Little Nemo
Height: 5 foot 6ish
Add anything you want people to know: I love twee video games - Animal Crossing being one. Married to Mr. Jaq for 3 years. I've played horn since I was 10 - not particularly well any more since I never practice due to work and travel. If I can cook for someone, it's a good day.

Name: Mark
Location: the NYC
Age: 48
Fav Bands: Kraftwerk/MC5/Duke Ellington Orch w/Webster & Blanton
Fav Movie: Psycho
Fav TV Show: The News Hour w/Jim Lehrer
Fav Book: Lolita by Vlad Nabakov
Fav Actor: Burt Lancaster
Fav Actress: Ingrid Bergman
Fav Food: italian
Fav Sport: swimming
Fav Athlete: Gordy Coleman
Drink of Choice: gin martini/red wine
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Motrin
Smoker? : ex
Occupation : writer/dad
Do you work out? : couple times a week
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6.5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5
Fave comics: Gasoline Alley
Height:6'0
Add anything you want people to know: I used to be a lot more obnoxious/opinionated than I am now! mellowing w/age. or trying.

Name: Trish
Location: Co. Meath, Ireland. Meath gold coast, baby.
Age: 36
Fav Bands: Pulp, old Blur, Prince and the Revolution, old Flaming Lips, and so on and so on
Fav Movie: currently it's Children of Men
Fav TV Show: Strictly Come Dancing, Lost, Peep Show, Gilmore Girls, the West Wing, Black Adder series 3, Star Trek and TNG but none of the others.
Fav Books Authors: Er, er, I honestly don't know.
Fav Actor: Sigh. Paul Bettany.
Fav Actress: Hmm. Catherine Keener, probably.
Fav Food: Roast chicken
Fav Sport: I do not like sport
Fav Athlete: I do not like athlete
Drink of Choice: wine, beer, tea, espresso-based coffees
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): I do not like drug
Smoker: clean for five years now
Do you work out?: I go for walks with my dogs. Does that count?
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 3
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7
Fave comics: I do not like comic
Height: 5'6"
Anything I want people to know? I'm an abstract writer and I work from home now, and I have two dogs and a cat and I want to have more dogs and more cats.

Name: hstencil aka stence aka joel
Location: portland, oregon at the moment, but i live in dreaded WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NY
Age: 31
Fav Bands: too many to list
Fav Movie: The Human Condition (Japanese), The Flicker, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Fav TV Show: The Wire, Barney Miller, not much else
Fav Books Authors: William Faulkner, William Gaddis, all the Williams basically
Fav Actor: none
Fav Actress: don't care
Fav Food: style-wise, probably tex-mex or spanish
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete: labradford smith
Drink of Choice: beer, bourbon, coffee, water
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): marijuana, ambien
Smoker: nope, not any more
Do you work out?: not lately. joining gym in january
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : awesome
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : fuck off, douchebag
Fave comics: don't care
Height: 6'
Anything I want people to know? they know it already

Name: Zach
Location: Chicago, IL, but only for the past few months. I'm still kinda new here. Before that, mainly Columbia, MO and Shanghai.
Age: 23
Fav Bands: Kraftwerk, Boards of Canada, Stars of the Lid, later Coltrane and Miles Davis, and MORE!
Fav Movie: Apocalypse Now
Fav TV Show: Nova, Frontline, Lost
Fav Books Authors: James Baldwin, Bukowski
Fav Actor:
Fav Actress:
Fav Food: Sushi
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete:
Drink of Choice: I like wine a lot. Unfortunately I can't afford "good" wine. Maybe some day...
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): The hard, tough stuff. Ha.
Smoker: no
Do you work out?: Never
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? :
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : I don't necessarily dislike these two questions, because when someone answers them truthfully, it's interesting to read, but this is a question I can't imagine answering.
Fave comics: I never have read one, I guess. I read some of From Hell at a friend's house, but lost interest.
Height: 5'10"
Anything I want people to know? In a very sense, it was an entire nation that landed on the moon. God Bless America.

Bored, lonely, physically isolated from all my friends, etc. You've heard it all before, smartypants.

Likewise, I didn't know your real name before.

Name: Kate St.Claire
Location: Streatham, London
Age: 33 (forget how many times I've turned 33 now)
Fav Band: Spacemen 3, Secret Machines, Stereolab, Medicine
Fav Movie: Performance
Fav TV Show: I don't believe in TV
Fav Book: Vanity Fair
Fav Actor: Jared Harris
Fav Actress: Anita Pallenberg
Fav Food: pizza
Fav Sport: I morally disapprove of sport
Fav Athlete: why would I have one of those? (ditto!)
Drink of Choice: Tea
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Citalopram
Smoker? : fuck no. virulently so.
Occupation : Data Analyst/Pop Svengali
Do you work out? : I lift weights most mornings, and do a lot of walking
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 4
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5
Height: 5'8"
Add anything you want people to know : Shimura Curves. That is all you need know about me.

Name: charlie
Location: north hertfordshire, uk
Age: 26
Fav Band's and musical stars: tom waits, animal collective, pavement, boo radleys, talking heads. but i do try and listen to most music.
Fav Movie: probably "Spirited Away" still. This year? Maybe "Thank You For Smoking".
Fav TV Show: Maybe the Mighty Boosh or something like that.
Fav Book: "Lanark" by Alasdair Gray.
Fav Actor: Meh, I don't really think about actors, more characters
Fav Actress: as above
Fav Food: Pizza? Cheese?
Fav Sport: No not sport.
Fav Athlete: I hate Athlete.
Drink of Choice: Mango Juice.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Just a bit of skrunk every so often for me these days.
Smoker? : sigh
Occupation : Trainer
Do you work out? : I am a member of a gym if that's what you mean.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7.5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 7.5
Fave comicbooks: Calvin & Hobbes, Viz
Height: 5'11"
and a bit.

Name: Ms. Misery/Sam/Susan
Location: the atx (austin)
Age: 34 in a couple of weeks
Fav Bands: that hip hop stuff
Fav Movie: giant
Fav TV Show: 106 & Park! and HGTV, whatever
Fav Books: jane eyre, bastard out of carolina, his dark materials
Fav Actor: jake gyllenhaal, yum
Fav Actress: that hot latina ex-cop on LOST who bit it
Fav Food: mexican
Fav Sport: NBA, college football, skateboarding
Fav Athlete: Jason Terry!
Drink of Choice: diet dr pepper
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): all the ones my doctor gives me
Smoker: no thanks, asthma
Occupation: web-fuckin'-masta, malcontent
Do you work out?: I walk the dogs and I walk to public transport
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : meh
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : eh
Fave comics: err, funny ones that get posted on ilx?
Height: 5'4"
Anything I want people to know? i knit! I sew! I roll on 24s!

Name: Leigh
Location: Edinburgh
Age: 31
Fav Band's and musical stars: Human League, The Clash, MBV, Spacemen 3, Radiohead...
Fav Movie: 'To kill a mockingbird'
Fav TV Show: too much cable stuff like greys anatomy, antm, satc etc..
Fav Book: 'Eureka Street' Robert McLiam Wilson
Fav Actor: Jason Isaacs
Fav Actress: none spring immediately to mind
Fav Food: macaroni cheese
Fav Sport: rugby union
Fav Athlete: luis figo
Drink of Choice: Tea
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not any more
Smoker? : see above
Occupation : Civil Servant
Do you work out? : I try to walk lots and have an (underused) pass giving free entry to all Edinburgh's public swimming pools
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8
Fave comicbooks:Not read comics since the days of Bunty and Mandy
Height: 5ft 8

Name: STOKED FOR THE MADNESS!
Location: still not playing Wii goddamnit
Age: One. Trillion. Dollars.
Fav Bands: Parker Posey and the Air-Raid Freshman Bitches
Fav Movie: Seymour Butts Goes Nuts
Fav TV Show: CSI: Narnia
Fav Books: the one tv cops through at guys
Fav Actor: that guy from the skeezy lawyer commercials
Fav Actress: Audrey Horne
Fav Food: twizzlers
Fav Sport: extreme ironing
Fav Athlete: Stephen Hawking
Drink of Choice: weapons grade chamomile
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): may cause rectal bleeding
Smoker: where the turkey goes
Occupation: television historian
Do you work out?: shredding rad repis on the gnargnar
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : smells of carrot
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : polar bear
Fave comics: not funny ones with a woman's name in the title
Height: of all civilization
Anything I want people to know? STOKED FOR THE MADNESS!

lol polar bear

Name: Trayce/Trace/shut up you/etc
Location: Melbourne, Aus
Age: I lost count after 34 somewhere.
Fav Band(s): Cocteaus, Japan, Throwing Muses, Mick Karn, !!!, all kinds of random crap - like Stevem sez, see here for best results.
Fav Movie: Pi, Donnie Darko, Grosse Pointe Blank, various other obvious crap
Fav TV Show: if you didn't know by now that it is Futurama, then you have not been paying any attention. Also, Thank God You're Here is ace, and I'm still a Simpsons booster.
Fav Book: Max Barry "Jennifer Government", Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close", various Kafka and Kundera bits. Plath, though admitting it makes me look like a twat.
Fav Actor: John Cusack maybe. Not so much these days though.
Fav Actress: Joan Cusack, aha ha.
Fav Food: food! Thanks.
Fav Sport: who can be bothered. Not me that's who.
Fav Athlete: see above.
Drink of Choice: white wine and too much of it.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): you work it out.
Smoker? : yes, and I'll happily blow it into your face, petulant swine! (PS not really)
Occupation : IT git who hates being in IT.
Do you work out? : Hell nah *pats belleh*
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : pass
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : which way on the scale does "silly nong" reside?
Add anything you want people to know: Its just me. Never take me srsly. I sure as hell don't tak you srsly.

Name: Actually, it's Emily, but I'll keep my deceptive login name
Location: Massachusetts
Age: 21
Fav Band(s): New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Great Big Sea, Decemberists, Red Elvises, Leningrad, Akvarium
Fav TV Show: Nip/Tuck, because if TV is bad, I'm going to watch the worst! Also Project Runway, but only as a weekly group obsession. And Buffy!
Fav Book: Once & Future King, The Sot-Weed Factor, Moby Dick, The Baroque Cycle, Brothers Karamazov
Fav Actor: hm...this would involve me actually watching movies, wouldn't it?
Fav Actress: see above.
Fav Food: I love food too much to answer this question!
Fav Sport: running. all by myself.
Fav Athlete: none
Drink of Choice: red wine for dinners and quiet evenings. vodka for real drinking. my tastes are simple.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): alcohol's good enough
Smoker? : no
Occupation : student
Do you work out? : I run, but not regularly enough to increase my distance :(
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : This question is pretty impossible to answer! Objectivity? Pah!
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : I object to the idea of rating personalities, actually.
Height: 5'1" and some fraction

Name: justin (pronounced "hoosteen" in my native tongue)
Location: austin tx
age: 20
Fav Bands: miles davis, capt. beefheart, velvets, &c (viz hoosteen on last fm)
Fav Movie: le samourai, pulp fiction, the killer, django,
Fav TV Show: colbert, inside teh actor's studio
Fav Book: sun also rises, the long goodbye, red harvest
Fav Actor: none really
Fav Food: pecan pie
Fav Sport: n/a
Fav Athlete: duhngiva fuck
Drink of Choice: corona or pabst, or jack daniels
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): i stick to the sticky these days
Smoker? : i've quit about 8 months ago
Occupation : student/service industry/music crit freelancer
Do you work out? : not like i should
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6 like whoa
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8
Fave comics: 100 Bullets, Powers, Boondocks
Height: roughly 5'2
Add anything you want people to know: i'm always willing to learn and i try my damndest not to get baited by trolls

Name - Austin
Location - Austin (yes, I know)
Age - 37
Bands - uh, a lot. Ornette Coleman, Neil Young, BDP, Fishbone is a pretty good start.
Movie - uh, a lot. Wild Bunch, California Split, Yojimbo, Dr. Strangelove, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a pretty good start
TV - The Wire.
Book - uh, a lot. Mason and Dixon, Homage to Catalonia, Speaker for the Dead, Crime and Punishment is a pretty good start
Actor - Christian Bale seems to be on a roll now. But overall, probably Robert Mitchum
Food - greasy shit that's bad for me, or anyone
Sport - MMA
Athelete - Cung Le/Josh Barnett
Drink - Full Moon Pale Rye Ale
Drug - duh weeeeeeeeeeeeed back inna day. Maybe again sometime.
Smoker - a cigar now and again on special occasions.
Occupation - neer do well
Work out - walk a lot, used to qigong taiji and shuaichiao a lot - ought to again.
looks - 6 at best
personality - at best
comics - uh, a lot. Jim Woodring, Ed Gorey, Peanuts, Krazy Kat, Eyebeam, Chris Ware, Lynda Barry is a pretty good start
height - nearly six three
Anything else - you fuckers know too much already

me too (that was my alternate answer)

I'm a long time lurker; been here for years. I used to post a little bit but then found I had nothing to say really. I'm also too lazy to log in to post a sentence that someone had already typed using different words. I know, click of the mouse, but I can never remember my password and it turns into a big log in drama. I was drunkish last night reading the hairy women thread and really wanted all of you to know how much you entertain me. In my state I couldn't log in but the thought stuck with me through this morning. So... THANKS! Most of you are very witty and clever and opinionated and playful. You make great reading material for someone with a short attention span.

Name: Expatrica/Erica
Location: Boston, MA
Age: Nearly 29
Fave bands: Always: Pulp, The Smiths, Queen, The Jam, The Clash, Luna, Pet Shop Boys Currently: The Blow, The Grates
Fave movies: Harold and Maude, Mean Girls, John Hughes stuff, The Maltese Falcon
Fave TV: Scrubs, The Mighty Boosh
Fave books: Lolita, The Stranger, American Psycho
Fave actor: Not sure I have one.
Fave actress: See above.
Fave food: Cheese
Fave sport: Yeah, right.
Fave athelete: -
Drink of choice: Coffee or Diet Coke - I've quit drinking alcohol
Drug of choice: Weed
Smoker: Yes but trying (rather halfheartedly) to quit.
Occupation: "Staff Assistant" at a University
Do you work out: No
Looks: I just asked my husband to which he responded "4, but I'm a really tough marker and that's as high as anyone gets."
Personality: To this he said, "Hmmmmmm, 4 again. You're right up there."
Fave comics: Hmmmm. Modern Toss was pretty funny.
Height: 5'9.5"

-- ENBB (expatrica), Monday, November 20, 2006 5:03 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Link

HA! The quitting drinking didn't really last long. Whoops.

Also, hello Rebekkah.

Name: kevin
Location: guess
Age: 34
Fav Bands: garage/punk ones
Fav Movie: maybe dr. strangelove
Fav TV Show: white shadow
Fav Books: great gatsby was a longtime favorite, the ground beneath her feet is great.
Fav Actor: homer simpson
Fav Actress: angela lansbury
Fav Food: pizza
Fav Sport: football
Fav Athlete: lawyer milloy
Drink of Choice: tanqueray & tonic
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): that's awfully personal
Smoker: i'd love one. oh, um, i smoke camel lights usually.
Occupation: as of tomorrow i am unemployed
Do you work out?: good god no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : depending on the day anywhere from a 3 to 6. today i'm about a two and a half however.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : depends how well you know me.
Fave comics: bloom county
Height: 6' 2"
Anything I want people to know?: it's not up to me to educate anyone on anything.

i was hoping there would be a thread like this on here, since i have no idea who anyone is/nobody knows who i am outside of about three people

Name: alex
Location: "twin cities metro area", mn
Age: 25
Fav Bands: currently listening to - swans, ulver, jesu, arcturus, carcass, tokyo philharmonic orchestra's recreations of video game music
Fav Movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_tiBGOEoVM
Fav TV Show: mst3k, space ghost C2C
Fav Books: 'a heartbreaking work of staggering genius', 'crime and punishment', among a few others i cant really think of right now... i dont usually read fiction
Fav Actor: lance henricksen, steven segal, kevin sorbo, the guy who played 'torgo' in manos the hands of fate
Fav Actress: uh.. diamanda galas?
Fav Food: sustinence
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete: johan santana
Drink of Choice: paulaner, black label, pbr
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): nah
Smoker: socially
Occupation: 'that one guy who we pay to do programming/data entry/inventory when we dont feel like doing it'
Do you work out?: does walking long distances count?
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 75
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 175
Fave comics: the garfield randomizer
Height: 5'10"ish
Anything I want people to know? probably not

Name: kenan
Location: chicago
Age: 32
Fav Bands: animal collective, boredoms, steely dan
Fav Movie: maybe Goodfellas
Fav TV Show: The Wire
Fav Books: The Nicomachean Ethics, anything with a lot of pictures
Fav Actor: Carey Grant
Fav Actress: Grace Kelley
Fav Food: Middle Eastern
Fav Sport: your mom
Fav Athlete: also your mom
Drink of Choice: Jim Beam, straight
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): it's not really my thing
Smoker: yep.
Occupation: designer
Do you work out?: yeah.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : I'm cute enough.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : I'm actually kind of a dick. But in a fun way.
Fave comics: out of the habit. It's cheaper this way.
Height: 5'11"
Anything I want people to know?: There are a lot more things I DON'T want people to know.

Name: Steve
Location: New Brunswick, NJ
Age: 19
Fav Bands: Aphex Twin, Pavement, 808 State,
Fav Songs: "Teardrop" - Massive Attack, "I Think I'm In Love" - Spiritualized, "Autobahn" - Kraftwerk, "Chaiyya Chaiyya" - A. R. Rahman, "Good Vibrations", "Soon"- MBV, "Debaser"
Fav Movie: Mulholland Dr.
Fav TV Show: Veronica Mars
Fav Books: House of Leaves
Fav Actor:
Fav Actress: Parker Posey, Zooey Deschanel
Fav Food: Italian or Indian
Fav Sport: Frisbee
Fav Athlete: Ben Cohen (but only because he's hot)
Drink of Choice: good beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): :-(
Smoker: NO but I smoked Djarum Blacks for a week
Occupation: Student
Do you work out?: no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? 2 or 3
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? 7
Fave comics: Persepolis, Fox Trot
Height: 5'6"

Name: Matt
Location: DFW
Age: 25
Fav Bands: Descendents, Buzzcocks, Old 97's, Wu-Tang
Fav Movies: Dazed & Confused, 25th Hour, Kiss Me Deadly, Masculin-Feminin, The Bicycle Thieves
Fav TV Show: The Wire, Buffy
Fav Books: The Things They Carried
Fav Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Fav Actress: Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy
Fav Food: grapes
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete: Manny Ramirez
Drink of Choice: Patron silver or Crown Royal
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not anymore
Smoker: former
Occupation: um, stuff.
Do you work out?: jog sometimes
Fave comics: Calvin & Hobbes
Height: 6'1"

Milo I am kind of heartborken that your name isn't really Milo.

haha "heartborken", this is what happens to the Swedish Chef when he gets dumped.

Name: William A.M.
Location: Montreal
Age: 22
Fav Bands: at this very moment it goes akala, kenna, thermals (no idea why really -_-), michael mayer (again)
Fav Movie: at this moment again... uninvited (the korean one), the isle, brick
Fav TV Show: all chris morris/alan partridge, kids in the hall, garth marenghi's darkplace
Fav Book: recently, bringing down the house, the rebel sell, everything bad is good for you
Fav Actor: probably a character actor of some kind.
Fav Actress: probably a babe.
Fav Food: i love pad thai and shawarma and spinach. seperately.
Fav Sport: soccer! second place to the hockeys.
Fav Athlete: ichiro, ovechkin, aaron lennon, wendel clark, matt le tissier, dean mcammond, mike fisher.
Drink of Choice: newcastle brown.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not really my thing. i take concerta everyday though?
Smoker? : only when i have been drinking a bunch or i am really sleepy @ work. six packs a year, at most.
Occupation : maaaaaarketing
Do you work out? : I play sports weekly. should start working out, but for now running around is alright.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : on my good days, let's say 8.8, and on bad, let's say 4.4. thankfully good days are as plentiful as bad ones! it's not like 8.8 is reserved for prom or some shit.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 47
Fave comics: PBF, walking dead
Height: 6'3"
Add anything you want people to know: i'm seriously not as boring as my preferences would imply! I am downright WICKED

i probably should have written 47.0 to specify that it wasn't a typo

all you need to know about darraghmac

Hi dere to Rebekkah.

Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy

Milo just likes to watch hot artsy lesbians get it on.

I am also shocked that "Milo" is really "Matt".

Yes but since Descendents are his favorite band it makes sense!

Name: jergins
Location: seattle
Age: 33
Fav Bands: not really bands so much because it's a single here, a label there, somebody's mix
Fav Movie: pierrot le fou, bandidas
Fav TV Show: L O S T
Fav Books: three recent favorites were gilead and citizen vince and middlesex
Fav Actor: umm?
Fav Actress: k deneuve
Fav Food: thai or vietnamese
Fav Sport: baseball
Fav Athlete: felix hernandez
Drink of Choice: RUM AND SODA with a lime
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): you bring it and i'll do it but i'm not gonna buy it (cept w33d)
Smoker: now and again
Occupation: arts but the boring side
Do you work out?: little bit
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 8
Fave comics: ?
Height: 5'11"
Anything I want people to know? I demand I Love Pinball

Will are you actually a founding member of the Black Eyed Peas?

I thought he was Will I M, not A M :)
Although I am the founder of The Black Eyed Trees, a pro-violence-against-foliage organization.

Anything I want people to know? I demand I Love Pinball

YES

Milo = Milo, Ms Misery = Sam, Nabisco = Nabisco, real names be damned.

why not

Name: Daniel P. M.
Location: Chicago
Age: 29
Fav Bands: Fugazi, The Muldoons, LFTR PLLR
Fav Movie: Cool Hand Luke
Fav TV Show: Lost
Fav Books: Hitch-Hiker's Guide, The Sun Also Rises, Kitchen Confidential
Fav Actor: nah
Fav Actress: nah
Fav Food: Middle Eastern
Fav Sport: Hockey
Fav Athlete: Stevie Y or Nick Lidstrom
Drink of Choice: Pale Ale or Water
Drug of Choice: "I don't do drugs, just weed"
Smoker: once in a while
Occupation: Academic Publishing
Do you work out?: Off and on, currently off
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 5
Fave comics: Wondermark and XKCD
Height: 6'5"
Anything I want people to know? nah

yeah we need more I Love ___, pinball is a nice one. See also I Love Soccer.

I Love Gardening

Dan, your user name should be "Dan P.M.", that's cooler

surprised i never did this

I love pugs. I also love cheese.

Name: trife dawg
Location: the boudoir
Age: 19
Fav Band: anything Def Jux family
Fav TV Show: upn network
Fav Athlete: sprewell
Drink of Choice: henny in a dixie cup
Drug of Choice: smoke trees son
Occupation: selling yogurt pretzels
Do you work out?: lol
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 9 point magnificent
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: u can't c me + u definitely can't b me

-- Trife Dawg (Trife), Friday, June 19, 2001 7:41 PM (6 years ago)

whoa what?!

i never did this but that is okay

hey will m i am also in montreal - i did not go to michael mayer the other night b/c i went to sunburned hand of the man et al show and by 2:30am was all tired/st0ned and thinking maybe the days of dancing til 6am in a big room with sweaty people to constant beats are over? i do not know.
but was it good, if you went?

Name: Jessie
Location: Boston
Age: 21
Fav Bands: The Fall
Fav Movie: Chinatown, 80s horror movies
Fav TV Show: lots of sketch comedy, LOST
Fav Book: Lolita
Fav Actor: oh I dunno
Fav Actress: yr mom
Fav Food: everything
Fav Sport: big buck hunter
Fav Athlete: ?
Drink of Choice: cheap beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): grass
Smoker?: not any more
Occupation: Professional layabout, student
Do you work out?: not as much as I should
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: whatever number says "I don't hate myself, I'm not fishing for reassurance, and I am willing to post on wdyll
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: unrateable
Fave comics: Iron Mang
Height: 5'6"
Add anything you want people to know: my jaw is made of metal

i feel like i'm in middle school.

Name: trees
Location: b/w Philly & Oberlin
Age: 22
Fav Bands Music: techno, house, disco, soul, lulling soothing sounds.
Fav Movie: at the moment, Picnic at Hanging Rock
Fav TV Show: Twin Peaks
Fav Books: i like Yukio Mishima, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, John Ashbery, Ian McEwan, etc.
Fav Actor: Pacino.
Fav Actress: umm... Jodie Foster. what a fox.
Fav Food: anything involving Ham and Eggs.
Fav Sport: Cycling.
Fav Athlete: i don't know anything about sports.
Drink of Choice: water, champagne.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): i like getting booted.
Smoker: yep. my progression through cigarettes: newports--> camel lights-->pall malls-->parliament lights
Occupation: student. journalist. lots of odd jobs here & there, at the moment.

the rest of those questions involve numbers that don't mean a whole lot.

I did not go :( :( :( :( I really wanted to and psyched myself up for it then I got screwed by my bank leaving me with less than the $40 needed for the ticket and I was not paid until the day after! So he's in my tops of the moment, but only because I was getting ready to see him :( I bet it was amazing, though? I am looking at flickrs as we speak.

Making this the 2nd year I planned to do Mutek things and failed... last year was due to shyness, coincidentally! although I did go to... whatever that thing was with ESG and Ferenc! It was pretty amazing.

ah well :( i went to saturday's piknic with audion et al - was fun, good, interesting sounds - and went to thurs night show of colleen + hauschka, which was pretty mindblowing - i did both these things alone and i am kinda shy! music/shows is a shyness alleviator though, i think (also, mutek fest is kinda loner central, which i kinda like)

i may be in montreal for some sort of music fest thing in october but that depends on me getting around to renewing my passport.

is it for pop montreal?
you might not need a passport for coming here, but yeah, they're recommending it these days, i guess

Name: Max
Location: Los Angeles
Age: 21
Fav Bands: Springsteen, Biggie, Enigma, Lifetime, Timberlake, Joanna Newsom
Fav Movie: Harold & Kumar, Wonder Boys, Out of Sight
Fav TV Show: the Wire
Fav Book: The Dark is Rising (whole series)
Fav Actor: Will Smith
Fav Actress: Karen from the Office
Fav Food: Shawerma
Fav Sport: Baseball, Super Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. Melee
Fav Athlete: Jorge Posada
Drink of Choice: High Life
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): KIND BUD
Smoker?: not right now
Occupation: student
Do you work out?: no
Fave comics: Tintin
Height: 6'

As of right now you definitely need a passport if you're flying from the US the border but not if you're driving. I brought mine just in case but could have just presented my license.

x-post

i don't know what it is, my friends are doing an east coast tour and i'm going with and when they get to montreal another band of friends is playing the same festival. i think i can get IN to Canada w/o a passport, it's the getting back into the states part that would be tricky.

xpost- thanks!

er, INTO

I completely disagree re: shows being shyness alleviators. Even when I am with friends I get REALLY self-conscious/shy/freaked out at shows! Perhaps part of the reason that I see so few (the other reason that I never hear about the good ones until it is too late)

whoa what?!

-- Will M., Thursday, June 7, 2007 7:25 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

props to sanskrit for the fake trife dawg post

you didn't write it jsut now?

i just go and listen to the music
(but i am old(er) and when i was young(er) and going to shows i was more self-conscious. also i never go to hip/self-conscious-making indierock shows anymore but mostly b/c i hate 90% of indierock)
xpost

btw my band is playing a show tonight at casa!
it will be FULL of shy people listening to music

I should maybe go to this as I live like a 10 minute walk from Casa! And it would force me to come out of my shell/confront my fear of live music/crowds. What time is it at?

I listened to Tric3ratr33t0ps for the first time the other day. Nice.

we go on at 9:30 (kinda early but it is part of suoni festival so things are running on time)
if you do come you have to not be shy and say hi! i am v nice really and most people there will be v nice b/c it is that kind of show

xpost - aw thanks :)

I think I will try to go!

you should! it will be good/weird/sonically ear-cleansing

Name: Steve
Location: New Brunswick, NJ
Fav Songs: "Teardrop" - Massive Attack, "I Think I'm In Love" - Spiritualized, "Autobahn" - Kraftwerk, "Chaiyya Chaiyya" - A. R. Rahman, "Good Vibrations", "Soon"- MBV, "Debaser"
Fav Food: Italian or Indian
Fav Sport: Frisbee

Wow, another Jersey resident who loves Italian & Indian food, and frisbee, and lots of the same songs as me. I think that there is something in the water out here.

lolz

A JERSEY RESIDENT ENJOYING ITALIAN AND INDIAN FOOD?! WHAT??!

Next you'll be telling me you like Mexican and Vietnamese food, Max.

NJ food vs WEST COAST food, FITE

Oh, we win. < / smug >

as a resident of both los angeles and new jersey, all i can say is this: the shittiest pizza place in NJ beats everything LA has to offer. but the shittiest taco truck in socal is a million times better than the best mexican place in new jersey.

i'd agree there. pizza out west is DIS-GUST-ING.

yeah i dont think theres a decent pizza joint west of chicago to be honest.

Name: jean baptiste (JB, jibé)
Location: Paris
Age: 21
Fav Bands: fleetwood mac, panthe du prince, animal collective, serge gainsbourg
Movie: badlands, chungking express, rules of the game
Fav TV Show: the Wire
Fav Book: lolita, le rouge et le noir
Fav Actor: dunno
Fav Actress: jasmine trinca sometimes
Fav Food: INDIAN (god i so want idlis right now :'( )
Fav Sport: football (soccer!)
Fav Athlete: dunno
Drink of Choice: g&t, right now vodka& tonic (on my 7th of the evening)
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): what is available
Smoker?: no
Occupation: student
Do you work out?: sometimes ( = not very often)
Fave comics: calvin & hobbes
Height: 1m97 ( abt 6'4 i think)

Wow, another Jersey resident who loves Italian & Indian food, and frisbee, and lots of the same songs as me. I think that there is something in the water out here.

-- lyra, Thursday, 7 June 2007 21:26 (Yesterday) Link

Yes, but are you cute and gay?????

Good pizza; mediocre tacos >>>>>>>>>>>> disgusting pizza; good tacos

DIS-A-GREE. also, we're talking BURRITOES here, buddy.

WA wins: fish (mmm copper river salmon), sushi, bahn mi, 7 Stars Peppers restaurant (amazing Szechuan place in Seattle)
NJ wins: salt bagels, pizza, cinnamon bubkas, diners

Name: Maria
Location: an island in the atlantic
Age: farty
Fav Band(s): 22-Pistepirrko, Felt
Fav Movie: 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Fav TV Show: Lost
Fav Book: Rehearsal for Reconstruction
Fav Actor: Owen Wilson maybe -- I never remember any of their names
Fav Actress: maybe Jane Fonda
Fav Food: pot pie, quiche, Thai
Fav Sport: probably basketball
Fav Athlete: uh, my sons
Drink of Choice: orval
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): mariadowanna
Smoker? : not no mo
Occupation : dutch translator
Do you work out? : i wish i was finding time to - i enjoy it when i do
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : i'm a little perty
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : my personality fucking rocks
Add anything you want people to know: i'm not as tall as ned thought i would be

Name: Charlie
Location: Lawndale/Manhattan Beach (LA)
Age: 22
Fav Bands: The Fall/Brian Eno www.last.fm/user/OctagonWolf
Fav Movie: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Seven Samurai, Mulholland Drive, Fargo
Fav TV Show: Home Movies, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Fav Book: The Sirens of Titan, The Stars My Destination/Tiger! Tiger!
Fav Actor: Toshiro Mifune
Fav Actress: dunno
Fav Food: Chinese and pizza
Fav Sport: Hockey (St. Louis Blues fan)
Fav Athlete: Dominique Hasek
Drink of Choice: Sapporo, New Castle, white Russian, various juices and sodas
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): anything that's available except weed (which i hate)
Smoker?: i'll have a ciggy once every week or so
Occupation: student/seeking a job
Do you work out?: no :(
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: <img src="http://photos-b.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v652/91/103/534720048/n534720048_2284193_5738.jpg";> Hi dere
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: ???
Fave comics: I haven't really read them in years and have only been getting back into them recently... right now it's The Watchmen (i read it before i knew about the movie, though)
Height: 5'6"
Add anything you want people to know: I've been a lurker for a looong time... also, i think everyone should go over to the Ultimate Battle thread and vote for cats or I think that you are going to end up regretting not doing so :(

oops on the image
<img src="http://photos-b.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v652/91/103/534720048/n534720048_2284193_5738.jpg";>

hope that works?

http://photos-b.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v652/91/103/534720048/n534720048_2284193_5738.jpg

"Smoker?: i'll have a ciggy once every week or so"

Oh man, I wish I cld be you.Alas it's all or nothing. So I'm trying to stick with the latter. :-(

note the 'or so' though...

o'boi, a whole lotta years under the ilx bridge already. puzzlz the bejeezuz outta one. well, nearly.

thanks Bob for the image posting :)
The "or so" means sometimes it's two weeks.
Basically, when I'm at a party and fucked up I'll smoke one... it evens out across the year to probably less than one a week.
I dunno, I've just never had a problem with addiction and drugs/smokes... works out for me but I wish my friends could be the same way

Name: my username backwards. (it's hebrew and unfortunately google-able)
Location: San Francisco
Age: 22
Fav Bands: boring and ILM-approved stuff - that's what happens when it's the only music site you read for like 6 years. things that I like more than ILM-hive mind: John Cale, Microdisney, Bruce Springsteen, Jacques Brel
Fav Movie: Days of Heaven
Fav TV Show: Upright Citizens Brigade
Fav Book: sad truth - I haven't read any book that wasn't about economics, sports or a music bio for like...2 years? I need to start reading non-fiction again.
Fav Actor: Bruno S
Fav Actress: no idea
Fav Food: Pierre Hermé macarons, SF mission burritos
Fav Sport: College football
Fav Athlete: Jahvid Best
Drink of Choice: non-shitty beer
Drug of Choice: see: location
Smoker?: no
Occupation: recent college grad, bumming 'round internships
Do you work out?: not at the moment
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 5??
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: higher than my friends would
Fave comics: don't read
Height: 6'2
Add anything you want people to know:

Have vigorously lurked but only occasionally posted since high school so I know way too much personal information about lots of people here. Being bored to death in an office has led to me posting way more frequently. I lived in Paris last year, Berkeley the 3 years previous and grew up in Santa Barbara.

Doesn't the ILM-hive mind love John Cale?
"I know way too much personal information about lots of people here."
- same here... it makes me feel creepy and weird

iatee you sound like a bro

ILM def has Cale love, but I'm outside of the ILM-love standard deviation w/ him

I have long striven for bro-ness

Name: Party Sausage
Location: Willenhall
Age: 34
Fav Bands: UB40, The Kooks, Heaven 17, U2
Fav Movie: Independence Day
Fav TV Show: Only Fools and Horses
Fav Book: The Dark Knight
Fav Actor: Al Pacino
Fav Actress: Kate Winslet
Fav Food: Balti Chicken
Fav Sport: Football
Fav Athlete: Martin O'Neill
Drink of Choice: Kronenbourg 1664
Drug of Choice: Ganj
Smoker?: Packed it in
Occupation: Teacher
Do you work out?: No but I wish I did
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: ho ho ho
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: I'm alright I think
Height: 6 foot 4
Add anything you want people to know: I promise I don't bite

Dude, BREL? I'm in awe. I'm a Flamande and can't really tolerate his music. I know, blasphemy. Same goes for anything that's too Flemmish, tbh.

I dunno, I've just never had a problem with addiction and drugs/smokes...

Denial is the keyword here. For me anyway. Problem with me is that once I get started I am "disciplined" and need to do it like all the time. haha *ponders whether she should have a smoke*

you, in fact, should not have a smoke

Name: Ste
Location: Warrington
Age: 35
Fav Bands: Sweet Exorcist, Orbital, Machine Head
Fav Movie: Withnail & I
Fav TV Show: Seinfeld
Fav Book: Neuromancer
Fav Actor: Robert Shaw
Fav Actress: Tippi Hedren
Fav Food: any meat dish, with tomato type sauce (no not ketchup!)
Fav Sport: Football
Fav Athlete: none
Drink of Choice: Ginger Beer
Drug of Choice: mushroom
Smoker?: no
Occupation: software licensing guy
Do you work out?: very rarely
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 3
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 5
Height: 5 9
Add anything you want people to know: sometimes i rant and lose the plot

don't think i ever did one of these

Name: see username
Location: Melbourne, Aus but possibly moving in a few mths
Age: 24
Fav Band(s): Wire, Radiohead + 2348047 more
Fav Movie: Eternal Sunshine, Heathers + 23438047 more
Fav TV Show: LOST, Veronica Mars + 23438047 more
Fav Book: Gaiman, Lethem + 23438047 more
Fav Actor: right now Robert Downey Jr.
Fav Actress: Tilda Swinton
Fav Food: Thai, Korean, Italian, fried chicken, chips
Fav Sport: Tennis
Fav Athlete: -
Drink of Choice: Beer/wine
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): did the usual testing of waters in college but nah not my thing.
Smoker: no
Occupation: just finished last college paper, thinkin' baout stuff.
Do you work out? : no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 5 nice enough but too quiet/bit of a loner
Fave comics: Peanuts
Height: 5'1
Add anything you want people to know:
1. left home at 14, so have weird issues about staying in one place
2. pondering whether to join the Twitter crowd.

sorry, my location is in england

Don't be sorry for that, England is a great country!

England is a great country
used to be

Dude, BREL? I'm in awe. I'm a Flamande and can't really tolerate his music. I know, blasphemy. Same goes for anything that's too Flemmish, tbh.

Haha plenty of reasons for a Flamande to not like Brel, really! (The songs 'Les Flamingants' and 'Les Flamandes', to begin with.) I have been reading a Brel bio (off and on for a while now) and he def had very confused and mixed feelings about la situation en belgique.

It still is, where else can you get a curry and a pint of Banks's beer on a Thursday night?

Fuck it, I'm bored

Name: Nathan
Location: Cardiff, Wales
Age: 36
Fav Bands: Spoon, The Beatles, PJ Harvey & LCD Soundsystem
Fav Movie: Goodfellas (and I voted so in the poll)
Fav TV Show: Coronation Street & Grand Designs
Fav Book: The Road
Fav Actor: none really
Fav Actress: as above
Fav Food: sandwiches, kettle crisps and pickled onions
Fav Sport: Snooker
Fav Athlete: Ronnie O'Sullivan
Drink of Choice: Tea / Stella Artois / Coke
Drug of Choice: skunk if there's any about
Smoker?: not anymore, gave up about 5 years ago, it was easier than I thought it would be
Occupation: estimator (construction)
Do you work out?: not a chance
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 7
Height: 6' 2"
Add anything you want people to know: I judge people on their driving ability

Name: Tiarnan
Location: Limerick, Ireland (awful place)
Age: 21
Fav Band(s): Black Dice, Arthur Russell, Fleetwood Mac, McLusky, Missy Elliott
Fav Movie: Badlands, La Jetee, Happy Together, 2046, Angst Vor Der Angst, Magnificent Obsession
Fav TV Show: Don't really watch tv, but I'm halfway through Freaks and Geeks on youtube.
Fav Book: Tender Is the Night, On Photography, Fear And Trembling, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Words And Music, The Corrections, others...
Fav Actor: Tony Leung
Fav Actress: Katharine Hepburn
Fav Food: Sushi, big fucking stews with beans and lettuce and tomatoes and peppers.
Fav Sport: n/a
Fav Athlete: Sonia O'Sullivan for nostalgic national pride reasons
Drink of Choice: Orange Juice, Beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Something so sweet about sharing a joint on a fire escape.
Smoker: no
Occupation: Student/Waiter/Painter
Do you work out? : no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6, my features are a bit Late Night With talk show host-ey.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 5, difficult aspie, weirdly obsessive about minutiae, prone to hyperbolic enthusiasm, but I'm honest and loyal. Kinda like a hyper dog.
Fave comics: Dinosaur Comics
Height: 5'8"
Add anything you want people to know:
Agnes Martin is the greatest painter that ever lived

what ages do you teach, Party Sausage?

freaks and geeks is on youtube? excellent.

Mostly 16 and 17 years old turtles

I ask because I'm currently deciding between pursuing a career as a speech pathologist or an elementary school teacher

Elementary school is like infant school in english, right? I sometimes think teaching those kids would be less stress than working at college but I think college kids are more fun.

elementary school encompasses around 6 to 12

Oh right it's like infant school and junior school. At least they're not as mad as teenagers, right?

they are still really fucking weird

^^^this.

I thought I'd done this but seems not. It's probably changed anyway so...

Name: Edward
Location: Leicester
Age: 44
Fav Band: New Order
Fav Movie: Local Hero
Fav TV Show: 30 Rock
Fav Book: Microserfs
Fav Actor: James Spader
Fav Actress: Diane Keaton
Fav Food: Methi Chicken
Fav Sport: Table tennis
Fav Athlete: Maradona
Drink of Choice: Laphroaig, Welch's Purple Grape Juice
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Syndol
Smoker: No
Occupation: Part-time househusband/ Part-time admin person
Do you work out? : No, but have you ever tried changing three duvet cases in a row?
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 2
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 6
Fave comics: Jason Little
Height: 5'7 and a half
Add anything you want people to know: "Without contraries is no progression"

Name: Tom
Location: London
Age: 35
Fav Band: Autechre
Fav Movie: 2001
Fav TV Show: Edge of Darkness
Fav Book: The Unconsoled
Fav Actor: ehh some character actor or other
Fav Actress: I am deeply attracted to Toni Collette
Fav Food: Japanese
Fav Sport: Cricket but generally sport = dud
Fav Athlete: none
Drink of Choice: Bitter
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not these days
Smoker: No
Occupation: Web dev
Do you work out?: I cycle, when the weather's good. Sometimes when it's bad too.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 8
Fave comics: achewood, gywo, POKEY THE PENGUIN
Height: 6" or just a hair under
Add anything you want people to know: I would like to become a furniture designer

Name: r0b1n
Location: london, england
Age: 31
Fav Band(s): can, studio
Fav Movie: nashville
Fav TV Show: mad men (at the moment)
Fav Book: infinite jest
Fav Actor: never thought about it, don't really have one
Fav Actress: don't have one of these either
Fav Food: pizza fiorentina
Fav Sport: swimming
Fav Athlete: I don't watch athletics
Drink of Choice: ale
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): mdma
Smoker: only when drunk
Occupation: sub-editor
Do you work out? : no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 8
Fave comics: haven't read one in years tbh
Height: 6'0"
Add anything you want people to know: i probably come across better in person.

i feel like i've done one of these before on ilx, but apparently not on this thread.

Name: jim
Location: Glasgow
Age: 24
Fav Band(s): Ornette Coleman quartet (with Cherry, Haden, Blackwell); Miles Davis First Great Quintet; Fleetwood Mac, Boredoms, E Street Band, the Hot Boys.
Fav Movie: Pierrot le Fou.
Fav TV Show: Twin Peaks, The Wire, Sopranos, Seinfeld, Arrested Development, 30 Rock.
Fav Book: El Amor en los tiempos del cólera by García Márquez, La Ciudad y Los Perros by Vargas Llosa, 2666 by Bolano, The Fall by Camus.
Fav Actor:
Fav Actress: Anna Karina.
Fav Food: Dim sum, ceviche, tacos.
Fav Sport: Football (soccer).
Fav Athlete: Henrik Larsson.
Drink of Choice: Jameson, Pisco Sour, Guinness.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): mdma
Smoker: No.
Occupation: Unemployed.
Do you work out? : no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 5
Fave comics: Watchmen, Tintin: Prisoners of the sun, Watchmen.
Height: 6'2"
Add anything you want people to know: I'm absolutely sure I've done this before now!

oh missed out favourite actor, Pacino or Alec Baldwin probably.

Hi Jim - as another Glasgow subeditor I feel I should know you already.

i'm not a subeditor! That's braveclub above me. I am an unemployed bum for the moment.

Alba, I thought you were being a librarian in that environment???

I didn't realize I haven't done this either. But I doubt anyone is interested in the shit I post here.

Haha plenty of reasons for a Flamande to not like Brel, really! (The songs 'Les Flamingants' and 'Les Flamandes', to begin with.) I have been reading a Brel bio (off and on for a while now) and he def had very confused and mixed feelings about la situation en belgique.

Dude was a punk, that's what he was. And Belgium/Flanders/Walloons is always a love/hate thing for us lot here.

Name: Tom
Location: London
Age: 35

you've aged ten years since wednesday??

i was lying about my age on wednesday??

coulda sworn you said 25 lol

i'm glad i look good enough for my age for you not have laughed in my face

Name: Ken
Location: London
Age: 28
Fav Band(s): The Sundays, Daft Punk, Blur, Inner Circle, Aqua
Fav Movie: Good Will Hunting
Fav TV Show: The Jeremy Kyle Show
Fav Book: The Catcher in the Rye
Fav Actor: Christiano Ronaldo
Fav Actress: Whoever played sally sparrow in Dr Who - Blink.
Fav Food: dim sum, ramen
Fav Sport: 10 pin bowling, snooker, association football
Fav Athlete: Gina Gogean
Drink of Choice: bubbly pink wine.
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): free ones
Smoker: No.
Occupation: IT
Do you work out? : Meant to do
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 10
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 5
Fave comics:
Height: 5'7"
Add anything you want people to know: i like singing

Sorry jim - I somehow read two IYs as one. So much for my subbing skills.

Suzy - I gave up on libraries three years ago. I hope it's not time to give up on subbing already.

Name: Ed
Location: Pittsburgh
Age: 29
Fav Bands: everything and nothing
Fav Movie: Whatever is on MyTV on saturday night so Spike Lee's Girl 6
Fav TV Show: 30 Rock
Fav Book: Who has time for fiction, I've been reading the good soldier sviek for 3 months now
Fav Actor: Currently Brad Pitt for his secret shit
Fav Actress: dunno
Fav Food: Indian, British
Fav Sport: Cycling, Cricket
Fav Athlete: Eddy Merckx, Nicole Cook, Chris Hoy
Drink of Choice: Rye, old fashioneds, real ale
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): advil
Smoker?: nope
Occupation: grad student seeking to stay one
Do you work out?: yes, gym, walking cycling
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 10
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 10
Fave comics: Bill bailey
Height: 1m88
Add anything you want people to know: I pull the strings (allegedly)

Seems like I've not done this before:

Name: Greig
Location: Split between Fife and Edinburgh (Scotland)
Age: 35
Fav Bands: Low, REM, Radiohead, Neil Young
Fav Movie: The Philadelphia Story,
Fav TV Show: BSG, Doctor Who, Mythbusters, Whedon stuff
Fav Book: Microserfs, LOTR, Catch-22, anything by Pratchett, Gaiman
Fav Actor: Paddy Considine
Fav Actress: Alicia Witt
Fav Food: Macaroni cheese, bacon, chinese
Fav Sport: Football
Fav Athlete: No single athlete - I do support Raith Rovers though
Drink of Choice: Cider (though I prefer soft drinks to alcohol)
Drug of Choice: nope
Smoker?: never
Occupation: Systems Developer/Professional Librarian
Do you work out?: I really should, but it bores the crap out of me
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 5
Height: 5' 10"
Add anything you want people to know: I like to take photographs

because I only did it for ILM and I'm bored

Name: Ryan C
Location: outskirts of Atlanta
Age: 25
Fav Bands: Grifters, King Creosote, early Genesis, Robert Wyatt, Quasi, early Roxy Music, Heavy Vegetable, Thingy
More Fav Bands: Jim O'Rourke, Jim Guthrie, Archer Prewitt, Kevin Ayers, The Sea and Cake, B&S, Red Red Meat, Pigeon John
Fav Movie: years ago I would say Castle in the Sky (miyazaki anime) and Leon the Professional. today maybe Polyester
Fav TV Show: Lost, Swat Kats The Radical Squadron, House, How I Met Your Mother, Slacker Cats (for Tabitha mostly)
Fav Book: Kerouac books, Calvin and Hobbes books
Fav Actor: nada
Fav Actress: nada
Fav Food: thai and gummy candy/fruit snacks
Fav Sport: Football (american)
Fav Athlete: nadal
Drink of Choice: diet coke
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): cheap light beer in large quantities
Smoker?: kinda
Occupation: saving the trees
Do you work out?: not lately, meaning to
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 10 -2 for shyness = 8
(seriously whats up w/ people rating themselves 5 or less? except Tiarnan - you gave your reasons)
Add anything you want people to know: hey ATL and Athens ilxors - wanna meet up at pantera?
(uptight/judgmental/pessimistic don't apply - I like to have a good time)

éav Athlete: Eddy Merckx"

aaaah the lance armstrong of belgium. hahaha

Name: Samuel
Location: Kingston-upon-Thames
Age: 21
Fav Bands: last.fm makes it seem like the magnetic fields but i dunno, listening to one album like 10 times is like listening to anyone else like a billion times in figures.
Fav Movie: Apocalypse Now
Fav TV Show: The Wire obv.
Fav Book: I dunno. Something written by Graham Greene I guess. Am currently engrossed in The Golden Notebook though.
Fav Actor: Martin Sheen.
Fav Actress: First person who came to mind is Natalie Portman but that can't be right.
Fav Food: Propah roast w/ crackling and shiz.
Fav Sport: Wengerball
Fav Athlete: Dennis Bergkamp/Bobby Pires fite.
Drink of Choice: Tea not too milky, 1 sugar if i'm feeling decadent.
Drug of Choice: can't afford atm.
Smoker?: no.
Occupation: student/unemployed
Do you work out?: i go for a run like twice a week.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: earlier i would have said like 3 but a pretty girl gave me a compliment earlier so like 10.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 6.
Height: 5' 10" i think
Add anything you want people to know: My plans got cancelled so I am sat drinking wine, watching freaks and geeks/reading ilx on this friday evening. Wine makes life great (while still young and ignorant of any knock on effectz.)

Name: Bob6
Location: Vauxhall, London
Age: 44
Fav Band(s): Frank Black, Beck, Ramones, Talking Heads, Fairport Convention
Fav Movie: Point Break
Fav TV Show: None - TV goes unwatched for days on end.
Fav Book: Edie: American Girl by George Plimpton
Fav Actor: Michael Sheen (currently)
Fav Actress: Rosanna Arquette
Fav Food: Pizza Express Quatro Formaggi with extra onion, Korean, Indian
Fav Sport: Hate sport
Fav Athlete: -
Drink of Choice: beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): hash, decent grass (not skunk), mushrooms
Smoker: Semi-retired.
Occupation: Policy wonk
Do you work out? : Never knowingly worked out, but just getting into yoga
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 3 (short, fat, bald & ugly)
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 7 (sunny disposition but sometimes pulled down by various neuroses)
Fave comics: Robert Crumb, Alison Bechdel - Fun Home
Height: 5'7"
Add anything you want people to know: I hate that so much socialising is based around alcohol - I'd rather go for a coffee or a meal.

Have vigorously lurked but only occasionally posted since high school so I know way too much personal information about lots of people here.

STALKER oh wait.

As for me, I'm me.

^^^ from san diego, army brat, went to ucla, started but left grad school, works at uci library, mbv etc.

Army brat, you say.

oops military

I think it's navy though?

There ya go.

enjoys reciting pi

Well, that one time.

one thing I don't look forward to is coming back to this thread in 6 years and seeing "age: 22"

its alright, we'll be 51'd by then.

because I only did it for ILM, I think.

Name: Michael
Location: Oakland
Age: 31
Fav Bands: Beach Boys, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Prince, and other similarly-obscure acts
Fav Movie: Badlands, Third Man, Bad News Bears, Die Hard, Lucas
Fav TV Show: Wire, Deadwood, Columbo, The Soup
Fav Book: It seems so generic to say 100 Years of Solitude, but it is what it is.
Fav Actor: Charlie Chaplin, Cary Grant, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, James Mason, Bill Murray
Fav Actress: Joan Fontaine, Shirley MacLaine, Julie Christie, Sissy Spacek, Holly Hunter, Kate Winslet
Fav Food: Soup
Fav Sport: Baseball
Fav Athlete: Tim Lincecum
Drink of Choice: Maker's Mark or IPA
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Marijuana
Smoker?: I bum when I drink
Occupation: Editor/supervisor for art school
Do you work out?: Fuck this shit
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: Not sure, but 7.5 on the pH scale
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 2 1/2 buckets of popcorn

huh. looks like i didnt ever do this either

Name: John
Location: MPLS/STPL MN
Age: 36
Fav Bands: judging by who i am most likely to babble about on ILX - Foetus, Cop Shoot Cop, McLusky, Ulver
Fav Musicians Not At All In Bands: Mado Robin, Leonid Kogan, Jascha Heifitz, Itzhak Perlman, Pablo Casals
Fav Movie: Millers Crossing
Fav TV Show: Lost, 30 Rock, that goddamn Ghost Hunters (not international) show im hooked on for no good reason
Fav Book: Pale Fire, Infinite Jest, Finley Wren
Fav Actor: changes
Fav Actress: changes
Fav Food: Dinty Moore Beef Stew, Crunchy Granola Bars, Peanut Butter and Honey sandwiches, Thai, (real) Mexican
Fav Sport: kind of dont care
Fav Athlete: note above
Drink of Choice: Black Label Beer, Hendricks Tonic, Talisker, Nipsey Russell (RIP strongo), Bloody Mary, Salty Dog, sour ales, yeah i could really just keep going on i guess
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): nothing, but my former leanings were in the stimulant and hallucinogen categories.
Smoker? : not at this point, hopefully not anymore at all but im not dumb enough to claim that ever
Occupation : guitar store owner, live soundperson (infrequent at this point, which is ok by me)
Do you work out? : nope. still riding the lucky genetics train, probably will turn on me at some point tho.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 8.5
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 10
Add anything you want people to know: i am happy 99% of the time, so honestly, if i seem angry and zing you, it is a zing full of love.

Name: Stephen
Location: Toledo, OH (for a spell, and then back to NYC probably)
Age: 31
Fav Band: The Velvet Underground
Fav Movie: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Fav TV Show: Twin Peaks
Fav Book: The Brothers Karamazov
Fav Actor: Jimmy Stewart
Fav Actress: Grace Zabriskie
Fav Food: Korean, Thai, Mexican
Fav Sport: (to watch) University of Michigan football; (to do) cycling
Fav Athlete: Christian Hosoi
Drink of Choice: Maker's Manhattan
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Ritalin
Smoker: occasional
Occupation: Graphic Design
Do you work out?: I walk absurdly long distances on purpose & ride my bike too
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 9.999
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 7
Fave comics: (book) Tales From the Crypt; (strip) The Far Side; (individual) Larry David
Height: 6.2"
Add anything you want people to know: I hate trying to address categories like this cleverly, and can never think of anything on the spot, so no.

Name: mark
Location: western MA
Age: 25
Fav Bands: past year or so it's been six organs of admittance, om, louis armstrong & hot fives/sevens. golden gate jubilee quartet.
Fav Movie: children of men, sin city, superbad
Fav TV Show: freaks & geeks, office (US)
Fav Book: books by jon krakauer. paz's 'labyrinth of solitude' is pretty amazing too.
Fav Actor: i don't know. not quite a stan but i like clive owen.
Fav Actress: not sure. laura linney?
Fav Food: indian, chinese, new haven pizza, greasy vegan sandwiches a la chicago diner
Fav Sport: hiking? climbing? maybe basketball for a competitive sport
Fav Athlete: lebron, our native son
Drink of Choice: ales, sometimes lagers. cask-conditioned ales are the best
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not for a long time but it was always kind buds
Smoker?: no
Occupation: aspiring
Do you work out?: sure. hiking, climbing, yoga sometimes
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 10
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 10
Fave comics: x-men
Height: 5'7

ha occupation is supposed to b "aspiring librarian." i'm a library assistant now

i think i did this a couple years ago on ILM

Name: Alex
Location: SF
Age: 33
Fav Bands: Too many to name. Currently very much digging Supersilent.
Fav Movie: I hate questions like this uh Holy Mountain, maybe?
Fav TV Show: The Wire
Fav Book: The Stars My Destination or the Sheep Look Up
Fav Actor: Brando
Fav Actress: Helen Mirren
Fav Food: Sausage
Fav Sport: Baseball
Fav Athlete: Dave Stewart
Drink of Choice: These days it's usually red wine (typically heavier reds)
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Speed
Smoker?: Four years clean.
Occupation: Guy at office.
Do you work out?: Yup, run three miles each day with my dog, work out at home, bike to work, yoga 2-3 times a week, occassional climbing gym and basketball games
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 11
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: Hah on ILX probably a 4, IRL I can be significantly more charming
Fave comics: (still marginally active) Hate, Eightball, Love & Rockets, League of Extraordinary Gentleman (ever) V For Vendetta, GM Doom Patrol, M, From Hell
Height: 6.2"

Name: Sean
Location: Boston
Age: 25
Fav Bands: Chavez, Silkworm, all sorts of indie rock, hip-hop, metal, jazz, etc.
Fav Movie: don't really have one, i like a lot of american dramas from the 70s and early 80s
Fav TV Show: i like mad men and house, 90% of the time my tv is on it's sports tho
Fav Book: faulkner novels, the power broker by robert caro
Fav Actor: jack lemmon
Fav Actress: could never really come up with one
Fav Food: sushi, barbecue, mexican, trad. french
Fav Sport: baseball, football, basketball in a yearlong cycle; hockey, soccer, rugby, and golf are the second tier
Fav Athlete: paul pierce
Drink of Choice: cafe au lait, almost all beers, dewars and ginger ale
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): nah not really
Smoker?: nah dude
Occupation: systems analyst, irritated grad student
Do you work out?: just started hitting the arc trainer this year
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 7
Fave comics: achewood i guess
Height: 6"
Add anything you want people to know: i like you guys

Oh, so Face of Wolf you ARE an ilxor! I sent you an email back the other night asking if you were because I didn't recognize your name.

Looks: I just asked my husband to which he responded "4, but I'm a really tough marker and that's as high as anyone gets."

ENBB, I've seen you on the WDYLL threads & feel that your husband has vastly undervalued your, er, aesthetics. Perhaps it's time to find a new suitor, and why not here on ILX? You could do so, perhaps, by running a poll.

Hey guys. I'm fairly new 'round these parts and don't post much (usually on ILM when I do) so here goes.

Name: Ryan
Location: Sacramento, California
Age: Almost 25. It's scary!
Fav Band(s): The Beatles, Bowie, Daft Punk, OutKast...too many!
Fav Movie: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Y Tu Mamá También, City of God...
Fav TV Show: The Office, The Wire, Arrested Development, Seinfeld
Fav Book: Is it lame to say Catcher in the Rye? It's honestly the one I've reread the most.
Fav Actor: Javier Bardem
Fav Actress: Penélope Cruz
Fav Food: Pizza, Thai, carne asada, avocados
Fav Sport: Basketball
Fav Athlete: Currently probably Lebron James
Drink of Choice: beer, coffee
Drug of Choice: I've been an on-and-off pothead since the end of high school, but it's losing its appeal. I really liked Concerta the few times I did it. I guess the real answer is caffeine.
Smoker: Nope
Occupation: Student/educator
Do you work out? : Go running 2-4 times a week, work out with weights sporadically.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7. Some people think I'm cute, but I'm really short and hairy.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 7. Wish I were more outgoing
Fave comics: Umm the Far Side?
Height: 5'5 anna half
Add anything you want people to know: I'm trying to decide where I should move after I finish my degree. It'll probably be somewhere in California. I lived in SF and love it, but I don't think I can afford it. I lived in Spain too and would love to go back but it's sooo far! Any suggestions?

If "comics" means comedians: Dave Chappelle, Louis CK, Chris Rock, Mitch Hedberg RIP, Eugene Mirman

Alex do you go to Mission Cliffs? I used to be a member but never got super into it. Bouldering is lots o fun.

Name: Katarina
Location: North Little Rock AR
Age: 36
Fav Bands: Silver Jews, Beastie Boys, Pink Nasty, Peaches
Fav Movie: i dont think i have one?
Fav TV Show: larry sanders, strangers w candy, curb yr enthusiasm, the bold and the beautiful
Fav Book: Rum Diary and Factotum
Fav Actor: jack lemmon
Fav Actress: could never really come up with one
Fav Food: lobster, italian
Fav Sport: skiing, snowboarding, football
Fav Athlete: brett farve (shutupilovehim)
Drink of Choice: coke - dont like alcohol
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing):
Smoker?: yeah but in process of quitting
Occupation: snr technical analyst
Do you work out?: i have a treadmill but havent used it in months. i like yoga but hate classes
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 3
Fave comics: perry bible maybe? i dont know. im not a huge comic fan
Height: 5'7
Add anything you want people to know: life begins at 0

oh actor/actress were still from my copy/pastes

so:

Fav Actor: none
Fav Actress: amy sedaris

people rating their own personality 5 or below is still a mystery to me.

Name: kevin
Location: connecticut
Age: 19
Fav Bands: of montreal, pavement, (says "bands" but lots of R&B as well obv)
Fav Movie: the godfather
Fav TV Show: lol 30 rock, freaks and geeks
Fav Book: moneyball (kind of a lame answer but i dont read a lot of full-length books :( )
Fav Actor: steve buscemi?
Fav Actress: eh
Fav Food: steak i guess
Fav Sport: uh tennis, baseball, basketball, football, badminton (not in order)
Fav Athlete: idk tiger or derek jeter (shut up)
Drink of Choice: green tea
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): limited experience in this field. though lol advil PM lately
Smoker?: not really
Occupation: pre-pharmacy student, try to write on the side
Do you work out?: never been one of these dudes, but i play sports all the time, including pretty hardcore pick-up bball at uconn here 3-4 times a week so im in shape
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 7
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 6
Fave comics: not into comics
Height: 5'11"
Add anything you want people to know: nahh

Hey PB . . . thank you! That said, RS may be a harsh judge but he's a pretty great husband so I think I'll keep him around for a while. ;-) Also, I don't want to even imagine what that poll thread could turn into.

suggest duels

did not realise freaks and geeks was such an ilx thing

"Oh, so Face of Wolf you ARE an ilxor! I sent you an email back the other night asking if you were because I didn't recognize your name."

Oops, I hadn't checked my mail. Yeah, I loved the thread you had going and love your blog. Thanks a lot for doing my picture, it is fantastic. More people need to go to your blog, I say.

xxxxxpost

Age: 30

OH FFS I HAVE WASTED SIX YEARS OF MY LIFE HERE

think I'm here 8 years this year, a third of my life almost.

if you put all my posts end to end you could reach the moon and back in a post powered shuttle

Been here eight years as well, which is shocking. I'm now in my thirties and was then in my twenties. URGH.

"Smoker?: Four years clean."

Alex, you still a non-smoker! Congrats. I have this really fucked up way of thinking the people I love/like are all smokers (waves at Sunny). They aren't necessarily, I just see my mates as smokers. haha How fucked up is that? Discovered last night my friend was a smoker before so I wanted to high five myself.

I am trying to enjoy the fact I can resist my smoking urges but it's hard. My husband flatly refused to give me a cigarette yesterday. I told him he was an asshole. haha

I was 18 when I started posting, lol@having been 18 once.

^hahaha.

Name: suzy
Age: old enough to know better, young enough to get carded in the US
Location: Zone One LDN
Fav Bands: David Bowie, LeTigre, MIA, New Order, Public Enemy, Pulp, Smiths
Fav Movie: Lawrence of Arabia, The Ruling Class, Shallow Grave, West Side Story
Fav TV Show: Bewitched, Colbert Report, Grand Designs, Heroes, M*A*S*H
Fav Book: The Great Gatsby, On Beauty, Orlando, all manifestations of Derek Jarman autobiogs
Fav Actor: Peter O'Toole
Fav Actress: Hepburns, Tilda Swinton, Sigourney Weaver
Fav Food: British, Indian, Mexican, Ribs, Steak frites, Vietnamese
Fav Sport: racing to TV remote to change channel from sport, when it appears
Fav Athlete: Rafael Nadal, if pressed
Drink of Choice: Hendrick's gin, Veuve Cliquot, Zubrowka bison grass vodka
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): member of Choom Gang
Smoker?: sometimes/when drunk
Occupation: curator/editor/researcher/writer
Do you work out?: No, I walk a lot instead. When I went to the gym it was for the steam room.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 8; I polish up nicely
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 8, with intermittent bitchy days
Fave comics: Marjane Satrapi (graphics), George Carlin, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart
Height: 5'4"
Add anything you want people to know: nobody's a 10.

young enough to get carded in the US

Hmm... you're aware someone of those places ask everyone, right?

Name: JB
Age: 23
Location: Paris
Fav Bands: Boredoms, Fleetwood Mac, Chic, NTM
Fav Movie: Badlands, OSS117, Rules of the Game
Fav TV Show: Wire, Freaks & Geeks, HIMYM
Fav Actor: I will watch any movie starring Jason Statham so him I guess
Fav Actress:
Fav Food: Indian, French
Fav Sport: Football (American & soccer), rugby
Fav Athlete:
Drink of Choice: gin and tonic
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): not tried much so weed
Smoker?: I'm trying to start as said in a movie ... OK no, I do smoke but I cant seem to accept this fact
Occupation: student, currently doing an internship
Do you work out?: No. I keep telling myself i should though.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 6
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 6
Fave comics: Perry Bible, Calvin & Hobbes
Height: 1.97m which is 6'6 unless I'm mistaken
Add anything you want people to know: I, like a few people upthread, have been lurking for a damn long time (5 years by my calculations), occasionally posting.

32, I am awesome.

Name: Ronan
Age: 26 in about three weeks
Location: London
Fav Bands: Pet Shop Boys
Fav Movie: Glengarry Glenross, Blue Velvet
Fav TV Show: Lost
Fav Actor: Have no pick for this...
Fav Actress:
Fav Food: anything with anchovies
Fav Sport: Football, rugby union, golf.
Fav Athlete: Padraig Harrington, Paul O'Connell, Fernando Torres.
Drink of Choice: a nice beer
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): ecstasy without question
Smoker?: Gave up in 2004
Do you work out?: I used to swim daily but I don't anymore, I will again one day I hope.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 7, if I don't give me 7, who will?
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: more than 7!
Fave comics: Woody Allen
Height: 5ft 11in or so.
Add anything you want people to know: I may have done this before but I thought it'd be nice to reevaluate. I love ILX and am glad I post here even though it can also be stupid and crap often.

suzy, we have the same taste in champagne and vodka!

this clearly means we should go out drinking more

Name: yes
Age: yes
Location: yes
Fav Bands: no
Fav Movie: yes
Fav TV Show: yes
Fav Book: yes
Fav Actor: no
Fav Actress: no
Fav Food: yes
Fav Sport: no
Fav Athlete: no
Drink of Choice: yes
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): yes
Smoker: yes
Do you work out?: no
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?: 10
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 10
Fave comics: yes
Height: yes
Add anything you want people to know: no

On balance, you seem to be a bit of a 'yes man'

keepin it posi ^_^

so your answer for 'On a a scale from 1-10' is binary I assume

i might have done this already, but i'm bored so

Name: Matt
Location: SLC suburbs, Utah
Age: 26
Fav Band(s): Can
Fav Movie: Close up
Fav TV Show: Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Fav Book: Moby Dick
Fav Actor: Charlie Chaplin
Fav Actress: Greta Garbo
Fav Food: Tacos
Fav Sport: American football
Fav Athlete: Favre lol
Drink of Choice: water, scotch
Drug of Choice: w33d, c0k3
Smoker: Yes
Occupation: Just finished grad degree, looking for library work
Do you work out?: Yes, running 5x a week, weightlifting, flag football once a week, trying to get in shape 4 summer
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 7. fairly hot in general.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?: 5 or 6. smart but insecure, anxiety-ridden, down on myself. getting better i hope.
Fave comics: comics are lame
Height: 5'9
Add anything you want people to know: i wanna be a rock star. gay single and mingling.

Name: sym

Location: vancouver

Age: 28

Fav Band: smiffs, pixies, wu-tang, biggie, the beatles

Fav Movie: the ones with the lesbians

Fav TV Show: larry sanders, wire, nevermind the buzzcocks

Fav Book: the one about that guy

Fav Actor: cary grant

Fav Actress: you

Fav Food: sushi, pho

Fav Sport: basketball

Fav Athlete: stevie nash

Drink of Choice: yes

Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): yes

Smoker? : no

Occupation : englishteacherman

Do you work out? : um

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : infinity

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : monkey

Add anything you want people to know: it's nice here these days

Name: Nathalie. Please do not call me Nat. I hate it. It's wet in dutch. I'm usually not wet.
Location: Bruges - Belgium
Age: *mumbles incoherently* 3...5
Fav Band: dEUS, Fleetwood Mac, X, Velvet Underground, Joni,...
Fav Movie: Hmm, lots. I quite like Scorsese, Hitchock,... The usual approved shit.
Fav TV Show: The Wire, Sopranos, House MD, Veronica Mars,...
Fav Book: Lolita, Master & Margarita, Room with a View, Dracula,...
Fav Actor: Depends on the movie.
Fav Actress: Again depends on the movie.
Fav Food: Japanese, my home made pizzas, Indian,...
Fav Sport: Tennis
Fav Athlete: I don't have a favorite athlete to be honest. I do hate Lance Armstrong. Hate is not saying it strong enough though. I H.A.T.E. Lance. About as much as I hate Jennifer Aniston
Drink of Choice: Tea, smoothies,...
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): Weed. That's about it.
Smoker? : I try not to be, but it's difficult.
Occupation : I run my parents' jewellery shop.
Do you work out? : I play tennis. I fuck.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks? : 5,5 to 6. Like most people.
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality? : 6.
Add anything you want people to know: I'm a cliché, just like you.

are you supposed to pronounce the h in your name?

haha lex I have not drunk the bison since the last time I saw you! rectify! also we still have to go to gourmet san...

I don't think I've ever done one of these:

Name: Mordy
Location: NYC
Age: 24
Fav Bands: Charming Hostess, Fleetwood Mac, X, Thursday
Fav Movie: To Have And Have Not
Fav TV Show: 30 Rock, Damages
Fav Book: Robertson Davis' Deptford Trilogy
Fav Actor: Humphrey Bogart (Currently Making Films: Leonardo DeCaprio)
Fav Actress: Lauren Bacall (Currently Making Films: Cate Blanchett)
Fav Food: Fettucini Alfredo
Fav Sport: Football
Fav Athlete: Brian Westbrook
Drink of Choice: Root Bear (alt: Scotch)
Drug of Choice (if that's your thing): MJ
Smoker?: Only hooka with friends.
Occupation: Writer/Hopeful Academic
Do you work out?: Occasionally
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your looks?:
On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your personality?:
Fave comics: Transmetropolitan, anything by Grant Morrison
Height: 5'10"
Add anything you want people to know: I've been here for four years (since 2005) and love it.