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We might as well get this over with now, if indeed we move over here instead of just vacationing....

Me: Michaelangelo Matos, 27, freelance music writer/critic/journalist in NYC. I like lots and lots of stuff. I'm medium height and stocky, like strawberries and chocolate eclairs and fried calamari, haven't gone to the movies in far too long, get stressed fairly easy but maintain it pretty well, like baseball but haven't paid close attention to it in years, and love my new hometown, where I've lived a year and a half now.

Hope that helps some....

― M Matos, Wednesday, 7 August 2002 19:29 (twenty-two years ago) link

Disco fan. I paint white stripes on black zebras, black stripes on white zebras, and black-and-white stripes on plain zebras. I played the lead in a college production of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" in 1936.

― Frank Kogan, Wednesday, 7 August 2002 21:02 (twenty-two years ago) link

mine is the last voice you will ever hear.

do not be alarmed.

― jess, Wednesday, 7 August 2002 21:25 (twenty-two years ago) link

Umm... William Swygart, 19 now, still getting over the anti-spam gonads here (how I will miss thinking up those fake addresses - sob). Originator of pointless C/D threads about bands only he is actually interested in and even then he'll be lucky if he remembers them a week later. Writes for CTCL every now and then. Single as four-x. No, those last two aren't mutually inclusive... tssch...

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 7 August 2002 21:54 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh, forgot - from Croydon (British version).

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 7 August 2002 21:58 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dom Passantino, which is a kinda Strokesy name. Indiest kid in Northampton, which just means that I'm more indie than, say, Lisa Maffffffffffffia. Lover of kebabs, Judd Nelson, and cynicism. Hater of drama students, Oxbridge students, and those studying drama at Oxbridge. Looks a bit like Danny Baker. Sadly.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 7 August 2002 22:20 (twenty-two years ago) link

Don't worry, I'm not a drama student (no matter what my last post implies).

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 7 August 2002 22:33 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tyler Martin, 19, reviewer for www.stylusmagazine.com and four-star college student.

― tyler, Wednesday, 7 August 2002 22:33 (twenty-two years ago) link

P.S. What do you think of mimes?

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 7 August 2002 22:34 (twenty-two years ago) link

My user profile.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 7 August 2002 22:58 (twenty-two years ago) link

David R., sonumbulist at large. Pleasure to make your zzzzzzzzzzz. If you see my e-mail, then you know my site. Send complaints and bitch-rants about said site to said e-mail, if you're so inclined, thank you. Or just go, y'know, live life or something - stop bothering ME, for the luvva.

Matos, start following the Padres. You'll thank me in 2004.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 7 August 2002 23:16 (twenty-two years ago) link

25, live in Seattle, Yankees fan, perl programmer. Studied studio art (oh, my parents loved that one) and CS in college, so I'm completely unqualified to write anything about music. Despite that, I write a dorky music blog that Tom linked to from NYLPM yesterday (wow!).
I'm a big fan of the tiny doughnut shop in Pike Place Market, right in between the newstand where I sometimes buy ridiculously expensive British music magazines and the flying fish.

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 8 August 2002 00:41 (twenty-two years ago) link

22, undergrad at Princeton U. in New Jersey, Canadian. Studying English and jazz alto sax. I like corduroy pants, drinking mimosas at sunday brunch, and sleeping in late whenever possible. No, I have no cigarettes on my person, I have not read your book and I dig lots of bands you're sick of hearing (about). Soon I will have a music weblog that will be fearsome, but until then you must read other ones - start with Tom's list, there are many good ones (including Lyra's, BTW).

― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 8 August 2002 01:52 (twenty-two years ago) link

Name: Julia Lutz

Location: Washington, DC

Fave music genre: the sort of stuff that gets played on 3WK.com

Fave bands: Firewater, M. Doughty, Girls Against Boys, Dismemberment Plan

Work: Editor (by profession); music reviewer (amateur so far, for soundaffect.com [not live yet])

Dream job: Editor of Magnet

Web page: http://users.erols.com/whiggrrl/index.html (The OFFICIAL Unofficial Afghan Whigs Frequently Asked Questions File)

Turnons: Wit; bravura singing; intelligently reasoned opinions and arguments; walks on the beach ;^}

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 8 August 2002 02:01 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mary, 29 years old, Manhattan-dwelling. Ex grad student (English lit). Likes cds with nice packaging and flattering photography.

― Mary, Thursday, 8 August 2002 02:25 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Hmm, SEES," ponders Felix.

"Maybe they\'re not dots," sez the tenor-sax player, "maybe they\'re dashes."

"That\'s funny," sez Otto, "that would spell OTTO."

"That\'s your name," sez Hilde.

― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 8 August 2002 05:03 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jeff, 37, English but currently living/working in Brussels, Belgium. I love music. But right now I'm thinking I love coffee more.

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Thursday, 8 August 2002 08:21 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mimes are OK, as long as they\'re not battling high winds whilst holding an umbrella.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 8 August 2002 10:27 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm still Tom, I'm still 29, I'm still a market researcher.

― Tom, Thursday, 8 August 2002 11:22 (twenty-two years ago) link

stevo - 34, care-worker, british/dutch, blah-blah-blah....

― stevo, Thursday, 8 August 2002 11:55 (twenty-two years ago) link

James - 26 - idiosyncratic. I like Slayer & the Smashing Pumpkins.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 8 August 2002 12:03 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mimes are OK, as long as they\\\'re not battling high winds whilst holding an umbrella.

then they\'re GREBT!

― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 8 August 2002 12:41 (twenty-two years ago) link

First of all, that giant ad that ate my screen scared the shit out of me. Secondly, Dominique Leone, 28, wanting you in my band.

― dleone, Thursday, 8 August 2002 13:15 (twenty-two years ago) link

I need to include my poem.

I doubt that RuPaul, tall and feminy

Has lips as gay as sea anemone

I think that I shall never see a better poem that both (1) resembles that awful Joyce Kilmer poem about trees, and (2) has a rhyme for "sea anemone."

I'm 48, live in central Denver about a 20-minute walk south of the main library. I write (google my name and you'll find some of it). I don't know if the phrase "rock critic" describes very well what I do; some of what I do, maybe. By the way, anyone who posts here is a writer, and a rock critic.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Thursday, 8 August 2002 15:49 (twenty-two years ago) link

Accch! I didn't realize that Graham had made the break sign unnecessary. (But at least I don't get those slashes when I type apostrophes. What's with that?) So here we go again. (Sorry, I guess I'm a format freak.)

I need to include my poem.

I doubt that RuPaul, tall and feminy
Has lips as gay as sea anemone

I think that I shall never see a better poem that both (1) resembles that awful Joyce Kilmer poem about trees, and (2) has a rhyme for "sea anemone."

I'm 48, live in central Denver about a 20-minute walk south of the main library. I write (google my name and you'll find some of it). I don't know if the phrase "rock critic" describes very well what I do; some of what I do, maybe. By the way, anyone who posts here is a writer, and a rock critic.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Thursday, 8 August 2002 15:53 (twenty-two years ago) link

i'm david - i don't post here anymore.

haha, can I be jess now?

― david h, Thursday, 8 August 2002 16:47 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am the scrounge of the boards. Arrr...

― Rockism, Thursday, 8 August 2002 19:40 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am Sardu. Im 47 and listen to nothing but Post-Randy Holden Blue Cheer and Post-Helios Creed Chrome. I'm a dog breeder specializing in Pugs. My mode of transportation is a Unicycle. My favorite color is plaid. I am a habitual liar....

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 8 August 2002 20:59 (twenty-two years ago) link

i'm ally and i can't get a fucking vacation, i'm in love with two men neither of which work out for my schedule and lifestyle at all, and i'm giving myself a facial right now. my best friend got laid off the other day so i bought her a vermont teddy bear, which in retrospect probably isn't useful.

― ally, Friday, 9 August 2002 03:52 (twenty-two years ago) link

Vinnie, 20, a student at Virginia Tech. Mashed potatoes and custard are great, and when not on ILX, I'm usually playing a game of some kind.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 9 August 2002 04:14 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am here. Oh yes, I am. And I wait patiently for the final move there. Thank you, drive through.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 August 2002 12:26 (twenty-two years ago) link

John Darnielle, 17, toaster/Ranking Roger figure for the renegade dancehall/D&B act known generally as the Mountain Goats but once called by his sister who knows what she's about "The Mountain Frogs," author of freelance music reviews for various places and of longer bits for Last Plane to Jakarta. Living in Iowa. Listening guiltily to the first song on the new Gene album and thinking that it rules. Oh hush you. You haven't even heard it.

― John Darnielle, Friday, 9 August 2002 12:49 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm Cowboy, and I'm the Real McCoy. I'm chocolate all over like an Almond Joy.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 9 August 2002 12:51 (twenty-two years ago) link

Listening guiltily to the first song on the new Gene album and thinking that it rules

John, "Gene" and "rules" just cannot be in a sentence together.

― Nicole, Friday, 9 August 2002 13:07 (twenty-two years ago) link

Wait a sec ... the SCROUNGE of the board? Is that, like, high-level lurking?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 9 August 2002 15:16 (twenty-two years ago) link

"One of the rules about Gene is that he rules not who sez Gene Rules."

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 9 August 2002 15:22 (twenty-two years ago) link

It appears that not even Ned will defend me on the Gene front. O I am doomed.

― John Darnielle, Friday, 9 August 2002 16:09 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm Jeff. 22, North Carolina. Web dev. by day, sleeper by night.

― Jeff (Jeff), Friday, 9 August 2002 16:19 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm still 29, still living in Great Satan Terrorist Target #1, where at least it's not hard to find a good show most weekends, still posting from work (hi boss!), still trying to decide whether or not there's such a thing as influence (which is not the same thing as being under the influence).

― o. nate, Friday, 9 August 2002 16:25 (twenty-two years ago) link

Is It Over? was classic, yeh tatty bastehds...

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 9 August 2002 19:16 (twenty-two years ago) link

It appears that not even Ned will defend me on the Gene front. O I am doomed.

I most certainly will NOT defend you, because Gene are and have always been a bunch of talentless bastard pricks who think they are delicate and full of intelligent passion, but have the grace of a rotting elephant snout and the deftness and general ability to make 'beautiful' music in the same sense that Our Current President has the ability to make independent decisions without lobbyists. Steve Mason deserves a smack in the face and Rossiter couldn't have gone bald quickly enough for me, and their current audience here in LA represent a strain of Anglophilic desperation I wouldn't associate with in the slightest. DIE DIE DIE.

Apologies if I am not clear on this point. Did I mention I hate Gene?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 August 2002 20:26 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh yeah, and Rossiter's attempts at wit in interviews make Morrissey's silliest comments sound like Oscar Wilde's prime moments. GRR. John, escape now, there's a world of life and enlightenment out there, where you need never worry about hearing crap like "Fighting Fit" ever again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 August 2002 20:29 (twenty-two years ago) link

ned that is called indirection i believe

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 9 August 2002 20:59 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm Mitch, I'm 20 and I'm currently available. If you choose me as your special date, we'll enjoy dinner at a 5 star restaurant, followed by a long moonlit walk on the beach. Then we'll retire to my luxury penthouse apartment for some wine and fireside cuddling, all while unwinding to the dulcet tones of Autechre. From there, who knows? So pick me, you *won't* regret it.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 9 August 2002 21:20 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Did I mention I hate Gene? "

Not 'Olympian' though, surely?

― DavidM (DavidM), Friday, 9 August 2002 21:39 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hi I'm Dave, fancy a pint?

― DavidM (DavidM), Friday, 9 August 2002 21:43 (twenty-two years ago) link

i'm mark s and you all still suck

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 9 August 2002 21:47 (twenty-two years ago) link

Not 'Olympian' though, surely?

DID I MENTION I HATE GENE. There.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 August 2002 22:05 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm tellin' you Ned that first song on the new album, it's a good 'un

Come over to the dark side of ignoring Gene's numerous glaring faults and embrace a kick-ass pop song or two: if you can forgive Billy Corgan that wretched pig-squeal voice of his, surely you can forgive...well, anything ;)

― John Darnielle, Friday, 9 August 2002 23:34 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm tellin' you Ned that first song on the new album, it's a good 'un

Even a blind monkey with no arms or legs that's been cast out of its family group sometimes rolls over onto a banana.

if you can forgive Billy Corgan
that wretched pig-squeal voice of his, surely you can forgive...well, anything ;)

I SEE YOUR MIND! Damn you, I shall not be moved. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:17 (twenty-two years ago) link

Just turned 27, live in Brighton (well, Hove, actually *groan*), love music (MBV to Tatu to Acen to Todd Edwards to bis to Roxy Music etc.), , love girlfriend, love ITFC, love beer, love food, have serious typing attention deficit, off to bed...

― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 10 August 2002 01:31 (twenty-two years ago) link

So I guess I should steer clear of Gene's coming tour in Sept.? Oh where to go for a modern day Moz fix (if not LA)?

― Mary, Saturday, 10 August 2002 23:06 (twenty-two years ago) link

Based on your current location, London.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hmm... no East Coast dates; what's that all about? (Actually when I first saw the link, my hope was that there was a new Smiths tribute band called London that would be playing in NY soon...)

― Mary, Sunday, 11 August 2002 00:27 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh, give it time. ;-) Not sure why he's not doing East Coast at the present time, but he might be gearing up for that later (or else he's sticking with his current core audience out here). MorrisseyTour doubtless will also have more info (and based on the setlist from the opener last night, "Late Night Maudlin Street" was planned but scratched).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 August 2002 00:33 (twenty-two years ago) link

36 year old, aspiring salsero, so I listen to lots of salsa and Latin music (actually my collection is still pretty small). Also still excited by Arabic music, which I've been listening to for almost ten years now, and have plenty more to hear in that area, mostly old recordings. (And if I ever start collecting Qur'anic recitation recordings, that could get pretty unwieldy.) Sometimes consider Sun Ra as a genre category of his own. Have a weakness for pop music from my childhood (late 60's to end of the 70's). Like many people here, I have also listened pretty widely in other areas, which I won't list this time around. Meanwhile though, I am slowly falling behind the times, slowly losing track of both pop music (outside of Latin music) and of more underground territory.

― DeRayMi, Sunday, 11 August 2002 00:48 (twenty-two years ago) link

i'm in denver and i spend all my time praying for rain and trying to avoid john elway's teeth.

super furry animals are actually playing here, usually bands skip denver and go straight to the rock hotbed of salt lake or failing that tucson. i knew james from the cc.

― keith, Sunday, 11 August 2002 03:19 (twenty-two years ago) link

Gene were just another drop in the sea of talentless boys with crushes on Morrissey that have been hemorrhaging from Britain's streets for going on 20 years. Cast were really something.

27, Boston, MA USA. Musician, critic, employee.

― Chris Ott, Monday, 12 August 2002 06:59 (twenty-two years ago) link

20. writer. editor of a culture zine. i like good stories and music that moves mountains.

― sean, Monday, 12 August 2002 13:25 (twenty-two years ago) link

Leigh, 27, from Edinburgh.

― Leigh, Monday, 12 August 2002 14:52 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hey, everybody. Matos told me about this steam bath. I have no idea what most of you are talking about.

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 12 August 2002 20:47 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't have any idea what I'm talking about either.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 12 August 2002 21:07 (twenty-two years ago) link

Welcome to Pete. :-) Full version of this board will be running this weekend if all goes well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 August 2002 22:35 (twenty-two years ago) link

i love musick. i used to be a regular. i live in no new york. i am fleetwood macked out.

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 13 August 2002 14:24 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm Bobby, I'm 20, I live in Minneapolis and I've been mostly a lurker for a long time but I post every once and a while. I can't think of a clever way to describe my taste other than saying I really don't have any.

― Bobby D Gray, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 15:06 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dave Dusencorter.

I'm here to disagree with everything you say. So be concise.

― Dave225, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 16:03 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jack Barnaby Savidge. 18 and a third. former head chorister of St Albans Cathedral. full time gap-year scrounge and parent leech.

― Barnaby, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 10:04 (twenty-two years ago) link

Edward. 20. Pop fanatic. Waster. Communist. Maybe.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 14 August 2002 17:56 (twenty-two years ago) link

Aaron. 21. Northern Virginia and Central Massachusetts. Student. Promoter. There is a power plant near my house that is on a river and I tend to hang out there and chain smoke. I post on old-ILM as Aaron G!, but now I am using my full name. I prefer winter to summer, and croissants to bagels. All my favorite teachers in college are Marxists from Liverpool.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 15 August 2002 01:16 (twenty-two years ago) link

duane, age 39, place of residence : the internet, occupation : semi retired juvenile delinquent

― unknown or illegal user, Friday, 16 August 2002 10:24 (twenty-two years ago) link

chaki: mexican jew with bad skin, electronic musician, bass player, singer, lover; los angeles, ca

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 17 August 2002 01:28 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hey, I'm 24 and spend most of my time writing house trax with filthy lyrix. Somtimes I DJ at horny backpacker bars in Cairns.

― 3070, Saturday, 17 August 2002 09:24 (twenty-two years ago) link

julio. Just turned 23. live in london. i like improv.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 17 August 2002 09:45 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am Martin and if you hit the Show All Details link at the bottom Graham's fabulous system will offer a link to my user profile. I think we should create these so that people can find who they're abusing without trawling for and then through massive threads like this.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 17 August 2002 14:17 (twenty-two years ago) link

good one martin. i've just done my profile. This is much much better.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 17 August 2002 15:47 (twenty-two years ago) link

ima thug4life
simon trife
shit be comin off
like a ex wife

― s trife, Monday, 19 August 2002 08:55 (twenty-two years ago) link

joan, 30, from mallorca, spain.
run a small bar and a smaller record label.
god, i just wrote this a week ago on the old board...

― joan vich, Monday, 19 August 2002 09:15 (twenty-two years ago) link

I live in Dublin. which is in Ireland.

Tom says I am rockist.

I like Belle & Sebastian, Nordic music, The Chalets, and nothing else.

I publish Frank's APA, the amateur press association for people who like music (a print mailing list, basically).

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 19 August 2002 21:11 (twenty-two years ago) link

I like things. I don't like other things. I still blame Ned (but in a good way, so don't bother crying this time, ya big crybaby).

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 19 August 2002 23:12 (twenty-two years ago) link

I like things. I don't like other things.

Very succinct.

― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 00:55 (twenty-two years ago) link

I never actually did one of these for ILM so I'll do a full one.

I'm 23. I look like this:

http://geocities.yahoo.com/sundar_subramanian2001/smallphoto.jpg

There are some bio info, MP3's, and pictures here. I only ever post about Rush (I teach guitar now - it's in the contract) but I'm more open-minded than I make myself out to be. I basically have the music taste of your standard Indo-Canadian who grew up loving classic rock (via hair metal), took classical guitar lessons, went Sonic Youth mad and tried to like other indie, ended up studying modern composition, checked out the Montreal free improv scene, and came out at the end of it so drug-damaged as to love nothing more than to sing along to Styx (Fuck, do they have other stuff that sounds like "Miss America"?) and Heart. At the moment, I'm hit particularly hard by the Byrds' "Eight Miles High". I never appreciated it so much before. To think I used to prefer the Husker Du version. I met some of you in New York last year but I'm nicer now, I promise.

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 02:25 (twenty-two years ago) link

I look more like this

http://www.geocities.com/sundar_subramanian2001/smallphoto.JPG

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 02:31 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm the god of hellfire. Hi, everybody! I live in Los Angeles, I'm 41 and today I got my SAG card. Actually, I just got a pin, I won't get the card for another couple of weeks. Life is not a dress rehearsal! It's a banquet, dammit! People! So I'm definitely not a Teamster anymore, what a relief. Anyway, I like tons of stuff, mainly garish, personality-driven music. And the Kinks.

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 04:17 (twenty-two years ago) link

angelo, 30 years young, from sydney australia. music's the purest, most honest form of beauty i know. thank christ i've found a suitably exciting sonic orgy here at i.l.m.

― angelo (angelo), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 12:32 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm Steve and I live in Cleveland Ohio USA. 37 years old.

Here's an easy way to make a wine sauce: You'll need butter, chopped onions, red wine and ground pepper. Cook onions in plenty of butter until they get limp. Add a cup or two of wine and some pepper and cook until reduced.

I enjoy such middle class pursuits as golf, the Smiths and eating.

My favorite porn star is Desiree Cousteau.

If you come to Cleveland I will buy you dinner, it's that simple.

― lawrence kansas, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 13:23 (twenty-two years ago) link

Matt, Germantown MD (outside DC), musician & fan, 44 years living 33 years playing. You may call me Veal, it's my working name. I sell books for a living. Married, no kids now or ever. I like all kinds of music, Scott Miller's my avowed songwriting hero, though I'm deep into the electronic thing now. I may not come back out.

― matt riedl (veal), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 14:48 (twenty-two years ago) link

Brad Haywood. 26yrs old. 3rd yr law student in NYC, aspiring poverty advocate, Pitchfork staffer of almost 1 year. I like music. I hate this board. I'm here anyways.

Go Tigers.

― Brad Haywood, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 14:59 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm because. Also, A) sometimes -- at least.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 15:06 (twenty-two years ago) link

I still blame Ned (but in a good way, so don't bother crying this time, ya big crybaby).

Dammit. And congrats to Arthur, yay! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 15:11 (twenty-two years ago) link

Chris V. 27, from Worcester Ma. I like the Force Md's.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 15:58 (twenty-two years ago) link

kaysee, 36, live in the Bahamas, love latin music especially salsa, timba, merengue, but also bachata, cumbia, vallenato. hate reggae.

Recently exposed to Arabic music, and am finding it interesting.

― kaysee (kaysee), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 00:56 (twenty-two years ago) link

19 years old, male, Engineering student, IT professional (I own the server this site is hosted on). I live in Melbourne, Australia, which is pretty good except for the fact that it's not anywhere near Europe. (I'm moving to Paris for a few months next year, if anyone can offer me work there ;)

I listen to mostly electronic music, particularly of the drum&bass/jungle/idm variety, but I have been known to delight in hip hop, turntablist stuff, and speed metal, amongst other things. I always love hearing new and original stuff, no matter what genre. I write jungly electronic tunes in my spare time.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 01:06 (twenty-two years ago) link

Im Paul, 26- have a PhD in cognitive science, psycholinguistics specifically. I am from NYC but now living in Baltimore doing brain imaging research (fMRI) on language processing. I generally dont like people and my closest friend lives in DC which means I dont get out much.

If there are like minded individuals in/around Baltimore whose musical afflictions are lost on their friends, Im always up to catch a show.

― insectifly, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:49 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm Ronan, you may have noticed I am mainly a dance music fan, I'm a Journalism student and I live in Dublin, I tend to come on here and enthuse about tunes or get snarky when dance music comes up in conversation. But it's nothing personal.....honestly.

At the moment I'm sitting in my house thinking a hamburger would be good before work.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 14:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

live Madison Wisconsin
aged 36 years
married + two kids
write & review for five different online mags
would list fave music but I think that's a different thread
have seen both Men Without Hats and Dizzy Gillespie in concert

realizing that I will never have the encyclopaediac knowledge of music that I used to think was so important

realizing that I don't care

Pizzicato Five was criminally underrated dammit

― Matt C., Wednesday, 21 August 2002 14:40 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh all right. 25 years old, born and raised in NYC, live there now. I've lived (over varying stretches of time) in Portland, New Orleans, Boston, Rome (Italy), and upstate New York, and I've been back in Brooklyn for a few years. "I write doodads, 'cuz it's a doodad kind of town" (Dorothy Parker). Favorite music: the punky stuff, the German stuff, the Dylan stuff. I like Fugazi less than I used to and I like the Clash more than I used to. Altered Images' "Don't Talk To Me About Love" may be my favorite pop single ever. I edit this.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Thursday, 22 August 2002 18:19 (twenty-two years ago) link

24, Boston, doing techy stuff. Been deep into idm for a while, am (re)discovering a love for house and pop. My music collection used to be about breadth over depth; I may head back in that direction.

― Lukas Bergstrom (lukas), Friday, 23 August 2002 15:56 (twenty-two years ago) link

Another Boston person, cool! We'll have a slew of new people to meet. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 August 2002 15:58 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hi Everyone :)
I hope that you're all doing well.
I've being here. My PC crashed and I had to have it repaired... Anyway, I just want to say hi and hope to see you all very soon...

― Gale Deslongchamps (Gale), Saturday, 24 August 2002 03:13 (twenty-two years ago) link

Born 1/16/70, thus officially beginning the 70s, in NJ, but tramps like me, baby, etc. Lived in Minneapolis for five years and will live here still for another 8 days, then off to Chicago to work at the Reader. I reviewed an Alicia Keys show tonight. At the State Fair, no less. It was two hours long. Her only album is less than an hour long. Do the math, and pity me.

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Saturday, 24 August 2002 03:59 (twenty-two years ago) link

justin, 19, student at university of washington. probably likes music a bit too much. loves excessive use of reverb. wishes he were a better writer so he could have an outlet for all his useless musical knowledge. favorite album is probably "a wizard... a true star" by todd rungren but who knows. really really likes this forum but oftentimes too shy to post anything.

― justin mc, Saturday, 24 August 2002 04:03 (twenty-two years ago) link

MWM, 34, two sons. I write, I play, I fish. I avoid country. I live in Atlanta and am surrounded by the Confederacy. How many people on ILM have ever seen a NASCAR race (thread to follow!).

What did Miggs say to you?

― Don Weiner, Saturday, 24 August 2002 15:24 (twenty-two years ago) link

''justin, 19, student at university of washington. probably likes music a bit too much. loves excessive use of reverb. wishes he were a better writer so he could have an outlet for all his useless musical knowledge.''

Justin, I'm a fucking awful writer but you can just post. and you'll get the hang of it! I'm sure someone will find your 'useless musical knowledge' useful.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 24 August 2002 15:30 (twenty-two years ago) link

More Seattleites! I'll echo Julio, just post anyway. I'm a lousy writer, but you don't really get any better by not writing...

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 24 August 2002 17:15 (twenty-two years ago) link

I haven't seen a NASCAR race, but my dad once dragged me to a sprint car race. Because the track was so small, the noise and fumes were so intense that it caused my stomach to go into convulsions and I spent the majority of the race hiding under the stands. Oddly, I've since inherited his copy of an old Capitol record with nothing but the sounds of drag racing, with a narrator commenting on what's happening. Huh.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 24 August 2002 18:24 (twenty-two years ago) link

sean- this rec was made JUST for you to remind you of the good times.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 24 August 2002 19:07 (twenty-two years ago) link

This seems to be as good a time as any to mention that I administer the boston-idm@yahoogroups list. Fairly high signal to noise ratio (mostly event announcements), so if that's your bag, join us.

― Lukas Bergstrom (lukas), Saturday, 24 August 2002 20:04 (twenty-two years ago) link

My name is Kiwi ( cliched rockist grungist maximus). I am small, brown and covered in feathers. I am nocturnal, shy and normally lurk. I am a mainstream breed of the many Dunedin Kiwis(dronus hipcoolus)found here. My food source traditionally was pearl jam berries though now I will eat just about anything.

ps I cannot write. I often wonder if there is more to life than sittting at my computer but have yet to find anything. Im a teacher of economics and history. I drink too much and Im surprised that Julio was nice to someone just up above. I think you are all grate but wish Rainy would write more.

― Kiwi, Saturday, 24 August 2002 21:12 (twenty-two years ago) link

six months pass...

I drink too much too. The black stuff. My gut is becoming a worry. I live in London and love music, especially early Dylan and Johnny Cash and modern stuff as well, eg. Silver Jews. I play guitar with not outstanding results. Seem not to be able to help affecting a broken southern drawl, which suits me better than camp English. I write for a living but not about music. I'm glad I don't have to write about music for a living cause the best I can do is an impressionistic jumble. You have been warned.

― mick hall (mick hall), Thursday, 27 February 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Keith is 33 and currently resides in Arlington MA. Professionally employed & also a college radio dj. I prefer playing and listening to music over reading and writing about it. Love 60's orch-pop, 70's power pop, 80's new wave pop, 90's indie pop. Watch way too much hockey and VH1 Classic. My clothes are black but my bread is brown.

I really liked song 11 on the new Gene record and saw Altered Images' "Don't Talk To Me About Love" video on VH1 Classic last month.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 27 February 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

My name is Sebastian and I lurk here. I'm a senior at the University of Illinois studying English Literature. I hope to go to grad school.

I periodically review music, whether on my "blahg" oriented website, newartillery.com, or in the pages of Copper Press. I used to do an online magazine called Signal Drench. Now I focus on school and have a much better GPA.

I'm indie-centric. I mainly listen to indie rock of all sorts, but I occasionally listen to jazz, pop, or classical.

― Sebastian, Thursday, 27 February 2003 18:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm changing my name to: A Music Consumer, partly in disgust with the fact that I have been spending much more money on CDs than I ought to be spending.

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 1 March 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hi. We're God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. We live in heaven... oops, not supposed to give out your address over the internet! There's probably something more important We should be doing right now, like answering prayers or stopping World War 3, but dang it, these computer things eat time.

― thrak, Saturday, 1 March 2003 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I guess I've been hanging around here long enough to introduce myself...

I'm Tuomas Alho from Helsinki, Finland. I'm twenty-three going on twenty-four, and I study at the Helsinki University, majoring in Third World studies (ie. trying to save the world). What else... I've listened to electronic music and hip hop ever since I was a teenager, and I've never liked rock. Later on, I've expanded my horizons to jazz, funk, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian music etc. Nowadays I like almost anything with a strong rhythm and no distorted guitars.

I'm not an active InterWeb user (I've never owned a computer), so you won't see me here too often. Oh, and I do have strong political views (I'm an anarchist/vegan/conscientious objector), but I never preach. I guess that's it. You seem to be a nice bunch of people, glad to be here.

One more thing: could someone please tell me how to make my typing appear in italic or bold. I have no idea how it's done.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 27 March 2003 12:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

< i> and < /i> on either side of the italicised bits.

< b> and < /b> on either side of the bold bits.

(minus the spaces I put in those tags).

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 27 March 2003 12:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanks.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 27 March 2003 12:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jody. 26. Disco fan.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 March 2003 12:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nick, 23 (not for long though), work at Exeter University Library, write for Stylus Magazine, Popular Culture & Philosophy graduate. Occasional casual footballer and Guinness imbiber. Going out with a girl called Emma. Like all sorts of music. Skinhead. Black-rimmed glasses.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jody. 26. Disco fan.

Oh yes, those pesky discos are so goddamn hot and sweaty, one couldn't do without a nice fan. I'm glad it's you.

Am I funny? No.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

hullooo Tuomas!
Helsinki, huh? hm, if i moved 'bout 200 k.meters to the north, took a spyglass and stood high on the sea cliff - i could even see your house from there, theoretically, arcoss the cliff! on a clear day, p'haps

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

(damn! ..."across the gulf", 's wot i meant)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 27 March 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

So you're from Estonia, kuidast käsi käyb? (Was that even nearly correct?) Where do you live exactly? I have only been to Tallinn, but the reputation of Finnish people is quite bad there, I think, because of those fuckin' middle-aged Finns roaming to buy the cheap booze and fags.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Time for a FAP Baltic Sea, it sounds like.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

What's FAP?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tuomas - me from Tartu; haven't been to Tln for 'bout a year myself, but at the end of April comes the Jazzkaar fest and then i'll be radio-jobbing there again, doing live broadcasts...
i've passed through Helsinki just twice, going to & coming from the '99 Pori Jazz
as for ILM, i haven't been here long, found this forum back in December; there's lots of great folx round here, 's my opinion

(...well, m'fraid my country men's & women's repute ain't exactly the best over there on yer side ;-)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

FAP = "Fancy a Pint," derived from various London types planning pub get-togethers on this board. It's now ILX slang for any sort of meetup. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mike 38 Therapist and I love people!

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ned, Ned, ye'r a good man -- but take care, dontcha get too cuddly with us, or Sinkah'll come and "send out bombers" here again (as he did, or threatened to, way back on an IRCAM thread) 8-)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Darn!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

joining thread this time around, my name is Jon Leidecker, I'm 32 years old, and live in San Francisco. life took a turn for the better a few years ago when I finally secured a software testing job that allows for around the clock music listening. in my car I've been listening to cassettes I compiled in high school in my car recently, and it looks like my tastes from that time are frighteningly easy to summarize as Recommended and Ralph Records damage. after that things get blurry, no surprises there.

anyways this list is dangerously fun, everyone seems rabidly knowledgable and largely nice. please forgive me if I use the words 'really' and 'very' too often in describing things I like.

― jl, Thursday, 27 March 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gary, cancer, and i love a woman who loves ever-body and ever-thang.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry about yer cancer Gary

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah, and my wifes a slut.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

nine months pass...

Hello, my name is Shmuel. I've been lurking here for a while, and started posting a little recently. I love Jay-Z, Prince, CCR, the Smiths, Bubba Sparxx, and other things that seem to be universally popular around here. And I like lots of other things too.

― sym (shmuel), Friday, 9 January 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm Chris, I'm a French studies student from Northern Ireland and I don't post much because most of you guys scare me. And I know who Dom Passantino is from real-life, which is really going to freak him out. I've never spoken to him but I can picture his "controversial" T-shirts. Oh yeah, and I love music. Currently very into Talking Heads, Pixies, McLusky, British Sea Power, The Smiths, Interpol among other things.

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Friday, 9 January 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm oliver, I love music. I also really like the velvet underground self titled album all of a sudden.

― Oliver Pyper (stickthrower), Sunday, 11 January 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

greetings, I'm 21 and I'm a professional college student. I'm an asexual misanthrope who is peristently obnoxious around others. Currently thinking about doing animation or language stuff. I like roots rock, techno-thrash metal and nursery rhymes.

― lone nut, Monday, 12 January 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hi, I'm Ian. I write about movies, certain pet peeves, music, arcane substream movements, etc for weeklies, glossies and so on.

New novel is finished, based on Depeche Mode aesthetics and trauma recovery techniques--it's a mystery sorta.

I'm a major RAMMS+EIN apologist (although not sure for what), favor low, rumbling things, Alan Sparhawk's guitar sound, Basic Channel, and high voices, often female.

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Monday, 12 January 2004 06:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

And I live in Brooklyn, The End.

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Monday, 12 January 2004 06:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Welcome to us.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Have been posting here intermittently for a while; may as well at last do a formal introduction!
I am as some may know, Tom, and am 21. Currently an undergraduate in English at Cambridge University... Born in Wigan 27.9.1982, but have lived in Sunderland since I was about 3. I'm not entirely sure where I'm headed in the future, but writing of some sort or even possibly music, which I play (and sometimes record) in a modest capacity at present. :)
Listening to music is of course a passion: from Fats Waller to the Bonzo Dog Band to Todd Rundgren to Aphex Twin and Abba... so much really, in all fields and meadows of music. I've a strong current interest in all eras of the UK charts, music hall recordings and its influence, and as ever, Englishness and the importance of 'place' in pop music.
I'm deeply interested in television, film, politics, theatre and literature also.

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

im panda i'm from atlanta. im 16. my favorite bands are pearl jam, metallica, alice in chains and radiohead. this is a weird message bord but i like it.

― panda (latebloomer), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago) link

I've never introduced myself formally either. I'm Barry, I grew up and am currently living in Toronto, Canada. I am a full time doctoral student in physics and a part-time music fanatic. Sometimes, it's vice versa.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 6 February 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago) link

four years pass...

please allow me to introduce myself, i'm a man of wealth and taste..hehe

hi i've lurked for a while but i like the variety this board has to offer. i'm cameron! obviously *rolls eyes*

― cameron carr, Thursday, 2 October 2008 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link

i'm josh, i lurk.

― phantompenguin, Thursday, 2 October 2008 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link

welcome!

latebloomer (4 years ago) -> that intro was the bomb.

― 76 yards into the wind! (daria-g), Thursday, 2 October 2008 01:14 (sixteen years ago) link

variety is the spice of life I hear

― Tetragram for Holding Back (libcrypt), Thursday, 2 October 2008 01:16 (sixteen years ago) link

I hear I hear. Welcome all.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 October 2008 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Ah, I should have visited this thread before barging in and making myself at home.

I'm a 20-something, newly minted B.Ed grad who's avoiding his profession at all costs. I lurk more than I post, but it gets cold here in Ontario, so eventually I'll be cooped up inside and bored enough to write more.

My first ILX experience was this thread a couple of years ago: In Praise Of: New Order's Movement

― Millsner, Thursday, 2 October 2008 02:17 (sixteen years ago) link

That album rules :)

― an abduction of a guy into a weird artsy world... (wilter), Thursday, 2 October 2008 02:18 (sixteen years ago) link

It does, it does. I'm working on some converts.

― Millsner, Thursday, 2 October 2008 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Hi guys!

― vast variety of steens where we get our HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 2 October 2008 04:03 (sixteen years ago) link

four months pass...

please allow me to introduce myself, i'm a man of wealth and taste..hehe

hi i've lurked for a while but i like the variety this board has to offer. i'm cameron! obviously *rolls eyes*

― cameron carr

http://alllayedout.com/Comments/Comment_Pics/graphics/i_miss_you.gif

― velko, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 10:34 (fifteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

Hi my name is Christian E. I live in Paderborn, Germany. I'm an undergraduate in computer science and a passionate hobby musician.
I wouldn't say I favor or scorn any kind of music, though I'm currently more into reggae music e.g. Groundation. I also like the Dave Matthews Band (which is mostly the reason I found this board :>). I also like to ressurect threads from the dead.. that's pretty much what I've been doing since I got here. ty for showing me the way Pfunkboy

― choo, Monday, 14 December 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link

oh i didn't know of the existence of one of these threads. is it obligatory?

― Karen Tregaskin, Monday, 14 December 2009 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link

if you want your membership card and free t-shirt--yes

― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Monday, 14 December 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link

we've been advised to suggest ban anyone who does not before the end of a grace period

― LA CANCION MAS PRETENCIOSA DEL MUNDO... (The Reverend), Monday, 14 December 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link

I suppose it stops people thinking the poster is a sockpuppet.

― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 14 December 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Cheeky bastard.

― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Monday, 14 December 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link

I've never intro'd myself and I've been here periodically since at least 2003 albeit changed my former username in 2005 or so.

― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Monday, 14 December 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link

who were you before?

― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 14 December 2009 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Ha! Actually, while searching for "the old me" came across this thread; so I guess I did kinda intro' myself:

Hey! Just Hey!

― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Monday, 14 December 2009 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link

Hi, I'm Dan - I've been reading here for a while & posting occasionally, but I never actually bothered to introduce myself. Here I am! I'm 31, I live in Queens, NY, and I'm in publishing. Lately I've been into the Juan Son album & the new Cio D'Or records. My last.fm can be perused here. That's all!

― with hidden noise, Monday, 14 December 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link

Hi I'm Patrick, started reading ILM years ago (2002 or 3). found this place after I googled for reviews of the version of Ludacris' Southern Hospitality with Ms Dynamite doing a guest verse, found one on the now-defunct spizzazzz.com, and discovered music blogs. been lurking off and on since then, very occasionally putting a word in but never introducing myself, til now... sorry about that. hello!

about me: Dubliner, 31 years old, used to be a lawyer til I quit this summer. now doing a masters in music and media technology (http://www.mee.tcd.ie/mmt/).

― p-dog, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 00:03 (fifteen years ago) link

if you want your membership card and free t-shirt--yes

so this must be that '77' thing people talk about.

― Kate 'Impeach' Bush (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link

ah hello, my name's sam. been awkwardly posting here for the better part of the past year, so here goes an introduction. i work part-time as a poster artist and childcare worker in montreal. i'm also in a couple bands and am a student. i listen to most things at least a little bit, but mainly it's between pop, garage punk, hip hop and rn'b these days. and i'm slowly and cautiously edging myself towards dance music.

― taoiseachizown (samosa gibreel), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 03:54 (fifteen years ago) link

Greetings - Finally took the plunge about a month-&-a-half ago. I've always appreciated the camaraderie, information-sharing, and humor that generally goes on at this site.

Age: North of 40. Rapidly becoming an anachronism technologically (still buy cd's, have never owned an mp3 player, much less an iPod). Married. Live in WA State/Puget Sound area (daily ferry commute to Seattle). Not currently following my bliss, just paying the bills. Stopped stuffing shims in my generation gap, and have been trusting that the kids are alright, without trying to keep up with it all.

First concert: The Police & the Fleshtones, SF Cow Palace, 1982. Latest one: Yo La Tengo, end of October.

Random trivia: After seeing the film 'You Can Count on Me', a number of friends (& my wife) independently declared the uncanny resemblance in look, voice, & gestures I shared with director Kenneth Lonergan, who made a cameo as a priest in the movie.

Cheers!

― Chooglin'alCarbon, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link

choo i spent a new years in paderborn once, and have never heard of it since. had a very nice time!

― rent, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

Hi, my name is James Redd, I mean Wile E. Galore, super genius, and I am deeply saddened to learn today of the passing of two musical magicians, Wayne Shorter and Steve Mackey.

― Wile E. Galore (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 March 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link

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