Introduce yourself..

P A N · 05-01-2010, 01:04 AM

My favourite album is a toss-up between Bjork's Vespertine, Tool's Aenima, and Dave Matthews' Groo Grux King. these are favourites because they are masterpieces in my mind, and also fall into the spectrum of music that i thoroughly enjoy. it should be said that if you asked me this in a week, i might give a similar but different answer.

My favourite lyric is "as above, so below, and beyond, i imagine." 'as above so below' is a phrase used to describe the holographic nature of the reality, wherein the whole is represented fully in even it's tiniest constituents.

My first gig was at the grades 7&8 spring dance at my elementary school. it was after dark, so it counted.

The book that changed me... every book changes me. each one sheds light on the next stage in my perception.

My favourite painting is also starry night. lame, i know. but it's pretty incredible.

My style icon is my lack of cash and pragmatic spending.

My favourite place is probably in front of a well-tuned grand piano, possibly under the influence of psychedelic drugs.

My favourite album artwork is Susumu Yokota's Grinning Cat cover:

... cuz it's simple.

i don't have an idol.

alter ego?

Zaqarbal · 05-01-2010, 06:36 AM

My favourite album
The Joshua Tree

My favourite lyric
"Loneliness is a place so empty without you..." (Lady Blue, Bunbury).

My first gig
A meaningless local band which name I can't remember.

The book that changed me
A compilation of Quevedo's works. I had never read such a great Literature.

My favourite painting
The Triumph of Bacchus (a.k.a. The Drunks) by Velázquez, or how to depict the most divine and the most human, together in the same painting:

My style icon
If I were rich, a metrosexual one. But I'm poor.

My favourite place
I haven't traveled so much, but I'd say Paris.

My favourite album artwork
Into the Labyrinth (Dead Can Dance). A picture is worth a thousand words:

My idol
Casanova, Warren Beatty, Hugh Hefner and other great "connoissers" of the human nature (at least the most important half of it).

My alter ego

Still unknown.

Bulldog · 05-01-2010, 09:23 AM

My favourite album
In the Heart Of the Moon by Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté, head and shoulders above everything else I've ever heard.

My favourite lyric
This verse from Nick Cave's As I Sat Sadly By Her Side...

Quote:

Then she drew the curtains down
And said, "Oh when will you ever learn
That what happens there beyond the glass
Is simply none of your concern?
God has given you but one heart
You are not a home for the hearts of your brothers
And God don't care for your benevolence
Anymore than he cares for the lack of it in others
Nor does he care for you to sit
At windows in judgement of the world He created
While sorrows pile up around you
Ugly, useless and over-inflated"

My first gig
The Hives at Brixton Academy, 2000/2001 (whatever year it was when Your New Favourite Band came out).

The book that changed me

My favourite painting
Arnold Böcklin's Island Of the Dead, 1880

My style icon
Meh. Don't really have one.

My favourite place
My bed.

My favourite album artwork

My idol
Probably David Mamet. The way that man manages to make something spectacular out of a mundane-seeming concept is jus amazing.

My alter ego
It's a cliche, but I'll drop a quick mention of my drunk self here, for reasons I'll keep to myself

Highwayman · 05-01-2010, 01:47 PM

Okay...

My favourite album:
It's tough to say for sure... Probably "Lateralus" by Tool, for several reasons, the biggest being the whole Fibonacci sequence thing it's got going on. The album is well thought out, constructed, and produced. Probably the thing that sold me on the album is the whole "Holy Gift" theory it has surrounding it. The album is a puzzle and Tool hands it to us to decode. It's a great follow up to Aenima and really forces the listener to think for himself and figure the album out. So it's either that or "Dark Side of the Moon." I grew up listening to and playing songs off this album. I just love the flow of the album. What can I say? It's a masterpiece.

My favourite lyric:
I'm not sure that I have a favorite lyric, but here's oneI really like:
"But a certain sign of grace is this
From a broken earth flowers come up
Pushing through the dirt"
- David Crowder*Band

My first gig:
Played: My 7th Grade Talent Show. A friend and I played "I Should Have Known Better" by the Beatles.
Seen: I don't know... I think it was a festival with The Cross Movement, David Crowder*Band, and Third Day.

The book that changed me:
Besides the Bible? That's really the only book that changed me. But I suppose some of the books that changed what I thought about literature would be To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, and The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (probably my favorite book). I also love Shakespeare and Poe, but Shakespeare wrote plays and Poe short stories, so I guess they don't really count. There are more, but those are probably the top three.

My favourite painting:
Here's one of my favorites:

"View from Mount Holyoke Northampton Massachusetts after a Thunderstorm" by Thomas Cole, 1836
I just love the contrast.

My style icon:
I really don't have any style. I just do what I want.

My favourite place:
Anywhere peaceful, preferably on a mountain somewhere not too cold.

My favourite album artwork:
I don't have an absolute favorite, but here's one I really like:

Pink Floyd's "Obscured by Clouds"

My idol:
I don't idolize people. There are certain people I know that I really look up to, but no idols.

My alter ego:

Dr. Jekyll

So that's me in a nutshell, apparently. I think I only gave two definitive answers, one of which was a joke.

Korgüll · 05-02-2010, 03:34 PM

My favorite album:
Pink Floyd - Animals

My favorite lyric
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you
You'll get the chance to put the knife in

My first gig
KISS w/Skid Row

The book that changed me
Not quite sure which one to pick. But Cormac McCarthy's The Road left me with a feeling no other book did before.

My favorite painting
Don't have one

My style icon
Don't really have a style

My favorite place
Anyplace quiet

My favorite album artwork
Voivod - War and Pain

My idol
I don't idolize people

My alter ego
Not quite sure

BTown · 05-02-2010, 04:16 PM

My favourite album
I don't have one of all time, latelt I've been listening to a lot of Pavement though. Mostly Slanted and Enchanted and Crooked Rain.
My favourite lyric
Probably one from an operation Ivy song. Vulnerability has a good message.
My first gig
The Toasters, Voodoo Glow Skulls and Deal's Gone Bad last November.
The book that changed me
I haven't really been changed by a book yet although after finishing them for a few days I feel like they have. I guess when I read The Outsiders in like 6th grade it was a big deal. Reading Cat's Cradle now and its shaping up to be pretty good and confusing. COnfusing in the sense that I don't know as to what kind of a motive the author would have to write a book like it is.
My favourite painting
idk
My style icon
Milo Aukerman is pretty cool looking
My favourite place
the room i'mm in now. especially when it rains and its late at night.
My favourite album artwork

or

My idol
dont really have one anymore.
My alter ego
When i get around parents I tend to talk in a different more articulate voice.

~~someonecompletelyrandom~~ · 05-02-2010, 04:36 PM

My favourite album:

Nirvana - In Utero

The first album I ever really "got". I've listened it to death but I could still put it on right now and enjoy it.

My favourite lyric:

"I act like shit don't phase me
Inside it drives me crazy
My insecurities could eat me alive
But when I see my baby
Suddenly I'm not crazy
It all makes sense when I look into her eyes."

- Eminem from Halie's Song.

My first gig:
... there were quite a few bands on the bill, I don't really remember who they were

The book that changed me:
Ripley's Believe it or Not!

My favourite painting:
Probably my current avatar, "untitled skull" by Jean-Michel Basqiuat.

My style icon:
B-Rabbit from the movie 8 Mile.

My favourite place:
right here in the city.

My favourite album artwork:

My idol:

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My alter ego:

Sonace I guess, heh.

TheCunningStunt · 05-02-2010, 04:42 PM

Some people aren't getting what a style Icon is for some reason, it's not what you look like. It's someone who you think looks the absolute dog's bollocks, coolness personified.

~~someonecompletelyrandom~~ · 05-02-2010, 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt

Some people aren't getting what a style Icon is for some reason, it's not what you look like. It's someone who you think looks the absolute dog's bollocks, coolness personified.

Aah, I gotcha. I'll edit mine then.

Nine Black Poppies · 05-03-2010, 08:03 PM

Alright, sure. I'll give it a shot

My favourite album
...And immediately I have no idea how to answer. I'm not particularly committed to any favorite for very long, if only because I thrive on variety. If I had to pick a strong contender or three, though, I'd probably say Change by The Dismemberment Plan, All Hail West Texas by The Mountain Goats and Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot by Sparklehorse. Both of these are albums that hit me at exactly the right moment in my life and are in that category where I can't even look at them critically anymore, simply because I can't imagine my life without them. The reason I'm picking those three is, because of the albums that do that, they don't just take me back to a particular time/place, but every time I put them on, I feel like they connect on that same level with whatever's going on currently.

My favourite lyric
This is even more impossible. The first thing that leaps to mind, and an apt self-description, is "I am healthy, I am whole, but I have poor impulse control and I want to go home, but I am home." (The Mountain Goats, "Riches & Wonders")

My first gig
Belle & Sebastian and Sleater-Kinney in Washington D.C. Weird, weird combination of bands, but fun.

The book that changed me
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson. It's about so many beautiful things, observing and contextualizing experiences and understanding who people are and who you, yourself, are. And it's all so beautifully written, lyrical and kind of understated. It gets me every time I read it, which has been a few times now.

My favourite painting
I dunno if I feel knowledgeable enough about art to really zero in on one. I really, really love Edward Hopper generally, though, like this one. And Magritte's The Lovers leaps out at me as well.

My style icon
*snort* Lord, I don't know. If I see an outfit I particularly like, I might say something about it, but I don't really pay that much attention to what any particular person wears. About 85% of the time, I'm the jeans/thrift-store t-shirt/maybe a cut over-or-under shirt type and that's the extent to which I think about such things.

My favourite place
In day-to-day terms, my boyfriend's house in Portland. It's kind of the hub of a weird social circle and not unlike living an interactive sitcom--the kind of place people just sort of gravitate to, full of a lot of dynamic personalities (4 people live there, about 7 or 8 more [me included] are there at least a couple nights a week, about 15 others show up regularly from time to time), but relatively little drama, especially for that many people (and that much booze).

In broader terms, I like the American northwest as a whole.

My favourite album artwork
There are a couple I can think of...
This one, because it takes you a minute to realize what's interesting about it and I like the blue color palate.
This one (although I like the color version on the LP more, I can't find a decent version of it--this is the best I've got).
This one made me laugh really hard for a minute and then I realized how perfectly it captures the feel of what's within...
I could go on for a while on this list, actually.

My idol
I try to avoid idolizing--it's dehumanizing. And a list of people I respect would take too long.

My alter ego
I AM the alter ego.

05-01-2010, 01:04 AM	#21 (permalink)
P A N DO LIKE YOU. Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 629	My favourite album is a toss-up between Bjork's Vespertine, Tool's Aenima, and Dave Matthews' Groo Grux King. these are favourites because they are masterpieces in my mind, and also fall into the spectrum of music that i thoroughly enjoy. it should be said that if you asked me this in a week, i might give a similar but different answer. My favourite lyric is "as above, so below, and beyond, i imagine." 'as above so below' is a phrase used to describe the holographic nature of the reality, wherein the whole is represented fully in even it's tiniest constituents. My first gig was at the grades 7&8 spring dance at my elementary school. it was after dark, so it counted. The book that changed me... every book changes me. each one sheds light on the next stage in my perception. My favourite painting is also starry night. lame, i know. but it's pretty incredible. My style icon is my lack of cash and pragmatic spending. My favourite place is probably in front of a well-tuned grand piano, possibly under the influence of psychedelic drugs. My favourite album artwork is Susumu Yokota's Grinning Cat cover: ... cuz it's simple. i don't have an idol. alter ego? Last edited by P A N; 05-01-2010 at 02:14 AM.

05-01-2010, 06:36 AM	#22 (permalink)
Zaqarbal Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Spain Posts: 824	My favourite album The Joshua Tree My favourite lyric "Loneliness is a place so empty without you..." (Lady Blue, Bunbury). My first gig A meaningless local band which name I can't remember. The book that changed me A compilation of Quevedo's works. I had never read such a great Literature. My favourite painting The Triumph of Bacchus (a.k.a. The Drunks) by Velázquez, or how to depict the most divine and the most human, together in the same painting: My style icon If I were rich, a metrosexual one. But I'm poor. My favourite place I haven't traveled so much, but I'd say Paris. My favourite album artwork Into the Labyrinth (Dead Can Dance). A picture is worth a thousand words: My idol Casanova, Warren Beatty, Hugh Hefner and other great "connoissers" of the human nature (at least the most important half of it). My alter ego Still unknown. __________________ "Lullabies for adults / crossed by the years / carry the flower of disappointment / tattooed in their gloomy melodies." Last edited by Zaqarbal; 05-01-2010 at 07:51 AM. Reason: Minor correction

05-01-2010, 01:47 PM	#24 (permalink)
Highwayman Thinkforyourself. Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: USA Posts: 114	Okay... My favourite album: It's tough to say for sure... Probably "Lateralus" by Tool, for several reasons, the biggest being the whole Fibonacci sequence thing it's got going on. The album is well thought out, constructed, and produced. Probably the thing that sold me on the album is the whole "Holy Gift" theory it has surrounding it. The album is a puzzle and Tool hands it to us to decode. It's a great follow up to Aenima and really forces the listener to think for himself and figure the album out. So it's either that or "Dark Side of the Moon." I grew up listening to and playing songs off this album. I just love the flow of the album. What can I say? It's a masterpiece. My favourite lyric: I'm not sure that I have a favorite lyric, but here's oneI really like: "But a certain sign of grace is this From a broken earth flowers come up Pushing through the dirt" - David CrowderBand My first gig:* Played: My 7th Grade Talent Show. A friend and I played "I Should Have Known Better" by the Beatles. Seen: I don't know... I think it was a festival with The Cross Movement, David CrowderBand, and Third Day. The book that changed me:* Besides the Bible? That's really the only book that changed me. But I suppose some of the books that changed what I thought about literature would be To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, and The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (probably my favorite book). I also love Shakespeare and Poe, but Shakespeare wrote plays and Poe short stories, so I guess they don't really count. There are more, but those are probably the top three. My favourite painting: Here's one of my favorites: "View from Mount Holyoke Northampton Massachusetts after a Thunderstorm" by Thomas Cole, 1836 I just love the contrast. My style icon: I really don't have any style. I just do what I want. My favourite place: Anywhere peaceful, preferably on a mountain somewhere not too cold. My favourite album artwork: I don't have an absolute favorite, but here's one I really like: Pink Floyd's "Obscured by Clouds" My idol: I don't idolize people. There are certain people I know that I really look up to, but no idols. My alter ego: Dr. Jekyll So that's me in a nutshell, apparently. I think I only gave two definitive answers, one of which was a joke. __________________ Soft silly music is meaningful, magical. - NMH

05-02-2010, 03:34 PM	#25 (permalink)
Korgüll Groupie Join Date: May 2010 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 25	My favorite album: Pink Floyd - Animals My favorite lyric You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to So that when they turn their backs on you You'll get the chance to put the knife in My first gig KISS w/Skid Row The book that changed me Not quite sure which one to pick. But Cormac McCarthy's The Road left me with a feeling no other book did before. My favorite painting Don't have one My style icon Don't really have a style My favorite place Anyplace quiet My favorite album artwork Voivod - War and Pain My idol I don't idolize people My alter ego Not quite sure __________________ Check out my Last.fm: http://www.last.fm/user/anesthetize666

05-02-2010, 04:16 PM	#26 (permalink)
BTown super cool Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 806	My favourite album I don't have one of all time, latelt I've been listening to a lot of Pavement though. Mostly Slanted and Enchanted and Crooked Rain. My favourite lyric Probably one from an operation Ivy song. Vulnerability has a good message. My first gig The Toasters, Voodoo Glow Skulls and Deal's Gone Bad last November. The book that changed me I haven't really been changed by a book yet although after finishing them for a few days I feel like they have. I guess when I read The Outsiders in like 6th grade it was a big deal. Reading Cat's Cradle now and its shaping up to be pretty good and confusing. COnfusing in the sense that I don't know as to what kind of a motive the author would have to write a book like it is. My favourite painting idk My style icon Milo Aukerman is pretty cool looking My favourite place the room i'mm in now. especially when it rains and its late at night. My favourite album artwork or My idol dont really have one anymore. My alter ego When i get around parents I tend to talk in a different more articulate voice. __________________ Last edited by BTown; 05-02-2010 at 04:49 PM.

05-02-2010, 04:36 PM	#27 (permalink)
~~someonecompletelyrandom~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4,538	My favourite album: Nirvana - In Utero The first album I ever really "got". I've listened it to death but I could still put it on right now and enjoy it. My favourite lyric: "I act like shit don't phase me Inside it drives me crazy My insecurities could eat me alive But when I see my baby Suddenly I'm not crazy It all makes sense when I look into her eyes." - Eminem from Halie's Song. My first gig: ... there were quite a few bands on the bill, I don't really remember who they were The book that changed me: Ripley's Believe it or Not! My favourite painting: Probably my current avatar, "untitled skull" by Jean-Michel Basqiuat. My style icon: B-Rabbit from the movie 8 Mile. My favourite place: right here in the city. My favourite album artwork: My idol: Disclaimer Conan in no way, shape, or form advocates or supports the use of puns or "wordplay". Nor does he in any capacity find Adam Lambert attractive "man meat"... okay maybe just a little. He still doesn't look up to the mofo. Conan is also not responsible to damage caused to properties belonging to the consumer. This post should be treated as entertainment, it does not accurately portray the views or opinions as expressed by him or any one at Conan Inc. or it's parent company ConCon International. My alter ego: Sonace I guess, heh. Last edited by someonecompletelyrandom; 05-02-2010 at 04:50 PM.

05-02-2010, 04:42 PM	#28 (permalink)
TheCunningStunt love will tear you apart Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Manchester, UK. Posts: 5,107	Some people aren't getting what a style Icon is for some reason, it's not what you look like. It's someone who you think looks the absolute dog's bollocks, coolness personified.

05-03-2010, 08:03 PM	#30 (permalink)
Nine Black Poppies Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A State of Denial Posts: 357	Alright, sure. I'll give it a shot My favourite album ...And immediately I have no idea how to answer. I'm not particularly committed to any favorite for very long, if only because I thrive on variety. If I had to pick a strong contender or three, though, I'd probably say Change by The Dismemberment Plan, All Hail West Texas by The Mountain Goats and Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot by Sparklehorse. Both of these are albums that hit me at exactly the right moment in my life and are in that category where I can't even look at them critically anymore, simply because I can't imagine my life without them. The reason I'm picking those three is, because of the albums that do that, they don't just take me back to a particular time/place, but every time I put them on, I feel like they connect on that same level with whatever's going on currently. My favourite lyric This is even more impossible. The first thing that leaps to mind, and an apt self-description, is "I am healthy, I am whole, but I have poor impulse control and I want to go home, but I am home." (The Mountain Goats, "Riches & Wonders") My first gig Belle & Sebastian and Sleater-Kinney in Washington D.C. Weird, weird combination of bands, but fun. The book that changed me Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson. It's about so many beautiful things, observing and contextualizing experiences and understanding who people are and who you, yourself, are. And it's all so beautifully written, lyrical and kind of understated. It gets me every time I read it, which has been a few times now. My favourite painting I dunno if I feel knowledgeable enough about art to really zero in on one. I really, really love Edward Hopper generally, though, like this one. And Magritte's The Lovers leaps out at me as well. My style icon snort Lord, I don't know. If I see an outfit I particularly like, I might say something about it, but I don't really pay that much attention to what any particular person wears. About 85% of the time, I'm the jeans/thrift-store t-shirt/maybe a cut over-or-under shirt type and that's the extent to which I think about such things. My favourite place In day-to-day terms, my boyfriend's house in Portland. It's kind of the hub of a weird social circle and not unlike living an interactive sitcom--the kind of place people just sort of gravitate to, full of a lot of dynamic personalities (4 people live there, about 7 or 8 more [me included] are there at least a couple nights a week, about 15 others show up regularly from time to time), but relatively little drama, especially for that many people (and that much booze). In broader terms, I like the American northwest as a whole. My favourite album artwork There are a couple I can think of... This one, because it takes you a minute to realize what's interesting about it and I like the blue color palate. This one (although I like the color version on the LP more, I can't find a decent version of it--this is the best I've got). This one made me laugh really hard for a minute and then I realized how perfectly it captures the feel of what's within... I could go on for a while on this list, actually. My idol I try to avoid idolizing--it's dehumanizing. And a list of people I respect would take too long. My alter ego I AM the alter ego. __________________ Like carnivores to carnal pleasures, so were we to desperate measures...