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  1. OK, this forum is a bit slow, so I thought I'd do the gay thing and pretend we're at a seminar, so INTRODUCE YOURSELF!

    NAME Einar
    AGE 31
    LOCATION Oslo, Norway
    OCCUPATION Grocery store worker
    INTERESTS Film, music and the finer things in life
    HOBBIES Wouldn't really call it "hobbies" but I play in a zillion bands and try to run this little label called Duplicate (d'uh). I'm fairly unambitious though, comes with age I guess.
    GOALS IN LIFE Dunno, make albums that I'm happy with, play a fantastic gig now and then, release records that sell so well I can quit my job. Start making and recording music all by myself. See the world before it disappears.
    FAVE BANDS/ARTISTS Kiss, Swans, Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, Lee Hazlewood, DHG, Thorns, Black Sabbath, Ladytron, Lycia, Misfits, Entombed, Aura Noir, Autopsy, Slayer, Muse, This Empty Flow etc. etc. Too many to name them all.
    WORST BANDS/ARTISTS System Of A Down, Linkin Park, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera, Shakira, Hammerfall, REM, U2, No Doubt, Rhapsody, Dream Theater, Slipknot, Metallica (post-black album) etc. Even more!
    FAVE MOVIES Most or anything by Kubrick, Polanski, Allen, Lynch, Wong Kar-Wai, Zhang Yimou etc. and a whole lot of other stuff too.
    FAVE TV-SHOW Simpsons, South Park, Twin Peaks, The Kingdom, Persuaders, Derrick
    PERSON YOU'D MOST LIKE TO BE ON A DESERTED ISLAND WITH Scarlett Johansson or that chick in the V:28 cover
    FAVOURITE CARTOON HERO Daredevil / Wolverine
    FAVOURITE FOOD Pizza
    FAVOURITE DRINK Fanta Green Apple, Chocolate milk, the new Schweppes & beer
    ARE YOU A NERD In some ways, esp. concerning music and film
    HOW GAY IS THIS Very gay
    ADD YOUR OWN QUESTIONS

    PS; this is serious. Would be cool to get to know you folks a bit better.

    Edit: ooops, wrong forum, it's late. Someone with the knowhow please feel free to move the thread.

    Edit II; I realized I forgot some very important subjects.







    Posted 3 years ago #


  2. NAME: D. Galas
    AGE: 34
    LOCATION: NE Ohio, United Corperations of America
    OCCUPATION: none, unemployed
    INTERESTS: Films, Music, Gaming, Tech
    HOBBIES: See above
    GOALS IN LIFE: Finish my CD, make a hundred more, start painting, start writing, move somewhere out in the moutains and be a hermit with a shotgun.

    FAVE BANDS/ARTISTS: Swans, Skinny Puppy, Joy Division, AcidBath, Deadboy and the Elephantmen, Cocteau Twins, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dead Can Dance, Sound Garden, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, old Cure, old Siouxsie, Fields of the Nephilim, Tool, Tom Waits and old Pink Floyd.

    WORST BANDS: every style of Christian band, every hip-hop, rap, pop-punk, pop-metal, pop-alternative, girl band, boy band, pop singer...and anything Country except for Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash.
    Special Extra hate goes to Linkin Park, Nickleback, Muddle of Pud and Britney Spears (may she catch a nasty skin eating disease).

    PEOPLE I LIKE: The few friends I have and polite people that have good manners.

    PEOPLE I HATE: The Bush Administration, Congress, the top 10%, 95% of the American public, Bad drivers, Rush Limbaugh, Anne Coulter, Sean Hannity, most born-again christians, Fraternity Brothers, the IRS, rude people and extra special hate for Gangstas and Wigger's!

    FAVORITE ACTORS: Sir Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Malcolm McDowell, Al Pacino, Robert De Nero, Henry Rollins, Edward Norton, Jack Nicholson, Nicole Kidman, Gillian Anderson, Jennifer Connelly,


    PERSON YOU'D MOST LIKELY BE ON A DESERTED ISLAND WITH: Nicole Kidman or Gillian Anderson
    FAVORITE MOVIES: Natural Born Killers, Caligula, Lost Highway, Godfather I-II
    FAVORITE TV SHOWS: The Prisoner, Ghost Hunters, Twin Peaks, Reno 911, X-Files

    WORST TV SHOWS: American Idol, MTV USA, every Reality show, every Celebrity Reality show, every talk show, every evangelical tv show, every sports channel, every sports show that interupts the show that i'm watching, Cspan, anything that has to do with NASCAR(driving in circles is gay), and extra special hate goes to The Fox News Network.

    FAVORITE CARTOON CHARACTER: Harley Quinn
    FAVORITE FOOD: Anything Mexican or Italian
    FAVORITE DRINK: Cherry Dr. Pepper, Guinness, Tequila, Absinthe.
    ARE YOU A NERD: YEP
    HOW GAY IS THIS: this is Fabulous Gay!
    IF I COULD BE SOMETHING ELSE: Painter/Artist

    edit: added Acid Bath and Deadboy to my favorite bands... how the hell did I forget them..??







    Posted 3 years ago #


  3. Josef_K
    Member

    NAME: Jozef
    AGE: 28
    LOCATION: Vlijtingen, Belgium
    OCCUPATION: none, unemployed
    INTERESTS: Films, Music, Gaming, Reading
    HOBBIES: See above
    GOALS IN LIFE: Get a decent job, Have a lovely future with my gf

    FAVE BANDS/ARTISTS: Too much to mention, but very very limited: ulver, arcturus, rorschach, deadguy, explosions in the sky, mogwai, gy!be, mono,
    mike patton stuff, dan swano stuff, mean season, (early) katatonia, (early) opeth, massive attack, coil,...

    WORST BANDS: Bwah, I can appreciate everything till a certain degree (placed in the right context).

    PEOPLE I LIKE: My friends, open minded people

    PEOPLE I HATE: close minded people

    FAVORITE ACTORS: Sir Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Irons, Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connely, Madeleine Stowe, Kathy Bates,...

    PERSON YOU'D MOST LIKELY BE ON A DESERTED ISLAND WITH: some Portugese chick I know
    FAVORITE MOVIES: Memento, Braveheart, Brazil, Citizen Kane
    FAVORITE TV SHOWS: Father Ted, Black Adder, Married with children, Carnivale, V, (old) X-files, 24, Peking express
    WORST TV SHOWS: every Reality show (with exception of Peking Express), every Celebrity Reality show

    FAVORITE CARTOON CHARACTER: Zoidberg
    FAVORITE FOOD: Italian
    FAVORITE DRINK: Coke
    ARE YOU A NERD: YEP
    HOW GAY IS THIS: this is Fabulous Gay!
    IF I COULD BE SOMETHING ELSE: Reincarnation of William Blake/Pornmovie director :-D







    Posted 3 years ago #


  4. NAME: Joe

    AGE: 23

    LOCATION: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

    OCCUPATION: Grocery store worker/stocker third shift

    INTERESTS: Music, Asian cinema, Asian stuff in general, anime, writing, video games, tattoos, hanging out in the forest, working on that neato zine of mine, movies, etc

    HOBBIES: See above

    GOALS IN LIFE: To leave this putrid life of mine or if thats not an option then I'd like to visit Japan with my imaginary girlfriend for now. Other things would include getting my life together, finding a real job, and somehow getting rid of this crippling depression that has plagued me since I was a child.

    FAVE BANDS/ARTISTS: Gåte, Devil Doll, Moonsorrow, The Gathering, Nick Cave, Björk, Puissance, In Slaughter Natives, Katatonia, Amorphis, Magog, Godspeed you Black Emperor!, Agalloch, Porcupine Tree, Coil, Do As Infinity, Nothing, Satyricon, Tori Amos, Nest, Pink Floyd, Melt Banana, The Cure, Oasis, Nokturnal Mortum, Rain Fell Within, Elffor, Hellveto, My Dying Bride, Anathema, Dargaard, Sol Invictus, Current 93, Windir, Ulver, Empyrium, Emperor, Abigor, In Flames, Megadeth, Opeth, etc.

    WORST BANDS/ARTISTS: Probably something power metal or death metal related. Also boy bands and other main stream American crap

    PERSON YOU'D MOST LIKE TO BE ON A DESERTED ISLAND WITH: Hmmmm probably the lead singer of Do As Infinity: Tomiko Van...that is if she speaks English

    FAVOURITE CARTOON HERO: Morrigan (Darkstalkers), Cammy (Street Fighter), Lain (Serial Experiments Lain), etc...well there not really super characters just anime characters and I like a lot of them hehe

    FAVOURITE FOOD: Pizza

    FAVOURITE DRINK: Propel flavored Water

    ARE YOU A NERD: Yep, I watch anime religiously, I collect toys and statues from Anime, I play video games, etc.

    HOW GAY IS THIS: I'm bored so its not so bad really

    PEOPLE I LIKE: My few friends I suppose, but generally no one.

    PEOPLE I HATE: Wiggers, Emo Fags, Hardcore kids, jocks, people that look like jack osbourne, etc.

    FAVORITE MOVIES: Ju-On, Ringu, Battle Royale, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Appleseed, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, 2009, The Doll Master, Bio Zombie, The Untold Story, Into the Mirror, and a whole shit load of various Anime series' if that counts.

    IF I COULD BE SOMETHING ELSE: I'd be married to my beautiful imaginary Japanese girlfriend, we'd have a few kids, and I'd have a good job working with computers or possibly as a musician on the side.







    Posted 3 years ago #


  5. NAME: Robert

    AGE: 24

    LOCATION: Washington

    OCCUPATION: I work with boxes.

    INTERESTS: Comic books, children's stories, experimental sound, going out for dinner, discovering new parks, travelling, smoking good tobacco, drinking good beer.

    HOBBIES: Conversations About the Light, jamming with friends, EVP research, Audio Savant mail order, taking care of my cat and porcupine puffer fish.

    GOALS IN LIFE: To be happy no matter what I am doing.

    FAVE BANDS/ARTISTS: Annie Gosfield, Sculptured, John Zorn, Van Der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, Michael Gira, Danzig, Kayo Dot, Nick Cave, Björk, Katatonia, Porcupine Tree, Ulver, Pain of Salvation, Mike Patton, Eyvind Kang.

    WORST BANDS/ARTISTS: Lots of stuff.

    PERSON YOU'D MOST LIKE TO BE ON A DESERTED ISLAND WITH: Probably someone really big, so I'd have enough food to sustain me for a while.

    FAVOURITE CARTOON HERO: Master Shake, Peter Griffin, Zoidberg, Captain Murphy.

    FAVOURITE FOOD: Matter Paneer and Vegetable Naan

    FAVOURITE DRINK: Chai

    ARE YOU A NERD: Most likely.

    HOW GAY IS THIS: Probably not quite as gay as me.

    PEOPLE I LIKE: My girlfriend, my fish, my cat, and some other people you don't know.

    PEOPLE I HATE: While I was walking through East Hastings on a recent trip to Vancouver B.C. I realized that I hate most everyone that lives on that particular stretch of road.

    FAVORITE MOVIES: Dreams, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Re-Animator, Evil Dead 2, Cemetery Man

    FAVORITE TV: Anything Joss Whedon (Firefly, Buffy, Angel), Family Guy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Frasier, The Prisoner (nice to see someone else on here appreciates this show) and other really nerdy stuff.

    FAVORITE BOOKS and COMICS: Stardust, LotR, His Dark Materials, The Alchemist, Watchmen, Ojo

    IF I COULD BE SOMETHING ELSE: I'd write for a sci-fi/horror/drama television show.







    Posted 3 years ago #


  6. NAME Martijn
    AGE 34
    LOCATION Nieuwegein, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    OCCUPATION DTP-operator, nerd, music-journalist sorta
    INTERESTS Music, philosophy, stuff
    HOBBIES Music and writing about that (and it's about time I did again)
    GOALS IN LIFE Dunno... have yet to find out
    FAVE BANDS/ARTISTS Too numerous to mention, currently I'm very much into Turkish prog from the seventies, Belly dance music (mostly from Lebanon), pre-seventies electronics and lots of nostalgia-ridden metal, hiphop and funk trips because of some mp3 comp I'm making...
    WORST BANDS/ARTISTS Don't care
    PERSON YOU'D MOST LIKE TO BE ON A DESERTED ISLAND Dunno, some sexy chick (read: nymphomaniac) that has an interesting mind too.. wait, make that two. :D
    FAVOURITE CARTOON HERO Dagobert Duck...
    FAVOURITE FOOD Turkish, Indian and Italian
    FAVOURITE DRINK Westmalle, Froach Ale and Guinness
    ARE YOU A NERD Guess so
    HOW GAY IS THIS Is it?







    Posted 3 years ago #


  7. JWW
    Member

    NAME: Jason William Walton (aka JWW)
    AGE: 30
    LOCATION: Portland, Oregon
    OCCUPATION: Imaging Specialist
    INTERESTS: Music and literature
    HOBBIES: "Hobby" conotates something you do now and then, I am constantly working on one or more of the following; Agalloch, Sculptured, ELS and Nothing, not to mention running Audio Savant and writing for Metal Maniacs. I also love to read, and want to start brewing beer.
    GOALS IN LIFE: Be a good father and husband, make music, and do all I can with my music and label. Plus live in Europe..
    FAVE BANDS/ARTISTS: Most Patton related, sc3, bungle, FNM, melt banana, the locust, beyond dawn, samael, windir, shining, too many to mention..
    WORST BANDS/ARTISTS: any hip hop or R&B or power metal, or 80's metal crap like Judas Priest.
    PERSON YOU'D MOST LIKE TO BE ON A DESERTED ISLAND WITH: Mike Patton.
    FAVOURITE CARTOON HERO: Homer Simpson
    FAVOURITE FOOD: Sushi/Thai/Indian
    FAVOURITE DRINK: Mountain Dew, Terminal Gravity, Guiness
    ARE YOU A NERD: Yes
    HOW GAY IS THIS: As gay as Dubloth







    Posted 3 years ago #


  8. MajestikMoose
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    Name: Matt
    Age: 19
    Location Hay River, NT, Canada
    Hometown: see above
    Occupation: general purpose parks maintainer/lackey, student (winter)
    Interests/Hobbies: playing some music, reading literature, finding strange/interesting/beautiful rocks and then immediately throwing them in the river
    Goals in life: Become a writer or a teacher of some kind. Move into a secluded area away from all the idiots.
    Favorite bands: (running through my list of albums and picking out the bands that I seem to enjoy the most: ) Burzum, Agalloch, Amorphis, Katatonia (particularly, Brave Murder Day), Death In June, Drudkh, Empyrium, In The Woods..., Mournful Congregation, Negurã Bunget, Primordial, Sigrblot, Skepticism, Sol Invictus, Worship, Waldteufel
    Un-favorite music: hip-hop, mtv, whiny ass pop-punk, Celine Dion, and those fags with the swords
    Favorite Comic: Asterix & Obelix
    Favorite Food: italian food, fresh ripe fruit
    Favorite Drink: water, mountain dew, vodka, cream soda
    Favorite writer at the moment: Julius Evola
    Favorite TV: Fuck TV... ok, the simpsons.
    Are you a nerd?: yes
    How gay is this?: as gay as my satin boxer shorts with little red hearts on them IF it also had pink frilly lace on the edges.







    Posted 3 years ago #


  9. This is cool guys, I feel like I know you already ;) Your interest in rocks, Møøse, that made me laugh out loud.







    Posted 3 years ago #


  10. This is such a good idea that even Valzhyna decided she wanted to participate!

    NAME: Joseph
    AGE: 25

    NAME: Valzhyna
    AGE: 23 or 24
    LOCATION : Tampa, Florida

    J//OCCUPATION : Web Developer (I get paid less than a secretary)
    V//OCCUPATION : I sleep with a music label baron and write poetry.

    J//INTERESTS Film, music and the finer things in life (haha Einar put it best)
    V//INTERESTS: books, music, movies, theatre

    J//HOBBIES: I used to play guitar. I want to play Drums and learn Photography.
    V//HOBBIES: I play accordion as a hobby

    J//GOALS IN LIFE: Like anyone else to be remembered. If just as a story to great grand child and so forth. Along with that to find more time to do all the great ideas I always come up with. To be more Organized. To make Vendlus Records powerful enough that you can find all the cds in at least one store in your local town.
    V//GOALS IN LIFE: to learn to swim

    J//FAVE BANDS/ARTISTS: Vendlus Artists to be sure. Beyond Dawn, Museo Rosenbach, Ved Buens Ende, When, Bogus Blimp, King Crimson, Talking Heads, Alice In Chains, Isis, Pelican, Swans, Ludicra, Weakling, Devil Doll, Inferno, Fleurety, Martin Hornventh (sic), The list is so long it would take forever to really do this.
    V//FAVE BANDS/ARTISTS: tom waits, ivan kirchuk, king crimson, leonard cohen, radiohead, m.ward, no smoking orchestra, petter bernsten

    J//WORST BANDS/ARTISTS: I fucking hate my chemical romance and plan on beating up the lead singer one day. Green Day, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Macy Gray,
    V//WORST BANDS/ARTISTS: metallica, bon jovi, ludicra


    J//PERSON YOU'D MOST LIKE TO BE ON A DESERTED ISLAND WITH: Cliché maybe but my Wife. Then Orson Welles and Petter Bernsten.
    V//PERSON YOU'D MOST LIKE TO BE ON A DESERTED ISLAND WITH:
    local chimpanzees will do

    J//FAVOURITE CARTOON HERO: Stan the man (American Idol), Randy and Butters (South Park) and of course Batman, Wolverine, and Spiderman 2099 (not peter parker)
    V//FAVOURITE CARTOON HERO: cartman

    J//FAVOURITE FOOD: shashlik, sushi, thai salads, cheese fries
    V//FAVOURITE FOOD: ice-cream

    J//FAVOURITE DRINK: EUROPEAN Fanta (IÂ’ve contacted fanta/coke about this a few times with some angry emails) , Eastern European Vodka, Dry Wine, Tea, Water, Strong European Beer or American Micro Brews, and I really like Diet Dr. Pepper.
    V//FAVOURITE DRINK: alcohol (absinthe for instance) and grapefruit juice

    J//ARE YOU A NERD: Fuck Yeah! I have this belief that if you are interesting youÂ’re a nerd. If youÂ’re a nerd but not interesting than youÂ’re a dork haha.
    V//ARE YOU A NERD: no, but you wont want to go to a bookstore with me

    J//HOW GAY IS THIS: as gay as JWW and Chris Barnes (who I think is the same person)
    V//HOW GAY IS THIS: not gay at all, a bit lesbian

    J//IF I COULD BE SOMETHING ELSE: Film Director, Archeologist//Treasure Hunter (in the vein of Indiana Jones)
    V//IF I COULD BE SOMETHING ELSE: anybody, a cockroach or marlon brandoÂ’s cute butt

    J//FAVORITE MOVIES: Lord of the Rings, American Psycho, Mishima: a life in four chapters, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Tarkovsky, Miike Films (almost always all), Underground, Sergio Leone (the man with no name trilogy, once upon a time in America, once upon a time in the west), Fellini films, F for Fake and most Orson Welles projects.
    V//FAVORITE MOVIES: I like movies by emir kusturica, bertalucci, andrej tarkovsky, alan parker, jean-paul godard, jim jarmusch and many others

    J//FAVORITE TV: South Park, American Dad, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, 24, Oz, Carnivale, Prisoner (best dvd set I own), Reno 911, Upright Citizens Brigade, History Channel Documentaries
    V//FAVORITE TV: south park

    J//PEOPLE I LIKE: Family, Friends, and people who have influenced me in a positive way.
    V//PEOPLE I LIKE: you donÂ’t know them

    J//PEOPLE I HATE: I am a equal opportunity hater. I hate every country, ethnicity, race and ideology as much as I love them for various reasons. In other words I donÂ’t really know haha. I hate that my chemical romance guy A LOT though if thatÂ’s what this question is trying to gather.
    V//PEOPLE I HATE: hispanics, koreans and thai with all their restaurants.







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