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[elpollodiablo]

I never got around to doing this, 'cuz I didn't actually ever think I'd be here this long. Here goes.

Name: Miles ***
Age: Twenty one
Three bands you like: Palace/BPB, PeeJay Harvey, Dylan (I guess none of which are really bands)
Fav Movie: At the moment... Five Easy Pieces
Fav book: Naked Lunch (it's actually 1984)
Fav comic strip: The Parking Lot is Full
Goonie question: Never saw it.
Skills: nunchuck, bowhunting, computer hacking
Desired skills: I just wanta be held. And published.
Last disc: Zopilote Machine
Meh? Indubitably.
Favorite Poem Prufrock.
Best popsicle flavor: Purple.
Favorite word: Quincunx.
Fav word for kiss: Snog. Possibly... Gnosh. Though the second one isn't meant to... Right. Right.

[YojimboMonkey]

OK, here goes.

Name: Jim
Age: 34
Three Bands you like: according to Audioscrobbler my top 3 (besides tMG) are The Fucking Champs, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, and Blind Guardian, of all things.
Favorite movie: Don't know that I can name just one; I'm not a discriminating fellow.  I judge movies based on what I call the AWE scale--that stands for Ass-Whuppins and Explosions.  (I say that, but I do require just the slightest bit of story to keep things interesting)  Also, I don't go see movies in theaters very often.  So how about I just mention one I rented and liked recently?  How about Brotherhood of the Wolf?
Favorite book: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
Favorite comic strip: Perry Bible Fellowship
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? Shit I haven't seen that movie in what, 20 years almost.  Um, Chunk, I guess, 'cause we'd keep the fridge well stocked.
Skills/hobbies: (mediocre) multi-instrumentalist, homebrewing, network engineer, web developer, jack of many trades, master of few.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: I wish I could throw down a little flashpot and disappear in a cloud of smoke like a ninja.  I would use that skill every day.  I'd do it in the middle of a conversation, not because I wasn't enjoying the conversation, but just to mystify somebody.  I'd do it so often it would become commonplace and lose its magic, and when somebody new was around and I threw down my flashpot and disappeared in a cloud of smoke, and the new person goggled, the people who knew me would say "Oh, that's just Jim, ignore him and maybe he'll stop it."  
Last CD you bought: Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
Was it good? Fucking excellent.
Favorite poem: Shakespeare's Sonnet 116:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
   If this be error and upon me proved,
   I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

I can't tell you how many times I've heard this read at weddings and the like, mistaken for sappy lovey-dovey crap.
Best popsicle flavor: blue raspberry
Favorite instrument: I love the sound of the cello
Favorite word: ridiculous.  By frequency of use though, most likely a profanity of some kind, which is unfortunate.
Favorite word for kiss: osculation, now there's a blast from the past (straight outta the thesaurus!)
Picture: a recent one:

[jordanmichael]

Name: steph
Age: 20
Three Bands you like: xiu xiu, cap'n jazz, carissa's wierd
Favorite movie: pretty in pink
Favorite book: youth in revolt - c.d. payne
Favorite comic strip: american elf & i like applejuice
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? clark "mouth" devereaux
Skills/hobbies: painting, going to dance parties, bike riding, stenciling, i'm also pretty good at tetris
Skills/hobbies you wish you had: nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills
Last CD you bought: jason anderson - new england
Was it good? yes!
Favorite poem: the blackbirds are rough today
Best popsicle flavor: orange
Favorite instrument: accordion
Favorite word: palindrome
Favorite word for kiss: "suck face" as in "dudes, i was so totally sucking face, why would i lie?!"
Picture:

+ 1 bagilliondy points for liking james kochalka.

[nonotyet]

Name:Sarah
Age:26
Three Bands you like:Spoon, the Futureheads, Le Tigre
Favorite movie: EVER? omg. The Apartment.
Favorite book: Crossing California/Pattern Recognition/A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (tie)
Favorite comic strip: THE BOONDOCKS.
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with?I have never seen this movie. I am terrified of the monster dude.
Skills/hobbies: I can peel an orange in one strip.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: flying
Last CD you bought:Queens of the Stone Age "Lullabies to Paralyze"
Was it good?...
Favorite poem:"Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women," Anne Sexton/"The Waste Land,"T.S. Eliot (tie)
Best popsicle flavor:fudgesicles
Favorite instrument:the cello! I can play it! Sort of!
Favorite word:resist
Favorite word for kiss:smooch
Picture:

[jordanmichael]

Name:  jordan michael
Age:  16
Three Bands you like: the mountain goats, neutral milk hotel, the beatles (that was the most unoriginal answer ever)
Favorite movie: clerks.
Favorite book: maybe the catcher in the rye, because i read it at the exact right time, but i am going to go with blankets by craig thompson
Favorite comic strip: garfield has the most emotional attachment, i read pvp the most, but calvin and hobbes is by far the best.
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? sloth, but i don't think he was technically a goonie.
Skills/hobbies: writing. i also say the worst things at the worst times.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: guitar. i stopped playing to focus more on writing and other strengths.
Last CD you bought: technically, my mother bought me the last album i recieved. so the last album i bought myself was live at jittery joe's by jeff mangum.
Was it good? i didn't listen to it much when i first bought it, but now it has been playing in my ipod a lot lately.
Favorite poem: anything by this kid i go to school with. his name is bryan.
Best popsicle flavor: red. yes, red.
Favorite instrument: cello. i heard "old master painter/you are my sunshine" on smile by brian wilson and just fell in love.
Favorite word: benevolent, douche, schlack
Favorite word for kiss: osculation (busted out my thesaurus for that one)
Picture:


EDIT: i just realized i have the same answer for the kiss question as yojimbo monkey.

[Maaik]

Yojimbo, you look like a cross between a sea captain and my old writing professor.  Also, what is Chimay Ale?

[milly balgeary]

well - it makes me feel Good about being 29.

[justinh]

chimay is a sweet belgian trappist ale.  yum.

[somersaulter]

i just read that james schneider is 17! he seems older than that. Hmm...maybe he's lying...

Name:  eli
Age:  23
Bands you like: bob dylan, will oldham, pixies, yo la tengo
Favorite movie: city of god
Favorite books: Oryx and Crake and The Robber Bride by Margaret atwood, the Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow...and Paradise lost by JS Milton (i was forced to read it at uni and it blew my mind).
Skills/hobbies: impersonating Slash from G n effin R.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: playing guitar as well as Slash from G n effin R.
Last CD you bought: John Fahey dance of death and other plantation favourites.
Was it good? yesyesyes!! he's wicked.
Favorite poem: Um...Oenone by st coleridge or The Lion for Real by allen ginsberg.
Best popsicle flavor: either you can't get popsicles in england or i've been missing out by refusing to eat or even look at any confectionary other than chocolate.
Favorite instrument: i've played the cello since i was 8, so it's gotta be...the theramin
Favorite word: nebulous. or fiddle.
Favorite word for kiss: kiss. can't mess with a classic.
Picture: hang on
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/elil900
representing the london section of LPTJ (i can see the houses of parliament from my office window   )

[YojimboMonkey]

Yojimbo, you look like a cross between a sea captain and my old writing professor.  Also, what is Chimay Ale?

That is an awesome compliment (the sea captain part, I don't think looking like a writing professor does anything for you), and I hereby demand that from this point onward you all refer to me as a salty sea dog.

Also, justinh handled it, but chimay is a yummy yummy belgian ale.  I was drinking that one to celebrate the successful conclusion of my brewing endeavors this last Saturday.

[heather marie]

Name: heather. but not the original heather. she's so much cooler than me.
Age: nineteen. but my birthday is in less than three months. i want a plane ticket to seattle, please. thanks in advance.
Three Bands you like: sleater-kinney, wilco, belle & sebastian
Favorite movie: willy wonka & the chocolate factory, edward scissorhands, all the real girls, annie hall, real women have curves, persona, magnolia, twin falls idahoa, me without you... oh, i was supposed to list only one? oops.
Favorite book: the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood and one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez.
Favorite comic strip: get your war on & cat and girl
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? i'd probably say data, because he could make me a lot of cool things, but truth be told, i don't think he'd like the loud indie rock or my vegan baking, so i'll opt for living alone.
Skills/hobbies: what are hobbies? i go to school and i work, those are my hobbies.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: i wish i knew how to sew (okay, i can sew, but nothing remarkable) and knitting, oh, knitting! and writing. and i'd like to play piano, but that ain't happening.
Last CD you bought: i pre-ordered sleater-kinney's the woods, if that counts.
Was it good? i've already heard it, so i'll just give you an enthusiastic HELL MOTHERFUCKING YES.
Favorite poem: "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" by ts eliot and "spelling" by margaret atwood.
Best popsicle flavor: raspberry. though i'd rather have a smoothie instead of a popsicle.
Favorite instrument: i like the theremin.
Favorite word: fuck.
Favorite word for kiss: someone said tonsil hockey. i like that.
Picture: i'm feeling self-depreciating today, so i'm gonna skip this.

[freshbakedpi]

Hi!  

Name: Carley
Age: 24
Three Artists you like: The Roots, Faithless, Arturo en el Barco
a Favorite movie: Harold & Maude
a Favorite book: "Windup Bird Chronicle" Murakami Haruki
a Favorite graphic artist: "Official Badass" Ellen Forney
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? Data for SURE! Never say die!
Skills/hobbies: I whisper sweet nothings to cute little plants and then, when their guard is down, I eat them.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: the art of motercycle & moterscooter maintenance, mycological identification, ornithology
Last CD you bought: The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellars
Was it good? Heck yeah!
a Favorite poem: Here We Go Again Trevino Brings Plenty
Best popsicle flavor: coconut
Favorite instrument: piano
a Favorite word: pickle
Favorite word for kiss: mmm
Picture:



/edit City of God is a GREAT movie!

[Michael]

Name: Michael
Age: 2...9
Three Bands you like: True Love Always, R. Kelly, Pants Yell!
Favorite movie: Glengarry Glen Ross
Favorite book: The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Favorite comic strip: historical: Little Nemo's Adventures in Slumberland  current: Achewood
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? None or all of them.
Skills/hobbies: I can write a decent history paper.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: The drums and the quilting.
Last CD you bought: Waiting for the Sirens' Call by New Order
Was it good? Not sure yet, but the single is pretty awesome.
Favorite poem: maybe "For Tess" by Raymond Carver
Best popsicle flavor: red
Favorite instrument: right now I like the cello
Favorite word: analingus
Favorite word for kiss: analingus
Picture:

[Maaik]

Michael, are you a super-intelligent indie-rocker cat with a refined British accent and a subscription to the New Yorker who is bent on world domination?  Because that's awesome.  My fiance's got a really nice tortoise-shell cat named Zoey, I think you two should hook up.

[Andrew_TSKS]

freshbakedpi/carley--i was totally wondering if we were going to get to see a picture of your broken face. lo and behold, we did!

how did that happen, exactly?

[ex-lion tamer]

Name:Jeremy
Age:28
Three Bands you like:3 CDs on my desk right now: Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss, Archers of Loaf-Icky Mettle, Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Favorite movie:Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Favorite books:Crime and Punishment, The Name of the Rose, The Moor's Last Sigh to name a few.
Favorite comic strip:Im more comic book than comic strip.  Preacher , anybody?
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with?The dead pirate guy.  He would probably be the best roomate-quiet no trouble making the rent.  Just watch out for the boobytraps!
Skills/hobbies:Avoiding boobytraps.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had:Adamantium Claws.
Last CD you bought:Red Sparowes-At the soundless dawn
Was it good?Pretty good-great music to lusten to while working
Favorite poem:ummmm...
Best popsicle flavor:yummmm......
Favorite instrument:I'm not really picky.
Favorite word:metacognition
Favorite word for kiss:I always liked Ace, but Gene and Paul write better songs.
Picture:

[freshbakedpi]

freshbakedpi/carley--i was totally wondering if we were going to get to see a picture of your broken face. lo and behold, we did!

how did that happen, exactly?

Andrew! Hi! Isn't it beautiful? I gracefully fell into the metal doorway of a hotel elevator at just the right angle to impact my central lateral and cuspids into my face / sinus cavity! I am so awesome! They were able to extract my other teeth via my soft palate and wire them in place. Only my left central was shattered, hence my gap. Incredible!

[moneyshot]

Name: Nick Carpenter
Age: 21
Three Bands That OWN: The Dead C, Nirvana, XIU XIU
Favorite movie: The Wizard of Oz
Favorite book: Probably something by Vonnegut
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? who cares?
Skills/hobbies: good deeds, music
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: The ability to stop time. Oh, that reminds me that a favorite book is The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
Last CD you bought: who still buys cd's? jk! maybe the akron/family
Was it good? yes. very very good. can not wait to see them live.  
Favorite poem: the ben jonson poem where he says the flowers smell "not of themselves but of thee"
 
Favorite instrument: a room full of guitars and drums and four friends

let's see if i can do a picture. . .







yes! i am the batter. my friend mike is behind the plate.

[Andrew_TSKS]

ability to stop time. Oh, that reminds me that a favorite book is The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker.

haha i hope you wouldn't use that power to take girls' clothes off.

i personally think i'd use it anytime i felt like writing. i could get a lot more writing done if i could make sure i wasn't missing anything going on elsewhere.


and carley--that is pretty awful. are you gonna get a fake tooth implant?

[coldforge]

oh man. i have to say i really sympathize with your friend mike in that picture.

[Maaik]

ability to stop time. Oh, that reminds me that a favorite book is The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker.

haha i hope you wouldn't use that power to take girls' clothes off.

Okay, I'm gonna just geek out if I don't point this out, but this actually happens in Nicholson's The Fermata.

There, I feel better.

[Chuck]

If I could stop time I'd just play guitar non-stop for years (presuming the ability to stop time also stopped me from ageing) so that I could finally have satriani-esque skills on my axe. I would then use those skills to form the ultimate guitar masturbation band.

[Andrew_TSKS]

ability to stop time. Oh, that reminds me that a favorite book is The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker.

haha i hope you wouldn't use that power to take girls' clothes off.

Okay, I'm gonna just geek out if I don't point this out, but this actually happens in Nicholson's The Fermata.

There, I feel better.

i know! that's why i said it! i just read that book last week!  

[Maaik]

...rather than Mezzanine.  Okay, now I feel better.

[another max]

I never saw this before now, I guess I will do it.

Name: Max Socol
Age: 19
Three Bands you like: Hard...Velvet Underground, Modest Mouse, Wilco
Favorite movie: City of God
Favorite book: Infinite Jest (back off haters)
Favorite comic strip: Calvin & Hobbes, Achewood
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? What
Skills/hobbies: Reading fast, writing, jokes, knife fighting, boxing, spanish/hebrew/ancient greek
Skillls/hobbies you wish you had: Stunt bike riding, cherry stem tying with tongue
Last CD you downloaded: Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Was it good? Haven't gotten around to hearing it yet.
Favorite poem: Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Best popsicle flavor: Orange creamsickle
Favorite instrument: Guitar is all I can play
Favorite word: Deploy
Favorite word for kiss: Cherry stem practice
Picture: Here goes: