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[steph]

my new hobby is going to be making deb-style-keychains.

[jebreject]

Name: jeb
Age: twenty-two
Three Bands you like: Leonard Cohen, Propagandhi, They Might Be Giants
Favorite movie: The Royal Tennenbaums
Favorite book:  Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Favorite comic strip:  Boondocks, maybe?
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with?  Short Round, whatever his name was in The Goonies ...
Skills/hobbies:  I'm not particularly skilled at anything, but my hobbies include writing and playing the guitar.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had:  I wouldn't mind being about a thousand times better at the guitar.
Last CD you bought:  Leonard Cohen's New Skin for the Old Ceremony
Was it good?  Yes'm
Favorite poem:  "America" by Allen Ginsberg, maybe, I don't know ...
Best popsicle flavor:  Banana
Favorite instrument:  Last night I saw a band that had a theremin.  That was pretty fuckin' spiffy.
Favorite word:  "Bourgeois"
Favorite word for kiss:  "Smooch"
Picture:

[Smintjes]

Name: Smintjes (Bart)
Age: 27
Three Bands you like: Neutral Milk Hotel, The Feelies, Belle & Sebastian
Favorite movie: Big Lebowski
Favorite book: Zwarte Tranen (Belgian book) by Tom Lanoye
Favorite comic strip: DirkJan (Dutch), Dilbert (US)
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? Don't remember any of them
Skills/hobbies: too much in too little time
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: playing the guitar
Last CD you bought: Luna - Live
Was it good? yeah, pretty good
Favorite poem: anything Yeats
Best popsicle flavor: cola
Favorite instrument: guitar
Favorite word: ahoy hoy!
Favorite word for kiss: kusje
Picture:

[iagoAdmirer]

Name: Christopher
Age: 19
Three Bands you like: Spoon, Harvey Danger, the Impossibles
Favorite movie: Donnie Darko? State And Main? Hook? Happiness? House Of Sand And Fog?
Favorite book: Ready, Okay!? A Wild Sheep Chase? The Foundation Series? The Fountainhead? The Dark Tower Series?
Favorite comic strip: PokEY the PeNGuIN
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? Yes...
Skills/hobbies: I can do math!
Skills/hobbies you wish you had: I can write! I can sing! I can make music! I can make movies! I can act! I can be happy! I can make others happy! I can be myself! I can be political! I can fill this form out correctly!
Last CDs you bought: Iron 'n Wine - Endless Numbered Days, Braid - Frames and Canvases
Were they good? Whose aren't?
Favorite poem: The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock
Best popsicle flavor: Cherry
Favorite instrument: Vocals
Favorite word: Sequacious
Favorite word for kiss: French
Picture: Skills/hobbies i wish i had: I can use compootars!

[Keith from TTIKTDA]

Name: Keith
Age: 20
Three Bands you like: The Fiery Furnaces, Talking Heads, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Favorite movie: Network
Favorite book: Naomi Kleins No Logo in the contemporary non-fic department, Jonathan Safran-Foers Everything Is Illuminated in the modernlitsnob category, Turgenevs Fathers and Sons for a classic, and Jeff Ford's The Physiognomy in the notsolitsnob category.
Favorite comic strip: The Boondocks.
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? The one with all the gadgets. I haven't seen that movie in YEARS.
Skills/hobbies: Organizing (people, not stuff. My life is a MESS of clutter and disarray). MP3Blogging.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: Musical talent.
Last CD you bought: The Fiery Furnaces, Blueberry Boat. At the moment, I am Po.
Was it good? Excellent.
Favorite poem: Allen Ginsberg -  "Kaddish"
Best popsicle flavor: Chocolate. With regular Peanut butter spread all over it by ME.
Favorite instrument: I does love that Gee-tarr.
Favorite word: Sesquipidalean.
Favorite word for kiss: Snog. Those silyl limeys.
Picture:


Okay, so I look nothing like that.

I look like this:

[Anthony M]

Name: Anthony M
Age: 24
Three Bands you like: AC/DC (pre-1980), Rocket From The Crypt, Velvet Underground
Favorite movie: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Favorite book: Lolita
Favorite comic strip: Doonesbury
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? Mikey. He would constantly remind me that Goonies never say die and probably not steal my stuff.
Skills/hobbies: bullshitting in various artistic mediums
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: something non-artistic
Last CD you bought: Joy Division's Substance
Was it good? I'm assuming (I've got the two full-lengths and Still, love them all)
Favorite poem: "If my lady-love were a bean, a fantastic bean she'd be, and a bean-boning machine would be the life for me."
Best popsicle flavor: fudge
Favorite instrument: electric guitar
Favorite word: batshit
Favorite word for kiss: kiss
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[Steve]

Name: Steve.
Age: 22.
Three Bands you like: Cinerama, Pizzicato Five, Sonic Youth.
Favorite movie: The Big Lebowski.
Favorite book: The Count of Monte Cristo.
Favorite comic strip: Calvin and Hobbes.
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with?: Andy turns out to be a Goonie in the end right? She was a fox.
Skills/Hobbies: Reading lingustics related books.
Skills/Hobbies you wish you had: To be able to sing.
Last CD you bought: Mike Ladd- Nostalgialator.
Was it good?: Yes.
Favorite Poem: n/a.
Best popsicle flavor: Is there any other answer besides cherry?
Favorite instrument: Cello.
Favorite word: tantamount.
Favorite word for kiss: bisou.
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[popquizkid]

Name: brian
Age: 21
Three Bands you like: eels, crooked fingers, califone
Favorite movie: magnolia
Favorite book: i need to read more.
Favorite comic strip: boondocks
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? i never saw goonies.  i hope that's what the question was asking.
Skills/hobbies: sports and music.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: sports and music.
Last CD you bought: old 97's "drag it up" and "por vida" (a tribute for alejandro escovedo)
Was it good? old 97's was good but will take a while to get into and por vida was very hit and miss.
Favorite poem: i need to read more.
Best popsicle flavor: those red white and blue ones.  the blue part.
Favorite instrument: pedal steel guitar
Favorite word: i haven't thought about that one for a while.
Favorite word for kiss: kiss
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[Andrew_TSKS]

Name: andrew
Age: 28
Three Bands you like: the smiths, black flag, slayer
Favorite movie: dead poet's society and the texas chainsaw massacre, i can't pick between them.
Favorite book: cryptonomicon by neal stephenson and fargo rock city by chuck klosterman. again, i can't pick.
Favorite comic strip: calvin and hobbes and peanuts are both all-time faves, but my favorite that still exists would have to be doonesbury.
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? steve beat me to it--andy. she was hot.
Skills/hobbies: i write, i sing, i play bass but not that well. i ride my bike a lot, i continue to scrape by with no money year after year, and i am incredibly good at eating a lot.
Skills/hobbies you wish you had: being able to talk to cute girls would be nice.
Last CD you bought: the hives - tyrannosaurus hives, and taking back sunday - where you want to be, at the same time.
Was it good? hives is fucking outstanding. taking back sunday is good but not great, though there are a few songs on it that totally made it worth the purchase price. just doesn't hold up that well as an album.
Favorite poem: love song of j. alfred prufrock. perhaps the only truly great poem i've ever read.
Best popsicle flavor: cherry
Favorite instrument: bass
Favorite word: "fuck" or some other four letter word
Favorite word for kiss: kiss
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[JordanZ]

Name: Jordan
Age: 20
Three Bands you like: Modest Mouse, Wintersleep, Songs:Ohia
Favorite movie: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory
Favorite book: Catcher in the Rye
Favorite comic strip: www.asofterworld.com
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with?     Lawrence 'Chunk' Cohen
Skills/hobbies: i like to write on my hands.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: i wish i was musically talented
Last CD you bought: canadian artist "the kettle black", from BC i believe.
Was it good? um.. yes..
Favorite poem: "classic water" - david berman
Best popsicle flavor: purple.
Favorite instrument: acoustic guitar
Favorite word: beautifulness
Favorite word for kiss: kiss
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[terror firma]

Name: ryan
Age: 23
Three Bands you like: q & not u, sole, ink & dagger
Favorite movie: shadows & fog
Favorite book: days of war, nights of love
Favorite comic strip: far side
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? the kid who spoke spanish
Skills/hobbies: flight, ram vision, invisability
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: computer hacking skills, nunchuck skills...
Last CD you bought: "louden up now" by !!!
Was it good? meh.
Favorite poem: "shook ones part II" by mobb deep
Best popsicle flavor: fudgesicle
Favorite instrument: drums
Favorite word: shampoo
Favorite word for kiss: make-out
Picture:

[hello_smashing]

Name: becca!
Age: 17
Three Bands you like: do make say think, animal collective, clinic
Favorite movie: willy wonka and the chocolate factory
Favorite book(s): the velveteen rabbit, moby dick, girlfriend in a coma
Favorite comic strip: cal n' hobbes
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? uh, hm.
Skills/hobbies: drawing, photoshopping, holga-picture taking, music-listening, thrift-shopping, being a ragamuffin.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: actually being good at photography, actually being good at drawing, knowing how to develop photos, writing songs.
Last CD you bought: clearlake Cedars
Was it good? you bet! I love this album.
Favorite poem: "The Flea" by John Donne, because it's about him totally wanting to get it on with this girl (using the metaphor of fucking fleas, for chrissake) and is fun to read out loud in a ridiculous melodramatic voice.
 Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it suck'd from thee?!!!!! .
Best popsicle flavor: the red, white and blue rocket pop!
Favorite instrument: thumb piano
Favorite word: crispy
Favorite word for kiss: i like to make smoochy noises, and my favorite person to kiss is boganlux!

[boganlux]

i like to make smoochy noises, and my favorite person to kiss is boganlux!

You're one LPTJ Forumer I'm glad I've gotten to know!

XOXO

[hello_smashing]

i love you bryan.

[steph]

aw, everyone here is so cute.

[Wasim]

Name: Wasim
Age: almost 17, but I can probably pass for 21
Three Bands you like: Opeth, Cynic, Radiohead
Favorite movie: possibly Pulp Fiction. maybe Nixon. most likely Godfather
Favorite book: don't have one yet, though I do like a lot of Neil Gaiman's work.
Favorite comic strip: Pearls Before Swine
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? I'm too young to get that reference
Skills/hobbies: writing.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: just about everything else besides writing
Last CD you bought: everything's such a blur these days, I can't remember what I bought and when. I think it was Darkthrone's Hate Them, though.
Was it good? No complaints, but then again, I don't think I listened through the whole thing.
Favorite poem: don't read poetry that much. I just came out of an English course where we read all the "Classic" British poems, so I've really been turned off by poetry recently.
Best popsicle flavor: Red. Whatever flavor that is. Occassionally blue.
Favorite instrument: electric keyboard. that's about the only thing I could afford. and I don't play it anymore.
Favorite word: Awkward. the two "w"s make the word true to its meaning
Favorite word for kiss: more like term, the saliva exchange.
Picture: the fact that I don't know how to post one makes me feel incredibly smart, you know.[/img]

[martin_van_buren]

Name: Nathan
Age: 17
Three Bands you like: The Birthday Party, Pink Floyd, The Smiths
Favorite movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Pulp Fiction every other Tuesday.
Favorite book: Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Favorite comic strip: Bloom County.
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? The one with the hair.
Skills/hobbies: I play guitar. And write. And I will die at some point in the future.
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: Anything groovy which I did not list above.
Last CD you bought: Gravediggaz- 6 Feet Deep
Was it good? As far as I've listened to it, most likely.
Favorite poem: No.
Best popsicle flavor: Red.
Favorite instrument: Bagpipes. Or bazooki.
Favorite word: Polymorphism.
Favorite word for kiss: Peck.
Picture: Yes please.

[jebreject]

aw, everyone here is so cute.

you = super cute.  seriously.

[rtotalexvii]

i no tell!

[erin]

Name: Erin Rita Marie McWilliams
Age: 29 on August 24
Three Bands you like: Joni Mitchell, the Innocence Mission, X
Favorite movie: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Night of the Hunter (sorry, couldn't stop at just one, like a Lay's chip)
Favorite book: The Making of a Radical: a Political Autobiography by Scott Nearing (I don't read fiction, a habit I'd like to try to change sometime.)
Favorite comic strip: For Better or For Worse. Shame on me!
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? the one with all the cool gadgets
Skills/hobbies: bicycling, eating vegan desserts, looking for ways to fund my education, Chinese movies with no plots, plotting my next big trip
Skills/hobbies you wish you had: a smidgen of musical talent
Last CD you bought: I never have enough money to buy music, but my landlord gave me a Sarah Vaughan CD recently.
Was it good? I'll let you know. I suspect so, given what I've heard of her.
Favorite poem: Oh, geez. Not my forte. I liked a Sharon Olds one I read.
Best popsicle flavor: guava
Favorite instrument: steel guitar
Favorite word: least-true (okay, so it's two words)
Favorite word for kiss: smooch
Picture: http://www.broketraveler.com/scandinavia/erinshotgun.jpg

There's my gendertrash self riding shotgun to a train conductor in Sweden.

[stephanie]

Hi.

Name:  Stephanie.
Age:  brand-new 22, though I look like an awkward 12-year-old.
Three bands you like:  Lifter Puller, Fountains of Wayne, Songs: Ohia.
Favorite movie:  Wayne's World, Magnolia, or The Royal Tenenbaums.  currently Napoleon Dynamite.
Favorite book:  Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk.  so very predictable.
Favorite comic strip:  Get Your War On.  I am but a simple girl.
Which Goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with?  you know what?  I have never seen this movie.  please forgive me.  moreover, I plan on never sharing a living space with another human being ever ever ever again, ever.  less because I hate people, more because I love (LOVE) living alone.
Skills/hobbies:  typing, basic HTML, whining, reading, loving excessively and with few conditions, impetuous cross-country travel to see rock bands, waxing effusively and at great length about America's current political climate, spending my rent money on records.
Skills/hobbies you wish you had:  writing.  that's it.  seriously.
Last CD you bought:  The Good Life, Album of the Year.  pre-ordered because I'm a nerd.
Was it good?  unbelievably so.  the acoustic bonus CD is also unstoppable, though I have yet to come to a verdict as to which I prefer.
Favorite poem:  The God of Sleep by Nicole Blackman or The Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts by Anne Sexton [click].
Best popsicle flavor:  red!  (this could be anywhere on the "berry" spectrum of flavour.)
Favorite instrument:  lap steel.
Favorite word:  "mewling."  however, as of late, I've been known to say "gosh!" every four or five words.  thank you, Napoleon Dynamite.
Favorite word for kiss:  N/A.
Picture:
http://www.startribune.com/stonline/images/news89/FTloc13b.l.jpg

(That's me in the skull hat, watching John open the first Lifter Puller reunion show last summer.  Best day of my life?  Best day of my life.)

[swilkes]

Stephanie, cute skull hat!  Did you knit it yourself? if so, please send me the pattern!

Name: Sarah
Age: 26
Three bands you like: Ed's Redeeming Qualities, Soltero, Melt-Banana
Favorite movie: The Hudsucker Proxy
Favorite book: We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, by John Lewis Gaddis
Favorite comic strip: The Boondocks
Which Goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? I've never seen the movie, but from what I hear, Sloth.
Skills/hobbies: knitting, cooking, writing
Skills/hobbies you wish you had: photography, sewing
Last CD you bought: Jim O'Rourke, "Eureka"
Was it good? Oh yes. "Women of the world, take over..."
Favorite poem: Does a novel-in-verse count? If so, "Autobiography of Red" by Anne Carson. If not, the one by Sappho that starts "That one seems to me the equal of the gods, who sits in thy presence..."
Favorite instrument: theremin
Favorite word: ponos. It's russian for "diarrhea," and comes in handy. My apologies to all the russians on the forum.
Favorite word for kiss: beso.
Picture: http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=swilkesse

[aigney_mie]

Name: Jacob (there are a lot of Jacobs here I've noticed)
Age: 20
Three Bands you like: Neutral Milk Hotel, Bob Dylan, Bad Religion
Favorite movie: Monty Python's Life of Brian or O Brother Where Art Thou?
Favorite book: Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond from nonfiction, Lord of the Rings series from scifi/fantasy, Hitchhiker's guide from comedy, and Ulysses from literature.
Favorite comic strip: i don't really read any with any frequency, so i will instead say the onion.
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? gonna have to go with Data for the gadgets in case the toaster breaks or a pit erupts through the floor or something standard like that.
Skills/hobbies: guitar, reading, hiking/camping, writing, cooking
Sillls/hobbies you wish you had: ability to speak any language, flight, time travel just to be able to understand first hand what the world used to be like, gardening, carpentry
Last CD you bought: the most recent Comes With A Smile comp
Was it good? I don't know yet, still waiting for it to come in the post
Favorite poem: I was never really much of a poetry person, but I rather enjoyed this from Aztec, the book I'm currently reading by Peter Jennings:
"You tell me then that I must perish
like the flowers that I cherish.
Nothing remaining of my name,
nothing remembered of my fame?
But the gardens I planted still are young-
the songs I sang will still be sung!"
Best popsicle flavor: grapple! (one day)
Favorite instrument: acoustic guitar
Favorite word: altruism
Favorite word for kiss:  :wink:
Picture:  http://www.weblogimages.com/v.p?uid=aigney_mie&pid=175754&sid=vDH11sFHS8

[Roque]

Name: Roque
Age:  20 and 3/4!
Three Bands you like: Swell Maps, Television Personalities, Magazine
Some good movies: Jules and Jim, Satantango, Close-Up, The Decalogue, La Commune, Contempt, Good Men Good Women, Le Fond de l'air est rouge (not that The Royal Tenenbaums was less than sublime)
Some good books: Gravity's Rainbow, Adventures of Augie March, To the Finland Station, Autumn of the Middle Ages, Anatomy of Melancholy, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, The Man without Qualities, Hunger, Jacques the Fatalist, Barthelme's Sixty Stories
Favorite comic strip: Calvin and Hobbes
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with? Mouth, because he was the superior Corey and spoke Spanish
Skills/hobbies: Fighting crime, writing rhymes, calligraphy, eliciting pity, searching for my mainline
Skillls/hobbies you wish you had: Tiger-style kung fu, whatever skills Macgyver had, gardening, finding my mainline
Last CD you bought: Dre Day
Was it good? You're damn skippy
Some good poems: Prufrock (we all love Prufrock, don't we? Eliot on mp3 reading it!), Monument, Archaic Torso of Apollo, Fern Hill, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, Larkin's Aubade
Best popsicle flavor: Firecracker, three-in-one
Favorite instrument: Jaw harp
Favorite word: Scrumtrellescent or supererogatory
Favorite word for kiss: Where to begin ...
Picture:

[jaimoe0]

Name: Jaime (James when I answer the phone at work.)
Age: 38  
Three Bands you like:  The Stooges, The Replacements, Minutemen/fIREHOSE
Favorite movie:  Local Hero and Sonatine
Favorite book:  Barth's The Floating Opera; Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera; Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day
Favorite comic strip:  Boondocks and Rex Morgan, MD
Which goonie would you want to share a studio apartment with?  I've never seen the film.
Skills/hobbies:  Cartoon enthusiast; nascent mixologist, hockey fan; lays picks, works hard on defense and rebounds.
Skills/hobbies you wish you had: Musical ability, a vicious sinker, a decent jumpshot.
Last CD you bought:  Uncle Tupelo No Depression (reissue)
Was it good?  Very, but I don't think the extra tracks add much to the proceedings.
Favorite poem:  One of Adrienne Rich's love poems from Dream of a Common Language, but I can't remember what it's called.  "The Mask of Anarchy" by Shelley because it was quoted on the back of the Jam's Sound Affects, and that made me believe that poetry must be cool.
Best popsicle flavor:  Cherry, but I really like drumsticks with the glob o' caramel in the middle.
Favorite instrument:  Loud guitars still make me happy.
Favorite word:  nihilism, but only because I like the name Neil.
Favorite word for kiss:  I, too, enjoy a nice smooch.
Picture:  I will work on this. I'm computer challenged.