Introduce Yourself Thread

[rory]

This was a pretty good thread that was going on the old forum, and now that we're at a fresh start and there's been some bolstering towards new activity here, maybe an intro thread would be nice. We all get to know each other slowly though posting, but it always helps me to have a name and face to the posting, even if my memory is kind of terrible at this sort of thing.

This is sort of how I remember the old one being structured, and it was pretty good. Add anything you want to that you feel this is lacking.

Name:

Username Meaning:

Location:

Age:

Gender/Pronouns:

What You Do:

Favorite Music:

Likes:

Pet Peeves:

Social Media:

Photo:

[jer]

add social media sites or home pages, all you fools.

[rory]

Name: Rory

Username Meaning: It's my dang name

Location: Kalamazoo, MI, US

Age: 25

Gender/Pronouns: Genderqueer / run the gamut of pronouns, close friends use they/them

What You Do: I play bass in a couple of bands, book shows at my house with 7 other folks, and often draw flyers for events around town. I help run a site called ditkalamazoo.com, which is sort of a local DIY booking informational site about upcoming events, and helps keep the houses/cool bars in touch to work together. I work part time at a coffee shop, bike everywhere to avoid getting a license, and generally try and keep myself busy with music, art, reading (but very often find myself online).

Favorite Music: http://www.last.fm/user/asdfqaz

Likes: Live and recorded music, trusting friends, bikes, mopeds, film photography, coffee, so much coffee, queer theory, DIY, creating little things, cats, youtube videos of animals.

Pet Peeves: Inconsiderate people, especially in the sense of being unaware of the space you are taking up, but in many other ways too. Bad customers or anyone terrible to waitstaff. using the phone.

Social Media: http://rzzzzz.tumblr.com/
 http://anybodybutthecops.bandcamp.com/

Photo:

[bee]

Name: hannah bee

Username Meaning: ...

Location: toronto, canada

Age: age questions kind of bother me

Gender/Pronouns: female, she or they

What You Do: i work in a vegan bakery and i make soap and do craft stuff

Favorite Music: i h8 music. nah seriously, i don't even know anymore

Likes: veganism, pizza, chocolate cake, animals, queer babes, exploring

Pet Peeves: mean people, shitty people, most people, mushrooms

Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/hannah.bee.9235 | http://yurei-chan.tumblr.com/

Photo:

[bee]

sorry :/ i dunno how to make that less big

[jer]

Name: jer

Username Meaning: it's my name.

Location: Southern California

Age: 30

Gender/Pronouns: dude. dude pronouns.

What You Do: boring info technology stuff.

Favorite Music: bands like The Measure SA, Lemuria, The Ergs, Defiance Ohio, and shit i don't even remember music anymore.

Likes: hockey. podcasts.

Pet Peeves: everything.

Social Media: https://twitter.com/jermeanswell

Photo:

[animationnerd]

Name: Jim

Username Meaning: I like animation a lot

Location: England

Age: 24

Gender/Pronouns: Male

What You Do: Unemployed and looking. I've been dedicating my spare time to making music and a documentary on early animation

Favorite Music: http://tellyrstory.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-my-name-now

Likes: psychedelic animation, sad and messy folk songs, board games, unfunny jokes

Pet Peeves: Impatience, Rudeness, Me

Social Media: scares me now

[lindsey]

Name: Lindsey

Username Meaning: Lindsey

Location: Portland Oregon

Age: 26

Gender/Pronouns: lady

What You Do: retail management, doing blogging and freelance photography and printmaking junk in my rare-spare time

Favorite Music: the mountain goats and kanye west and beyonce

Likes: my boo, my pup, intersectional feminism, makeup, alternative fashion for fat femmes

Pet Peeves: racism, sexism, queerphobia, etc. i'm pretty laid back unless you're being offensive/oppressive and then i will be forced to relentlessly call you out sorry not sorry

Social Media: http://lindseydreadfuls.tumblr.com/   http://instagram.com/lnzzzz

Photo:

[Anna Karina]

Name: Brett

Username Meaning: my favorite actress who starred in most of my favorite Godard films and Chinese Roulette

Location: Los Angeles

Age: 28

Gender/Pronouns: bruh

What You Do: I used to lie and pretend I was a writer, but instead I just work dumb post production television jobs. My bosses gave me a Dave & Busters gift card last week to show their appreciation.

Favorite Music: Tom Waits, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Jesca Hoop, Grouper, Freddie Gibbs, Big Star, Chris Bell, Joey Bada$$, Gary Higgins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Killer Mike, 100s, The Tallest Man On Earth, Nick Drake, Emiliana Torrini, Creedence, Charlie Parr, William Elliott Whitmore, Chad VanGaalen, Danny Brown, Keith Sweat, Eleni Mandell, Ryan Hemsworth, Birdy Nam Nam, Sam Baker, Timber Timbre, The Gun Club, X, The Descendents, Black Breath, Charles Bradley, Little Anthony & The Imperials, The Platters, Abner Jay, Skip James, Schoolboy Q, Hanne Hukkelberg, Lau Nau, Fiona Apple, Chairmen of the Board, Bill Withers, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Jack Rose, The Coasters, Phil Ochs, The Pharcyde, Jackson C. Frank, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen

Likes: craft beer, good films, finding new restaurants, The Last Of Us, Francesca Woodman, Mr. Show, Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Stella, Fargo, The Wire, Louie, Rectify, Review With Forrest MacNeil, Broad City, cheeseburgers, the El Flamin' Taco truck a few blocks away from my apartment, my cat, NBA, hip hop, marijuana, old movie posters, Roger Ballen, Vania Zouravliov, James Jean, The Double Life of Veronique, Paris Texas, Possession, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Snowtown, Pierrot Le Fou, Benny's Video, Fantastic Planet, I Am Cuba, Bonnie & Clyde, Network, The Squid & The Whale, Metropolitan, The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, Sullivan's Travels, His Girl Friday, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, River's Edge, Straw Dogs, Persona, Withnail & I, Naked, Ratcatcher, The Ice Storm, Bad Timing, Wings of Desire, Miller's Crossing, Harry Dean Stanton, Emmanuelle Beart, Elliott Gould, Faye Dunaway, Analeigh Tipton, Ryonen, Rachel Dashae, Elizabeth Olsen, Jean Luc Godard, John Hillcoat, Andrzej Zulawski, David Mamet, Sidney Lumet, Paul Robeson, Nicholas Roeg, David Gordon Green, Robert Altman

Pet Peeves: people who walk on one side of the sidewalk coming from the other direction then randomly try to move to the other side and cause confusion right when you're about to walk past them, babies, most large social interactions, ignorance regarding sado masochism/bondage/human rights/sexual orientation/anything that I like/anything that I don't like, when people don't put on their blinker when switching lanes, people who purposely get in the lane that's about to end with the sole intent of speeding after the light turns green to pass you, loud construction before 10am, people who don't like Tom Waits, people that refuse to watch movies with subtitles

[hatmoose]

Favorite Music: bands like The Measure SA

fuck YES

Name: my name is bobby

Username Meaning: it doesn't mean anything i picked it out when i was 12 or 14 as an upgrade to "litlerod92"

Location: east coast

Age: 21

Gender/Pronouns: she/her

What You Do: nothing

Favorite Music: bands like the measure [SA], but also most other music. i actually spend most of my time listening to the same 3 or 4 electronic albums

Likes: i like almost everything good in the world. also, my favorite game is doom

Pet Peeves: i don't like it when i feel bad, when other people are disrespectful when i feel it is unwarranted, and when people treat me like a dumb asshole (most of the time)
Photo:

[kt]

WOW bobby bb ur hair is so pretty forever sorry about the time i broke it

Name: kt

Username Meaning: it is my name

Location: athens/atlanta but soon to be portland,oregon.

Age: 22

Gender/Pronouns: she/they

What You Do: graduated from college and i'm about to move across the country, sheesh.

Favorite Music: punx and twee

Likes: good things. snax. hugs. feelings.

Pet Peeves: rude jerks

Social Media: www.ktaustin.com / 'kt austin' on fb

Photo:

[kw]

Name: kylewilliam

Username Meaning: its my name, just with less "yle" and "illiam."

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Age: 26

Gender/Pronouns: no real preference, male or neutral work quite fine.

What You Do: opening a vegan hot dog cart and a lot of photography.

Favorite Music: the hold steady & doom metal, in that order.

Likes: my cats, your cats, all cats, hockey.

Pet Peeves: people who don't like cats.

Social Media: www.burningpewter.com

Photo:

[birthdayprincess]

Name: Christianna

Username Meaning: I have a plastic crown that says "birthday princess" and it's the best

Location: Kzoooooo

Age: 22

Gender/Pronouns: she/her

What You Do: finishing my degree; trying to find a more permanent job; art modeling; napping

Favorite Music: Jimmy Eat World, Eurythmics, Greg Laswell, Lincoln County War; I'm getting SUPER into Dog Party since I saw them at PIX2014

Likes: cats, lipstick, plants, cooking, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Agatha Christie novels

Pet Peeves: Jokes at the expense of others; not understanding how to use the internet as well as I'd like

Photo: https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t1.0-9/10300870_10152039751935667_2838553596406109855_n.jpg 
(idk how to make this show up on here; I am absolutely hopeless.)

[buckskinwithers]

Name: Caroline Walker Hackney

Username Meaning: I'm a cowgirl!

Location: Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Age: 18

Gender/Pronouns: she/her

What You Do: mostly work at an all volunteer-owned, -managed, & -operated vegetarian food cooperative. sometimes I volunteer with Food Not Bombs. sometimes I book punk shows. I spend a lot of time with my dog.

Favorite Music: anything with a banjo in it that is anti-capitalist, anti-racist, queer-friendly, etc. anything that comes out on Southern Lord. Contravene is my #1 fav old anarcho-punk band. I love Gwen Stefani.

Likes: horses, vegan food, ginger ale, skinny dipping, 5-string banjos

Pet Peeves: oppression, people who throw away food, people who drive drunk, cats

Social Media: http://instagram.com/buckskinwithers

Photo:

[ramblinrabble]

Name:  Patrick

Username Meaning:  habits and social status

Location:  Rochester, NY

Age: 23

Gender/Pronouns:  Mail

What You Do:  Tech support for old people.

Favorite Music:   WIFS, Mischief Brew, Busdriver, The Dead Milkmen, The Weakerthans, Brook Pridemore, Chumbawamba

Likes:  Hockey, beer, cats,

Pet Peeves:  No, my cat's name isnt Peeves

Social Media:  I've gotten rid of most of mine.  I've got a linkedin account for the purposes of employment but thats about it.

Photo:  Meh, I put one in the pictures thread and I dont have the energy to take a new one.

[burritos]

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[rory]

Name: Christianna

Username Meaning: I have a plastic crown that says "birthday princess" and it's the best

Location: Kzoooooo

Sup friend, welcome to oldschool internet.

Images are put up by surrounding the link with [ i m g ] [ / i m g ] without the spaces.

[Esmiller59]

Name: Ethan Miller

Username Meaning: My middle initial is S. I like the number 59.

Location: Washington, DC

Age: 22

Gender/Pronouns: He / him / his

What You Do: I'm a union organizer, am involved in a variety of local community organizing groups and I volunteer on local political campaigns as well.

Favorite Music: The Wild, Defiance Ohio, Lemuria, TMLE, Heathers

Likes: Photography, Biking, breakfast food, drinking beer outdoors

Pet Peeves: People being stupid on the internet, casual racism + sexism

Social Media:
https://twitter.com/esmiller59

[zack317]

Name: Zack

Username Meaning: my name and 317, which i use for like everything. it's very unoriginal/uncreative.

Location: Florida

Age: 20 (as of june 29th)

Gender/Pronouns: he/him

What You Do: I work for a print shop that does work for bands/labels. working with record inserts/jackets/sleeves, posters and the circular labels on records, etc.

Favorite Music: Days n daze, Railyard ghosts, choking victim, ghost mice, arroyo deathmatch, ramshackle glory, we the heathens, atrocity solution

Likes: guitar, banjo, vegan food (especially vegan pizza, yum), fun times, nice people, anime, books.

Pet Peeves: bad drivers

Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/zlanders http://nocashsmokehash.tumblr.com/

Photo:

[FolkTheGovernment]

Name: Noah

Username Meaning: Self explanatory really.

Location: Terre Haute, IN

Age: 17

Gender/Pronouns: He/Him although I dont care what I am called, doesnt bother me too much.

What You Do: Nothing, currently looking for a job but it isnt turning out too well so I'll probably sell my soul or something.

Favorite Music: blink-182, Andrew Jackson Jihad, all of Pat the Bunny's works, a lot of what Chris Clavin does, The Misfits, Descendents, Michale Graves solo work(along with Misfits work), Days 'N Daze, Ceremony, Black Flag(Rollins era), and quite a lot more.

Likes: Skateboarding, driving around, meeting new people, live music, making friends because I technically dont have any in my city, vinyl collecting, cats, and tattoos.

Pet Peeves: Bad tattoo line work, lots of things people on tumblr whine about, getting asked the same thing over and over by the same person, constant lying, and bad constant spelling.

Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/Noahbearrr http://twerkforblink182.tumblr.com/

Photo:
Sorry for how big the picture is.

[Anna Karina]

Gender/Pronouns: He/Him although I dont care what I am called, doesnt bother me too much.

What's up, Overcooked Pizza Rolls?

[Esmiller59]

Gender/Pronouns: He/Him although I dont care what I am called, doesnt bother me too much.

What's up, Overcooked Pizza Rolls?
 

For serious though - "I don't care" is the biggest example of cis privilege. Do you self-identify as male? Then you use male pronouns, none of this "well, whatever works" bullshit. Same goes for folks that self-identify as female. Just because you don't care, doesn't mean other folks don't care.

[momitsnowme]

I don't know if that is fair. I don't think anybody said they don't care what other people want to be referred to as, just that they don't care how others refer to them. That seems legitimate to me. Pronouns are important to some people and not as big a deal to others. I understand that being referred to by the wrong pronoun can be very hurtful if you are trans and I think people can respect that and still not be as rigid about what they go by. Honestly,  I think it is a good sign for the breaking down of the gender binary, and a sign that it is not some awful thing to be a woman when cis men aren't offendedd by being called "she"

[rory]

Gender/Pronouns: He/Him although I dont care what I am called, doesnt bother me too much.

What's up, Overcooked Pizza Rolls?
 

For serious though - "I don't care" is the biggest example of cis privilege. Do you self-identify as male? Then you use male pronouns, none of this "well, whatever works" bullshit. Same goes for folks that self-identify as female. Just because you don't care, doesn't mean other folks don't care.

This is an odd response to me for a few things. For one, he's 17. When I was 17 I'd have like no concept of this sort of stuff, and would also probably respond with "I don't care" in a place that I'm comfortable, where I'd say I use feminine in a place I'm more uncomfortable. And even now, I say that whatever pronouns are used at me is okay because making a big stink and fuss is not a place that I am at yet. And perhaps that's because I don't "pass," and also don't really want to, and I understand the misgendering risk of that except in exclusive corners. How come I didn't get a talking to about this, but you picked on this kid?

Also, "male" pronouns, what the hell is that? It's some basic linguistic shaping to say "masculine" and "feminine" when referring to gender, while saying "male" and "female" for biological sex. I know people trip it up a lot, but it seems weird to use it incorrectly while giving a kid some shit about gender stuff.


Anyhwo, sup Noah, I saw you at PIXfest like a million times and didn't say hey because I'm awkward. Seemed like you were having a good time.

[kw]

Honestly,  I think it is a good sign for the breaking down of the gender binary, and a sign that it is not some awful thing to be a woman when cis men aren't offendedd by being called "she"

mmhmm