What the Who? (MMR)... aka Introduce Yo Self
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Name: Awwwdrey
Location: San Francisco
Job: LexisNexis leading provider of attorney crack
Hobbies: making crap, toy photography, pirate radio
Age: 26 Gray Hairs: 4
Currently listening to: Junkyard - The Birthday Party
Turn-Ons: comedy, Rough Trade, BYG / Actuel, karaoke, agitprop, sonic smith in a superhero suit, the east bay, free-jazz, overdriven & noisy rock, pho, the Bomb Squad, baseball, comics, redwoods and sequoias, photo booths, strange people who aren't psychos, barbeques, peter parker
Turn-Offs: note taking, Tom Cruise, movie titles like "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", boring mopey people, department meetings, Yes
Location: San Francisco
Job: LexisNexis leading provider of attorney crack
Hobbies: making crap, toy photography, pirate radio
Age: 26 Gray Hairs: 4
Currently listening to: Junkyard - The Birthday Party
Turn-Ons: comedy, Rough Trade, BYG / Actuel, karaoke, agitprop, sonic smith in a superhero suit, the east bay, free-jazz, overdriven & noisy rock, pho, the Bomb Squad, baseball, comics, redwoods and sequoias, photo booths, strange people who aren't psychos, barbeques, peter parker
Turn-Offs: note taking, Tom Cruise, movie titles like "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", boring mopey people, department meetings, Yes
Real-World name: pejman aka kidgusto aka gusto aka gustro.
Loc: Half Silver Spring MD/ Half DC
Age: 28
In the game (musician): 20 years now
In the game (diggin): 6 to 7 years
Collection: who gives a shyte. that's some brew-ha, how many beers did you drink tonight type shit. But, I can't stop collecting, so the pile just gets bigger and bigger.
Occupation: Just got laid off recently. Hostile take-over at the office. It's about time too... I was getting too comfortable as a laptop/network tech. time to hustle the music and audio engineering full time and finish up school and transfer to American University.
Currently listening to: Emilio Santiago "Bananeira".
Loc: Half Silver Spring MD/ Half DC
Age: 28
In the game (musician): 20 years now
In the game (diggin): 6 to 7 years
Collection: who gives a shyte. that's some brew-ha, how many beers did you drink tonight type shit. But, I can't stop collecting, so the pile just gets bigger and bigger.
Occupation: Just got laid off recently. Hostile take-over at the office. It's about time too... I was getting too comfortable as a laptop/network tech. time to hustle the music and audio engineering full time and finish up school and transfer to American University.
Currently listening to: Emilio Santiago "Bananeira".
Real-World name: Joe M*****
Loc: Seattle
Age: 27
In the game (diggin): 8 years
Collection: 2k? Trying to clear out the garbage.
What's in it: Brazilian music, disco breaks, early 60's free jazz.
Occupation: Aviation consultant.
Currently listening to: Jorge Ben "Negro e Lindo", Jamie Lidell "Multiply"
Hobbies: Capoeira, organic gardening, mountain climbing, Fender Rhodes
Loc: Seattle
Age: 27
In the game (diggin): 8 years
Collection: 2k? Trying to clear out the garbage.
What's in it: Brazilian music, disco breaks, early 60's free jazz.
Occupation: Aviation consultant.
Currently listening to: Jorge Ben "Negro e Lindo", Jamie Lidell "Multiply"
Hobbies: Capoeira, organic gardening, mountain climbing, Fender Rhodes
Real-World name: Nathaniel Morse
Loc: S.F. born and bred, the sounds of the city is what got me open
Age: 24, turning 25 on the 27th
In the game (diggin): since '95, more serious since '02
First record purchased: Bomb Records Compilation, from Behind the Post Office (remember when they had records?)
Original inspiration: mixtapes by Romanowski b/w recommended record purchases by Romanowski
Collection: around 2500 LPs/12s, a couple hundred 45's
Occupation: 1st Grade teacher soon to be chillin for a lil while b/w the DJin husssle
Currently listening to: Nino - Tal Vez
I wanna say peace to all my SF peoples, I fuckin love this place! Feelin all heady and sentimental right about now. *single tear*
Loc: S.F. born and bred, the sounds of the city is what got me open
Age: 24, turning 25 on the 27th
In the game (diggin): since '95, more serious since '02
First record purchased: Bomb Records Compilation, from Behind the Post Office (remember when they had records?)
Original inspiration: mixtapes by Romanowski b/w recommended record purchases by Romanowski
Collection: around 2500 LPs/12s, a couple hundred 45's
Occupation: 1st Grade teacher soon to be chillin for a lil while b/w the DJin husssle
Currently listening to: Nino - Tal Vez
I wanna say peace to all my SF peoples, I fuckin love this place! Feelin all heady and sentimental right about now. *single tear*
Real name: Eli
Age: 32
Collection: Two expedits worth, but only one actual expedit.
digging since: 1998
Location: Adams Morgan, DC
Occupation: full time journalist
currently listening to: Phil Collins, Face Value and McGriff and Junior Parker studio record
Real-World name: Pete B**b
Alias: DJ Enki, what'shisface, fuckhead
Location: Hershey to southern CT to NC to Oakland, where I'm growing some roots
Age: 29
In the game (diggin): Since '95, more serious since around '02 (I'm stealing Morsecode's answer because it works for me as well)
Collection: A lean-n-mean 3500
Can be seen: Enjoying the music in my headphones perhaps a bit too much on BART, interviewing hip-hop's minor arcana, having conniptions over craptacular grammar
Occupation: Copy editor, DJ, music journalist, fledgling producer, Grandmaster Head Buckaroo of the Grammar Rodeo
Current fixation: Learning proper engineering techniques so I can make my beats sound like they're supposed to
Did you know?: I worked for the FBI one summer, and I have the T-shirt, office paraphernalia, and handgun certification to prove it.
Currently listening to: the endless loop of "Greatest Man Alive" running through my head
Alias: DJ Enki, what'shisface, fuckhead
Location: Hershey to southern CT to NC to Oakland, where I'm growing some roots
Age: 29
In the game (diggin): Since '95, more serious since around '02 (I'm stealing Morsecode's answer because it works for me as well)
Collection: A lean-n-mean 3500
Can be seen: Enjoying the music in my headphones perhaps a bit too much on BART, interviewing hip-hop's minor arcana, having conniptions over craptacular grammar
Occupation: Copy editor, DJ, music journalist, fledgling producer, Grandmaster Head Buckaroo of the Grammar Rodeo
Current fixation: Learning proper engineering techniques so I can make my beats sound like they're supposed to
Did you know?: I worked for the FBI one summer, and I have the T-shirt, office paraphernalia, and handgun certification to prove it.
Currently listening to: the endless loop of "Greatest Man Alive" running through my head