1. I'm dmlaenker. Fuck all if I know why.
2. Usually you're more an arbiter of my taste, so this is strange, but you've already heard all the warmish-leatherette bands I'd otherwise recommend. So, looking oppositely: if you haven't heard the 5.6.7.8s, they're hilariously trashy Japanese noise rock, like Pizzicato Five or Shonen Knife but a bit less polished. Barefoot surf quartet.

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1. who am I, well I am just a nobody, but an Irix fan and a mac os x user. and why, I love your rants, your weird images, and stuff like that..

2. music, well most of my music taste isn't that good, its actually damn awful.. (yeah I like wolfshite) but for interesting, I would recomend the act Dulce Liquido.

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i found you via Audrey K. (i_seldom_do)....

and you post extreme awesomeness. repost worthy things, i mean.

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1. I'm Jesse, because that's what my parents called me.
2. Based on your list there, I might not know anything you'd enjoy, but I'm really looking forward to the first new Loud Family album in six years.

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I'm Brock. You probably posted something interesting that got noticed by Boing Boing or someone else, and I added you.

I don't know what you're into, but Those Legendary Shack Shakers have some fun tunes, and Gogol Bordello is pretty ridiculous (which comes across much better live). Lately I've been on a Death Cab for Cutie kick - it's good background music for programming.

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Who I am: Just a computer nerd who has somewhat similar taste in music (at least from what your music roundups reveal)

Why: Because where else am I to get my USRDA of Curmudgeonly Spite(TM) with a side of monkey butter?

Music: Signal & Report, one of the only Minneapolis local bands worth hearing, IMHO. Their site has several full length MP3s.

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"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." -- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

I find your journal entries on arcana entertaining, and followed the opening of the bar. Also modded the screensaver ages ago to do webcam images from around the world, which got my company's IP banned from several as it got popular in the office.

Music: Chris Rea

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I'm Sc00ter (Travis Roy, not the hockey player one that has a book, the other one that's not famous in any way).

I work as a datacenter tech/sysadmin for a small colocation company in New England (I work out of the Manchester, NH office, but I'm in Marlborough, MA today).

I'm 28, married for 5 years to the girl I started dating when I was a junior in high school. We just got a house in Hillsborough, NH with our two cats (Doozer and Beaker) and our Dog (Pepe).

We have a Mini Cooper S and a Jeep Wrangler.

That's about it really. I enjoy Talking Heads, David Byrne (as solo), and Franz Ferdinand.

P.S. I just hacked my Hughes DirecTiVo and it worked great. TiVoWebPlus is the balls. Having over 100hrs is nice too.

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"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." -- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

I find your journal entries on arcana entertaining, and followed the opening of the bar. Also modded the screensaver ages ago to do webcam images from around the world, which got my company's IP banned from several as it got popular in the office.

Music: Something by Chris Rea

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Since I syndicate, I haven't friended your journal. But I thought I'd comment here anyway.

1: I'm me, and I've been reading you since I found jwz.org a few years ago (one of the AOL rants I think).

2: I don't think you'd like my music at all.

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i don't have a friends list or else you'd be on it for sure...but i DO read you ALL THE DAMN TIME...

who am i?

i'm an ex streeetkid activist
an educated bitch girl
an underground electronic/industrial DJ going on 18 years this winter
music promoter/musician? heh well slowly...
photographer
activist
critical criminologist & sociologist who occasionally teaches at University of Ottawa [Drugs & Criminal Justice, Penal Abolition, Women in Religion are a few of the courses]
cheesemonster [i.e. collect cult films, action figures]
computer geek [mainframe & network support pays the bills]
and a friend of a lot of folks who know/work with you...


-DJ leslie

also you have one of the best LJs i have ever read...

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I'm Scotto, because I am who I am, and that's all that I am.

I'm sort of digging this stuff lately, fun for a little change of pace -

Listen to a brilliant version of Devo's Mongoloid.
From WFMU's On the Download.


My Wakeup music of the day - Hawaii Tattoo - The Waikikis (mp3) - via, Podsville!

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Brian. Been sort of following your writings since about:jwz worked.

And I recommend.... Kelly Clarkston! Yeah! And this great old band called Hootie and the Blowfish!! You'll love 'em!! Really!!

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1. I must be a second-degree extra loser, because I found you via friendsfriends. I'm an extra loser because I'm on the internet, but you're on my internet because of music, OCD and macs. Also because I figure after so many people have eFrended you you're unlikely to notice one more.

2. I'm currently listening to lots of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Neutral Milk Hotel, but that doesn't mean I think you'd like it. I'll suggest The Ergot Derivative because they might well be the weirdest band I like and you seem pretty weird yoruself.

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1) I'm a professional time-waster. Your links and pics keeps me a-wastin in that good and happy way. I temd to populate my list with outsider oddities. As you can see I have also friended such ilk as riotclitshave & msmcdonald so you're right up my speed. I neither follow nor understand your techie or music talk and I still haven't fully figured out what a dna lounge is. But you're not a page spammer. Quality over quantity... much like my sex life.

2) I'm currently a Jazz girl. Nina Simone and remixed variations of the like.

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I'm just a guy, and I recommend the Norweigan band Cloroform (http://www.cloroform.com) to everyone. Their 2003 album "Hey You Let's Kiss" has been blowing my fucking mind all year.

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I'm styroteqe. I'm a BOFH by trade, which is primarily how I came to find you, though we also have a few friends in common (Eric G and some other SFers). Prior to finding your lazyj I have read your diskless terminal server HOWTOish thing you wrote while setting up the DNA lounge, and your Netscape dorm diary.

Music! Hmm... Some of this you will have likely already gotten into, but here goes:

Snog
Xotox
Totakeke
Boards of Canada
Vector Lovers

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1. I'm Neil, and (reading the last part of the question as 'why are you here?' rather than 'why are you Neil?') I'm here because people kept pointing out posts you made about various random subjects that I found I was reading all the entries in between anyway so I may as well have you turn up on my friends page.

2. I assume you already know about the Dresden Dolls? How about Helen Love? They're a kind of welsh manga interpretation of the Ramones.

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I'm me because, genetically, i didn't really have much of a say in it all. i had a friend introduce me to jwz.org way way 7 years or so ago. i read your stories on there, i watched your club being built on webcam, and i pretty much idolized what i could glean of your life, who you were, what you'd accomplished and such. you were the person that really let me know the area of the software industry i wanted to get into was going to require 100 hour work weeks and crashing on the floor under my desk while compilers ran. when i found out you had an lj, i added you to my daily checked friendslist. you always have fantastic content and i enjoy nearly everything you post.

as for music, i'd like to recommend Tragic Realism by LD and the New Criticism.

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I'm christowang and I'M ON THE INTERNET! I just really enjoy the interesting tech posts and the weird Internet content you find.

As for music, from what I've seen in your LJ, I don't think I know a band that you may enjoy. How about Paulson? You can listen to the entire new album using the ecard.

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1. Name: MJ. Why: "...Because sometimes words are just not enough..."

2. El musica: Let's see, something you'd like and haven't heard yet... I've been digging Art Brut and Chad VanGaalen quite a bit lately, though I have to keep that quiet with my "too hip for hip" friends. (Fracking Pitchfork...) On the industrial end Heimataerde's Gotteskrieger has been quite the boot-stomping dance record around my neck of the woods. Might be worth checking out.

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