All About You (Part II) - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

skip spence · 10-25-2009, 10:20 AM

Name (that you go by): Peter
Age: I was so much older then I'm younger than that now
Occupation: Selling my body and time to afford the things I like to do
Future Aspirations: Trying to combine the things I like to do with work or committing the perfect crime so I need not work for money
Goal in life: Be as happy as I can without making anyone else unhappy
Short term goals: Finish and publish a book I'm working on
Passion: Music, Literature, other physical and aesthetic pleasures
Hobbies: Music, writing, sports, out-doors activities like fishing and hiking, seeing the world (but I don't care for actual travelling)
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Not much for bragging

Fave book: Oh there are many... Everything by Tolkien obvioulsy, Naked Lunch by Burroughs, Heart of Darkness by Conrad, Dispatches by Herr, Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, Lolita by Nakobov, A Clockwork Orange by A Burgess, The Sheltering Sky by Bowles. a few Scandinavian books you wouldn't know of (well maybe the other Scandinavians would...er I could I could go on and on.
Fave movie: Not much of a movie-buff but I'll go for Clint Eastwood's The Unforgiven
Fave sport: Football, playing tennis and shooting pool
Fave store: A certain second hand books and vinyl store
Fave music: Most (but far from all) of what I like was recorded before I was even born. I like music from a lot of genres and at the moment I've a thing for fusion and jazzy rock like The Soft Machine, Steely Dan, Zappa, Miles Davies etc. I'm a big Dylan fan and feel that the Kinks could do no wrong 1966-71.
What you can't stand: Intolerance, Hypocrisy, Bureaucracy, modern society's craze for security and control
What you plain dislike: Most of what is played on radio or shown on regular cable TV
Who you admire: My parents, Leonard Cohen
What you most love to do: ******* **** and then ******* **** while spinning great tunes on the turntable. Spending quality time out in the nature, especially in Norwegian fjords
Your self-confessed flaws: Procrastination, mood driven social ineptitude
What intrigues/fascinates you: Existance, space and time
What scares you: The dark side of group mentality, the truth
Quotation to live by: Hm. how about: Deserve's got noting to do with it, spoken by Eastwood's character as he shoots Gene Hackman in the above mentioned film

Additional comments: Interesting to read what other members have written, but you're rarely surprised, are you? You get a pretty good feel for who someone is by reading what they post on a forum like this I think. Sometimes ever better than people you meet almost every day in real life...

Loslote · 10-25-2009, 06:55 PM

Name (that you go by): Here, Lottie or Loslote; in RL, Kristen
Age: 15
Occupation: Student
Future Aspirations: Physics professor...eventually.
Goal in life: to die in my sleep.
Short term goals: not to have cold feet in the morning.
Passion: Tolkien (um....possibly didn't need to include that)
Hobbies: reading, writing (humorous fanfics and poems), drawing (mostly elves), eating (usually food), sleeping (as often as possible)
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Being way to o nice. So are pretty much all of my friends. If two of us get to a door at the same time, we'll wait for the other to go in first until the end of the world. Also, in my house, food goes to waste really often because we don't like to eat the last of anything in case someone else wants it. Also, I'm famous for my memory. I can remember anything I read. Not exactly photographic, but similar. And for my randomness.

Fave book: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Fave movie: The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
Fave sport: Can reading count?
Fave store: Um...Amazon?
Fave music: Country

What you can't stand: the cold.
What you plain dislike: Improper grammer. (and yet, look at all of my responses.

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Who you admire: My mom.
What you most love to do: read/write/draw
Your self-confessed flaws: I am far too trusting; I am seldom serious; and I depend far too much on the good opinion of others, which leads me to try to please everyone way too often; I can never say no to anything.
What intrigues/fascinates you: trivial knowledge.
What scares you: disapproval.
Quotation to live by: "I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do the day after."

Additional comments: Thinking...thinking...nope. I got nothing.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 11-01-2009, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loslote

What you can't stand: the cold.

I think you might have a little problem here.

Lush · 11-04-2009, 05:54 PM

Awww, what a great thread this is. Glad to see it was revived.

It's odd, I filled this thing out over 6 years ago, and I don't think I've changed a whole lot. I still listen to Manu Chao and even write about sports occasionally. Maybe I stopped evolving and am now slowly becoming a degenerate. (Or was I always a degenerate? Hm, yeah, don't answer that...)

**The Saucepan Man** · 11-21-2009, 07:25 PM

My original response was on the first thread, which seems to have been lost in the mists of time. So here we go again ...

Name (that you go by): There are some who call me ... Tim
Age: 42
Occupation: Korprat-Loyer
Future Aspirations: I am pretty much contented with my life - so more of the same, I suppose.
Goal in life: To see my children grow up happy, healthy and successful in whatever they choose to do.
Short term goals: To finish this questionnaire.
Passion: My family.
Hobbies: Board games, Sport (as a spectator, natch), Internet browsing, Making Playlists on my I-Pod.
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): At the moment, giving up smoking after 22 years on 20+ a day. 7 months and still struggling (but still going).

Fave book: Difficult to pick out one. Other than The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit etc, probably The Magus and Wuthering Heights. I recently enjoyed Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Northern Lights and Cloud Atlas, and have been working my through Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Currently reading Bad Science.
Fave movie: Again, difficult to pick out one. So here's a huge list instead: Alien, Blade Runner, Brazil, A Bridge Too Far, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cloverfield, ET the Extra-Terrestrial, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park, King Kong, The Lord of the Rings, Life of Brian, Lost in Translation, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Pan's Labyrinth, Shaun of the Dead, Star Wars, The Terminator, The Thing, Toy Story, 12 Angry Men, 28 Days Later.
Fave sport: Football (England and Chelski), Cricket (England) and F1 (Button and Hamilton).
Fave store: The Game Shop in Aldershot. And anywhere else that sells board games.
Fave music: Once again, it is impossible to pick out any one style or group, so it has to be another huge list: Air, The Arcade Fire, The Beatles, Blur, David Bowie, Kate Bush, The Charlatans, The Chemical Brothers, Coldplay, The Cure, The Divine Comedy, Dodgy, Doves, Elbow, Feeder, The Feeling, The Fratellis, Goldfrapp, Gomez, Gorillaz, Kasabian, The Kinks, Lemon Jelly, Madness, Mansun, Oasis, Pink Floyd, REM, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Scouting for Girls, The Specials, The Stone Roses, The White Stripes, The Who, Robbie Williams. And much much more. I love music me.

What you can't stand: People who dawdle. Wherever - whether shuffling in the tube, bumbling around on the pavement, or pootling along on the motorway. I hate dawdlers.
What you plain dislike: Those who demand their rights without acknowledging their responsibilities.
Who you admire: The wonderful Mrs S.
What you most love to do: Listen to Music. Drink wine. Play board games with Mrs S. Preferably all three at the same time.
Your self-confessed flaws: Laziness and perfectionism. Which is an appalling combination. I want things to be perfect, but I'm generally too lazy to make them so myself ...

What intrigues/fascinates you: Mysteries. Although I am a lot less credulous and superstitious than I was in my younger days.
What scares you: Spiders. I am a pathetic arachnophobe. As are the rest of the family. Which makes dealing with spiders in the house rather tricky.
Quotation to live by: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Additional comments: Do I get the job?

HerenIstarion · 11-22-2009, 02:21 AM

Hello Saucepan Man, nice to make your acquaintance anew

Rushing off right at the moment, but I guess I'll follow your lead and will make an update too when I get back home this evening

Lush, pity there is no smile for a :kiss: in here

skip spence · 11-24-2009, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

Quotation to live by: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

That is a good quote. Nice to see a fellow Kinks-fan on the board by the way

Lindale · 11-24-2009, 09:19 PM

I wrote mine a year ago, and while not much has changed, I'm bored.

Name (that you go by): Consuelo or Elo
Age: 19
Occupation: *still* a student
Future Aspirations: be rich within the confines of my morality, I suppose.
Goal in life: erm... pass.
Short term goals: To graduate on time.
Passion: good food!
Hobbies: sleeping.
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): I get to graduate before 20? Is that a good thing?

Fave book: Apart from Tolkien... it's mostly obscure Filipino writers other Filipino kids my age don't even know (unless they're my classmates). Like NVM Gonzales and Nick Joaquin.
Fave movie: Daddy Day Care, and then rom-coms like Love Actually and My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Fave sport: gave up on sports a long time ago.
Fave store: anything that sells good shoes, good books at good prices, and good clothes.
Fave music: Filipino kundimans (love songs with a heavy classical influence)

What you can't stand: People who yank their horns on the street all day long.
What you plain dislike: Contradicting instructions by government agencies.
Who you admire: the people who stick with me.

What you most love to do: Listening to music while reading a good book or trying out a new dish
Your self-confessed flaws: The most arrogant person I'll ever meet.
What intrigues/fascinates you: Philosophy.
What scares you: Flying insects, crawling insects, snakes, and the like. Also heights--you can never take me to rappel or wall-climb, although I have nothing against planes.
Quotation to live by:

Additional comments: I'm really bored at the moment. Sorry for the inconvenience

10-25-2009, 10:20 AM	#1
skip spence shadow of a doubt Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Back on the streets Posts: 1,125	Ok, I'll give it a go... Name (that you go by): Peter Age: I was so much older then I'm younger than that now Occupation: Selling my body and time to afford the things I like to do Future Aspirations: Trying to combine the things I like to do with work or committing the perfect crime so I need not work for money Goal in life: Be as happy as I can without making anyone else unhappy Short term goals: Finish and publish a book I'm working on Passion: Music, Literature, other physical and aesthetic pleasures Hobbies: Music, writing, sports, out-doors activities like fishing and hiking, seeing the world (but I don't care for actual travelling) Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Not much for bragging Fave book: Oh there are many... Everything by Tolkien obvioulsy, Naked Lunch by Burroughs, Heart of Darkness by Conrad, Dispatches by Herr, Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, Lolita by Nakobov, A Clockwork Orange by A Burgess, The Sheltering Sky by Bowles. a few Scandinavian books you wouldn't know of (well maybe the other Scandinavians would...er I could I could go on and on. Fave movie: Not much of a movie-buff but I'll go for Clint Eastwood's The Unforgiven Fave sport: Football, playing tennis and shooting pool Fave store: A certain second hand books and vinyl store Fave music: Most (but far from all) of what I like was recorded before I was even born. I like music from a lot of genres and at the moment I've a thing for fusion and jazzy rock like The Soft Machine, Steely Dan, Zappa, Miles Davies etc. I'm a big Dylan fan and feel that the Kinks could do no wrong 1966-71. What you can't stand: Intolerance, Hypocrisy, Bureaucracy, modern society's craze for security and control What you plain dislike: Most of what is played on radio or shown on regular cable TV Who you admire: My parents, Leonard Cohen What you most love to do: ***** and then *** while spinning great tunes on the turntable. Spending quality time out in the nature, especially in Norwegian fjords Your self-confessed flaws: Procrastination, mood driven social ineptitude What intrigues/fascinates you: Existance, space and time What scares you: The dark side of group mentality, the truth Quotation to live by:** Hm. how about: Deserve's got noting to do with it, spoken by Eastwood's character as he shoots Gene Hackman in the above mentioned film Additional comments: Interesting to read what other members have written, but you're rarely surprised, are you? You get a pretty good feel for who someone is by reading what they post on a forum like this I think. Sometimes ever better than people you meet almost every day in real life... __________________ "You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way" ~ Bob Dylan

10-25-2009, 06:55 PM	#2
Loslote The Werewolf's Companion Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Moon Posts: 3,021	Name (that you go by): Here, Lottie or Loslote; in RL, Kristen Age: 15 Occupation: Student Future Aspirations: Physics professor...eventually. Goal in life: to die in my sleep. Short term goals: not to have cold feet in the morning. Passion: Tolkien (um....possibly didn't need to include that) Hobbies: reading, writing (humorous fanfics and poems), drawing (mostly elves), eating (usually food), sleeping (as often as possible) Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Being way to o nice. So are pretty much all of my friends. If two of us get to a door at the same time, we'll wait for the other to go in first until the end of the world. Also, in my house, food goes to waste really often because we don't like to eat the last of anything in case someone else wants it. Also, I'm famous for my memory. I can remember anything I read. Not exactly photographic, but similar. And for my randomness. Fave book: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen Fave movie: The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde Fave sport: Can reading count? Fave store: Um...Amazon? Fave music: Country What you can't stand: the cold. What you plain dislike: Improper grammer. (and yet, look at all of my responses. ) Who you admire: My mom. What you most love to do: read/write/draw Your self-confessed flaws: I am far too trusting; I am seldom serious; and I depend far too much on the good opinion of others, which leads me to try to please everyone way too often; I can never say no to anything. What intrigues/fascinates you: trivial knowledge. What scares you: disapproval. Quotation to live by: "I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do the day after." Additional comments: Thinking...thinking...nope. I got nothing. __________________ I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Double Fenris

11-04-2009, 05:54 PM	#4
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	Awww, what a great thread this is. Glad to see it was revived. It's odd, I filled this thing out over 6 years ago, and I don't think I've changed a whole lot. I still listen to Manu Chao and even write about sports occasionally. Maybe I stopped evolving and am now slowly becoming a degenerate. (Or was I always a degenerate? Hm, yeah, don't answer that...) __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

11-21-2009, 07:25 PM	#5
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	My original response was on the first thread, which seems to have been lost in the mists of time. So here we go again ... Name (that you go by): There are some who call me ... Tim Age: 42 Occupation: Korprat-Loyer Future Aspirations: I am pretty much contented with my life - so more of the same, I suppose. Goal in life: To see my children grow up happy, healthy and successful in whatever they choose to do. Short term goals: To finish this questionnaire. Passion: My family. Hobbies: Board games, Sport (as a spectator, natch), Internet browsing, Making Playlists on my I-Pod. Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): At the moment, giving up smoking after 22 years on 20+ a day. 7 months and still struggling (but still going). Fave book: Difficult to pick out one. Other than The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit etc, probably The Magus and Wuthering Heights. I recently enjoyed Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Northern Lights and Cloud Atlas, and have been working my through Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Currently reading Bad Science. Fave movie: Again, difficult to pick out one. So here's a huge list instead: Alien, Blade Runner, Brazil, A Bridge Too Far, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cloverfield, ET the Extra-Terrestrial, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park, King Kong, The Lord of the Rings, Life of Brian, Lost in Translation, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Pan's Labyrinth, Shaun of the Dead, Star Wars, The Terminator, The Thing, Toy Story, 12 Angry Men, 28 Days Later. Fave sport: Football (England and Chelski), Cricket (England) and F1 (Button and Hamilton). Fave store: The Game Shop in Aldershot. And anywhere else that sells board games. Fave music: Once again, it is impossible to pick out any one style or group, so it has to be another huge list: Air, The Arcade Fire, The Beatles, Blur, David Bowie, Kate Bush, The Charlatans, The Chemical Brothers, Coldplay, The Cure, The Divine Comedy, Dodgy, Doves, Elbow, Feeder, The Feeling, The Fratellis, Goldfrapp, Gomez, Gorillaz, Kasabian, The Kinks, Lemon Jelly, Madness, Mansun, Oasis, Pink Floyd, REM, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Scouting for Girls, The Specials, The Stone Roses, The White Stripes, The Who, Robbie Williams. And much much more. I love music me. What you can't stand: People who dawdle. Wherever - whether shuffling in the tube, bumbling around on the pavement, or pootling along on the motorway. I hate dawdlers. What you plain dislike: Those who demand their rights without acknowledging their responsibilities. Who you admire: The wonderful Mrs S. What you most love to do: Listen to Music. Drink wine. Play board games with Mrs S. Preferably all three at the same time. Your self-confessed flaws: Laziness and perfectionism. Which is an appalling combination. I want things to be perfect, but I'm generally too lazy to make them so myself ... What intrigues/fascinates you: Mysteries. Although I am a lot less credulous and superstitious than I was in my younger days. What scares you: Spiders. I am a pathetic arachnophobe. As are the rest of the family. Which makes dealing with spiders in the house rather tricky. Quotation to live by: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Additional comments: Do I get the job? __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!

11-22-2009, 02:21 AM	#6
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	Hello Saucepan Man, nice to make your acquaintance anew Rushing off right at the moment, but I guess I'll follow your lead and will make an update too when I get back home this evening Lush, pity there is no smile for a :kiss: in here __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

11-24-2009, 09:19 PM	#8
Lindale Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: midway upon... in a forest dark Posts: 975	I wrote mine a year ago, and while not much has changed, I'm bored. Name (that you go by): Consuelo or Elo Age: 19 Occupation: still a student Future Aspirations: be rich within the confines of my morality, I suppose. Goal in life: erm... pass. Short term goals: To graduate on time. Passion: good food! Hobbies: sleeping. Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): I get to graduate before 20? Is that a good thing? Fave book: Apart from Tolkien... it's mostly obscure Filipino writers other Filipino kids my age don't even know (unless they're my classmates). Like NVM Gonzales and Nick Joaquin. Fave movie: Daddy Day Care, and then rom-coms like Love Actually and My Big Fat Greek Wedding Fave sport: gave up on sports a long time ago. Fave store: anything that sells good shoes, good books at good prices, and good clothes. Fave music: Filipino kundimans (love songs with a heavy classical influence) What you can't stand: People who yank their horns on the street all day long. What you plain dislike: Contradicting instructions by government agencies. Who you admire: the people who stick with me. What you most love to do: Listening to music while reading a good book or trying out a new dish Your self-confessed flaws: The most arrogant person I'll ever meet. What intrigues/fascinates you: Philosophy. What scares you: Flying insects, crawling insects, snakes, and the like. Also heights--you can never take me to rappel or wall-climb, although I have nothing against planes. Quotation to live by: Additional comments: I'm really bored at the moment. Sorry for the inconvenience __________________ The heart does things for reasons Reason itself cannot comprehend. - Blaise Pascal Legal Madness.