These life story things are pretty cool. Keep 'em coming.
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Haha, I nuked your guess!
Err... yeah.
Life story, eh? Well I'm on a time limit here, but I'll give you the short version: Grew up in the awesome city of Berlin with 3 older siblings. Actually, I had another 2 siblings, but they both died as babies... Hmm, I spent most of my childhood drawing and writing about bunnies meeting bears or foxes in the forest. My family was... hmm, we weren't ever really close, everybody dealt with his own worries, my parents worked all the time and I spent most of my pre-adult life alone - so I got all independent and self-reliant pretty early.
Wait, I'm starting to sound like I'm in a therapy here.
Err, so. I went to a very strict elementary school and then to an elite high school where Latin was my first foreign language. I also had five years of classic Greek. It's kind of cool, but I don't really get to use any of that nowadays, apart from understanding some Italian / Spanish / French because of the Latin roots.
Okay, we're getting boring... uhm. In my teen years I spent a lot of time drawing, writing and singing, I was also a total Star Wars geek for two years but then I recovered. I decided I had enough of Berlin and moved to a tiny village in Southern Norway when I got a job offer there. (There's more to that story, of course, but I would go on forever if I went into more details.)
I got myself an education in Norway then in advertisement, illustration and design. That was two years ago. Since then I've been working a bit freelance with design and illustration (the most interesting job so far being the illustrating of a Norwegian youth novel) and have had various McJobs.
Right now I am moving to a bigger place in Norway, a city called Stavanger which incidently will be the European Centre of Culture in 2008. I'm also trying to learn a fourth (living) language, Russian, and it's darn hard, and I'm writing a children's book which I'll also illustrate and then try to get published, now that I have some connections I might have a slight chance. Even though, you know, I SUCK and stuff.
Also, read my webcomics lolz!
Col?
Err... yeah.
Life story, eh? Well I'm on a time limit here, but I'll give you the short version: Grew up in the awesome city of Berlin with 3 older siblings. Actually, I had another 2 siblings, but they both died as babies... Hmm, I spent most of my childhood drawing and writing about bunnies meeting bears or foxes in the forest. My family was... hmm, we weren't ever really close, everybody dealt with his own worries, my parents worked all the time and I spent most of my pre-adult life alone - so I got all independent and self-reliant pretty early.
Wait, I'm starting to sound like I'm in a therapy here.
Err, so. I went to a very strict elementary school and then to an elite high school where Latin was my first foreign language. I also had five years of classic Greek. It's kind of cool, but I don't really get to use any of that nowadays, apart from understanding some Italian / Spanish / French because of the Latin roots.
Okay, we're getting boring... uhm. In my teen years I spent a lot of time drawing, writing and singing, I was also a total Star Wars geek for two years but then I recovered. I decided I had enough of Berlin and moved to a tiny village in Southern Norway when I got a job offer there. (There's more to that story, of course, but I would go on forever if I went into more details.)
I got myself an education in Norway then in advertisement, illustration and design. That was two years ago. Since then I've been working a bit freelance with design and illustration (the most interesting job so far being the illustrating of a Norwegian youth novel) and have had various McJobs.
Right now I am moving to a bigger place in Norway, a city called Stavanger which incidently will be the European Centre of Culture in 2008. I'm also trying to learn a fourth (living) language, Russian, and it's darn hard, and I'm writing a children's book which I'll also illustrate and then try to get published, now that I have some connections I might have a slight chance. Even though, you know, I SUCK and stuff.
Also, read my webcomics lolz!
Col?
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Might be old news to you, but one of my favorite new bands is Art Brut. English post-punk garage that's just a lot of fun to listen to. These guys actually allow themselves to seem excited about playing rock music.PortableNuke wrote:Anyone know of some good bands to check out? Everyone seems savy enough to recommend some good stuff.
The new TV On the Radio is supposed to be killer as well.
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I highly recommend "Friday Afternoon in the Universe" by Medeski Martin & Wood. It's jazzy, funky and experimental. Their whole philosphy is to be in the moment without fear of going out on a limb and making a mistake. They hit the mark about 98% of the time. Some of their newer stuff has been getting more and more electronic. The album mentioned above is from the period when they were still pretty organic sounding.
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Hello.
I was born an only child and still am an only child. Mom and Dad started trying to have kids, but nothing was working, and after lots of surgery, medicine, and money, I finally popped out. I suspect if they hadn't had any problems, I'd have a sibling or two, but them's the breaks. I guess I just barely made it before they were ready to give up.
Anyway, I went to the same elementary school that my mom teached at, and even had her for a teacher for math in third grade. I found out later that she personally requested that I not be placed in her class permanently, yet she still let me call her Mom when we were in school. I personally found nothing weird about this since it was what I was growing up with. Thanks to this though, hundreds of people in our town knew who I was without me knowing who they were, thus making it impossible to be anonymous. That, and the fact that I'm a freaking giant. (6'5") Also, since Mom was always around during the school day, and she could check in with any of the teachers at school on how I was behaving, I grew up to be a pretty obedient kid.
I hung out with only one other kid throughout elementary school playing superheroes, and we ended up being made fun of for most of the time we were there. He went to a different school after sixth grade, and I haven't seen him since. Even though my life was fairly miserable during those years, I am thankful for them because it helped me grow a thick skin when it came to insults from other people.
Moving on! Made a lot more friends in junior high and high school. Was on the high school swim team all four years, and managed to become captain my senior year and voted MVP at the end of the season, even though I wasn't the fastest swimmer. Also was involved with the theater group and performed in many different plays. Ended up taking all the art classes offered in high school, which made it a given that I would shoot for being an art major in college.
I've actually been into art and drawing since I was a wee lad, and my parents were always incredibly encouraging with it, so I was set on what I wanted to do for the rest of my life from a very early age. College was great. Discovered that I liked painting, and even got commissioned to create a painting for a businessman in town. The art building was a wonderful haven for creating all kinds of art and talking to other people who were just as into it. Met Duff and PAL there, though Duff scared me the first few years (and still does), and PAL was much larger when I first met him. Watching him lose all that weight was a spectacular sight to behold. As PAL said, we all started making comics for the paper, and continue them today.
I met my first girlfriend and future wife freshmen year, though we didn't start dating until sophomore year, after we'd become good friends. She graduated a year early, and we got engaged just before I headed back down to college for senior year. We lived three hours away from each other and didn't miss a single weekend of seeing each other the entire year, whether she came down to see me, or I went up to see her. We got married in July after I graduated, and I finally landed a job with a small graphic design company that I still work at today. After six months, we moved out of our first apartment and into our first house, and still live there today, happy as can be.
I suspect mine wasn't all that exciting either. Maybe if I'd gone a little more in-depth... nah, still would have been boring.
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I was born an only child and still am an only child. Mom and Dad started trying to have kids, but nothing was working, and after lots of surgery, medicine, and money, I finally popped out. I suspect if they hadn't had any problems, I'd have a sibling or two, but them's the breaks. I guess I just barely made it before they were ready to give up.
Anyway, I went to the same elementary school that my mom teached at, and even had her for a teacher for math in third grade. I found out later that she personally requested that I not be placed in her class permanently, yet she still let me call her Mom when we were in school. I personally found nothing weird about this since it was what I was growing up with. Thanks to this though, hundreds of people in our town knew who I was without me knowing who they were, thus making it impossible to be anonymous. That, and the fact that I'm a freaking giant. (6'5") Also, since Mom was always around during the school day, and she could check in with any of the teachers at school on how I was behaving, I grew up to be a pretty obedient kid.
I hung out with only one other kid throughout elementary school playing superheroes, and we ended up being made fun of for most of the time we were there. He went to a different school after sixth grade, and I haven't seen him since. Even though my life was fairly miserable during those years, I am thankful for them because it helped me grow a thick skin when it came to insults from other people.
Moving on! Made a lot more friends in junior high and high school. Was on the high school swim team all four years, and managed to become captain my senior year and voted MVP at the end of the season, even though I wasn't the fastest swimmer. Also was involved with the theater group and performed in many different plays. Ended up taking all the art classes offered in high school, which made it a given that I would shoot for being an art major in college.
I've actually been into art and drawing since I was a wee lad, and my parents were always incredibly encouraging with it, so I was set on what I wanted to do for the rest of my life from a very early age. College was great. Discovered that I liked painting, and even got commissioned to create a painting for a businessman in town. The art building was a wonderful haven for creating all kinds of art and talking to other people who were just as into it. Met Duff and PAL there, though Duff scared me the first few years (and still does), and PAL was much larger when I first met him. Watching him lose all that weight was a spectacular sight to behold. As PAL said, we all started making comics for the paper, and continue them today.
I met my first girlfriend and future wife freshmen year, though we didn't start dating until sophomore year, after we'd become good friends. She graduated a year early, and we got engaged just before I headed back down to college for senior year. We lived three hours away from each other and didn't miss a single weekend of seeing each other the entire year, whether she came down to see me, or I went up to see her. We got married in July after I graduated, and I finally landed a job with a small graphic design company that I still work at today. After six months, we moved out of our first apartment and into our first house, and still live there today, happy as can be.
I suspect mine wasn't all that exciting either. Maybe if I'd gone a little more in-depth... nah, still would have been boring.
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I guess it's my turn for a life story post.
I'll start at now and work my way backwards. I'm a computer geek and perpetual college student with a job pushing buttons at a large corporation. When I say pushing buttons, I mean the job description said George Jetson. I get paid fairly well to do it, so I'm not too down on it. I recently moved to Tulsa after settling in the Texas Panhandle for 15.5 years. I'm still getting to know the place, and it's local music scene. As far as music goes, I like indie rock, but my catalog is pretty mainstream by indie standards. The effects of being stuck on cultural island for such a long time. In other musical endeavors, I'm know to play the drums fairly decently.
High school wasn't exactly my favorite time since I basically spent four years dealing with my parent's separation which isn't easy when everyone knew my parents and what happened. Not fun, and I basically became an indifferent pissed off ball of anger. I've mellowed out since then, but I still do have a kind of dark cynical sense of humor from those days. I did meet my current set of close friends there. We kind of hung out by default. We were kind of the other group that really didn't fit into the other niches. This is the time I really got into music. Mainly as another way to be an elitist prick towards most of my classmates, but it actually blossomed into a love of music. I did my best, and luckily Hastings, a middle sized company that combines Barnes and Noble, Blockbuster, Spencers, and independant music store into one, has a good selection and can order most anything in print. I was a fairly decent student, As, Bs, and occasionally Cs (Calculus), and I was also part of the High School band as a percussionist, took most of the honors programs my school had, and participated in our cobbled together soccer program. We were generally pretty bad, but did make the playoffs my Sophomore year. I was noted for being one of about four people for being really good with computers in my class, this was not slight considering my school had one of the better computer programs in the state. I worked as a technology assistant for the School District for a couple of years before deciding to move on to something else; I still have friends there that I go see every so often.
Elementary and Grade school were pretty uneventful. I was just a normal kid. I've never really had too many friends. It's not that I'm not friendly, there are just few people who I get along with. I mainly spent most of these years reading everything I could get my hands on. This is also the first time I was exposed to computers. My Dad bought a low-end Tandy, and that was my first computer.
Behold the magnificent blocks of text.
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I'll start at now and work my way backwards. I'm a computer geek and perpetual college student with a job pushing buttons at a large corporation. When I say pushing buttons, I mean the job description said George Jetson. I get paid fairly well to do it, so I'm not too down on it. I recently moved to Tulsa after settling in the Texas Panhandle for 15.5 years. I'm still getting to know the place, and it's local music scene. As far as music goes, I like indie rock, but my catalog is pretty mainstream by indie standards. The effects of being stuck on cultural island for such a long time. In other musical endeavors, I'm know to play the drums fairly decently.
High school wasn't exactly my favorite time since I basically spent four years dealing with my parent's separation which isn't easy when everyone knew my parents and what happened. Not fun, and I basically became an indifferent pissed off ball of anger. I've mellowed out since then, but I still do have a kind of dark cynical sense of humor from those days. I did meet my current set of close friends there. We kind of hung out by default. We were kind of the other group that really didn't fit into the other niches. This is the time I really got into music. Mainly as another way to be an elitist prick towards most of my classmates, but it actually blossomed into a love of music. I did my best, and luckily Hastings, a middle sized company that combines Barnes and Noble, Blockbuster, Spencers, and independant music store into one, has a good selection and can order most anything in print. I was a fairly decent student, As, Bs, and occasionally Cs (Calculus), and I was also part of the High School band as a percussionist, took most of the honors programs my school had, and participated in our cobbled together soccer program. We were generally pretty bad, but did make the playoffs my Sophomore year. I was noted for being one of about four people for being really good with computers in my class, this was not slight considering my school had one of the better computer programs in the state. I worked as a technology assistant for the School District for a couple of years before deciding to move on to something else; I still have friends there that I go see every so often.
Elementary and Grade school were pretty uneventful. I was just a normal kid. I've never really had too many friends. It's not that I'm not friendly, there are just few people who I get along with. I mainly spent most of these years reading everything I could get my hands on. This is also the first time I was exposed to computers. My Dad bought a low-end Tandy, and that was my first computer.
Behold the magnificent blocks of text.
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As do I.
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There are parts of it that are like that... mainly parts involving booze... but in general I only wish my life were cool enough to be like that. No, it'll be painful and lame, I'm just working up the courage to post it. The worst part is that I know once I get started I'll do that evil typing way way WAY too much thing I'm so prone to doing, thus making the boringness all the more unbearable. Kinda like I'm doing now... with the typing tons of random stuff... and failing to stop. It's my conversational style, ranting on aimlessly, and I type like I talk.PortableNuke wrote:Is it like the Tenacious D Best life story in the World? You don't really remember it, but you have a tribute to it?
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