Fortress Dwellers - tell us about yourself.
I've held off doing this particular thread until I felt there was enough regular members to warrant it. It's a tricky one, because it's pointless when there's only two people rattling around, yet it would be hard to keep track of names and faces if there were 1000 of us.
So, a fairly self-explanatory thread, and one that can be found in every discussion group in the history of man. Who the hell are you, basically.
So, offer as little or as much as you like, of who you are and what makes you tick. You see, I think it'll help us build more of a sense of a "community". I've been a regular member of a DVD Board, and I chat with the same people most days. Well, we often e-mail to let each other know if we've seen something we know the other will like (a certain new DVD Boxset or some such thing), and so I'd like to try and get that sort of thing going on around here. Well, I can try at least.
One thing I will ask - could you add where you found the address for this site? Was it from my Amazon reviews or Myspace or did someone mention it to you or did you see it in a link from another site? It's just so I know what's working and what isn't in my tireless whoring of the place on other forums.
This can also serve as a sort of time capsule, to show who were the original Dwellers from the early(ish) days. If more people join up on the site I may well have another "And You Are..?" segment, but this can serve as a nice reminder of who was here and when.
So, I'll get the ball rolling first (although I would imagine my likes and dislikes have been more than covered already). I'm The Curmudgeon and, believe it or not, I don't actually spend every waking moment of my life on the internet. Don't get me wrong, the net absolutley RULES but, truth be told, I only ever visit about five sites every day (this being one of them). I used to love online chatrooms and stuff like that, but it got boring and VERY tedious after a while. I can only be asked "A/S/L" so many times and scream obseneties at them before it gets a little dull.
The two main things I spend my money on are music and movies. I like horror movies, sci-fi movies and quirky indie films, but basically I'll give anything a go (unless its got Martin Lawrence or Sandra Bullock - then it gets filed away in B1N). I collect comic book and superhero related movies, TV shows, old cinema serials.. I call it The Mission, and it means that I have quite simply some of the most wretched pieces of celluloid in existence.
Music is a hard thing for me to categorise, as I listen to a fairly mixed bag. I won't bore you with a list of names, but I like everything from Prince to Bowie to Slipknot to Sly and The Family Stone. Live gigs are another of my favourite hobbies, and I've seen mostly everyone I want to see, but it's always cool to see a new band for the first time.
I always bang on about comic books, but truth is I'm not some serious collector or reader of them. I have six titles I buy every month (one I've been buying since issue one for over 10 years), and they all (besides a Batman title) are from Marvel. I would read any comic book put in front of me, but it's a costly business to get curious about. I hate to "stick with what I know" but, hey.. it's better than nothing. And the Marvel Universe kicks the CRAP out of DC.
I'm really into writing, and I've tried my hand at pretty much everything from short stories to screenplays. I'm now currently trying to write a script for the radio (and hoo-wee, is it difficult to get into).
After reading all that, you may be shocked to discover that I'm married (two and a bit years now). No kids (the thought still frightens me to the core) but, uh, we've got two cats if that helps. Ash and Ziggy - do your homework and guess where the names came from.
And that's that from me. Like I said all of the above has already been mentioned more than once in other threads but it can't hurt to have it all down again for any newcomers.
Now it's YOUR turn. It's going to be like your first day of school where you're trotted out into the middle of the class to introduce yourself and stammer out your details to a chorus of snickers and name-calls (uh, did that happen to anyone else?)
So come on then.. in a big voice..
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I'm Tumuli (or Guy, as I am wont to be called).
I cannot for the life of me recall how I stumbled across the Fortress. It might have been a link. Or the Blogger scroll. At any rate, the reviews and banter enchanted me so much that I returned regularly.
Writing is my main aim, along with reading and music. I aspire to be a litterateur. The world irks me. So on and so forth.
But here I am as well.
My (real) name is Nick, I'm 28 and I live in California with my wife and 3 month old son. That last one is the primary reason I'm always cruising the web in the middle of the night. I was inducted in to the fortress after C-Mudge (as they would call him on the street here) sent me an email regarding one of my guides on Amazon. That guide and my other two most popular have since been unjustly stricken from the site for containing the word "ass". I kid you not. No warning or chance to edit said guides was offered; my finest online written works that I spent collective hours formulating are no more (sniff). That injustice aside, I'm here and I keep coming back for several reasons: a) something new and noteworthy almost every night, an important asset for any site to hold my ADHD-ravaged attention span. b)As I've gone on record as stating before, there's good people on this site. Not the bunch of trolls and angry children one has to contend with most other sites. c) The topics are usually of some interest to me. I also love sci-fi, comic stuff, diverse music, horror (LOOOOOOVE the horror), and talking trash about the state of pop-culture and the world in general.
My favorite musical artists include Husker Du, Fugazi, Anthrax, The Dead Kennedys, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Sabbath, Zeppelin, Faith No More, Neil Young, Bad Religion, and Bad Brains to name a few. Lately I've been into Lacuna Coil, At-The-Drive-In, Mastodon, Mr. Bungle, and Fishbone. Favorite films include Jaws, The Matrix, both Vampire Hunter D films, Pulp Fiction, Crouching Tiger, Clerks, and A Clockwork Orange, again just to name a few. I regularly play Xbox 360, and I'm pretty much proof that, while some people are destined for greatness, other people are destined for geekiness. My only readily identifiable talent is probably my most unutilized ability, writing. I have a whole series worth of novels, novellas, and short stories in my head that I keep saying I WILL write some day, but among so many hobbies and my work and family life it's hard to find the time to concentrate and bang out something I would find satisfacory at this point in my life. All right, I've rambled enough for one thread. If you made it all the way to the end of this post, I offer my thanks and apologies, that was very polite of you to read all of that. Like I keep saying: good people on this here site.
Couldn't agree with you more, Skymac; censorship is the very antithesis of everything I believe in. I wrote some papers in college attacking that reprehensible and repressive practice that would make the likes of Jerry Fallwell and company cry for a week straight, so I won't get into details, lest this thread veer WAY off topic. Plus, I hardly think the word "badass" qualifies as profanity in anyone's book, but hey, it's their site. Hell, the stuff I wrote is free advertising for the products they sell, complete with links for impulse buyers; I've stressed this point to them several times, but to no avail. This is the first time that site has really done me wrong and I am PISSED! They initially took down my "X-men Trilogy" review for the same reason (that horribly offensive word, "badass") but I quickly caught them on that one and they simply deleted the offending word and posted the review without it and I edited it from there. But my beloved guides are apparently long gone. All right, to get us back on topic, my favorite shows include Buffy, Angel, Firefly (Joss Whedon fanboy alert!), The Simpsons, South Park, and the most insane anime ever, Excel Saga. Here's a real shocker for you all: my favorite author is Stephen King (what do you mean you already guessed that?!). Later.
Uh.. do I?
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