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Name: Michael What my user name represents/means: Favourite Comic character as a kid From: Dallas, TX Favorite Bands: VNV Nation, The Flaming Lips, Blind Melon, Our Lady Peace, Pantera, The Decemberists, Air, Daft Punk, Yann Tiersen, Oingo Boingo, Prince, Cevin Keys My All-Time Favorite Artist: Pink Floyd Favorite Books: Vonnegut ones Favorite Movies: Zoolander, Big Fish, Eraserhead, Batman Favorite TV shows: Futurama, Arrested Development, Entourage, Rome First Concert Attended: Meat Loaf Last Concert Attended: Van Halen Bonnaroo Wishlist: Shpongle, The Disco Biscuits, Aphex Twin, Blind Melon, Clapton, Daft Punk
My first Bonnaroo also! Went to Coachella last year, want to try the more wild side.
It was amazing man. The whole band sounded just like they did on the old lps, Eddie even played Eruption! I was surprised by how great the experience was, a really fun show to see.
Post by Mrs. Ferret on Jan 30, 2008 1:56:56 GMT -5
Name: Rebekah
What my user name represents/means: "Mrs. Ferret" is the name I use for my XBox Live account.
From: Smyrna, TN
Favorite Bands: Here are the bands/musicians I have on my ProjectPlaylist right now: Acid Bath, Agents of Oblivion, Beastie Boys, Big Black, Bloodbath, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Corrosion of Conformity, Danzig, Deadboy and the Elephantmen, Deftones, Down, Faith No More, Folk Implosion, Heart, Jimi Hendrix, Isis, Jefferson Airplane, The Knife, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, Massive Attack, The Melvins, Meshuggah, Metallica, Ministry, The Misfits, Mountain, Nile, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Pantera, Parabellum, Mike Patton, Pleasure Forever, Primus, Puscifer, Radiohead, Santana, Shellac, Frank Sinatra, Slayer, Soilent Green, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Suicidal Tendencies, Talking Heads, Temple of the Dog, Tool, Peter Tosh, Tricky, Ween, The White Stripes, White Zombie, Neil Young, Rob Zombie.
My All-Time Favorite Artist: maybe Maynard James Keenan or Mike Patton, and my favorite bands ever are probably Tool, Acid Bath, and Led Zeppelin
Favorite Books: Animal Liberation
Favorite Movies: Return to Oz, Legend, Nightmare on Elm Street, Silent Hill, The Hills Have Eyes, Wolf Creek, Napoleon Dynamite, Clockwork Orange, Evil Dead, Predator, Pulp Fiction, Silence of the Lambs, A Christmas Story, Sixteen Candles, Secretary, Requiem for a Dream, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Nightmare Before Christmas, Kids, Gummo, Edward Scissorhands, Donnie Darko, The Breakfast Club, Borat, Beetlejuice, Serial Mom, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Boogie Nights, Nice Dreams, Romancing the Stone, Poltergeist 1, 2, & 3, Death Becomes Her, The People Under the Stairs, Blow, War of the Roses, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Freeway, Firestarter, Raising Arizona, The Descent, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Goonies, Carrie, The Jerk, The Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses, Office Space, Cat's Eye, American Psycho, The Shining, The Lost Boys, Natural Born Killers, Kalifornia, Labyrinth, House 1 & 2, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fright Night 1 & 2, Visitor Q, Juon: The Grudge, Creepshow 2, Clash of the Titans, Battle Royale, American History X, I Heart Huckabees, Lord of the Rings 1, 2, & 3, Interview with the Vampire, Queen of the Damned, Heathers, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Big, Gremlins 1 & 2, Up in Smoke, Super Troopers, Baby Boy, The Exorcist, Friday, Little Miss Sunshine, Jackass 1 & 2, The Wedding Singer, Meet the Parents, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Harlem Nights, Cloverfield, Coming to America, Temple of Doom.
Favorite TV shows: Six Feet Under, Carnivale, Seinfeld, Roseanne, Mama's Family, Da Ali G Show, Man vs. Wild, Ninja Warrior.
First Concert Attended: either Crosby, Stills & Nash or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young- it was sometime in the 80s and I was too young to really remember
Last Concert Attended: The Melvins, in Nashville- I think that show was in November
Bonnaroos Attended: 2007
Bonnaroo Wishlist: Neil Young, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, The Knife, etc.
Post by stephiejane on Jan 30, 2008 10:59:10 GMT -5
haven't been on the board in a while!! but hey everybody!! ;D
Name: Stephanie
What My Username Represents: first and middle names mushed together, also nickname
From: Sulphur, Louisiana - to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and now Dallas, Texas
Favorite Bands: Radiohead, The Beatles, Wilco, Led Zeppelin, The Flaming Lips, Eric Clapton, Ryan Adams& the Cardinals, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, RATM, RHCP, Kings of Leon, Sonic Youth, The Doors, Tom Petty, String Cheese, Basement Jaxx....
Favorite Movies: The Labyrinth, Clockwork Orange, L'Auberge Espanol, Amelie, Fear & Loathing, American Pimp, Snatch, Kill Bill, Beat Street, Steel Magnolias (don't hate, you know you cried at the end)
Favorite TV: Project Runway, Grey's Anatomy, How I Met Your Mother, Family Guy, ER, Deadliest Catch
Favorite Books: The Bell Jar, Scar Tissue, Where the Wild Things Are, anything Shel Silverstein, Of Mice and Men, Screwjack, The Rum Diaries
First Concert Attended: Elton John in Baton Rouge - it was my 9th birthday present
Last Concert Attended: The Hard Sell (DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist), House of Blues Dallas
Bonnaroos Attended: 2006, 2007
Bonnaroo Wishlist: Led Zeppelin, Ryan Adams (or Whiskeytown!!), Clapton, The Blow, Adam Freeland, Les Claypool in some form, any of the Ed Banger crew.
"Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors" - Hunter S. Thompson
Post by tripbaumer on Jan 30, 2008 15:59:10 GMT -5
Name: Pete
What my username represents: Trip= Trip Fontaine, character from The Virgin Suicides. Baumer= Richie Tenenbaum, aka, The Baumer, from The Royal Tenenbaums.
From: Greenwich, CT
Favorite Bands: Elliott Smith, The Velvet Underground, The Beatles, Liars, Man Man, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Daft Punk, The Knife, Hot Chip, MIA, The Kinks, The Moldy Peaches, Fiery Furnaces, Of Montreal, Justice, Arcade Fire, Can, Pere Ubu, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Tom Waits, Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings, Prince and The Revolution, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Nina Simone, Panda Bear, Frank Zappa, Animal Collective, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Belle & Sebastian, Devendra Banhart, Jens Lekman, The Kills, James Brown, Simple Kid, Wilco, The Rolling Stones, The White Stripes, LCD Soundsystem, Lou Reed, et. al.
Favorite Movies: Pierrot Le Fou, Morgan! A Suitible Case For Treatment, The Ruling Class, The Darjeeling Limited, Time After Time, Inland Empire, City Of Lost Children, A Very Long Engagement, Children Of Men
What my user name represents/means: Bryan + bonnaroo = bryanaroo.
From: Meridian, MS
Favorite Bands: Phish, Radiohead, The Beatles, Animal Collective (newly discovered), DJ Shadow (also newly discovered), Benevento/Russo Duo, Broken Social Scene, Grateful Dead, Arcade Fire, Interpol, RJD2, Panda Bear, Kanye West, Galactic, MMW,
Umphreys Mcgee, Wilco, Pink Floyd
My All-Time Favorite Artist: PHISH
Favorite Books: The Hobbit, Into Thin Air, Saint Maybe, 1984
Favorite Movies: HALF NELSON, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, anything by Stanely Kubrick, anything with contributions by Michel Gondry, Saving Private Ryan, Garden State, Bottle Rocket, and many more...
Favorite TV shows: Weeds, The Office, Arrested Development, 30 Rock,
First Concert Attended: Audio Adreneline (12)
Last Concert Attended: North Mississippi Allstars (last week)
Bonnaroos Attended: 06>07
Bonnaroo Wishlist: Animal Collective, Panda Bear, DJ Shadow, Arcade Fire, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd Reunion, Radiohead, Deerhunter, Sigur Ros, Tapes N' Tapes, Sufjan, Mum, Interpol, Kanye West, Mos Def, Justice, Sean Lennon, MMW, im hoping for a Phish reunion... but not a Phish bonnaroo reunion...
"Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors" - Hunter S. Thompson
Karmaaa stephiejane, I have the same quote on my facebook.
"Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors" - Hunter S. Thompson
What my user name represents/means: Well, I'm a bonafide, proud to be nerd. Fantasy nerd if you want to categorize me, I used to be into Dungeons and Dragons, Cyberpunk rping games, transgressed into Magic the Gathering then computer games namely World of Warcraft (for the Horde!!). Grrrl because, well, I'm a girl!
From: Leeds, England now living just outside of Fayetteville, TN.
Favorite Bands/Artists: In no particular order The White Stripes, Muse, U2, Guns n Roses, Embrace, Sigur Ros, Iron Maiden, Skid Row, Alice in Chains, Tori Amos, Tool, Pearl Jam, Girls Aloud , Coldplay, REM, The Foo Fighters. Loads more but those I could listen to alllll day long.
My All-Time Favorite Artist: The mighty mighty band known as Embrace.
Favorite Books: Harry Potter series, LOTR series, The Lovely Bones.
Favorite Movies: Lawd have mercy too many to list but the ones I could watch over and over again are Jaws, The Breakfast Club, Working Girl, The Empire Strikes back and Star Wars Episode IV.
Favorite TV shows: Sex and the City, The Sopranos.
First Concert Attended: There might be like one person who will know who this band is and that's probably for the best - Bucks Fizz at Bradford Town Hall, England circa 1985. I was in middle school. Bucks Fizz were this simply awful English band who won the Eurovision Song Contest one year. Google it and them, you might have a laugh.
Last Concert Attended: Tori Amos, Nashville, November 12 2007. Magnificent.
Bonnaroos Attended: I was a virgin last year, 2007!
Bonnaroo Wishlist: Muse, The White Stripes, Tool, Tori Amos, U2 (for all the haters!)
Name: Jeremy "Grover" What my user name represents/means: Nickname from childhood From: Bloomsburg, Pa Favorite Bands: (currently) Bela Fleck, KW (Solo), Railroad Earth My All-Time Favorite Artist: Bob or Jerry.. too close to call Favorite Books: The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead -Timothy Leary Favorite Movies: Any Documentary.. Favorite TV shows: Family Guy makes me laugh.. First Concert Attended: DMB Last Concert Attended: Railroad Earth Bonnaroos Attended: 04,05,06,07 Bonnaroo Wishlist: Zeppelin, Pearl Jam, Phish, Bela Fleck & Flecktones
Name: Kati What my user name represents/means: First name Kathryn (Kati) Middle name Marie (Mary). Plus it's what my best friend calls me. From: Lancaster, PA but I go to Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN Favorite Bands: Tom Petty, Say Anything, Arctic Monkeys, Daft Punk, Every Time I Die, August Burns Red, The Blood Brothers, Death Cab for Cutie, LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Fall of Troy, Enter Shikari, Incubus, Idiot Pilot, The Postal Service, Taking Back Sunday, Jimmy Eat World, Kings of Leon, Kiss Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Ludo, Minus the Bear, Modest Mouse circa 'This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About', Norma Jean, Muse, Murder By Death, Oh Sleeper, REM, Silversun Pickups, Smashing Pumpkins, She Wants Revenge, Underoath, We Are Scientists My All-Time Favorite Artist: My favorite artist changes with my mood. But one band I can listen to no matter what mood I'm in is Zeppelin. Favorite Books: Fight Club, Perks of Being a Wallflower, I Am America (And So Can You), Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, American Psycho, I'm a really big Harry Potter fanatic...don't hold it against me. Favorite Movies: Halloween (origional), Fight Club, Braveheart, SuperBad, Anchorman, Donnie Darko, Tommy Boy, Edward Scissorhands, Requiem for a Dream, Thank You for Smoking, The Hitcher, The Boondock Saints, All Harry Potter Movies Ever Favorite TV shows: Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy (lame, I'm well aware), Clone High, Heroes, The Office, Pushing Daisies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer First Concert Attended: My parents took me to see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers when I was in 4th grade. The first one I went to by myself I believe was Warped Tour...or it could have been Taking Back Sunday/The Used/Blink 182. Last Concert Attended: Ludo last week. I'm going to see Every Time I Die/August Burns Red/From First to Last/The Bled on the 17th...pretty excited about that. Bonnaroos Attended: 2006, 2007..and of course this coming 2008!!!! Bonnaroo Wishlist: Daft Punk, Zeppelin, The Chalets, Beastie Boys, Ludo, Minus the Bear, TV on the Radio, The Postal Servie, Vampire Weekend, Silversun Pickups, Tom Petty, REM, Widespread Panic, The Jesus and Mary Chain
Post by mom with a camera on Feb 1, 2008 10:57:08 GMT -5
Name: Jocelyn (steveternal's wife) What my user name represents/means: My name. How boring. From: Another universe. Favorite Bands: She Likes Cloth. Favorite Books: Do-It-Yourself Dentistry. Favorite Movies:Chair: The Epic of Sitting Favorite TV Shows: Bobbing for apples. First Concert Attended: My brothers' karaoke party at age 3 with an imaginary microphone. Last Concert Attended: DJ Shadow/Cut Chemist The Hard Sell Bonnaroos Attended: 4 Bonnaroo Wishlist: More peanut butter, please.
Name: Katie What my user name represents/means: after the dead song sugaree From: town about 45 minutes outside of boston, ma Favorite Bands: bob marley and the wailers, iron and wine, ray lamontagne, allman brothers, phish, grateful dead, jeff buckley, zero 7, simon & garfunkel, the beatles, so many more. My All-Time Favorite Artist: robert zimmerman. (dylannnnnn) Favorite Books: on the road Favorite Movies: garden state, a clockwork orange. Favorite TV shows: arrested development, curb your enthusiasm. First Concert Attended: bonnie raitt, age 5. Last Concert Attended: jason myles goss, julian velard and then fiona apple with nickel creek this past summer. Bonnaroos Attended: '08 will be my first! Bonnaroo Wishlist: dylan, ray lamontagne, iron and wine. i really want bob marley to come back...but something tells me that's not going to happen.
Post by stealingtruth on Feb 2, 2008 13:10:11 GMT -5
Name: Sarah
What my user name represents/means: Well, it's what I do. I am a bit of a... spiritual outlaw. I follow no dogmatic teachings or religious traditions, yet I am a student of all of them. I lift truths of all orders and churches. I am an inveterate thief and take whatever suits me.
From: Ithaca, NY (Grew up in NE PA, tho)
Favorite Bands: Radiohead, the Grateful Dead, Soul Coughing, Bob Dylan, Flaming Lips, Lucinda Williams, Cat Power, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, Wolfmother, Jimi Hendrix, Laura Veirs, Led Zeppelin, Avett Brothers, Will Hoge, the Doors, Sim Redmond Band, Dar Williams, Johnny Cash, Kinnie Starr, Sting, David Gray, the Who, Cake, Joan Osborne, Echo and the Bunnymen, Donovan, Baby Gramps, Joni Mitchell, CCR, Shpongle, John Prine, Van Morrison, Cat Stevens, Pink Floyd, the Talking Heads, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, REM, John Brown's Body, Allman Bothers
My All-Time Favorite Artist: This doesn't specify musician, so: Timothy 'Speed' Levitch
Favorite Books: by Tom Robbins, esp. Still Life with Woodpecker, Another Roadside Attraction, and Jitterbug Perfume
Favorite Movies: the Royal Tenenbaums, Shaun of the Dead, Garden State, the Matrix, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Donnie Darko, Wonder Boys, A Scanner Darkly, the Life Aquatic, Seven Years in Tibet, Rushmore, High Fidelity, the Mission, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Star Wars, Say Anything, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Snatch, 50 First Dates, any kind of cinematic/photographic eye-candy or mental effervescent...
Favorite TV shows: I live in a mostly Cable-less universe but I do enjoy the following... Family Guy, the Office, the Simpsons, That 70's Show reruns, COPS (Pig Psych 101), House, Weeds, used to love the West Wing, Farscape, the X-Files
First Concert Attended: Kenny G with my Mom, so it's been pretty much all uphill since then LOL
Last Concert Attended: the Avett Brothers & Will Hoge in November, before that was the Allmans & Bob Weir (with my parents LOL)
Bonnaroos Attended: 2007 was my first
Bonnaroo Wishlist: Radiohead, Allman Brothers, Flaming Lips, String Cheese, ah who'm I kidding, it doesn't matter, I'll go anyway!
Hello, everyone! It took all I had to post this, I'm way too shy on these message boards.
Name: Melissa. What my user name represents/means: It's a Yeah Yeah Yeahs song and a nickname of mine. From: Owensboro, KY, or as everyone else calls it, OBKY. Favorite Bands: If I were to type that out, it'd be a hell of a long list. Instead, I'll post current favorites! Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, The Raconteurs, The White Stripes, The Greenhornes, Brendan Benson, Giant Drag, Radiohead, Band of Horses, Daft Punk, Beck, King Crimson, and Sonic Youth. Favorite Books: I am horrible about reading. I'll read the first chapter, and then I can't get myself to continue. I fail at focusing, and it sucks 'cause there are quite a few books I'm wanting to read at the moment. Damnit! Favorite Movies: Zoolander will always be my one and only, I love it way too much. Um...Batman Begins (and I'm sure TDK will be kicking my ass), The Wedding Singer, 28 Days Later, Grindhouse. I don't watch very many movies. Favorite TV shows: Horrible Vh1 reality shows will be the death of me. I tell myself I won't watch them, and then they hook me in like the little bastards they are. Beavis and Butthead, Family Guy, ATHF. First Concert Attended: The Moffatts whenever they came to FYE, but I pretend that concert never happened so I normally answer with Incubus in Evansville, IN. October 16, 2002. Last Concert Attended: The Nobility on my birthday at a local venue. Bonnaroos Attended: One! Last year was my first, and hopefully, not my last! Bonnaroo Wishlist: The Raconteurs! Got to see The White Stripes last year, love to see Jack's other band this year! Wolfmother again, ReSpekt again, Daft Punk, The Mars Volta (only because I know that if they play, my boyfriend's 100% going with me), Queens of the Stone Age, M.I.A., Cansei de Ser Sexy, and Band of Horses.
I am a lurker of about three weeks now. < I think that's right. I caught a clip of the Bonnaroo '02 DVD on the Sundance channel one day in January of this year. The rest is history... (I have a minor obsession with going to Bonnaroo now)
Allow me to introduce myself.
Name: Megan What my user name represents/means: I enjoy the flora and fauna that is the galapogos islands From: Saint Louis, mo Favorite Bands: Arcade Fire, Allman Brothers, BSS, The Decemberists, Dungen, STS9, Sufjan Stevens, Modest Mouse, James Brown, Slightly Stoopid, The Beatles, Bob Marley, The National, Ben Folds(Five), Flips, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Pink Floyd, Do Make Say Think, Sigur Ros, P. Groove My All-Time Favorite Artist: Radiohead Favorite Books: Jane Eyre Favorite Movies: American History X, City of God, Sleeping Beauty, Paris Je 'Taime, Fight Club, Gattaca, Gone With the Wind, Darjeeling Limited, Amistad, LOTR, Anything Monty Python Favorite TV shows: Anthony Bourdain's: No Reservations, Man vs. Wild First Concert Attended: I do not remember, I was 4 though Last Concert Attended: Modest Mouse w/ Man Man Bonnaroos Attended: '08 will be my first time! Bonnaroo Wishlist: Surprise Led Zep superjam, Robert Randolph or The Word, STS9, Allman Bros, MMW, MMJ
Howdy folks. I read these boards extensively last year while preparing for my first 'Roo. I guess I'll join in this year instead of lurking.
Name: Doug E Fresh What my user name represents/means: I can't get enough of Homestar Runner
From: Four dead in Ohio
Favorite Bands: I like everything from hip hop to flip flops...pork chops and apple sauce
Favorite Movies: I'm currently digging Cloverfield. I pretty much like anything with a twist....Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Natural Born Killers, Raising Arizona, Barfly, Withnail and I
First Concert Attended: Triumph with Yngwie Malmsteen. What can I say, some friends dragged me there. That's where half my hearing loss occurred.
Last Concert Attended: Unknown Hinson
Bonnaroos Attended: 1...last year. I can't wait to go again!
Bonnaroo Wishlist: Cloud Cult would be on the top of my list. Other than that, I'll most likely be happy with whatever they have