Where's everyone from...

[NoHarshChemicals]

Hey I'm from Miami, FL and I just joined this place like 3 or 4 months ago but have never posted anything. Well I was wondering where everyone is from because I've never met anyone that likes nmh here so i'd like to know where everyone's been hiding.

[defgav]

yeah, it's funny how NMH gets mad dap in the press and online.. yet in real life it usually feels like you're the only person who likes them.

i'm from San Diego. Anybody else? I've been considering bringing my guitar down to an open mic night one of these days and doing (butchering) a bunch of NMH covers. And it'd be nice if there were a couple people there who would appreciate the songs.
Or hey, if anybody around SD wants to start a band.. that'd be fun.
So please let me know if either of those sounds appealing to you.

[dolemites_sister]

I'm from dumb ole chattanooga tn... although we are starting to get shows here again like the good ole days!!! I'm really glad.. Chattanooga has potential, however its really tough..

I don't know.. I guess no one really likes their hometown..
j

[opopopo]

im a canadian kid, from calgary alberta. if it werent for the hideous architecture, and complete lack of anything musical, i would really love it here. there are a lot of interesting things going on, i think this city may be growing on me. i know for sure that i couldnt live anywhere without mountains now.

chattanooga has got to be the greatest name/word/anything ever.

[William]

Marlyand. Not very mary though.

[perfectbrokenmirror]

I live in Lewiston, NY but I was born in Long Beach, CA.

I have to add where I was born because I don't really like Lewiston. And to add something else: I lived in Iowa City for about 9 years and in the Dominican Republic for 1.

c.s.

[SchnappM]

I'm from Long Island, Nu Yawk.

[Apple (in Stereo)]

I'm form Norway, so excuse my rotten english ;)
My favourite CD from the Elephant Six are In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. I also like The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone (The Apples) and Dusk at Cubist Castle (Olivia Tremor Control).

Eh... greetings.

[perfectbrokenmirror]

WELCOME Apple (In Stereo)!

soon you will become an addict and reach senior member status like dolemites_sister.:D;)

c.s.

[Apple (in Stereo)]

Hehe, maybe ;)
Do you know if there are any other norweigians/scandinavians at this forum? :)

[Aiwa Chikara]

I'm of Norwegian heritage, does that count?
Probably not.
I'm from lovely (or not) Williston, North Dakota, with a population of a whopping 12,000 people. Seriously. We are happening.
No.

[opopopo]

hello apple, welcome to the board!
do you think you could tell me how to say "where's the beef?" in norwegian? that would be SO super cool of you!

"Ja vi esker dette landit,
Som dett striger frem..."

why on earth do i know the first two lines of the norwegian national anthem? can someone please explain this to me, i dont understand...

[henrikhhh]

Sweden!

[woodyisa]

Ah! Half-handed, i'm from Reading too. Small world.. seems NMH fans are more plentiful than you'd imagine.

[nice man washing]

Stroud, England. Lovely place.

I did some NMH covers at a music festival last weekend, and they all went down really well: 'King of Carrot Flowers Pt 1', 'In The Aeroplane Over The Sea' and 'Engine'. Also did 'Joy' by Circulatory System.

[NoHarshChemicals]

Man i think i am the only one from miami... :(...i'm too far south, no one but "big" bands come here, its hard to see good bands for example E6 bands...last good band i was able to see was Rilo Kiley and i had to drive 4 hours north with my girlfriend.

[faek plastic]

I am from Russia originaly and moved to the US when I was pretty young (8). I'm Curently living in the Chicago, IL area. I go to school in Champaign IL (taking an break from that) so Im back in Chicago for now.

I know of a few people in Champaign that love NMH but not too many from around here.

p.s. Im not really that much of a newbie here, but I haven't posted for so long that I forgot my login/password so I had to re-register:mad:

[Edited on 9-2-2003 by faek plastic]

[perfectbrokenmirror]

Originally posted by Half-Handed
I'm from England. People who've heard of Elephant 6 round these parts are few and far between - as indeed are shops that sell their records. Fortunately I live close to London which is the only place most of the bands play in their all-too-infrequent European tours.

what are you talking about? Everytime I look at band tour schedules there are so many london dates.

c.s.

[Aiwa Chikara]

Quote NoHarshChemicals:
**Man i think i am the only one from miami... ...i'm too far south, no one but "big" bands come here, its hard to see good bands for example E6 bands...last good band i was able to see was Rilo Kiley and i had to drive 4 hours north with my girlfriend. **

You think that's bad. Hardly any of the "Big" bands even come anywhere here in North Dakota. I've never been to a live show in my life. (Well, the local bands, but other than that, nothing.) It's sad.
I take that back, some good bands have come around here. Phil Elvrum played a show in Moorhead, MN which is right by Fargo (I couldn't go because it was a bar and I am a minor.) And Modest Mouse is going to Regina, Saskatchewan (again, can't go. Two days before my 18th birthday.) *sigh*

[Apple (in Stereo)]

Originally posted by opopopo
hello apple, welcome to the board!
do you think you could tell me how to say "where's the beef?" in norwegian? that would be SO super cool of you!

"Ja vi esker dette landit,
Som dett striger frem..."



"Where's the beef?" will be transelated with "Hvor er Biffen". :D

[opopopo]

thanks apple! :D

[Apple (in Stereo)]

Originally posted by opopopo
thanks apple! :D


No problemo :)
If there's anything, then ask :)

[Apple (in Stereo)]

Ups.

[Edited on 9-3-2003 by Apple (in Stereo)]

[Phineas]

Greensboro, North Carolina. Student at UNCG. I started getting into some E6 bands a few years ago through an ex who was a total indie snob. She's long gone, but the music remains. Any others from North Cackalackey here?

[rabbitrabbit002]

hello, i'm from kentucky but now live in cary, nc.
not happening but reasonably close to better places.
sarah a.

[ZeoZose]

im from a small town near London, Ontario, Canada. no one knowns NMH around here, or much of any good music. it sucks.

[obscuredbysound]

I'm actually from a small small town in Northern England just a few miles south of the Scottish border. But I now live in Philadelphia, PA and am in the process of becoming an American citizen.

I doubt I would have got to see any of my fave Elephant 6 bands had I stayed where I was living. There was however, a wonderful record store in Carlisle, 20 miles form my hometown, that I frequented as a naive 17 year old that opened up my brain to all things elephant 6. The owner, after my second or third visit, knew my musical taste and would play me a selection of new stuff everytime I visited. Unfortunately, a few years later, a Virgin Megastore opened in the town and somebody told the police that my fave store was selling bootlegged live CD's. Now, I'm not insinuating that it was anyone from Virgin, but the next time I visited the store it was closed and the police had confiscated everything.

Very sad.

I just signed up for this board again after being on the old one and then deciding to take a break from anything internet based for my own sanity. It can be all consuming some times. But now I feel as though I can let it back into my life.

Hello all.

[heel27]

I'm from Carrboro, NC.

[andeh.]

so im getting the feeling that we all live in places where there are no other NMH fans (i live near gatwick airport, london UK), you know what we should do about it, all fly to a small isolated island, make it our own, and forget about the rest of the world... who's with me??!?

[dannyincendiary]

BOSTON

[ladylamentingonalawnchair]

I think there are more NMH fans around then everybody gives them credit for. When I went to college in rural Ohio I was surrounded by NMH fans. I have converted most of my friends into NMH fans. ITAOTS is still selling lots of copies. I don't think we need to buy an island (though that would certainly be nice. 'Would you like another coconut? I think there's one defrosting in the hut'), but make our friends fans and keep our eyes out for shy fans everywhere. Love from the City of Lakes!

[Edited on 9-15-2003 by ladylamentingonalawnchair]

[Edited on 9-15-2003 by ladylamentingonalawnchair]

[moon]

new orleans, la... no one else from la???...

i've been playing up a few shows solo acoustically recently... opening up for deadboy and the elephantmen, whom the singer is very much into nmh... i play at least one or two nmh songs at every show i play... along with some syd barrett/pink floyd and beatles tunes... and originals, of course...

[Ouch!MyPhantomLimb!]

Fargo. Yes, like the movie. Which, by the way, is disturbingly accurate in its depiction of life here. Give or take a wood chipper of course.

[ZeoZose]

Originally posted by moon
new orleans, la... no one else from la???...

i've been playing up a few shows solo acoustically recently... opening up for deadboy and the elephantmen, whom the singer is very much into nmh... i play at least one or two nmh songs at every show i play... along with some syd barrett/pink floyd and beatles tunes... and originals, of course...
hey moonboy, cool to see you around here.

[CrazyHorse]

Brussels, Belgium...
I suppose most of you don't even know where Belgium is...

[ladylamentingonalawnchair]

Your very first post is to suggest we're all dumb, or, at the very least, geographically challenged? That's not very nice.

[CrazyHorse]

Oh no I'm sorry, I didn't mean that... I just wanted to say that my country is a very small country... I just made fun of Belgium, that's all... But everybody knows where Belgium is, that's where Clijsters and Henin come from...

[typewriters]

portland, or

[raydavies02]

Murfreesboro, TN

[Aiwa Chikara]

As I've said before, Williston, North Dakota......
It snowed today.
Sad.

[opopopo]

It could be worse, Aiwa Chikara, it was snowing in september here (Calgary, Canada)

[quarantinedpast]

connecticut. the state with a rather small penis. it.s wedged between massachettes and new york. very uneventful.:P

[moon]

Originally posted by ZeoZose
Originally posted by moon
new orleans, la... no one else from la???...

i've been playing up a few shows solo acoustically recently... opening up for deadboy and the elephantmen, whom the singer is very much into nmh... i play at least one or two nmh songs at every show i play... along with some syd barrett/pink floyd and beatles tunes... and originals, of course...
hey moonboy, cool to see you around here.

yes... i was wondering if anyone else from the deadboy forum came around here... i only just found this one recently, sadly... but i'm hoping to come around more often...

[greenglassyeux]

bay area, california. moving to hawaii in august.

[pinocchio]

4 years later...

[quixoticgoat]

oakdale, connecticut. home of oakdale pizza. the best pizza on the face of the planet

[Edited on 4-2-0707 by quixoticgoat]

[idrankhemlock]

vancouver washington..its close to portland oregon

[The0wlsgo]

Berkeley Heights New Jersey!!!! but i may be moving myself an entire town over this summer to mountinside!

[G]

ravenna, italy

[Musicalfusion]

Im from The DC (close enough)

Cherry Blossoms are out this time of year...

[Naomi]

I live all the way over here in the OTHER Portland...aka Portland, Maine. It's actually not what you probably are picturing...I've never seen a moose, or had lobster. It's becoming very urban and the music scene is amazing. I love it, but I will be going to NYC in August for college....

[pinocchio]

i'll be waiting...

[Gotham]

JERSEY

[tackledspoon]

Originally posted by Naomi
I live all the way over here in the OTHER Portland...aka Portland, Maine. It's actually not what you probably are picturing...I've never seen a moose, or had lobster. It's becoming very urban and the music scene is amazing. I love it, but I will be going to NYC in August for college....
Where are you going?

I go to NYU, so I spend eight months of the year in New York and the other four just fifteen or twenty miles west of here in New Jersey. I'm pretty sure that, after this summer, I'll be living in New York full time.

[pinocchio]

Originally posted by tackledspoon
Originally posted by Naomi
I live all the way over here in the OTHER Portland...aka Portland, Maine. It's actually not what you probably are picturing...I've never seen a moose, or had lobster. It's becoming very urban and the music scene is amazing. I love it, but I will be going to NYC in August for college....
Where are you going?

I go to NYU, so I spend eight months of the year in New York and the other four just fifteen or twenty miles west of here in New Jersey. I'm pretty sure that, after this summer, I'll be living in New York full time.

east village is the worst. don't you guys have sealed windows because of the suicide rate? that's what you get for being number 2 in your class - a shitty high rise dorm in the biggest hipsterdoofus infested area of ny. haha jokes.

[idrankhemlock]

at least he has an education, oh king of the hipster douchebags

[tackledspoon]

Originally posted by pinocchio
Originally posted by tackledspoon
Originally posted by Naomi
I live all the way over here in the OTHER Portland...aka Portland, Maine. It's actually not what you probably are picturing...I've never seen a moose, or had lobster. It's becoming very urban and the music scene is amazing. I love it, but I will be going to NYC in August for college....
Where are you going?

I go to NYU, so I spend eight months of the year in New York and the other four just fifteen or twenty miles west of here in New Jersey. I'm pretty sure that, after this summer, I'll be living in New York full time.

east village is the worst. don't you guys have sealed windows because of the suicide rate? that's what you get for being number 2 in your class - a shitty high rise dorm in the biggest hipsterdoofus infested area of ny. haha jokes.

No, it's true. This school is hilarious. I don't live in the East Village- they stuck me in a dorm way down in Chinatown, which is actually one of the few places less appealing to me than the Union Square area. Anyway, we can only open our windows six inches or so because apparently throwing yourself off of something tall is the only way to commit suicide.

[pinocchio]

i got a me one

[pinocchio]

shutup idrankhemlock, don't be bitter because you'd never be accepted to nyu. congrats person above. i'm not making fun of nyu, just the neighborhood. where the fuck is vancouver washington?

[idrankhemlock]

yeah in 5th grade

[pinocchio]

Originally posted by idrankhemlock
yeah in 5th grade


oo oo oo who am i??? ALL I NEED TO KNOW I KNEW SO EARRLLAAAYYYYYYY. come on... anyone?

[idrankhemlock]

Originally posted by pinocchio
shutup idrankhemlock, don't be bitter because you'd never be accepted to nyu. congrats person above. i'm not making fun of nyu, just the neighborhood. where the fuck is vancouver washington?
why the hell would i want to go to nyu? i live in WASHINGTON

[idrankhemlock]

Originally posted by pinocchio
Originally posted by idrankhemlock
yeah in 5th grade


oo oo oo who am i??? ALL I NEED TO KNOW I KNEW SO EARRLLAAAYYYYYYY. come on... anyone?
huh? please use english

[pinocchio]

i don't know...tickle my balls.

[pinocchio]

it's on the new panda bear...don't know what song. that album is better than aeroplane. i said it.

[idrankhemlock]

very witty..bravo

[pinocchio]

haha see. there you go. thank you mr. spoon. somebody get this girl a man's man.

[idrankhemlock]

go to bed...you obviously need sleep. or pills. or to be killed..

[pinocchio]

yeah it's actually quite late out here in the real world. i don't want this feeling to end though...melissa...

[idrankhemlock]

god damn i hate you

[pinocchio]

yeah? it's melissa huh?

[LaughingAtJesus]

meow

[pinocchio]

ehh ok now i'm going to bed

[birdman]

Hemlock,
i was in vancouver washington not to long ago. My girlfriend used to live in camus so i was visiting. I went to the ice cream store in vancouver, the renaissance one. I didnt like it very much. I am an ice cream snob.

also, i am from maryland, though, now spend most of the year in olympia, wa, though, i dont know how much longer, at least another year.

[Naomi]

Originally posted by tackledspoon
Originally posted by Naomi
I live all the way over here in the OTHER Portland...aka Portland, Maine. It's actually not what you probably are picturing...I've never seen a moose, or had lobster. It's becoming very urban and the music scene is amazing. I love it, but I will be going to NYC in August for college....
Where are you going?

I go to NYU, so I spend eight months of the year in New York and the other four just fifteen or twenty miles west of here in New Jersey. I'm pretty sure that, after this summer, I'll be living in New York full time.

That's awesome, I can't wait to move to the city:) Wow, NYU...I am going to be at Pace University, not as cool, but I think it will be a good time. I have no idea how it's going to be, since I'll know ABSOLUTELY no one within a few states radius.

[radiowires]

Originally posted by CrazyHorse
Brussels, Belgium...
I suppose most of you don't even know where Belgium is...

Hey, I was just IN Brussels. Well, the airport. Catching a connection to Spain. It was a lovely country from the air. Nice to know there are e6 appreciators there.

[gymp]

martha's vineyard!!

[idrankhemlock]

Originally posted by birdman
Hemlock,
i was in vancouver washington not to long ago. My girlfriend used to live in camus so i was visiting. I went to the ice cream store in vancouver, the renaissance one. I didnt like it very much. I am an ice cream snob.

also, i am from maryland, though, now spend most of the year in olympia, wa, though, i dont know how much longer, at least another year.
awesome. yeah ive only been there once. its ok..all the cool kids hang out there

[gwilym]

upstate new york. but i consider myself welsh more than american.

[birdman]

Originally posted by idrankhemlock
Originally posted by birdman
Hemlock,
i was in vancouver washington not to long ago. My girlfriend used to live in camus so i was visiting. I went to the ice cream store in vancouver, the renaissance one. I didnt like it very much. I am an ice cream snob.

also, i am from maryland, though, now spend most of the year in olympia, wa, though, i dont know how much longer, at least another year.
awesome. yeah ive only been there once. its ok..all the cool kids hang out there

I thought the aesthetic was to contrived. Meaning, created by people who have no major idea about the renisance time perioid except for general ideas and attempted to reconstruct the renisance in its whole as a theme. so...cool people indeed.

[schmender]

laguna beach. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew! gross.

[Stormx]

Newbury, Berkshire, England.

[idrankhemlock]

Originally posted by Stormx
Newbury, Berkshire, England.

i lived in lakenheath england once...but i think thats in suffolk

[Pål]

i live in trondheim, norway

[Spoonsharpwit]

Originally posted by perfectbrokenmirror
I live in Lewiston, NY but I was born in Long Beach, CA.

I have to add where I was born because I don't really like Lewiston. And to add something else: I lived in Iowa City for about 9 years and in the Dominican Republic for 1.

c.s.

In Iowa City?! That's where I live. It is a neat place. The rest of Iowa is stupid, though.

[lou2ser]

Originally posted by Spoonsharpwit
The rest of Iowa is stupid, though.

Hey, there's a town in Iowa with the same name as me.

[lou2ser]

Originally posted by CrazyHorse
Brussels, Belgium...
I suppose most of you don't even know where Belgium is...
I think I passed through Belgium on my way between the Netherlands and France. I know I passed through Luxembourg. Hopefully I'll be dropping by to get the beer sometime in 2008 or 2009. :)

[Edited on 4-4-0707 by lou2ser]

[Pål]

i went to brussels once, but only for 3 hours or so, so we did only the most obvious things. went to the grand place and the pissing boy statue, and ate some waffels. it was nice.

[c_elephant]

Laws Ang Ull Iss county. /lebowski

[feeling_retro]

i'm from Athens, ohio..
super lame.

[tackledspoon]

Originally posted by feeling_retro
i'm from Athens, ohio..
super lame.
I thought Athens, OH was sort of a cool little college town. One of my friends went to OU for a bit, but he may have dropped out. I haven't heard from him in months.

[Spoonsharpwit]

Originally posted by lou2ser
Originally posted by Spoonsharpwit
The rest of Iowa is stupid, though.

Hey, there's a town in Iowa with the same name as me.

Okay, okay; The rest of Iowa is stupid, except for that town... Whatever it may be. Is your name like Coralville or maybe Des Moines?

[Peach]

I'm living in Montreal now, which is you know, quite an alright city when you think about it. Probably the most ethnical city ever as well which is interesting too. But yeah, musical scene up here is pretty brilliant compared to other Canadian cities.. But all that snow, jesus, I just cannot cope with it all the way up to April. I liked the one or two silly inches we get in England better. Also liked everyone going mad, closing roads and schools and that. Montreal sorta reminds me of Manchester tho at times, but it's not quite as dodgy... Although Verdun does get pretty rough. Haha, well, it's not home but you know, it's aright. Any Quebecois round here?

[iammadeofnoodles]

i am kind of from a lot of places. i was born in the house that i live in now and that is near ann arbor, michigan. but since then i went to a boarding school in ohio (which is where i first heard neutral milk hotel), got kicked out (for reasons that will not be discussed), went to india for a few months (had a private audiance with the dalai lama), then to vietnam and cambodia to do some service for a bit (we helped to build a house for a woman who had her leg blown off by a landmine, among other things). came home, went to crete in greece for this cultural immersion thing, came home, lived in oxford, england for a few months, came home, then i worked at a summer camp in northern michigan. there were a few more little countries that i made my way to along this great path called life and now i go to a small environmental college near asheville, north carolina.

so i guess i'd like to consider myself a citizen of the world.

[Half-Handed]

Where'd you live in Oxford? I used to live in Oxford, in fact I'm off there this weekend.

[iammadeofnoodles]

on banbury road

[iammadeofnoodles]

near the roundabout, across from the cemetary.

[Half-Handed]

Ah, Banbury Road... I used to live in Jericho. I was a student there so I also lived near the Radcliffe Camera for three years.

[iammadeofnoodles]

my friend lived in jericho.

good memories.

yay oxford!

[Half-Handed]

Exactly! I will send it your regards when I get there tomorrow.

[Kendra]

Indiana.

[thekingisdead]

I'm about to be living in Savannah, GA, where there will be nothing to do except drive to Athens and Atlanta when I don't have classes.