Introduce Yourself

Subject: Introduce Yourself 24/8/2007, 5:06 pm

Welcome to Visions And Voices. This thread is intended to jumpstart the "getting to know you" process. Just post some details about yourself. If it makes it easier, copy and paste what I do, obviously changing it to contain your information.

Name:
Age:
Favorite Director:
Favorite Film:
Favorite Band:
Favorite Song:
Favorite Author:
Favorite Book:
Current Job/Grade:

Here's Mine:

Name: Trevor
Age: 22
Favorite Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Favorite Film: Shadow Of A Doubt
Favorite Band: The Mars Volta
Favorite Song: Eunich Provacoteur
Favorite Author: William S. Burroughs
Favorite Book: Junkie
Current Job/Grade: Security Guard, graduated 2003

Nice to meet you all.

Posts : 99 Join date : 2007-08-24

Name: David
Age: 16
Favorite Director: Joel Coen
Favorite Film: Die Hard
Favorite Band: Eric Clapton
Favorite Song: Layla
Favorite Author: Robert Crais
Favorite Book: L.A. Requiem
Current Job/Grade: In limbo between grades 11 and 12.

Subject: Re: Introduce Yourself 24/8/2007, 5:59 pm

Alright, the first member besides me!
Good to have you here, my friend.

Eric Clapton is a guitar god.

Posts : 88 Join date : 2007-08-24 Age : 32

Name: David
Age: 16
Favorite Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Favorite Film: Casablanca
Favorite Band: The Shins
Favorite Song: I can't really decide.
Favorite Author: Harper Lee
Favorite Book: To Kill A Mockingbird
Current Job/Grade: 11th grade

Posts : 110 Join date : 2007-08-24 Age : 31

lotsa smilies on this forum.

Name: Jack Moulton
Age: 14
Favorite Director: Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Danny Boyle, Martin Scorsese, Joel Coen, Sergio Leone, Wes Anderson, Werner Herzog, Paul Thomas Anderson, Oliver Stone to finish a top 10.
Favorite Film: La Haine, Dead Man, Paris Texas, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver, Se7en, The Elephant Man, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Magnolia, The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover to finish a top 10.
Favorite Band: Lynyrd Skynyrd. None other comes close.
Favorite Song: Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird, Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love, The Who - Baba O Reilly, Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son, The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter to finish a top 5.
Favorite Author: Dunno. Maybe Anthony Horowitz.
Favorite Book: Fight Club
Current Job/Grade: (English Year) 10. Also a paperboy. £14 a week is enough to get a lot of DVDs.

Subject: Re: Introduce Yourself 24/8/2007, 6:15 pm

Good to see you guys here. Glad you joined. Make yourselves at home.

Subject: Re: Introduce Yourself 24/8/2007, 11:28 pm

Name: Mitchell James Beaupre.
Age: 16 (17 on Wednesday...)
Favorite Director: Paul Thomas Anderson.
Favorite Film: Rebel Without A Cause.
Favorite Band: Rocco DeLuca & The Burden / The Beatles.
Favorite Song: Too many.
Favorite Author: Friedrich Nietzsche.
Favorite Book: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Current Job/Grade: Applying / 12.

Posts : 9 Join date : 2007-08-24

Name: Jack
Age: 18
Favorite Director: Robert Bresson, Alfred Hitchcock
Favorite Film: Wings of Desire, L'Avventura
Favorite Book: Macbeth
Current Job/Grade: Start University in about a month.

Subject: Re: Introduce Yourself 25/8/2007, 7:29 am

Name: Mark.
Age: 18.
Favorite Director: Toss up between Kubrick/Kurosawa.
Favorite Film: ...Can't choose.
Favorite Band: Only one? AH! Can't choose between Zeppelin, Foo Fighters, Pink Floyd or RHCP.
Favorite Song: Wish You Were Here...There's others.
Favorite Author: Don't read enough to have one.
Favorite Book: Pretty much same as favourite author, but I enjoyed A Clockwork Orange...
Current Job/Grade: Unemployed/First year university (How sad is that?).

Subject: Re: Introduce Yourself 25/8/2007, 7:31 am

Thanks for joinin' guys. Glad to see you here.

Posts : 55 Join date : 2007-08-26

Name: Bart.
Age: 14. (09/14/92)
Favorite Director: Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Spielberg.
Favorite Film: The Silence of the Lambs, Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange, American Beauty, Pulp Fiction.
Favorite Band: Aimee Mann, Annie Lennox, Buckethead, Chris Isaak, CCR, David Bowie, Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Norah Jones, Paul Simon & Art Garfunkle, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Who.
Favorite Song: Wise Up, Save Me, Sugarcoated, Pavlov's Bell, Momentum, Today's the Day, You Could Make a Killing, One Way Out, Don't Let it Bring You Down, Hey Jude, Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing, Underground, Fortunate Son, Tiny Dancer, Just Dropped In, Lonely Teardrops, Come Rain or Come Shine, Misty Mountain Top, Stairway To Heaven, Free Bird, Sweet Home Alabama, Don't Know Why, Sunrise, America, Mr. Sandman, Sussudio, Don't Stop Me Now, Baba O'Reilly, The Seeker. rabbit

Favorite Author: Umm, I enjoyed most of the Stephen King's books I read.
Favorite Book: A Clockwork Orange.
Current Job/Grade: Unemployed / 10th Grade in some months (I live in Argentina, school starts in March and ends in December.)

Posts : 27 Join date : 2007-08-26 Age : 34

Name: Thomas E. Dorotn
Age: 18
Favorite Director: Stanley Kubrick
Favorite Film: RoboCop
Favorite Band: Bruce Springsteen
Favorite Song: "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
Favorite Author: Douglas Adams
Favorite Book: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Current Job/Grade: Freshman in college, I start Tuesday; I also will soon be a computer lab assistant at the school. Get paid to come here. Awesome.

Posts : 4 Join date : 2007-08-28

Name: Eli Fox
Age: 15
Favorite Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Favorite Film: Seven Samurai
Favorite Band: Anything Neil Young ever touched and Jethro Tull
Favorite Song: Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
Favorite Author: Don't have one
Favorite Book: Fahrenheit 451
Current Job/Grade: Going into 10

Posts : 99 Join date : 2007-08-24

Nice, Eli. Thick As A Brick is one of the greatest songs ever.

Subject: Re: Introduce Yourself 31/8/2007, 2:58 pm

Name: Jayum - call me Jay
Age: 17
Favorite Director: Sergio Leone, Terrence Malick
Favorite Film: The Shawshank Redemption
Favorite Band: Too many...Metallica, Ill Nino, Lost Prophets, U2, Audioslave and Nirvana are a few examples
Favorite Song: Keeps changing
Favorite Author: J.K. Rowling, at the moment
Favorite Book: I still haven't gotten over the deathly hallows hype so yeah...the Harry Potter series, for the moment
Current Job/Grade: Last year at school (if I get the IB diploma that is)

Posts : 9 Join date : 2007-09-06

Name: Joey
Age: 18
Favorite Director: Martin Scorsese, Bela Tarr
Favorite Film: Satan's Tango, Videodrome
Favorite Band: None
Favorite Song: Freak on a Leash
Favorite Author: Shakespeare
Favorite Book: Hamlet
Current Job/Grade: Hollywood Video Shift Leader/HS Graduate.

Posts : 110 Join date : 2007-08-24 Age : 31

Thank God. Lets get this party started.

Posts : 55 Join date : 2007-08-26

You make me so happy. Glad to know you're finally here, Joey.

Posts : 1 Join date : 2007-12-07

Name: Joe
Age: 16
Favorite Director: Martin Scorsese
Favorite Film: Taxi Driver
Favorite Band: Ugly Duckling
Favorite Song: Strawberry Fields
Favorite Author: X
Favorite Book: Animal Farm
Current Job/Grade: Sixth form, Year 12 (16-17 age group)

Glad to be here.

Posts : 1 Join date : 2007-12-06

I refuse to give my 'favorite' this or that, I have too many.

I'm AdnanZ and you might know me from Film General, or not.