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"Who are you really"?
This is a question i have asked my self many times.
My living standard hasn't changed since i was 19.
I still live in cheap rented accommodation, eat out of cans and boxes.
Go to bed late, sleep late.
Read comics and trawl the internet reading what ever i can find off alternative news sites about the coming Apocalypse.
I'm 45 now.
I still have a flat stomach and a firm ass, all my own hair, and most of my teeth.
I have been a chef since i left school.
It was a great career and it took me all over the world.
I got to be a chef on rock and roll tours.
I've been around Europe maybe ten times including some very cool places that a lot of folks
wouldn't think to go to. I am still weak for eastern european woman, especially Czech's.
Went around the US once, but did many one off's for video shoots and so on.
I've lived in London, Wellington, Melbourne, New York City and Chicago( for about three months)
My only addiction has been guitars and recording.
I've dabbled at all of the others, but none of them gave me the same buzz, and all of them got in the way.
Right now i'm a teacher and fuckin love it!!
I'm about to build my first guitar amp.

Axel

I'm a music fanatic.
Classically trained on trombone and double bass.
Finishing a masters in music theory this year and then continuing on with a Phd in theory and composition.
Picked up the Chapman Stick a few years ago.
Started making music with computers around 2001.
Sometimes get distracted by video games like GTA where I can take out aggression while avoiding a prison sentence.
Highly addictive personality with no particular object of choice (beer, women, sleeping, video games, the internet, practicing, etc - I can go long periods of being obsessed with all these things, sometimes at the same time).
Believe music is the only redeeming aspect of human existence.

and Kekse like the cooky monster

edit: what did i wrote? must have been once again of my face

wow, about 5 minutes after I wrote the question I was getting really perturbed at the lack of responses and now 5 hours later I am really humbled by the participation and honesty.

You may not all believe in Jesus, but he speaks to me through every one of your stories. Very cool. Thanks to all for sharing.

I still feel like a misfit, and I think the responses more or less confirm that. I wasn't keeping official count or anything but it felt like there was 1 "Corporate America" person for every 4 or 5 that were living a "cooler" lifestyle, be it music or cooking or whatever else.

And for the record, I drive a 10-year old Prizm, not an SUV. Any Finance person who buys an SUV should have their Bachelor's Degree revoked. (Them's FIGHTIN words!)

thanks again, guys.

Sphinx wrote:19 attempting to master the Dutch language (VERY difficult!), got the basics down before last year's trip - learning grammar, etc. this year

Yeah, I'm learning Polish right now (my wife and her family are US immigrants from Warsaw) as an anniversary gift so I totally know where you're coming from. Try Rosetta Stone if you can afford it, it's phenomenal. I have a few friends in Belgium that speak Flemish and I think it's similar to Dutch, lots of "ooj" and "woort" in that language.

Polish is hardcore compared to Dutch if your first language is English. Both phonologically and grammatically... it's got a lot of odd sounds and it's highly inflected. Lots of things to learn by heart. I've never studied Dutch in any organised way but I can read it with a certain degree of success and do fine if I've got a dictionary... it really doesn't strike me as too complicated in itself.

Not to belittle anyone who attempts to learn Dutch and finds it difficult, mind, learning *any* language is hard as hell, but Dutch and English are like brother and sister (despite all of English's attempts to dress up as a Frenchmen and deny its glorious Germanic past), whereas Polish would be more like a really awkward (probably drunk!) second-cousin.

Classical Arabic, of course, is utterly alien and downright mean. Anyone who masters that should be given a lifetime's supply of free beer IMO.

I worship Beelzebub at the foothill of Gomorrah.

digitalgeist ~ Yes, the Rosetta Stone stuff rocks!

noisetonepause ~ You are entirely correct, in the grand scheme of things Dutch is NOT that difficult...particularly since my language in high school/college was German. Polish seems WAY more difficult than Dutch, but Dutch DOES have its fair share of weird inflections and odd spelling that doesn't LOOK like it's written. I meant to say it's difficult for me, as a guy moving into his mid-50s age-wise (and especially having "survived" the 60s/70s & 80s!), your memory just doesn't work like it did when you are younger...so the 2,000+ words I've learned in Dutch didn't come that easy!

I am a mostly retired computer scientist who, while at what was once Bell Labs, was a founding member of the international committee that standardized the C++ progamming language. Although my name does not appear on it, I edited the 2003 version of the standard.

I wrote a book about C programming in 1988 that is still in print.

My wife and I wrote two books about C++ programming. In addition, she, along with some colleagues, wrote another C++ book, and I've published more than 150 magazine articles, mostly about C++. I also blog on the subject.

Musically, I'm currently a member of two bands that play in northern New Jersey from time to time, and I sometimes appear with other groups, both formal and informal.

Hello,

I'm a Polish (from Warsaw) / Canadian living in Montreal. Music and science have always been a big part of my life - I have degrees in Physics and Electroacoustic Music. At one point I was a physicist with a music hobby and now I am a composer, dj, sound designer, etc... with physics as a hobby

I have some material out already - http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jan+Pienkowski - with many new tracks coming this year.

Cheers!

Jan

Sphinx wrote:digitalgeist ~ Yes, the Rosetta Stone stuff rocks!

Indeed - I'd be totally lost without it. I just hope I can carry a conversation a bit before our anniversary, which is 26 April. My brothers and I have always had a thing about different languages and cultures; my older bro taught english in Japan for 7 years, my younger brother has completed two tours with the special forces in Iraq and speaks Farsi fluently. Runs in the family I guess.

Now if only we could pick easier languages to learn. I'd totally know French by now.

things i am and have been

bass player in a cock rock band
bass player in an indiegirl band
guitar player in an art rock band
flute player in an orchestra
lemur stroker
digital audio technician in post audio production
systems administrator in visual effect post production
independent record producer (you'll never hear them ha ha ha)
music store clerk
coffee slinging cafe jockey
skateboarder
archer
cat lover
broke
fixed
lost
found
here
there
but not everywhere

I'm the devil, and I'm here to do the devil's business.

By reading the responses on this thread, I would say there is a little bit of the devil in everybody here...

Machinesworking wrote:I'm the devil, and I'm here to do the devil's business.