What's new? -----------> Me!!

[coldplay]

:wavey:

I've been buzzing around here and there so thought it was time to introduce myself.

I'm from Australia and have been a been a Mac fan for years. I've been sourcing Penguin since 1997 and as I recall the forums were inactive back then for some reason.

I fell in love with the song 'Sara' which to this day is my fave song. 'Tusk' is my fave album. I love 'Rumours' but 'Tusk' speaks to me on a more personal and deeper level.

While I tend to focus on the Rumours line-up, I listen to some music from the Peter Green years as well. I've listened to some Welch line-up music but not for a long time now. I don't like 'Time' and not very keen on the male input on 'Behind the Mask'.

My first concert was in Sydney - which I had to travel to this country for and I attended the concert by myself. I've made some wonderful Stevie/Mac fans in Australia so its weird to know that while I was at the concert by myself....I was sitting close to people that would become my friends in the future. When Fleetwood Mac arrive next month - I'll be attending the concerts with these friends :laugh:

I'm not that keen on 'Say You Will' as an overall album. Clearly, there are some standout songs (Miranda, Goodbye Baby, Say You Will etc) but there's a bit too much solo Buckingham acoustics overlapping from one song to another for my liking.

With reference to the individual members of the band - I think they're all really important. I love Christine and Lindsey music but mostly as part of a band rather than their solo efforts.

Stevie's solo and soundtrack work is a constant pleasure for me but the Klonopin years are hard to digest. The day 'The Dance' was broadcast on TV...I cried because she looked and sounded great again ;)

As a fan, I'm able to be critically objective and perhaps I'm a little too tough on Mac since I know what their capabilities are.

I admit that I'm opionated and sometimes go on a political tangent so bear that in mind when I'm incoherently blabbing on. Just tell me to shut up :)

Here's a short random list of things I like:

Stevie
Sara
Storms
Beautiful Child
Silver Springs
Straight Back

Christine
Honey Hi
Everywhere
Brown Eyes
Love in Store
Never Forget

Lindsey
Save Me A Place
Tusk
Go Your Own Way
Miranda
Monday Morning

Other music
Coldplay ;)
Travis
Norah Jones
TATU
Film scores
80s British post punk/new wave/new romantics
Joy Division
New Order
Associates
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Echo and the Bunnymen
Simple Minds

Films
The Thin Red Line
Tokyo Story
L'Atalante
The Hours
Raise the Red Lantern
The Conformist
Late Spring
Ugetsu
Bicycle Thieves


General
Seinfeld
X-Files
Documentaries
Visual arts
Film
Books
Knowledge
Anything water related - oceans, lakes, streams, etc
Snorkelling
Horseriding
Tennis
Wine
Dining and cooking
Meeting people

See you around the forum
CP :)

[Johnny Stew]

Been seeing you around for a little while, but since you've posted an official introduction, here's my official greeting! :laugh:

Welcome to the board, CP!
It's great to have you here... I can already tell that you have a lot of interesting things to add, and will have a unique input.

And don't worry if you find yourself "incoherently blabbing on" once in a while... I think we've ALL been guilty of that from time to time!! :)

[tommer]

welcome to the ledge.

now, i'm not referring to you personally, you are just one in a long line of "hiders" (or you could actually be chris martin, and if this is the case then i'm really sorry), i donnow, maybe it's just me, but when someone introduces himself/herself online, i expect to know his/her gender, age, name... these kinda things. i find it a little impolite that there are ppl here who would post daily, yet won't reveal even the most general details about who they are.
all those ppl here who don't give their names, locations, blah blah blah, and hide behind a stevie avatar (usually taken from burnish.net) and a stevie-related nick, just all blend into one mixture in which i can never identify any of them. it's not like we eat people here, you can all introduce yourselves properly.
thank you.

Tommer (31, male, Tel-Aviv) :wavey:

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Welcome to the board Coldplay! I have a feeling I know you...:nod:

Pip

[DownOnRodeo]

More Aussie posters are always welcome! :)

Tokyo Story? That old black and white one about the city/country families?? Heh. I've had to watch the first half of that for two different uni subjects so far.

(As for my exciting and interesting (not) life details, they're all free to whomsoever is so bored as to want to endure them! My LJ is permanently linked in my sig. :) )

[GypsySorcerer]

Hi coldplay!! Nice to meet ya! Many of the songs you listed are among my favorites too... And I love watching tennis. Can't play a lick though. :laugh:


~Krista

[stevierocks87]

Hi Coldplay! You seem really awesome, great choices for favorite songs! Welcome to the Ledge!

(btw, have ya'll HEARD that songs "Clocks" by Coldplay? Just when you think music is going to crap, they go and release that :laugh: INCREBIBLE song!

:wavey: adam :wavey:

[goldie]

wow coldplay, that is a great intro to yourself!

adam, I LOVE that song!

tommer....F, 31, New York lol

[strandinthewind]

Originally posted by coldplay
:wavey:

The day 'The Dance' was broadcast on TV...I cried because she looked and sounded great again ;)



OMG - Me Too!!!!! I was like terrified and then she just nailed everything, esp. the "HHOOOMMMMEEEE AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA" in GDW and, of course SS, esp. the ending.

Welcome!!! :wavey:

[GardenStateGirlie]

Coldplay, Travis, X-Files...I'm with you there!!!! Nice to meet you!

Marissa, 20, NJ <---for Tommer ;) :laugh:

[coldplay]

Originally posted by DownOnRodeo


Tokyo Story? That old black and white one about the city/country families?? Heh. I've had to watch the first half of that for two different uni subjects so far.


Thanks for the welcome.

May I ask what you are studying at uni?

Also, why did you only have to watch the first half and for which subjects?

Cheers
CP

[strandinthewind]

Somewhat irrelevant Mac and Coldplay timeline - when SYW debuted on AOL Broadband, the Coldplay single was the other song they had a live video clip for. :cool:

[goldie]

Originally posted by strandinthewind
Somewhat irrelevant Mac and Coldplay timeline - when SYW debuted on AOL Broadband, the Coldplay single was the other song they had a live video clip for. :cool:

I remember that!!! I would play them both!! I think Chris Martin has a charm about him, but so young! Gwenyth is my age!! lol

[strandinthewind]

Originally posted by goldie
I remember that!!! I would play them both!! I think Chris Martin has a charm about him, but so young! Gwenyth is my age!! lol Yes he does. I also remember thinking the piano riff on that Coldplay song sounded like one of Stevie's usual piano riffs - I've been a Mac fan too long :laugh:

[goldie]

Originally posted by strandinthewind
Yes he does. I also remember thinking the piano riff on that Coldplay song sounded like one of Stevie's usual piano riffs - I've been a Mac fan too long :laugh:

lol and I like that new song by Nelly Furtado because I think it sounds like something Stevie might have done back in the B/N days. I've been a fan too long too, I guess!

[coldplay]

Originally posted by tommer
welcome to the ledge.

Now, i'm not referring to you personally, you are just one in a long line of "hiders". I donnow, maybe it's just me, but when someone introduces himself/herself online, i expect to know his/her gender, age, name... these kinda things. i find it a little impolite that there are ppl here who would post daily, yet won't reveal even the most general details about who they are.



Hey Tommer thanks for the welcome :)

You're very to the point which is great but I'm ambivalent about your post. I understand the need for personalised information but I find it unnecessary to know these things. My name, age, and gender say nothing about the decency of my character or what makes me tick.

One of the things that I like about the internet is that age and gender boudaries get broken down allowing us to focus on opinion, statement, and ability. Reading post by post allows me to engage with people's values and thoughts without imposing traditional generalisations upon them - be it conscious or unconscious.

That's nice relief from a world that tends to treat mature-aged people as less employable, teenage opinion as discountable while bestseller books divide the world into venus and mars oppositions.

I recently went to a party and took a friend. When she declared that she liked Michael Jackson she was asked how old she was. She replied "19". She was told "that figures..".

I really don't understand that comment because Jackson has fans of all ages. I also found it condescending towards her age.

In short, the 'blending in' you so dislike is what I actually enjoy.

Furthermore, if I had kids - I would encourage caution of disclosing personal information over the internet in ANY environment as friendly and trusting as it is. Hell, I even ask if there is third party disclosure of my email if I have to submit it in a real life situation.

However, in the spirit of sharing.... my name is Rochelle and I'm 32. :wavey:

Cheers
CP

[coldplay]

Originally posted by goldie
I think Chris Martin has a charm about him

You and me both.....! :D

Ohhh la la.
:nod:

[DownOnRodeo]

Originally posted by coldplay
May I ask what you are studying at uni?
I do Arts/Law at UQ. In Arts I'm double majoring in Japanese, so I have to do a handful of non-language subjects to make up the degree. The two in which I saw Tokyo Story were 'Issues of Contemporary Japan' and 'Asian Visual Cultures'.

Originally posted by coldplay
Also, why did you only have to watch the first half?


Each time we could only watch so much of it, due to lesson time, so we only really saw up to about when the grandparents have arrived in the city home, and when the loud sister comes over. The same guy runs most of those Asian cultural courses so that's the reason for the double dose. But by the second time through I knew some of the lines - lol, the old grandmother sitting on the porch while they pack for the city, and the neighbour comes by... The way she says 'Arigaaatou' is so sweet and funny. :laugh:

[coldplay]

Originally posted by GypsySorcerer
Hi coldplay!! Nice to meet ya! Many of the songs you listed are among my favorites too... And I love watching tennis. Can't play a lick though. :laugh:


~Krista

Krista

I love tennis with a passion. Anytime you wanna chat tennis...lemme know.


Some fave players
Graf
V Williams
Capriati
Rafter
Agassi
Roddick

[GypsySorcerer]

Originally posted by coldplay


Some fave players
Graf
V Williams
Capriati
Rafter
Agassi
Roddick


Your faves are among mine too. I adore Agassi and am pulling for him to win one more Slam before he retires. Graf was something -- I miss watching her. (And Rafter, too)

I love Capriati... She's a scrapper.

~Krista

[coldplay]

p.s to Tommer

I was trying to think about why you need that information and was wondering whether or not you are a particularly visual person and needed to visualise a sense of the person you were communicating with.

Cheers
CP

[coldplay]

Originally posted by GypsySorcerer
Your faves are among mine too. I adore Agassi and am pulling for him to win one more Slam before he retires. Graf was something -- I miss watching her. (And Rafter, too)

I love Capriati... She's a scrapper.

~Krista

Krista

What do you think of Henin-Hardine? I had an issue with her ethic after she refused to acknowledge to the umpire that she put her hand up to stop serve at last years French Open.

I'm going to tonight's centre court matches which will be fun.

Cheers
CP

[GypsySorcerer]

Originally posted by coldplay

What do you think of Henin-Hardine?

I'm going to tonight's centre court matches which will be fun.





I like her well enough. I agree that was not the best sportsmanlike/ethical thing to do. What impresses me is how good she is for her size.

Have fun!! I'm so jealous!!! :)


~Krista

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Originally posted by coldplay


However, in the spirit of sharing.... my name is Rochelle and I'm 32. :wavey:

Cheers
CP
Thought it was you!

Pip

[coldplay]

Gidday Pip....still haven't forgotten about that DVD for you.

Hope you are well :)

CP

[tommer]

Originally posted by coldplay
p.s to Tommer

I was trying to think about why you need that information and was wondering whether or not you are a particularly visual person and needed to visualise a sense of the person you were communicating with.

Cheers
CP
i'm not a visual person at all, and i don't see why you need to speculate my motives after i already presented them.
let me try and give you a simple analogy: i think that people who approach me wearing sunglasses indoors are pompous asses, and i'd never give them the time of day. if you wanna talk to me and expect me to believe that you're frank with me, you do not have to hide your eyes. it's not that i'd think this person would be suspicious or anything, but if you wanna break the distance don't hide, hiding is always a sign of deep mistrust, which is a rude way to present yourself.
the other reason as i mentioned b4 is the cliche'-ness, everyone here are mac fans, and it's hard to remember so many stevie nicknames and avatars (and of course i don't refer chris martin), that's on the practical side, no judgement there, it's just harder to identify and remember users this way (kids, don't do too much drugs! :eek: )

[coldplay]

Originally posted by tommer
i'm not a visual person at all, and i don't see why you need to speculate my motives after i already presented them.


Indeed. I'll know not to the next time.

CP

[wondergirl9847]

Welcome to the Ledge, Rochelle! *Can't say it without singing it. Thanks Stevie. :rolleyes: LOL)

I'm Christy, 27, from Fort Worth, Texas.

[coldplay]

Was waiting for thread to finish. For those that I didn't reply to previously....

Johnny Stew
stevierocks87
Goldie
strandinthewind
gardenstategirlie
wondergirl9847

THANKS for extending the welcome :wavey:

Cheers
CP :laugh:
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