The Ex-Mods
boo boo
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Name: Bryan
Occupation: Unemployed
Mod Since: May 08
Top 5: Yes, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Radiohead.
Hobbies: Writing, Gaming, Playing bass and keyboards, organizing world's largest gallery of bald chicks.
Likes: Prog, many other kinds of music, old school video games, anime, surrealism, science fiction/fantasy.
Dislikes: A lot of modern indie's sacred cows, 4chan humor, the far right, the far left.
Favourite Thread (Own) : 100 Things That Piss Me Off About Video Games
Favourite Thread (By Another Member) : The Sexual Experience Thread
Mod Most Likely To:
Get himself in an unnecessary flap
Get into fights with other forum members
Make a concept album
sleep with a cartoon
Argue about Led Zeppelin with everyone at least once.
say "Modest Mouse sucks."
have a robot family
go on a psychotic banning rampage to settle old scores. Many dead!
kick everyone's ass on the Wii.
Cry
Bulldog
Bolton/North Norfolk, England
Name: Al
Occupation: Wannabe
Mod Since: July 2009
Top 5: Elvis Costello, The Fall, Gram Parsons, Steel Pulse, the Future Sound Of London/Amorphous Androgynous
Hobbies: Writing, reading, football, long walks, avoiding confrontations, not taking things seriously
Likes: Wigan AFC, Dave Whelan, Bradshawgate, drinking, smoking, matchday atmospheres, family & friends, my dog, nights out
Dislikes: Steve McClaren, Bolton Wanderers, Rodney Marsh, people who are late, people with no manners, Bryan Adams, Rochdale
Favourite Thread (Own): http://www.musicbanter.com/editors-p...-costello.html
Favourite Thread (By Another Member): http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...om-albums.html
jackhammer
Cheltenham, England
Name: Lee
Occupation: A bit of this and a bit of that.
Mod Since: Dec 2007
Top 5: Pink Floyd, Archive, John Martyn, Slayer, Underworld
Hobbies: Music, Cinema, U.K History, Alcoholic Beverages and cultivating hair for my bald bonce
Likes: Nature, Tattoos, Body Piercings, Adult websites (purely for statistical purposes) and walking.
Dislikes: Rudeness, Impolite people, Cooked Eggs, Gangsta Rap and Flip Flops
Favourite Thread (Own) : Pink Floyd- Reviewed
Favourite Thread (By Another Member) : You Be Hatin'
lucifer_sam
Pittsburgh / State College, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Name: Sam
Occupation: Student / Mechanical engineer
Mod Since: January '10
Top 5: Tom Waits, J.G. Thirlwell, Cop Shoot Cop, The Gun Club, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Hobbies: Reading, writing/recording, snowboarding, and generally pissing life away waiting for something to happen
Likes: Noise rock, obscure Russian novelists, Stanley Kubrick, getting lost, the Californian high desert, intelligent women, nostalgia
Dislikes: Politics, American comedians, Facebook, stoner culture, tabloid news
Favourite Thread (Own) : Top Ten Most Annoying Music Fans
Favourite Thread (By Another Member) : Bulldog's 100
right-track
Manchester, England
Name: David
Occupation: Plastics Engineering
Mod Since: March 2006
Top 5: Rare 60's soul, Joy Division, The Clash, Talking Heads, The Kinks.
Hobbies: Collecting rare 60's soul, mountain biking, scouse baiting.
Likes: United, British Speedway, scouse baiting.
Dislikes: Scousers, ignorant people, wealthy people with no manners, wasted talent.
Favourite Thread (Own) : http://www.musicbanter.com/soul-funk...ul-cellar.html
Favourite Thread (By Another Member) : http://www.musicbanter.com/editors-p...ommentary.html < this thread saved MusicBanter...the original and still the best.
Seltzer
Auckland, New Zealand
Name: Nathan
Occupation: Student (software engineering)
Mod Since: Jan 2008
Top 5: King Crimson, ISIS, The Smiths, Windir, XTC
Hobbies: Music, playing bass, computer programming, languages, reading, maths, British sitcoms, cricket
Likes: Indian food, Coca Cola, beer, long convos with flatmates, England, Baldur's Gate, NZ Film Festival, Asian girls
Dislikes: Tuna oil, roadworks, failures in bureaucracy, conflict, Sharon Osbourne, mosquitoes, fixing my sleeping schedule
Favourite Thread (Own): In the Court of King Crimson
Favourite Thread (By Another Member): Urban's Infinite... and
Comus' 1001...
sleepy jack
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
Name: Ethan
Occupation: Student/Marxist
Mod Since: April 2006
Top 5: Elliott Smith, Carissa's Wierd, The Microphones/Mount Eerie, The Magnetic Fields, Bright Eyes
Hobbies: art, ballet, radical veganism, incompetent moderating.
Likes: radical liberalism, indie record stores, songs of sadness, ralph nader
Dislikes: fat people, white people, the bourgeois, america, spiders.
Favourite Thread (Own) : http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/34...s-up-guys.html
Favourite Thread (By Another Member) :
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ew-corner.html
Mod Most Likely To:
Leave for 3 weeks and come back
Insult you
Run for President.
Start a cult
Allow himself to be wound up too easily by MB
Defend Elliott Smith from any nay-saying.
accidentally delete the entire MusicBanter database. MB Armageddon here we come!
change his username.
Write a 10 page thesis disproving a throwaway comment
Be contrarian to everything I say just for the heck of it
TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Occupation: Business Development/ Small time campaign manager
Top 5: Tom Waits, The White Stripes, Ryan Adams, Nelly McKay, Cake.
Hobbies: cycling, politics, non-fiction, gin, kickball, strategy writ large, minimalism
Mod Since: January 2006
Dislikes: drew barrymore, people with no where to be, cats, ham, and using "problems" as excuses.
Real name: Brennan
Favorite Thread: I don't really have one, I love all threads equally.
tore
Oslo, Norway
Name: Tore
Occupation: Graduate Biology Student
Mod Since: March 2009
Top 5: Changes quickly. Right now? Maybe Yes, Caravan, Kate Bush, Pink Floyd and Gentle Giant
Hobbies: Fishing, boating, swimming, foruming and nerding
Likes: Invertebrates, nature, rats, badminton, hot summers, my girlfriend, scotch single malts, beer, all kinds of food, Terry Pratchett, caves, glaciers, cheesy horror movies, old adventure games
Dislikes: Dumb people, superstitious peotle, creationists, immoralists, capitalists, hysteria, lists, doing dishes, having to get up in the morning, going to bed
Favourite Thread (Own) : Toretorden's Treasure Trove (my journal)
Favourite Thread (By Another Member) :
Comus' Review Corner
dankrsta
Serbia
Name: Danijela
Occupation: Art teacher
Mod Since: December 2010
Top 5: Sonic Youth, Swans, Tuxedomoon, Throbbing Gristle, Neu!
Hobbies: when the inspiration comes - drawing and a bit of painting; discovering music
Likes: reading, music, films, art, tennis, fighting with two boys - the big one and the little one, long walks, morning coffee, myths and fairytales, cats
Dislikes: my neighbors, bills (always come at the wrong time), long term plans, stupid people acting smart, cold mornings, did I mention my neighbors?
Favourite Thread (Own): Strategies Against Architecture - The Avant Garde/Experimental Album Club
Favourite Thread (By Another Member): Weekly Music Trading Post /
Guess the movie