8 years 12 days ago

zappaholic wrote: Wow, I'm coming up on anniversary number 6 next month.  Had no idea. And I'm still under 2000 posts.  I can't argue quality over quantity because most of my posts are crap.  I'm still terrified of the shred room, so that keeps the post count down, and overall I just don't have a lot to say elsewhere. I change my avy when I get bored.  I think I've been through about 8 now. I prefer my privacy so I don't use my real name in the forums, and the only photos of me that I've posted have been of my surgical scar from last year. Even now, you yourself do hardly notice me.....

Privacy is an illusion.  I am who I am.  You could probably track me down easily.  You'll have to make it across the bridge first. 

Edited by Slartibartfast - February 17 2012 at 19:48

I've met others too.

The list is:

Jim Garten
Vicky Garten
Neil (Heavyfreight)
sleeper
Fandango
Miss M (I forget what her log-in name was)
prog-chick
Syzygy


Edited by James - February 18 2012 at 07:40

Yay! Found my first thread with my first post here! I forgot I had started posting almost a year after registering though...

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=20344

And right from the start nuked by the admins!

I met only three members of PA in person:

my two fellow Polish members Lucas and Visitor 13/Manunkind (have no idea what is happening with the latter one, I sent him New Year's wishes this year by an SMS but he never replied...),

and NotAProghead with whom and his wife I attended Omega gig in Warsaw back in 2009.

That's all!

Tuzvihar wrote: Snow Dog wrote: You seemed very earnest and happy. I just tried that Yes site and you have to be Polish to access it. Yes, but I posted the "password".

^ I had no idea you were a John Cale fan 

^^yup,  & ^yup

ExittheLemming wrote: ^ I had no idea you were a John Cale fan

Ever since Paris 1919.

Edited by Dean - February 19 2012 at 06:46

Have I really been here for 7 and a half years? Christ. The mind boggles. I would've been just a few days shy of turning 18 when I joined the forums, though I think I'd been popping in just to lurk for a few months prior to signing up. It's staggering to think how much my musical tastes have evolved over that time, and the insane amount of growing up one does between the ages of 18 and 25. During that period I've lived at seven different addresses, attended and graduated from art college, racked up far more debt than I care to think about, tried and failed to carve out a career for myself as a teacher and been through all manner of highs and lows.

Some things that have stayed the same for me:

- Gentle Giant are still pretty much the best thing ever (second only to Cardiacs)
- I'm still a directionless, penniless, unemployed would-be writer
- And most importantly, I'm still with the same extraordinary young lady that I began hamfistedly flirting with online some eight long years ago.

Some things that have changed:

- My username and avatar. Most of the old guard will remember me (if they remember me at all, that is) as Trouserpress, with an avatar purloined from a Rene Magritte painting,
- I now have a much much lower tolerance for retro-prog a la The Flower Kings etc. (with the notable exception of Anglagard).
- I am no longer an insufferable prog snob, and will freely admit that not only is there such a thing as bad prog (and plenty of it, IMO), but that there is something of value in EVERY genre. Give me a good pop song over a mediocre prog album any day!
- I have a beard now.

I joined in mid-2006, more or less the same time when The T and The Whistler joined. Whistler's post were hilarious. Teo's were smartarsey but charming. JT and DT. 


Soon after that, I suggested The Sex Pistols in "suggest new bands" thread, dead-serious, but some of the Admins weren't too fond of double-wrapped irony.