Trouserpress wrote: Big Train... they're surreal

I challenge you to a staring competition!

If you like your humour dark as well as surreal, I'd also recommend 'League Of Gentlemen'(not the 3rd series though) and 'Monkey Dust' - with both of these you don't know whether to laugh , cry , or hide behind the sofa ...

I love Dream Theater and i love Futurama, 'nuff said

Gentle Giant is my favourite Group.I always liked the sound of the name and the song. When I choose it I didn't noticed first, it was Dracula spelled backwards. In every case I'm more a night creature.

Carl Palmer as a smurf....

The creator of the Smurfs is a huge Carl Palmer fan.....

http://www.carlpalmer.com/smurf.html

Jim Garten wrote: The avatar I refer to as the inverted codpiece from hell - again, no imagination at the beginning, so just used one of the stock ones; I don't have the know-how to be able to get a fancy one......I want a moving avatar like Danbo !!

Aha - changed!

Still not moving, but a terrific album, nonetheless - 'Bridge Of Sighs' by the sublime Robin Trower.

No - he is not prog, I do not want a debate on whether he is prog, I do not want to see a poll on whether he is prog or not, I do not want to see a thread debating his prog-ness.........

"utah_man"  = Points to my location both currently & originally. 

Through the years, my family and I have lived a lot of different places here in the States, but always end up returning to the western slope of the grand Rockie Mtns. along the spectacular Wasatch range.

(Only been to three "foreign" countries: Canada, Mexico, West Virginia ).

[footnote: one of the few native Utahns who is not a member of the Mormon church]

Avatar (BTW, didn't they simply used to be called Icons ?) = Gentle Giant's cover of Octopus.

Emdiar = Em-di-ar = M.D.R.

My initials, (the M is for Mark)

Avatar.... I'm a bassist (duh!)

Now you know

 

Syzygy is a word that once got me a truly remarkable score in a game of Scrabble (sad but true). The final 'y' was on the bottom right hand corner triple word score, and it connected to the word 'thirst' going down. OK, so one of the y's was a blank, and a 7 letter word would have got me a 50 point bonus, but it's not every day you get to use a 6 letter vowel free word, and even rarer for it to land on a triple word score.

The avatar comes from Harry Enfield's brilliant send up of the stereotypical Scouser - I should add at this point that I am guilty of being Liverpudlian, but no one has ever called me a Scouser (at least, not to my face). If it hadn't been for a certain Manc's poking fun at my native city (aided by a Swede with an oddly English sense of humour) it would probably be something prog related.

My girlfriend calls me her little fudgy-pudgy (although I lost a whole lot of wait- 30 pounds!!!)

My nickname is obvious and I chose the spinning thing because it is bloody annoying and distracting-like me!