{"id":8,"date":"1995-01-10T04:48:07","date_gmt":"1995-01-10T12:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=8"},"modified":"2019-12-16T08:44:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T16:44:39","slug":"from-usenet-11095-0448","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1995\/01\/10\/from-usenet-11095-0448\/","title":{"rendered":"[From Usenet: 1.10.95 0448]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17174,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/groups.google.com\\\/group\\\/alt.music.nin\\\/msg\\\/56ba367151a52bf3?q=author:Woody+author:Hanscom&amp;start=30&amp;hl=en&amp;rnum=36&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/groups.google.com\\\/group\\\/alt.music.nin\\\/msg\\\/56ba367151a52bf3?q=author:Woody+author:Hanscom&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>[Note: This was originally a post to the <code>alt.music.nin<\/code> Usenet newsgroup. I&#8217;m including it here for completeness. Originally archived <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/alt.music.nin\/msg\/56ba367151a52bf3?q=author:Woody+author:Hanscom&amp;start=30&amp;hl=en&amp;rnum=36\" title=\"Google Groups: alt.music.nin: a.m.ninnies--INTRODUCE YOURSELF, part 2\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>I do suppose, while not being necessarily one of the &#8216;big names&#8217; (with a gun? sorry&#8230;seemingly obligatory lyrics reference) on a.m.nin, I might as well pitch in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Currently living by the pesudonym Woody&#8230;only my family and very old friends bother with my given name anymore, so I pretty much ignore it. 21 years old, and not currently in school. Thankfully able to avoid an <code>@aol.com<\/code> address, though due to a local provider, ended up with a mildy cool address. Yippe, lifes ambition is fulfilled. Or not.<\/p>\n<p>At present, biding my time here in the frozen wasteland of Anchorage, Alaska until I can get my skinny butt out of here. Current future looks like I&#8217;ll be hitting Seattle roundabouts late March or early April, not through any great longing to hit that particular false mecca of the &#8217;90&#8217;s, but rather taking a chance to head down with a friend. Finally have a realistic chance to get out, don&#8217;t care where I end up. Yes, Anchorage <em>is<\/em> that bad. Bitch bitch bitch. There, that&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the previous three posts in this that I&#8217;ve read, not currently a musician. Bummer. Classical vocal training as a child and a passing familiarity with the violin aren&#8217;t too high in demand these days. I wonder why&#8230;. I fill my time making <em>lots<\/em> of copies at the local Kinko&#8217;s. Work a swing shift, which means I get up about 2 in the afternoon, hit work at 4, off at midnight, and crash between 4 and 6 in the morning. Perfect for a night owl. When I&#8217;m not there, I usually move into the local Village Inn (a classier Denny&#8217;s type place). Friday nights I dj for a local teen club&#8217;s &#8216;Alternative&#8217; night. Currently being screwed over by the manager pay wise, but hey&#8230;I get six hours a week to play whatever I feel like really, really loud, and with no place else for the under-21 crowd to go, lots of people have fun. I can deal with being a bit of a sucker for that.<\/p>\n<p>Musically, decently wide ranged. A collection of 300-some discs, ranging from Abba to Legendary Pink Dots to gregorian chant to KLF, Sisters of Mercy, Mary&#8217;s Danish&#8230;very into &#8217;80&#8217;s stuff, Jesus Christ Superstar, and have a couple of cd&#8217;s of German &#8216;indie&#8217; music that goes over great at the club. Must admit to a bit of self-absorbed pride in being one of the only people here in Anchorage who not only listens to nin, but knows what I&#8217;m babbling about, much of which I owe to a.m.nin. Even hassled the local music chain for three months until they tracked down Demo&#8217;s and Remixes&#8230;and last I looked, they still had two copies of it, the better pressing even. The people up here just don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s out there&#8230;funny.<\/p>\n<p>Computer wise, am a confessed mac fanatic. Hey&#8230;I can admit to being enough of an idiot to like the pretty little pictures. Course, some of those &#8216;pretty&#8217; little icons were grabbed from Geiger scans, but hey&#8230;. Refuse to be dragged into a &#8216;my box is better&#8217; debate, though, as I have a healthy respect for beemers, use the ones at Kinko&#8217;s a fair amount, and wouldn&#8217;t mind grabbing one, if a recent engine seizure hadn&#8217;t put me so far in debt. Just avoid Windoze like the plague. Gerf.<\/p>\n<p>So hey, that&#8217;s me&#8230;take it or leave it. 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