Daniel Amos Message Board | Print: It's All About YOU....

Posted by manskow on 01-27-2008 at05:14:

RE: It's All About YOU....

Name: fred manskow
Birthday: feb 7 1968
Birthplace: oslo, norway
Current Location: oslo, norway
Current Occupation: designer, web developer, creative director
Dream Occupation: designer, web developer, creative director with a successful music carreer on the side
Eye Color: grey
Hair Color: blonde
Height: 1m80
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: my faith
Your Biggest Weakness: my faith....
Your Fears: failing
The Perfect Pizza: plain italian style with pepperoni
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: start remodeling my house
Your Most Overused Phrase or word: you know
Morning person or Night Owl: both, depending
Your Best Physical Feature: hands
Your Most Missed Memory: my dad
Pepsi or Coke: coke
Favorite Fast Food: right now they have this salmon roll at macdonalds in norway with wasabi sauce. it' really tasty.
Can You Cook: yes.
Chocolate or Vanilla: chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: caffe cortado, actually - a smaller more intense latte
Three Stooges, Abbot and Costello or the Marx Brothers: marxist, always
Number of hours that you normally watch TV in a single day: 0 - i choose not to own one
Favorite type of movie (Drama/comedy/action/documentary/etc): drama
Letterman or Leno: letterman
Do you Smoke: no
Do you Sing: yes
Do you Dance: yes
Most unusual talent: ability to combine visual and programming skills in my job
You like to regularly challenge yourself by: undertaking programming projects that i have never done before
Do you get Motion Sickness: yes - when riding the train sitting backwards or sideways and reading and/or working on my laptop
Are you a Health Freak: yes, periodically
Do/did you get along with your Parents: yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: yes, they're ok as long as i'm inside
Do you play an Instrument: yes, i play the guitar. handy when writing songs
Have you ever Stolen Anything: yes - i taped my friends' records regularly as a kid, and i occasionally partake in similar activities in the digital domain
Have You Ever been Beaten up: yes, once as a teenager. i was a bit of an outsider in my suburban neighborhood and it was the eighties and i bleached my hair and wore make up. this didn't go down well with a group of kids who hung out at the train station.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: designer, comic book artist
What country would you most like to Visit: new zealand
Number of CDs I own: 500+
Number of Piercings: 0-
Number of Tattoos:0-
Number of Message Board Alliases: 2
The Greatest Rock Band in History Is: Tight race. U2 or DA
ADDED: The greatest artist in history is: Bob Dylan
The Album I Wore Out Growing Up Was: U2 - WAR

Posted by dennis on 01-27-2008 at10:42:

"It was the eighties..."

This is always a good telltale sign the story being told is about to go wrong.

Horribly wrong. Shocked

Posted by dennis on 01-27-2008 at11:46:

By the way...

Welcome manskow!

Posted by sondance on 01-27-2008 at13:07:

RE: It's All About YOU....

welcome Manskow - you don't by any chance hang out on the Fred Magle forum do you?
a bit of a stretch from DA to a Danish concert organist and composer but you never know. There is a sub-group of graphic artists and a very broad variety of musical tastes there also, largely European in interests. For example they have not yet found a reason to like our President, not sure why... Wink

Posted by manskow on 01-28-2008 at17:14:

RE: It's All About YOU....

Thanks! - No, I am not familiar with Fred Magle. It does, however, sound like a place worth checking out!

And - to Dennis; loved your eighties remark. It's true. I saw some photographs recently - the kids at the railway station had a point....

Which, in turn leaves me wondering. We've had a string of revivals over the past few decades. A fifties revival in the eighties, a seventies revival in the nineties. We have our "hits of the seventies, eighties and nineties" radio stations. What will happen in ten, fifteen, twenty years when some dork looks back at this decade and says to himself "yeah, that's the look/sound/attitude for this summer: the.........! This decade has no name! And the next one? The teens? Please....

Posted by dennis on 01-28-2008 at19:32:

I like "The Zeros" Pleased

Posted by bereal on 01-29-2008 at10:57:

we are much cooler in the zeroes than we were in the 80s. Big Grin

yea, back in the 80s, i wore leg warmers and braided barrettes in the early 80s, and went to another extreme with the big hair in the late 80s. i though guys with big hair (not just long, i still like that) and makeup were soooooooo good looking. i think i got into every trend in the 80s. what were we thinking? Shocked

Posted by dennis on 01-29-2008 at17:05:

Thumb Up!

1980s

Posted by bereal on 01-30-2008 at09:44:

no, this was my heartthrob in the 80s

Posted by dennis on 01-30-2008 at16:52:

Thumb Down!

Stevie Ray Vaughan is dead, and we can't get Jon Bon Jovi in a helicopter!
~Denis Leary

Tongue

Posted by Mountain Fan on 01-31-2008 at09:54:

quote:

Originally posted by dennis
Stevie Ray Vaughan is dead, and we can't get Jon Bon Jovi in a helicopter!
~Denis Leary

Tongue

excellent quote! Pleased

the 2 musicians that first come to mind that I took personal pause when I heard of their deaths when they happened were Stevie Ray Vaughan and Rich Mullins

i was too young to really know what was going on when elvis and lennon died, but if i wasn't they wouldn't have quite rated as pauseworthy as vaughn and mullins in my personal book. i remember them covering elvis' death on tv and thinking of the footage "it's a fat guy in a gold suit, why are all those girls screaming?". I remember thinking of lennon "a funny-looking long-haired guy with sunglasses". (and yes, I had heard some of their records.)

i wasn't into CCM when Heard died, either and due to ongoing life events didn't find out about Gene Eugene until some time after his death.

Posted by Mountain Fan on 01-31-2008 at09:59:

i didn't quite buy the 80's hair (although br's hair in high school was pretty killer). the most i did to try to look cool was get a tie-dye hendrix t-shirt with stonewashed jeans.

a guilty pleasure for me is some of the 80's melodic hard rock in the glam vein. I really liked Dokken (as much George Lynch as anything) and still do. it's hit or miss for me. Bon Jovi, RATT, Poison were just OK to me - if they were on the radio I wouldn't change it.

before it got too bad I started listening to older music and got hendrix, zeppelin, etc. I think I was born a generation later than I should have been Red Face

Posted by Ron E on 01-31-2008 at10:24:

For some reason my highschool mostly listened to Zeppelin Doors etc, and I was there from 85-90. I remember the first time I heard REM, it gave me hope for the new music, that and U2 I guess, but REM seemed to come out of nowhere, though now I know better.

Posted by whoaaanelly on 02-03-2008 at21:14:

RE: It's All About YOU....

Just thought I'd do this finally... bored with XLII

Name: Roger Moore
Birthday: 8.7.60
Birthplace: Ft Worth Tx
Current Location: Seattle/Lynnwood, WA
Current Occupation: Software development
Dream Occupation: Auto restorer
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: greying blond
Height: 5.11
Right Handed or Left Handed: R
Your Heritage: Irish/Eng
Your Biggest Weakness: Saying Yes
Your Fears: I'll work myself to death
The Perfect Pizza: Combo
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Survive it
Your Most Overused Phrase or word: uh
Morning person or Night Owl: morning
Your Best Physical Feature: hands
Your Most Missed Memory: Can't remember
Pepsi or Coke: Dr. Pepper for crying out loud
Favorite Fast Food: Tacos
Can You Cook: Absolutely
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee
Three Stooges, Abbot and Costello or the Marx Brothers: A&C
Number of hours that you normally watch TV in a single day: 4
Favorite type of movie (Drama/comedy/action/documentary/etc): Drama
Letterman or Leno: Letterman
Do you Smoke: not for 28 years TG
Do you Sing: Yep
Do you Dance: kind'a
Most unusual talent: gosh... I've got so many...
You like to regularly challenge yourself by: lifting the covers every morning
Do you get Motion Sickness: nah
Are you a Health Freak: certainly not
Do/did you get along with your Parents: love 'em both (still)
Do you like Thunderstorms: Awesome!!!
Do you play an Instrument: Guitar
Have you ever Stolen Anything: confession time?
Have You Ever been Beaten up: Yeah...
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Mechanic
What country would you most like to Visit: Greece
Number of CDs I own: 500ish
Number of Piercings: One that's long ago closed up
Number of Tattoos: Nada
Number of Message Board Alliases: This one? 1
The Greatest Rock Band in History Is: HELLO! Pink Floyd Big Grin

The Album I Wore Out Growing Up Was: LZ4 until DA-SA (we are talking "albums" here, right? DA-SA was my first Christian album and I wore that thing out.

Posted by whoaaanelly on 02-03-2008 at21:19:

2 Posts! (3 now) Is that all? Gosh I need to step up..

Posted by chrharr on 02-04-2008 at19:18:

RE: It's All About YOU....

Name: Christopher Harris
Birthday: June 7, 1972
Birthplace: North Kansas City, Missouri
Current Location: Olathe, Kansas
Current Occupation: Diabetic Supply company (WLS), A/V director - Vineyard church
Dream Occupation: A/V Director
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: brown
Height: 5' 8"
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: English, Welsh, Scottish, german
Your Biggest Weakness:
Your Fears:
The Perfect Pizza:
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year:
Your Most Overused Phrase or word: OK
Morning person or Night Owl: Morning person
Your Best Physical Feature: hmmm
Your Most Missed Memory: mom
Pepsi or Coke: Dr pepper
Favorite Fast Food: Carlitos Mexican
Can You Cook: yes
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee:
Three Stooges, Abbot and Costello or the Marx Brothers:
Number of hours that you normally watch TV in a single day:
Favorite type of movie (Drama/comedy/action/documentary/etc):
Letterman or Leno: letterman
Do you Smoke: no
Do you Sing: some
Do you Dance: no
Most unusual talent:
You like to regularly challenge yourself by:
Do you get Motion Sickness: No
Are you a Health Freak: No
Do/did you get along with your Parents: yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: yes
Do you play an Instrument: the Tuba
Have you ever Stolen Anything: no
Have You Ever been Beaten up: yes
What do you want to be when you Grow Up:
What country would you most like to Visit:
Number of CDs I own: 500 or so
Number of Piercings: 0
Number of Tattoos: 0
Number of Message Board Alliases: 2
The Greatest Rock Band in History Is: Daniel Amos or One Bad Pig
The Album I Wore Out Growing Up Was: Evie