OTF Community Member Introduction Thread

[fefe]

Age: 26
Gender: Female
Nickname: don't really have one IRL... in GW, most people call me Si. If you wanna use the real name, it's Gwen
Location (Country): Canada
Favourite Music: eclectic. will listen to just about anything.... do have a few favourite songs, though. right now, Alfie, by Lily Allen and Coin Operated Boy by The Dresden Dolls are top of the list. :)
Favourite Author: tough call, but would say either Neil Gaiman or Larry Niven
Favourite Book: Alice in Wonderland, by Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll. Followed very closely by Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
Most anticipated movie of 2007: Stardust (woot! coming August 10! And yes, it even tops Harry Potter...)

[Sakura Moon]

Age: 25
Gender: Female
Nickname: Folks around here tend to call me Sakura, but I go by Lynn online.
Location: South Carolina, USA
Hobbies: Used to include riding my bike, swimming, reading, coin collecting, and beanie babies (yes, I know...). Right now it's mostly online gaming.
Music: Varies by my mood, usually. I've always enjoyed listening to the Oldies and a bit of the older MoTown music. Basically anything between 1960s and mid-1980s. I like some of the newer stuff as well, but not really into the hard rock/metal/rap type of stuff. Classic/contemporary rock all the way.
Other Stuff: Coming up on my seven year mark in the Navy next week. I usually hang out here in the OTF when I'm online, and sometimes visiting the PAL Forum during my "drive by" posting.

[Azrael STX]

Age: 21
Gender: M
Nicknames: Az, Jonny Park
Location: NY
Music:

30 Seconds To Mars
Acadamy Is, The
AFI
Aiden
Alexisonfire
Alkaline Trio
All-American Rejects
Anadivine
Anatomy Of A Ghost
Anberlin
A Perfect Circle
Armor For Sleep
As I Lay Dying
A Static Lullaby
Ataris, The
A Thorn For Every Heart
At The Drive-in
Atreyu
Ayumi Hamasaki
Bayside
Beautiful Mistake, The
Black Maria, The
Bled, The
Blindside
Boy Hits Car
Boys Night Out
Brand New
Brand New Disaster
Breaking Benjamin
Bright Eyes
Bullet For My Valentine
Chevelle
Coheed And Cambria
Conjure One
Count The Stars
Cursive
Dashboard Confessional
Dead Poetic
Desaparecidos
Disturbed
Dollar Canon, The
Dust Brothers, The
Early November, The
Echo And The Bunnymen
Emanuel
Emery
Everytime I Die
Finch
Forecast, The
From Autumn To Ashes
Funeral For A Friend
Further Seems Forever
Get Up Kids, The
Green Day
Halifax
Hawthorne Heights
He Is Legend
Hellogoodbye
Hidden In Plain View
HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
Hoobastank
Hopesfall
Hurt Process, The
Juliana Theory, The
Kidneythieves
Killswitch Engage
Linkin Park
Long Since Forgotten
Lostprophets
Mae
Matchbook Romance
Maximum The Hormone
Mindless Self Indulgence
Moeko Matsushita
Moneen
My Chemical Romance
Name Taken
Nightmare
Norma Jean
Offspring, The
Papa Roach
Pedro The Lion
Poison The Well
Promise Ring, The
Ready Set Fail
Rise Against
Rufio
Saosin
Saves The Day
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Secondhand Serenade
Senses Fail
Showbread
Silverstein
Slipknot
Something Corporate
Spitalfield
Stabbing Westward
Staind
Static-X
Straylight Run
Sublime
Sunny Day Real Estate
System Of A Down
Taking Back Sunday
Taproot
Tears For Fears
Thrice
Thursday
Underoath
Unearth
Used, The
Waterdown
White Stripes, The
With Broken Wings
Yellowcard
Yoko Takahashi

Profession: Fourth Hand
Major: Engineering Science
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Favorite Pie: Rhubarb
Favorite Fruit: Coconut
Pictures:1 and 2

[evillorderic]

Age: 21
Gender: M
Nicknames: Az, Jonny Park
Location: NY
Music:


Anberlin

I am forced to love you for liking Anberlin. I found them on Pandora.com about a year ago and have loved them ever since!

[maina]

Hiya,

Did you really have to list every band you've ever listened to? I could've listed the 387 bands on my playlist but chose not to...

Knowing Azreal STX only from posts here and recognizing a few bands on the list, I appreciate it. Now I have a list of bands to sample, I'm sure that I'll find a couple that I like. Adding to my music collection is always a good thing.

Name- Maina (it's my cats name)
Sex- Yes
Age- lets just say I managed to retire last year before the age of 40. (barely)
Location- Currently the Bay area of California. Grew up in the midwest and lived in Las Vegas for 5+ years before coming here.
Favorite Authors- Non-Fiction- Michael Shermer, Joseph Campbell
Fiction- H.P. Lovecraft, James Joyce.
Nickname- "Red" (Hair is past my shoulders and always dyed a shade of red)
Favorite Foods- Cold beer, warm Sake. (and hotdogs)
Hobbies- Games, more computer and console games now, playing table top RPG's since 1977. Collecting Disney Princess, Anime and books/stuff related to H.P. Lovecraft. My Horror movie collection is over 250 Dvd's.
"If you were stuck on a deserted Island, what one thing would you want?"- A boat.

Maina

[Liquid Delusions]

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Nickname: J, Gal (as all my characters are either Galdor or Galadriel :P )

Real Name:Ji Hwan (Ji is fine!)

Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Music:hmm, everything really! from Annie Lennox to Shinhwa to Yanni

Occupation: Translator (freelance) English to Cantonese, Mandarin and Korean.

Education: University degree (Asian studies, sociology)

Misc: Born in Seoul, South Korea. Lived in Glasgow since i was 13...hobies include GuildWars (duh :P), hiking, music, art, movies, languages.

Favourate food: Jajangmyeon (noodles with black bean sauce, usually has some kind of meat, too....VERY tasty :P) Mandu (stuffed dumplings, usually stuffed with herbs and pork or veg...lovely!)

Favourate drink: PEPSI ^^

Favourate City my hometown : Seoul


i could go on. but the mods would kill me ^^

[Gaendaal]

I suppose I should do one of these...

Name: Gaendaal. For online purposes this is my real name.
Age: 30
Country: Scotland, currently. Born in Northern England.
Interests: Many, many different things...

I love travelling and have, in just the past few years, been to China, Japan, New Zealand and Australia amongst others. We've just signed up to go trekking in Peru next year (a charity event, as was the China trip) so that should be awesome! I also enjoy learning the languages of places I go to and, although I can't speak any of them fluently, I have varying levels of German, French and Japanese. I can say "hello" in Chinese but little else...

I also love literature of various kinds. I'm currently reading a history of burial and graveyards in London, a book on string/M-theory, a Fantastic Four graphic novel and the collected adventures of Conan the Barbarian. This is a pretty even mix for me. I also enjoy writing stories myself; I'm working on an on-going steampunk/fantasy series which I'm publishing myself as limited run journals. It's also available on-line in a draft form though the Oort Cloud writers' website.

The final of my three main interests is music. Sweet music. I'm one of those annoying people who always says "everything" when asked what they like and it's pretty much true. There's no one style of music that I COMPLETELY dislike; just now I'm listening to a band called Saltillo who are a kind of cross between DJ Shadow and Delerium via a string quartet. This morning I had a few hours of primitive black metal with Xasthur, Striborg and Nox. I could list all the bands that I'm enjoying just now but I'm afraid that I'd make Azrael's list look a bit small...

I'm also actively involved in the music scene in a number of ways. I run a few nightclubs and do gig promotion in Edinburgh with some friends. We've had some great nights and are getting a bit of reknown in the scene we work in, which is great. I also review music for the Heathen Harvest website as well as interviewing musicians as and when I can. If that wasn't enough, I'm also in a few bands: Wraiths (a noise/drone thing where I mostly howl and play instruments I've made myself whilst my colleague bangs things, we've just had our first CD released), LVTHN (a computer based ambient solo project, just had a CD out as part of a series for a label in the US) and Sigillum Dei (sample manipulation experiments, sending out demos just now).

Various other things I enjoy: Indian, Mexican and Japanese food, good beer, photography, camping, walking/hiking, board games, working for charities and so on.

Random fact: I was threatened by Darth Vader as a small child.

[Barcardi The Cat]

Ok my turn!

Name: On here Barcardi, In most other games/online Fan
Age: 28
Location: London
Occupation: General dogsbody/ jack of all trades
Music: Most sorts including some very obscure types. Was a gigging musician through college and uni and so had to cultivate a very broad taste
Author/book: Terry Pratchett - Nightshift or Going Postal

Intrests: Reading, writing, gaming, playing various woodwind instruments

Fact: I'm dyslexic and spend alot of my free time educating others about the condition and being a assistant teacher for adults with basic skill needs

[Nikhera]

Age: 17

Gender: Lacking Y chromosomes

Nickname: Nikhera, Nika-chan, Kitty, Nika (I prefer Nika to my real name actually)

Location: London (the Canadian one)

Interests: I like art and music, ie doodling and listening to my favourite bands. I love reading and writing almost equally, though I haven't been doing much of neither lately. Besides that, other random things I like include gaming, anime, chocolate, cats and working with children.

My biggest passion, I have to say, would be my awesome boyfriend He is an inspiration to me in many things I do.

Music: I like rock, j-pop, metal, screamo and progressive rock the most. But also instrumental music rocks. Some of my favourite bands/artists include Taking Back Sunday, Evanescence, AFI, Yuki Kajuira, Yoko Takahashi, Ayreon and a bunch of others.

Anime: My favourite anime ever is Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. This Ugly Yet Beautiful World and Death Note are both tied for second place, I s'posse. ^^

Occupation: Currently I'm entering my last year of high school. Once I get out I plan to move in with my boyfriend, and then work on our future together. I want to become either an optometrist, or a pediatrician. (I'm taking a co-op course this year that should help me decide.)

Other random facts: I have the cutest cat in the world evaaar. She's lovely, and one of my best friends.

When school is finished, I want t make a bit of money and travel, at least for a week or two. I want to take my boyfriend to visit my native country of Slovakia, so he can see where I grew up and meet my awesome (dys)functional family.

Pic here!

[The Harlequin]

Age: 26
Gender: femme
Nickname: Cass
Location: This other Eden, demi-paradise, this precious stone set in the silver sea, this earth, this realm, this Los Angeles.
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Class: Me/Ne
Profession: Consultant of electronic doo-hickeys and thing-a-ma-jigs.

A Bunch Of Other Stuff: I love history, science, great literature, sci-fi, classical art, classical music, rock, dance/trance, philosophy, poetry, RPGs, gardening, hiking, sketching, comedies/tragedies, etc, etc. I'd love to have a cat, but I have two love-muffin greyhounds who've already claimed me.