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Bright_Eyes 08:31 am UTC 09/19/07 |
| In reply to: | Please allow me to introduce myself... - Jacqueline 04:36 am UTC 09/13/07 |
| If it's too long don't read it. I do not know any Jim Steinman fans and none of them know me. I don't really want to write a profile or introduction but I want to make one post where I at least make it more clear that I am not Susan. I can't believe I actually have to explain that, as I've already denied being Susan, but some believe whatever they want to. There are enough accusations against her and the multiple-alias accusation is one of the more ridiculous and unnecessary. I'm astonished that anybody ever adopted this idiotic theory. There never was any shred of reason to believe I was Susan. I do not have her writing style. I'm not always online at the same times. There are threads where she disagreed quite emphatically with me. The statements for which she is best known I have never said I agreed with, or disagreed with for that matter. The fact that some adopted this stupid belief just shows how fanatical the hatred is. Some here cannot fathom that somebody would show up and not hate Susan, without them being Susan or her friend or conspiratorial in some way. Not true, I just don't hate Susan and quite dislike the fanatical hatred of Susan movement. Reading this board pointed me toward a lot of factual knowledge and interesting viewpoints about Steinman's work, and the posts about hatred or grudges between fans don't add anything to that. I don't think they add anything good to anything. I sometimes wish every fan on this board, myself included, could have a "grudge reset" button pushed, and would just sit down at the keyboard and type about music they like instead. Now for things I can say about myself. Amateur-level boxing used to be a real-life hobby of mine. When it was not off-season I used to train quite intensely for that. Please no snide remarks about me being hit in the head too much, my brain is about as good as it ever was. I've recently taken a break from boxing for a variety of reasons, including a hand injury. I'm looking to take up a sport that won't aggravate my hands, but will keep my strength and conditioning intact. I'm planning to learn wrestling starting in a couple of weeks. Not what AG Awesome does, but the real stuff, the kind they do in the olympics. I've never wrestled before but I've always been pretty good, but not phenomenal, at every sport that I trained seriously for. I've lived in multiple countries and I don't associate with any particular country. I can fake the spoken accent of every place I've lived pretty well. None of my accents are very good, not even the Caribbean one. I look and sound like an outsider everywhere. My family is of primarily Caribbean origin. I do not have any job right now. I dropped out of secondary school, and I wish I had done so earlier because things were not working out between me and "the teachers". I've always had slow reading and learning ability, a poor attention span, and a tendency to argue with and insult teachers. One of my goals in life is to complete a university degree. I'm in some ways an unlikely prospect for this but I think it could happen if I stick to subjects that are very concrete and logical and do not involve a lot of reading. I was on travel from Saturday the 8th until Monday the 17th, to attend the wedding of a relative of mine. It was in the Hawaiian islands. Not a place I particularly care for. The island of Maui was chosen as a halfway point, as the bride was Korean and her relatives flew in from S. Korea, the rest of us from the other general direction. While there, the place I stayed had a television, and I was watching the American MTV channel. I saw their "VMA Awards" show. I noticed that pretty much all of the music on it was something I disliked immediately or had some negative attitude reflex about. I didn't like this at all. Everywhere I've lived, I've eventually been able to appreciate the kind of music that was popular there. My disappointment with the fact that I was so out-of-sync with what was popular on American MTV made me consider quitting this board, and the other one I still read, the James Horner board. I think fan message boards like this one have their upside and downside. Part of the downside is that they can encourage an inflated focus on a small amount of old work. I used to like rap and hip hop music until I started reading internet fan message boards. My rationalization has always been "oh well rap has gotten worse" but I'm not sure anymore if it has. I might just be more closed minded about it. I don't like the idea of being somebody who checks for updates about a musical of songs released years ago, and about singers who've never sold any records, but who is closed minded toward the successful stuff younger people are releasing now. I think it might do me good to stop checking this board for a while, and instead listen to nothing but the radio stations that play new hit material. I became interested in Jim Steinman's music after I bought the 2-disc VBO Meat Loaf set in 2001. I bought it after having seen part of the VH1 Behind The Music show about Meat. The rest of Steinman's work I found through fan websites. I took a very obsessive approach to it. My interest in Steinman and his work is on a downward trend at the moment and has been going downward for at least 7 months now. | |
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