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Just thought I'd say hi. I stumbled onto the board following a link from somewhere last week, and I haven't been able to find my way back out. (There was this white rabbit, and a caterpillar...) Anyway, my name's Jesse Fox Mayshark (I know, pretentious to use the middle name, but it makes the bylines stand out more). I'm 33, recently relocated to Manhattan from Knoxville, Tenn. on what my wife and I are considering a two-year voluntary lapse of reason. (She's from Tennessee, to whence we will probably return. I'm from upstate New York, to whence we probably won't.)

I'm a freelance reporter/editor, dabbling in everything from music and movies to politics. I currently contribute to No Depression and popmatters.com, as well as Metro Pulse, the rough-but-scrappy Knoxville alt-weekly I had the pleasure of editing for the past few years. My tastes are generally more broad than deep, and my faves are boringly canonical (Dylan, Ramones, Replacements, P.E., Sleater-Kinney -- I can't help it, they all changed my life at various points), colored a little by a year I spent with a girlfriend in Manchester in the early '90s (yes, we went to the Hacienda; no, we never got punched by Shaun Ryder, darn it). What I love this week is "The Way of the Vaselines," which inexplicably took me 10 years to get around to buying.

Anyway, I love the board. I've been having silly and disproportionately passionate debates about music with friends since middle school ("Loverboy sucks!" "They do not!"), which have continued in various forms to this day. I'm happy to find another venue for them.

cheers,

― Jesse Fox Mayshark (Jesse Fox), Friday, 17 January 2003 02:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Welcome to us. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 January 2003 02:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder how many Jesse Fox Maysharks there are in Manhattan.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 17 January 2003 02:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Sean,

there are exactly 12.73 Jesse Fox Maysharks in Manhattan.

― ligate, Friday, 17 January 2003 02:36 (twenty-three years ago)

...or indeed how many Maysharks, nevermind the first two names.

Welcome Jesse. Always good to see a fellow New Yorker!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 January 2003 02:36 (twenty-three years ago)

There aren't many Maysharks in the whole world, as far as I know -- and I'm related to all of 'em. It was one of those Ellis Island names, originally Polish. Family lore is that the immigration official couldn't pronounce it. Or maybe my great-granddad was just trying to fit in. Anyway, when anyone asks, "What kind of name is that?", I always just say, "American." Makes me feel all patriotic. Thanks for the welcomes.

― Jesse Fox (Jesse Fox), Friday, 17 January 2003 03:01 (twenty-three years ago)

YAAAAY

More Knoxville expatriates

Soon Tracer, Jesse and I will SHAME YOU ALL with the overwhelming power of our demographic

DA DA DA DA DA DA ROCKY TOP DA DA DADA DA DAAAA

― Tom Millar (Millar), Friday, 17 January 2003 03:07 (twenty-three years ago)

And don't forget the inimitable, formidable Lee G. He's all nitty-gritty Baltimore now, but the first night I met 'im he took me to the Longbranch. Nice to know there's other Rocky Top rockers around.

― Jesse Fox (Jesse Fox), Friday, 17 January 2003 03:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Can i steal yr name to use as a sporadic alias?

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Friday, 17 January 2003 03:22 (twenty-three years ago)

STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN! BTW, welcome to the board!

― Scrub Typhus, Friday, 17 January 2003 03:30 (twenty-three years ago)

So, which side did you take re: Loverboy?

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 17 January 2003 03:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Both. In the first half of 7th grade, they were my favorite band. Then a friend to whom I am forever indebted introduced me to the Ramones (heavens parting, golden light descending, etc.) and within months I was assailing the mainstream with all the zeal of your typical new disciple. I admit a lingering fondness for "Working for the Weekend," however. And I was amazed years later to discover that Loverboy's bass player started out in X-Ray Spex.

― Jesse Fox (Jesse Fox), Friday, 17 January 2003 03:43 (twenty-three years ago)

welcome ...

― phil jones (interstar), Friday, 17 January 2003 11:51 (twenty-three years ago)

hey, jesse! i'm a NYCer as well. and there are about 10000 other NYC ilx posters; you will meet them all soon enough i'm sure.

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 17 January 2003 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

East Tennessee in the hizz-outhouse.

― Lee G (Lee G), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

TS: Red leather vs. black leather

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

If anyone's asking "'Turn Me Loose' C or D?" . . . well, I gotta go with classic (of a sort).

― Lee G (Lee G), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

Hi!

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 10 February 2007 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

Loverboy's bassist started out in X-ray Specs?!??!??!

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 10 February 2007 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

man the dude who started this thread was a loser.

xpost: yes. yes he did.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 February 2007 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

apparently, the loverboy/x-ray spex connection is a conspiracy.

― s w00ds (sw00ds), Saturday, 10 February 2007 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

er, link didn't work: http://www.comnet.ca/~rina/paul.html

― s w00ds (sw00ds), Saturday, 10 February 2007 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh well. I want to say that it wouldn't be the strangest musical connection I'd ever heard of, except, um, it wouldn't actually be true. Unless Don Cherry the trumper and Don Cherry the hockey dude turned out to be the same guy after all, or similar.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 10 February 2007 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

neneh cherry, son of a hockey man

― s w00ds (sw00ds), Saturday, 10 February 2007 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

o no! i believed that for years. how traumatic.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 February 2007 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

about paul dean i mean, not don cherry.

why do all these conspiracies involve canadians?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 February 2007 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Oi Jesse- you still here?

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 11 March 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

He got sonned by a Knoxville girl on a Louvin Bros beef.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 11 March 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

But then, after flying too close to the flame, reemerged like a moth from the ashes.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 11 March 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

hm?

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 11 March 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Never mind, just making stuff up

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 11 March 2007 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

no i was hmming to tracer. your narrative was about right, give or take a pirate ship.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 11 March 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

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