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  • Back in the Youngin' years...92 everytime the spins would come on...I would start singing....Oh Imspinnin...pretty simple!!
    Black Rocks!!
    If I could be anything in the world I would be your teardrop...I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    just doin what eddie instructed me to
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • satansbedbugs
    satansbedbugs On Tour Posts: 2,413
    two of my favorites!!!!
    *Marker in the Sand Fanclub * HNIC

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    - Given To Fly
  • My story can't be more stupid but anyways here it is:
    I studied philosohpy, and during sometime of my carrer I found myself trying to understand one of the most difficult books to read by some german philosopher, but at that same time I felt in a very bad depression caused by a lost of a very loved person. I got so depressed at that time that I spent months doing nothing but reading that damn book, again and again and again. Just to keep my mind busy and trying not to think about nothing but about the book. I read it over 9 times and I even memorized some parts of it.
    But then, some years latter I picked up the same book just to realize I couldn't remember either a single line about the book or about any of those days of pain, all I could do when I tried to read the book was to cry. It's like I made some kind of mental conection between the book and those hard days and since all I wanted was to deny the pain, I forgot everything about the book and about those very painful but very important days of my life. I forgot everything about both things... the book and the person I lost.

    And that's why I felt like "I can not fond the candle of thought to light your name" (my screen name is thecandleofthought)

    I hope this made sense to anyone...
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    For my name, you take:

    1 Ed
    1 stage venue of Finsbury Park, July 1993
    1 bunch of carrots in Ed's hand
    1 crowd with me at the front jumping around like a lunatic

    Now:

    Put Ed onstage with carrots, in front of crowd of idiots
    Get Ed to chuck carrots into crowd
    Make sure at least one carrot hits me on the nose


    And there you have a wonderful recipe for FinsburyParkCarrots.
  • rock
    rock Posts: 51
    I'm well impressed with all these stories behind the names..wish I had one but no such luck, my name is petra which means..yup... rock

    didn't really think about all the 'macho' connotations when first using it..geez might as well have called myself something like panter (shudders)...looking back pebbles would've been more appropriate...maybe not.. too cute..aww never mind
  • My name is taken from a nickname that I picked up in college. When I was pledging my frarternity, my PM hated my "real" pledge name (which remains secret), so he called me private joker, because he thought it looked like I was always smiling. (Taken from Full Metal Jacket)

    The 22 was my B-Ball number in high school.
    so combined the two you get...
    "My road may be lonely
    just because it's not paved

    it's good for drifting away..."
    "What's the score?"
    "Nothing, nothing."
    "Who's winning?"
    "The Bears."
  • jessie
    jessie Posts: 14
    weed wrote:
    i smoke dope!
    :)
    hell yah!

    ben harper-(if you don't like my fire, then don't come around, cause i'm gonna burn one down)
  • jessie
    jessie Posts: 14
    i love the question, guess i can't really answer though, just like the name, it can be male or female anybody's guess?
  • diego92
    diego92 Posts: 38
    well, actually diego is my real name. I couldnt use cause it was already taken. so I added the 92 for the year I started listen to pj. And its only now that I notice Ive never seen a post by "diego". have you?
  • lack of imagination ;)
    Speaking as a child of the 90's
  • no mystery here.....


    "Release" is my favorite PJ song and my name is Lauren.
    "you shall be released" ~ EV
  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    diego92 wrote:
    well, actually diego is my real name. I couldnt use cause it was already taken. so I added the 92 for the year I started listen to pj. And its only now that I notice Ive never seen a post by "diego". have you?
    Just looked him up for you. Zero posts. He kinda wasted the name for ya. Oh well. I actually like Diego92 better. :)
    "I'd rather be with an animal." "Those that can be trusted can change their mind." "The in between is mine." "If I don't lose control, explore and not explode, a preternatural other plane with the power to maintain." "Yeh this is living." "Life is what you make it."
  • KosmicJelli
    KosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    I have been using this name online for at least five/six years. The Jelli part has nothing to do with PJ...I always thought that we are all part of some cosmic soup, astral plane of some sort -held by some sub-concious thread, all of us who are open to it - reaching with our souls into it, touching each other in some form and constructively using it here on earth. Maybe I misconstrued Jung...lol
  • Killoran
    Killoran Posts: 27
    It's my name.. and that's it.

    I'm terribly creative, I know.
  • little_wish
    little_wish England, The North Posts: 532
    Oooh what a fab thread!

    Mine was due to a break up w/ my bf

    Nothingman: 'One just escapes, one is left inside the well'

    I chose it coz it sums up exactly how I felt at the time
    20-04-2006 04-09-2006 05-09-2006 11-09-2006 16-09-2006 17-09-2006 18-06-2007 21-06-2007 26-06-2007 28-06-2007 17-08-2009 20-05-2010 21-05-2010

    "The live shows? Well, that's church on Sundays"
  • lumpyfred
    lumpyfred Posts: 243
    lumpyfred has nothing to do with my real name or anything, it just came to me when this my teacher on the first day of my senior year in high school asked me what i wanted to be called
    Her?
  • enharmonic
    enharmonic Posts: 1,917
    I chose enharmonic because it is a musical term. An enharmonic note has two names. For instance, C sharp is also D flat. I also took it to remind me that most of today's music...like the note that shres two names, is disposable regurgitation of music that wasn't very good to begin with. It encourages me to stay focused on crafting my own music while staying true to my own ideas of what my sound should be. It's easy to listen to the radio, or a popular band, and ape what they do. We're easily in the 3rd generation of bands who have done that just since the 90s. The hard part is finding your own voice, and sticking to it long enough to create something worth listening to.

    Most don't, but the industry only wants the apes right now, so instead of pumping gas for a living (as 90% of todays so-called "musicians" should be), we get genre's like "nu-metal" and whatever else you want to call a "style" that is essentially a poor attempt at something that wa done much better when it was real.

    So that's hw I ended up with my name.
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    lots of new people here so lets here the reason you chose your name noobies!
    Van '98, Sea I+II '00, Sea '01, Sea II '02, Van '03, Gorge, Van, Cal, Edm '05, Bos I+II, Phi I+II, DC, SF II+III, Port, Gorge I+II '06, DC, NY I+II '08, Sea I+II, Van, Ridge , LA III+IV' 09, Indy '10, Cal, Van '11, Lond, Van, Sea '13, Memphis '14, RRHOF '17, Sea I+II '18, Van I+II, Vegas I+II, Sea I+II '24
  • Fetus Jr.
    Fetus Jr. Posts: 26
    Well, I've had people comment on here about the strangeness of my name. Fetus was actualyl a nickname my dad had when he younger, around his later teens and twenties. My mom's brothers gave it to him for some reason, don't know why he got it. When they were divorced, he wasn't around them anymore, so the name kind of died. I guess I decided to bring it back? Contrary to what may seem obvious it has nothing to do with my opinions on the pro-life/pro-choice debates.

    So, there ya have it. This is the only board I've used this name on, so this board should feel special! ;)
    I traded magic for fact...then I traded back.