Name: Jim GeigerHeight: 5'8"
Weight: 270lbs!!!
Age: 37
Hometown: Clanton, AL
Finishing maneuver: Knuckle sandwich
Jim Geiger is the Authoritah of AMR. He is a 20-year professional musician, and also a daddy. Can bring down the smack when necessary, but is mostly a big teddy bear.
Name: Damon HynesHeight: 6'6"
Weight: 285lb
Age: 43
Home: Springfield, NE
Finishing manoeuvre: Pearl Necklace
"Online broker, Infobabe Chronicler, Stormchaser. More human than human;
more human than *you*,man. Put up the Bat-Signal when you get to a Steak 'n
Shake!"
Name: Rob nee PetardHeight: 6'0"
Weight: 20 stone
Age: 35
Hometown: Skeeter Creek, ID
Finishing maneuver: Er, probably some sort of swirl.
Rob nee Petard is a dandelion seed salesman currently down on his luck and in need of a weekly stipend. Serious inquiries only, please.
Name:
ironcladlouHeight: 6'3"
Weight: 220lbs
Age: 25
Hometown: Mansfield, MA
Finishing maneuver: Tiger Driver '91
ironcladlou is a IT geek/web designer/guitarist/backyard wrestler/father of the most beautiful little girl ever/love machine. ironcladlou has very little free time. ironcladlou disagrees with your political views, but is loathe to argue with you about them. ironcladlou enjoys talking in the third person.
Name: Mike RewPrevious Tags: Dr Hfuhruhurr, Close but no Cigar, I Have a Cunning Plan
Height: 5'11" and three quarters (that sucks)
Hometown: Limey Londonville
Finishing Maneuver: Slide it in, pull it out, wipe it and slide it
back in again.
Mike Rew has a particularly low opinion of egg heads, petards, blowhards and thos sort of people that if you say to them "I've got an Elephant" reply "Well I've got a box to keep one in". Been in IT for 20 years and don't it just show. Resident Viz Profanisaurus expert and translator of Cockney Rhyming slang. For instance did you know that blowing a Raspberry comes from the Cockney for Fart? (Raspberry tart). Also do you know what a bacon sandwich is a nickname for?
Name:
Sofia HarlowHeight: 5'4"
Weight: 112lbs
Hometown: All over CA and ID
Finishing maneuver: Lentil/soybean fart in the face
Born: 1968
Occupation: Attorney. Moonlighting as a pre-op transgender Courtesan
Sofia is the little female dog that could. Born small and premature, runty and cunty, she fought the good fight and survived. She died at age 2 but came back to life, to the sheer horror of all around. She has been fighting ever since. Sofia is the chick in AMR with the big dreams, the big attitude, and the big poopies. She shits 10-inch poopies 4 times a day. Sofia has been a drummer since age 11 (did her time in marching bands), and a Rush fan since age 13. She is the only person in her family to never go to jail. Sofia used to give $100 hand jobs in Hollywood. Her hands were THAT good. The mesmerized cops just let her go. Against all odds, Sofia successfully crammed 7 years of college into 17, and now she is a well-respected Officer of the Court in two states in the U.S.A. Sofia grew up very sadly on welfare, but is now a happy white collar rat caught up in the white collar rat race, appearing frequently in Federal Court to defend her Big Bank clients' rights to foreclose on the house and home of poor defenseless bankrupts. Beware. She is a mite, but she can bite. She is currently very smoten by the deceased Al Kyder. Oh what a lovely soul, that just desires to make unknown people laugh. That was Al. Where is my pocket rocket?
Name: DoppelbockAge: 40
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 163 lbs
Hometown: Dayton, OH
Finishing maneuver: Play dead
Everything you never wanted to know about Doppelbock:
Doppelbock is a senior-level engineer in the aerospace industry. He lives in the Dayton, OH area with his wife and 3 kids. He has two masters degrees and a partially completed PhD. He is a novice beer snob with a penchant for abbey-styles. He might be a closet libertarian. He will eat just about anything if it’s battered and deep-fried.
Name:
Phantom (Phil)Height:: 5' 8''
Weight: 155
Age: 41 so far
Hometown: Chicago
Finishing Maneuver: Run Away!
Rush fan since '78. AMR'er since '99. Infrequent poster, daily lurker. Drummer in a rock band (that sounds nothing like Rush). Big fan of Seinfeld, Monty Python (hence the finishing move), David Letterman, HomeStarRunner, and other immature stuff like that.
Name : John
NichelHeight : 5'8"
Weight : 220
Age : 36 (11 Nov 68)
Hometown : Buffalo, NY
Finishing Maneuver : Loud snoring
Geek with more computing power in his house than on the Star Trek Enterprise. The non-existant social life goes without saying.
Name: Matt
SullivanAge: 33
Height: 180.5 cm
Weight: 84 kg
Hometown: Oshawa, ON (born and raised in Dartmouth, NS)
Finishing maneuver: Captain Kirk's flying leg kick
Matt is the quiet, boring, Canadian reg. Posting to AMR since 1997, reading since 1996. The original anagrammatist, and claims to have kicked off the package parodies. Works in Toronto, rarely posts about Rush. At best, an Archivist. At worst, encourages PM.
Name: Al KyderHeight: 6' 6"
Weight: 260
Age: 37
Hometown: Batswannna KY
Finishing Maneuver: The Righteous Exorgasmic Holy Thrust
Al is deceased at the time of this bio. However some think God has more work left for him on earth. What can be said of Al? He's a real renaissance man. Poet and preacher, astronaut and engineer, teacher, volunteer, saviour of western civilazation and master woodturner. Al's mission was always to enlighten and entertain. But get in his way, and you probably got that ass smote.
His turn ons are: Women who know scripture. Especially ones who know where to find the naughty bits.
His turn offs are: Clown pant wearing bastards and their one-tittied wives.
Name:
Scott CulverHeight: 5' 11"
Weight: 205
Age: 32
Hometown: Madison, WI
Finishing Maneuver: H.E. kills!
Married (no children yet). Web middleware component developer. Instrument-rated pilot. Gun enthusiast. CS:Source addict. Taxpayer.
Name: BarfHeight: 6' 0"
Weight: 210
Age: 39
Hometown: Leavenworth, KS
Finishing Maneuver: Pelvic Thrust
Another computer geek (shock and dismay) who like Rush, not travelling the path most followed, and mostly just being an all around smartass.
Name: Tim RogersHeight: 6'5"
Weight 180 lbs
Age: 37
Hometown: Sugar Hill, GA
Finishing Maneuver: Hi-Keeba!
Rush fan since '82, poster since '99. Crappy amature drummer, decent amature race car driver, regular lurker, occaisional poster (child.) Likes: rocky road ice cream, Fox animation, classic comedies (Airplane!, Mel Brooks, Python,) MST3K and even some romantic comedies - for the ladies, ow yeah! Oh wait this is about Rush; there are only 3 women who even post on this NG. (And lately, that's making some big assumptions about Sophia....)
Name: Prime MoverHeight: 5'11''
Weight: 170lbs
Age: 36
Hometown: Guelph, Ontario, Carnardia
Finishing manoeuvre: Patented thumb to the eye.
Name: President
and Emperor Max C. Webster, III.Height: 6'3"
Weight: 195lbs
Age: 1964...you do the math.
Hometown: Hoover (Birmingham), Alabama
Finishing Maneuver: Fold, wipe, flush.
A systems-accounting geek, Max has been a Rush fan since high school in the late seventies. Starting with his first show in Baton Rouge in September 1980, Max has seen "The Boyz" eighteen times through the end of 2004. Although he's been active in the newsgroup since early 1997, Max's "fame" in AMR arises from two incidents from 2003 and 2004, the infamous "package" and "Mystic Mullet" episodes. Max claims the title of President of AMR because no one else wanted it, and the title of Emperor was bestowed upon him by after the outing of "Mystic Mullet."
Name: LeeThree (Lee Cobb)
Height: 6'
Weight: 177lbs
Age: 35
Hometown: Jacksonville, FL
Finishing Maneuver: Finished? I'm just getting started.
Lee is continuing to push the envelope to see how much he can get inked before he becomes what his wife has labeled "TattooMan". He has yet to derive any powers from said transition but he has seen the rage level in his better half increase in direct proportion to the size and quantity of his inkings. He hopes to be married to RageWoman any day now. Lee derives his moniker from his narpets (they made him the 3rd) and his favorite novel (Hyperion).
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Name: Eduard
Antoniu, tag progea, goes by Edi
Height: 6'3''
Weight: 195 lbs
Age: 45
Hometown: Oakville, ON
Finishing Manoeuvre: calling 911 or taking legal action
On alt.music.rush since fall 1994, does not post frequently. MSc Comp Sci UAlberta 1997, plans to get back to PhD at YorkU fall 2006. Used to be a software developer but nowadays is just a customer support consultant and hopes to stay a research scientist. Causes himself pain when his family life gets troubled because of his prog music love (and maybe sometimes even obsession).
Name:
Jason Cutting
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 165 lbs
Age: 35
Hometown: Port Moody
Finishing Maneuver: Boot t'the head.
Two sure ways to tell a sexy male; the first is, he has a bad memory. I forget the second.
Name: Laurel
Height: 173cm
Weight: 69kg
Age: 32
Hometown: Various
Finishing Maneuver: Oscillation with a Horizontal Thrust
Former massage therapist turned Cabinet Maker/Carpenter. Mother, Lover, Poet and sometimes too passionate about her family, friends and causes. Show me, don't tell me, eh?! Speaking of Rush, Laurel isn't a 'fan' of anybody, doesn't drool at the possibility of meeting those any bodies and prefers the term 'appreciator', 'cause let's face it, you have to appreciate anyone who is very good at what they do, and Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and Neil Peart are very good at what they do. Living on the Continent for the last five and a half years, she is the mistress of waffles, friets and amazingly her ass hasn't expanded in correlation with these skill acquirements. One of the svelte mistresses of AMR, she has no qualms about giving out a well deserved spanking; speciality plays require the participation of DJ in tag-team mud-wrestling manoeuvres.
Name: Feriol
Height: 5'10
Weight: Classified
Age: 22
Hometown: Leicester, UK
Finishing Maneuver: One fingered salute
Left to roam the net, weary, and homeless, i sought salvation and company. i found one at AMR, still looking for the other.
Name: Cygnia
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 140
Age: 30
Hometown: Not Massachusetts anymore, sucka!
Finishing Maneuver: Inverted STF
Aspiring writer and actress, unapologetic gamer, quiet lurker and burgeoning young e-wrestling fedhead, Cygnia is engaged to be married soon...pity her fiance. If you bribe her with the right amount of money and/or Port, Cygnia will gush on about her Rushian year during Test For Echo, when she got on Rockline...and hung out with the roadies...and successfully crashed the soundcheck up close...and saw Rush from the front row without selling her soul or other body parts...and got Alex's guitar pick...and... [Editor's note: I witnessed this event. It was AWESOME.]
Name:
rflagg
Height: 6'
Weight: 185
Age: 36
Hometown: B-more, MD.
Finishing Maneuver: Getting you a towel
Flagg is AMR's local thespian and an expert on all things carnal. Originally coming here for the chicks, he stayed for the poop humor. When not being anally probed by baboons, he enjoys reading S. King, cooking, shacking up with his girl and beating his meat with a monkey wrench.
Name:
Drewe Manton
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 18stone
Age: 35
Home: Yeovil, Somerset, UK
Finishing manoeuvre: Full puke N' passout
Geiger may be Authoritah, but I AM THE LAW! Rush fan since 9-10 years of age when I first heard "Bastille Day". Now a bobby in a small Dorset town. Life is good. Mostly.Sorta.Kinda.
Name
: reborn rolla
Weight: 177lbs
Age: 35
Hometown: Jacksonville, FL
Finishing Maneuver: Finished? I'm just getting started.
Lee is continuing to push the envelope to see how much he can get inked before he becomes what his wife has labeled "TattooMan". He has yet to derive any powers from said transition but he has seen the rage level in his better half increase in direct proportion to the size and quantity of his inkings. He hopes to be married to RageWoman any day now. Lee derives his moniker from his narpets (they made him the 3rd) and his favorite novel (Hyperion).
Name: Eduard
Antoniu, tag progea, goes by EdiHeight: 6'3''
Weight: 195 lbs
Age: 45
Hometown: Oakville, ON
Finishing Manoeuvre: calling 911 or taking legal action
On alt.music.rush since fall 1994, does not post frequently. MSc Comp Sci UAlberta 1997, plans to get back to PhD at YorkU fall 2006. Used to be a software developer but nowadays is just a customer support consultant and hopes to stay a research scientist. Causes himself pain when his family life gets troubled because of his prog music love (and maybe sometimes even obsession).
Name:
Jason CuttingHeight: 6' 2"
Weight: 165 lbs
Age: 35
Hometown: Port Moody
Finishing Maneuver: Boot t'the head.
Two sure ways to tell a sexy male; the first is, he has a bad memory. I forget the second.
Name: LaurelHeight: 173cm
Weight: 69kg
Age: 32
Hometown: Various
Finishing Maneuver: Oscillation with a Horizontal Thrust
Former massage therapist turned Cabinet Maker/Carpenter. Mother, Lover, Poet and sometimes too passionate about her family, friends and causes. Show me, don't tell me, eh?! Speaking of Rush, Laurel isn't a 'fan' of anybody, doesn't drool at the possibility of meeting those any bodies and prefers the term 'appreciator', 'cause let's face it, you have to appreciate anyone who is very good at what they do, and Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and Neil Peart are very good at what they do. Living on the Continent for the last five and a half years, she is the mistress of waffles, friets and amazingly her ass hasn't expanded in correlation with these skill acquirements. One of the svelte mistresses of AMR, she has no qualms about giving out a well deserved spanking; speciality plays require the participation of DJ in tag-team mud-wrestling manoeuvres.
Name: FeriolHeight: 5'10
Weight: Classified
Age: 22
Hometown: Leicester, UK
Finishing Maneuver: One fingered salute
Left to roam the net, weary, and homeless, i sought salvation and company. i found one at AMR, still looking for the other.
Name: CygniaHeight: 5'5"
Weight: 140
Age: 30
Hometown: Not Massachusetts anymore, sucka!
Finishing Maneuver: Inverted STF
Aspiring writer and actress, unapologetic gamer, quiet lurker and burgeoning young e-wrestling fedhead, Cygnia is engaged to be married soon...pity her fiance. If you bribe her with the right amount of money and/or Port, Cygnia will gush on about her Rushian year during Test For Echo, when she got on Rockline...and hung out with the roadies...and successfully crashed the soundcheck up close...and saw Rush from the front row without selling her soul or other body parts...and got Alex's guitar pick...and... [Editor's note: I witnessed this event. It was AWESOME.]
Name:
rflaggHeight: 6'
Weight: 185
Age: 36
Hometown: B-more, MD.
Finishing Maneuver: Getting you a towel
Flagg is AMR's local thespian and an expert on all things carnal. Originally coming here for the chicks, he stayed for the poop humor. When not being anally probed by baboons, he enjoys reading S. King, cooking, shacking up with his girl and beating his meat with a monkey wrench.
Name:
Drewe MantonHeight: 6'4"
Weight: 18stone
Age: 35
Home: Yeovil, Somerset, UK
Finishing manoeuvre: Full puke N' passout
Geiger may be Authoritah, but I AM THE LAW! Rush fan since 9-10 years of age when I first heard "Bastille Day". Now a bobby in a small Dorset town. Life is good. Mostly.Sorta.Kinda.
Name
: reborn rolla
Height : 6'1
Weight : 215lbs.
Age : 39(forever)
Hometown : Vancouver
Finishing maneuver : Take me around the world again!
rolla is an oldschool Rush fan and metal addict. Geddy Lee is
so cool! Hey a shout out to all the Lazy Stiffs at the old Dude
Ranch!
Name: The Professor (Steve Horwitz)Height: 5’
9”
Weight: 210lbs and falling
Age: 41
Hometown:Canton
NY
(but
Detroit
is home)
Finishing Maneuver: Paul “Mr. Wonderful” Orndorff piledriver or making breakfast
The Professor has been in AMR since sometime in 1996 and was on TNMS before that. When he’s not pining over young sexy female Rush fans online (or fantasizing about Iwerks and Flagg), he has a real job educating the leaders of tomorrow. Or at least trying. You can see his real life here: http://it.stlawu.edu/shor . He’s even written a scholarly article about Rush, which you can find here: http://it.stlawu.edu/shor/Rush/JARS.pdf . Unlike the rest of AMR, he’s actually internationally-known for things not having to do with poop, masturbation, or paranoid delusions about Steven Spielberg. His AMR claim to fame is that he has been at opening night for each of the last three tours. How he became a responsible adult remains a mystery to him and those around him.
Name: Rory
Height: 6'2"ish
Weight: 13 1/2 Stone
Age : Born 1965 , YOU work it out!
Hometown: Elgin now Yeovil
Finishing manuver: Falling down after imbibing quantities of finest Somerset Cyder!
Gray hair , own teeth, four eyed twat who hates BoG's and spels wores than Canaidians.
Long time fan whose first exposure to Rush was on the "B" side of an old TDK D90 tape, I was interested in the "A" side (Aerosmith , Toys In The Attic") not the wierd trip out hippy shit on the otherside. Sence prevailed and 2112 is still my favourate but now my copies don't go "Attention all planets of the CLUDUNK, CLUDUNK, CLUDUNK have assumed control, We have assumed control"! Little brothers , who'd 'ave 'em?
Name: Cat-Pan-Daddy
Height: 6'0"
Age: 36
Hometown: Mpls/St. Paul, MN
Finishing Move: Giggity-giggity-giggity-Gung
Cat-Pan-Daddy is a happily non-professional musician who refuses to sully his pasttime by making it his work. With very good relative (near-absolute) pitch and an ear that can pick apart dense structures, he also likes sequencing and composing as well as improv. For humor, he turns to Family Guy, Futurama, That 70's Show, Monty Python and Whose Line Is It Anyway. Oh, and he is mated to a gamer grrrl who was a concert violinist before arthritis developed from excessive and perfectionistic practicing, which was a real wakeup call. (Ref. "Losing It", /Signals/, RUSH.) Also attempts to grok history and current events but doesn't really have the hang of filtering the information overload that this endeavor creates. Quiet and soft spoken, but don't get him mad, he goes to pieces so fast that everything gets sliced to ribbons by the shrapnel. Use as directed, some assembly required. Sit Ubu sit. Good dog.
Quote of the day:
"Okay toots, I'll have a vodka front with a beer back, followed by a whiskey
back with a beer front."
Name: Dan Iwerks
Height: 6’3”
Weight: 200 pounds
Age: 35
Hometown: Eagan, Minnesota
Finishing Maneuver: Telling your mother, “Sure, I’ll call you tomorrow”.
Dan Iwerks is, by day, a mild-mannered IT geek living with his wife and two children in lovely suburban Eagan, Minnesota but, by night, he becomes the Milkman of Justice, dispensing luscious, creamy vengeance across the Midwestern stretches of this vast, calcium-richened land. He samples a wide variety of fine beers and, given a chance, would probably be willing to mock the size, odor, or general quality of your genitalia. He has been on alt.music.rush since early 1994 and all he has to show for it is people giggling at the words "penis" and "Fecal Tarzan". In some small (and exceedingly pathetic way), he feels this is an accomplishment. He's probably taller than you and if not, well, you're probably just showing off.
Name:
arattle (Alex)
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 160ish
Age: 25
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA (originally from DC suburbs)
Finishing Maneuver: SPNAK!
Two years removed from college, already a boring old man. Hobbies: hiking, skiing, rafting, baseball (but currently only good enough for softball), music, video games. Favorite bands: Rush, Yes, Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, The Who, Led Zeppelin...you get the idea.
Name: norborder (Norbert
Orpheus Border)
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 170lbs
Hometown: North of the Mason/Dixon line & just south of Chicago
Finishing maneuver: Donkey Punch with a hockey stick
I'm actually a really sensitive guy. I like sunsets, walks in the rain and having my ballbag massaged while watching "Maude" reruns.
amr is my "happy place."
Name: Simon Dean
Height: 6ft 1in
Weight: 17 Stone
Age: 28
Hometown: Birmingham, UK
Finishing Maneuver: Swallow
Brief Synopsis: Im a bored lonely computer programmer, looking for Mr or Mrs Geek to share in my passion for eating, drinking, sleeping, farting, fidgeting and Rush. This isn't a dating forum, but you gotta try everywhere you can when you're as desperate as me. I don't post in AMR much unless something takes my fancy, unfortunately most things go over my head and I can never argue my position because I don't care passionately about stuff. Unless its food or drink. Big kid at heart, I can usually be seen mooching around Solihull doing my Peter Pan or Harry Potter impressions pretending that my pencil is my wand. Current Favourite Phrase: Albus Dumbledore is the greatest sorcerer in the world. How I got into Rush: Through Silver Sun... They did a cover of Xanadu...bought A Farewell to Kings in Fopp in Leamington Spa in 2000. Bought everyone of their albums since! Boom shanka.
Name: Mike in Texas
Age: 38
Height: 6 ft.
Weight: 210 lbs.
Hometown: San Antonio
Finishing Maneuver: Shock Treatment Backbreaker - on the rocks, no salt
Mike in Texas, a usually infrequent poster on AMR (though more prolific during the summer), is a high school English teacher and has been a Rush fan since Moving Pictures. He is usually an avid hiker, mountain biker, hoopster, jogger and birder, though his time is now spent in an endless chase after his toddler and preschooler. His favorite authors at the moment include Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot and E. O. Wilson. He has many favorite films, including (but not limited to) The Seventh Seal, Through a Glass Darkly (Harriet Andersson, mmmm), L'Aventura, La Dolce Vida, Network, Blade Runner, and, of course, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He enjoys classical guitar, vihuela and lute music, particularly Andrew York compositions (Sunday Morning Overcast, Faire, Sunburst) and older works by Dowland, Luis Milan, Da Milano, Sor, and Tarrega. He also hacks his way on a guitar at times. His favorite drinks include top-shelf margaritas (on the rocks, no salt) and Beefeater and tonic (lime squeeze), but he also enjoys a warming Old Foghorn Barleywine Ale by the fire (or chimenea outside) in winter, or a crisp hefe-weizen (with lemon) in the warmer months - though he has been known to settle for MGD when desperate or parched.
Name: BaldiePete
Height : 6' 3"
Weight: 245 lbs and falling
Age: 43
Hometown: Edinburgh, Scotland
Finishing Manoeuvre: Double Scotch with a large haggis
In real life BaldiePete is supposedly a software engineer developing test software for the Typhoon fighter's radar. An expert in crappy British food, Pete is the answer to the question "who ate all the pies?". Slightly fanatical about single malt Scotch whisky, he is contempuous of Neil Peart's whisky drinking habits. ICE !! The man's a heathen. He would recommend 18 year old Highland Park as the Scotch to take if you only have one drink left before you die.
Name: Giovanni
Height: 1.90 meter
Weight: 90 kilo
Age: 42
Hometown: Utrecht, The Netherlands
Finishing maneuver: ;^P
Why am I here? Because you're here! Oh, and because I don't have a life.
Name: Jason Dolinger
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 180
Age: 27
Hometown: New York, NY
Finishing Maneuver: Gasp for breath
Brief synopsis: Neurotic young manhattanite, Java programmer/consultant, ex funk drummer and metal guitarist, commercial aviation enthusiast, amateur chef. Jason has been into Rush since 8th grade when he started playing drums, got a transcription of "Where's My Thing" in the latest Modern Drummer and had never seen so many notes on the page. Upon heading off to college, he spent his entire freshman year engrossed in TNMS, but when that ceased to exist he started frequenting AMR. Daily lurker, and constant poster around album or tour time. Favorite bands: Rush, Tool, Radiohead, Porcupine Tree, DT, Sarah Mclachlan (yeah give me break, a guy can like something besides prog...).
Name: Sgt Schultz (Mike
Matney)
Height: 6’3”
Weight: 240 pounds
Age: 39
Hometown: Troy Illinois
Finishing Maneuver: A big plate of Le Beau’s apple struedel.
After 20 years in the Air Force where I actually was a Sergeant, I retired and went back to work for the Air Force as a contractor. The pay is better, along with the hours and I don’t have to spend time in the Middle East. I try to emulate Geddy on the bass but have a long way to go. Favorite bands other than Rush include Magnum, Pink Cream 69 and Thunder.
Name: Mike Kuznoff
Height: 5'4"
Weight: ~125lbs
Age: 17
Hometown: Hartford, CT
Finishing Move: Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start
Tending to spend a large portion of his days rocking ye olde ass off, trying to save ahead for a computer sciences degree, and drumming for a few very smalltime garage bands, Mike mostly lurks on AMR and rarely has much to say. Rush has been his favorite band since he was 11 and the slot for such is in no position to be rotated.
Name:
Javier Gonzalez Nicolini
Height/Weight: 178cm, 87kg (that's 5'10" and 191 pounds for the metric-impaired)
age: 28
FInishing maneuver:
- Kin Sen Ni Hyaku Juu Ichi Shiki: Ya Otome
- combo en l'ocico, flaite chilensis style
Located in Santiago, Chile (30 deg. south, 71 deg. west)
Rush fan since 1993, AMR lowlife since 1995. Software developer by trade, cooking and bass playing as main hobbies. Along with Giovanni keeps up with the sacred duty of making fun out of PM's spelling
mistakes. Cat person, definitely. Sports, it's futbol for playing and tennis for watching. OSS-friend. Suffers unidentified mental disfunction, evidenced by symptoms ranging from liking "I Think I'm Going Bald" to moving head instead of brush when brushing teeth.
Name: The Professor (Steve Horwitz)Height: 5’
9”Weight: 210lbs and falling
Age: 41
Hometown:
Finishing Maneuver: Paul “Mr. Wonderful” Orndorff piledriver or making breakfast
The Professor has been in AMR since sometime in 1996 and was on TNMS before that. When he’s not pining over young sexy female Rush fans online (or fantasizing about Iwerks and Flagg), he has a real job educating the leaders of tomorrow. Or at least trying. You can see his real life here: http://it.stlawu.edu/shor . He’s even written a scholarly article about Rush, which you can find here: http://it.stlawu.edu/shor/Rush/JARS.pdf . Unlike the rest of AMR, he’s actually internationally-known for things not having to do with poop, masturbation, or paranoid delusions about Steven Spielberg. His AMR claim to fame is that he has been at opening night for each of the last three tours. How he became a responsible adult remains a mystery to him and those around him.
Name: Rory
Height: 6'2"ish
Weight: 13 1/2 Stone
Age : Born 1965 , YOU work it out!
Hometown: Elgin now Yeovil
Finishing manuver: Falling down after imbibing quantities of finest Somerset Cyder!
Gray hair , own teeth, four eyed twat who hates BoG's and spels wores than Canaidians.
Long time fan whose first exposure to Rush was on the "B" side of an old TDK D90 tape, I was interested in the "A" side (Aerosmith , Toys In The Attic") not the wierd trip out hippy shit on the otherside. Sence prevailed and 2112 is still my favourate but now my copies don't go "Attention all planets of the CLUDUNK, CLUDUNK, CLUDUNK have assumed control, We have assumed control"! Little brothers , who'd 'ave 'em?
Name: Cat-Pan-DaddyHeight: 6'0"
Age: 36
Hometown: Mpls/St. Paul, MN
Finishing Move: Giggity-giggity-giggity-Gung
Cat-Pan-Daddy is a happily non-professional musician who refuses to sully his pasttime by making it his work. With very good relative (near-absolute) pitch and an ear that can pick apart dense structures, he also likes sequencing and composing as well as improv. For humor, he turns to Family Guy, Futurama, That 70's Show, Monty Python and Whose Line Is It Anyway. Oh, and he is mated to a gamer grrrl who was a concert violinist before arthritis developed from excessive and perfectionistic practicing, which was a real wakeup call. (Ref. "Losing It", /Signals/, RUSH.) Also attempts to grok history and current events but doesn't really have the hang of filtering the information overload that this endeavor creates. Quiet and soft spoken, but don't get him mad, he goes to pieces so fast that everything gets sliced to ribbons by the shrapnel. Use as directed, some assembly required. Sit Ubu sit. Good dog.
Quote of the day:
"Okay toots, I'll have a vodka front with a beer back, followed by a whiskey
back with a beer front."
Name: Dan IwerksHeight: 6’3”
Weight: 200 pounds
Age: 35
Hometown: Eagan, Minnesota
Finishing Maneuver: Telling your mother, “Sure, I’ll call you tomorrow”.
Dan Iwerks is, by day, a mild-mannered IT geek living with his wife and two children in lovely suburban Eagan, Minnesota but, by night, he becomes the Milkman of Justice, dispensing luscious, creamy vengeance across the Midwestern stretches of this vast, calcium-richened land. He samples a wide variety of fine beers and, given a chance, would probably be willing to mock the size, odor, or general quality of your genitalia. He has been on alt.music.rush since early 1994 and all he has to show for it is people giggling at the words "penis" and "Fecal Tarzan". In some small (and exceedingly pathetic way), he feels this is an accomplishment. He's probably taller than you and if not, well, you're probably just showing off.
Name:
arattle (Alex)Height: 5'9"
Weight: 160ish
Age: 25
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA (originally from DC suburbs)
Finishing Maneuver: SPNAK!
Two years removed from college, already a boring old man. Hobbies: hiking, skiing, rafting, baseball (but currently only good enough for softball), music, video games. Favorite bands: Rush, Yes, Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, The Who, Led Zeppelin...you get the idea.
Name: norborder (Norbert
Orpheus Border)Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 170lbs
Hometown: North of the Mason/Dixon line & just south of Chicago
Finishing maneuver: Donkey Punch with a hockey stick
I'm actually a really sensitive guy. I like sunsets, walks in the rain and having my ballbag massaged while watching "Maude" reruns.
amr is my "happy place."
Name: Simon DeanHeight: 6ft 1in
Weight: 17 Stone
Age: 28
Hometown: Birmingham, UK
Finishing Maneuver: Swallow
Brief Synopsis: Im a bored lonely computer programmer, looking for Mr or Mrs Geek to share in my passion for eating, drinking, sleeping, farting, fidgeting and Rush. This isn't a dating forum, but you gotta try everywhere you can when you're as desperate as me. I don't post in AMR much unless something takes my fancy, unfortunately most things go over my head and I can never argue my position because I don't care passionately about stuff. Unless its food or drink. Big kid at heart, I can usually be seen mooching around Solihull doing my Peter Pan or Harry Potter impressions pretending that my pencil is my wand. Current Favourite Phrase: Albus Dumbledore is the greatest sorcerer in the world. How I got into Rush: Through Silver Sun... They did a cover of Xanadu...bought A Farewell to Kings in Fopp in Leamington Spa in 2000. Bought everyone of their albums since! Boom shanka.
Name: Mike in TexasAge: 38
Height: 6 ft.
Weight: 210 lbs.
Hometown: San Antonio
Finishing Maneuver: Shock Treatment Backbreaker - on the rocks, no salt
Mike in Texas, a usually infrequent poster on AMR (though more prolific during the summer), is a high school English teacher and has been a Rush fan since Moving Pictures. He is usually an avid hiker, mountain biker, hoopster, jogger and birder, though his time is now spent in an endless chase after his toddler and preschooler. His favorite authors at the moment include Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot and E. O. Wilson. He has many favorite films, including (but not limited to) The Seventh Seal, Through a Glass Darkly (Harriet Andersson, mmmm), L'Aventura, La Dolce Vida, Network, Blade Runner, and, of course, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He enjoys classical guitar, vihuela and lute music, particularly Andrew York compositions (Sunday Morning Overcast, Faire, Sunburst) and older works by Dowland, Luis Milan, Da Milano, Sor, and Tarrega. He also hacks his way on a guitar at times. His favorite drinks include top-shelf margaritas (on the rocks, no salt) and Beefeater and tonic (lime squeeze), but he also enjoys a warming Old Foghorn Barleywine Ale by the fire (or chimenea outside) in winter, or a crisp hefe-weizen (with lemon) in the warmer months - though he has been known to settle for MGD when desperate or parched.
Name: BaldiePeteHeight : 6' 3"
Weight: 245 lbs and falling
Age: 43
Hometown: Edinburgh, Scotland
Finishing Manoeuvre: Double Scotch with a large haggis
In real life BaldiePete is supposedly a software engineer developing test software for the Typhoon fighter's radar. An expert in crappy British food, Pete is the answer to the question "who ate all the pies?". Slightly fanatical about single malt Scotch whisky, he is contempuous of Neil Peart's whisky drinking habits. ICE !! The man's a heathen. He would recommend 18 year old Highland Park as the Scotch to take if you only have one drink left before you die.
Name: GiovanniHeight: 1.90 meter
Weight: 90 kilo
Age: 42
Hometown: Utrecht, The Netherlands
Finishing maneuver: ;^P
Why am I here? Because you're here! Oh, and because I don't have a life.
Name: Jason DolingerHeight: 5' 6"
Weight: 180
Age: 27
Hometown: New York, NY
Finishing Maneuver: Gasp for breath
Brief synopsis: Neurotic young manhattanite, Java programmer/consultant, ex funk drummer and metal guitarist, commercial aviation enthusiast, amateur chef. Jason has been into Rush since 8th grade when he started playing drums, got a transcription of "Where's My Thing" in the latest Modern Drummer and had never seen so many notes on the page. Upon heading off to college, he spent his entire freshman year engrossed in TNMS, but when that ceased to exist he started frequenting AMR. Daily lurker, and constant poster around album or tour time. Favorite bands: Rush, Tool, Radiohead, Porcupine Tree, DT, Sarah Mclachlan (yeah give me break, a guy can like something besides prog...).
Name: Sgt Schultz (Mike
Matney)Height: 6’3”
Weight: 240 pounds
Age: 39
Hometown: Troy Illinois
Finishing Maneuver: A big plate of Le Beau’s apple struedel.
After 20 years in the Air Force where I actually was a Sergeant, I retired and went back to work for the Air Force as a contractor. The pay is better, along with the hours and I don’t have to spend time in the Middle East. I try to emulate Geddy on the bass but have a long way to go. Favorite bands other than Rush include Magnum, Pink Cream 69 and Thunder.
Name: Mike KuznoffHeight: 5'4"
Weight: ~125lbs
Age: 17
Hometown: Hartford, CT
Finishing Move: Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start
Tending to spend a large portion of his days rocking ye olde ass off, trying to save ahead for a computer sciences degree, and drumming for a few very smalltime garage bands, Mike mostly lurks on AMR and rarely has much to say. Rush has been his favorite band since he was 11 and the slot for such is in no position to be rotated.
Name:
Javier Gonzalez NicoliniHeight/Weight: 178cm, 87kg (that's 5'10" and 191 pounds for the metric-impaired)
age: 28
FInishing maneuver:
- Kin Sen Ni Hyaku Juu Ichi Shiki: Ya Otome
- combo en l'ocico, flaite chilensis style
Located in Santiago, Chile (30 deg. south, 71 deg. west)
Rush fan since 1993, AMR lowlife since 1995. Software developer by trade, cooking and bass playing as main hobbies. Along with Giovanni keeps up with the sacred duty of making fun out of PM's spelling
mistakes. Cat person, definitely. Sports, it's futbol for playing and tennis for watching. OSS-friend. Suffers unidentified mental disfunction, evidenced by symptoms ranging from liking "I Think I'm Going Bald" to moving head instead of brush when brushing teeth.
