niki



Name:niki.. some people call me "nikster" =)~

Email:grrlgoal30@aol.com or anunkind@aol.com

Age:6-5-79... old enough to get in a whole heap of trouble

Location:hell, errrrr.... west chester university. i'm moving to seattle injune, tho.

What you do:not much of anything. i leave AOL running a million hours per day so no one can ever call me ;), talk to everyone online. i laugh a lot, sleep a lot, eat not a lot. i do a whole lot of being a bored, lame ass college kid.

SG discovery story:so what if it took me until DOTU to love them? i consider myself extrememly lucky to have found them before they left the stage one final time. i had SU a few weeks before DOTU came out, and it weirded me out a bit. but i got DOTU for my birthday and i just went nutso when i listened to it. it was unreal! unreal... so i went on a rampage trying to find all that which was soundgarden. had everything (including bmf/somms, believe it or not) within 2 weeks. obsessive? yes. fun? hell yeah!

Favourite Album/songs:fav album(s) are the produced trilogy: BMF, SU, DOTU. as for fav songs, please don't get me started. nowhere but you (the single most touching song i think i have ever heard), mind riot, like suicide, 4th of july, nothing to say, loud love (that intro gives me the chills everytime), mailman, fell on black days (always makes me want to cry), and there's so many more that come up at certian times.. . hands all over, head down, drawing flies, slaves & bulldozers, spoonman (so many memories and jokes tied into this song) black hole sun... and on and on...

Live Experience:november 21, 1996- philadelphia, pa: i was blessed enough to see soundgarden one time. oh the beauty!!! = ) it was the first time i'd ever met my best friend from Mass. in person, and i picked her up from the train station mere hours before the show. the whole day was electric. at the show, i was dead center on the rail and you'd better bet i paid for it for weeks afterwards. but it was truly the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me. i got kicked in the head, yelled at by bouncers who didn't like my camera (what hootchie in her right mind wouldn't have snuck a camera in? i got three shots that came out decent out of 20 taken), smiled at by Kim Thayil, smirked and growled and stared at by Ben Shepherd, and had water thrown on me from Chris Cornell. amazing, amazing. the bassist from Tenderloin gave me his pick. = ) i liked them. when they played helter skelter into boot camp, i nearly weeped from the beauty. chris's solo version of black hole sun tore my guts out with its emotion and sheer elegance...it brought the tears back to my eyes happily. jesus, everything about that night was perfect... they even played Hands All Over, which was INCREDIBLE and moving! i thought my heart had stopped.

Other bands you like:first of all, i am a late eighties-early ninties Sub Pop hootchie in the *biggest* way... hater, wellwater conspiracy, sleater-kinney, pearl jam, some velvet sidewalk, tad, truly, temple of the dog, green river, mudhoney, nirvana, mother love bone, sebadoh, skin yard, foo fighters, hole, pennywise (after 'unknown road'), stabbing westward, bjork, radiohead, babes in toyland, nin, heavens to betsy, bikini kill, lunachicks, beck, poe, sonic youth, monster magnet, tori amos, flop, L7, elastica, tool, the desert sessions, tom petty, CCR, ben folds five, blood circus, pink floyd (some), AiC (some), queens of the stoneage, god lives underwater, marylin manson (just the new one, really!), and 80 million more i can't think of now... ;-)

Any comments:i joined Somms in July of 1996...and can't believe i've been on it for over 2 years now. no way in hell would i have ever been able to deal with the break up without the list... i love most of the people i've met on Somms and i've made some damn great friends (big bro! jen! blueman! maria!) crazy place, that Somms, but it's been a great ride and i'm sure i'll be there when the ride is over too. chris cornell, get yr butt in gear ;) muchas gracias to koggle for this site :) much more fun than, uh, *that* one. :) so sue me.