Alison Paul
Alison will someday be a folk-rock singer bike riding farmer writer yogi in the Midwest. Until that happens she’s killing time doing head stands at high altitude and contemplating the global economy in Bogotá.
Anika Balaconis
Anika writes science fiction—isn’t that enough? She also plays in the Notes and Scratches and Brother Truck, enjoys teak and critique.
Barbara Long
Dour but (occasionally) charming, Ms. Long firmly believes that the world would be a better place without the vocal contributions of Don Henley and Phil Collins.
Claire Buxton
Claire Buxton is crazy smart about music and has great hair. She is a disc jockey at WLUW. Dig.
Cornbreadia
Born: Denver Colorado 7/31/78 - The morning of the big carpet warehouse fire.
Astrological Signs: Horse (Chinese), Leo (Trad)
Loves: magnolias, low-rider bikes, middle path, science shows
Likes: spicy food, hot weather, unusual teas
Dislikes: shaving, honking horns, tight pants (on me)
Hates: people clowning around in the white house, food stuck in teeth, insomnia
Fav saying: “Nice!”
Fav color: green
Listen to cornbreadia’s 2 man dance band The Necking Party.
Dave Perez
If Elvis Costello and Meatloaf artificially inseminated K.D. Lang, the result would be Dave.
Domenico Ferri
Domenico teaches American History and studies the relationship between people and the culture industry. He plucks four strings on the side. His complex identity cannot be sufficiently communicated by way of this passage.
Emily Butler
Emily works in a lab for long days and a slave’s wages. She spends her pennies on records and booze.
Hiram Lucke
Hiram dreams of being eaten by marshmallows. He also plays music with his wife, Melissa Rodenbeek, in The Harvey Girls.
Jason Eckerson
I don’t want anything said about the spaceships on m’pants.
Jenny Walton-Wetzel
Jenny is from Memphis, TN. Lately, she’s a graduate student at U of Chicago. Right now she’s sitting under her sunlamp, working on her hunchback.
Johnny Caluya
Sex, drugs, architecture and rock n roll.
Joshua Dumas
Joshua Dumas makes poems, prints and songs. He helped found Tense Forms, the Blue Ribbon Glee Club and performs in the Notes and Scratches. His current projects live at Quiet Errors.
Katy
Katy likes orphans, music, cousins, scissors, Ohio, Armenia, and the Internet.
Kelly Reynolds
Kelly is a known cyborg. She leans toward the macabre, hates onions and likes animals better than people. She makes art sporadically and is tired of thinking of answers to questions that have no answers, but will continue to do so. bang!
Kirk Bravender
Kirk takes photos. Kirk sings. Kirk likes the sounds you make. Please keep making sounds.
Mark Temelko
Mark Temelko lives in central New York with his wife and two dogs. He works at Wells College and is co-editor of Broadsided Press.
Melissa Rodenbeek
Melissa means well, bless her heart. She also plays music with her husband, Hiram Lucke, in The Harvey Girls.
Nathaniel Parks
Nathaniel, better known the “Scourge of God,” was born around 406 A.D. in what is modern-day Hungary. Leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the River Danube to the Baltic Sea, he was one of the most fearsome of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires’ enemies. Passing unhindered through Austria and Germany, Nathaniel plundered and devastated all in his path until his defeat at the hands of the Visigoths in 451. Nathaniel suffered a rather ignominious death when, after drinking heavily in celebration of his beautiful young bride Ildico, he suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death in a stupor.
Paul Nixon
My name is Paul Nixon. I’ve lived in Chicago for nearly 11 years. I am no stranger to New Jersey, either. I enjoy scouring record stores, garage sales, flea markets and of course the world wide web for music. I also play the bass, guitar, piano, saxophone and sing. I’ve played with The Wayouts (NJ), Nemesis Enforcer, Ohm, Fort Rile Dog, Black Apple, Kickpunch, The Blue Ribbon Glee Club and I am Paul’s Sad Bastard Chicken Coop too. I also play Scrabble.
Poppy Coleman
Poppy Coleman would like to live in a forest stronghold with a team of magical creatures to do her bidding, making medicinal tinctures and feasting on savory tubers. She makes do with a lively bus commute down Chicago Avenue.
Rob Kowalczyk
6’, 190. Benches lbs. Squirrels vs. hugs. Do not try to steal Rob Kowalczyk’s blood. Scorpion!
Robbie Hamilton
Robbie believes in mystery, and thinks the information age has ruined everything. When he’s not meditating towards awakening his crown chakra and opening the third pineal eye, Robbie records music at his home studio under the name Kin Kon. He also loves his dog, blogs and ships’ logs.
Tina Post
Tina Post lives her life like a French movie directed by Woody Allen. Or she lives on a farm in Upstate New York with her husband Mark Temelko.
V.J. Hyde
V.J. Hyde has been involved with Tense Forms in one way or another for more than a minute. He lives in our nation’s capitol, plays in the band Go Home Robot, likes writing in the third person, and will eventually purchase a yacht for the sole purpose of selling it at a substantial loss.
Whitney Johnson
These days Whitney is interested in succulents, papier-mâché, floor plans, frame sizes (eyeglass and otherwise), farm-fresh eggs, and the abatement of externalities. She finally has decided on the 60s rather than the 70s. She will be posting this summer from an undisclosed location!