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Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving
by Marina Margaret Heiss
Profile: ENFP
Revision: 3.0
Date of Revision: 25 Feb 2005

[The following comes partially from the archetype, but mostly from my own dealings with ENFPs.]

General: ENFPs are both "idea"-people and "people"-people, who see everyone and everything as part of an often bizarre cosmic whole. They want to both help (at least, their own definition of "help") and be liked and admired by other people, on bo th an individual and a humanitarian level. They are interested in new ideas on principle, but ultimately discard most of them for one reason or another.

Social/Personal Relationships: ENFPs have a great deal of zany charm, which can ingratiate them to the more stodgy types in spite of their unconventionality. They are outgoing, fun, and genuinely like people. As SOs/mates they are warm, affectionate (l ots of PDA), and disconcertingly spontaneous. However, attention span in relationships can be short; ENFPs are easily intrigued and distracted by new friends and acquaintances, forgetting about the older ones for long stretches at a time. Less mature ENFPs may need to feel they are the center of attention all the time, to reassure them that everyone thinks they're a wonderful and fascinating person.

ENFPs often have strong, if unconvential, convictions on various issues related to their Cosmic View. They usually try to use their social skills and contacts to persuade people gently of the rightness of these views; his sometimes results in their negle cting their nearest and dearest while flitting around trying to save the world.
Work Environment: ENFPs are pleasant, easygoing, and usually fun to work with. They come up with great ideas, and are a major asset in brainstorming sessions. Followthrough tends to be a problem, however; they tend to get bored quickly, especially if a newer, more interesting project comes along. They also tend to be procrastinators, both about meeting hard deadlines and about performing any small, uninteresting tasks that they've been assigned. ENFPs are at their most useful when working in a group w ith a J or two to take up the slack.

ENFPs hate bureaucracy, both in principle and in practice; they will always make a point of launching one of their crusades against some aspect of it.

back in the u.s.a.

it was pretty great down there.

but it is also nice to be home (sort of).

went to amoeba records with jaffrey in hollywood yesterday -- got the cold war kids, jeremy enigk, and some beethoven (seriously). the cold war kids website is awesome: http://www.coldwarkids.com great photos, especially.

getting close to recording this album of ours. san francisco, here we come.

NYC Trip: Recap.

our label payed for us to come out to new york city to play the CMJ music festival. these were the highlights:

-- arriving at baggage claim, greeted by a man with one of those paper signs written on in all-caps
-- having said guy carry our bags to a van, driven by a nice man named Frank, who took us to our paid-for hotel



(the view from the hotel -- not exactly scenic, but look at all the cabs...)


-- meeting up with a friend from Warped Tour, John Bush, at an inCREDIBLY hip bar in the Village, which was called Black & White, but didn't even have a sign saying so
-- getting two cupcakes from the Magnolia Bakery; they are famous -- you might remember them from the SNL video for "Lazy Sunday": "I'm crazy for the cupcakes, cousin!" I am, too.
-- eating said cupcakes in an awesome little park kitty-corner from the bakery, on a stone chessboard-table



(it was a Halloween cupcake)



(carrying gear for ten blocks through the East Village)



(Nate's costume)

-- playing with and meeting Matt Skiba, singer of the band Heavens, but also singer/guitarist of Alkaline Trio. He was very nice and put up with my dorking out; I have been listening to them since I was 16 (i'll do the math for you: that is 7 years of his songs in my life)
-- listening to demos of new songs with our producer, lou giordano, and seeing the excitement on his face
-- helping two 20-year old fans--some of my favorite guys in the whole country--sneak in to the 21+ CMJ show
-- watching joe play drums in a Luchador mask (Mexican Wrestler) -- the rest of us were in panchos and sombreros, but joe's costume took the (cup)cake. also, watching mikey jump from the stage to the bar, similiar height but about 4-5 feet apart, swinging a tambourine at the beginning of "learn to sing", all in front of a crowd of maybe 100 mostly disinterested industry-types, and a few fans
-- meeting, and subsequently having drinks purchased by, Courtney Taylor, the singer of the Dandy Warhols and main character of the Documentary "Dig!", a great film about his band and their friends/enemies the Brian Jonestown Massacre



(we look awesome)

-- and believe it or not, i actually remember fondly the twenty minutes of sleep i managed to steal on the floor of the airport terminal as we waited for our flight, my sweatshirt being used as a pillow.

did it do anything to promote Sherwood? not sure.
but was it awesome? yes.

back in mexican exile,
dan

Sherwood Signs. Others Get Angry.

so we announced that we are signing to MySpace records, and Mikey told me that there is a bunch of stuff online about it. so i went and checked it out. the staff and kids from absolutepunk.net were generally nice and optimistic, i apreciate that. but on a few other sites, namely punknews.org, things weren't so pleasant.

here are my favorites:


"this band has two of the gayest album covers i've ever seen.
what a bunch of bitches"

"Did they cuddle afterwards?"

"this band is from my hometown. then they moved to hollywood to "make it big". bunch of pricks. they think that their shit dont smell like poo."

"i bet they got it in the contract that they could get extra profile pictures."


two words: totally awesome. i love this stuff! if you can't laugh at yourself, then when can you laugh? please send your replies to my hollywood condo. =)

dan