Blackbeard

about me
I fell in love in the 7th grade. She was the new girl at school, sitting behind my desk humming "Boys Don't Cry" all English period, sporting black plastic bracelets around her wrist with the words "The Cure Rules" scribbled across her hand. My 12-year old heart ached over her, an exquisite mixture of grace and solitude, beauty and sadness, reveling in her own ambivalence towards the world. We spent recess talking about our shared love of music, debating whether the first song on "Pornography" had better guitar than the first song on side two of "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me." She moved away soon after, leaving me alone with only my copy of The Smiths' "The Queen is Dead" to remind me of the fragile and tragic world that existed beyond the halls of my junior high.

why i'm a source
My love for music remained and has since engulfed me. It surrounds me during the day, puts me to sleep every night, and keeps me sane in an imperfect world. I love it because I don't know anything else. I devour new music of all kinds: electronic, dance, alt-country, hip-hop, techno, pop, indie, jazz. You'll never see me without my iPod, and I live to introduce my friends to music that makes my heart ache the way she did back in 7th grade.

favorite bands
Aimee Mann, Air, The Album Leaf, Aphex Twin, Azure Ray, Badly Drawn Boy, Basement Jaxx, The Beatles, Beck, Beethoven, Beth Orton, Boards of Canada, The Cardigans, The Chemical Brothers, Chopin, Coldplay, Counting Crows, The Cure, Damien Rice, The Dandy Warhols, Depeche Mode, DJ Shadow, Eels, Eminem, Erasure, Eurythmics, Everything But the Girl, FC/Kahuna, Felix da Housecat, Fiona Apple, Four Tet, Frou Frou, Gorillaz, Her Space Holiday, The Innocence Mission, Jay-Z, Jem, John Coltrane, The Kings of Convenience, Lauryn Hill, Me'shell NdegeOcello, Nina Simone, Outkast, Pearl Jam, The Police, Portishead, The Postal Service, Prefuse 73, Radiohead, Royksopp, U2, Weekend Players, Zero 7

favorite movies
Star Wars, The Godfather, Rebel Without a Cause, The Good, the Bad & The Ugly, The Last Emperor, Ferris Beuller's Day Off

favorite books
Love in the Time of Cholera, The Shipping News, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Great Gatsby, anything by Nabokov