Blackbeard

"Pirate Radio"

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    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
    LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
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    Staralfur by Sigur Ros
    electronic, ambient, experimental
    Sigur Ros did it all before Radiohead came along. The facts that they are critically acclaimed and massively hyped can't take away from the...  more »
    Three Degrees by The Red And The Black
    rock, indie, alternative
    Brooklyn, NY's The Red And The Black are big rock, big rhythm, big roll, and big alternative indie. Three Degrees is a great little...  more »
    Missing You (by Ronnie Richards) by Basement Jaxx
    electronic, techno
    With all the critical acclaim Basement Jaxx are getting these days, it's easy to forget they were once just normal DJs like you and me....  more »
    Close My Eyes by Natacha Atlas
    world, electronic, techno, middle east
    Natacha combines gorgeous Middle-Eastern/West Indian tinged vocals with a techno underbeat to make something completely her own.  more »
    With Grace by DJ Krush
    electronic, trip-hop, downtempo
    Krush is one of the hip hop industry's biggest producers, collaborating with everyone from DJ Shadow to Mos Def to the Roots. But it's...  more »
    Summer Sun by Koop
    electronic, lounge, downtempo, deep house
    Koop is a new jazz outfit disguised as downtempo house music, with a little latin flavor to boot. Koop's Waltz for Koop is a...  more »
    Conversation With Jim DeRogatis's Answering Machine by Ryan Adams
    other, spoken word, rant
    It doesn't get better than this. 3 minutes of Ryan Adams whining about a bad review that rock critic Jim DeRogatis wrote about an...  more »
    The District Sleeps Alone Tonight by The Postal Service
    pop, electronic
    Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel combined this year for an electronic pop supergroup called The Postal Service. ...  more »
    Fashionably Uninvited by Mellowdrone
    electronic, rock, alternative, modern rock
    If you (1) love Radiohead but don't like to pay the big bucks for their CDs, and (2) love free MP3s but are afraid of...  more »
     
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