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Passion? Yeah, I have that.

I’m really tired of telling everyone I talk to that I really love music. I mean, it’s a little old now. I think anyone that knows anything about me knows that I love music.

A lot.

But, heres the reason why.

I guess I blame it on good genes.

I blame it on my parents who I like to call: FREE SPIRITED LIBERAL HIPPIES

My dad. A genius when it comes to music. He’s my encyclopedia of Rock and Roll.

When I was a little girl, around 5 or 6 I remember waking up every Sunday to my dad playing The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, Jefferson Airplane and so much more. I remember my eyes shutting and me forcing them open so I could stay awake and listen to the end of the song. I remember being too young that I didn’t understand what any or the words meant, but I knew that surly I was getting these overwhelming feelings for a reason. And Finally, my eyes would close and I would have to be patient until the following Sunday.

My dad would call me into the room and go, “ listen to this. It’s great.” and I would sit still and listen to the timbre in the voice, and the riffs of the guitar and I would smile, and say... ‘yeah, it’s good.’ My day would be made.

As I got older, around 8 or 9, I would sneak into my moms old vinyl collection and would wish for a record player. Finally, we got one, and I could not stop playing EVERYTHING! I just couldn’t function without music around all the time. And cassettes, Oh! I loved cassettes, rewinding, fast forwarding, stopping, and flipping the side over. I though that surly there would never be anything better than a cassette but I was wrong and CD’s came out at just the right time. It was the time that I was discovering my own taste in music, I loved Pop( of course, who wouldn’t love Britney Spears?) And I loved Rock, oh how every emotion that was needed was in any great rock song.

And then, in 2004 I fell in love with a band by the name of Taking Back Sunday and I read their mundane reviews and I thought ‘ someone has to hear the greatness, someone needs to tell people how amazingly life changing this band is.’ and I realized that person could be ME. And I don’t care if anyone tells me I cant make it in the music industry... frankly, I’m not trying to make it in the music industry. I just want to listen to music all day while I write, and somewhere, if I can teach someone.. something...anything... about music, then it will all be worth it. Because I truly can’t see myself being happy at anything else.


So, if anyone cares, heres a few bands I listen to:

Taking Back Sunday.
Cassino.
Brand New.
From First to Last.
Dear& the Headlights.
Hole.
Jenny Owen Youngs.
Cold War Kids.
Other Lives.
Straylight Run.
Vanna.
Rilo Kiley.
Pierce the Veil.
Stars.
White Lies.
MGMT.
Howling Bells.
The Distillers.
Rancid.