Sometimes it's funny to look back on what music you were listening to at a certain point in your life. I always think about the summer before my senior year of college when I was interning at MSNBC and commuting about 20 minutes each way, every day. I was listening to this crazy combination of Annie, Belle & Sebastian, and Jason Mraz. I remember thinking that the drive wasn't nearly long enough. I remember sitting at my desk, thinking about how I couldn't wait to get back into the car so I could listen to Annie's "Heartbeat" again.

Some people say that they were raised around music. I really wasn't, but some of the stuff my parents introduced me to has had a lasting impression, witness:
-Phil Spector/Wall of Sound stuff
-Donna Summer
-Natalie Cole
-Frank Sinatra
-the Gypsy soundtrack
-Paul Simon's Graceland and Rhythm of the Saints
-this random Elton John greatest hits tape, I think it's #3

- TEN movies I can't live without (in no particular order):
1. Clueless
2. Kicking & Screaming
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Wonder Boys
6. Mean Girls
7. Velvet Goldmine
8. The Big Lebowski
9. Don't Look Back
10. Mallrats

NINE albums that are important to me:
(in no particular order)
1. Mass Romantic - The New Pornographers
2. Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
3. Infinity on High - Fall Out Boy
4. Pretty.Odd - Panic at the Disco
5. Boxer - The National
6. Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
7. Hello Rockview - Less Than Jake
8. Dookie - Green Day
9. Let it Be - The Replacements

EIGHT bands/artists I couldn't live without:
1. Destroyer
2. David Cook
3. Fall Out Boy
4. The New Pornographers
5. Okkervil River
6. Beirut
7. Queen

SEVEN things that annoy me:
1. Right wing-ers
2. People who walk too slowly
3. People who don't put reading material away on a crowded subway
4. People (men, really) who sit with their legs too far apart on crowded subways, taking up space where someone could SIT
5. Self-entitled twerps
6. People who are unecessarily dim
7. Inconsiderate/disrespectful people

SIX of my favorite songs at this moment:
1. Summerboy - Lady Gaga
2. Hot & Cold - Katy Perry
3. We Almost Had a Baby - Emmy the Great
4. Daniel - Bat for Lashes
5. You've Got the Love - Florence & the Machine
6. La La Lie - Jack's Mannequin

FIVE TV shows I watch regularly:
1. true blood.
2. 30 rock.
3. the office.
4. gossip girl.
5. american idol.

FOUR of my all-time-favorite books:
1. King Dork - Frank Portman
2. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
3. Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
4. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

THREE albums I've bought recently:
I haven't bought any! I think I DL-ed the new Neko Case, but that's it.

TWO people that have influenced my life the most:
1. mom
2. dad

ONE thing I could spend the rest of my life with:
1. my iPod