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Holy crap-- I'm in Australia?! I'm here from January to May studying exchange at Sydney Uni. Normally I'm getting pelted by ice and wind in Boston. This is great.

I'm in my third year studying journalism and international relations. But that's boring... Music is my life and passion. I write some of my own stuff and have been in the process of sloooowly recording a demo at home. Someday hopefully I'll have time to finish, but for now the world is calling, and I'm here interning at fasterlouder.

• Manchester Orchestra, 
• We Are Scientists, 
• Plug-In City, 
• The Holidays 

• Fionn Regan, 
• Beck, 
• Fiona Apple, 
• Led Zeppelin, 
• G.Love and Special Sauce, 
• Grandaddy, 
• RJD2, 
• Jurassic 5, 
• Scapegoat Wax, 
• Sunny Day Real Estate, 
• the Rapture, 
• Abandoned Pools, 
• Ella Fitzgerald, 
• Billie Holiday, 
• Biggie, 
• OkGo, 
• Feist, 
• Galactic, 
• Regina Spektor, 
• Amy Winehouse, 
• Cake, 
• Paolo Nutini, 
• Spoon, 
• Guided by Voices, 
• Coldplay, 
• Pavement, 
• RHCP, 
• Money Mark, 
• Olivia Tremor Control, 
• 311, 
• The Black Keys, 
• The Beatles, 
• The Pixies, 
• The Kills, 
• The Shins, 
• and lots of those other "The _____s" bands, 
• Phish, 
• Frank Sinatra, 
• Rage, 
• Incubus, 
• Lauryn Hill, 
• The Fugees, 
• Wu Tang, 
• Sufjan Stevens, 
• Dispatch, 
• Ben Kweller, 
• Matt Costa, 
• Quantic, 
• Cut Chemist, 
• Soundgarden, 
• Nirvana, 
• Phantom Planet, 
• Elvis Costello, 
• Radiohead, 
• Girl Talk, 
• Modest Mouse, 
• Atmosphere, 
• Stevie Wonder, 
• Eartha Kitt, 
• Animal Liberation Orchestra, 
• Giant Panda Gorilla Dub Squad, 
• The Gorillaz, 
• Aesop Rock, 
• Sublime, 
• Slightly Stoopid, 
• The Cardigans, 
• Joe Cocker, 
• Ozomatli, 
• Nas, 
• Grateful Dead, 
• Wilco, 
• Ambulence LTD, 
• Discover America, 
• Beastie Boys, 
• Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, 
• Common, 
• M.I.A., 
• Cursive, 
• Fugazi, 
• Jimi Hendrix, 
• Ray Charles, 
• Jay-Z, 
• Tribe Called Quest, 
• Bob Marley, 
• Metric, 
• Ted Leo, 
• Elastica, 
• LCD Soundsystem, 
• The Cure, 
• Hot Hot Heat, 
• Silverchair, 
• Crystal Method, 
• Cordalene, 
• The French Kicks, 
• Donavon Frankenreiter, 
• DCFC, 
• Elliot Smith, 
• Bush, 
• George Clinton, 
• Ben Folds, 
• Soulive, 
• Aretha Franklin, 
• CCR, 
• Janet Jackson, 
• STS9, 
• John Butler Trio, 
• Queen, 
• David Bowie, 
• pre-1998 Madonna, 
• Guster, 
• Ween, 
• Talking Heads, 
• Chemical Brothers, 
• My Morning Jacket, 
• qua, 
• Love as Laughter, 
• NIN, 
• Ahn Trio etc. etc. etc. forever and ever amen.

• Donnie Darko, 
• Almost Famous, 
• With Honors, 
• Can't Hardly Wait, 
• French Kiss, 
• Scent of a Woman, 
• Super Troopers, 
• The Doors, 
• Ocean's 11, 
• Blow, 
• ... I have too much ADD for movies.

The Secret Life of Bees,  Great Expectations,  Nine Stories,  anything by Kafka,  The Snows of Kilimanjaro,  The Secret History,  A Confederacy of Dunces