Music
1.Favorite band?
Sleater-Kinney
2.Top 5 bands?
1. Sleater-Kinney
2. Tegan and Sara
3. The New Pornographers
4. Stars
5. Metric. for the sake of simplicity.
3. What are your favorite albums of your Top 5?
1. One Beat. Then The Woods and Dig Me Out.
2. The Con is my current fave.
3. Twin Cinema, with Challengers in a close second.
4. Set Yourself on Fire, followed by In Our Bedroom After the War.
5. Live it Out.
4. What are your favorite songs of those albums?
1. One Beat: One Beat, Light Rail Coyote, Step Aside.
2. The Con: Dark Come Soon, Back In Your Head, Call It Off.
3. Twin Cinema: Three or Four, These Are the Fables, The Jessica Numbers.
Challengers: Mutiny I Promise You
4. Set Yourself On Fire: Your Ex-Lover Is Dead, Ageless Beauty, Reunion.
In Our Bedroom: The Beginning After the End, The Night Starts Here, TAKE ME TO THE RIOT.
5. Live it Out: Monster Hospital, Ending Start, Empty.
5. Have you seen any of them live?
Tegan and Sara, The New Pornographers, Stars.
6. Who have you liked the longest?
Tegan and Sara.
7. Favorite members?
I'm actually obsessed with Tegan and Sara, Carrie Brownstein of S-K, Emily Haines from Metric, and from Stars I love the Torquil Campbell/ Amy Millan duo.
What's your favorite genre?
Indie rock, but I don't be hating anything in partic.
9.Other bands you like?
Elliott Smith, Immaculate Machine, Feist, Cat Power, The Unicorns, The Beatles, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, The Organ, The Shins, The Decemberists, Final Fantasy, Girl Talk, Modest Mouse, Islands, The Gossip.
10. What's your all time favorite song?
I don't have one.
11. How many concerts have you been to?
7
12. What bands?
The New Pornographers with Immaculate Machine, Emily Haines, Feist with Chad VanGaalen, Cat Power, Tegan and Sara, Stars. And I went to a festival that had the New Pornographers, Tegan and Sara, The Dears, Bad Brains and Bedouin Soundclash.
13.Favorite concert?
That's tricky. The first, New Pornos, totally blew me away, esp because it was so loud. Tegan and Sara were incredible because they just are, and I was standing right at the stage. My last, Stars was really intense and I had a lot of friends with me.
14.What was your first concert and when was it?
The New Pornographers .... like last year.
15. What was the last concert you went to and when was it?
Stars, 2 weeks ago.
16. Next concert?
Who knows.
17. What's the best band live?
T&S, New Pornos, Stars.
18. Best concert buddy?
I don't know. I've been to a lot of shows alone :(
19. Worst concert experience?
We had to wait for a million years for Stars to come on, but it was worth it when they did.
Oh, and I lost the T&S tickets beforehand.
20. Ever meet the band?
I've met AC Newman from the New Pornographers, Kathryn Calder from the New Pornographers and Immaculate Machine, and Sara Quin.
21. Best opening band?
Immaculate Machine for New Pornographers, and Chad VanGaalen for Feist.
22.Worst opening band?
TALL FIRS for Emily Haines were completely horrid. Flash Lightning for Stars were on the lame side.
23. Most money spent on tickets.
Cat Power; damn you over $40.
24. If you could see ANY band/singer live, which one would you choose?
Sleater-Kinney! But Yeah Yeah Yeahs would be sick too.
-CDs-
25.How many CDs do you own?
A good amount.
26. Are they in good condition?
Mostly.
27. Do you keep them in their case?
I keep them in those booky things.
28.How do you usually clean a CD?
I don't.
29. Do you have a stereo?
Jeah, with just CD/radio.
30.How many CDs can it fit?
One.
31.What CDs are in there now?
Stars EP thing that was free :)
32. Do you buy CDs or burn them?
Both.
33. Does your car have a stereo?
I don't have a car.
34.First CD ever bought?
I don't know... but first received/owned was THE MOFFATS. And then Savage Garden and Christina Aguilera.
35. Last CD bought?
In Our Bedroom After the War- Stars. And technically I just bought So Jealous too, for someone else.
-MP3-
36.Do you own an MP3 player?
Yes. thank goodness.
37. What is it?
Le nouveau iPod classic.
38.How many songs are on it?
3000 ish?
39. Do you use it everyday?
Basically.
40. What is the longest song on it?
On iTunes... I have an entire S-K show that is 1:54:18.
41. What is the shortest song on it?
Modest Mouse- Horn Intro, 10 seconds.
42. What song has the largest play count?
Well.. It's prolly inaccurate, but
Dark Come Soon- T&S at 22
41. What song has the smallest play count?
Yet to be heard songs.
42.First Artist?
ABBA
43. Last Artist?
50 Cent
44.How Many Playlists do you have?
5
45. Put your iTunes on shuffle: What song comes up?
End Of You- Sleater-Kinney
46. What does that song make you think of?
HOMER'S THE ODYSSEY. OH GOSH. GRADE 10 ENGLISH.
47. Press the random/next button 5 times: What songs come up?
Keep on Runnin'- Cat Power
Combat Baby- Metric
Happiness- Elliott Smith
No I In Threesome- Interpol
The Fox- Sleater-Kinney
48. When's the last time these songs were played?
The Fox was last played a month ago.
49. Press shuffle/random AGAIN. What's your favorite lyric from that song?
"Had you been thinking that you were all alone while I still thought of you?" From Silver Road by Sarah Harmer.