I enjoy guitar, banjo, mandolin, short fiction, the essay, cinephilia, and collecting vinyl. I am 26 and teach 9th, 11th, and 12th grade English and am working on a double Master's in English literature and English pedagogy. I like Americana, pre-war blues, old timey, country, british folk, tropicalia, 60s pop, girl groups, soul, garage, west coast jazz, doo wop, Tom Waits, and spooning.

AIM : thesixtiessound
MSN: mod_lang@hotmail.com

Musicians I have met:

Jeff Tweedy
A.C. Newman
Sam Beam

Best concert seen:

Brian Wilson SMiLE tour, 2004.

Funniest concert picture taken:

Bob Dylan pointing at my camera's flash during "Masters of War."

Artists I'd Marry (In Their Prime):

1. Ronnie Spector
2. Dusty Springfield
3. Joanna Newsom
4. Mary Weiss
5. Anne Briggs
6. Francoise Hardy
7. Jane Birkin


Top Five Albums as of 8/13/2008

1. Neil Young - On the Beach
2. The Kinks - Are the Village Green Preservation Society
3. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
4. The Beach Boys - Today!
5. Townes Van Zandt - Live at The Old Quarter

Favorite Box Sets:

1. The Zombies - Zombie Heaven
2. Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
3. The Complete Stax Singles Collection 1959-1968
4. Love is the Song We Sing - San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
5. One Kiss Can Lead to Another -- Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found
6. Back to Mono
7. Five Guys Walk Into a Bar - Faces box set

Ten Songs I Can't Live Without:

1. You Still Believe in Me - The Beach Boys
2. B-A-B-Y - Carla Thomas
3. Ambulance Blues - Neil Young
4. River Deep Mountain High - Ike and Tina Turner
5. Nobody's Fault But Mine - Blind Willie Johnson
6. Hearts on Fire - Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris
7. Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
8. Lost Highway - Hank Williams
9. The Look of Love - The Zombies
10. Dimming of the Day/Dargai - Richard and Linda Thompson

Top Five Guilty Pleasures:

1. Jackson Browne
2. Miley Cyrus
3. 90s "message" hip-hop
4. Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and "Like a Prayer" albums
5. Claudine Longet