1.) Name three of the most influential songs of your childhood.
-"misty's Song" from the pokemon soundtrack... i remember listening to that extensively when i was younger... mostly because i had a huuuuuge crush on my best friend at the time, and he and i were both pokemon fantards and... yeah, i'm lame.
-"fight" by the cure... i really, really liked this song. i listened to it all the time... i was just an angsty little kid, i guess, haha. ^_^'
-"run away" by linkin park... i was into pretty hard music for being, what, like 12? ...i kicked ass. i don't remember why i related to this song so much, but i did.


2.) Name three of the most influential songs to you currently.
-"into the dark" by death cab for cutie... this song is beautiful, it makes me happy/sad, and it helps me write matt/mello, so i love it.
-"hear you me" by jimmy eat world... it reminds me of L. enough said.
-it's a tie between 'on a plain', 'ennyroyal tea', and 'dumb', all of which are by nirvana... they've spoken a lot me lately.

3.) Select one of your characters. Is there a song you connect to him / her vocally?
-none of my original characters have songs for them... but i listen to 'celebrity skin' by hole when i write mello, haha, so that sorta counts. (mello + courtney love = amazing)

4.) But what about you? Is there a specific artist you've always liked, no matter what?
-mmm...sarah mclachlan, vienna teng, placebo, and, of course, david bowie... i'd say tori amos, except i remember really not liking her at first... ^_^'

5.) Put your entire playlist on shuffle. List the first five songs that are shown.
"blind sublime" by peter murphy
"idle flow" by peter murphy (hey! no coming back for seconds!)
"bullet proof" by paul stanlet
"knees of my bees" by alanis morissette
"blind" by placebo

6.) Make a band acronym out of the letters of your name.

Evanescene
Matchbox 20
Iggy and the Stooges
Lit
Yeah yeah yeahs

7.) The best isntrument in your opinion:
piano!

8.) A song that you cannot stand.
that stupid "keep bleeding" song that they keep playing at the radio in at subway.

9.) Word Association:
- Psychadelic: "starman" by david bowie
- Anger: "cruel--pip's verison" by tori amos
- Dragon: ..."dragon" by tori amos
- Water: "post blue" by placebo
- Evil: "polly" by nirvana
- Apple: the first death note theme song, which i can't remember the title of for some reason...
- Choices - "inbetween days" by the cure
- Bicycle - "bicycle" by queen.

10.) And last but not least, tag five people with songs that remind you of them.

umm... i'm only gonna tag rachel... 'cause she's the only one with a song in my head, haha. ^_^

"bells for her" by tori amos