..and you're the unreachable star...

About Me

John Lennon once said "Life is what happens to you when your're busy making other plans."
You have to just go with the flow and see what happens. Seize the day and all that shit.

This is your warning:
I am sarcastic, will more likely then not be a bitch, and am more cynical then a single person has any right to be.
I also tell the truth and don't hold back. Fuck you if you have a problem with that.
At the same time though, if you are my friend, if I consider you close to my heart I would take a bullet for you.

I grew up on Long Island, (that little island off shoot of Manhattan that didn't mean shit about shit until Taking Back Sunday and Brand New got famous), and attended private school straight through Kindergarten until 12th grade. I blame Catholic School for what I am now.
I first discovered music when I was eight. Most little girls were running around with barbie dolls; I was digging through my mother's record collection and making best friends with John, George, Robert, Paul, Keith, Pete, Roger & Mick (if you don't know who I'm talking about there is a good chance I don't want to talk to you). This eventually led to me discovering modern rock acts that drew their inspriation from the sounds of the 70s like The Black Crowes, which then led me to another genre my mother loved-- what we like to call Southern Shit Kicking Rock (Allman Brothers, Skynard, Charlie Daniels...). I felt more alive laying in the living room with my mom, cigarette smoke curling around me, beer cans scattered on the table and just listening then I did anywhere else.
When I was 11, I hit 2 big "milestone" in both my life and my progression of music: Kurt Cobain died. All of a sudden this guy was all over the news and at that point I had no idea who he was (I basically lived in the 70s give me a break--we aren't born cool). So I checked out Nirvana, which led to Pearl Jam, which led to Stone Temple Pilots, which led to Silverchair and while all my friends were listening to pop and hip/hop I was listening to rock, the harder the better in a lot of cases. The other milestone was that my mother got clean, completely. For some strange reason (as wonderful as this was) it also made me feel cut off to the music of my youth. I needed somewhere else to "go" (so to speak)
When I turned 13, I finally started listening to this band that I had heard about but since all my friends were pop addicts I didn't really get exposed to it (again...gimme a break here): Green Day. Whom, I'd like to point out are not my favorite band. or really anywhere near close to it. However, this started me down the road to integrating punk rock into my eclectic musical collection. Another band came out that year that to this day I'm mocked for liking (well, I'm mocked by those that don't know me that well...): Hanson. Go ahead throw your insults. I'd like to see you play an instrument with even half the musicality those men have.
High School was essentially a living hell for me. Ask more then half of the punks with any REAL cred around Long Island and they'll probably tell you they went to Catholic/Private School. Ironic really. It's probably the total lack of rebellion/expression we were afforded while we were IN school. I lived in a musical "bubble" during that time. I drank, I smoked, I did things I'm not exactly proud of--but will talk about if asked, if only so people don't repeat my mistakes--in a lot of ways I'm lucky to be alive. To me all that mattered was "the scene", the music, and the lifestyle.
Next came college: SUNY Oneonta. Here is where I became the person I am today. I got involved in the local music scene there as well...only this time being that I was surrounded by hippies, it was more jam bands and the like. Which was fine, it was nice to have a break from the dark depressing, "I want to punch your face in" of the punk/hardcore NY scene. I also discovered that this was truly what I want to do for the rest of my life. What I truly need to do. Working with people like Chris Carabba, Dane Cook, Vanesssa Carlton, Fuel, Goldfinger, Busta Rhymes, Tim Reynolds, Blues Traveler, Robert Randolph....only just some of the names I had the privledge and honor of booking, working with, and learning from over my five years at Oneonta State.
Something else being in Oneonta exposed me to: Pop/Punk. Ironic really. The hippie & red neck filled town clued me into the fact that there existed a whole other faction beyond hardcore punk and emo...there was something in the middle. And I LOVED it.
The way I discovered it was actually like this: "Bridget, Wentz has a new band. Fall Out something...find them. check them out. you'll like them." from my very interesting, screamo/hardcore obsessed friend who had a bit of a hard on for Arma Angelus. So I took his advice and there they were Fall Out Boy. Not very good, but so much potential. (and anyone who was around in the beginning KNOWS this is the truth). Fall Out Boy was my introduction into this pop/punk/emo/whatever you want to call in "scene". Most of my friends here on LI don't understand it, mock me for it, and then imply I can't handle myself at a "real show" anymore. But whatever. This is my life. My passion. This is me. Take it or leave it.

I recently started working as the Administrative Assistant to the Director of Operations for the MetroNY Balloon and Music Festival---which basically means I type stuff a lot. And will eventually get myself on a real tour/festival staff and be able to make my way up through the ranks. I think I want to work touring/festivals based on the experience I've had in college/now...but that may change with the times. All I know is that I love this life, I love this industry, and I love music.
(random aside: My boss actually used to own The Downtown, if there are any LI "scenesters" (god I hate that word) on here who used to party it up at shows there.)


If I were to die tomorrow I would want people to remember me as being the girl who lived her life by her own rules and squeezed every damned drop out of it.

My Interests

LIKES:, music, rainy days and mondays, snickers, peanut butter, standing on a stage in, a completely empty venue right before the crowd comes in, country western bars, punk rock shows, piano heavy rock music, good beer, space, stars, dancing, the beach in the winter, central park, theatre, driving around with my friends singing along to anything at the tops of our lungs, graham crackers, vinyl (it just sounds better), writing., DISLIKES:, teenies from any genre of music, liars and fakes, crappy beer, brussel sprouts, bugs (I have an irrational fear I know), snow, girls who wear high heels/flip flops in pits and then complain when their feet hurt, the color orange

Music

I seriously do not have enough space to list everything I at least appreciate soo...here are some tops:, Hanson, Something Corporate, The Beatles, The Black Crowes, Panic! at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Jack's Mannequin, Silverchair, The Dresden Dolls, Pat McGee Band, Ben Folds, Billy Joel, Elton John, Counting Crows, Live, The Hush Sound, The Academy Is, No Doubt, The Moffatts, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Less Than Jake, Letters to Cleo, The Killers, Kelly Clarkson, Kane, Ben Jelen, Tim McGraw, Journey, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Goo Goo Dolls, Third Eye Blind, Josh Groban, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Eat World, Jason Mraz, Flogging Molly, Aerosmith, All American Rejects, Anna Nalick, Beach Boys, Bite the Bullet, Matchbox 20, Enation, Incubus, Jackson Browne, Sublime, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, There are tons more that I can't even think of right now

Movies

movies are my second passion...I'm only gonna list a few of the ones I love., Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Clerks 2 (we're going to ignore Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Jersey Girl...), George Romero's Zombie films (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead...etc), Gone with the Wind, Rear Window, The Birds, Garden State, Harry Potter series, The Stand, Going Greek, The Jacket, The Piano, Almost Famous, Pirates of the Carribean series..., TONS more. Just ask if you really want to know and I'll tell you if I like it...

Television

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Angel, (Joss Whedon was a genious), Heroes, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Office, Scrubs, Supernatural, House, Oz, Project Runway, Steven's Untitled Rock Show on FUSE (I mourn the loss of the couch), old school original MTV LIve (before TRL took over...god I'm old), My So-Called Life, Wings, Saved by the Bell, California Dreams, once again, I'm sure there are more that I can't think of...

Books

Stephen King's The Stand, Harry Potter series, Jonathan Kellerman's "Alex Delaware" Novels, and I'm starting to get into the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series.