Thanks to Amy and John for being brave and posting their answers. For them, and all of you playing at home, here are the answers!
Answers:
* 1. has received Advanced Reader Copies of books (Amy, Emily)
* 2. despite not having cable growing up, they quickly became obsessed with reality shows on TLC (Amy, Gretchen, and John-this I didn't know!)
* 3. planned a diversity program that is now a standard part of 1st year orientation (Manda)
* 4. was president of their college dorm (Gretchen, John)
* 5. bonded over our mutual love of pop culture books and mutual hatred of an acquaintance (Emily)
* 6. wouldn't buy me High School Musical because it was too embarrassing (Manda, although probably others, except Amy who actually did!)
* 7. got their only speeding ticket in Dubuque (my mom)
* 8. got out of a speeding ticket in Dubuque (Gretchen)
* 9. received their bachelor's degree from UW (Emily, my dad)
* 10. was the manager of the high school wrestling team (Amy)
* 11. played club rugby (momentarily) in college (Gretchen)
* 12. was the inspiration for a song of the same name (John)
One thing I realized that never came up is my odd taste in music and my music playing sensibilities. My taste in music isn't odd, so much as eclectic. For years, I was the biggest country music fan. I sort of abandoned this in college, but my music collection still has remnants of this. I'm also a Broadway musical fan. (Not quite like Autumn or my friend Emily). I've also come to love Christian rock groups like Switchfoot and Relient K thanks to Gretchen. Amy got me hooked on Matt Wertz and Dave Barnes, two guitar playing Christian solo artists. I love Josh Groban and John Meyer. Kelly Clarkson and Jaci Velasquez. High School Musical (all 3!) and the Jonas Brothers. Backstreet Boys and 98 Degrees. Blue Skies and Chameleon Circuit.
Now that isn't the odd part. I know lots of people who have electic music tastes. In fact most of my friends do. I think the part where it gets weird is how I play music. I tend to get a one-track mind about music. When I'm around the apartment with my laptop, iTunes shuffle is fine. But most of my music consumption in the past 7 years has happened in my car or on my iPod/mp3 player/CD player (yep, I was that old school until 2006). Now I realize that a CD player doesn't easily lend itself to a rotation of a variety of music, but when I listen to music I get a bit obsessive. I go through phases as I like to call them. During a phase I only listen to that artist's music. Not too weird I guess, except when I tell you that means I can listen to the same CD over and over for like a month and never get bored with it. I was notorious for driving home from college (3 hour drive) and only listening to one CD on repeat. Most times I didn't even bother shuffling it. I'd do the same thing while studying/reading for class. I don't remember a time in during college where I was studying/reading and it wasn't Josh Groban/Gavin DeGraw/John Mayer in my cd player. Oddly, that's the only situational thing. Everything else, I just listen to that one album, or artist for that period. I do eventually get sick of it (usually about 3-5 weeks) and move on to someone else. Right now I'm in one of the longest phases I've ever been in. Since mid-January I've pretty much been listening almost exclusively to Blue Skies and DFTBA records artists. The Blue Skies video I linked above is my favorite original song of his. (It just came out today, but I love it! Probably where I should admit I've listened to it like 7 times today. See I told you I'm weird.) Despite having close to 8GB of music on my iPod, I really only listen to about 60 of those songs, all in the Nerdfighter genre. (If you don't know what Nerdfighters are...you should check out the vlogbrothers YouTube channel.) Can you listen to an album on repeat for weeks? Or is it just me? If you could only listen to one album or artist for the rest of your life who would it be? Leave your comments below!!
-Becky
Answers:
* 1. has received Advanced Reader Copies of books (Amy, Emily)
* 2. despite not having cable growing up, they quickly became obsessed with reality shows on TLC (Amy, Gretchen, and John-this I didn't know!)
* 3. planned a diversity program that is now a standard part of 1st year orientation (Manda)
* 4. was president of their college dorm (Gretchen, John)
* 5. bonded over our mutual love of pop culture books and mutual hatred of an acquaintance (Emily)
* 6. wouldn't buy me High School Musical because it was too embarrassing (Manda, although probably others, except Amy who actually did!)
* 7. got their only speeding ticket in Dubuque (my mom)
* 8. got out of a speeding ticket in Dubuque (Gretchen)
* 9. received their bachelor's degree from UW (Emily, my dad)
* 10. was the manager of the high school wrestling team (Amy)
* 11. played club rugby (momentarily) in college (Gretchen)
* 12. was the inspiration for a song of the same name (John)
One thing I realized that never came up is my odd taste in music and my music playing sensibilities. My taste in music isn't odd, so much as eclectic. For years, I was the biggest country music fan. I sort of abandoned this in college, but my music collection still has remnants of this. I'm also a Broadway musical fan. (Not quite like Autumn or my friend Emily). I've also come to love Christian rock groups like Switchfoot and Relient K thanks to Gretchen. Amy got me hooked on Matt Wertz and Dave Barnes, two guitar playing Christian solo artists. I love Josh Groban and John Meyer. Kelly Clarkson and Jaci Velasquez. High School Musical (all 3!) and the Jonas Brothers. Backstreet Boys and 98 Degrees. Blue Skies and Chameleon Circuit.
Now that isn't the odd part. I know lots of people who have electic music tastes. In fact most of my friends do. I think the part where it gets weird is how I play music. I tend to get a one-track mind about music. When I'm around the apartment with my laptop, iTunes shuffle is fine. But most of my music consumption in the past 7 years has happened in my car or on my iPod/mp3 player/CD player (yep, I was that old school until 2006). Now I realize that a CD player doesn't easily lend itself to a rotation of a variety of music, but when I listen to music I get a bit obsessive. I go through phases as I like to call them. During a phase I only listen to that artist's music. Not too weird I guess, except when I tell you that means I can listen to the same CD over and over for like a month and never get bored with it. I was notorious for driving home from college (3 hour drive) and only listening to one CD on repeat. Most times I didn't even bother shuffling it. I'd do the same thing while studying/reading for class. I don't remember a time in during college where I was studying/reading and it wasn't Josh Groban/Gavin DeGraw/John Mayer in my cd player. Oddly, that's the only situational thing. Everything else, I just listen to that one album, or artist for that period. I do eventually get sick of it (usually about 3-5 weeks) and move on to someone else. Right now I'm in one of the longest phases I've ever been in. Since mid-January I've pretty much been listening almost exclusively to Blue Skies and DFTBA records artists. The Blue Skies video I linked above is my favorite original song of his. (It just came out today, but I love it! Probably where I should admit I've listened to it like 7 times today. See I told you I'm weird.) Despite having close to 8GB of music on my iPod, I really only listen to about 60 of those songs, all in the Nerdfighter genre. (If you don't know what Nerdfighters are...you should check out the vlogbrothers YouTube channel.) Can you listen to an album on repeat for weeks? Or is it just me? If you could only listen to one album or artist for the rest of your life who would it be? Leave your comments below!!
-Becky
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