A personal study of the college underclassman, female.

[crankyoldman]

Sometimes in my dorm, I feel like someone that is studying some primitive tribe they know nothing about and this tribe is somewhat wary of my intrusion. It's more funny than annoying to be honest. I'm not too far from them in age, but I'd have to say I kind of trump them in life experience for the most part. So that's more of where the divide comes from.

So I had to have my door open for a little while, because of certain cleaning things I was doing this evening (because Friday is the best night to do this, as there are fewer people around and I can get access to certain cleaning supplies). And being the audiophile I am, I was playing music. I think the current playlist has a combination of Nine Inch Nails, Liquid Laughter Lounge Quartet, Abney Park, and some wonderful little group I discovered called Blackalicious (SYO people, this album contains a Cleo song, yeah). Someone down the hall was playing... I think her name is Fergie? I have no idea, actually. I'm a little, ah, behind on the times. Suffice to say, mine did not jive much with the other.

As I was about to shut my door, being done with what I was doing, one of the girls approaches me.

Girl: Hey, I was wondering what you were playing.
Me: Which one?
Girl: All of them. Sounded like several.
Me: *rattles off my artists*
Girl: ...Never heard of any of those. Well, except NIN, my boyfriend likes them.
Me: Do you have an email?
Girl: Yeah.
Me: I'll email you the links of where I got them. Other than NIN. Because most of them have free music up in places.
Girl: Cool! *tells me email*

Contact has been established, some musical taste has been found.

~Cendri

Comments

[tijuana-pirate.livejournal.com]

Cendri, spreading good music one dorm room encounter at a time.

-T. pirate

[t3h-w0lfy.livejournal.com]

*clap clap* Congratulations on communicating with The Other Side.

I wouldn't mind having some of those links, either, actually... More music is always good.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

Abney Park (http://www.abneypark.com/vault_locked/)

Urbanology, the best audio blog about urban related music (http://urbanology.wordpress.com/)

That should do it. I highly suggest the posts dealing with Liquid Laughter Lounge Quartet, and Visioneers.

~Cendri

[t3h-w0lfy.livejournal.com]

Yay!
I'll totally check those out as soon as life stops throwing mini crises at me as soon as I finish my homework.
Same goes for reading Grow Up and Blow Away, actually. I tried reading it during my free period, but I ran out of time, and school libraries are distracting.

[astralavator.livejournal.com]

Wow, they can actually tell your a few years older than they are.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

My clothes give me away. I don't wear leggings and hideous boots like them, so they suspect I'm at least a LITTLE different.

That, and I got a single room, only upperclassmen get those. XD

~Cendri

[astralavator.livejournal.com]

Still speaks well of their observation skills. Not that you look terribly young in the few pictures I've seen of you.

You make me glad leggings haven’t caught on here.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

In general, I hate to say it, but girls that spend a lot of time on their own appearance ALWAYS know when someone else doesn't fit. It's like, an instinct.

I mean, it's JANUARY, and it's COLD, and they have TANS? Abusing the tanning beds a bit there, girls.

And no, I do look rather young, I'm getting carded until I'm thirty. XD Maybe longer! I hope that the couple of grey hairs I have already mean I'm going to go grey sooner and hopefully get taken more seriously.

~Cendri