20 Something Bloggers Blog Swap: "Candid Codas"

Blogger's note: This entry's been authored by Jennifer over at These Words on my Lips... She's a talented writer and a wonderful lady for putting up with my work schedule, as well as 20SB not being very good at organizing these blog swaps. I could have sworn they send you email reminders.... ANYWAY, do me the favor and check out her wonderful space on the Internet because it's a really cool thing. I'd consider it a personal favor if you did. Oh, and the guy below is Will Swan. His inclusion makes sense after you read the post. For what it's worth, I had no idea who he was before today.

I'm Jennifer from These Words on my Lips... and I really know nothing about music. Okay, I kinda felt like I was in an AA meeting right there. Let's start over.

I'm Jennifer, you can call me Jenn. Yes, with two N's. So I'm a diva about it, so what? As you can see, I'm not very good with first impressions.

The topic for this blog swap is supposed to be about the best things about being a blogger. Well my favorite thing about being a blogger is talking about whatever I want. So I'm kinda gonna toss the "suggested topic" out the window. Yeah, I'm a rebel too. What of it?

So here I am, a GIRL who knows little to nothing about music guest posting on a BOY's blog who writes specifically about music. And yeah, this guy knows his stuff. Or at least he's convinced me, the girl who knows nothing. [Wow, never thought I'd say THAT about myself.] I do monthly music posts, but they are basically just what I've been listening to each month. No review or opinion whatsoever. Hey, It's kinda like a Get Out Of Jail Free Card at the end of each month. I don't have to think up another long winded post! I like everything from pop-punk to country, as long as it's not Kanye. And you're gonna hate me for this, but I don't change the station when Ke$ha starts singing. Shut up, you know you don't either.

So, as you can see, I'm not really capable of keeping up with the standard set around here, so I'm not even going to try. I can say that I just recently broke up with a guy, we'll call him Tim [because that's his name, duh], who was VERY into music. He pretty much lived for it. In high school, he was a "Scene Kid" with his greasy, black side-swept bang and his girl jeans. He skated and listened to god only knows what emo/screamo music day in and day out. And no, I was not attracted to that. I actually shunned him MANY times. Then I guess at some point he grew up and cut off the bangs. Now he only wishes he were that cool.

You see, while Mike here knows his stuff, Tim talks about music as if it's a competition and can rarely back himself up. I'll explain. This guy name drops like it's nobody's business. We would get in his car and I'd be annoyed by the music playing but trying to tune it out all the same when he pipes in with, "Man, isn't [insert random unknown lead guitarist in random unknown band here] SO amazing on this track?" And I'm all, "Yeah, sure. Um, who is he?" And he just gives me this astonished look like, HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW? and then I somehow manage to feel ridiculous because I don't know who Will Swan is. [And yes, I just looked him up because the only other person I could think of off the top of my head is Pete Wentz, and yeah, I know he plays bass... right?]

This wasn't the reason we broke up. But It was pretty annoying. I even called him out on something once, but he just thought of something completely different and even more unknown so that I couldn't correct him because, HI, NO ONE CARES about a band that is so good that they are trying to get on Warped Tour.

So there, that's my first ever guest post and if you got this far, you win some kind of award because, really, what was the point of all of that? I don't even know. Here I am being all self-depricating now, which is annoying. So I'm going to cut my losses and say that it was a pleasure to switch places with Mike for a day. You should definitely check out his post on my blog, and then stay awhile, if you feel so inclined.