What Are The Chances?

I just sent a message to someone on OK Cupid who looks an awful lot like a girl named Tara that I dated once back in college. Tara is more or less a footnote in my romantic life as nothing ever really developed (it was one of those wrong time, wrong place kinda things), but our only date was to see The Promise Ring live at the Middle East downstairs with Jets to Brazil opening. This was the first time I had every really heard “emo” music (emo being a style of music played by former hardcore punk kids from 1984 till early the 2000’s where it was destroyed by the mainstream and tuned into boy bands with guitars) and it was also the first time I heard Jets to Brazil, whose first album I bought soon after and has contributed to making life worth living ever since.

I never knew Tara well enough to even begin to decipher whether this person I messaged is her or not other than a passing resemblence and it’s been 10 years and people change so I guess we’ll see if I get a reply and hopefully what this person’s real name is.

Blake Schwarzenbach

Just read this on punknews.org:

“The massively influential band Jawbreaker is planning a reissue of their Unfun album. They’ll also be the subject of an upcoming documentary. To top it all off, Frontman Blake Schwarzenbach also revealed that he’s making music again with an as-yet-unnamed group.”

Whenever I hear the Ben Folds song “Late” about Elliott Smith and not being able to tell him “the song’s you wrote, they got me through a lot” I think of Blake Schwazenbach, Jawbreaker, and Jets to Brazil. Blake’s music has gotten me through a lot and to hear that after 5 years he’s started making music again, is very exciting to me.