Jennifer Ann's Group

Jen's Music

This was her first exposure to Cake but she took to them easily.

She seemed to enjoy nearly any music I ever exposed her to:

- at four and five she loved bopping around with me to Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

- at seven she'd sit in the car with me and help belt out the harmonies in Bohemian Rhapsody

- the last Summer she spent with me we went and saw Weezer. The place was packed but she said we could get to the stage. When I asked how she explained that she was planning on crowd-surfing her way up.

She was not happy when I put a stop to her plans.

That Summer I also bought her an iPod Shuffle and filled it with songs of my own choosing. Although I deliberately picked some music that I knew would annoy her she found every song on her Shuffle starting to grow on her.

I remember her calling me about a month after she'd left Atlanta. She was listening to her Shuffle and had come across a song that I'd snuck on there and wanted to let me know that I was busted. But at the same time she said that she had to admit the song was growing on her.

That was the kind of wonderful, once-in-a-lifetime person she was.

In music, like her taste in people, Jen loved nearly every flavor, facet and genre.