Jen's Music
The first REAL concert I ever brought Jen to was to see Cake here in Atlanta. We took the subway and watched a FREE outdoor concert surrounded by tens of thousands of people.
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. | 
