I write this introduction after a long night of work and several beers with Kalvin. Good conversation and good times filled the night as it usually does when I am with either one of you (Kalvin and Benjamin) , or we are all together. One thing I feel that we always talk about once a night when we are together is music; what new music we like, first albums we bought, how much we can't believe Kalvin doesn't get Interpol, but most importantly, the past few months have been littered with the conversation of this list before us.

I write this because my favorite movie of all time is High Fidelity, a movie about music, well, that and girls. I think it's my favorite movie because if I didn't fall into photography when I did, that movie could easily be a documentary about me. I feel like that could be us three running a record store except we would probably all be John Cusack. I can't think of anyone I would rather partake in this list with than you two.

I write this because the first thing I do when I leave you guys and am by myself, my headphones are the first thing I worry about. I won't get on the train with them, I will make someone call their roommates to let me in their apartment just so I can have them, I will spend 30 dollars on a cab ride home if they aren't in my possesion. If music isn't playing, I feel like something is missing and I have to fix it immediately. I don't do a lot of research on musicians or try to find out their backstories to understand why they make the music they do, frankly these things dont concern me and I would rather keep it that way. Meeting these people, however great an experience it might be, might ruin their songs for me and I would never take that risk. It's their music that has made me who I am, not them.

We've shared great times to a lot of these songs and I hope we share many, many more. I don't think I could have asked for better friends since moving here and I'm glad that we're all here at this point in our lives. So let's begin shall we? Here's to those late nights we spend together, interrupting conversation for a moment just to hear our favorite line from a song.