Before the torrent
(My column in today’s Young Star. Mostly memories of my life as a teenage fangirl. Haha!)
You’re 13. You’re chatting on mIRC (remember that?) about Gundam Wing with a bunch of people from unknown parts of the world, when the Queen Bee of the chartroom types what looks like lyrics. She tells you they’re from a band called A Perfect Circle. Curious, you open Napster and download a song called “3 Libras.” It sounds nothing like the pop music you’ve listened to for most of your life, but you fall in love anyway.
A couple of months later, your first year of high school begins. One of your (in your opinion, super cool) classmates asks you if you’ve heard of A Perfect Circle. You love that you can actually say “yes.”
And when you find their album, Mer de Noms, in a random pile of CDs in Radio City? Bliss. Absolute bliss. (It’s the only copy in the store; it was meant to be.)
