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My passion is ...

Photography

I know too much about ...

Pop culture

My parents always told me ...

"You'd never worry what people thought about you, if you realized how seldom they do."

My childhood ambition ...

Was to be a writer. Funny, huh?

My favorite memory ...

Is entirely too personal to share. But I'm smiling right now.

Why I write ...

Is hard to describe, but it's probably the same reason I breathe or laugh or burp. Because I have to.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I'm listening to John Mayer. Almost constantly.

My first job ...

Was as a supermarket demo girl. I was too pretty for pizza, not pretty enough for shampoo, and too exotic looking for household cleansers.

My best moment ...

Is also my favorite memory.

My inspiration ...

My daughter.

Entertainment > Musicians & Bands Thoughts on John Mayer

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Blues-rock god, guitar hero or back-porch poet, the thing which makes John Mayer distinct in a world of American Idol fame-machinery and plastic, mass-produced pop is that he is truly a force of personality. On "Try!" by the John Mayer Trio, the live album begins with fast, intricate, technically astonishing blues that's almost desperate as John asks the crowd, "Who did you think I was?"

Though his third major-label studio album, "Continuum," has done much to correct public perception of Mayer's music, he has always been discounted as a sensitive singer-songwriter, plucking at his own ac...

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