Nickname: Kate
Age: 26
City: Washington, D.C.
Top 5 Favorite Albums:
The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
Ra Ra Riot – The Rhumb Line
Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life
What band would play at your ideal wedding?
Justin Vernon will play songs just for me at our intimate, two-person ceremony.
If you had a kid, what would be the first song you played for it?
Fleet Foxes’ “Sun Giant” and the rest of that EP. Their music is gorgeous and, more importantly, there’s a good chance it would lull a newborn to sleep.
What decade are you most nostalgic for and why?
1965-1975. The best of Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the heydey of the British Invasion. Social movements that exist offline. Reading Vonnegut in real time totally blows my mind. Also, I could chain myself to one of the beautiful Doric columns of the original Penn Station.
What’s your favorite venue?
The Black Cat or Iota, but mostly just not D.A.R. Constitution Hall.
What qualities do you possess that would make you an ideal hipster wife?
I:
like public transportation
make my own hummus
know big words
can work the disheveled chic
read real books
What do you look for in a potential hipster husband?
Scruff (but not a freestanding mustache); creative, inquisitive mind; tall; gypsy soul; witty banter. Above all, I’m a sucker for emo glasses and mild brooding.
