Do You Believe What I Sing Now? Two Songs for Emma

December 23, 2008 in Editor's Notes | 3 comments

— Emma Bee Bernstein, 1985-2008 —

<b>Emma Bee Bernstein </p> <p>1985-2008</b>

My friend Emma passed away this weekend. She was absurdly smart and talented and beautiful, and I owe so much of who I am today to having known her. Here are two songs she shared with me when we first met eight years ago, which to this day I can’t hear without thinking of her.

Weezer, “The World Has Turned and Left Me Here”

The Cure, “Just Like Heaven”

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  1. collier on December 24, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    she made me listen to leftover crack and the moldy peaches. i hated both of them.

  2. Daoud Tyler-Ameen on December 25, 2008 at 1:14 am

    Heh, that sounds about right. She must have been a better judge with me, though; the second week she knew me she invited herself to my house with about 30 CDs in tow and I liked just about all of it. I think I’ve still got some of the tapes I made.

  3. Anon on January 15, 2009 at 1:20 am

    This is great. I was close to Emma when were were in middle school. She introduced me to Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney. She was a walking radio station, tuned only to the most dynamic of music.