My middle school and highschool life was dominated by The Hi-Fives. It's odd looking back at it now, but back then everything some how related to this band from the San Francisco Bay Area. Listening to their music made me incredibly happy, unlike anything else before, and I had to do everything I could to be a part of it.

It started out as just going to their shows and listening to their record non-stop. Then it moved to traveling all over Northern California to see them and making a website for them. Eventually people knew me as the crazy Hi-Fives fan-girl, which is emberassing now but seemed cool at the time. I was always surprised that more people didn't like them, but I can see now that they were a quirky band. They weren't really punk, though they were punk-friendly. They weren't a 60s garage band in the truist sense of the word either. They were very poppy, fun to dance to, and really nice guys who didn't seem to mind that I was totally obsessed with their music.

I still listen to all of their records, Welcome to My Mind, ...And A Whole Lotta You, and Get Down. I still listen to the bands that the members were in before, like Brent's T.V. and The Ne'er Do Wells. It goes beyond that though, sadly.

• My AIM screen name is theneerdowell for a reason.
• I compulsively buy copies of any record featuring John Denery and Chris Imlay, like the Brent's T.V. 7-inch Lumberjack Days. I own five copies of it.
• The main reason I chose UC Berkeley over SF State is because John from the Hi-Fives told me to, not because it was a better school or anything like that.
• I have to play at least one Hi-Fives song every time I DJ'ed at KALX.
• People still know me as that girl who was crazy about The Hi-Fives
• I'm in a quasi-Hi-Fives tribute band called Hello, It's a Lumberjack (Again) which covers Brent's T.V and John's brother Dallas' band Sweet Baby.