Say Anything has done more for me than any band has and probably ever will. The songs that Max Bemis writes were the first songs I have ever listened to that I could directly relate to. During the toughest times in my life, Say Anything was there and I couldn't have been more grateful.

When I was first introduced to Say Anything, I had recently come back to the music scene after four long years. I had abandoned music in the first place because of people discriminating against one another just because they had different tastes in music. I wanted none of that, so I removed myself.

At the time Say Anything jumped into my life, I was getting fed up with the music scene once again. Bands I had grown to love (some of which I had listened to years before) had begun to make their music only to please the masses. I thought that it was bullshit and feared I was alone in this thought.

I was wrong.

Because of a new friend (who is now my closest and dearest friend), Say Anything showed me that they, too, thought it was bullshit. As I gathered more and more of their songs, the more and more I fell in love with them. Max Bemis' words were cutting and cruel and pleased me in endless ways. The musical arrangement blew my mind and it was something beautiful and new. Max Bemis also proved to me that; yes, he maybe a little crazy, but he is such a genius through and through that I would never have him any other way.

He showed me that it was alright to be crazy, to be a loner, to be different, and to be a Jew (which I am). Although Say Anything does not play any of their earlier songs, the song that pulled me closer to them was "All My Friends". That song reflects the first 15 years of my life and the friendships I've had. I swore that I could have wrote that song myself.

With the release of "In Defense Of The Genre", I'll admit, I was nervous. I feared that this band that I have come to love more than anything would change and not in a positive way. They happily proved me wrong. Yes, the CD is different; but it is so in such a glorious, magnificant, and wonderful sort of way that I cursed myself for ever doubting them. I have come to learn that whatever trial and tribulation that me or the band go through, one thing is certain: they will never decieve me, disappoint me, or lead me astray.

Say Anything will NEVER let me down.