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Who Is the Clumsy "Indie Rock Dreamboat" Heartbreaker From This Week's Modern Love?

This week's Modern Love, the column in the NYT's Sunday Style section, bucked a trend. It's supposed to be about modern love, duh, but it's usually about adopting babies and cancer. This week, it actually was about modern (text-messaging) luv, with an essay by a young woman about her awkward flirtation with a frustratingly immature but totally cute indie-rocker boy in Brooklyn. Title of essay: "Was I On a Date or Baby Sitting?" HEY OH! "I asked my musician friends what they knew about him. Joanna, a singer, summed him up: 'He's an indie rock dreamboat. His voice is transcendent and he writes lovely lyrics. He has a nice face, he has a kid and he tours a lot. He's a star in his world.'" Oh, perfect: the conveniently unavailable guy who "goes on tour" a lot. Of course, we'd all love to know who the dude is and what band he is in. Thanks to a tipster, now we know! More »

1:05 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Sheila
14,112 views, 102 comments

Latest by n/a: @TheUpMyAssPlayers: This will be my last post on the topic... but hey, don't misinterpret what I wrote. There is no judgment on my part for a woman who sleeps with a guy on the first date, the 50th date, or after more »