Getting to know BPB Yearbook's Justin Harner!

1. What is your favorite memory from high school?
I was a solid member of the men's section of our HS show choir, and senior year I decided to quit, mostly out of rebellion. The choir directors told my parents that they were worried about me "hanging with the wrong crowd." I absolutely was, and it was the greatest year.

2. What is your least favorite memory from high school?
Saturday marching band practices. What kind of torture is that? Sometimes kids would get drunk at 10 am just to make the day more interesting. Side note: Not a great combination with a hot summer day under the sun.

3. What was your most played song/album/singer when you were a teenager?
My car only had room for one CD, so I would listen to The Essential Billy Joel from top to bottom, maybe for my entire junior year.  It really explains a lot.

4. What was your favorite movie from your teenage years?
Saved. It was so edgy and smart and utterly shocking that someone could capture the EXACT situations that came up during the "hip" revival of church that was happening in my community.

5. If you had to give yourself a superlative in high school, what would it have been?
Most likely to actually become cool.

6. If you had to give yourself a superlative now, what would it be?
Most likely to actually become cool. Still working on it.

7. If you could go back to high school, what would you differently?
There was a week once a month that I dubbed "Hell Week," which involved rehearsals from the end of school until 9 or 10 pm, all week. That's nonsense for a high schooler. I should've quit a group and been more involved with my friends or dating.

8. Describe your teenage fashion sense in five words or less.
Button-down faux pas.

BPB Yearbook: A Throwback Cabaret will be presented November 9th at 7 PM and November 10th at 8 PM at Davenport's Piano Bar & Cabaret (1383 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago). Tickets are $15 and there is a two-drink minimum.BPB Yearbook: A Throwback Cabaret will be presented November 9th at 7 PM and November 10th at 8 PM at Davenport's Piano Bar & Cabaret (1383 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago). Tickets are $15 and there is a two-drink minimum.BPB Yearbook: A Throwback Cabaret will be presented November 9th at 7 PM and November 10th at 8 PM at Davenport's Piano Bar & Cabaret (1383 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago). Tickets are $15 and there is a two-drink minimum.

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