That's My Song: Aliens Exist

That's My Song: Aliens Exist

I'm Vonjaria Jay Faulkner. I'm 19 years old.

[MUSIC: Hey mom, there's something in the back room/Hope it's not the creatures from above]

My favorite song is "Aliens Exist" by Blink 182. The first time I heard this song, actually this was when I was in high school back in Lake Charles, Louisiana. There was this guy, Joseph Garcia. I was in the 9th grade and he was in the 10th grade. But he used to bring these CDs that he would burn every night.

On one of these CDs he had "Aliens Exist." I was like, oh my God, this is so cool! So what I did was stole his CD, tried to find that one song on there. I found it, I fell in love with it. And that's actually when I fell in love with Joeseph too 'cause...it was such a great song!

[MUSIC: Up all night long and there's something very wrong/And I know it must be late/But God since yesterday, I'm not like you guys/I'm not like you guys]

When I was like 12 years old, I stole like a bottle of my mom's mascara. I went in the girl's bathroom and stood in front of the mirror and I brushed on a mustache, while I was listening to that song. It took me like a really long time to understand that I wasn't ordinary.

I'd say at some part of my life, I was a girl for a while and I didn't want to be named Vonjaria, because that name wasn't ordinary. I wanted something like Katie or Samantha or Ashley. Something ordinary so I could blend in with everybody else.

Cause I went to a predominately white school. My skin was a lot paler when I was younger than it is now and people would ask me if I were mixed, and I'm like, "No I'm not." But then I'm like "Oh dear, I think I want to be white."

[MUSIC: I'm not like you]

Oh, OK, there's my favorite part:

[MUSIC: Dark and scary/ordinary/explanation, information/nice to know ya/paranoia/where's my mother/bye oh father]

I love that part of the song, it's dramatic like me. [Laughs]

[MUSIC: All night long and there's something very wrong and I know it must be late]

I wanted to be ordinary but as I grew up I started to appreciate myself more, started to live up more to my name. Be ordinary...ah right, why would I want to do that?

I'm transgendered! Yeah! That's not ordinary!

That's why I like that song! That's my celebration song right there.