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I CAN SEE YOU.

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Set list

I DJed some 7"s a few weeks ago before the Postive No/Dave MF Watkins/Hoax Hunters show. Here is what I played: "What kind of monster are you?" -Slant 6 "These monsters are real" -Heavens to Betsy "Strike out" -the Rondelles "Restless" -Reading Rainbow "FU #8" -Tacocat "Riot Grrrl" -Keel Her "Waterfall" -Ex Hex "I just don't know where I stand" -The Flips "Dear Josie, Love Robyn" -Sarge "Angel in a Half Shirt" -Tuscadero

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PJ plays this on car trips. So good!

Curve "Horror Head"

Perfect song is perfect.

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Reblog for my Church Hill friends.

Do you know this dog? If so send me an email (kreed@vcu.edu)! She is freshly bathed and exhausted from running around with my dogs. She has a collar but not tags. She is ridiculously friendly. 

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Gemma with my newly thrifted LPs. I love love love Command.

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Watch the 11-piece NO BS! Brass Band turn up the funk, and fly the flag high for its native Richmond, Va., at the Tiny Desk.

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I'm excited for this series because as an (compassionate?) HR person in higher ed, I find the structure of adjunct appointments really troublesome. Also, as a person currently pursuing a graduate degree, a future for myself in higher ed looks increasingly more rare. I don't want to teach but maybe i would run a program or something. Lately I've been thinking that I'm only in higher ed so I can get a low-cost degree and I should probably go somewhere else when I'm done.

Dispatch from Adjunct Land 1

“Have you always wanted to teach but can’t full time?” -From a want ad for adjunct instructors.

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Katie and I discuss Cannes fashion in all its glory.

Here is our complete 2013 Cannes Festival fashion round-up!

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I wish there were more movies like this. Nice review in AV Club, too.

Also Katie & I watched To Rome with Love this weekend and why anyone would want to cheat on Greta Gerwig is a mystery. She is a force.

Going to go see this on Saturday! Yesssssssssssssssss

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Ugh so I just heard that a faculty member I know once said to a colleague, "Don't forget to put your credentials on your business card or people will think you're a staff member."

This is so so wrong.

1. Staff can have advanced degrees.

2. There are plenty of faculty members who do not have advanced degrees. Having a master's is not even a qualification to be classified as faculty.

3. Fuck you.

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Ohhhh we listened to this all the time in college even though it was a little old then. I asked Mary Lou to play it when she played to twenty people at VCU in 1998-ish. She played "His ND World" instead which was about alt-country and No Depression. SO GOOD.

I don’t think I fit into his Indie world Guided By Voices and Velocity Girl Eric’s Trip and Rocket Ship, Rancid and Rocket from The Crypt Bikini Kill and Built to Spill, it’s plain to see that I don’t fit He says my songs are too deep and gloomy He wishes that I could be more like Jenny Toomey Just give me my Joni my Nick, Neil, and Bob You can keep your Tsunami, your Slant 6 and Smog What’s the story he says Butterglory I say what’s the news he says the Silver Jews His Heavenly hang-up is getting me down And it’s making me wonder why he’s hanging around Cause I don’t fit into his indie scene Huggy Bear and Helium and Half-Japanese Sebadoh and Sentridoh and Superchunk and I don’t know Doug and Lou and Calvin too and Kim and Kim and Kim and Kim Yeah I’m stuck in the past and he’s stuck on his four-track But I can’t get through to his one-track mind I push play and record and a major chord Maybe I’ll win his heart this time

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CD Alley; Chapel Hill, NC Bleached "Ride Your Heart" LP Angel Olsen "Strange Cacti" LP All Day Records; Carrboro, NC Angel Olsen "Half Way Home" LP Bull City Records; Durham, NC Naomi Punk "The Feeling" LP

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A mayoral candidate in Mississippi has been found dead, and his death is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said. Coahoma County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday in a news release on its Facebook page that the body of 34-year-old Marco McMillian, a Democratic candidate for mayor of Clarksdale, Miss., was found in Coahoma County earlier in the day. The body was found in the woods near the Mississippi-Yazoo levee, about 30 miles away from a roadway where McMillian’s car crashed while being driven by another person, County Coroner Scotty Meredith said. Meredith added that investigators were treating the case as a homicide until they could prove otherwise. Jarod Keith, McMillian’s campaign spokesperson, told The Associated Press McMillian’s campaign was noteworthy because he may have been the first openly gay man to be a viable candidate for public office in Mississippi.

[McMillian is also African-American.]

Heartbreaking.

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Steady Sounds, 2/23/13 The Free Design, You Could Be Born Again LP [used] Beach Fossils, Clash the Truth LP [new]

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Steady Sounds Veronica Falls "Waiting for Something to Happen" LP (new) Beach Fossils "What a Pleasure" EP (used) Chris Darrow "s/t" LP (used) Deep Groove Widowspeak "Almanac" LP (used) Linda Ronstadt "s/t" LP (used) Plan 9 Tame Impala "Lonerism" LP (new)

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This show is amazing and everyone should watch it. Please.

i made my piece on the show free today in honor of this fact

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5 (1984) Air Supply's Greatest Hits:

I was mostly exposed to my parents' records, lots of 70s folk/country and The Beatles. I was pretty defiant and chose to be super into bad radio music. Air Supply was the first band I truly loved. Their Greatest Hits came out in 1983 but I listened to it for years afterwards. 

I remember listening to my parents' 45 of  Michael Nesmith's "Joanne" so much as a kid that I wore out the grooves. Mostly, though, I listened to what was popular. I wish I had gotten into my parents' music earlier. Some of it, like John Prine, I just started listening to recently.  I'm sorry, mom and dad.

10 (1989) Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever:

Lots of cool things came out this year. Fugazi and Pixies and all kinds of stuff. I was ten, so I'm not going to pretend I liked those bands. No, I was obsessed with Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever. One of the reasons that this album was so special to me is that it was something I shared with my dad. Music bringing people together and all that. I'm sure it was his cassette, but I borrowed it to listen to on my Walkman all the time. I can picture what the lyric sheet looked like too--I spent so much time staring at that damn thing.

15 (1994) Superchunk's Foolish:

This was one of the most important years in my musical history because it's the year Superchunk's Foolish came out. I saw the video for "The First Part" on 120 Minutes and bought the CD in Carytown, either at Digits, a long-closed CD-only store, or Plan 9, the classic Richmond record store. Superchunk was my gateway band into indie rock (and they're still my favorite). I bought music just because it was on Merge Records, which was the first time I had ever done that. I listened to bands no one else at my high school liked and probably wouldn't hear until college. Superchunk made me cool.

20 (1999) Orchid's Chaos is Me:

I was kind of a mess when I was 20. I was living with my best friend and my boyfriend, who was pretty shitty to me, in a small apartment on Grove Avenue. I started listening to hardcore. I was really into this band Orchid from Massachusetts. Richmond is always a bit behind other cities as far as getting bands to play in our city, so I went out of town twice to see them play. Once at a ruritan club in Virginia Beach and once in DC at a church (I think). I'm sure someone will remember what that church venue was in DC and tell me all the amazing bands they saw play there and how could I not know about it but I lived two hours away and was drunk all the time so my memory was terrible. At the Virginia Beach show, we made friends with the opening band and they stayed at our apartment. I was pen pals with most of the dudes and several of them hung out in RVA on their way to other places. Due to crazy circumstances, I ended up dating the singer of that band from 2002-3, which led me to move to Albany New York.

25 (2004) Arcade Fire's Funeral and Rogue Wave's Out of the Shadow:

I lived in Albany from 2003-5. I was kind of out of the music loop during this time, but once I got some money, a laptop and a full time job I started reading Pitchfork again. Two records from that time, Arcade Fire's Funeral and Rogue Wave's Out of the Shadow scored my time in my first real job in HR. I had my own office and computer so I listened to music all day. Those two CDs were on repeat most days. I remember doing lots of weird, creative projects, with paper, scissors and glue spread out in front of me, with "Falcon Settles Me" playing over and over again in the background. Since then, music has always been an essential component of my work life. It makes every task more enjoyable.

30 (2009) Destroyer's Rubies

A month after my thirtieth birthday, I was depressed after not getting any of the jobs I had been interviewing for. But PJ and I had tickets to go to the XX Merge festival in Chapel Hill, NC for five straight days of live music, so I was able to forget work stuff for a while. This was the best "festival" I have ever been to. It was small--only a couple hundred people had tickets--and we got to see 40 Merge bands, most of whom I had never seen. This was soon after we joined Twitter, and it was so exciting to check the #xxmerge hashtag and see what people were up to. We made friends that we still hang out with. Everyone was so close. And musicians I loved were everywhere--I saw Roddy Bottom at the pool. It was magical. PJ had never seen Superchunk--Merge was kind of MY thing--but this trip changed things for him too. One of his photos from the Superchunk show was in Spin's Soundcheck section. He now does a lot of photography work for the label.

I owned Rubies and listened to it quite a lot but I never really knew what Dan Bejar was about until I saw him at XX Merge. He was funny and charming and the crowd absolutely loved him (PJ did not, but whatever). He played solo acoustic and I remember feeling so happy to be there, to be seeing this particular performance.

Yr Own 5-10-15-20

5-10-15-20 is a regular feature on Pitchfork where we ask musicians about the music from their lives in 5-year intervals; I’ve done fun interviews with Johnny Marr and John Cale. If you wanted to do one I’d love to read it. I’ll add mine at some point. You could give the year for each age.

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