Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

I take music really seriously. I always have. It punctuates my life more than most other things. I have never ever been solely tied to one type or another, although my social identity in certain periods of my life has been. I shared new wave/Brit pop as an adolescent, hair metal as a teenager and young adult and then songwritery type stuff from then on with friends and people who went to shows with me. It was just the way it turned out, but I could easily have left a Metallica concert and cried over a John Denver song on the way home.

I mean, I don't remember a specific time when that specific order of business occurred, I'm just posing a hypothetical to illustrate that It's hard work, this being me thing. 

I went to an all girls high school that was racially and culturally integrated in every way for as small as it was. I developed an appreciation for hip-hop there that I've never lost, and because it's D.C. I learned about go-go too.

My friend from high school called me yesterday and said she had a ticket to Public Enemy and because I'd never seen them live I went. 

Awesome. 

Long may you run, Chuck.

 

Also we've come a long way from convent duty and the It's Academic team, respectively, I'd say. Better now than we were then, by a long shot.

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[vicky]

Dude! It's Academic! I love it! Also? I love running to Public Enemy. It's my go to music for when I start to flag on a run.