Alyx Vesey
@alyxvesey.bsky.social
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Journalism and Creative Media Professor at the University of Alabama. Author of Extending Play (OUP, 2023). Popular Music Books In Process VJ. Feminist Music Geek. Pronouns: she/her/hers. Last name: vee-zee.
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ICYMI, here's last week's Popular Music Books in Process with David Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, Shuwen Qu, and Zhongwei Li about music streaming as a global concern.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSqY...
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Some light archival meme goofing on a Monday afternoon
A screenshot from Clueless of Dionne explaining Cher’s love for makeovers that I changed to read “Alyx’s main thrill in life is a finding aid, okay. It gives her a sense of control in a world full of chaos.”
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Pulled the DVD off the shelf and sure enough there was Ben Sidran's credit, waving hi
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TIL that the guy whose papers I'm looking at in Madison next week also did the score for Hoop Dreams 🏀
alyxvesey.bsky.social
ICYMI, here's last week's Popular Music Books in Process with David Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, Shuwen Qu, and Zhongwei Li about music streaming as a global concern.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSqY...
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Samin Nosrat, your Tuscan bean and kale soup has never let me down 🥣🤌🏻
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“They didn’t cite me”
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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.
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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.
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I remember one time in grad school, we got lost at dusk and there was some cornfed hooligans yukking it up and I was afraid we had stumbled into a Children of the Corn situation
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Of course I do! He riffs on this for a while in the between-song banter.
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🙂‍↕️ FYI, their Storytellers rocks. They get to do “You Don’t Know How It Feels” uncensored.

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TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS : US TV 1999
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My sabbatical avatar! I’ve been listening to a Tom album a week this fall. I just revisited Let Me Up this morning.
a man and a woman are standing next to each other .
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other .
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This groundhog understands
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Nothing says 42 like testing out a weighted vest on a walking trail
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Bread + Puppet in Tuscaloosa
Picture of Bread + Puppet’s decorated schoolbus with a painted “Our Domestic Resurrection” banner
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Sometimes being an adult means taking the time to consolidate key rings
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Ashwaganda go to bed 🥱
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Writes “& Cats” in Sharpie
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Tag yourself I’m Michael Ian Black
Funny I Love the 80s meme about being taught history from comedians who moonlighted as VH1 commentators during the early 2000s
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It’s really weird how Pacey’s storyline with his teacher was framed as a “torrid affair” and not, y’know, predation
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In this presentation I'm working on, I'm duty-bound to include this especially doofy screenshot of the Nuge
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You didn't see yourself in Dawson's Hook poster?