365 project "so i'd walk soft if i were you/you could cut up your feet/for now it's just who i am/but its not who i'll be/oh hopefully"

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artist:Kevin devine
album:brother's blood

i own this album on both vinyl and plastic. i bought the CD up in Brooklyn, i believe, at a show in Williamsburg, and i bought the record out of a box on a farm somewhere in Tennessee (for the record, its killing me that I'm not on that farm right now...).

today was the first day id actually listened to the record, so it was the first time I'd pulled it out of the cover except right after i bought it, because i wanted to see what it looked like. the vinyl is beautiful...its pink and blue swirled and kind of pearlized. i remember being so excited about it when i first got it, and then my immediate next thought was "what the hell am i going to do with this to keep it safe til 'roo is over?" because it was about 110 degrees down there that weekend. i didn't mind it for me, but its not that great of a condition for a record, especially being kept in a car or a tent.

i ended up putting it in my suitcase and hoping for the best. that wasn't the worst of what my poor record went through before taking its rightful home in a crate. this poor album, along with most of my other belongings that i had taken down to TN with me had been taken hostage.

I've told this story a bunch of times, and its one that I'm sort of glad happened, because its one of those stories that no one would believe if i said it happened to a friend of mine instead of to myself. the long and short of it is that i was supposed to go to bonnaroo to work, but once we got down there the girl i was with decided she didn't want to do that anymore, so we slept in a parking lot, bought tickets the next morning, and then she went to find her boyfriend and that was the end of that. i didn't see her again from Thursday afternoon after we set up the tent until some time after we got home and i had to meet her at a freaking police station to get my things back. so much drama. hahaha.

all's well that ends well, though, and i spent tonight listening to that album that had been held hostage last summer.

how about i show you some pictures from KD's set down there?

in the background of that last one are the guys from Manchester Orchestra and Kenny from The Starting Line/Person L.