The legend of Janet Varney (featuring Frances Luke Accord)
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Janet Varney is an Emmy-Nominated actor, comedian, writer and producer. In the animation world, she is lucky enough to be the award-winning voice of Korra on Nickelodeon\\u2019s critically-acclaimed standout hit \\u201cThe Legend of Korra,\\u201d a role for which she continues to be invited to comic cons to give sweaty handshakes the world over. She can also be seen as the entitled and bitchy Becca on FX\\u2019s (via hulu) \\u201cYou\\u2019re the Worst\\u201d (named as one of the last decade\\u2019s best comedies), and fighting dark forces alongside John C. McGinley as Evie Barrett on IFC\\u2019s (via hulu) \\u201cStan Against Evil.\\u201d
\\nHer own podcast on the Max Fun network, The JV Club with Janet Varney, has been going since 2012 and features almost 400 interviews with celebrities about their awkward teenage years. She co-programs comedy for Outside Lands music festival and is co-founder/creative director/producer of one of the largest and most acclaimed comedy festivals in North America, SF Sketchfest: the San Francisco Comedy Festival, now in its 20th year. http://janetvarney.com/
\\nEpisode co-hosts: FRANCES LUKE ACCORD
\\nWhen Nicholas Gunty and Brian Powers put their songs and their voices together, there is a delicate magic that commands the room to attention. The duo is known as Frances Luke Accord, and they are what NPR\'s Mountain Stage calls \\u201cthe definition of lean-in music.\\u201d Their soft, contemplative vintage of indie-folk gestures toward a timelessness that honors the Simon & Garfunkel comparisons but pushes beyond into the world of Bon Iver, Jose Gonzalez, and progressive folk music.\\u2028\\u2028 Both raised in South Bend, IN, Gunty and Powers met and began performing together during their time at the University of Notre Dame.
\\nTheir first release, \'Kandote\', was an intercultural collaboration with the Barefoot Truth Children\\u2019s Choir in Uganda, a not-for-profit effort which provides ongoing support to the choir to this day. Relocating to Chicago in 2013, the duo honed their songwriting craft while releasing two more self-produced EPs, laying the groundwork for their breakthrough debut LP, \'Fluke\'. This immersive, philosophically rich album set them off on their first national tour, which included support dates with Anais Mitchell, Darlingside, and The Ballroom Thieves.\\u2028 The duo\'s 2021 release, the Sunnyside EP, offers a glimpse into the larger body of work Frances Luke Accord have been developing over the course of the pandemic. More to come soon. https://franceslukeaccord.com/
\\nLYRICS to Afterlife:
\\nAs long as you\\u2019re by my side
\\nI will make you dinner in the afterlife
\\nLive in our after world
\\nStringing jewellery of gold and pearl
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\\nSome bonds don\'t break
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\\nI come to nourish you with my hands
\\nMake you a sculpture in the sand
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\\nHands that work, hands that tire
\\nWe form the shape but the shape expires
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\\nYou know I worked for all these years
\\nTrying my hardest at my life career
\\nWe\\u2019ve been witness to joy and pain
\\nBut the world we left was the world we gained
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\\nWe\\u2019re so different you and I
\\nIn a way we never saw eye to eye
\\nDespite the loss that set me free
\\nIn a way you\\u2019re maybe still guiding me
Some bonds don\'t break
\\nWe all need shape
\\nAs long as you\\u2019re by my side
\\nWill you make me laugh in the afterlife?
\\nLong as our long dark night
\\nYou can lead me on to the morning light