magic monday @ local 506

magic monday @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. you’re gonna fail every single day but all the things you need can’t be bought here anyway — jason kutchma, “used guitars” Michael Casey, one of my favorite human beings on the planet, is collaborating with Glenn Boothe, who runs the Local 506 (one of my…

holy ghost tent revival @ trekky records studio

holy ghost tent revival @ trekky records studio, originally uploaded by minervacat. Two photos not by me that I can’t get enough of lately: This one of ex-Panic at the Disco members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker in the studio working on their new project, by Jeremy and Claire Weiss. That photo is exactly why…

baseball: norfolk tides @ durham bulls

baseball: norfolk tides @ durham bulls, originally uploaded by minervacat. Tonight, sitting on my porch in the damp twilight listening to the Dexateens and smushing mosquitos, every minute I spend without a camera in my hands feels wasted. It’s only almost August, not almost January, but I’m making a lot of resolutions in my head…

american aquarium @ tir na nog

american aquarium @ tir na nog, originally uploaded by minervacat. There were things I was going to post about — how Whit (hands seen here) hates my camera and always peers at it suspiciously like it’s about to steal his soul but how it often makes for the best photos I take of American Aquarium,…

superchunk @ the cradle

superchunk @ the cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. I am, obviously, not at XXMerge this weekend — this shot is from Superchunk’s Coachella warm-up show at the Cradle this past April. (My weekend plans go baseball, show, baseball, baseball, baseball, show, but neither show is Merge-related.) Am I bummed that I’m not there? Yeah, a…

annuals @ the cat’s cradle

annuals @ the cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Today I can’t decide what annoys me more: killer live bands who make sub-par studio albums, or great studio bands who suck live.

lost in the trees @ cat’s cradle

lost in the trees @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. I absolutely killed it shooting Lost in the Trees last night at the Cradle, in part because the light was great, in part because they’re all crazy-comfortable with my camera and I’m crazy-comfortable with them, in part because any 13-person indie pop chamber orchestra…

samantha crain & the midnight shivers @ the local 506

samantha crain & the midnight shivers @ the local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Joe Kwan (of the Avett Brothers) and Dolph Ramseur (of, well, Ramseur Records) were at the show I went to at the 506 last night. It was vaguely weird in a way I couldn’t put my finger on; it’s not like…

patterns #8

patterns #8, originally uploaded by minervacat. The carpet in a Courtyard Marriott in Savannah, Georgia. I took this as part of my patterns series — and I’m really enjoying that; it is, so far, one of the most fun series I’ve done this year — because I draw this pattern. It’s my standard meeting-notes-margin doodle….

that way is home

that way is home, originally uploaded by minervacat. i don’t expect a southern girl to know the northern lights — Bowerbirds, “Northern Lights”