“I tell guys in the (coaches) clinic all the time, one of the reasons I like to play as fast as we do is because coaches always have negative thoughts. If we’re going up and down the court so blasted fast I don’t have time to have negative thoughts.” — Roy Williams, circa 2008 or…
Month: November 2010
get it right
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. — Caterina Fake
the static minds — electricty
The Static Minds — Electricity. Out officially 11/12 on Custom Made Music, stream it here in advance. I know nothing about punk. Or hardcore. Or post-punk. Or, really, ’60s and ’70s heavy rock and roll outside of what gets played on 96Rock in the mornings. At all. I mean, for Christ’s sake, I’m reading Please Kill…
punch brothers @ cat’s cradle
I saw Nickel Creek just once, at the Vic in Chicago, almost — God — 8 years ago. I genuinely have no idea why I decided I wanted to see them back then, because while I always enjoyed them, I was never what you would call a huge fan; I suspect it was because it…
do something amazing
Make something wonderful today.
the felice brothers @ kings
I’m rarely left speechless by a show. Gibbering like an idiot, occasionally, but rarely speechless. I can almost always find some twist of words to explain why something was tremendous, or at least an adjective or six, but this morning, I am still stuttering over last night’s Felice Brothers set at Kings. We saw them…
to the stand of the greatest show on earth
oooh, happy days are here! it’s the perfect summer night and the moonlight’s shining clear put your pistol in your purse ’cause we’re goin to gettysburg to the stand of the greatest show on earth
wait for spring
“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” — Rogers Hornsby With the World Series done, all that’s left to do this off-season is count the days until pitchers and catchers (102, if you want to…
yes we can
Last Thursday after work, shep. and I toddled off to the Carrboro Town Hall to vote early. Unfortunately for us, there was no early voting at Carrboro Town Hall this time around. So we got in the car and drove into the CH and voted early at Morehead Planetarium instead. As we were walking from…
do you think it’s gonna make him change
I got my hair cut this weekend. 2011 project: self-portraits in every venue bathroom in the Triangle. I’ll title them all with Pavement lyrics when I show the series. Thinking.
brand new kind of photography 