So far 2011 has been good to me, local music-wise. Good groups of people pulling together to do interesting and amazing things, forcing bands onto my radar that I would not have otherwise seen. Three of my first five shows have been locals, and I’m glad for it. I resolved it, anyway, to see more…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
jason & the scorchers @ berkeley cafe
So more than three years ago, two days before 2008 happened, after the worst six months of my life, I went to see Jason Isbell at the Lincoln Theatre; there’s another story there, too, and it ends with me punching someone in the face, but it’s not the important story here (perhaps someday it will…
hungry heart of gold: neil young vs. bruce springsteen
Like last year’s Petty vs. Dylan covers benefit show, last night’s Neil Young vs. Bruce Springsteen benefit show played to a full house; a very full house, in fact. Which is a great thing, because shows like this are always a great time — I like them for the chance to see locals I might…
whitey morgan & the 78s @ the pour house
This show made me miss Chicago, not my people in Chicago like I often do, but the city of Chicago and the things it meant to me, in visceral, heartclenching ways — it made me miss Saturdays drinking and two-stepping at Carol’s, it made me miss the various residencies that Bloodshot artists do at various…
2011: do something amazing
In 2011, I’m going to take a bathroom self-portrait at every show I attend. I go to a lot of shows and take a lot of photos, but they are very rarely of myself, so I’m going to change that. There are lots of things that interest me about it — setting, lighting, people around. This is…
i’ve got a theory that it’s a demon
I have a theory about photography, and it’s mine, so you might disagree, but that’s okay. It doesn’t mean anybody’s wrong. It just means sometimes I see the world a little off-center, which works out, because I also hold my camera funny and frequently take my photos a little crooked, a little off-center, too. Many…
tribute to hank williams and townes van zandt
Townes Van Zandt wrote a lot of super depressing songs. I mean, they’re great — they’re spectacular. But they are SUPER FANTASTIC DEPRESSING, some of them. Jeez, Townes. The Magnolia Collective covered “Waiting Around To Die” in the best version of that song I have heard in a long, long time; but nobody did “Pancho…
and the poets do push-ups
[Posted elsewhere as well; apologies.] Since the mid-nineties, Justin has been saying, ironically or not, that this is how your first entry of the new year should always be, and so it is.
worth getting up for: december
Worth getting up for in December: Trekky’s Christmas at the Cradle and the annual first-weekend-in-December American Aquarium Pour House show; $5 double tall Long Island night at the Pour House and pink shots at Motorco; hockey; Justin Townes Earle live; good bootleg recordings and my buddy Dan; dinners out with my folks; scripting tour diaries;…
the avett brothers @ cat’s cradle
The trouble is: I have been spoiled for all other Avett Brothers shows ever. I had never seen them live, after all. And tonight we could have driven to Asheville — but we didn’t; dinner with my parents — and seen them at the Civic Center with 7,000 other people, and it would have been…
brand new kind of photography 