Dear Nice Person Who Has This Week Repeatedly Googled For The Brand Of Baseball Bat That The UNC Baseball Team Uses: Let me tell you what, after three years of concerted Baseball America podcast listening, I can recite the DeMarini Demo House and Easton buy-a-baseball-bat-from-us jingles along with John Manuel whenever I hear them. The DeMarini…
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
love is a mix tape
jason isbell acoustic @ the berkeley cafe, originally uploaded by minervacat. My music collection, these days, is primarily digital. I still own a ton of CDs — they slide around in the backseat and under the front seats of Azula the Little Red Toyota of Doom, they’re stacked on the bottom shelf of one of…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in july
pink flag @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. If I’d saved Gold Motel for this month, I could have made this the all-new-albums-by-people-who-used-to-record-on-Fueled-By-Ramen-now-playing-with-other-bands edition. And Steel Train toured with the Hush Sound once. Alas! Instead it’s just albums I listened to in July: The Young Veins — Take A Vacation!: do you ever feel…
be brand new
the royal nites @ slim’s, originally uploaded by minervacat. “See what everybody else has seen, think what nobody else has thought.” — Albert Szent-Gyoergi
big hair and plastic grass
Y’all, if you’re a baseball fan who lives in the Triangle, get yourself out to the Regulator Bookshop in Durham today at 2pm to catch Dan Epstein’s reading from Big Hair & Plastic Grass. Dan’s funny and brilliant and knows absolutely everything about baseball in the ’70s, so go even if it’s just to ask…
interview: dan epstein, ‘big hair & plastic grass: baseball & american in the swingin’ ’70s’
I’m pleased today to be able to share an interview with Dan Epstein, who’s written for Rolling Stone, MOJO and the LA Times, to name a few, and who’s currently touring the country to promote his newest book: Big Hair & Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s, which…
the butchies @ cat’s cradle
Sometimes you just need to go out and watch a bunch of badass women play pop punk. Sometimes that is, in fact, the answer on a Wednesday night. (I tagged along to the Butchies’ reunion show with Ash, and it was fantastic.)
baseball: columbus clippers @ durham bulls, july ’10
baseball: columbus clippers @ durham bulls, july ’10, originally uploaded by minervacat. Thirty five. I am baffled by the Columbus Clippers. They are very, very good — they’re dominating their division in the International League by a fair margin — and yet their parent club, the Cleveland Indians, are very, very not good. (The Bulls…
baseball: usa national collegiate team vs. south korea
baseball: usa national collegiate team vs. south korea, originally uploaded by minervacat. Thirty four. Our Bulls mini-plan has turned out to be full of delightful surprises; trading the tickets on nights we don’t want to use them — I say, “Could you get us something near the visitor’s bullpen, on an aisle?” and the nice…
counting crows traveling circus & medicine show
Koka Booth is such a weird little venue; I’m not sure what possessed Cary to put a gorgeous, beautifully acoustic-ed 5,000 seat outdoor amphitheatre somewhere that it would attract big rock groups — only to have the town tell the bands that they couldn’t play louder than a certain decibel level. (Adam Duritz was Not…
brand new kind of photography 