Supporting the local music scene anywhere means a lot of things; sometimes you see the bands who are about to blow up in tiny venues before anyone knows who they are, sometimes you find a band to love that you would never have heard of if you lived anywhere other than where you do. You…
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
american aquarium — small town hymns
american aquarium ‘small town hymns’ cd release party, originally uploaded by minervacat. American Aquarium — Small Town Hymns. Out 5/1, Last Chance Records. “The song is the story of a broken heart and the story of society’s expectations, built to the tastes of a producer, an engineer, a mixer and a master. And if you’re…
baseball: uva @ duke
baseball: uva @ duke, originally uploaded by minervacat. Twenty one. A rare ACC series in which Carolina was not involved. We got a free pair of Duke tickets based on our Bulls mini-plan purchase, and they got used to see Virginia, since Carolina goes up to C’ville this year instead of having UVa at home….
american aquarium cd release party for ‘small town hymns’
I’ve shot American Aquarium more than any other band — I’ve seen American Aquarium more than any other band — and they never fail to be utterly wonderful. They released a new CD last night, and it’s really, really great.
hot dogs i have known and loved
I get my love of hot dogs from my mother. (Hi, Mama!) As long as I’ve known her (which is a long time), she’s eaten them with chili (preferably Paterson’s, from a can), cole slaw and mustard, and as I have gotten older, I’m starting to find that’s how I prefer them as well. Never…
american aquarium cd release party @ the pour house
american aquarium cd release party @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. It wouldn’t be springtime if there wasn’t an American Aquarium CD release party at the Pour House. Some year there won’t be one, and I’ll be confused and weirded out all year by the absence. But this year there is one, and…
worth getting up for: april
southport, nc, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in April: Dr. Dog’s Shame, Shame, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings’ I Learned The Hard Way, and Josh Ritter’s So Runs The World Away; the beach; SEC and Southern Conference baseball, and the MLB; forgetting that Chad Holbrook is on the SC staff now,…
Hello, heart burn!
Welcome to With Mustard And Relish, a blog about eating hot dogs. Good hot dogs, bad hot dogs, gourmet hot dogs, cheap hot dogs from Single-A baseball stadiums in North Carolina. All hot dogs. Because if you’re going to make a life list, at least one entry should give you heartburn; and if you’re going…
it’s been a week of photographer’s block
miniature tigers @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. So I’m looking at a lot of stuff to try and get motivated. Rocking my world in terms of inspiration: An excellent collection of concert set lists. My collection of set lists lives between two poetry books on the edge of my desk; it is not…
one last for national poetry month
frightened rabbit @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Yours & Mine (Alice Fulton) Through your lens the sequoia swallowed me like a dryad. The camera flashed & forgot. I, on the other hand, must practice my absent- mindedness, memory being awkward as a touch that goes unloved. Lately your eyes have shut down to…
brand new kind of photography 