baseball: ga tech @ unc, game one, originally uploaded by minervacat. Twelve.
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shearwater @ local 506
Shearwater is one of those bands that I feel like I should love, since they’re right up my alley sonically, but I just … don’t. Maybe in part because my brain has always classified Shearwater as an Okkervil River side project (though Will Sheff has been long gone from his involvement with Shearwater, and Meiburg…
i never thought about love when i thought about home
drive-by truckers @ the national, richmond, va, originally uploaded by minervacat. We always see with memory. — David Hockney Jim Marshall, one of the premier rock and roll photographers in the world, passed away today at the age of 74. Marshall shot everyone from Hendrix to the jazz greats to the ’70s San Francisco scene,…
baseball: fsu @ unc, game three
baseball: fsu @ unc, game three, originally uploaded by minervacat. Eleven. Baseball-related music content: the Baseball Project, an Athens, GA supergroup made up of members of R.E.M. and the Minus 5 among others, released one of my favorite albums of 2008, Volume One: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails. Georgia indie rock songs about obscure baseball…
baseball: fsu @ unc, game two
baseball: fsu @ unc, game two, originally uploaded by minervacat. Ten.
baseball: florida state @ unc, game one
baseball: florida state @ unc, game one, originally uploaded by minervacat. Nine.
keep an eye on the sky
the morning benders @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. I had originally planned to post my most-Fridays list of inspiration today, but with Alex Chilton’s passing on Wednesday evening, I think the day is better devoted to rounding up some of the best writing about Chilton out there. Alex Chilton had a hit at…
baseball: princeton @ unc, game two
baseball: princeton @ unc, game two, originally uploaded by minervacat. Eight. For as long as I can remember, every year for my birthday the NCAA has given me the first weekend of the men’s basketball tournament. It’s a pretty nice gift, as far as gifts from strangers who are also huge faceless entities go; it’s…
drive-by truckers — the big to-do
drive-by truckers @ the lincoln, night one, originally uploaded by minervacat. Drive-By Truckers, The Big To-Do. Out 3/16, ATO Records. Okay, true confession time: when I think of Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, I think of it as an album I don’t like very much. This is a bizarre fallacy of logic, because I love every…