i made you a fish bowl, originally uploaded by minervacat. Rocking my world in terms of inspiration this week: Jeff Curto’s History of Photography podcast. It’s a podcast of a college lecture, and it’s absolutely enthralling. I’m primarily self-taught, as a photographer, with help from two very devoted friends who are always willing to answer…
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tim barry @ the local 506
tim barry @ the local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. I’m off tonight to see John Grisham and Kathy Reichs at the North Carolina Literary festival, a ticket I have courtesy of t., but if you’re just sitting your ass at home, you should go over to Suburban Home Records and get yourself a free…
mason jennings — blood of man
mason jennings @ the cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Mason Jennings — Blood of Man. Out in hard copy next Tuesday, 9/15, on Brushfire Records. This is the least helpful album review you’ll read all year: it’s Mason. I think this album is unreservedly amazing, because I am incapable of being rational or objective or thoughtful about the…
snuzzfest @ local 506: big kids
snuzzfest @ local 506: big kids, originally uploaded by minervacat. I have been constantly amazed and awed over the last four years by the ways in which the scene down here rallies around those people who’ve given and given to it, when those people need it most. Last night was no exception, and I was…
what i did on my summer vacation
what i did on my summer vacation, originally uploaded by minervacat. This is what I did on my summer vacation; or, more accurately, this is what I did from the end of February to Labor Day weekend. That’s 39 tickets to baseball games, right there; a stack thicker than the base of my laptop. (#40…
baseball: norfolk tides @ durham bulls
baseball: norfolk tides @ durham bulls, originally uploaded by minervacat. The final moments of summer, although North Carolina will have one more heatwave before fall finally gets here. We did turn off the air-conditioning tonight, though.
carolina @ duke, wallace wade stadium
carolina @ duke, wallace wade stadium, originally uploaded by minervacat. There’s something about the pageantry and passion — the way sunshine comes later departs earlier behind the colored leaves of the trees, and the pounding drums in an on-rushing band on a Southern campus — that stirs your heart. People who otherwise would not speak…
nc state farmer’s market
nc state farmer’s market, originally uploaded by minervacat. Rocking my world in terms of inspiration this week: This photo by Empires guitarist Tom Conrad. Makes me desperate to go on the road. Places I Wish I Were. So my wanderlust is kind of mad like a mad thing lately, apparently. Which is sad because I…
american princes @ tir na nog
american princes @ tir na nog, originally uploaded by minervacat. Violated the “no Raleigh shows on work nights” rule to catch these guys for the first time in almost 18 months. It was totally worth it, and I was in bed by 1:15!
oversold, more like
oversold, more like, originally uploaded by minervacat. From last August’s Glossary/Lucero show at the 506. It seems appropriate to review these two together — the major label debuts of bands that started small, toured relentlessly, stuck to their sound and their goals, and built enormous, rabid, vocal, fiercely devoted fan bases who’d walk through fire…
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