tiny tiny flowers, originally uploaded by minervacat. Currently rocking my world in terms of inspiration: The Blue Hour. Brian lives and works in New York and has been mucking about with a Pentax K1000 recently, and his results have been wonderfully muted and dreamy. Matt Pence. Drummer for Centro-matic and South San Gabriel, producer extraordinaire,…
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all these flashes and cables
all these flashes and cables, originally uploaded by minervacat. I have been lucky enough to happen into an almost legal advance copy of the upcoming A.A. Bondy record, When The Devil’s Loose, and having finally listened to it last week, two weeks after it came into my possession, I can say: this album is officially…
charleston, south carolina
charleston, south carolina, originally uploaded by minervacat. Tremendously sad about Ted Kennedy; two of the best posts I saw on the subject today — that you might not have already seen — were this one and this one. RIP, Teddy. You will be terrifically missed.
magic monday @ local 506: cory branan
magic monday @ local 506: cory branan, originally uploaded by minervacat. they all say i’ll never tame her but who says i want her tame Every time I think I’m too old to rock and roll it past midnight on a work night, somebody proves me wrong. Michael Casey threw another fabulous Magic Monday, Cory…
our songs are sing-along songs
Two-fer today. I couldn’t pick a shot of just one of Saturday night’s bands; you get ’em both. Top: Bowerbirds; bottom: Megafaun. About 18 months or so ago, after a killer Weakerthans show at the Cradle, Perry Wright of the Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers told t. that Megafaun was about to be…
american aquarium @ the pour house
american aquarium @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. what do you know about me other than what you can see Friday night, American Aquarium dusted off the title track from their first album, a song I never thought I’d get to hear live, and it was as wonderful as it could have been…
durham be easy: upright lions
durham be easy: upright lions, originally uploaded by minervacat. We pulled a doubleheader last night, starting with Durham Be Easy where we caught some absolutely killer hip hop and a John Darnielle solo set (“Hi! We’re the Mountain Goats.”) and strengthened our resolve to hang out in Durham more, continuing through a rage-inducing construction-related traffic…
lost in the trees @ wallace plaza
lost in the trees @ wallace plaza, originally uploaded by minervacat. we’ll find a church that suits both of our needs we’ll forgive ourselves, we’ll forgive our enemies The trouble with local bands is that you hear all their new stuff long before they ever commit it to record.
boulder acoustic society @ local 506
boulder acoustic society @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Brent Best, who I firmly believe is a certified crazy motherfucker but who can write a song like nobody’s business, actually went and got his ex-band Slobberbone back together for a week’s worth of out-of-state reunion shows. I saw mentions of those shows elsewhere on…
baseball: charlotte knights @ durham bulls
baseball: charlotte knights @ durham bulls, originally uploaded by minervacat. This is Jake Peavy. He is very, very attractive. He is, when he is healthy, very, very good at baseball. He has a heeeeeeeatah, as our drunk ex-Masshole once-and-future seatmate Aaron would say. We sat fifteen feet from where he threw bullpen today. He is…
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