the duke & the king @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Simone Felice asked me last night if shep. and I worked for Rolling Stone. No, baby, I don’t, but if you know somebody I’ll take an intro. He was polite, funny, and charming; he played everything off the new album I wanted to…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
suburbia
suburbia, originally uploaded by minervacat. Lesson learned this week: take what you’ve got and make it work.
worth getting up for: july
baseball: norfolk tides @ durham bulls, originally uploaded by minervacat. Currently making it worthwhile to get up in the morning: a commute that allows for a full album there, a full album back, paid for by the Feds; crunchy-guitar girl-fronted quasi-punk from the Northwest; Big Gulp-sized Diet Cokes from gas stations; good conversation about music;…
the roadside graves @ the nightlight
the roadside graves @ the nightlight, originally uploaded by minervacat. i got a heart that won’t quit, that won’t break, no matter what you do — the roadside graves, “west coast” Thrilled to catch these guys at the Nightlight last night — I absolutely adore their 2007 release No One Will Know Where You’ve Been,…
magic monday @ local 506
magic monday @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. you’re gonna fail every single day but all the things you need can’t be bought here anyway — jason kutchma, “used guitars” Michael Casey, one of my favorite human beings on the planet, is collaborating with Glenn Boothe, who runs the Local 506 (one of my…
holy ghost tent revival @ trekky records studio
holy ghost tent revival @ trekky records studio, originally uploaded by minervacat. Two photos not by me that I can’t get enough of lately: This one of ex-Panic at the Disco members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker in the studio working on their new project, by Jeremy and Claire Weiss. That photo is exactly why…
baseball: norfolk tides @ durham bulls
baseball: norfolk tides @ durham bulls, originally uploaded by minervacat. Tonight, sitting on my porch in the damp twilight listening to the Dexateens and smushing mosquitos, every minute I spend without a camera in my hands feels wasted. It’s only almost August, not almost January, but I’m making a lot of resolutions in my head…
american aquarium @ tir na nog
american aquarium @ tir na nog, originally uploaded by minervacat. There were things I was going to post about — how Whit (hands seen here) hates my camera and always peers at it suspiciously like it’s about to steal his soul but how it often makes for the best photos I take of American Aquarium,…
superchunk @ the cradle
superchunk @ the cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. I am, obviously, not at XXMerge this weekend — this shot is from Superchunk’s Coachella warm-up show at the Cradle this past April. (My weekend plans go baseball, show, baseball, baseball, baseball, show, but neither show is Merge-related.) Am I bummed that I’m not there? Yeah, a…
annuals @ the cat’s cradle
annuals @ the cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Today I can’t decide what annoys me more: killer live bands who make sub-par studio albums, or great studio bands who suck live.
brand new kind of photography 