Music festivals are awesome. But as music festival season comes upon us, I have realized: if you like music, you probably don’t want to go to a music festival with a working photographer, because going to a music festival with a working photographer is no fun. There’s some festivals that are exceptions — like Hopscotch,…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
quote: frank turner kicks your ass
Work hard and be your own harshest critic. — Frank Turner I’m really excellent at the second one, and not always in a good way. But I’m working on it.
the first album i ever bought: deana carter – did i shave my legs for this?
The First Album I Ever Bought is an occasional guest post series where friends, family, and strangers talk about, well, the first album they ever bought. A new piece runs (almost) every Wednesday, and sometimes more often. If you’d like to submit, please see the guidelines here. In 1997, I was twelve years old, in…
album review: lydia loveless – somewhere else
If Lydia Loveless’s 2011 Indestructible Machine was a 38 minute punch of broken hearted and bitter but not down or out cowpunk, 2013’s Somewhere Else starts with a blast of guitars that can’t be mistaken for anything but rock and roll. “Really Wanna See You” has a typical Loveless theme: an ex who broke her…
tv: BOSCH
I don’t talk much about TV on here, because frankly no one but my friend Amy wants to hear my feelings about how Nick Burkhardt on Grimm is a moron (and I’m continually about six episodes behind in Justified), but I’ve just watched the Amazon Prime pilot of BOSCH — based loosely on City of…
concert: texoma @ motorco music hall
The Cowboy is playing in yet another band, and as he and I had a bit of business to settle yesterday, I headed over to Durham to check out Texoma, the latest project fronted by Zach Terry, late of various Triangle projects like the Whiskey Smugglers and Gambling the Muse. Despite being only a few…
book review: a whole new ballgame – caryn rose
Last Saturday I was sitting at Trav’s dining room table, eating scrambled eggs and bacon, and talking about — something. Something that was in all likelihood not related to baseball at all. Definitely not this book. Something that prompted me to say, “Hold on, I need to see who’s on the Astros’ top ten prospects,”…
concert: panic! at the disco @ the tabernacle, atlanta, GA
Panic! at the Disco broke the Tabernacle in Atlanta on Saturday, and I was there.
families: a & b, future models
On Sunday I spent a couple of hours with my coworker J’s sassy 15 year old daughters — twins, ballers, artists. They were awesome; teenage girls are awesome. I loved shooting these portraits.
on pete seeger and the expression of joy
I remember, very clearly, the Maternal Unit buying the double cassette tape version of Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie’s Precious Friend, a 1981 live compilation of Seeger and Guthrie touring together. (Details on the record itself are here.) She bought it at the little record store that used to be on the first floor of…
brand new kind of photography 