I took these shots of my great coworker B. and her adorable 5 year old son N. on Monday; we had a blast.
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
concert: the head & the heart @ the ritz
I wrote about this show for Speakers In Code. Thao & the Get Down Stay Down opened the show, same as the last time I saw THATH in 2011, and they were equally as excellent now as then. I forget between seeing Thao how much I love her slithery, funky, sometimes dirty rock and roll,…
the first album i ever bought: the new radicals – maybe you’ve been brainwashed too
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 every Wednesday, and sometimes more often. If you’d like to submit, please see the guidelines here. I remember my nervous walk into Record Town like my…
wilson, nc whirl-i-gig festival
Part of my life list: 63. Attend 10 North Carolina festivals. Wilson has an annual whirl-i-gig festival celebrating the work of Vollis Simpson, and the parentals and I stopped there yesterday. Mr. Simpson’s work is being restored by artists in Wilson and surroundings, and being installed in a park in downtown Wilson to preserve and…
life list: 100 foods in 100 counties
58. Eat at every restaurant in Our State magazine’s 100 Foods To Eat In North Carolina’s 100 Counties. Chatham County. Foie gras at Fearrington House Restaurant. I’m not super into goose liver, but the meal as a whole was the best I’ve ever eaten. Plus a bonus carved root vegetable from Halloween. Fearrington’s pumpkins were awesome.
worth getting up for in october
Worth getting up for in October: a weekend with my sister and my mom, and my extended family, in Augusta; the hot-dipped pan fried chicken from Keaton’s BBQ in Rowan County; all five of my cousins’ children, only two of whom I had met; the new Head and the Heart record; seeing Jonny Rodgers play…
two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums i listened to in september & october
And by “in September” I mean “in the last four days of September because I was behind, epically, on podcasts, all month”, but October was A++ of new listening. Also: full length reviews of Ha Ha Tonka’s Lessons, Two Cow Garage’s The Death of The Self-Preservation Society, and The Julie Ruin’s Run Fast here, and The…
concert: j roddy walston & the business @ kings
J. Roddy Walston & the Business came out last night and proceeded to absolutely tear down the walls at Kings. The new album burns up live, and the old songs are so sing-along shout-along friendly that a crowd can’t help but pump their fists and jump up and down and possibly hug strangers. I like…
album review: mipso – dark holler pop
Bands from North Carolina with upright basses and banjos and mandolins draw, fairly or unfairly, comparisons to one of two bands, at first: the Avett Brothers, or Chatham County Line. Either the Avetts’ high energy stage show, or Chatham County Line’s cluster around a single microphone and close harmonies. Music writers can’t help themselves when…
release news: the bottle rockets reissue self-titled & the brooklyn side
Somewhere betwen my discovery of Bloodshot Records in 2002 (Neko Case, though she’d just left the label; Kelly Hogan; the Waco Brothers; Rex Hobert & the Misery Boys) and my current dig through Robbie Fulks and Scott H. Biram’s extensive back catalogs, I spent a lot of time trolling used CD bins at record stores…
brand new kind of photography 