I slid the CD version of the Breedings’ Fayette into my car’s CD player a few weeks ago, and like many records in my car, it stayed in the CD player for weeks and weeks, and I listened to it over and over again. Here is a partial list of artists I considered comparing this…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
song share: the head and the heart – shake
After several listens, I think I’m pretty into the new Head and the Heart song. I am definitely into the bass line. But Adam and I are still talking about it, so I will probably have more feelings later. That’s why you should have good friends who are also music nerds: you can talk out…
goathouse mondays: BAT CATS
ie, cats with big ears what look like bats.
baseball: mariners @ orioles
If you watch a lot of college baseball, eventually players you love will make it to the major leagues. This is a familiar view, of Kyle Seager’s bubble butt and lazy slow approach to third base, a view that makes my heart ache a little, a view that still makes me want to yell GODDAMNIT,…
the man for whom the idiot man-children playing third base tag was coined
brb, going to baltimore to see a man about a third baseman. a different third baseman. well, also the same third baseman as before, it’s true, but also another one.
that little girl, so hot she’s scalding
Don’t worry, I’m just having my semi-regular Ha Ha Tonka related head injury. This time prompted by their upcoming new record, which is still two months away from being in my hands, a fact that is currently driving me up a wall. The version of ’12-Inch 3 Speed Oscillating Fan’ from last year at Bristol….
worth getting up for in july
Worth getting up for in July: seeing the Orioles with the Paternal Unit and the Unc; seeing the Orioles, for a second year in a row, while they were over .500 in July; Chris Davis hitting home runs; FLOPPY HAT NIGHT; seeing Young Vic’s latest version of HMS Pinafore with the parentals; the baritone who…
two sentences reviews of reasonably new albums i listened to in july
Two Cow Garage — The Death of the Self-Preservation Society: not out until September, and obviously given my history there will be a big fat wordy full review later, but basically, if you’ve never heard of Two Cow Garage, this record is about to find you your newest favorite band, and there’s not a band out…
goathouse cat refuge: orange kitties
Monday is going to be Goathouse kitty day, if that’s okay with you guys. Today is orange kitties!
video share: kingsley flood – sigh a while
Kingsley Flood’s Battles is one of my favorite records of 2013, and one of the most overlooked. Watch their latest video, for ‘Sigh A While’, below, and if you’re going to be at Newport this weekend, catch them on July 26 at 2:30pm on the Fort Stage.
brand new kind of photography 