BECAUSE MONDAY NEEDS KITTIES TO MAKE IT HAPPY, DAMN IT. KITTIES WITH FACES TO KISS. And once you’ve made all your smoochy noises at them, may I recommend this NYT feature on Siglinda and Goathouse? Please?
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
from the archives: holy ghost tent revival – the blood beneath
Back in 2008, I met a bunch of kids from Greensboro who called themselves Holy Ghost Tent Revival, and with whose music shep. and I immediately fell in love with. Over the next two and a half years, we saw HGTR play probably upwards of 50 times, all over the Southeast. We drove to Norfolk…
family: redheads downstairs
Putting together some test shots for branching into family photography — unlike musicians, who are lovely humans but also almost always broke, families have money for photos. Just a supplement, not a replacement. This adorable 18 month old lives downstairs. She and her parents let me do a test shoot with them, where we all…
video share: frank turner tiny desk session
Someday I’m going to tour Europe with Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls, and when I get back, I will die happy. Tiny Desk Session: Recovery; The Way I Tend To Be; and a version of Photosynthesis that seriously made me so happy at work that I did that thing where I hiccup, make a…
video share: the julie ruin – ‘oh come on’
Kathleen Hanna has been one of my idols since I was a teenager, and this video for the first real single off the Julie Ruin’s upcoming full length debut just makes my heart glow with happiness. A glorious new one from the original queen of brat punk. Look for an interview with Julie Ruin guitarist…
baseball: blue jays @ orioles
5. A quality start from Tillman, two Earl Weaver specials, Chris Davis’ 35th, and that Machado kid sure is something, isn’t he?
gone to the midatlantic
brb, gone to baltimore to see a man about a third baseman
playlist: i think i love you (but only in the summertime)
Buddy Holly was twenty-two. Think of what he might have gone on to achieve. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course. — Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing For me, the summer is…
video: first aid kit – waitin’ around to die
Some things, like your job, are soul-crushing because they are terrible. Other things are soul-crushing because they are so astonishingly beautiful. Via Adam, this video of First Aid Kit covering Townes Van Zandt’s ‘Waitin’ Around To Die’ is the latter, which is good, because today was really the former.
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‘Photography can be tricky like that,’ said Yoshi. ‘Just because you took the photo doesn’t mean that you know its secrets.’ — Lili Wilkinson, the Zigzag Effect
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