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…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
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.
goathouse cat refuge: MONDAY HAPPY KITTIES
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?
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?
brand new kind of photography 