It’s the summer of 1997, and the first boy I ever loved put “La La Love You” on a mix tape for me. It’s the summer of 2013, and he’s married (and he lives in Hoboken, to boot, so if you Google yourself, Tim Catts, you could email me), and I’m single (but I get…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
berkeley cafe ladies’ room graffiti
Some opinions from the ladies’ room at the Berkeley during the final “big room” show.
two sentence reviews of albums i listened to in june
Boxed Wine — Cheap, Fun: cheerful, complex synth pop with choruses full of hooks and funky ’70s garage rock and hand claps. These guys hooked me when Katie from Speakers in Code found their EP, and their full-length isn’t a letdown. Fuzzy and shiny and distorted summer dance party music. Also, it has a song…
worth getting up for in june
Worth getting up for in June: the National at Red Hat; Shovels & Rope live; the Orioles still being over .500; sweeping the Yankees; Crush Davis (and his 31 home runs through the end of June); Southern Culture on the Skids at the Berkeley; that weekend I slept for, like, 65 hours (though not the bit…
southern culture on the skids @ berkeley cafe
This show had been booked for ages, long before it was announced that the Berkeley was shutting down its big music room and outstanding roots music booker Marianne Taylor was moving over to Southland Ballroom (making that venue a place to watch, for the first time, outside of the Vaudevillain Revue) — but it would…
search strings revisited, summer 2013 edition
I haven’t done a search string post in a while! So let’s do that. My top five searches in the last 90 days have all been about north carolina minor league baseball teams (that’s the top one). I have a list here. Kinston no longer has a team. The Mudcats adopted Kinston’s High-A Indians franchise;…
so now i’m changing all the changes
So basically last week, I had complete out of body mental breakdown whatever and I decided to buy plane tickets to Chicago in September, the weekend between Hopscotch and Bristol, so I could shoot Riot Fest. Because I figure that I don’t need to do anything in October other than coo over my photos of the…
night beds & jenny o @ local 506
Night Beds, the songwriting (and full band) moniker of Nashville’s Winston Yellen, has had a lot of words spent on them this year, and all of them have been accurate. Yellen’s voice is haunting and absolutely arresting whether he’s deploying it at the height of its power or whispering, and the music that backs it is…
life list: learn to roll sushi
49. Learn to roll sushi. Item 49 on my life list is “Learn to roll sushi”, so when I found a sushi-making class at local gourmet cooking heaving A Southern Season, I bought tickets and took shep. for her birthday. Check that off the list! It was even tasty.
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