Worth getting up for in March: Carolina’s gorgeous 2-1 victory over Team Wayne Graham; 24-1; Bombadil, Drive-By Truckers, Gaslight Anthem, Hollis Brown live; a week at the beach; crossing three more restaurants off the 100 restaurants list; roadtrips with Mom; painted barns; US 1 in North Carolina; Florida Gulf Coast, Cinderella; starfish and shark’s teeth; sunshine; my…
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
perfection’s always flawed: a baseball mix
My all-time favorite photo of Matt Wieters, future of the Orioles organization, existed before the Big Bang, subject of all love songs ever written, bad ass new god. He hit a two-run homer in the first inning of the O’s first game today. This is a playlist of baseball songs. You should listen to it,…
festival preview / interview: phuzz phest
I have a lot of long-running jokes about Winston-Salem, and I have to be honest: most of them aren’t particularly nice. Most of them do involve the notion of time travel and how if we could harness the vortex of six thousand miles from nowhere that Winston seems to exist in, we could actually build…
college baseball: clemson at unc, game 1
One. 24-1.
hollis brown @ local 506
Hollis Brown, you guys. Look. Y’all know that I basically don’t like to leave the house because I’m lazy and misanthropic and also because I’m old and I like to fall asleep in front of NBA games at 8:45 on weeknights. But I go out, for bands I really love, and I am generally rewarded….
video share: michael rank & stag – “the surrender”
and i’ll be your hero down to the weeds I am really, really crazy about Michael Rank’s new record, In The Weeds, and this video for “The Surrender” is just gorgeous on every level. The song is amazing, just gutwrenchingly lovely, and the light in the video is staggering. Michael and the band open for…
album review: hollis brown – ride on the train
oh the south and the sun never felt so good Sometimes it takes me a while to warm up to albums; and sometimes, I fall in love with them literally from the first notes of the first song. The title track from Hollis Brown’s debut LP, “Ride On The Train”, gives exactly the feeling of…
album review: way to blue – the songs of nick drake
I think that everyone who knows Nick Drake’s music has their own relationship to it; the first time they heard it, the people they think of when they hear one of Drake’s delicate, haunting songs on an ad, in a bar, on a television show. For me, an ex-boyfriend introduced me to Pink Moon, and…
the pointy kind of good luck
The women on my mom’s side of the family are, at the beach, inveterate shell collectors. As soon as I was old enough to tell the difference between the shells, I learned to pick up the unusual, the beautiful, the ugly. Above (top) is my haul from this week at Holden Beach. It’s the best…
a photo series, abandoned beach style
If I was giving a pretentious interview to a pretentious arts journal, I would say, of these shots, “I’m just really into chairs right now.”
brand new kind of photography 