ROSENCRANTZ: I’ve frequently not been on boats. GUILDENSTERN: No, what you’ve been is not on boats. — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
this is a post full of things i have seen washed up on the beach
WARNING: this post does contain photos of dead things that could be considered gross by some people, so fair warning.
poem: prayer in my boot
Prayer In My Boot (Naomi Shihab Nye) For the wind no one expected For the boy who does not know the answer For the graceful handle I found in a field attached to nothing pray it is universally applicable For our tracks which disappear the moment we leave them For the face peering through the…
in reality, green beer is kind of gross
This clover and I would both like to wish you a happy St Patrick’s Day, and remind you that you have one shopping day left until my birthday.
life list: 100 foods in 100 counties
This mini-roadtrip with Mama had three purposes: look at art on barns; hang out with Mama; and eat at a few more places on the Our State list of 100 things in eat in North Carolina’s 100 counties. We hit three in two days, and they were all interesting. From top to bottom, the Hot…
cameron, nc: painted barns
On a tiny roadtrip with the Maternal Unit, we stopped in Cameron, NC (a small town between Sanford and Southern Pines) to check out the crazy painted barns in the area; they were originally commissioned by David Ellis, a Cameron native and artist who brought street artists from New York and Japan to his hometown…
favorites: boys with guitars
There are things that always make me happy, and I have three things to share from three people who bring me great joy today. One: Josh Ritter’s genius double record Live At Iveaugh Gardens is free on NoiseTrade today. If this album fails to make you happy, please check your pulse. Two: Brian Fallon says…
the gaslight anthem @ the lincoln theatre, raleigh
I wrote about last night’s Gaslight show for Speakers In Code. Brian Fallon is still my favorite forever and ever amen. Charlotte’s Matrimony and Bloodshot Records’ Cory Branan opened; Matrimony was really enjoyable, but a little less electric guitar-y than I expected from a Gaslight opener. Cory was genius as always, and closed with “Girl…
the backsliders @ cat’s cradle
well i coulda been a saint and not a rank backslider standing on the tracks with a bottle of wine trying to find something that’ll never be mine The first time I heard those lyrics, it was BJ from American Aquarium singing them; BJ takes credit for a lot of things, but he’ll never take…
song share: radiation city – fly me to the moon (astrud gilberto cover)
Radiation City’s dreamy retro girl group fuzz garage pop debut, The Hands That Take You, really flew under the radar when it came out in 2011, and that’s a shame, because it’s a fantastic soundscape of harmony and guitar feedback and thick Phil Spektor shivers. Everybody’s getting ready for SXSW (no, I’m not going; I’m…
brand new kind of photography 