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book review: ryan adams: losering, a story of whiskeytown (david menconi)

It would take thousands upon thousands of pages — an encyclopedia of pages — to document the full history of the Triangle music scene, as it would for any scene with bands, labels, and clubs as legendary and venerable as the Triangle has. (Some day, I am convinced I will see Michael Stipe in the…

toddlers kickstarter reward party @ local 506

a. This was one of the best Kickstarter rewards that I’ve ever seen: a private show for people above a certain donation level, and a free download card for a new release with it. I would never have thought of it for a reward, but it was a great one. I was delighted that Dan…

i am not named after her, but sometimes i fib and say i am

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” — Agatha Christie Not meant as a jab at the maternal unit for not making Dame Agatha my namesake, just saying I’m Agatha…

read what you’ve already decided to read

I’m going back to October for my January reading, and reading what I own (sort of). In October, I read only books that were on my GoodReads to-read list before October 1, so in January, I’ll be only reading books on my to-read list before January 1. You guys could join me. Sometimes it feels…

decide what to be, then go be it

Since the mid-nineties, Justin has been saying, ironically or not, that this is how your first entry of the new year should always be, and so it is.

worth getting up for in december

Worth getting up for in December: taking a Triangle transplant to Only Burger for the first time; Chatham County Line’s Electric Holiday Show at Haw River; finding cute well-made wrap dresses for cheap; bright colored tights; fixing my meds; the Tallest Man On Earth covering ‘Working Titles’; new pants; a new TV; The World History…

list: my ten favorite photos of 2012

Of all the photos I took this year, these are my ten favorites, unranked and presented without comment. I will say, though, that I was surprised that three of these were basically portraits (the Cowboy and Biggs; Montgomery, thoughtful; and Erin Rae on Matt’s porch); I don’t think of myself as a portrait photographer, but…

best of: top 25 albums of 2012

I hate making these lists. Everything was good! If it was bad, I didn’t keep it, thus, all the albums in my iTunes from 2012 are excellent! Agggh. But anyway: I contributed to the Speakers In Code list, of course, but this one is mine and ended up getting a hefty end-of-the-list tweak from my SiC list….

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