Spring busted out all over in the NC this week.
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
jonquil @ local 506
Jonquil, a smartly clever pop band from the UK, weren’t even on my radar before Monday — but when one of my favorite publicists asked me to sit down with them on Wednesday evening before their set, I was more than happy to do it. I’ll have the interview up on Monday, but for today…
‘give ’em the pickle’
This boy is pitching for the Yankees on ESPN right now. I watched him pitch for four years in a grungy, awful stadium; Team USA’s training park; a beautiful gem of a park. I am so proud that I am about to burst. So fucking proud I can’t even.
perfect vacation: eat, sleep, go to cemeteries
The Maternal Unit is also into eating, so she was totally down with my life list goal of eating all 100 foods on Our State’s 100 Foods To Eat In NC’s 100 Counties. We knocked out two together, Pickled Carolina Collards w/ Habanero Peppers from Angela’s Pepper-Pickled Foods (New Hanover County) and Conch Fritters at…
oakdale cemetery, wilmington, north carolina
One nice thing about traveling with the Maternal Unit is that she likes cemeteries as much as I do. Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington is staggeringly lovely. Full set here.
to anticipate a thaw
Revival (Luci Shaw) March. I am beginning to anticipate a thaw. Early mornings the earth, old unbeliever, is still crusted with frost where the moles have nosed up their cold castings, and the ground cover in shadow under the cedars hasn’t softened for months, fogs layering their slow, complicated ice around foliage and stem night…
bowerbirds @ cat’s cradle
The crowd was packed so tight last night for Bowerbirds’ CD release show that I gave up trying to squish through and get shots; I went back and sat with my mama and we loved on Phil and Beth and Mark and Leah and Yan from halfway back in the Cradle. The Clearing sounds even…
the devil makes three @ cat’s cradle
After two shows, the Devil Makes Three are rapidly becoming one of my favorite bands to see live; I like their studio stuff, but their stage presence — unassuming until WHAM! they start really rocking — is a huge part of why they’re so great live. The harmonies, the thumping bass, the way they all…
make
This is a blurry photo of a CD, poorly white-balanced and not quite in focus, but it’s important because under those words and that disc, it’s my photo on the inside of Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores’ upcoming full-length. One of the shots that we took at CD Alley back in January. It’s on my…
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