When I Grow Up (Catherine Wiley) I want to be the waitress snapping gum, who leaves an orange crescent on the thick white cup, calls the six a.m. men sagging at the counter “Hon,” even when I know their names. In the rumpled wallet photos, their kids’ hair moves up, then over, ears; tuxes lead…
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
don’t you know that you’re paid to be funny
For those of you who know me, you know that I have a long and complicated history with Comedy; comedy with a big C, a stand-in for amateur and professional improv, sketch, stand-up. For those of you who don’t know me that well, well: I have a long and complicated history with Comedy. I have,…
girl in a coma @ local 506
The mark of a great band is this: not how they perform as a headliner, but how they perform as an opener. Last night Girl in a Coma, touring as an opener for the Features, completely owned the crowd in the 506. Not a huge crowd, but one that whooped and hollered and even danced…
ink and skin
First Poem for You (Kim Addonizio) I like to touch your tattoos in complete darkness, when I can’t see them. I’m sure of where they are, know by heart the neat lines of lightning pulsing just above your nipple, can find, as if by instinct, the blue swirls of water on your shoulder where a…
promo photos: wylie hunter & the cazadores
Spent an hour Monday horsing around with Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores, rifling stock in CD Alley and being noisy in empty parking lots and trying to think up hilarious four letter words besides YMCA. Behind the jump, a couple of shots. NSFW if your employer is opposed to 20-something men spelling Four Letter Words…
color me obsessed: a follow-up
(I call this shot “Montgomery, Rapt”.) A few days late but hopefully not short any dollars but what I always am, I just wanted to put a few thank yous out to everyone who made the screening of Color Me Obsessed such a success last week. First, to Gorman, who made it possible for this…
red collar @ local 506
My face was suitably rocked by three of the most talented (and occasionally delightfully offensive) rock bands in the Triangle. Sometimes you just need a lot of electric guitars. Full set is here.
some army 7″ release show @ local 506
Some Army plays rattling, shining indie rock with clever lyrics and shimmering harmonies. Fan Modine makes some of the most melodic, danceable garage rock I’ve ever heard. And Prypyat plays songs that wouldn’t be out of place being done by Duncan Webster’s hard rocking Hammer No More The Fingers, except that he and Leah Gibson…
interview: mipso trio
Yesterday I had the undeniable pleasure of sitting down, in a noisy Weaver Street Market, with the three guys who make up fast-rising North Carolina Americana band Mipso Trio. Joseph Terrell, Jacob Sharp, and Wood Robinson will be headlining at the Cradle on Saturday night, with Overmountain Men and Jim Avett. (Details: Saturday 1/14, doors…
new track from lost in the trees
Yesterday NPR debuted the first track from Chapel Hill’s own Lost in the Trees, off their upcoming second album for Anti- Records, A Church That Fits Our Needs, due out 3/20. (Happy birthday to me.) The track is “Red”, and you can hear it here. LITT has been gaining buzz and admirers since Anti- re-released…
brand new kind of photography 