Worth getting up for in April: Delta Spirit, Alabama Shakes, Hoots & Hellmouth, the Lumineers, Deep Dark Woods live; my new tattoo all healed up; paid photo jobs, unpaid photo jobs, and photo jobs paid in beer and dope; vintage pick-up trucks at twilight; not paying my undergrad loan (because it’s paid off); crossing things…
Category: life or something like it
worth getting up for: march
Worth getting up for in March: 12 concerts in 11 days; Southern Cal baseball on the East Coast; my birthday; farmer’s market breakfasts; strawberry bread and chocolate chip banana bread and apple cheddar turnovers; daffodils and paper whites; windows-open weather; books about rock and roll; Heartless Bastards, The Fling, Flesh Wounds, Spider Bags, Dex Romweber,…
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…
worth getting up for: february
Worth getting up for in February: Carolina/Duke; Eli winning Super Bowls; a new Patti Smith biography; Dr. Dog’s Be The Void; Lydia Loveless live; being shaken out of self-pitying funks by people who love me; mimosas; friends who take up winemaking; daffodils; days off for no reason other than I can; Sugar & the Hi-Lows;…
worth getting up for: january 2012
Worth getting up for in January: Girl in a Coma, Red Collar, Spider Bags, Rat Jackson, Kathleen Edwards, Matt Pryor live; tribute shows; frozen samosas from Trader Joe’s; red patterened drop-waisted dresses; new pants; Bones coming back on TV; Justified; Onward, Soldiers’ new album; the Extra Hot Great mini-episode of names that Benedict Cumberbatch does…
start it over
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: december
Worth getting up for in December: Beirut live; Mandolin Orange’s Christmas show; the wild Christmas lights in Caswell County; Photojojo’s bokeh kit; the new Twitter app for Android; ugly vintage sweaters with koalas on them; best of 2011 lists; applying for one of JazzFest’s volunteer photographer positions; Rachel Yamagata live; making it through 2011; the…
don’t let me into this year
It takes a village. If it weren’t for other people, I’d just be over here taking pictures of my cats and my own face, and if the end of the year isn’t time for being thankful, I don’t know when is. (Other than Thanksgiving, of course.) So without further ado, people I couldn’t have survived…
worth getting up for in november
Worth getting up for in November: Sinful Savage Tigers’ residency at the Station; Fitz & the Tantrums, Girl in a Coma, the Sea & Cake, Bombadil, Josh Ritter live; Josh Ritter’s new live album; shooting Bottom String sessions in backyards and cabins in the woods; the light in the Mandolin Orange living room; burlesque shows;…
brand new kind of photography 