Category: life or something like it

and be grateful

Happy Thanksgiving to all you US of A-ers, and happy Thursday to the rest of you. Be joyful, and be thankful, and be safe.

worth getting up for: october

Worth getting up for in October: Stephen Malkmus, Adam WarRock, Wild Flag, Blitzen Trapper, Mike Doughty live; interviewing Frontier Ruckus; MLB playoffs; having a car that you cannot hear arriving at 100 yards for the first time in six months; fall weather and sweaters and boots and vintage dresses; losing five pounds; J.; Shakori Hills;…

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worth getting up for: september

Worth getting up for in September: Hopscotch Music Fest; three day weekends; PINK HAIR; the eternal Kellen Moore finger guns gif; fake moustaches on sticks; shooting the Meat Puppets; (almost) hitting 100 shows for the year; Micah Schnabel live, again; Micah, in general; Brian Fallon’s delivery service delivering his new side project album; amazing relationships…

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i haven’t finished a thing since i started my life i don’t feel much like starting now walking down lonely has worked like a charm i’m the only one i have to let down Took the week off after Hopscotch to recharge and sleep and recalibrate my brain, but I’ve got nine shows in the…

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bands start up each and every day

Those of you who have known me for a long time know that I can be, how shall we say — passive-aggressive with my hair. (Let us all stop and remember the Epic Vodka-Fueled Hair Massacre of Graduation Week 2002 fondly.) I had a really bad week, so now I have pink hair. (And, on…

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worth getting up for: august

August was pretty well a spectacular shitshow of epic proportions, but there were a few good things. Worth getting up for in August: surprise last minute sets from Micah Schnabel; the Cowboy, just in general, because I’m stupid fond of him; vintage dresses on Etsy; advances from Bloodshot records; working with the Bottom String; big…

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rock me like a hurricane

I like to think that in 30 years, some 20-something woman will love my photos of the Cowboy the way that I love Elliot Landy’s photos of Rick Danko.