The Alpha Site went to the beach on Friday, and I took pictures of beach implements abandoned by their humans. Also this rad tsunami warning sign. RUN, LITTLE SIGN GUY, THE TSUNAMI’S GOING TO GET YOU. Anyway: behind the jump, an impromptu series I’m calling Washed Up.
Category: life or something like it
worth getting up for: july
Worth getting up for in July: new sushi restaurants; press passes; promo shoots; a clear mind and big ideas; visiting the lovely lady H. and Dr. N in West Virginia, and the sheer staggering beauty and color of the area they live in; Angry Birds Seasons; Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson novels, Sheila Weller’s Girls Like…
weekend in west virginia
I drove up to West Fuckin’ Virginia on Friday to spend the weekend with the lovely lady H and Dr. N. The company was excellent, West Virginia is gorgeous, and we ate ourselves stupid and drank red wine and talked about music, and books, and photography, and making art. The kind of recharging weekend with…
worth getting up for: june
Worth getting up for in June: Okkervil River live; psychobilly bands and things Pam tells me to like; seasons four & five of The Wire; Centro-matic’s Candidate Waltz; retail therapy; free outdoor concerts; cold salads; Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens; UNC’s super-regional win over Stanford and the College World Series; remembering how to be happy alone;…
sometimes
I felt like being someone else for a while tonight, so I watched several episodes of the Wire Season 4 whilst wearing my pink wig.
worth getting up for: may
Worth getting up for in May: great publicist relationships and working with Big Hassle Media, who I’ve admired for a long time; my beloved Two Cow Garage, and Wintersleep, both live at Kings; that sweet cool late spring NC weather and the particular shade of green that the NC gets in May; the conclusion of…
worth getting up for: april
Worth getting up for in April: finally spring; sweeping Clemson at home and beating ECU in Greenville in the 9th; C & M’s wedding; gorgeous travel books; Ha Ha Tonka’s Death of a Decade and Slingshot Cash’s From Aftermath to Exile; sole possession of first in the AL East for the Orioles, even if only…
worth getting up for: march
Worth getting up for in March: Frontier Ruckus and Low Anthem and the Deep Dark Woods Daytrotter sessions; Jim Avett, Superchunk oh oh oh Superchunk, the Rural Alberta Advantage, Wye Oak, Holy Ghost at the Cradle, Tim Barry, Oberhofer, J. Roddy Walston & the Business; ACC college baseball; the ACC basketball tournament, mostly; the NCAA…
for my flesh had turned to fur
And then sometimes all that is left for you is to post cat photos. From top to bottom, Billy Donovan, the most hateful meatloaf in the world but who is mine and who does love me; Rodney, shep.’s cat, who has a lot to say to everyone about everything, thank you, and would you mind if…
worth getting up for: february
Worth getting up for in February: Pam coming to visit; college baseball season starting; pitchers and catchers; overtime Canes wins; solving important world problems at 6 am on a Monday (baseball > hockey); having someone understand why you have to follow one song about Baltimore with Gram Parsons doing “The Streets Of Baltimore”; a whole…
brand new kind of photography 