Worth getting up for in September: football; Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion; the sandwich I ate at Macado’s in Bristol; Justin Townes Earle’s Harlem River Blues & Two Cow Garage’s Sweet Saint Me; free Hopscotch day parties; fall weather and cool mornings, the summer heat finally breaking; red wine weather; long sleeved shirts; knock-off Topsiders;…
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worth getting up for: august
Worth getting up for in August: the Physics of Meaning opening for Lost In The Trees, for free; Frontier Ruckus’ Deadmalls & Nightfalls, I Can Lick Every Sonofabitch In The House’s Sounds of Dying, the Honored Guests’ Into Nostalgia EP, Simone Felice’s Live From A Lonely Place & Ryan Bingham’s Junky Star; Buck Showalter, the…
worth getting up for: july
carrboro farmer’s market, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in July: rookie league baseball, and free tickets to see Team USA; fireworks at the DBAP; photos from the Cape Cod League; Chatham County Line at the Cradle; shooting on a press pass;this photo of Omaha’s Rosenblatt Stadium; Counting Crows live; Our State magazine’s…
love is a mix tape
jason isbell acoustic @ the berkeley cafe, originally uploaded by minervacat. My music collection, these days, is primarily digital. I still own a ton of CDs — they slide around in the backseat and under the front seats of Azula the Little Red Toyota of Doom, they’re stacked on the bottom shelf of one of…
baseball: gwinnett braves @ durham bulls
baseball: gwinnett braves @ durham bulls, originally uploaded by minervacat. If this were a “grateful” holiday, I would be grateful for whiskey, baseball, independence, shep., hot dogs, pie, and my family. All very American things! Happy 4th, y’all. Go out and celebrate as you best see fit.
worth getting up for: june
trkfest 2010: midtown dickens, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in June: American Aquarium at the 506; TRKFest; Langhorne Slim at the Cradle; Tift Merritt’s See You On The Moon, Blitzen Trapper’s Destroyer of the Void, and the Gaslight Anthem’s American Slang; NCAA tournament baseball; the College World Series, even (and especially) when…
55 on 86
55 on 86, originally uploaded by minervacat. Summer makes me lazy about posting. And shooting. And basically doing anything but lying on the couch like a lazy slob. Our air conditioning, or rather lack thereof, which up until this evening was not so much “air conditioning” as “trying futilely and failing miserably to air condition”,…
worth getting up for: may
carrboro farmer’s market, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in May: Carolina baseball’s Senior Day; sweeping a series to end the season; Superchunk at the Cradle; Dustin Ackley playing Double-A baseball in the NC; the Hold Steady’s Heaven Is Whenever and American Aquarium’s Small Town Hymns; live Old Ceremony shows; Iron Man 2…
worth getting up for: april
southport, nc, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in April: Dr. Dog’s Shame, Shame, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings’ I Learned The Hard Way, and Josh Ritter’s So Runs The World Away; the beach; SEC and Southern Conference baseball, and the MLB; forgetting that Chad Holbrook is on the SC staff now,…
worth getting up for: march
shoe container gardens, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in March: my 30th birthday; days off for my birthday; Frightened Rabbit’s The Winter Of Mixed Drinks, the Drive-By Truckers’ The Big To-Do, and the Morning Benders’ Big Echo; ACC college baseball, even when we lose series; TEAM WAYNE GRAHAM1; a rash of Suburban…
brand new kind of photography 