Category: life or something like it

worth getting up for in january

Worth getting up for in January: the new Wooden Wand album; the new Elin Ruth album; the Dorado album; Frontier Ruckus’s Eternity of Dimming; Beach Boys covers; Willie Nelson live; Mike Carey’s Felix Castor novels; Jefferson Bass’s Bill Brockton novels; chili cookoffs; the Ravens beating the Colts, embarrassing Peyton, and crushing Tom Brady; Angry Birds…

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when i’m not here

Places you can find me when I’m not posting as much here: Twitter: @brandnewkindof ; day-to-day life stuff, retweeting photo posts and sports links, music links, general ephemera of my brain, immediate links to blog posts and photos on Flickr. Tumblr: brandnewkindof ; other people’s stuff that I like reblogged, mostly sports photos, travel photos,…

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decide what to be, then go be it

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 in december

Worth getting up for in December: taking a Triangle transplant to Only Burger for the first time; Chatham County Line’s Electric Holiday Show at Haw River; finding cute well-made wrap dresses for cheap; bright colored tights; fixing my meds; the Tallest Man On Earth covering ‘Working Titles’; new pants; a new TV; The World History…

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a mind like a diamond

The slip is vintage. The nail polish is Goldeneye from OPI’s James Bond collection. The lipstick is Make Up Forever’s Rouge Artist Intense, part of my life list goal to find the perfect red and pink lipsticks. The camera is my D80, Emmylou, and the strap is my third from vmjess. The title is, obviously,…

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worth getting up for in november (belatedly)

Worth getting up for in November: Dr. Dog, Midtown Dickens, Matthew E. White at Haw River Ballroom; Justin Townes Earle, and Tift for the third time this fall, at the Cradle; roadtrips with the girls to Wilmington; the beach in fall; Skyfall and Daniel Craig and Judi Dench and Javier Bardem; “YER A WIZARD, JAMES”;…

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darling don’t you go and cut your hair

i am human and i need to be loved Y’all, I don’t normally get all personal up in this space, but can we talk about body image and curvy asses and chubby thighs and bad hair days for a minute?

happy thanksgiving

Here’s to a weekend of sloth and gluttony, and a lot of gratefulness.