One of the great pleasures of reviewing books from Cicada Books, a London-based publisher, is that they’re all gorgeous, which is exactly their goal: they publish the book equivalent of an incredibly well-brewed small-batch craft beer, or a gorgeous screenprinted limited edition 7″ cover. They’re a pleasure to hold, and to read, as works of…
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More reviews of 33 1/3 books! Yay. (Now I just need them to send me the new Talking Heads book and an advance of the Exile On Guyville one and I will be halfway to a third entry in this series! Please, 33 1/3? I LOVE YOU GUYS A LOT OKAY. One, your books are…
review: the other f-word
I love this photo; it’s such a perfect quiet moment with Stephen and Joah Tunnell, and Joah’s daughter Madeline, amongst the furor of TRKFest 2011. Madeline is growing up as the daughter of two musicians, as the niece of two musicians. Her mother spends a large chunk of the year on the road with about-to-break…
like a record baby right round
I read a bunch of Continuum’s 33⅓ books! Now I am going to talk about them. Behind the jump: Music from Big Pink, Exile On Main Street, Horses, Highway 61 Revisited, Radio City. Pink Moon — Amanda Petrusich: one of my favorite things about this series is the flexibility of form in the books; you…
book review: state of craft (cicada books)
Fact: I am not the sort of person who makes things. Also fact: I do make things, of course; I make photographs. But third fact: I am not the sort of person who makes things, in terms of being crafty, like all the clever people on Etsy whose jewelry and screenprints and hats that I…
girls like us
I finished Sheila Weller’s Girls Like Us last week, and it was spectacular, but, man, it also made me really mad. I understand that it was the emotional atmosphere of the time that Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and Carole King were getting there start, but all of these smart, capable, infinitely talented women got slapped around…
google, i’m mad at you.
I have a Samsung Intercept, a swanky Android phone, that aside from its predilection for freezing when I try to answer phone calls — whatever, I hate talking on the phone, I’d rather text; I just call people back — I almost completely adore. I had reached a point in my photography where I couldn’t…
book review: graphic usa
I’m headed out of town for the weekend, down to Isle of Palms & Charleston, SC, for the wedding of the lovely C&M, but before I go — while I go, actually; thanks to the scheduling feature on WordPress, when this posts, I am probably somewhere between Wilson and Florence on I-95 — I wanted…
a glass of wine and a good book
a glass of wine and a good book, originally uploaded by minervacat. An incomplete and totally subjective list of books about music that I have enjoyed: Dixie Lullaby, Mark Kemp. I’m not sure this is actually, objectively, a good book — it’s a little sloppy and a little biased in the author’s own musical tastes,…
old smithville burying ground, southport, nc
old smithville burying ground, southport, nc, originally uploaded by minervacat. We saw Sherlock Holmes on Christmas Day, and then again this evening; I flat-out adored it. It’s not Great Film, of course, but it was unbelievably gay and undeniably gorgeous, the latter of which being what captivated me the most. What incredible art design that…
brand new kind of photography 