brand new kind of photography

I’m rarely left speechless by a show. Gibbering like an idiot, occasionally, but rarely speechless. I can almost always find some twist of words to explain why something was tremendous, or at least an adjective or six, but this morning, I am still stuttering over last night’s Felice Brothers set at Kings. We saw them…

to the stand of the greatest show on earth

oooh, happy days are here! it’s the perfect summer night and the moonlight’s shining clear put your pistol in your purse ’cause we’re goin to gettysburg to the stand of the greatest show on earth

wait for spring

“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” — Rogers Hornsby With the World Series done, all that’s left to do this off-season is count the days until pitchers and catchers (102, if you want to…

yes we can

Last Thursday after work, shep. and I toddled off to the Carrboro Town Hall to vote early. Unfortunately for us, there was no early voting at Carrboro Town Hall this time around. So we got in the car and drove into the CH and voted early at Morehead Planetarium instead. As we were walking from…

do you think it’s gonna make him change

I got my hair cut this weekend. 2011 project: self-portraits in every venue bathroom in the Triangle. I’ll title them all with Pavement lyrics when I show the series. Thinking.

auxiliary house @ nightlight

Everybody knows that I’m stupidly fond of all the Trekky Records kids, and it’s a damn shame that in the years I’ve been going to see their bands and their excellent shows, festivals, and holiday extravaganzas, I’d never actually seen Trekky super-group/whoever’s not on tour/house band, Auxiliary House, before last night. Aux House seems to…

worth getting up for: october

Worth getting up for in October: the National at Memorial Auditorium, and well-won photo passes; Two Cow Garage and Dave Hause (rhymes with pause) at Kings; Ha Ha Tonka at the 506, finally and worth the wait; Cameron McGill & What Army; 47,000 other shows; the North Carolina State Fair; fall baseball; the unstoppable Oregon…

two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in october

Two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums I listened to in October. The Old 97s — The Grand Theatre Vol. 1: bright twang in the music from Satellite Rides, dark subject material from Drag It Up, now with more Dylan. Where Blame It On Gravity grabbed me right away, I think this is one that’s…

with a folksinger’s heart

The reason you would create anything is because you love it enough to see it exist. — Robert Fritz, “The Path of Least Resistance”