baseball: michigan @ unc, game 3, originally uploaded by minervacat. Five. (Carolina’s 10-1, so I can forget for a few days about Kevin Millwood’s 81.00 ERA.)
baseball: michigan @ unc, game two
baseball: michigan @unc, game two, originally uploaded by minervacat. Four. (After seeing Alice in Wonderland last night, I compared it to yesterday’s game, which should serve as a review for both of them: they were both exciting, with plenty of interesting lovely things happening, and yet somehow they both managed to be kind of boring….
the mantras @ the blind tiger
the mantras @ the blind tiger, originally uploaded by minervacat. We went out to see the Mantras last night because Keith, their frontman, and Brian, their bassist, are friends of the New Familiars, and we’ve seen Keith play with those guys in Greensboro at least a couple of time. It was — an interesting night….
jason kutchma @ local 506
jason kutchma @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Rocking my world in terms of inspiration these last few weeks: Noticings, a fantastic intersection of Flickr’s tagging and GPS/geolocating technology; find interesting things in your neighborhood that you may not have known were there! Alphabet brooches and alphabet blocks. I love alphabets. I love them,…
tim barry @ local 506
Everybody knows that I think Tim Barry is a superb musician and also an excellent human being, but I also want to offer thanks to Virgil at Suburban Home and Vanessa at Fat Wreck, who hooked me up with a way in the door to this show, and who were both also nothing but fantastic…
two sentence reviews of albums i listened to in february
glossary @ aquarius music hall, originally uploaded by minervacat. Two-sentence reviews of reasonably new albums I listened to in February: Surfer Blood — Astro Coast: I love this album and find all press about it to be vaguely irritating for no reason I could explain. But damn, this is a great rock and roll album….
lost in the trees @ cat’s cradle
lost in the trees @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. I don’t often cover straight-up “music news”, because there are plenty of bloggers out there who do that primarily and much, much better than I ever could, but I figured that I owed it to Ari Picker, the crew at Trekky, and the Lost…
baseball: u of maine @ unc, game three
baseball: u of maine @ unc, game three, originally uploaded by minervacat. Three. (Colin Bates was quietly beastly, Michael Morin is a bread and butter pickle, Brian Goodwin is my favorite freshman since someone broke an aluminum bat hitting a home run in ’07, we had 14 hits but Maine had 15 strike-outs, the Black…
the big picture promo photoshoot
My friend Jonny is a lunatic. A funny, brilliant, good-hearted lunatic with huge ideas, but a lunatic all the same. And he’d agree with me on that assessment, so I don’t feel bad saying it in public. I spent yesterday afternoon perched on a ladder taking promo shots for his new project, the Big Picture….
worth getting up for: february
mandolin orange @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in February: Drive-By Truckers two-night stands at the Lincoln; the Lincoln’s light rig, when they use it; Glossary’s Feral Fire, Jason & the Scorchers’ Halcyon Times, the Preservation Hall benefit album and, surprisingly to me, Butch Walker’s I Liked It Better When…
brand new kind of photography 