Monday is going to be Goathouse kitty day, if that’s okay with you guys. Today is orange kitties!
video share: kingsley flood – sigh a while
Kingsley Flood’s Battles is one of my favorite records of 2013, and one of the most overlooked. Watch their latest video, for ‘Sigh A While’, below, and if you’re going to be at Newport this weekend, catch them on July 26 at 2:30pm on the Fort Stage.
goathouse cat refuge: MONDAY HAPPY KITTIES
BECAUSE MONDAY NEEDS KITTIES TO MAKE IT HAPPY, DAMN IT. KITTIES WITH FACES TO KISS. And once you’ve made all your smoochy noises at them, may I recommend this NYT feature on Siglinda and Goathouse? Please?
from the archives: holy ghost tent revival – the blood beneath
Back in 2008, I met a bunch of kids from Greensboro who called themselves Holy Ghost Tent Revival, and with whose music shep. and I immediately fell in love with. Over the next two and a half years, we saw HGTR play probably upwards of 50 times, all over the Southeast. We drove to Norfolk…
family: redheads downstairs
Putting together some test shots for branching into family photography — unlike musicians, who are lovely humans but also almost always broke, families have money for photos. Just a supplement, not a replacement. This adorable 18 month old lives downstairs. She and her parents let me do a test shoot with them, where we all…
video share: frank turner tiny desk session
Someday I’m going to tour Europe with Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls, and when I get back, I will die happy. Tiny Desk Session: Recovery; The Way I Tend To Be; and a version of Photosynthesis that seriously made me so happy at work that I did that thing where I hiccup, make a…
video share: the julie ruin – ‘oh come on’
Kathleen Hanna has been one of my idols since I was a teenager, and this video for the first real single off the Julie Ruin’s upcoming full length debut just makes my heart glow with happiness. A glorious new one from the original queen of brat punk. Look for an interview with Julie Ruin guitarist…
baseball: blue jays @ orioles
5. A quality start from Tillman, two Earl Weaver specials, Chris Davis’ 35th, and that Machado kid sure is something, isn’t he?
gone to the midatlantic
brb, gone to baltimore to see a man about a third baseman
playlist: i think i love you (but only in the summertime)
Buddy Holly was twenty-two. Think of what he might have gone on to achieve. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course. — Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing For me, the summer is…
brand new kind of photography 