Worth getting up for in June: the National at Red Hat; Shovels & Rope live; the Orioles still being over .500; sweeping the Yankees; Crush Davis (and his 31 home runs through the end of June); Southern Culture on the Skids at the Berkeley; that weekend I slept for, like, 65 hours (though not the bit…
southern culture on the skids @ berkeley cafe
This show had been booked for ages, long before it was announced that the Berkeley was shutting down its big music room and outstanding roots music booker Marianne Taylor was moving over to Southland Ballroom (making that venue a place to watch, for the first time, outside of the Vaudevillain Revue) — but it would…
search strings revisited, summer 2013 edition
I haven’t done a search string post in a while! So let’s do that. My top five searches in the last 90 days have all been about north carolina minor league baseball teams (that’s the top one). I have a list here. Kinston no longer has a team. The Mudcats adopted Kinston’s High-A Indians franchise;…
so now i’m changing all the changes
So basically last week, I had complete out of body mental breakdown whatever and I decided to buy plane tickets to Chicago in September, the weekend between Hopscotch and Bristol, so I could shoot Riot Fest. Because I figure that I don’t need to do anything in October other than coo over my photos of the…
night beds & jenny o @ local 506
Night Beds, the songwriting (and full band) moniker of Nashville’s Winston Yellen, has had a lot of words spent on them this year, and all of them have been accurate. Yellen’s voice is haunting and absolutely arresting whether he’s deploying it at the height of its power or whispering, and the music that backs it is…
life list: learn to roll sushi
49. Learn to roll sushi. Item 49 on my life list is “Learn to roll sushi”, so when I found a sushi-making class at local gourmet cooking heaving A Southern Season, I bought tickets and took shep. for her birthday. Check that off the list! It was even tasty.
goathouse cat refuge: KITTENS!!1!
Kittens at Goathouse. With kitten faces that need kissing.
dawes + shovels & rope @ cat’s cradle
Dawes is one of those bands where I have tried for years to grasp the deep, fierce love with which fans of the band approach Taylor Goldsmith’s music, and after three or four shows, I remain perplexed. I enjoy Dawes, but there’s nothing in their songs that snags my heart and flips it over. What…
the national @ red hat amphitheater
I wrote about the show for Speakers In Code, which is the only — ONLY! — place you can also see my photos. I have never seen so many photographers react so quickly to change lenses in the pit as I did — zooms to fixed 50mm and 35mm — when Matt carried his mic out…
goathouse cat refuge: kitties
Goathouse Refuge is a no-kill shelter for kitties in Chatham County; I’m doing some volunteer work there, including taking photos of their kitties for their website. LOOKIT THE KITTENS, YOU GUYS.
brand new kind of photography 