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.
the front bottoms @ local 506
Back in the summer of 2002, my buddy Lirette and I spent a lot of time driving around Southern Minnesota, listening to the Refreshments’ genius 1996 brat punk record Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy. It’s the perfect summer record, and while that summer was notable for about 17,006 other reasons, some of my best memories…
a couple good ol’ ladies
Now that I have two vintage Kodak film cameras, if I get a third, is it a collection? I think these two ladies are going to be Patsy and Dolly. Loretta will be the third, when I find her. (The Instamatic was a surprise gift from my darling Allie, who is too good a friend…
the king of windmills & whirl-i-gigs
Over the weekend, North Carolina artist Vollis Simpson passed away at the age of 94. Mr. Simpson created some amazing found materials whirl-i-gigs, which he installed in sort of a farm near his home close to Wilson, NC. A few years ago, shep. and I took a spur-of-the-moment Sunday drive down there, and Mr. Simpson…
fall out boy @ 9:30 club ; save rock and roll club tour
I wrote about what Fall Out Boy means to me, and what it meant to me to shoot them on Friday night, for Speakers In Code. Some other things: They played everything I could have hoped to hear, except the acoustic version of “Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner” from the My Heart EP, which…
brand new kind of photography 