Delta Spirit loves what they do. They write hooky songs with basslines that make you want to shake your hips, and any band that even occasionally uses two drummers is bound to groove pretty hard. They were just flat-out fun last night, and even the normally stolid Chapel Thrill crowd really got into it. I…
make me think
Inspiring me today: PrismYard: a user-curated gallery of vintage cameras. Yum. Prague Daily Photo: a long-time resident of my RSS reader, I’ve been craving a trip to Eastern Europe lately thanks to them. These amazing photos from Dixie Pixel owner Tara Kneiser. Esquire’s photo shoot with Jon Hamm. (More diner photoshoots pls. Fewer bathrooms shoots…
vacationer @ cat’s cradle
Reasons why I will go see a band live: I like them. Someone whose taste I trust told me I would like this band. A publicist I like asks me to shoot the show. A publicist in whose good graces I wish to stay asks me to shoot the show. A publicist I don’t know…
hot dogs everywhere: trolley dogs
Where: Trolley Dogs, Southport, NC. What: a hot dog with chili and slaw With whom: the Maternal Unit Why: the Maternal Unit and I were wandering around Southport and happened on Trolley Dogs. We had to indulge, even though we’d already had lunch! Grade: B. Solid, but not particularly memorable.
grant hart @ the cave
Dear 22 year old self, I know that, right now, you’re unhappy: you hate yourself, and your life, and you’re terrified about graduating and what the future is going to bring and all of that bullshit. The worst part is, self, that you don’t really have the words or the self-awareness to know all this,…
the pull of gravity
This is my favorite Adrienne Rich poem, II from Twenty-One Love Poems. I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming. Much earlier, the alarm broke us from each other, you’ve been at your desk for hours. I know what I dreamed: our friend the poet comes into my room where I’ve…
worth getting up for: march
Worth getting up for in March: 12 concerts in 11 days; Southern Cal baseball on the East Coast; my birthday; farmer’s market breakfasts; strawberry bread and chocolate chip banana bread and apple cheddar turnovers; daffodils and paper whites; windows-open weather; books about rock and roll; Heartless Bastards, The Fling, Flesh Wounds, Spider Bags, Dex Romweber,…
wylie hunter & the cazadores — someone you used to know
Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores — Someone You Used To Know. Out 3/31 with a release show at Local 506, Chapel Hill, NC. 9PM with Onward, Soldiers and the Tomahawks. Based on my could-I-borrow-a-PA test, I probably shouldn’t write about the full-length debut from Wylie Hunter and his merry band of Cazadores, since they’d all…
college baseball: nc state @ unc, game three
Two. It was a perfect night. And there was a grand slam.
frontier ruckus @ local 506
Up front, I gotta say, what this show did was make me salivate for Frontier Ruckus’s new album. Last fall, Matthew Milia told me that their follow-up to Deadmalls & Nightfalls was going to be even more dense and complex, and it is, based on the new songs that they played last night, but it’s…
brand new kind of photography 