If a woman wants to be a war photographer, she should. It’s important. Women offer a different perspective. We have access to women on a different level than men have, just as male photographers have a different relationship with the men they’re covering.In the Muslim world, most of my male colleagues can’t enter private homes….
college baseball: clemson @ unc
Five, six, and seven. The best thing about Clemson baseball, besides how many curse words head coach Jack Leggett knows, is knowing that all those Clemson fans had to live in Clemson, South Carolina at one point. It’s very satisfying. Of course, so is a three game sweep starting with two ass-whoopings and finishing with…
slingshot cash @ the nightlight
The Cowboy and his band released their new album last night, with Gambling the Muse and Jeremy Blair opening. It was a lovely night; full photo set is here. This is my favorite track from the record: [Slingshot Cash — “We’ve Come Undone”] It’s about Patti Smith and making art and, well. It’s gorgeous.
revisiting big star’s third/sister lovers
I have been fascinated by the coverage of, and reaction to, last weekend’s NYC performance of the Chris Stamey organized Stroke It, Noel: A Fully Orchestrated Performance of Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers. Especially, really, the reaction of strangers; NYC is a world away to me, and Stroke It, Noel still, four months later, still feels so…
worth getting up for: march
Worth getting up for in March: Frontier Ruckus and Low Anthem and the Deep Dark Woods Daytrotter sessions; Jim Avett, Superchunk oh oh oh Superchunk, the Rural Alberta Advantage, Wye Oak, Holy Ghost at the Cradle, Tim Barry, Oberhofer, J. Roddy Walston & the Business; ACC college baseball; the ACC basketball tournament, mostly; the NCAA…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in march
The Low Anthem — Smart Flesh: there was no way that this year’s follow-up to 2009’s stunning Oh My God, Charlie Darwin was going to be anything less than incredible, but Smart Flesh manages to be even more painfully honest and heartbreaking, more complex and intricate musically, and intimate and quiet and huge, than both…
mike watt + the missingmen @ local 506
I went to see Mike Watt + the missingmen at the 506 last night out of a confluence of circumstances; mostly, frankly, curiosity and generosity. My punk education — my history of punk education, I guess — continues apace at Pam’s hands, with help from H. and Dr. Nick in West Fucking Virginia, but I…
j. roddy walston & the business @ kings
When I told him that I was going to see a rock band from Baltimore last night, the Cowboy said, “I didn’t think they had those. I thought they were just making electronica up there.” Not in a bad way — just in a vaguely perplexed way, because they make a lot of electronica in…
college baseball: duke @ unc, march ’11
Four. We only made one game of the three in the series that we had tickets for, yesterday’s 11-2 UNC win. Circumstances, and weather. It feels like December here, cold winds and cold temperatures and cold rain, though it’s almost April. I’m sluggish and restless today, but freezing to death watching baseball wasn’t the answer,…
tim barry @ local 506
Tim Barry, much like Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit, is one of those rare songwriters who has the ability to make me feel jubilant and heartbroken all at once. He writes with the fierce punk ethos of Avail, even when he’s self-admittedly failing at playing the guitar, when he’s intimated by crowd and using his…
brand new kind of photography 