There are definitely things that I’m sorry to have missed about Hopscotch; anything that big happens, something is bound to happen that you’re sorry to miss. But I got my money’s worth — ie just the cost of drinks — and far far more, at Trekky’s Day-Dream day party. The Triangle has a host of…
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locally grown: lost in the trees @ wallace plaza
If you’re lucky — if you have a good local scene — if you support that scene — if you get to be friends with people who are not just talented, but pretty close to genius — if all those things happen in a perfect confluence, sometimes you get to watch your friends get famous….
the new familiars @ the blind tiger, august ’10
shep. and I started going to the Blind Tiger in Greensboro for Holy Ghost Tent Revival, and we kept going for — well, for Holy Ghost and the New Familiars. We made a single ill-advised trip there for another band, but like I said: it was ill-advised. So mostly, we’ve gone to the Blind Tiger…
the old ceremony @ wallace plaza
the old ceremony @ wallace plaza, originally uploaded by minervacat. there is a song i sing when nobody’s around and i forget the words sometimes but it never lets me down ’cause when i get to the part where i feel just about fine well, i don’t want to wither on the vine
love is a mix tape
jason isbell acoustic @ the berkeley cafe, originally uploaded by minervacat. My music collection, these days, is primarily digital. I still own a ton of CDs — they slide around in the backseat and under the front seats of Azula the Little Red Toyota of Doom, they’re stacked on the bottom shelf of one of…
be brand new
the royal nites @ slim’s, originally uploaded by minervacat. “See what everybody else has seen, think what nobody else has thought.” — Albert Szent-Gyoergi
one for sorrow, two for joy
August And Everything After is 17 years old this year. I think, for a lot of people close to my age, that album was formative. I was 13 when it came out. I loved it relentlessly and fiercely and as though it was something entirely my own, despite the fact that the video for “Mr….
they did do a pretty decent cover of ‘tennessee waltz’ once, though
trkfest 2010: hammer no more the fingers, originally uploaded by minervacat. The radio station that I often listen to whilst driving to and from work, when I am too lazy to plug my iPod in or change the CD so it’s not the same CD we’ve been listening to for three weeks straight, has spent…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in june
Two sentence reviews of new albums released in and/or listened to by me during June: Blitzen Trapper — Destroyer of the Void: This album is what would happen if Queen and the Band had a musical baby, and it’s pretty awesome. I like this more than Wild Mountain Nation but less than Furr, so we’ll…
it’s been a week of photographer’s block
miniature tigers @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. So I’m looking at a lot of stuff to try and get motivated. Rocking my world in terms of inspiration: An excellent collection of concert set lists. My collection of set lists lives between two poetry books on the edge of my desk; it is not…
brand new kind of photography 