trying to have a green thumb

I am a notorious plant killer, but so far since last year I am managing to keep a fleet of them alive through sheer obsession and frequent Pinterest research. They are all named Bob. Very little besides reading on the couch next to Trav makes me happier than wandering through a garden section right now,…

the sun don’t rise and set on louisiana

I was down in the ATL this past weekend seeing Trav, the fourth time I’ve been down since we got back together in February. Long distance, of course, sometimes means that you often just want to sit on the couch and be within arms’ reach of each other, and the first three trips down, Trav…

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…

the first album i ever bought: r.e.m.’s green turns 25

The first album I bought for myself was R.E.M.’s Green. I bought it on cassette tape when I was 8 years old, with birthday money, after my friend Jeremy played “Stand” for me. It’s still one of my favorite records of all time, though I usually default to Automatic as my go-to R.E.M. record. Green is…