It takes a village. If it weren’t for other people, I’d just be over here taking pictures of my cats and my own face, and if the end of the year isn’t time for being thankful, I don’t know when is. (Other than Thanksgiving, of course.) So without further ado, people I couldn’t have survived…
Tag: worth getting up for
worth getting up for: october
Worth getting up for in October: Stephen Malkmus, Adam WarRock, Wild Flag, Blitzen Trapper, Mike Doughty live; interviewing Frontier Ruckus; MLB playoffs; having a car that you cannot hear arriving at 100 yards for the first time in six months; fall weather and sweaters and boots and vintage dresses; losing five pounds; J.; Shakori Hills;…
worth getting up for: september
Worth getting up for in September: Hopscotch Music Fest; three day weekends; PINK HAIR; the eternal Kellen Moore finger guns gif; fake moustaches on sticks; shooting the Meat Puppets; (almost) hitting 100 shows for the year; Micah Schnabel live, again; Micah, in general; Brian Fallon’s delivery service delivering his new side project album; amazing relationships…
worth getting up for: august
August was pretty well a spectacular shitshow of epic proportions, but there were a few good things. Worth getting up for in August: surprise last minute sets from Micah Schnabel; the Cowboy, just in general, because I’m stupid fond of him; vintage dresses on Etsy; advances from Bloodshot records; working with the Bottom String; big…
worth getting up for: july
Worth getting up for in July: new sushi restaurants; press passes; promo shoots; a clear mind and big ideas; visiting the lovely lady H. and Dr. N in West Virginia, and the sheer staggering beauty and color of the area they live in; Angry Birds Seasons; Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson novels, Sheila Weller’s Girls Like…
worth getting up for: june
Worth getting up for in June: Okkervil River live; psychobilly bands and things Pam tells me to like; seasons four & five of The Wire; Centro-matic’s Candidate Waltz; retail therapy; free outdoor concerts; cold salads; Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens; UNC’s super-regional win over Stanford and the College World Series; remembering how to be happy alone;…
worth getting up for: may
Worth getting up for in May: great publicist relationships and working with Big Hassle Media, who I’ve admired for a long time; my beloved Two Cow Garage, and Wintersleep, both live at Kings; that sweet cool late spring NC weather and the particular shade of green that the NC gets in May; the conclusion of…
worth getting up for: april
Worth getting up for in April: finally spring; sweeping Clemson at home and beating ECU in Greenville in the 9th; C & M’s wedding; gorgeous travel books; Ha Ha Tonka’s Death of a Decade and Slingshot Cash’s From Aftermath to Exile; sole possession of first in the AL East for the Orioles, even if only…
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…
worth getting up for: february
Worth getting up for in February: Pam coming to visit; college baseball season starting; pitchers and catchers; overtime Canes wins; solving important world problems at 6 am on a Monday (baseball > hockey); having someone understand why you have to follow one song about Baltimore with Gram Parsons doing “The Streets Of Baltimore”; a whole…
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