shoe container gardens, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in March: my 30th birthday; days off for my birthday; Frightened Rabbit’s The Winter Of Mixed Drinks, the Drive-By Truckers’ The Big To-Do, and the Morning Benders’ Big Echo; ACC college baseball, even when we lose series; TEAM WAYNE GRAHAM1; a rash of Suburban…
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worth getting up for: february
mandolin orange @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in February: Drive-By Truckers two-night stands at the Lincoln; the Lincoln’s light rig, when they use it; Glossary’s Feral Fire, Jason & the Scorchers’ Halcyon Times, the Preservation Hall benefit album and, surprisingly to me, Butch Walker’s I Liked It Better When…
worth getting up for: january
flooowers, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in January: waking up in a world where Tim Tebow no longer plays college football; big ideas; doing scary things; Brian Fallon solo acoustic shows; punk rockers covering Kathleen Edwards and Patti Griffin; this photo; putting the camera down and just rocking; tapas and dim sum;…
worth getting up for: december
warm/cold, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in December: holiday music; Ash’s pictures of the Christmas lights on 34th Street in Baltimore; Christmas at the beach1; the post-Weis-firing Notre Dame coach search rumors (but not Brian Kelly leaving Cincinnati for ND DDD:); donuts; #IowansInMiami; Trekky Records’ Christmas at the Cradle; having actualfax sick…
permanent view
permanent view, originally uploaded by minervacat. I decided I wanted to start 2010 with a clean iTunes slate, so this week I put my epic Drive-By Truckers re-listen on hold to frantically plow through everything that was built up in my various unplayed and/or unrated playlists. I am getting much, much better about acquiring music…
worth getting up for: november
unc: flowers for eve, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in November: Micah Schnabel’s When The Stage Lights Go Dim; the Iron Bowl, Texas/A&M, Boise State, and TCU’s dismantling of their entire conference; Thanksgiving at the beach; federal holidays (there are TWO in November); semi-trashy historical fiction; emails from major labels; Southeastern Camera…
thanksgiving oh-four
thanksgiving oh-four, originally uploaded by minervacat. Bartlet: Stuffing should be stuffed inside the turkey, am I correct? Operator: It can also be baked in a casserole dish. Bartlet: Well, then we’d have to call it something else, wouldn’t we? Operator: I suppose. Bartlet: If I cook it inside the turkey, is there a chance I…
worth getting up for: october
two cow garage @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in October: the North Carolina State Fair; a proliferation of excellent national touring acts coming through the CH in specific and the NC at large; the word proliferation; dreaming of road trips; federal holidays1; the new Big Star box set, Keep…
worth getting up for: september
holy ghost tent revival @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in September: the Avett Brothers’ I And Love And You, Lucero’s 1372 Overton Park, the Mountain Goats’ the Life of the World to Come, Mason Jennings’ Blood of Man; free tickets to shows at the 506; yelling at TJ…
worth getting up for: august
lost in the trees @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in August: new Ruby Oliver novels from e. lockhart; when someone gets a music recommendation absolutely spot-on for you; discovering new depths in favorite albums; coffee coffee coffee; heavy metal covers of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”; photos of crowd-surfing banjo…
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