I am so bad at posting to LJ these days. I swear I'm reading. I am! I'm just ... faily. At a wide variety of things.

1. So last night I went out and shot Counting Crows with a press pass, at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary. It was pretty fantastic.
   
   
2. If you only look at one of my concert photos this year, look at this one from that show, which is the ( Read more... )

A song I can't get enough of lately:[Ha Ha Tonka -- "12 Inch 3 Speed Oscillating Fan"] 4MB, .mp3. I love this song musically; I love the parts where everything drops out but the vocals and the kick drum, I love the bass line, I love the guitar solo. I love that of all the rhymes for "fan" they could have chosen, they went with "divan". I love ( Read more... )

Today I think we should play a game I have just made up, which is called "Share songs with funny or kick-ass titles, regardless of the quality of the actual song, though it would be nice if they weren't terrible".

I will start: [The Fake Fictions -- "Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions"] 5MB, .mp3.

Now you go.

I spent Saturday [here], watching ( Read more... )

[Hayes Carll -- "As Soon As I Learn Your Name"] 2MB, .mp3. The Hayes Carll set that I saw back in December turned up on archive.org this week, which is awesome, because it's way more enjoyable listening to this set at home than it was listening to it at the 506, by myself, one of five women in a crowd of large, scary, drunk dudes, on a night when ( Read more... )

[The Star Room Boys -- "Why Do Lonely Men And Women Want To Break Each Other's Hearts?"] 5MB, .mp3
[The Star Room Boys -- "New York City Isn't Going Anywhere"] 5MB, .mp3
[The Star Room Boys -- "Both Our Towns"] 3MB, .mp3
[The Star Room Boys -- "Whiskey And You"] 5MB, .mp3

I think I've posted the occasional Star Room Boys track before, but an Ask ( Read more... )

1. [Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit @ the Lincoln] 02.20.09. Raleigh, NC. This was a fucking kick ass night.
   
   
2. [Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit @ the National] 02.21.09. The National has such great light, Jason never puts on a bad show, and that's really, really all I have to say about that.
   
   
3. In other Richmond related news, your traffic is bad, Richmond, ( Read more... )

1. ( photos from two holy ghost tent revival/the new familiars shows, one rosebuds/megafaun/love language show, and some chatter about both photography and the shows themselves )

In the 80s, Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger toured together for a while, and released an album as a result of that tour, an album called Precious Friend. We had it in a double-cassette set when I was a kid and listened to it over and over again in the car, and when I was in college my mom bought it for me on CD. No matter how many times I listen to ( Read more... )

1. In January, I'm taking a picture of everything I eat every day. It's fun -- it makes me eat better, mostly out of potential embarrassment when I do things like eat chocolate pudding for breakfast, which I did today -- but I don't think I can make it a year long project. So I will eventually be looking for a new photo-a-day project for February. ( Read more... )

This post is what I did instead of working this morning. My boss is out of town and I have knocked out most of my current to-do list, primarily while sitting in front of several OC reruns yesterday late afternoon ( Read more... )