July 2010
7 posts
musicianswithcats asked: Hello; Musicians With Cats Here.
I understand you're the photographer of the John Darnielle & Gretzky photo (lovely pic btw!)
Would you like me to add obvious photo credit on the photo's caption?
I can understand that blatant disregard for your work can get frustrating and I'm more than happy to do anything that I can to try and rectify this.
I can...
I understand you're the photographer of the John Darnielle & Gretzky photo (lovely pic btw!)
Would you like me to add obvious photo credit on the photo's caption?
I can understand that blatant disregard for your work can get frustrating and I'm more than happy to do anything that I can to try and rectify this.
I can...
1 tag
Actual dream I had:
I know it’s not very interesting to read about other people’s dreams unless you’re featured in them, but this one makes me laugh and so maybe it’ll be worth your while.
The cat was meowing at the bedroom door, and his meowing invaded my dream. I dreamed that I was sleeping on the roof, and the cat was walking around my feet, meowing. [Dialogue was possibly spoken or...
“This time around, the North Carolina indie band the Mountain Goats’...”
– Matt Fraction hopes second time’s the charm for ‘Casanova’ - USATODAY.com
…but don’t just buy it (or shun it) because of that — dude’s quite a storyteller. I’m not much into comics, but I’ve been reading these and they’re great.
June 2010
7 posts
Credit
Correction: that photo is by Steve Pyke, just for the record.
fuckyeahthemountaingoats:
lostinallthelights:
i’m just gonna put this here. look how awesome it is.
(photo credit: i believe this was a kathryn yu photo. she’s awesome).
ittookseconds:
What would your 4’14” track be?
“The Letter” by Arthur Russell, from Love Is Overtaking Me. What a simple, light, yet evocative little song.
Hey, there’s a letter for you Downstairs, can I read it too? Hey, there’s a letter for you Downstairs on the table
Honorable mentions for 4’14”: “Sluttering (May 4th)” by...
Oh, and also
two Tall Dwarfs drawings (self-portraits) done by Chris Knox when he was here last, and signed by he & Alec
Partial list of things found while cleaning out a...
a MacBook adapter
a protractor
two copies of Last Plane To Jakarta #6
one dollar
cassette tapes (Cameo, Word Up; Nick Cave, Henry’s Dream; others)
a loyalty card for a defunct coffee shop
a filled loyalty card for a extant coffee shop
a check for $100 (February 2010)
a check for $750 (August 2009)
a Nader/LaDuke button
'74-'75
We saw the Connells last night! They sounded really great, listen:
abbyladybug:
74-75Boo
Fuzzy memory for today
This morning when I was blow-drying my hair, I was thinking about making music — about how I have some ideas about what I want certain songs to sound like, but don’t necessarily know how to make that sound on my own. I’ll have to describe the effect, rather than the technique, to the people I’m playing with.
Standing there in the bathroom thinking about this, I remembered...
May 2010
6 posts
The froggiest frog pond in all of Durham town....
Birthday dreams
I had an odd dream last night that Nick Cave covered a song that I wrote. In the dream it was not really a huge deal, it was like “oh, the new Nick Cave record is out, I forgot that they had asked me if he could cover my song”. On the record it was like a bonus track. I think it was called “The Road Song”, which is not the name of any songs I’ve written (but maybe I...
I don't get it.
Ever since I posted this Twitter update about the John Green/TMG/Bieber thing, I’ve gotten a bunch of weird new followers. All of the accounts have these things in common:
usernames consisting of seemingly random letters, like “rytpawulefic”
Sort of similar-sounding status updates of rather mundane personal stuff, like “Don’t want to go to class today”, the...
“All night, out in the great fjord, they heard the ice, they woke, they dozed...”
– Thomas Pynchon, Against The Day, p. 129.
It’s been nearly two years since I picked up this book, and for some reason, I still think about this passage (and this one as well). When TRP gets his comma on, it’s magic.
April 2010
13 posts
Today on the way to work I came up with an idea for a character name for a story: Thomas Bluebird. People who rode the bus to school as kids will probably easily figure out the inspiration. I don’t really write stories, so if you do, it’s yours for the taking.
Another Wallace / Lipsky gem
“I have this—here’s this thing where it’s going to sound sappy to you. I have this unbelievably like five-year-old’s belief that art is just absolutely magic.”
- David Foster Wallace, talking to David Lipsky in Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
(seriously hard to resist blogging something from every page of this book)
‘There’s a certain set of magical stuff that fiction can do for us. There’s maybe thirteen things, of which who even knows which ones we can talk about. But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell “Another sensibility like mine exists.” Something...
The new Rufus Wainwright album, which came out...
tinahaver asked: Hello virtual Lalitree,
I wonder how many questions you're going to get via this anonymous internet box of potential answers. I know you're a photographer and I totally dig a whole bunch of your work. I'm new to the sport, being that I've finally shelled out the requisite cash to get a DSLR. However, I find that this was apparently the least of my worries; a lot of...
I wonder how many questions you're going to get via this anonymous internet box of potential answers. I know you're a photographer and I totally dig a whole bunch of your work. I'm new to the sport, being that I've finally shelled out the requisite cash to get a DSLR. However, I find that this was apparently the least of my worries; a lot of...
Anonymous asked: what did you want to be when you grew up? Does where you are no surprise you?
Two by Robinson Jeffers
Vulture
I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside Above the ocean. I saw through half-shut eyelids a vulture wheeling high up in heaven, And presently it passed again, but lower and nearer, its orbit narrowing, I understood then That I was under inspection. I lay death-still and heard the flight- feathers Whistle above me and make their circle and come...
3 tags
Full Frame 2010
While it’s still fresh in my mind, here’s the list & a few words about all 24+ films I saw at Full Frame this year, in order:
Day 1
Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture [trailer][excerpt] - I had learned about Sullivan in a college art history class, but this gorgeous documentary provides a much better portrait of him than a few slides can. Louis Sullivan was a...
from "Under the Maud Moon"
kfan:
And in the days when you find yourself orphaned, emptied of all wind-singing, of light, the pieces of cursed bread on your tongue, may there come back to you a voice, spectral, calling you sister! from everything that dies. And then you shall open this book, even if it is the book of nightmares.
—Galway Kinnell
March 2010
4 posts
From Blossoms, Li-Young Lee
April is almost here, and that means more of this lovely tumblr april is: a poem a day for national poetry month:
april-is:
From Blossoms Li-Young Lee From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the road where we turned toward signs painted Peaches. From laden boughs, from hands, from sweet fellowship in the bins, comes nectar at the roadside,...
February 2010
4 posts
liesandstatistics asked: Shooting concerts is very difficult to do because of the constant motion and the low light. You, however, are quite good at it. What are your recommendations for getting good results from rock show photography?
onesmallfire asked: I've really enjoyed watching and reading about your experiments with photography on Flickr. A few of your projects are inspiring me to try some of my own. When did you first realize that this was going to be a passion for you?
lalitree asked: Can you ask yourself questions?
kerfuffle.
Something doesn’t add up here, though I’m sure there are some facts missing:
tumbledore:
I’ve run pitchfork.tumblr.com for almost a year now. I had several posts up and I followed 28 people with the account. All my posts are now gone and my address has been changed to pitchfork1.tumblr.com. Where my blog once stood now stands the official Tumblr for Pitchfork Media Inc. […]
...
January 2010
3 posts
"I make cameras out of watermelons."
PENELOPE …But you can look at the most menial everyday thing, and depending on how your pinhole camera eats the light, it’s warped and peculiar and imperfect. It’s not reproduction, it’s storytelling. BLOOM It’s a lie that tells the truth. PENELOPE I dunno about truth. A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.
If you didn’t see The Brothers...
December 2009
5 posts
jcks:
Christine’s 1999 version of Vic Chesnutt’s...
FYI
If you’re considering which version of Gorecki’s 3rd symphony you might want to buy, I wholeheartedly recommend the Naxos version, with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and soprano Zofia Kilanowicz. There’s a Dawn Upshaw performance that is pretty famous, but the above-linked version is stunning, heartbreaking, and gorgeous, and will only set you back 8 or 9 bucks.
...
Did I mention
that I caved and started using the Twitter? Well, there you go.
Oh, and I also tweaked my webpage a little, making it more like an aggregator of my Flickr/Last.fm/Twitter bits. Didn’t really change the design — though it’s getting a little stale, I still like it.
November 2009
3 posts
Taking a photo of taking a photo