Orphan Girl (Gillian Welch cover) - Crooked Still
Crooked Still is a killer bluegrass band that my friend Peter Mensch turned me on to. See them live if you get the chance. Here they cover my alltime favorite country/bluegrass singer.
Oh, newgrass! This probably my favorite track off of this album.
Actually, two days ago when I posted this image from Carver Hill Gallery, I was trying to reserve a ticket for a show to see Sometymes Why, another group with whom Aoife O’Donovan (the vocalist for Crooked Still) sings. Unfortunately, they were sold out. Blah, blah.
Andrew Wyeth, on Monhegan Island.
(via the Island Journal)
“Sacrifice,” part of the Second Thoughts series by Michelle Van Parys
Michelle was my photog teacher at the CofC. She was making this work while I was her student. I never saw this series then… it’s creepy in all the good ways. Or at least I think so.
This American Life on Television: Season Two Trailer (via talwithiraglass)
So good.
Watch Season 1 or Season 2 streaming on Netflix if you are TV-less (or Showtime-less) like me, but lurve Ira and This American Life.
All I want to do right now is sleep.
Underwater Faith, by Gavin (first cousins, once removed)
I’ll be camping with my Cousin Amanda and her family in Lake Tahoe in August. To be perfectly honest, I’ve never really been into camping, but a rare excitement is bubbling in me because this is an adventure family, and they always return from camping with great (and sometimes unbelievable, but true) stories.
Recent camping adventures include:
- fishing and actually catching fish (one of those things I’ve never really experienced)
- hobbit house sightings, clover picking, enormous stump climbing
- respite from camping with wine tasting (yay!)
- traping chipmonks (and letting them go)
- playing with scorpians
- killing and eating a rattle snake
