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posted by [personal profile] minervacat at 10:29am on 16/02/2009 under , , ,
  1. [Holy Ghost Tent Revival @ the Blind Tiger] 02.13.09. Blind Tiger, Greensboro. Supported by Emily Moore, Kooley High & Inflowential. A thoroughly excellent evening, despite the fact that I will never ever ever enjoy the crowd HGTR draws in G'boro. On the other hand, I will also never ever ever get tired of shooting those boys.

  2. [The Old Ceremony @ the Cat's Cradle] 02.14.09. Cat's Cradle, Carrboro. Supported by Roman Candle. CD release show. Another out of this world show, save one moment late in the set, when I nearly got into it with the official videographer for the band -- I didn't mind moving out of the way for her to film the encore, but I definitely minded being shoved out of the way while I was taking a picture, without so much as an excuse me or a request for me to give up the front of stage spot that [livejournal.com profile] triskellita had thoughtfully staked before the set started for my crazy camera toting ass.

    I never mind moving but I do mind being bullied out of the way. RUDE IS BAD, KIDS.

  3. On Sunday shep. and I used a Valentine's Day Target gift card from my parental units to buy two new sets of sheets and a huge bag of cat food. This is a very good indicator of my life lately, as in, things I get excited about: grocery shopping so that I can cook; new housewares; Carolina baseball (season starts Friiiiiiiiiiday); new camera gear; live music; talking about how awesome our shenanigans will be once we move out of the apartment and into either a rented or purchased house-with-yard-for-dog-and-grill-and-wading-pool; Jason Isbell; Carolina basketball; flip-flop weather; new t-shirts from Threadless; using my increasingly complex budget spreadsheet to actually pay down debt and save money.

    I think this is what they call "being a grown-up". In other news, I can no longer rock as hard as I used to: Friday night shows where the headlining set doesn't end until almost 2 am, canonically becoming too late for me, especially when they're an hour out of town. SADNESS.

  4. I have a half-dollar sized bruise on the outside of my left knee, courtesy of the stage at the Blind Tiger on Friday night; I didn't notice until 2/3rds of the way through the evening that I'd been leaning on a bolt all night until my knee twinged when I shifted my weight. Shooting this summer in sundresses and shorts is going to be interesting, because my legs pretty much perpetually look like someone's been beating me. You wouldn't think that stage monitors have sharp edges until you spend three hours with your shins pressed against one.

  5. I found the conclusion to this past Friday's Psych utterly fantastic, and I keep thinking about Gus flinging the pool noodle and then the beach ball at the psycho killer, and then snickering to myself. Some weeks, that show brings me such great joy.

  6. I don't think I mentioned that shep. and I spent most Sundays in January watching Avatar: the Last Airbender on DVD from Netflix, but we did, and I fell completely in love, and sometimes I spend a lot of time at work staring at the ceiling and thinking about Sokka, who is my most favorite of all favorites. Then I think about Aang and Katara and Zuko and Appa and Toph and Iroh and Momo, who are all tied for my next favorite.

  7. Yesterday I bought a 50mm/f1.8 lens off Craigslist for $55. Sometimes, obsessively trolling the photo listings pays the fuck off. Hilariously, though, I have to coordinate with the father of the guy I'm buying the lens from to actually exchange cash for glass. Craigslist, sometimes you baffle yet delight me.

  8. I am having a terrible hair day and also a banjo playing Canadian gave me the plague.
This is sort of an epic entry, but I figure if I only post once a week, I can make up for it in length.
Mood:: 'sick' sick
Music:: Chicago Promenade -- Jason Isbell -- 2007-12-30 @ the Lincoln, Raleigh, NC
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posted by [identity profile] spatialrift47.livejournal.com at 03:30pm on 16/02/2009
AVATAR IS COMPLETELY AWESOME YES IT IS.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 03:38pm on 16/02/2009
AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING. i was in love within four episodes, no lie, and then end made me cry like a baby.
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posted by [identity profile] teenygozer.livejournal.com at 04:56pm on 16/02/2009
AVATAR! YES! What a fabulous show, I did so wish they'd have expanded to a fourth season for "Air". I'm sure they could have come up with something.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 05:44pm on 16/02/2009
i would have happily watched more, but i was also totally satisfied with what i got, which is rare in a tv show, for me, at least. that ending was most perfect. ♥
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posted by [identity profile] sobelle.livejournal.com at 05:45pm on 16/02/2009
Totally loved your epic entry of your epic (yet bruising) experiences =D

YEARS ago when I took pix of music? I considered knee/shin protectors. Soccer has all the good stuff. =)

Great pix! \0/
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 08:28pm on 16/02/2009
i briefly toyed with the idea of knee pads, but i tend to accrue the worst bruises places that i couldn't protect without losing a ton of mobility -- like, for example, the side of my thigh. :D

and thank you for the kind words about the pictures!
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posted by [identity profile] girlfromsouth.livejournal.com at 08:20pm on 16/02/2009
I greatly enjoyed the epicness ;) I would also like to hear more about your complex budgeting spreadsheet as that's what I'm trying to force msyelf to do lately and it's HARD (age inappropriate whine)
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 08:32pm on 16/02/2009
basically i account for every pay period in about ... 15 categories, from bills that need to get paid to gas to food to concert tickets to cash i get from the ATM, and literally anything that i spend with my debit card -- right down to the $1.60 i spend getting a coke from the drug store down the street from my office -- goes into the appropriate box, and then a formula adds all those numbers up and subtracts it from my paycheck/any other income (this two weeks included my tax refunds) to give me what i have in spare money, for emergency grocery shopping, booze, dinner out, whatever i haven't covered in my specific categories, before my next pay check.

basically it has pay periods running across the top, with dates in the top row and then the next row is how much my paycheck was each pay period, and my categories down the side, and the bottom-most row is the total amount i have left after paying all those things.
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posted by [identity profile] lnboz.livejournal.com at 08:57pm on 16/02/2009
I has a lust for ur lens!
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 04:51pm on 17/02/2009
IT IS TRUFAX THE THIRD MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I HAVE EVER OWNED, AFTER THE CAMERA BODY AND THE MACBOOK. omg, ln, it is AMAZING.



i cannot recommend trawling craigslist hard enough. this had been posted 24 hours and i was his first call, how did someone not snap this up before me?
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ursamajor: Sokka is a carnivore (why are we at war again?)

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posted by [personal profile] ursamajor at 04:38am on 17/02/2009
Avatarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Oh, my god, my love for this show has made me so angry at all the shittasticness surrounding the casting/whitewashing of the movie, but the show, oh. Katara, fierce and righteous and sometimes wrong and frustrated and learning and growing. Aang, trying to find his way and stick to his moral convictions. Toph's sassiness and Sokka's goofiness and emo!Zuko trying to find his way too and oh, my show. <3.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 04:53pm on 17/02/2009
as i noted, i love sokka beeeeeeeeeeeeest of all, but i couldn't even begin to rank favorites after that because I LOVE THEM ALL.



true story: as we were watching the last disc, shep.'s cat started sitting in front of the tv and reaching up to pat zuko every time he was on screen. shep.: "rodney, petting zuko won't make him less emo." :D
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posted by [personal profile] starfishchick at 04:49pm on 17/02/2009
You got your lens! Yay!!
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 04:53pm on 17/02/2009
for CHEAP AS HELL, too. i feel a little guilty, but not too much. :D
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posted by [identity profile] deaver.livejournal.com at 07:52pm on 17/02/2009
The pool noodle/flat beach ball throwing on Psych was excellent. That show is great when you need to giggle.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 07:53pm on 17/02/2009
sometimes it embarrasses me so badly i can't watch it? but most of the time, it is just so ridiculous all i can do is laugh.
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