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Archive for March, 2009
ireland in the 80s

I didn’t take this, because I was busy being born at the time, but that’s my grandparents and two of my great aunties at Johnstown Castle in Co. Wexford. I come from a very happy family.

sxsw: blitzen trapper at NPR

The line outside The Parish for NPR’s party was long and not moving at all because, as I overheard one girl remark, “Blitzen Trapper are, like, totally acclaimed.” Luckily for me, Kara happened to walk by and is a super magic angel with transferable line-jumping powers, so I made it inside to join all the [...]

sxsw: at the Fader Fort

First up on Thursday were Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head at the Fader Fort, who Stephen really, really, really, really, really loves a lot. I hated their name until I saw them, at which point I decided I might at some future date be slightly won over by their general cute-itude and so should officially reserve [...]

sxsw: telepathe at ms bea’s, wednesday

After Continental displayed why they’re an entirely rubbish airline (more on that later), not much work got done on Wednesday. I did make it to Ms Bea’s in time for one song by Telepathe, but mostly just shot people.

sxsw: …and we’re back

I’m writing this sequestered in a hotel suite five times the size of my flat, at an undisclosed location in one of those cities that isn’t LA within LA (there are 80-odd, I think.) Earth Wind & Fire are on the smooth jazz station housekeeping left on my iPod-radio-alarm-clock thingy to welcome me, and I [...]

off to texas in the morning

…but here’s my great-great-grandad to keep you company while I’m gone.

cut copy at the henry fonda

Juanita was making her shooting debut with openers Matt & Kim at the Henry Fonda for her flip-book project (which I can’t wait to see), so I shot Cut Copy after. It was one of those nights where the opening band had much better lighting than the headliners (from a photography perspective, at least) because [...]

another long night

Dita Dimoné in Echo Park, back from my homeland, throwing around English slang as only a girl from Hacienda Heights can. (Recent things I took pictures of: HEALTH at The Echo, Animal Collective at The Troubadour, Cut Copy at the Henry Fonda. I just didn’t post ‘em yet. Tomorrow: The-Dream. This time next week I’ll [...]

post-election stroll, echo park
mystery jets at club NME

Club NME at Spaceland helps me feel like I’m not entirely out of touch with the motherland, despite my bizarrely Australian hybrid accent.


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