Negro Bill Canyon. Moab, Utah.
In other news, the Manchester Orchestra show last night was amazing. I was really impressed, I sang my already disappearing voice away, and I adore Andy Hull. They played a tight show, and so did Deer Hunter before them. Opened with April Fool, encore was Virgin & Mean Everything to Nothing & The River.
Altar Bar, Pittsburgh. 11/9.
I am toying with the idea of submitting one of my pictures from Turkey for the study-abroad photo contest. Four other Grove City students were studying in Italy last spring, so I don’t want to be one of the five pictures of St. Peter’s, or Cinque Terre. Now the problem is, which photo?
I took a liking to this candle table-piece that I saw in the basement of a home in Rieti, Italy.
“Federica ti amo non ti voglio perdere.” Rieti, 05/2011.
Some days, I miss Italy. Taken in late Maggio in Assisi, Umbria. Italia.
Detail of a Crouching Venus from Palazzo Massimo in Rome, Italy.
“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
—Enid Bagnold
Ben Lovett of Mumford and Sons. Merriweather Post Pavilion, June 9th.
Marcus and Ben. Mumford and Sons on June 9th, Merriweather Post. Columbia, MD.
