what do you know about KNOXVILLE?

Roxy are you in town? I have a hectic schedule but I really want to go to the Pilot Light and maybe some pizza or something. Me and the lovely Emma B are here until the 20th.

I still miss Lucille's.

Strange and sad that the diner on the corner of Summit Hill Drive is now a car rental place. And that Woodruff's is a pub.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Strange and sad that the diner on the corner of Summit Hill Drive is now a car rental place.

TELL ME ABOUT IT! That place had the best breakfast on earth, no more, no more. And they left it looking like a diner -- fucktards.

The pub in Woodruff's is actually ok, though!

And yes, I am in town, but I am leaving to go on tour tomorrow night, returning the 20th. My band is playing Sundown (omg) on the 22nd! Big exciting deal! You should stay.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

i've been to the pilot light.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I know that, and Bill Ward3n chased us out onto the dancefloor while we watched Cordero to make us pay for the beers I accidentally stole.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

In other news, I saw a white duck with its eye gouged out in Fountain City Park Saturday. It was gross.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

gotta love a duck

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

bill ward3n has a good name for someone who enforces admission fees.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

true

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

the beers I accidentally stole

Please to explain.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Ken and I on the last stop of Old City pub crawl, ordered two Schlitzes and just took them to the dance floor without paying. Faced. In my defense, Tenderhooks had just played a string of shows at the Pilot Light and I was used to drinking free beer there. Oops.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

and i thought USA people are supposed to really like folks with english accents and expected free drinks.

although the girl who works at tomato(head?) prolly didn't get freebies either.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Hey Roxy, myspace is being a douche, so I'll tell you here - in Louisville, you should try Headliner's, it is an awesome place and you guys would totally fit on their calender nicely.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Thank you Nicka!

although the girl who works at tomato(head?) prolly didn't get freebies either.

Oh right! I totally forgot her. She sadly does not work there anymore.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:37 (twenty years ago)

what about emily2?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

was she the one who was playing the guy with the pretzel?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

emily2 quit working at Urban Bar and started waiting tables at Patrick Sullivan's (across the street). A week later I saw her working at Manhattan's (opposite corner in Old City), and now she is back at Urban Bar. Strange, but awesome, girl.

Re: pretzel -- ??

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Tracer, have you been to WORLD GROTTO in the square yet? I'm not sure what I think about it.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

haha sorry i forgot to tell you about this blog entry! haha it's totally you in a parallel universe (the bar is called urban!)
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=8666352&blogID=105471967&Mytoken=7F46CA1B-CF12-4E96-BAFBF37E2C4931E6294435937

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

oh wait it's not it's union.. haha what the hell

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

you are calling me fat?!

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

erm no! i was throwing pretzels at you

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

I no longer understand this thread.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Ken is abusive!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

i am just playing you ned.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

how timely, i am IN KNOXVILLE RIGHT NOW. seeing friends 'n' kinfolx, going down to bonnaroo (just for a day and night) this weekend. i'm leaving on the 20th tho so i can't see roxy's band, too bad. the old city is looking more decrepit than usual. but market square looks pretty good. (the little jumping-water fountains are very popular with the 21-month-old contingent of my family.) someone also told me that a judge just ruled the county's charter invalid for some technical reason, so apparently knox county at the moment does not actually exist. which seems about par for the course.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:24 (twenty years ago)

(and tracer if you're looking for a place to drink on weds. night the brewpub there on gay street usually has a good crowd. that's kind of the downtown boho-bobo drinking night, by longstanding tradition.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:25 (twenty years ago)

the old city is looking more decrepit than usual

You're insane! It's more happening/money-making than it has ever been!

Also, what about that new swank-ass club in the old Kimball's siamond store (omg) on Gay St. called Sapphire? Supposedly it is nice.

diamond, obv

apparently, gyp, all the knoxblabbers are meeting at some show tomorrow? wish i could go, kinda.

snigger @ gay st. :-D

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

well by the old city i mean specifically the jackson-central nexis. but i walked through it late afternoon on monday, which is probably not the best time to see it. the market square-gay street area is definitely livelier than it's been in years. sapphire's a nice addition, altho my reaction to it was, if i want $8 cocktails i'll just stay in new york. but i'm impressed they can get knoxvillians to pay those prices. there are actually two blabber confabs, one tonight at the brewpub and one sometime this weekend at bonnaroo. i don't imagine there'll be much to them except for drinking, but that's ok by me.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

snigger @ gay st. :-D

there have been periodic proposals to rename it over the years, none of which have gotten very far. the best intersection is gay and church -- which is just one block from church and state.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

i just noticed church and state recently when driving home...there is a beautiful law office (i believe) there. i would love to live in that building.

there have been periodic proposals to rename it over the years, none of which have gotten very far.

sooo stupid.

i like how the new swank-ass bar kept many of the old deco jewelry signage that was in the windows there, but i can't stand that kind of place, so i am going to save my money for sunday night at the barley, where i'm told there's some good music.

knoxville's downtown revitalization has apparently bypassed the whole "convince young people to live there" phase and has gone straight for the "convince millionaires to buy overpriced lofts" phase. one new condo going up on gay street actually advertises itself on the hoardings as "upscale condo apartments"!!!!

i have been inside the world grotto thingie now, roxy. it is kinda weird. but the huge dancefloor/event space downstairs looks mega! what is that?? the art gallery upstairs was hit and miss, mainly miss, but there's that one artist that has her cherry-lipped klimt thing down pat, and it's pretty nice. it seems like the kind of place that would be in ft. greene, brooklyn, actually.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:38 (twenty years ago)

there's gotta be a condo bust coming soon. every other building or lot downtown is in some stage of condo conversion and i just can't believe there's quite that much pent-up demand.

that one artist that has her cherry-lipped klimt thing down pat, and it's pretty nice.

cynthia markert? i like her.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

didn't they rename john agee? street to some baseball player name or something?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:20 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

shameless spam for this here:

Noon to 7 p.m on Saturday, September 30 at Market Square.

The day-long event will be a celebration of East Tennessee Latino culture
filled with live music, food, arts and crafts displays and children's
activities.

Willie Crespo and Salsarengue will be arriving from Nashville to kick off the
festivities. Representatives from around 15 countries will line up at Krutch
Park and will make their way to Market Square carrying flags, wearing their
native folk costumes and dancing to their country's best-known music.

Dance Dimensions Studio and Knoxville Argentine Tango Society will demonstrate
Latin dance steps and Knoxville Opera will present highlights of their
upcoming production of "Carmen." The evening will end to the rhythms of Nuevo
Montuno, a tropical salsa band from Asheville, North Carolina.

The festival is held in Knoxville each year in conjunction with National
Hispanic Heritage Month, ( established by Congress to run from mid September
to mid October) and is organized by HOLA, Hora Latina, an East Tennessee
Hispanic social and cultural organization. For more information, call (865)
588-1923, ext. 251 or e-mail [email protected] .

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 29 September 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

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