what do you know about KNOXVILLE?

no i mean Torture, the metal cover band that played at China King!!

i had some of the above flyers in my room - i had at least half the smokin dave ones

tryin remember this goth metal band that played at China King, they had a huge black guy named Tauhid as their bass plaer

Ok, so firstly: huge haws to bands playing at CHINA KING?!

And secondly: I got my apartment today, and it is literally a stone's throw from Chandler's. Chandler's is my neighbor, basically. I am going to be the fattest human alive!

Terry Hill is/was a fuckin' hero, by the way.

dude!! China King was ground zero for punk and metal in the mid-to-late 80s - they used to have handwritten signs on the inside saying "no slamdancing"!

the thought that anyone would actually EAT anything there was inconceivable and hilarious to me

Yesterday, at Market Square, a fellow on a unicycle rode by, holding a solved Rubik's Cube, and said to me "I solved it!" (My reply: "Good job!")

Haha...I remember Hypertribe (attending my first club show ever back in '91, when they opened for fIREHOSE)...they were kinda Faith No More-esque but more metal, right?

Ernestp, who you is!?

Ok, so, I moved this weekend.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/damnson.jpg

The pink thing is my house. The blue thing on the left is Chandler's Deli. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS PROXIMITY?! Also, bonus points if you can guess what the blue thing on the right is.

Oh, and by the way, I had brunch at the bistro today. A++++++

roxymuzak asked "Ernestp, who you is!?"

http://www.shakingray.com/meetthesociety.shtml

Hello roxymuzak, reading back on this thread, it looks like we have some mutual friends in the Royal Bangs (although the one I know best, Jason, I believe has left the band.) Congrats on the Metro Pulse ranking...that's awesome!

is the other blue thing the philippine connection? if not, it's nearby.

i love chilhowee park, it's got that turn-of-the-20th-century vibe. can totally imagine ladies w/parasols and barbershop quartets.

appalachian expo at chilhowee park, 1910:

airship!
http://www.reevesmaps.com/Postcards/appl_expo/appal2.jpg

lake and boats
http://www.reevesmaps.com/Postcards/appl_expo/chilboat.jpg

the, uh, negro building
http://www.reevesmaps.com/Postcards/appl_expo/negrobldg.jpg

"What's the difference between a Vol Burger and a regular hamburger?"
"Cheese."

Hey Knoxvillians, where's a good place for me to replenish my beer supply Monday before I leave town?

Like, a place to BUY beer or a place to DRINK beer?

we saw this very groundbreaking monument today in world's fair park

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/importantmonument.jpg

forgot to take a pic of the adjacent "NO, REALLY, IT DID" monument, i see

Knoxville, we miss your warm weather already.

man, it was really nice today

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/73/272497127_f4382fbf0a.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/82/257466674_ca86c33ac6.jpg

can we all just love on the medical arts building for a moment

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fTY0T5oho8M/SZcI6DB8arI/AAAAAAAAAKE/DSGlI7UMl9M/s1600-h/medarts.jpg

haha here

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fTY0T5oho8M/SZcI6DB8arI/AAAAAAAAAKE/DSGlI7UMl9M/s1600-h/medarts.jpg

Where is that public art?

campus afaik

in knoxville it is called "sour hour" not "happy hour"

in knoxville in the summer first thursday are an event, as well as first fridays

there is a place in knoxville where the women smoke cigars

xpost actually every thursday

had dinner with a knoxville friend in nyc tonite. she recently decamped to farragut from north knox (for love, which is the only acceptable reason for moving to farragut iirc), and she says all the west knox subdivisions around them are getting hammered by foreclosures. there's one with no actual houses on it, just a big sign announcing "fogginton brambles" or whatever, homes starting at $360,000, and it's just a bare patch of land with a backhoe that's been sitting there lone-sentinel like since september.

the silence of the burbs.

i cant believe i posted about "sour hour"! a knoxville secret, outed!!!

so, i noticed that all the blogs about knoxville are retarded, and if knoxville is going to have a blogging hero it might as well be/should probably be me, so i have decided to butthouse my architecture blog and start a knox blog. i need a name.

• MARBLE CITY MADMAN
• BLOOD VESTAL (?! too subtle?)
• TENNESSEE TRASH (do you remember these awesome commercials!!!)

That's so weird, I just checked your arch blog today on a whim. Sorry to see it go...even if it was sort of abortive I thought it had promise!

As someone who knows none of the Kville references, I think "Marble City Madman" is the best just as a name but I don't know what it might be borrowing from.

Doc: Ted Nugent is known as the MOTOR city madman, so it is borrowing from that!

the arch blog, i just cant update it enough for it to be an actual blog. couple that with the fact that i have essentially nothing to say, and its kind of a dumb idea. i dont know. maybe i could manage one update a week.

i vote for tennessee trash!! be aware that this is the name of one of the softball teams that plays once a year at a sekrit location in jacksboro (other teams: the kentucky feelers, the carolina creepers, the virginia culture vultures). i really think you should go this year roxy. it's on memorial day. i'll give you directions. seriously just show up and you will have a wonderful time.

sounds awesome!!

what does butthouse mean?

Also, what about some BBQ-related pun?

butthouse is like smash something and destroy it, in the style of sitting down hard on a cupcake

bbq i associate with two nauseating cities known as memphis and nashville

i mean i love bbq, but i dont consider it a knoxville thing?

omg by the way:

http://www.faithmouse.com/obama_unicorn_sunsphere.jpg

really? i thought it was state-wide.

whoa

attn gypsy mothra

i think i have thought you were james coffey for like 5 years

youre not, are you

i don't even know who that is!

but i'm sure he's a fine young man.

also, i bid on that obama-sunsphere painting but topped out at $25. it went for $70 or something.

james coffey is just a dude. for some reason in the back of my mind i always thought of him as "gypsy mothra." then the other day i saw him at the longbranch and he slaps me on the shoulder and is like "you're the one who writes those ROXY MUZAK blogs!!!!" and i was like wow, this guy is really not gypsy mothra

haha no.

i haven't even been to knoxville in like two years. it's mostly a fantasy place for me. like fantasy baseball except a city.

you mean you pick the people that are in knoxville and bet on what is going to happen there

a little odd but ay