what do you know about KNOXVILLE?

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

yeah it's something between an adopted hometown and a hobby. some people go birdwatching, i keep a remote eye on knoxville.

so strange!! i think a lot of ex-pats do this, though

half the people on blab arent even knoxvillians anyway

knoxville expats are possessive about the place, for sure. including people like me who weren't even from there to start with. i don't have a clear explanation for that. some kind of murky gravitational pull. but a lot of the people i know who have left have ended up back there eventually. i sort of expect to too.

lol @ the argument upthread about what constitutes vestal

had a remarkably similar argument at the branch last night with two of us trying to explain where candoro marble was over the shoulders of a poor kid who did not care what vestal was/was not and just wanted to kn ow how to get to candoro marble

anyway, that argument ALSO included the sentence "that's the main intersection in vestal!!!!"

xpost i mean, its cause its a great place

I've only been to Knoxville in the past 10+ years for a Tom Waits show...the afternoon prior I bought a pipe at some terrible headshop and then hung out at some park near a bridge on the river? I think I need a return adventure?

probably worlds fair park?

yeah you need to update your ram

i thought it was candorA

dude, i can't wait to visit the branch

roxy i'm comin back to k-town in a week and a half, you want to meet the new human being i have taken co-possession of??

yeah lets take it to the branch!!!!!!!!!!!!

just kidding but yes!

its cause its a great place

it is a great place, it's just always a little hard for me to explain why. my associations with it are all so personal that they don't easily translate into anything anyone else could relate to.

tangled up in KUB blue

fourth and girl?

ok i'm turning into todd steed here

farragut to middling!!!!!!!!!!!!!

vestal vergin'

a parkridge amongst the pigeons

hot town, sundown in the city

chilhoweedoit

(or 'chill, how we do it')

havin' a ball camp

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/images/pref_images/p20153lud9t.jpg

see u at halls crossroads

TENNESSEE TRASH (do you remember these awesome commercials!!!)

loooool yes i do!

i'd forgotten about that spot. classic.

back to the blog:

(i know there's disagreement over candora vs. condoro, but for the purposes of this..)

candora the explorer

VERY PROUD OF THIS

Knoxville Zoo is the Red Panda Capital of the World, having the greatest success in breeding and survival of baby Red Pandas.

haha i love that on knoxblab when someone asks whats a good place for an outdoor brunch the first response is someone earnestly suggesting that they grab a krystal sunriser and eat it on the porch

hey knoxville peeps - me and the lovely Emma B will actually be able to go out to dinner together... where should we go??

i shall tell you: the new cuban restaurant on gay st. called something havana

tracer i didn't see yall at sundown u_u

the blog has gone live: http://marblecitymadness.blogspot.com/

yeah sorry.. it was our last night in town so we had supper w/the fam

how was the show?? all my parents' friends were impressed that i knew someone in tenderhooks

it was so awesome!! i am really proud that we had a sundown of all local bands <3

i like your first post roxy.

I have come to understand it as a city imbued with qualities that prevent a wanderer from ever disengaging entirely.

otm.

<3<3<3

this is embarrassing and delighting me

http://knoxlooks.blogspot.com/

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eBtcsbgdrf4/SiZ8WG0UuaI/AAAAAAAAApM/KeYazjbIuyU/s1600-h/photo.jpg

i know and make fun of this girl often, she is the worst kind of indie kid

look at this ducking hipster

not worst kind of indie kid by far - definitely a case of regular folk just trying to get by/get along/be liked/find love/whatever