what do you know about KNOXVILLE?

it's out MLK boulevard, it's supposed to be a hub to revitalize "the wrong side of the tracks". its biggest attraction is an IGA. i went because i had to renew my driver's license and the old courthouse doesn't do that anymore - and no way am i driving to east town(e) mall. i was the only white person i saw for about an hour. it sort of brought a whole lot home to me that i avoided thinking about for years, re: knoxville

haha also i have been to the "we need your head in our business" barbershop, when i got back from london in 2004. irony overload: they cut OFF the mullet i received from a london hairdresser!

Haha, that's GREAT!! re: the mullet

I wonder if that IGA serves IGA burgers...

A cool local guy has opened a thing called South Knox School of Sound directly next door to the "Need your Head in our Business" place/Pease furniture. They do good all ages shows and music lessons.

i hesitate to ask what goes into an IGA burger

the arrowhead IGA - now some really creepy looking afterschool place - was where i honed the pacman and donkey kong skills that have made me so famous

this thread makes me feel like richard ford

haha

i am great at pacman too! i honed this at the longbranch, tho

hey is smoking outlawed now by the way?

not that this is an issue for you these days

Supposedly, but I have not noticed a THING changed, except Stefano's makes you smoke outside now.

hah

ok i must sleep

good night knoxville!

Night, Tracer!

Old City Java is under new management as of this month and has ice cream and cuet cupcakes now, which is nice. They have movie night instead of the wack Black N Mild dj night they used to do. Movies shown so far: Roadie (starring Meatloaf), Kindergarten Cop, Heathers.

it sort of brought a whole lot home to me that i avoided thinking about for years, re: knoxville.

mm-hm. e.g. the county zoned the downtown-development areas so the condo dwellers could have their kids go to sequoyah hills instead of green (even though they could walk to green).

I LOVE SOUTH KNOXVILLE

The movie theatre celebrating its openinng this week with dollar movies, dollar popcorn and dollar bevs, playing kind of a weird selection of movies. After this, I hear they are going to have THEME WEEKS, which is great!

ps, that I LOVE SOUTH KNOXVILLE seems a little non-sequitur. I just moved back, is all.

The little Mexican store next to the Tacqueria on Chapman sells awesome Death candles.

i love south knoxville

i like those pictures too - knoxville looks more american than the last time i saw it i think

who was the specials guy by the way - i saw neville staple a few weeks back at a random festival in cornwall!! he was immense.

It was Lynval, I think.

I prefer Nashville and Murfreesboro.

how in the hell could you prefer murfreesboro

i mean nashville sure - it's like a whole other planet - but... MTSU? i'm struggling here

murfreesboro has a delightfully bad name

murfreesboro scares me.

to be fair, murfreesboro has a great record store.

NAshville music scene is retarded.

does that mean good or bad?

Bad. For musicians, anyway.

Well, I guess I like Murfreesboro because it's cheap and close to Nashville

What's the record store in Murfreesboro? Is it better than even the Disc Exchange? (yuk yuk)

i think lost and found is the comparison you want there

hey disc exchange isn't bad. not no lost and found, but locally-owned, big selection. ( i still haven't been to the giant mccay's warehouse they moved to. used to love the mccays bargain bin.)

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o306/extrapics_album/KnoxvilleDungeonCoverSMALL.jpg

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=82207459

http://blog.myspace.com/knoxrapmovement

Mista Enz - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=55944993

Gutta Bound - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=85117604

is that kontext?

Lost and Found does indeed rule.

Is there a store like that in Murfreesboro? Or is it all Cats Music style?

Disc Exchange is okay I guess.

The new McKay's is overwhleming, like a flea market of books and DVDs. I wish they had a way to search for stuff. I can't go in there without spending an hour looking for something specific (and not in a good way)

where u from, fool?

lol @ "the 865"

"the V O L"

good article about mr. mack here - http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2006/Jul/28/cole-rapper-proud-to-represent-the-865/

i like that mr. mack's myspace page identifies him as being from "alcoa/rockford" (or it used to, haven't looked in a while). i lived in rockford for a little while. more deer than people.

I had no idea Mr. Mack was from Knoxville.

fuckin boomsday

This thread makes me wish I was in Knoxville. I just moved back to Asheville and it's not the same. I guess the thing I most liked about Asheville was the large, vibrant, transient gutterpunk contingent. But NONE of that remains, it seems, since the police decided to clean up downtown. What's left is hippies indies and rich people :/

trustafarians

do they still do music on the radio that's synchronized to the fireworks?

hahahaha i don't know!!!!

mtsu is gonna get destroyed by louisville on thursday.

just so you know...

the thing about boomsday is that after the first 10 minutes or so the sky is usually so full of smoke that you can only sort of barely see the fireworks. but i guess that's why the last few minutes are dominated by those gigantic percussive explosive ones that just give a white flash and a huge kaboom. jack neely says that knoxvillians in the 19th century used to celebrate every holiday by blowing shit up and it was finally put a stop to at some point due to unacceptable levels of christmas carnage, so in that respect i guess boomsday is part of a civic legacy.

also i don't remember if i posted it earlier in this thread, but a friend of mine put the entire st. james sessions online a while ago (recorded around the corner from market square). lots of good stuff but especially hard to pass up "satan is busy in knoxville."