what do you know about KNOXVILLE?

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."

I was at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, not that I remember it well. I got a bunch of World's Fair coinage and trinkets that I totally adored. The rest, eh.

I was 2 during those. My mom said that every time it turned eight pm I would cry (because of the fireworks). She recounts that pretty much every time it is eight pm.

god i forgot about that aspect of the world's fair.. fireworks EVERY NIGHT!

my parents have a friend whose dog just went absolutely apeshit that year, to the point where he had to take the dog to a friend who lived out of state..

wow tipsy thanks for that link

She ercounted that little anecdote just yesterday when I let off a bottle rocket from my hand.

(recounted)

I love the one lane underpass in SoKno that someone has graffitied simply: "South Knoxvillians"

haha we should start a one-lane underpass poll

They're all great! Ha.

I love the one right on Blount Avenue, how you can go through it at night and honk your horn and possums erupt out of it like bunnies in Sonic the Hedgehog for Sega Genesis.

the one behind mount olive?

elementary school, that is?

No, the one right off of Henley St. Bridge.

(Though that one is good, too!)

oh yeah! there used to be a decrepit old 2nd-hand furniture store right there to the left of it as you came down the hill from the bridge.

the one behind mount olive is especially memorable for me, because there's a seldom-used playground right there, sort of a secondary playground, behind a chain-link fence. mrs. yon, my third-grade teacher, once took us down there when it was snowing, and there was a good four inches or so on the ground, and ENCOURAGED us to throw snowballs over the fence at the cars coming out from the underpass! god bless mrs. yon. she was almost as cool as my 2nd-grade teacher mrs. quinn, who was about 70 years old and drove a yellow datsun 280-ZX.

Wow! What a great memory to have! She sounds like an awesome lady.

Here is me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_HUCBq8nLQ

Too bad all I say I like about Knoxville is my friends, and that it has a river bisecting it. :(
I was actually like fighting with the guy at the moment we were approached, though.

Okay, the fact that, at least on my computer, the vocals completely fell out of sync with the visuals made you seem like you were in some random dubbed art film.

(Which is no bad place to be, of course. We should all be so lucky.)

Yeah, I know, I might as well be saying "I Love Egg!"

On at least 2 levels.

Hahahah.

Going to see Blonde Redhead at the Bijou tonight, I realize I have not been inside that building since 2001! WTF

That's a great place to see them I bet! Was it?

In 2001 had it been refurbed yet?

roxy your accent changed!

Did it?? How do you know!

The last time I was there, it had not been refurbed. It looked great!

i heard you talk before, and i heard you talk on the youtube, it sounded different!

maybe it's the new cantonese accent.

well it's supposedly even awesomer now. i have been in a show at the bijou! although to this day i have still not set so much as a single foot inside the bistro at the bijou.

i also still haven't seen the new tennessee theatre, which is supposed to be like zomg.

Well, I think I talk less Vestal to you, because it is hard to understand for some Brittos, maybe. I don't know!

I've been in a show at the Bijou too, Tracer! It was The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and ILX poster Nijoli was assistant director.

new broadway exit is crazy!

crazier than the old one? or well it wasn't the exit so much that was the problem as the on-ramp from james white to i-40, which a friend of mine speculates was designed by a tdot serial-killer. "i will dump merging traffic into the fast lane of a narrow 2-lane interstate, halfway through a blind curve! and nobody will ever suspect me!" evil laughter, etc.

oh, that's REAL old school

this is better than that, but there are too many CHOICES

superdrag reunion = "the entire town has plans"

and if people were too cool for that, then they went to damo suzuki

i will be in knoxville from the Dec 19th thru NYE. Anything decent happening? Are you guys playing a show?

yay superdrag! when i went to glasgow, brandon sent a cassette ep all the way over to me!

Aw, that's great! He seems like a nice guy. The only one I know at all is Don, because he recorded our record.

Kingfish: we are playing NYE with the Royal Bangs, who are GREAT, but I assume you have plans already for that night.

haha, are you kidding? I'll be isolated in the weird exurbs of Loudon, where there ain't shit happening.

I'm seriously considering renting myself a car so's i can motor around, up to michigan & back, perhaps.

I know a lot of people in/from Loudon.

Eat at Carl's, dude!

There will be a lot going on in Knox within that timeframe. I'll keep you posted.

Sweet.

Y'all Knox Villains come see Tenderhooks being Patsy Cline + band at Pilot Light tonight! Also: Bitter Pills are being the Creation, and they are going to possibly burn down the building with rock power.

When your hangover cures, come see Tenderhooks at Barley's on Friday and drink the last of the PUMPKIN BEER, yes that's right.

roxy, are you playing in nashville anytime? let a sister know.

We play there a lot! I will let you know.

Yo molly, re: Nashville, we are playing there super-soon! The 9th, at The End.

I love how Matt Morelock, at the end of his Happy Camper show on WDVX, says "Be nice to each other. Bye bye, now."

dvx is the greatest radio station in the world

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