April 23rd, 2007 by Atomictumor
So I thought “I know. I’ll look at the website for The Robot Ate Me, because I’ve been listening to one of his CDs for the past week, (was BJ’s favorite) and have written about them twice on the ‘tumor, and see what they’re up to.”
Well, they’re up to a show in Knoxville on the day after tomorrow. I’ll be damned. Its at some place called “beast Warz House”, and Google only told me that its a house in North Knoxville with the address, 8PM, for 5 bucks. Hmm.
Now, I had emailed good ol’ Ryland (the guy who is The Robot Ate Me) a while back and asked he do a show down in K-Town, and it looks its fixin to happen. I think I might just need to go, but be damned if it ain’t on a school night, a Wednesday, and at what appears to be some weird kids house in a bad part of town.
Its certainly odd, but no odder than the fact that I just happened upon this concert 2 days before its gonna happen. Strange days, people, and this is just Monday.
So, who’s up for babysitting?
April 23rd, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Dude, that address is just a couple of blocks from my house. Weird. I never drive down that street, but I frequently go w/in a block of it. It’s just a residential neighborhood. A kinda poor residential neighborhood.
It must be a frat house or something, and they’ve hired a band.
Weird. I’m going to have to drive by there after work to figure out what it is.
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Scout it out for me man. Why don’t you and the missus head over with me? You’d probably like the music.
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:07 pm
The missus doesn’t do anything with cigarette smoke, seeing as how she’s in the family way. And we tend not to do concerts on week nights.
But it’s worth thinking about since it’s so close and all.
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:45 pm
At what time would you need a babysitter?
April 23rd, 2007 at 8:58 pm
daco will and I will help him. Tell master g
I will not make him knit.
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:26 pm
We’ll be happy to sit with the little angels…just stock up on Sam Adams Summer beer. MMmmmmm.
April 24th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Grow up. You are not in Junior High anymore. Read a book. Form a Cub-Scout Den. Build a model Airplane. Play Checkers.
Dr.RR
April 24th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Yeah, AT! Sit on the porch and whittle!
April 24th, 2007 at 10:02 am
How do you know I’m not in junior high?
April 24th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
AT: I only know you through this blog, but every time I watch a “Grounded for Life” re-run I’m reminded of you as Donal Logue/Sean Finnerty.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:24 am
I can walk to that house from here. In fact, I think I will, just to get a look at what a place calling itself beast warz house would be. I wouldn’t actually call this neighborhood poor, more like lower middle class. And a lot depends on the house. Anyway, it’s as safe as anywhere so you don’t need to be afraid to come by after dark. ;-)
April 25th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Well, I reckon I’ll be there. Sounds like it’ll be an interesting time.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:34 am
How was the show? What was it like in a random house?
Leslie - I would’ve called it upper lower class, but whatever. I drove by the other day, and it was a random white house with a porchswing. It’s zoned residential, which means Rob Frost would probably be interested to hear about it.
And as a weird omen, when I drove by, a cat was walking slowly across the yard, with a massive, stiff dead bird in its mouth.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:41 am
The show’s tonight. Daco and his lovely wife are putting the kids to bed and drinking my beer, and I’ll be sleepy tomorrow.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Oh, I thought it was last night.
Well, then.
April 26th, 2007 at 5:54 am
i hope it was fun!
April 26th, 2007 at 8:10 am
I drrove by it yesterday too–it certainly didn’t look at all like a place where something intersting was about to happen!
Upper lower class. Hmm. Since we live in the neighborhood (which my husband is not as fond of as I am) we were trying to come up with an objective description and settled on “mixed.”
April 26th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Well, I live in the neighborhood, too, you know. Although I guess I technically live in the next neighborhood over. Cecil is definitely not an ideal street to live on. But you’re right. That neighborhood has a mix. Some streets are small, ugly houses, and some are turn of the century craftsman.
But I thought you lived off of Washington Pike.
April 27th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Jon,
You get to say you live in ONK, though, which sounds a lot better than “Whittle Springs,” or to be technical “Coker Addition” (not that anyone but me knows that’s what it’s called, but I digress . . .). We actually live ON Washington Pike, not far up either. I kind of consider the “neighborhood” to include everything up to Cecil (not that I want to claim parts of that, for sure) and across to Whittle Springs. We do have a neighborhood association, but it goes in the “nicer” direction, from Washington Pike to Emoriland.
And our house is one of the biggest in the neighborhood–a Queen Anne, 3000 square feet–but it definitely sports a lived-in look.