A Thread for Kinetic.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

So now you are in Athens! What brings you there?

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Good thread.

[Kinetic]

Oh, well, my girlfriend is doing grad school stuff at UGA. After the historic week-long Smashing Pumpkins residency in Asheville ended, there was really no reason to stick around up there. Athens is, uh...I don't think I've seen the good side of the place yet. It just seems like it's hot and there are frat boys everywhere and it never rains.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Have you visited Chris Coey in jail.

[Kinetic]

I don't know who Chris Coey is. I hear they have good ice cream sandwiches in jail, though.

[Kinetic]

They plan a lot of REM in the bars here. That seems tacky to me.

 

There are rumors that there's an occasional Michael Stipe sighting at certain bars here. I don't know what I'd do if I saw Michael Stipe, other than mention it here.

[Ripper]

I am going to Athens when Georgia plays Troy so i can tailgate and where Troy stuff and do whatever the hell it is you do when tailgating.

 

Athens is a awsome place for the young and single. All the college girls you can fuck. Not so cool for the married or relationshipper.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

What about Jeff Mangum sightings? Do you hear a lot of Neutral Milk Hotel in the hipster bars?

[Nighthawk]

I spent last night in jail, and none of the food was any good whatsoever. There was nasty ass powdered fruit juice, though, it was just like the bug juice at camp.

 

Oh, I was there for a DUI.

[Kinetic]

I haven't heard any Neutral Milk Hotel. Very little B-52s. It's weird...you see all of these impeccably-dressed sorority girls vomiting in the streets at about 4 in the morning. There's plenty of drinking in Asheville, but there's such an undercurrent of hippiedom running through everything...people were too baked at 4 in the morning to be doing anything.

[BX]

Kinetic was in Asheville!?

 

FUCK

[Kinetic]

What?

[godthedog]

the majority of athens is quite frattastic, but there's a very strong hipster undercurrent, so you can avoid the greek crowd pretty easily. when it's not a drinking/game night, the hipsters & townies pretty much rule the downtown area. there's 3 record stores and 3 coffee shops within a block and a half of each other, for chrissakes.

 

sounds pretty serious with the girlfriend if you're moving to another state for her. how are you making a living?

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Terrapin, an Athens-based brewery, makes a number of fine beers.

[Copper Feel]

no it don't

[Your Paragon of Virtue]

lol.

 

gtd, you make it sound as if hipsters are any more tolerable than the Greek crowd.

[Kinetic]

I'm a cook/waiter at the moment. I actually work on that block, across the street from Schoolkids Records. I went out to a kind of hip bar on Saturday night (no one even mentioned the monumental Georgia victory over Florida earlier in the day) and didn't really have such a great time. And I had a ferocious hangover. It felt not worth it somehow.