NINE Playing background dinner music is one of the best places to people watch that I know of. It’s better than a bench in the mall, better than a county fair, better even than a cafe table on a busy street. When you’re on the piano you may stare all you want and no one [...] Continue Reading »
nine. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
2eight. the men in black suits.
1EIGHT My warmup for a gig starts many hours before. First I walk a mile to Andy’s and borrow the Neon. I head downtown to Market Square, park in the alley, enter Cafe Four and go down the elevator to a storage room. The keyboard case is in the back, through piles of crates, [...] Continue Reading »
keep it simple, the hardest thing to do
0Yesterday they set me free, just like we hoped. Now it’s a matter of time. Unless anything more exciting occurs than “it hurts to bite,” I’m going to be moving on in matters of this blog and leaving the subject behind. (Erica says thank you). There is something more important at hand to speak about. [...] Continue Reading »
yes this is real
0I talked to a man about a dishwasher on Craigslist this afternoon and made a dash out to Seymour to check it out, but that’s beside the point and maybe a different story altogether. The Henley Bridge is out, as all Knoxvillians know, and going to South Knoxville is something you have to be intentional [...] Continue Reading »
I’m going to talk to a man about a little pony
3We sold a lot of stuff today. Starting early this morning, people came in to tell us we had nice stuff, make a pile, and then start backing up about it not being that nice. That’s why I don’t price anything, it doesn’t really matter. I do, however, judge a man by his negotiating skills. [...] Continue Reading »
the fiesta verdict, peeking in a Serro Scotty camper, and kentucky bound in the morning
4In the calm after the storm yesterday we drove to Sevierville to the Rebel Dish Barn. It’s the largest Fiesta store in the South, new and vintage. I compared my stuff with his and I do have exactly what I thought. We stopped on the way home at Camper World. They don’t have Airstreams [...] Continue Reading »
best google search engine terms that found us
4And now it’s time for more guilty Google searches. Of course we can’t see who they are, but we know what they were looking for. Here are the chosen (for this Quarter): why isn’t my daughter a hipster? fellini kroger (39 times) settlers of catan hipsters (3 times, spelled cantan 2 more times) kick em [...] Continue Reading »
some heroes of the road
5Our upcoming adventure needs a model and some kind of basis. What we don’t want is to be living in a Walmart parking lot, our existence going down the gas tank, having become a family of bums who embarrassingly tote a flashy airstream up to McDonalds bathrooms. Sorry, a modern Kerouac is not the [...] Continue Reading »
“better for the other” new song to celebrate three years of noroomforhipsters!!!
5I tried to tell as best I could, in song form, a little bit about Ashley and I in the early days. In 2009 certain events caused us to quit work and graduate school. We rented the house, sold a car with much of everything else and hit the road with all we could fit [...] Continue Reading »
now that Addair has gotten a little older
7The little man is two weeks old today. I’d love to tell you that there have been new developments. There have not, other than a double chin which has appeared and we’re hoping will stretch back out. He has surpassed his birth weight which I’m told is every human’s first goal in life. But I [...] Continue Reading »