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Sailed and failed at the regatta again.
Trey is a good sport to keep sailing with me.
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I played drums for one show with Olaf and The Siberians.
I'm not sure about the date on this.
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The Stacks played at Dr. Cliff Davis's garage again.
The second of a couple of excellent garage shows.
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The Stacks played at Dr. Cliff Davis's garage.
I think this was the first time playing the garage.
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MAXIMVS! played the Circle Bar.
Not sure who took all these.
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Stacks played One-Eyed Jacks with Doctor-a-Go-Go and Pocket Foxx.
Got out my black and green inks.
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Red Hot.
We start a ritual regarding a sign in Laurel, Mississippi.
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I got interviewed by Bunny Matthews for Offbeat.
I don't think the managing editor was too thrilled.

All-Night Movers played at Jeff Pounds' house.
Jeff made crawfish etouffée.
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Dirty Knives played Dixie Taverne again.
The venue was un-airconditioned.
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I interviewed for the job of running the Offbeat magazine web site.
It was one of the least worthwhile job interviews I've been on.
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Dirty Knives played Rock n Bock with Lowerline.
We got to this lonely place and Dan said "This is like being on tour in North Dakota."
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I painted a female figure on paper.
The model for this was in a J. Crew catalog, if I remember correctly.







Hi-Balls did a photo shoot.
When they bring out the white seamless, you've made it.
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We used to go to this cabin in Callicoon, New York.
It had an outhouse, very rustic, but was actually in somebody's side yard.

Published Bachelor No. 1, issue 3.
As with almost all fanzines, the third time's the charm.
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Published Bachelor No. 1, issue 2.
This, as you may have guessed, was our second issue.
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I went to Italy.
Very unsure of the date though.
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Published Bachelor No. 1, issue 1.
I edited Bachelor No.1 with Brandon Kruse and a bunch of other contributors. Any continued freshness it has comes from Brandon's incredible ink-and-brush (and Zip-a-Tone) illustrations.


Two of my bands were on a compilation of Knoxville bands.
These were the unhip bands of 1992. We were too old!
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Snake Oil played Gryphons with Swell.
Gryphon's was the laundry where we practiced.
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My fanzine got reviewed.
I think everybody who did a fanzine looked forward to seeing these capsule reviews in Factsheet Five.
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We played a show or two in Chattanooga.
I remember this show or these shows but I really wonder when they happened.
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I saw Fugazi at the Library in Knoxville.
Lotsa hillbilly white supremacists showed up.
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I checked this War Of The Worlds LP out of the Knox County Library.
I used to check out lots of records from the Knox County Library in downtown Knoxville.

Went to Regas with Katie for a birthday.
This was supposed to be the fancy place in Knoxville.
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Bev's birthday, 1985.
I guess this picture was given to me because my high school hair is on full display.

Buncha guys sitting on the couch.
No idea what the occasion was.
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I was in a band called Dial A Miracle.
We went through so many drummers.
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We played Fox and Hounds at Scout meeting and never found the fox.
The rumor was that he hid in an open grave but I think the real answer was different.
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I got kicked out of a record store.
Definitely worth it though.
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I got promoted to the sixth grade.
We all had to wear white, and then you have ginger ale with sherbet in it.
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Influences: we got an 8-track tape of folk songs for Christmas.
Turns out Folk encompasses a lot of kinds of music.
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I liked playing with my toy Texaco station.
We weren't abble to take it when we moved to Chattanooga.
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We lived at 103 Asbury Drive in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Guessing a date based on the fact that I started school a little after the start of the year.
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Me, Beverly, and Matt on a bike with our dad, about 1971.
I could use some help with the date. Matt's more than one year old.
