Tennessee
I liked playing with my toy Texaco station.
We weren't able to take it when we moved to Chattanooga.
I got promoted to the sixth grade.
We all had to wear white, and then you have ginger ale with sherbet in it.
I got in a fight outside Pizza Caesar and spent the night in the hospital.
Very hard to recreate the date on this event.
I worked at Taco Casa in Eastgate Mall.
I got the job the day I graduated high school.
I tried to strangle my roommate while sleepwalking. Date approximate.
Went to Regas with Katie for a birthday.
This was supposed to be the fancy place in Knoxville.
Everything Tool played with Abstracts at Cityside.
This had to be one of my first attempts at setting type on a computer.
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.
I saw Fugazi at the Library in Knoxville.
Lotsa hillbilly white supremacists showed up.
My fanzine got reviewed.
I think everybody who did a fanzine looked forward to seeing these capsule reviews in Factsheet Five.
Two of my bands were on a compilation of Knoxville bands.
These were the unhip bands of 1992. We were too old!
All-Night Movers played the Pilot Light in Knoxville.
A comedian opened the show.
My grandfather Percy Reeves, in about 1927 or 1928.
From a picture my mom sent me.
I took a walk around downtown Chattanooga.
It was a really hot Sunday, so somewhat deserted.
I took pictures of a wig shop on Market Street that looked about the same when I was in high school.
Back then we wouldn't have felt comfortable taking pictures.
Trey and I went to Riceville, Tennessee, and stopped a couple places on the way.
We went to Ankar's, which had barely changed since 1985.
I got a catfish plate at Uncle Larry's in Chattanooga.
Our lodgings were across the street from a neglected cemetery.
I climbed through a lot of briars and such to get up there and look around.
My mom got out some old family photos.
I didn't have a scanner, this was the best I could do.