And people wonder why they're hip deep in water when it rains 1/2". No place for the water to go. It's an Asphalt and Concrete Jungle out there!
We have drainage. It empties out into the moat around Stone Mountain. Man, how that place has changed. Used to be Redneck Central, now it's occupied by POCs
Bleh. I am acutely aware that I'm in the minority in this regard, especially given that I live in the Atlanta area and went to UGA, but I loooooathe pretty much everything in the Southern rock genre. I read a biography of R.E.M. a long time ago and could not have agreed more with a comment by Bill Berry in which he said that one of the reasons he was so excited about playing with Mills, Buck, and Stipe was that they weren't trying to do another Allman Bros. ripoff band like everyone else within 200 miles of Macon. [rant over] Sorry.
The irony was that after "Murmur," every band within 200 miles of Athens was doing an REM ripoff band.
Blasphemy! I was at UGA when the Athens music scene was exploding. Got to see R.E.M. many times for free on campus or at the 40 Watt. A roommate was an art student and had a couple of interesting Michael Stipe stories.
By the time I got to Athens, they were too big to play announced shows but would show up at the 40 Watt once or twice a year under names likes "Wheel of Cheese" or "Trolling for Olives." And yeah, I've met Stipe a couple of times and have a couple of friends who know him fairly well and readily admit he's more than a bit odd.
Don't get me wrong... I never cared much for what passes as Southern Rock. But that song doesn't really have the ugliness of, say, a Sweet Home Alabama... It's more of a song written by a group that happened to be Southern.
You like a plastic, throw away song like Imaginary Lover but poo-poo Sweet Home Alabama? Granted, it has been over played and over used, but it is a powerful anthem.
Nah. Not much mistaking Stipe for MJ. I'm not in Georgia. I know he's gay. Tje folks who claimed he's a pedo knew he's gay. That's not why they said it, they're progressive.
When I was at LSU, there was a guy in the Ph.D. program who claimed to have taught Stipe in his freshman comp class at UGa. A few months later, there's a band called It Crawled Up From the South . . . or maybe Hindu Love Gods . . . (********ing memory) in a local bar doing heavy metal covers fronted by some guy in a crazy wig that looked like Michael Stipe in a crazy wig. It was. Between sets, he came over to say "hi" to the guy who, we concluded, actually did teach Michael Stipe's comp class. The band, it turned out, was most of REM and a fair chunk of Love Tractor. After the show they came over to the house where I was living with seven other grad students. Most of the guys partied in a mellow way. Peter Buck played a lot of new music from his massive cassette collection, including bands I've not been able to track down since (Red Square from . . . San Antonio? and The Sleep Merchants from Sidney, Nebraska stick in what passes for memory). And Stipe? He went upstairs and sat in what passed for our study and read. All night. And he gave off a vibe that I wish I could master that said "please do not bother me." You have no idea how often I wished for this skill when someone starts talking to me in a coffeehouse.
That's awesome. Was Zevon with them? Because Hindu Love Gods was also the name they used for a side project with him. And your anecdote about Stipe is pretty spot on. If people tried to approach at a bar or restaurant in Athens, he was usually really cold and would give them that sod off vibe without actually saying that.
Dude, I'm not going to play that video even on my phone until I know more about it. What/who is it, and what do they have to do with Stipe?
So, two games into the MLS season, apparently the honeymoon is over. Even Frank De Boer is surprised the fans don't realize he is Frank De Boer, proven loser. LOL https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019...pologizes-calling-atlanta-united-fans-spoiled