Meeting Old New Friends & Once Upon a Time
Posted by Lynnster on October 21, 2007
Woo! I finally got the opportunity today to meet yet another person I’ve “known” online for somewhere around 13-15 years, another of the Hoodoo Gurus faithful (and ‘Mats fan, she’s a Replacements fan too) from way back when in the original early days of the congregation of fans around the world online. Nese is from Texas and had trekked up here for the weekend for the big Webb Wilder shindig in Knoxville and was coming thru here on the way back, so I met her downtown at the Hard Rock on Beale Street and we had a fine afternoon lunching and visiting… and what awesome weather, couldn’t have picked a better day. And naturally, she is awesome. So woohoo!
I gotta say it was awfully weird hanging out downtown though. Once upon a time I spent a significant amount of spare time in downtown Memphis, especially hanging around Beale and the riverfront on the nicer weekends, and the last several years I am almost never down there. So much has changed… and I don’t know that I’d really say for the better. To me it looks kind of just dressed up to look prettier.
My love-hate relationship with this town continues. Strange, I don’t even really remember when I used to just love it, though I know once upon a time I did.
churlita said
I think any time you live anywhere long enough, you develop that love/hate relationship with it.
Nese said
Geez, my own mention! It WAS great meeting up with you in the flesh, finally. Wish we could have had longer. Bad thing about the weather, after talking about it, it turned ugly on me about 4am the next morning, while sleeping in the tent!
Do you know if HR ever got their shirts in? Also…do you have the So What recording?
Cheers!
Lynnster said
Ack! Nese, I’ll find out about the shirts ASAP.
As for So What… sadly, no. :(