July 06, 2004
the fourth on the bridge
chattanooga did their annual fourth of july fireworks display on saturday the third this year. tad bevan and i (along with half of chattanooga) went down to watch from the walnut street bridge where we bumped into the roes, mesh, brent, and even lindsay (davis) perkins. this is the first time in 9 years of living in chattanooga that i've been downtown to watch the fireworks on the fourth. and unfortunately, i have to say i was a little disappointed. they counldn't have lasted more than 10 minutes, and there was really no grand finale to speak of. perhaps even the fireworks budget is feeling the crunch in this struggling economy...
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yesterday day we had a workday here in the office in which we put up a new mailbox out front and attempted, unsuccessfully, to hang some walls. hopefully today we will make more progress. if we do, i'll be sure to get some photos.
yesterday i finally bought the new sufjan stevens album. i've known for a while that this was going to be a good album, but i'm amazed at how truly great it really is. it may have just supplanted the walkmen as my favorite album this year. (on a side note, my praise for this album may be slightly biased by the fact that i got to hang out with sufjan last summer up in new york when i was visiting friends in brooklyn.) you can hear one of the lesser songs here.
Posted by andy at July 6, 2004 10:49 AMusually the fireworks are exceedingly long. it was very odd to have them end so quicky. maybe they blew the budget on the dismembered tennesseans?
Posted by: bobw at July 6, 2004 11:12 AMi think zack and i worked with lindsay at 212 Market back in the day...
Posted by: bill colrus at July 6, 2004 01:31 PMyes, you probably did. i think i do remember her working there, back in the day. now she's married and teaching secondary ed up in st.louis.
Posted by: andy at July 6, 2004 02:46 PMThe Sufjan album still rivals "A Ghost is Born" and the new Iron and Wine for my favorite albums of the year. Wilco's still #1, but I may be slightly biased because Jeff Tweedy said hello to me last month.
Posted by: mesh at July 6, 2004 03:45 PMY'all the fireworks in Chatt have always sucked! I'm the veteran and they suck. Also, thanks Andy for the sufjan stevens info. I could never remember his first name! They play him on 88.5 in ATL and I never get a pen fast enough. Cool that you got to hang out with him.
Posted by: Katie at July 6, 2004 03:47 PMkatie - he's playing this saturday night at the echo lounge in atlanta. a few of us may come down for the show. i don't know how easy it is for you and joel to get out these days, but you should think about it. just $10, i think.
katie I think the quality has improved in your absence. riverbend and the thanksgiving weekend and usually the july 4th have been great for the past few years. oh well.
Posted by: bobw at July 6, 2004 04:21 PMGotta tell ya, Katie, Chatt's fireworks have been much better in the last several years. Back in the eighties and early nineties they weren't worth looking out the window for. Those of us who've been around since you could buy a house in St. Elmo for a couple thousand tend to remember things that way. You know, Chatta-Vegas does have a Starbucks now. . .
Posted by: lynnp at July 6, 2004 11:28 PMWell, I've been at Cornerstone the past three July 4ths. But before that, I wasn't too impressed. the Battlefield ones were bad and the Downtown ones were bad. I was told the Culture fest fire works off the bridge were cool. The last good fireworks I saw was at a Lookouts game on Andy's birthday. Me, Cat and John Simpson sitting on the field with huge ashes raining on our heads.
Posted by: Katie at July 7, 2004 09:33 AMHow did you get to hang out with Sufjan? Is he Muslim? He is named after a Sufi warrior... apparently.
Posted by: anon at July 12, 2004 08:59 PMOmg thats right! Please come see me and my friends! ;)
Posted by: watch moi at March 17, 2005 11:05 AM