Re: Nashville v Austin
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:30 pm
Haha I tried to figure out who he was based on his online persona. It was pretty amusing.
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The man has an image to protect!lisjjen wrote: But he made us promise we wouldn't ask around for him based on TLS, so I was timid to try and find him.
I don't ever remember saying thislisjjen wrote: But he made us promise we wouldn't ask around for him based on TLS, so I was timid to try and find him.
I made a pretty terrible effort to get in touch with you, IIRC.akili wrote:Haha I tried to figure out who he was based on his online persona. It was pretty amusing.
Did I tell you I went to a rap concert at Third Man Records on Friday and Jack White was standing right behind me for most of the show! Like 2 feet behind me.lisjjen wrote:I love 6th St. I love Jack White. And I love football games, old fashioned campuses, spicy chicken, margaritas, cowboy boots and other things as well. Tough conundrum is tough.
WHY DIDN'T I GO TO THAT SHOW! I knew Black Milk was going to be performing that night but I couldn't find a ride to the show. We went to San Antonio Tacos and then out to Rippy's (a honkey tonk where I got a lot of hard looks all night).Flips88 wrote:Did I tell you I went to a rap concert at Third Man Records on Friday and Jack White was standing right behind me for most of the show! Like 2 feet behind me.lisjjen wrote:I love 6th St. I love Jack White. And I love football games, old fashioned campuses, spicy chicken, margaritas, cowboy boots and other things as well. Tough conundrum is tough.
Ha I walked to it after leaving the talent show. So worth it. Black Milk was legit. I bought a live special pressed vinyl copy of the show that I'll get in the mail. Best part of my trip by farlisjjen wrote:WHY DIDN'T I GO TO THAT SHOW! I knew Black Milk was going to be performing that night but I couldn't find a ride to the show. We went to San Antonio Tacos and then out to Rippy's (a honkey tonk where I got a lot of hard looks all night).Flips88 wrote:Did I tell you I went to a rap concert at Third Man Records on Friday and Jack White was standing right behind me for most of the show! Like 2 feet behind me.lisjjen wrote:I love 6th St. I love Jack White. And I love football games, old fashioned campuses, spicy chicken, margaritas, cowboy boots and other things as well. Tough conundrum is tough.
Tell me a song to YouTube.Flips88 wrote:Ha I walked to it after leaving the talent show. So worth it. Black Milk was legit. I bought a live special pressed vinyl copy of the show that I'll get in the mail. Best part of my trip by far
SATCO FTW! Did you make it to the bars on demonbreun/division near campus? Those are the vanderbilt bars and you're unlikely to feel out of place there. I wouldn't judge Nashville's nightlife based on broadway. I only go once every couple of months and even then, it's only for the novelty/something different. The bars in midtown have less of a southern vibe and are the kind of bars you'd find in any other college town.lisjjen wrote:Flips88 wrote:lisjjen wrote:We went to San Antonio Tacos and then out to Rippy's (a honkey tonk where I got a lot of hard looks all night).
I didn't. I probably would have had more fun there. When I found somebody had scrawled the N-word in the bathroom in Rippy's, it made me wish I was back on 6th St in Austin. I don't mind Southern. I mind ignorant, so I still like Vandy itself.EricBerry wrote:SATCO FTW! Did you make it to the bars on demonbreun/division near campus? Those are the vanderbilt bars and you're unlikely to feel out of place there. I wouldn't judge Nashville's nightlife based on broadway. I only go once every couple of months and even then, it's only for the novelty/something different. The bars in midtown have less of a southern vibe and are the kind of bars you'd find in any other college town.lisjjen wrote:Flips88 wrote:lisjjen wrote:We went to San Antonio Tacos and then out to Rippy's (a honkey tonk where I got a lot of hard looks all night).
I will say that I felt underwhelmed by Nashville. It was way more southern than I thought it would be. Vandy as a school was exquisite, but Nasvhille as a town seemed meh to me. Haven't been to Austin before so I can't compare the twolisjjen wrote:
I didn't. I probably would have had more fun there. When I found somebody had scrawled the N-word in the bathroom in Rippy's, it made me wish I was back on 6th St in Austin. I don't mind Southern. I mind ignorant, so I still like Vandy itself.
lisjjen wrote:We went to San Antonio Tacos and then out to Rippy's (a honkey tonk where I got a lot of hard looks all night).
I don't know what all you saw at Rippy's, so I won't try to tell you that you are wrong to feel how you feel, but I get the sense (from these and previous posts) that you might have come to Nashville looking/expecting to be offended by something. Nashville is a great place, and my minority friends love living here (from high school and VULS). And I'm really not trying to say Nashville > Austin here--just trying to encourage you to be careful to give people and places a chance without stereotyping them. (I'm also not trying to start a fight over whether you have a chip on your shoulder or not. This accusation of racial hostility just seems to have been a theme in some of your posts since long before this weekend.)lisjjen wrote:When I found somebody had scrawled the N-word in the bathroom in Rippy's, it made me wish I was back on 6th St in Austin. I don't mind Southern. I mind ignorant, so I still like Vandy itself.
You do realize that the N-word is probably scrawled across the bathrooms of every city in America?lisjjen wrote:I didn't. I probably would have had more fun there. When I found somebody had scrawled the N-word in the bathroom in Rippy's, it made me wish I was back on 6th St in Austin. I don't mind Southern. I mind ignorant, so I still like Vandy itself.
+1. Last time I was in New York there was a swastika scrawled into the wall above the urinal that read "Jews go home."bk187 wrote:You do realize that the N-word is probably scrawled across the bathrooms of every city in America?lisjjen wrote:I didn't. I probably would have had more fun there. When I found somebody had scrawled the N-word in the bathroom in Rippy's, it made me wish I was back on 6th St in Austin. I don't mind Southern. I mind ignorant, so I still like Vandy itself.
"Underwhelmed" and "exquisite" are excellent word choices to describe the city and the school respectively.Flips88 wrote:I will say that I felt underwhelmed by Nashville. It was way more southern than I thought it would be. Vandy as a school was exquisite, but Nasvhille as a town seemed meh to me. Haven't been to Austin before so I can't compare the twolisjjen wrote:
I didn't. I probably would have had more fun there. When I found somebody had scrawled the N-word in the bathroom in Rippy's, it made me wish I was back on 6th St in Austin. I don't mind Southern. I mind ignorant, so I still like Vandy itself.
This is fair. It comes across like I'm speaking ill of everyone in Nashville. To the contrary, I was so blown away by the friendliness of the students and staff at VULS that I had to think long and hard about rather to go there or not. And the friendliness extended beyond the school. I got into a friendly ten minute conversation with the ticket lady at the airport (who, by the way told me that she didn't like Rippy's herself.) To give Nashville fair credit, we went to San Antonio Tacos before (which rules btw) and the bar next door afterwards and everyone was extremely friendly. It's not that I'm attributing my experience at one establishment to a metropolitan area of 2.5 million. It was just that I was taken aback to find exactly what I was afraid I might - though it was in a very narrow context of a bar that was 75% tourists. I still haven't made my mind up 100% yet, but even if I do wind up going to UT, I definitely want to road trip back during my time in school.drylo wrote:I don't know what all you saw at Rippy's, so I won't try to tell you that you are wrong to feel how you feel, but I get the sense (from these and previous posts) that you might have come to Nashville looking/expecting to be offended by something. Nashville is a great place, and my minority friends love living here (from high school and VULS). And I'm really not trying to say Nashville > Austin here--just trying to encourage you to be careful to give people and places a chance without stereotyping them. (I'm also not trying to start a fight over whether you have a chip on your shoulder or not. This accusation of racial hostility just seems to have been a theme in some of your posts since long before this weekend.)
=/pleasetryagain wrote:+1. Last time I was in New York there was a swastika scrawled into the wall above the urinal that read "Jews go home."bk187 wrote:You do realize that the N-word is probably scrawled across the bathrooms of every city in America?lisjjen wrote:I didn't. I probably would have had more fun there. When I found somebody had scrawled the N-word in the bathroom in Rippy's, it made me wish I was back on 6th St in Austin. I don't mind Southern. I mind ignorant, so I still like Vandy itself.
Ignorance abounds.
Me too. If you want to avoid them then it's time you started finding a hermitage for yourself to live in.lisjjen wrote:=/
I hate ignorant people.
I can't answer for the other poster, but when I went to see Transformers, I thought it was going to suck a lot. When it was pretty good, it blew me away. In contrast, I expected to bleed from the nose due to sheer awesomeness at Watchmen, and when it was just kinda average, I walked out of the theatre like I had seen someone strangle a puppy.EricBerry wrote:Just out of curiosity-- when you guys say that you were underwhelmed by Nashville, what exactly are you referring to?
Well, I'm glad you enjoyed the visit for the most part. (And I'm sorry that Rippy's was unpleasant.) I'm also glad you didn't take my post the wrong way--I was a little nervous about how that would sound. Good luck with the decision!lisjjen wrote:This is fair. It comes across like I'm speaking ill of everyone in Nashville. To the contrary, I was so blown away by the friendliness of the students and staff at VULS that I had to think long and hard about rather to go there or not. And the friendliness extended beyond the school. I got into a friendly ten minute conversation with the ticket lady at the airport (who, by the way told me that she didn't like Rippy's herself.) To give Nashville fair credit, we went to San Antonio Tacos before (which rules btw) and the bar next door afterwards and everyone was extremely friendly. It's not that I'm attributing my experience at one establishment to a metropolitan area of 2.5 million. It was just that I was taken aback to find exactly what I was afraid I might - though it was in a very narrow context of a bar that was 75% tourists. I still haven't made my mind up 100% yet, but even if I do wind up going to UT, I definitely want to road trip back during my time in school.drylo wrote:I don't know what all you saw at Rippy's, so I won't try to tell you that you are wrong to feel how you feel, but I get the sense (from these and previous posts) that you might have come to Nashville looking/expecting to be offended by something. Nashville is a great place, and my minority friends love living here (from high school and VULS). And I'm really not trying to say Nashville > Austin here--just trying to encourage you to be careful to give people and places a chance without stereotyping them. (I'm also not trying to start a fight over whether you have a chip on your shoulder or not. This accusation of racial hostility just seems to have been a theme in some of your posts since long before this weekend.)