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Back From Chapel Hill, NC
Got back from my trip with Jason Dove into the Southland yesterday afternoon. We didn’t sleep except for about an hour in the car outside of Johnny’s (formerly Johnny’s Sporting Goods - and they also used to have Klan rallies there??), the venue Jason played at. The trip was an absolute hoot, though short. Everybody at the venue was super awesome and really friendly. Carrboro/Chapel Hill is a beautiful place, lots of nice pine trees and the rain reminded me of the Northwest. The music was phenomenal. Both the other bands, the International Grapevine and Butterflies were F-ing unbelievably good and rocked the house down (also met a dude from The Physics of Meaning, who was headed down to SXSW, which I wish I were headed to). There was also a really great taco truck outside of the show venue that I had these amazing enchiladas with mole from. (Butterflies are also playing in NYC pretty soon, so check them out 100% - fantastic lyrics)
We kicked around after the show with some people, ending up at The Cellar, OCSC (Orange County Social Club), 506 for like a second, and ended up at the Cave, supposedly the oldest bar in Chapel Hill. Then some girl accused us of being “undercover Jews” because my friend wouldn’t give her friend twenty dollars. We promptly turned around and left her to her own devices, and she allegedly disappeared out a back door. Then we lost the car for a while, then we found it. Then we chilled with our people at Johnny’s again for a while and took off. Johnny’s is a really cool venue, run by a guy named Brian. I guess it’s like a coffee shop/morning joint to stop in and talk at type of joint and they have some really excellent pastries and these ham and cheese things that you can put in a toaster oven and WOW!
Just before we arrived in NC, a local girl was murdered in an event police are still investigating. Her name was Eve Carson and she was student body president at UNC. It’s being called a “random act of violence” but it feels very Laura Palmer-esque if you ask me.
Regardless, big shout out to everybody down there and thanks again for your hospitality and great music!
(Photo of the International Grapevine, grabbed from here)
March 10th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Mmmm…..you went to California and the girl at the taco place committed suicide, your computer commits ’suicide’, you go to SC and someone is murdered. Check out the movie Angel Heart and see if anything there feels familar.
March 11th, 2008 at 5:12 am
The Houston Astros hat that Eve Carson’s killer was wearing does have a gang affiliation. The “H” logo pays homage to Larry Hoover who was in various incarnations of the Black Gangster Disciples, which he founded. Throughout the 60’s Hoover created alliances and “nations” of gangs in the Chicago area. Lemaricus Davidson, the lead “accused” black slayer of Channon Christian and Chris Newsome was also a BGD– and we know what THAT means–the murder of Eve Carson could not POSSIBLY have been racially motivated–lol.
VIDEO ABOUT Eve Carson-
http://podblanc.com/?q=node/14742
VIDEO about her white-ribboned “memorial”-
http://podblanc.com/?q=node/14842
VIDEO-BLACK GANG DISCIPLES-
http://podblanc.com/index.php?q=node/1769
MORE EVE CARSON VIDEOS-
http://podblanc.com/index.php?q=node/14654
March 11th, 2008 at 10:06 am
You know Julia, after I got it, I realized the tattoo on my right wrist is essentially a modified version of the flower on the Old Man’s banner:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Major_13.jpg
Craig, I don’t know too much about the details of this case, but I wonder if it’s really a black-gang thing. What traffic did this girl have with gangs, if any? Without having done further investigation into it, a gang connection at least *feels* like a bit of scape-goating: I mean, just if I were to write this as a murder-mystery (and I know it’s real life, not fiction): high class white girl gets mysteriously killed in sleepy Southern town. It would only be all too easy to pull together some black or latino gang connections to cover up the tracks of some other perpetrator altogether.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
You’re right about some of the gang history but I live in Chicago and I can tell you that the gangs don’t go around killing for racial reasons. Why would they kill their best customers?! Back when they were formed Chicago was a racial war zone and all groups did their share of murder. Most gangs aren’t segregated by race anymore. (Yea equality.) And, the BGD dropped the B and are just the Gangster Disciples now.
It’s a business only now and they kill their rivals and innocent bystanders. Killings like this bring politically motivated police disruption to the flow of money. Usually when a gang murder grabs too much attention or a furor is generated the gang will turn on one of it’s own members and he’ll end up conveniently dead in an alley.
I thought your tattoo looked familiar but I couldn’t place it.