Yokel*
This past week has proved to me, not that I ever doubted it, that this is one cool town. Besides the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club concert last Saturday, we've been to two other concert events this week, (one at our friend Lolli's shop, Isle Of You) and we'll attend an all-day music festival tomorrow.
The week's events were part of WRFL's 20th anniversary celebration. The student-run station went on the air on March 7, 1988 (I was already DJing at my alma mater! I'm OLD!) and has run continuously since. It was the first station in Lexington to play metal, rap, and hip-hop, and it did not shun the bluegrass music, oh no. Ashley Judd had a show on WRFL, and many of the other DJs/founding members have gone on to various creative careers around the nation.
Anyway, having been a DJ at my college, I'm pretty excited by all the events in Lexington this week. I should have some photos up on Flickr soon.
*I don't think I'm a yokel. I was just trying to rhyme with LOCAL. I'm actually rather erudite cultured. You know, like yogurt, only not quite as tangy.
Kewl beans, young 'un!
Posted by:bhd | April 26, 2008 at 00:38
Lexington sounds wonderfully rich in culture, and I love places like that!
Posted by:Margaret | April 26, 2008 at 00:54
Oh! Radio Free Lexington, I heart you.
I'm glad to see some things are still the same in My Old Kentucky Home.
Posted by:Catheroo | April 26, 2008 at 11:27
You could rhyme local with focal, but I don't think that accomplishes anything ;-)
I too DJ'd at my college's little radio station and at the same time, was an unpaid intern and a paid overnight weekend DJ at a radio station here in the area. That part of college for me was fun!
Posted by:Michael C | April 26, 2008 at 11:34
Hey Kid, local, yokel, I think of you as mango infused vodka, with Grand Manier, tonic, and a twist. Yeah, I know, it doesn't rhyme with local.
Posted by:The CEO | April 26, 2008 at 13:17
That looked like fun.
Posted by:misschris | April 28, 2008 at 11:26
excellent! i'm very excited to experience lexington myself. sounds like a wonderful place to be.
Posted by:rebecca | April 28, 2008 at 14:31
I'd say you're both cultured and tangy, which is why you're fun to read. Yogurt is my favorite breakfast, after all.
The pictures you and Allan took made the fest look like a blast.
Posted by:Joolie | April 29, 2008 at 15:39