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December 10, 2003
Blog Surfing Can Cause Unexpected Flashbacks
Via Adrian Miles, I just came across Byron Hawk's blog. I met Byron, now an assistant professor at George Mason, about five or six years ago at a Popular Culture conference in San Antonio, after which we attended "Heavy Metal Fest 1997" at the White Rabbit.
For a number of reasons (including Heavy Metal Fest 1997), this was a particularly memorable conference. San Antonio had some of the best restaurants I've ever encountered during a conference (especially all the local places just a short walk from the over-commercialized Riverwalk). And in an odd coincidence, memebers of the Orlando Magic basketball team were staying in the conference hotel....
Posted by chuck at December 10, 2003 2:40 PM
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Unbelievable. How did you remember the name of the club and the metal fest? Details long purgued from my memory to make room for more information. It was a great conference!
Posted by: Byron Hawk at December 10, 2003 6:59 PM
Hey, the White Rabbit made quite an impression.
I think it's partially the fact that I didn't attend very many other Heavy Metal Fests, but the "white rabbit" references in "The Matrix" always reminded me of that night...
(I sometimes make these weird associative leaps...)
Posted by: chuck at December 10, 2003 11:59 PM
Definitely remembered going to the show. Remembered the horror stories about the lack of music in Lafayette :) Didn't remember the name of the club or that is was a "metal fest." Probably because I've been to so many they all blur together ;)
Posted by: Byron Hawk at December 11, 2003 12:15 PM
I think I remember it so well because of the unfamiliarity, the fact that I was in a different city (one that actually had live music venues). That's actually been one of the big selling points of living in Atlanta, although I haven't had a chance to see nearly as many shows as I would have liked.
Posted by: chuck at December 11, 2003 1:59 PM