guy who did the immortal chorus design here. i followed a link from my referrers to andy (vertigo25)'s comment. this is long, apologies.
i don't know if i would call that period a golden age of clubbing, but there were a lot of incredibly talented people doing interesting work at that point, which spun off a lot of careers in different directions. i was in knoxville recently and i can safely say that it was a lot better then than it is now.
anyway, let's play where are they now:
kevin of yeehaw industries started doing his work at acme pizza company around that time while working at acme. i did the neon sign and logo for acme while with robin easter design group in the old city. yeehaw is actually very well known in the national design press now.
i used to live in one of the flats in the alleyway behind what was then java in the old city (i assume it's now gone). it was the coffeehouse in the old city with a round window in the side. we did a ridiculous series of farcical posters anonymously under the name "good kids" making fun of the entire scene. seemed to galvanize a lot of people for a short while around 1992 or 3. that bit of work actually kicked off my own career, after briefly being sort-of homeless and living in the basement of cafe mozart up on market square.
i lived with fred mccord and jim haynes and, at one point, jason taylor. all are well.
jim and fred are both living in san francisco. fred is married with a little girl named zuzu. jim is still painting and now works with aquarius records. jason taylor now owns a small design company and is making amazing work. you can see his stuff at
http://www.wonderbureau.com. he and i made
http://www.radaronline.com for a gossip magazine which launched from nyc last year. folded in four months, but oh well.
beth goza, if anyone remembers her from hanging out with me and ana, is in Sf as well. she's working at linden labs on production of second life.
regarding immortal chorus cd's: there weren't any cd's of the first two albums i designed, the ones andy mentioned. that was before pressing discs was economically feasible. if anyone has copies of the older stuff, love to hear it again. my cassette copies got roached years ago.
boiler room was indeed a room underneath the underground. it was the afterhours club. everyone was free to brownbag. we often did.
howard, who ran the closet, is now living in los angeles. he goes by cody these days.
if anyone remembers ana from planet earth days, she's now living in kansas city, recently passed her fifth anniversary as an art director at shoebox greetings. we're still friends. ana's best friend jessica is now married, with a little girl. no idea where she is.
rachael buottoni is well. she's in san francisco now working as a designer. strangely, she and i never knew each other in knoxville, but are now close via common online friends.
i moved to chicago in 1994, and opened a design studio in 2002, which i run with my boyfriend. we're doing well. writing a lot for the design industries. we're working on a book on typography to be released next year.
michael: i remember you from planet earth. sorry to hear about the count. i always wondered about his whereabouts.
brent b. is still around, although i don't know if he's in knoxville these days. he's still doing great hair, lots of runway work and abstract studio work. assisted on bjork's medulla album cover.
i'd love to hear from some old friends from that period, if anyone knows them. i miss james molchan, steve britton, phoebe sharpe (who owned cafe mozart and phoebe's on gay street), jared the design director from metropulse, donovan and julie who were briefly roommates with fred, jim and i in the old city.
oh, and skinhead scott, who kept me from getting my ass kicked all over the place. we squatted togetehr in the basement of the restaurant.
if anyone knows any opf those folks, would love to talk to them again. best method of contact is through my site (
http://www.patricking.com) or via the email address attached to this account.
y'all take care.
-the old folks home
