Lisa Denton and Barry Courter
LISA DENTON: Barry, we are getting dangerously close to school starting, but the good news is that there are sales tax holidays in Tennessee and Georgia this weekend. And anybody can buy new knickers and ink pens without having to prove that they're for school use.
I'm especially excited that Tennessee moved the date up this year, so now the sales tax holiday no longer conflicts with the World's Longest Yard Sale, which is always the first weekend in August.
BARRY COURTER: Do you think we give away too much about our ages when say things like "knickers"? Or "I remember when school started after Labor Day?"
Anyway, these tax-free days are the cat's pajamas. Almost as exciting as being able to buy wine in the grocery store now. Um, I wonder Nah, never mind.
Several of my hardcore-fans-of-music friends are very excited about a SoundCorps event on Tuesday at The Camp House. Rich Redmond is a drummer who has played with all kinds of people, including Jason Aldean, Ludacris, Kelly Clarkson and Keith Urban, but he is also well-known for a motivational program for success he has developed called CRASH. It's an acronym for Commitment, Relationships, Attitude, Skill and Hunger. In the SoundCorps event, Richmond will talk about drumming and music but also about being successful in life.
LISA: Does he want us to show up as the opposite end of that spectrum? I call my program PLUNGE: Procrastinate, Lazy, Uninspired, Narcoleptic, Gloom and Eh.
BARRY: Yeah, I was thinking we should go because it might motivate us to finally make something of ourselves. Yeah probably won't. I have Netflix at home.
But speaking of hunger, 212 Market is hosting a Hungry Like the Wolf dinner on Wednesday. It sounds like a meal for carnivores, but it's actually a fundraiser for the red wolf conservation project at Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center and Wild South. It's kind of an open-house concept and you can stop in between 5 and 9:30 and eat.
LISA: Have an early dinner and you can make it to a double feature at Cine-Rama. They'll be showing "Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation."
The first is a documentary about the teenagers (pre-teens when they started) who were so inspired by "Raiders of the Lost Ark" when they saw its original theater run in 1981, they spent several summers filming a frame-by-frame adaptation. What they came up with, which matches the original's runtime within minutes, will follow the doc.
BARRY: I've seen some of it and it's pretty great.
And for the music lovers out there, Lon Eldridge, who will be hosting the event as DJ Passe, is presenting "Around the World in 80 Plays: A Phonographic Journey" at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Jazzanooga Arts Space on M.L. King Boulevard. He is going to take people on a music journey using 78 rpm records. He plans to spin everything from hillbilly to Western swing to ragtime. Now that really will be the bee's knees.
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Contact Lisa Denton at ldenton@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6281. Contact Barry Courter at bcourter@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6354.