"Katie Juban, the youthful chef who heads up the kitchen, finds herself in the best possible environment: She's a blues pianist/ composer and an enthusiastic cook who was born into a family noted for its ability to produce good food."
Lisa T. said at 10:23 PM 01-07-2003: very interesting. has anyone in baton rouge ever eaten there? i'm gonna have to try that place the next time i find myself in good old baton rouge....
brianbibbly [email] said at 10:30 PM 01-07-2003: I went there and watched yet another cheezy middle-aged group of white accountants-by-day try to play the blues. Baton Rouge is rife with these types of old white men who think they can 'connect' with the blues. The entire scene was god-awful.
It was better when it was 'M's', but only slightly better.
Lisa T. said at 10:37 PM 01-07-2003: ugh, M's? i hate that place -- but that may be more because of the people i went there with than the actual restaurant itself.... well, that and those god-awful open mike poetry nights! blegh!!!
brianbibbly [email] said at 11:08 PM 01-07-2003: Yeah, well 'swamp mamas' used to be 'M's'. I never liked M's much either. That should tell you something about how much i hate swamp mamas.
brianbibbly [email] said at 11:16 PM 01-07-2003: Also, another thing that aggrevates me about these wannabe blues 'musicians' is that the believe that they are actually playing the blues cause they can play the basic simple chord progressions that traditional blues music is centered around. What they don't realize is that blues music really has nothing much to do with the progression from one chord to another as much as it has to do with evoking a feeling through those sounds and the story that you portray. I'm sorry, but 4 white dudes who just left their jobs at Edward Jones for the day doesn't portray the blues to me. To play the blues, you actually have got to feel it. I'd wager most of these Baton Rouge posers haven't felt the blues outside of the time they lost a few dollars in the stock market.
Lisa T. said at 10:26 AM 01-08-2003: deep breaths, brian. it's going to be okay ..... just remember that soon you'll be back in new orleans and everything will be better.
loren [email] said at 2:07 PM 01-08-2003: AGH!! I KNOW her. At least... i used to. She was best friends with my girlfriend when i was a senior in high school. What a fucked up bunch they were... sheesh. Episcopal High School should be obliterated from the face of the earth.
I for one vote that she should NOT be on killoggs.
I'll have to dig up a highly embarrassing high scool dance picture with her and crew in it. I'm standing on the right side of the picture looking decidedly out of place.
loren [email] said at 4:18 PM 01-08-2003: soory mary, no offense. =] Just my little opinion of course. I never knew her that well... i just had a few not so fun experiences back then with that group of girls... and i stand by the fact that they were mighty fucked up back then. But not many of us killoggers can claim we weren't =].
As long as Amy Uffman doesn't get involved, it's fine by me.
brandon [email] said at 4:28 PM 01-08-2003: Oh jesus-fucking christ: So, in regard to A.U., were you one of the many alcoholics she tried to save? Was your relationship sabotaged by a certain intercessory straight-from-Dawson's-Creek upper class ninny boy? Were the ROTC let's get drunk at the dance that 100 kids and 20 adults attend that Zaemon played one of their final performances at, and beat up the skinny kid involved? How did you get past the Baptist-mentality?
lorenc said at 7:45 PM 01-08-2003: Wow. My brain just went pop. All that time looking for a Brandon, and it was you right here under my nose all along. If you did the things she said (mind you i'd believe her given what i know of you from this site)... i hope i never meet you face to face.
No i wasn't one of the many alcoholics... were you?
No it wasn't sabotaged... but i'm guessing yours was... and i have a feeling i know by whom.
No clue what dance you are talking about.
Baptist mentality ... good question. I was the one who thought i could do the saving (and not in the religious sense). Boy was i ever wrong... but you live and learn... i was young and dumb.
Christ i hope you aren't the Brandon i think you are.
brandon [email] said at 9:51 PM 01-08-2003: Probably the wrong Brandon I suppose. I never even kissed Amy. Much less perpetrated any sort of life-quest worthy revenge crap.
I knew Amy pre-alcoholics. I heard about them later.
Some random Episcopal Dance, I stepped on some ROTC guys toes or looked at him wrong - I ended up being tossed around and stuff until my date asked him to please stop, thank god, I heard later that she married him.
...But, as far as "the things that she said" I have no clue... I stopped talking to Amy in 8th/9th grade, and that was sort of the end of it. I did a lot of drugs after I knew her. That and petty theft were about the extent of my really reproachable behaviors back then... ummm
So really whatever it is, you can reproduce it here. I heard about a really fucked-up guy that she dated after me, that was considerable older than herself, but that was via gossip, and the occassional run-in with her at High-Schoolish things...
But, I'm curious to know what exactly the unmentionable things may be.
lorennot logged in said at 2:35 AM 01-09-2003: phew. That's good to hear. I won't drag out any shit here for the world to read, so if you really wanna know email me. It's a long retarded story of my dating her my senior year. Damn, i was just building up a plan for nerd revenge...hahah.
brandon [email] said at 10:40 AM 01-09-2003: I feel sort of humbled actually. I apologize for dredging up whatever it is that upset you. Amy was a sweet person. But we were never anything past lopsided, jr. high infatuation. I never heard about this Brandon guy that she dated, but heard some horror stories about some guys that treated her wrong. I thought what I had originally wrote was needling about that group of people in general. But, after re-reading it, I just sound like a bitter asshole. Which is completely untrue - well the bitter part at least. I seriously, don't want to know, it's your business. I was just worried that there was some sort of gigantic, evil, rumor going around. ego, ego, ego. Anyway, I apologize, it sounds like whatever happened is both reprehensible and private, I do hope that you find that guy someday in a similarly awkward position and unleash whatever it is you have planned for him.
katie said at 12:04 AM 01-14-2003: i have that picture, too.
and she wasn't my best friend.
not many people liked me then, but she did, and the rest of that group of fucked up anorexic obsessive girls did too, so rather than go through high school friendless and lonely, i spent my time with those girls and all their stupid drama.
katie said at 11:59 PM 01-13-2003: well.
i am on killoggs, so, sorry, loren.
i remember you now.
that night at junior prom was really shitty.
and in regards to that amy girl... brandon, you may have stopped talking to her, but she didn't stop talking about you. then again, who knows what she told loren about any of us. the best was when she found out what "straightedge" was and then came to school with sXe scrawled all over her hands in sharpie pen. because baptist and straight edge are like, you know ... kissin' cousins, or something.
anyway. loren, i'm sorry if i ever rubbed you the wrong way back in the high school days. i don't really remember doing anything particularly egregious, but then again, it was high school, and i don't remember much.
as per swamp mama's/m's cafe:
you guys are right about the accountant bluesmen ... it drives me up the fucking wall. as the catchphrase goes around the staff there, "if i have to hear fucking mustang sally one more goddamn time, someone's going to get hurt."
the food isn't bad, though.
oh well. no one ever really wanted me on killoggs except mary, anyway.
Moral Ricktitude said at 12:19 AM 01-14-2003: Moonshine made out on "the farm." Accept no substitutes; It will put timbre in your voice and hair on your chest.
I can Georgia Satellites' "Keep Your Hands To Yourself" on the turntable. Jeff and I hope to find fame and fortune as an "edgie," post-college, Killoggs band.p>I only fear mainstream media is unready for us.
katie said at 12:28 AM 01-14-2003: i can really get you a dj gig (not at swamp mama's) if you're looking for one ... my friend does the booking for the spanish moon.
i like progressive house, when it's not aerosmith remixes.
