I’m sitting in another airport. I gave up. Well, that’s kind of harsh. I could say that I decided to shorten my stay in Nashville. It’s a number of things, Nashville is, and a lovely town, but not a lovely town for this gal. It’s super spread out, like lots of little towns that have been incorporated into a metropolitan area. The downtown is super cheesy and weird and bland all at the same time. And not weird in an Austin sort of sense, weird in a Disney sort of sense (see my previous post for further explanation). The environment surrounding Nashville is beautiful with lakes and good hiking areas and 4 season weather, but it’s not a town I could see myself living there without some sort of very good reason. So, I’ve decided to leave early.
I did have a lovely day today despite the rain pissing it down most of the time. I met up with R who introduced me to M a curator in town and we talked shop for a while. I got to see R’s studio which is in this amazing building. It’s a building attached to a church, one of the few Egyptian Revival churches in the country and it was totally amazing! Amazingly awesomely kitsch! Sigh… Fake cloud paintings on the ceiling, Egyptian hieroglyphic style paintings along the walls and half columns with painted decorations. I loved it! Then I met up with my friend B and her lovely kids and we drove around Nashville. Did you know that Nashville has an 1/8 replica of the Parthenon? Yes, indeed it does. We saw that, and lots of neighborhoods, and B did her best to tell me to sell Nashville and show/tell me the highlights. It was good and now I sit waiting to go back to the Apple.
ByHalloween awaits. I’ve loved how Americans go all out for this holiday. Yards across the country have been decorated up the wazoo for this day. B was telling me about the Halloween party she is having (it was the one temptation to stay for the weekend!) complete with bales of hay, corn stalks, fake spiderwebs and various food items like “chocolate covered spiders,” and “witches fingers.” That is one woman who knows how to do Halloween. Now I just have to find a party and a costume stat!
