Napkin Nights: When a Tampon Isn't Enough

if you pose like that you should be forced to eat a branding iron. unoriginal cunts.

haha

from my understanding, napkin nights will be supporting the new VBS parties at bartwenty3 which is a summer continuation of what the return of buddytown/youth group started.

it should serve as a nice photographic break between spray tans, distressed jeans and hair gel.

i'm honestly considering implementing a not so typical dress code just for that reason.

I can honestly say, "Eeeeeew!" Maybe that's a sign that I'm finally maturing.

You should check out their sister sites "Penicillin Mornings" and "RU-486 Fridays".

"I'll have a water and she'll have the ruffie special"

Their teeth are so white!

wow....lots of vitriol for a few harmless girls with different tastes in style.

its more that i'm tired of seeing the same picture over and over again.

this should have been the very first comment: leave these girls alone. tracy, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Oh, please.

Yes, these girls are probably superficial. However, I doubt any of them are posting hateful blogs about nashville cream. Tracy, how bout you stop searching for people to hate on?

Affluenza personified.

but wouldn't this town be more fun if those girls WERE posting hateful comments about the cream or rock shows? i think it would. as the joker said in a summer blockbuster almost twenty years ago: "THIS TOWN NEEDS AN ENEMA!" some of you may or may not remember a certain crowd that used to go to bar 23 to incite culture jams but even after breaking glasses and trashing the place got asked to COME BACK because people had so much fun. can't win for trying. oh well...

I'm not hating on the girls per se—the girls are interchangeable. I'm hating on the site. And the site is grotesque, as are the pictures and the lifestyle being glamorized, and as a website that promotes Nashville culture and nightlife, it's fair game. Misshapes has the same ridiculous static shots over and over and over, and we've taken shots at groups here that imitate that same art-damaged hipsterism in all its endlessly exhausting self-documentation.

I, for one would like to applaud the cynicism of this blog. Thanks Tracy.

Wow. Tracy is smart. Will you marry me?

ps. I heard a new(to me) Girl Talk song today. It was rad.

Uh, some of the pictures are literally shots of girls just bent over. Not dancing, not doing anything, just bending over for an ass shot. I didn't post those, because we do have some standards. But really, it's just another attempt at thinly veiled soft-core jerkables (yes, I just made that word up) masquerading as "nightlife." Oh Nashville, don't whore it out all the way just yet. Can't we adopt the "Keep Austin Weird" motto or something? And finally, if I posted about yet another site of hipster bullshit no one would care.

you go girl!

Different strokes for different folks. The indie scene is no better. At least these girls look like they are having fun, instead of that uptight "my band is the better than yours" look. Come on. This piece is worthless.
Blah!

It's not worthless. Now you know about a convivial site for people with different tastes than you documenting folks who know how to actually have fun.

The indie scene is no better.

Actually, it kinda is. The 'indie scene', as you refer to it, focuses on bands & music who have put considerable emotional and intelectual effort into what they create. Some of us even think of it as art.

No real thought goes into NN. Its just WHOO!!! arty!! Lets drink & fuck!

Saying there is no difference between the 'indie scene' and NN is like saying there is no difference between Eno's 'Another Green World' and a Britney Spears song.

"instead of that uptight "my band is the better than yours" look. Come on. This piece is worthless"

come to 8 off 8th tonight and really take a count of how many times you actually see this look. everyone is entitled to their opinion, and perhaps your experiences are more different than mine, but it seems to me no matter how supportive a scene is of itself, there's always going to be a group of haters that refuse to see it as anything other than an endless see of mindless sheep in a never-ending elitist popularity contest fashion show.
don't get me wrong, a reasonable number of these sheep do exist, but they're no more delusional than the hipster haters. However inaccurate it may or may not be, despite the scowls on their faces and the fiery rancor in their text, i can only conclude that it actually makes the haters really happy to believe this world exists. they really really like it.

for every fashion conscious, pitchfork-loving hipster allegedly living it up at the Left Can Dance pretending they're in Williamsburg or something, there's an equally delusional hater sitting at home, pretending he or she lives in a scene so thriving, prominent, influential and noticeable to the rest of the world that it actually warrants this kind of scorn. whether you spend your time relishing it or detesting it, you're still claiming an affiliation to it. you still spend way more time than the rest of us pretending its' something that it isn't.

you don't live in nyc either, dude. i understand there's a twisted logic to this. that it makes you feel better about where you live and what you're doing, i just don't understand why it's so important to go preaching about it who don't need to spend time hating on it to justify liking it.

that last sentence should read: "to go preaching about it to people who don't need to spend time hating on it to justify liking it.

did my comment get deleted? did someone actually think i was serious?

"Jerkables"! The name of my new band...

The pictures resemble half of each issue of City At Night in my opinion - random nameless people cheesing for the camera with little to no background room to tell what bar or club they're actually at.

Never been. Looks boring. Okay, back to what I was doing.

Is this any Different that what Heather Byrd does?

At least Heather has to actually write more than one sentence and actually spots famous to semi-famous people from time to time. Napkin Nights doesn't have any real content, just ads inserted between pictures of narcissitic people who will probably look at the adds while looking for pictures of themselves - a great scam, really.

I should also mention that I have a pseudo-celebrity crush on Ms. Byrd. But you probably knew that.

wow, i have some new role models.
Fake tan, HERE I COME!

hip urban upscale , that trinity gets thrown around quite a bit these days. the aesthetic is super easy to pin down, like any good brand. aren't all of these things brought in by outside developers looking to make a quick buck?

ew yeah it's gross. Napkin Nights can also refer to the night tucker and i were tricked into going to coolhatwearing Virago. to fit in with the crowd we fashioned hats out of our drink napkins.

What's wrong with gettin' all oranged up and bleach toothed, partying, drinking and fucking?

I think I'll record a song about it, triple track the vocals and put some weird synth noises on top of the mix.

Then I'll get the players of some the more popular bands to play with me live and we'll end up in the Spin.

It'll be awesome.

Let us not forget LazyDay.com, NashvilleEdge, Nashtown and all the other no content spoofs that offer nothing more than photos.. I guess some people get really excited about seeing their photo on irrelevant websites over and over again. To her defense, Heather Byrd is an actual writer, who pens feature stories as well as a weekly column. One requires talent, the other a digital camera, I see no similarity.

um....what's wrong with drinking and fucking? if you mix that with 'overdrafting my bank account' and 'not succeeding in life', you've pretty much described my modus operandi.

"To her defense, Heather Byrd is an actual writer, who pens feature stories as well as a weekly column."

THIS IS VERY, VERY DEBATABLE. SRSLY.

Why do you dedicate so much time hating on other people? Seems pretty empty to me. Obviously, you and the girls pictured above have different likes / dislikes. At least the women above don't spend their days making fun of others behind a blog or on a forum. Grow up.

At least I don't THINK they do...

C'mon Munson. I'd like to see what all the orange people would write if you could leave comments for each of those pics. I'm sure they're all totally sweet people and would leave nothing but compliments.

Sorry, but I gotta side with Joey Karate & Munson on this one...

Sure, some of these people are probably pretty easy targets in your minds, but you have to realise that not everyone is going to be interested in the same things you are. What's wrong with wanting to drink & fuck? I know those things are at the top of my list every weekend... maybe I just choose to go about it in a less "make-funable" way to not get slammed on hipper-than-thou local music blog?

These people you have no problem ridiculing could just as easily poke fun at you for living in your parents' cottage house, regurgitating everything Pitchfork or Grimey says is cool, sporting the latest yard sale donations you picked up at Local Honey... am I right?

It could be very easy to tear the Plastics apart & prejudge each & everyone (and in most cases, you'd probably be right), but the bottom line is you don't know these people, so shut the f*ck up! Would you dare prejudge another race the same way? Well, if you gonna do it to the NapkinNights demo, then you'd probably do it to anyone else.

Do unto others... and PLEASE GROW UP!

um i thought the point made by the post was that this stuff is a marketing ploy to convince people that this sort of thing is the best thing nashville has to offer in the way of entertainment, mindless generic club life, that in no way connects party people to the "gasp" cool local shiz goin down

i like to think that im equal opportunity with my vitriol

from everything i can tell that site goes to clubs and takes pictures. it is a look into nightlife. just because you don't like what you see doesn't mean that the delivery mechanism is the problem. now lets all bash on facebook for acting all elitist.