Pine Lake Georgia

1. New York Dolls “Trash”
2. The Cramps “New Kind of Kick” yowwww
3. Dusty Springfield “Son of a Preacher Man”
4. Rage Against the Machine “Fuck The Police”
5. The Konks “Let The Music Do The Talking”
6. Sid Vicious “My Way”
7. The Charms “Gimme That Shot”
8. The Unsatisfied “Angels of Broken Rebellion”
9. Andre Williams “Only Black Man in South Dakota” (to do:South Dakota)
10. The Misfits “Attitude” [explicit version is a must]
11. Toilet Boys “Born to be Bad”
12. Dandy Warhols “Cherrybomb”
13. Tom Morello “Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine”
14. Alice Cooper “I Am The Spider”
15. Ian Hunter “Once Bitten, Twice Shy (the original, did you really think GW was that smart?)
16. Peaches - every song - all 14 songs
17. Die Hunns “Ain’t It A Shame” [outtake version]

and then he stopped after playing only 100 songs out of 4446. Angry Birds time!

Pine Lake, Georgia is a really small real time city in Georgia located about 10 miles outside Atlanta. It’s really easy to avoid most traffic and get to downtown Atlanta from here if you know the backroads. This is not a suburb and there are no mailboxes in this city. You have to pick up your mail at the post office. There are about 700 people who live in good old Pine Lake, about half men and half women all apparently around 38 years old. So not as many old people as we thought!

They say it’s about 78% white inside Pine Lake, Georgia but outside the city limits it’s more like 78% black. Back in 2009 they said 18% of the population were hispanic, but not so much now because a lot moved out recently due to the economy and changing Georgia laws. Everybody seems to get along just fine at the post office, well except that one time a Pine Lake cop(Ortega, just 25 years old, may he RIP) was gunned down at the post office by a passing-thru-PL thug. He died too when he killed himself inside the post office. This happened a couple days after moving to Pine Lake, previously known as the safest city anywhere!

Pine Lake was established as a city in December 1937, after a short life as a summer retreat run by the Pine Woods Corporation. The corporation sold lots around a small fishing lake to Atlantans who lived in (then) faraway areas like Buckhead for use as a weekend retreat. The 20’ x 100’ lots sold for $69, and the advertisement for lots directed people “from Decatur down the [unpaved] Rockbridge Road East.” Many homeowners continued to use their property as a weekend getaway long after the city incorporated. Prior to development, Pine Lake was a portion of a farm.

But nothing else too bad crime wise has happened since 2005, mostly just the occasional car and house break-ins, cat killings and apartment kids setting off M-80’s in the middle of the night. Well the economy did tank and nothing’s worth much now. But what goes up comes down and goes back up and vice-versa. Just don’t sell anything right now. Maybe Obama will come thru with that EZ refinancing plan.

Oh and you can rent a place in Pine Lake, Georgia for about $500. Not sure what a $500 apartment looks like but at least it’s in a neighborhood and not on a highway. But it would be great if those UGLY apartments deep in the right corner of Pine Lake could be updated and beautified. The place looks like desperados live there when it’s probably just some nice families. Whoever allowed that building permit back in Pine Lake history must have been drunk. But there are some other much more quaint apartment buildings within Pine Lake too.

Today in 2012 diversity rules the roost in Pine Lake, Georgia even though the recent census says the black race population percentage is significantly below state average in Pine Lake. There’s even a healthy dose of lesbian families with children.  Pine Lake was found #1 in the 101 cities most likely to find lesbian couples. Even the new mayor is a proud lesbian!

CH-CH-CH-CH-cherry bomb, it’s all cool here in Pine Lake, Georgia(except for the freaking M-80’s in the middle of the night). That might not have been the way back in the city’s beginnings when rumor has it Pine Lake was a hideout, um getaway for the white folks. There may even be a street named after a famous KKK confederate leader.

Given the history of Stone Mountain which surrounds Pine Lake the rumors that the city’s forefathers were KKK supporters can’t be too far from the conspiracy theorists. But that was then and now it’s just gone with the wind history. Times might have changed significantly in Pine Lake, Georgia, but the services, grocery stores and restaurants surrounding Pine Lake are well below average.

Whole Foods, where are you? We need you along with a nice hometown ACE hardware store with a stocked nursery. How about a good charter school? And how about improving the approach to the city beyond a ugly purple auto repair shop?? 

Top ten things that need to change about Pine Lake, Georgia:

1. A stop sign reorganization.
2. Removal of all chain link fences in front yards.
3. Sporadic cat killings.
4. City allowing fake churches to be opened anywhere within city limits.
5. Any more terrible Caribbean food restaurants.
6. Repavement of all Pine Lake streets as promised, not just a few.
7. Removal of ugly dark green concrete retaining walls at lake.
8. Instant removal of ANYONE shooting off M-80’s in the middle of the night.
9. THE ENTRANCES OF PINE LAKE GEORGIA NEED TO BE MADE MAGICAL.
10. No vegetable gardens allowed in front yards just to cover up laziness.

(Source: city-data.com)

1. Surprise! Economic Turmoil!
2. Oh no! David Arquette voted off Dancing with the Stars!
3. Georgia Militia members caught plotting against federal officials.
4. Herman Cain did a bad thing and can’t get his story straight.
5. Kim Kardashian. Yuck.
6. The lake is filling and the geese are celebrating.
7. Bank of America backs down from charging more fees.
8. Doctor confirms President Obama has stopped smoking.
9. Justin Bieber Daddy!
10. Halloween people and pets in Pine Lake, Georgia.