PETE stole my bike: DC ∞

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give us a best thing and a worst thing so far??

best: job
worst: commute

-most interesting random fact about a person from the best category
-modes of transportation in the worst category

if u would plz

runner up for worst (only because i have only witnessed this once and commute is 5 or more times/wk): douchey guys on metro on saturday night talking about how they get away with drunk driving, booty calls, and being generally obnoxious and wearing awful clothing/hairstyles (soul patch, gel in hair, acid wash faux distressed ironic 80s jeans, purple button down over t-shirt, etc.).

-i heard a pretty juicy rumor from best but it's not professionally responsible to share ;) random fact: lots of people in office are from buffalo or have western ny connections. spooky!
-bussux (only runs every 30 min; randomly skips one route btw 7-8pm which is when i usually get to bus stop, so if i miss 7:16 bus, i have to call for ride or take cab; 30 min cycle also means i get to work 20 min early every day bc that's the only way to get there not late based on bus + metro scheduling). the skinny: it takes me 90 min to get home most nights.

i am going to move soon.

oops i misread i thought you asked for worst mode of transport. anyway my modes are: foot, bus, metro.

Today I have to work. It is also ROLLING THUNDER day: memorial biker rally. Gonna be a noisy 7 hrs!!

so yeah, anyone at War on Drugs tonight? probably not. it'll just be me and the band, hanging out, a little bit of me consoling them that no one else showed up for the show, but mainly just learning a lot about one another.

Sorry. Saw North African guitarist Bombino Friday night and yesterday saw actor John Hurt in the overrated one man drama from Samuel Beckett-- “Krapp's Last Tape,”

How was the War on Drugs r n r hotel gig ZS?

it was great! i haven't been to a show all by myself in years, but i actually really enjoyed myself. although, unfortunately they ended the set with a cover of the dead's "touch of grey" (i like the dead, but...not that song), which was a bummer.

i felt so sorry for the opener, though (Cat Martino, who apparently has played keyboards for Sharon Van Etten, and also happens to look exactly like Sharron Van Etten, and who made me feel really guilty because of course she had to be really hot and i had to spend the whole set being a guy thinking about she was really hot). the whole set ran way late because of ambiguous "technical problems". when she took the stage, she said that she only had a 1-minute soundcheck, and sure enough, about 30 seconds into her first song her loopstation pedalboard *POPPED* and then went dead. since all of her songs are based around loops that she gradually adds to and subtracts from, she was unable to improvise around the problem. after a few minutes of painfully awkward stage banter (i felt so sorry for her, it's like a performer's worst nightmare), they fixed it and she started again. unfortunately, though, the disaster repeated itself 3-4 times over her short set, cutting her song off halfway each time. just to cap things off, on the final song, the pickup on her guitar broke. she turned around and grabbed a guitar from War on Drugs and started to play again, but it turned out it was in a wildly different tuning.

anyway, to sum up, it was the most technical difficulties-riddled set i've ever seen in my life, and i've seen a fair share i think!

(sound for War on Drugs was excellent, btw)

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sigh

That's rough.

For those into seeing 2 small rooms worth of photos of DC punk circa 1979 and hearing a discussion of it--this is going on Saturday December 10th at 6 at the Civilian Arts Project gallery near the Convention Center;

Please join the crew that put together this project: Lucian Perkins, Alec MacKaye, Lely Constantinople, and Jayme McLellan for a candid casual discussion on the origin of the work, the inspiration for the writing, the forthcoming book, and the traveling exhibition that is HARD ART DC 1979

Etete gave my friend and I a lot less veggies than when I was there with the ILX/ILE crew (was that over a year ago?)...I think I like Meazza out on Colombia Pike in Arlington more

they also raised they're prices about a year or so ago

I noticed that too. I got more food for less money at Meazza. I still have not tried Ethiopic on H St NE.

hey DC - meetup Friday, featured guest, Stevie D!

Let me know the where and when and I will endeavor to get out the burbs in time to join!

Seconded!

what would be a good place, do you think? something close to metro, i'm assuming, but feel free to suggest something, because i've only lived here a couple years and most of those were spent stranded out in Takoma Park.

i have thai x-ing reservations friday (on the early side) but i could come out afterwards - no particular preference in terms of where

ok, location tbd, but can we can go ahead and set the time? say, 7 pm?

i am down w/ this

lubbock babes, i have no idea who you are, but it would be cool to meet you! :)

also, i'm assuming that since no one was for or against my proposal of 7pm, it was received with awed silence. "7pm...BRILLIANT"

actually my thai x-ing reservation is at 7, but go ahead w/o me and i'll try to catch up after?

omg thai x-ing

had pumpkin curry when i was there last

AMAZING

Other nominations welcome, but if we're looking for Metro accessibility, in Silver Spring there's Mandalay or Quarry House Tavern.

U street of course, but it gets almost too crowded later in the night at every location seemingly there on Friday nights

Arg, normally I'd be all about Mandalay/Quarry House, but that's right by where i used to live and there's a decent possibility of running into my ex there. sorry to bring that kind of bs into this but that would really ruin my night. U st does sound good...I think if we started a little earlier in the night (7 or 8 maybe), we might be able to get around the crowd issue.

z_s, I posted on tru-ilx as "los blue jeans", not that I really established much of an internet persona or anything

oh, cool! and of course i've seen your posts! :)

well i'm not in any condition to make any sort of statement about anything right now, and especially not a suggestion for a decision, and certainly not a decision at all. but tomorrow, by high noon, it would be good if we had a location nailed down.

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everything about this is absurd

the attention to detail is thrilling, from "HEMP LASSO" to "sheriff" sign

RUN
Lisa has an itchy trigger finger
FIGHT in 8 seconds
HEMP LASSO
US NAVY REVOLVER

sheriff

*happylatte presents

HIGH
*RELOADED*
NOON

HEMP LASSO