-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)
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.
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
LASSO!
Oh god I have to go to bed.
from 77 thread some may know that my own HIGH NOON mega job thing was postponed, but was revived on the fly with big boss inviting me to drinks after work?? Anyway drinks were had, things went well (I think?), and now I am up waaaay past my bedtime :(
*HIGH NOON FIVE* awesome!!
ok, it’s long past HIGH NOON, so:
How about Matchbox at 7:30?
713 H St NW, Washington DC 20001
Chinatown location, block away from metro
It has food in case people are hungry, also plenty of drinks (http://www.matchboxchinatown.com/index.php/menu/drinks)
Anyone have any objections? I could also make a reservation for a table, although I’m not sure how many are coming. Quincie, los blue jeans, govern yourself accordingly, and j.lu., me, stevie d... So I’ll make a reservation for 6–7 people at 7:30?
Sounds good! Guys what should I do today?
no reservations for matchbox on a Friday :-/
but i’ll be there a little before 7:30, so i’ll try to snag us a spot. i’ll probably be wearing either a green coat or, if the coat is off, a grey longsleeve shirt that says
MIDI
MIDI
MIDI
on it. also i’ll be the really skinny guy who looks like he’s 14.
you came you saw you synthd
damn i really want
veni
midi
vici
on a shirt
wish you could be here, hoos :-/
Where is a Hoos anyway???
boston, i believe
what no
i’m here
oh lol yeah i think people think i’m in boston because of my “boston” status update on fb in solidarity w/occ boston?
but i am here, trying to figure out if i can make it out tonight
well steve, if nothing else i’ll be there. :)
quincie, j.lu., lubbock babes—are you still planning on coming? 2 people said via email they wouldn’t be able to come, but i don’t know anyone’s real name so \_(..)_/
Sorry, I won’t be able to make it—I got up too early and am dying on my feet. Have a good time!
yes, I will be there
probably not exactly at 1930
Quncie can’t make it :-( she will be missed
trying to decide if i want to go to my officr christmas party tonight in arlington or not—either way i’m gonna show up SOMEWHERE in an ill fitting suit
shit, i set my alarm for 6:50 am instead of 6:50 pm and overslept my nap! heading out door now!
(i’ll be there at about 7:45—sorry for running late, d’oh!)
If anyone shows up say yr here for the table of 4 for Steve!
Can’t make it either-
curmudgeon St3ve
Y’all have fun
we did! it was awesome to meet stevie d (who is in the midst of a hellish open-to-close shift at work right now, R.I.P.) and los blue jeans!
we did miss the presence of the other 18 people who weren’t able to come, however
(ICE BURN)
i really wanted to stop by, at least for a drink—couldn’t convince my friends to go to chinatown
thai x-ing was fun though—i wouldn’t quite rank it up there with jitlada/lotus of siam/sripraphai in terms of the absolute BEST thai places i’ve been to, but i can’t imagine that there are many multicourse thai tasting menus of this quality for $40, and the peaks of the meal (pumpkin curry, cucumber soup) were awesome
hey thanks guys it was fun!
God, that shift was hellish. I ended up going to U Hall til like 12:30 and didn’t fall asleep at my friends til 2h later. I woke up in Arlington at 5:45 and then had to be in Philly for an 8hr shift by noon ;_;
sorry i missed you, stevie :(
“it’s not eden... and there’s no prairie anymore.”
the pulitzer photography exhibit at newseum is so heavy.
i am actually considering a membership there after spending 2 consecutive afternoons and feeling like i didn’t even scratch the surface.
Many of those photos are heart-wrenching. The Newseum is just so expensive.
i got a groupon a while ago! half price. i’d been waiting to go for a year and a half. but at $10 for 2 days, it’s definitely worth it.
A friend of mine got the groupons and that’s how I finally saw the place. But their regular rate is pricey imho for what they have—$20 something, and its $75 a year for a membership- it gets you a 5 percent discount on lunch at The Source by Wolfgang Puck and Advance notice of cutting-edge programs and other stuff
The Harry Callahan photos across the street in the West Wing of the National Gallery for a little while longer, are worth seeing (and free)
Deeeee Ceeee
Is anyone going to see Mark Robinson sing at Galaxy Hut tonight? GF out of town, buddies can’t go, I’m gonna go anyway I think
Or maybe not. Not sure I want to stand around through the 2 opening acts
http://www.theruinedcapitol.blogspot.com/
An architectural eulogy of Washington D.C.
that’s awesome, thanks for linking to that!
Some great photos on that blog
yah that rulez
Uh oh,looks like Capitol Police want to keep Hoos and others from the mall. Capitol Police taking over from National Park Service jurisdiction re parts of the mall.
Unrelated, I wonder how long that project to put new grass and whatever underneath it will take on the mall. It’s all fenced in now.
I like old buildings as much as anyone but that Ruined Capitol site is ridiculously one sided and would be better off without the copy.
Also phrases like “When we set out to replace our European and American architectural heritage” always set off warning bells for me like maybe the writer is trying to say something else...
Good catch. Skimmed over that phrase
Uh oh,looks like Capitol Police want to keep Hoos and others from the mall. Capitol Police taking over from National Park Service jurisdiction re parts of the mall.
read about this today—really amazed that they didn’t even bother putting out an official explanation. i feel like the puzzled quotes in the post article kinda say it all.
Kinda fishy.
So I saw Ian Svenonius’ band Chain & the Gang with Heavy Breathing(former members of Apes) at the Black Cat backstage last night. I have to admit I am now officially bored with Ian’s between-song chatting and his average singing/talking. But quite a dc scene there last night—Mary Timony (now in Wild Flag); Mark Robinson; Richards & Malitz from the Post; Ian and Alec Mackaye; Erin from Bratmobile; Eli Janney
Kinda fishy.
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i meeeeeeeeeeean i don’t know that we provoked it per se—especially not by planning #J17 stuff, as I keep hearing—it was already in the spending bill that passed a few weeks ago. it’s more troubling development for the long-run than “oh man they’re strategizing against us.”
I finally ate at Horace & Dickey’s on 12 st NE today (after having my cholesterol checked this morning!
where should i go for brunch tomorrow? it is a special brunch but i don’t want to spend too much...
Don’t know how much it is but what about Georgia Brown’s?
Birch & Barley!