Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

I was going to wander the museums next week, so I'll put this on my list.

I <3 him and I really want to see that but I just moved to Seattle, hope I visit back home in time to see it. And by "hope" I mean "I'll have to plan to."

Electronic Superhighway is one of my favorite works of art.

8 months, I shd be able to swing that.

As a newly unemployed person I am going to avail myself of ALL of the free museums in Jan/Feb!!! Thanks for the tip Stevie.

Electronic Superhighway is one of my favorite works of art.

Oh yeah mine too. I didn't notice until yesterday that Idaho's video was just footage of piles of potatoes and I laughed a lot harder than I probably should have in a quiet museum

This Vergara photo exhibit at the National Building Museum could be worth seeing also:

http://www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/detroit-is-no-dry-bones.html

still need to see the lichtenstein before it goes

me too

http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/bestbites/food-restaurant-news/dining-at-level-3-todd-klimans-most-memorable-meals-of-2012.php

tldr but I might later

Saw the Serial Portraits photo exhibit at the National Gallery of Art West Wing the other day (some nice Stieglitz, Friedlander, Nan Goldin and others works) and today, the "Detroit is No Dry Bones" and "Detroit Disassembled" photo exhibits at the National Building Museum in DC. More than "ruin porn," as some naysayers would argue, these are fascinating photos of abandoned Detroit that don't seem too exploitive (some buildings and blocks now covered with trees and growth; others show new life or at least new paint)

Still haven't seen Nam June Paik; Lichtenstein; or that newspapers in collage paintings one at National Gallery

fuck I wish I saw that Detroit stuff

but really go see NJP, why not tomorrow?

the lichtenstein was badass. i didn't realize he'd had a whole fascination with chinese landscapes at one point--gorgeous stuff imo

http://www.bettertotravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/20120606-133112.jpg

^^^ but god the enormity of the thing in the room

oh my god that's gorgeous

rawr why am I in Seattle, should've gone home for xmas :(

Some of these are still showing in January. Need to see 'em before they're gone

Saw the Nam June Paik exhibit yesterday. What a wacky guy. Have not finished reading the W. Post article grumbling about which Paik items were emphasized in the exhibit, and which ones the author liked more.

Ate twice lately at Hong Kong Palace in the 7 Corners Shopping Center near Eden Center in VA. Spicy Sichuan, not your normal American Chinese food. North Szechwan (alternate spelling) Spicy Cold Bean-Starch Noodles, and the Dan Dan noodles (both appetizers) are awesome and unique (at least to me!).

Saw that traveling "women in rock" exhibit at the Nat. Museum of Women in the Arts on its closing day. Some nice artifacts and videos, but not tied together well and too boomer heavy. Then finally saw the big retrospective Lichtenstein exhibit that I largely liked. It's just there through next Sunday the 13th I think.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/washingtons-economic-boom-financed-by-you.html?pagewanted=5&hp&_r=0

Whatever happens to Washington, it seems hard to believe that there won’t be enough people willing to pony up $3,000 a month to inhabit Abdo’s latest vision, to drink lattes on his sidewalk cafe and walk on his arts walk.

oh good this article again

washington, dc, food destination

2 pts for 'artisanal'

DC at 44 on that NYT food list--

In recent years, the capital has seen the arrival of a vibrant, independent food scene — one that’s blossoming just in time to welcome a renewed Obama administration. Last November, in a gritty northeast corner of town, Union Market opened, a gleaming food hall featuring local farmers, artisanal vendors and stalls like Rappahannock Oyster Co., which offers quick, luxurious bites of Chesapeake shellfish. Meanwhile a handful of talented young chefs is bucking the city’s traditional steakhouse culture: Mike Isabella, a former Top Chef contestant, at his Italian restaurant Graffiato; Erik Bruner-Yang at the Taiwanese-style ramen bar Toki Underground; and Johnny Monis at Little Serow, a Thai-inspired spot that Bon Appétit named one of 2012’s best new restaurants. Providing some background for it all is a new permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian, “Food: Transforming America’s Table 1950-2000,” which traces major changes in the nation’s food culture. — Ann Mah

Yes, all DC was known for till 2012 was its steakhouse culture

Toki Underground is the fuckin shit tho

real talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E4gK4HFEw88

"The Legend of Cool Disco Dan" movie doc trailer ('80s DC graffiti artist and more)

and this:

DC Funk-Punk Throwback Jam

Trouble Funk, Scream, Shady Groove, Black Market Baby, DJ Kool, Junkyard, Youth Brigade, Static Disruptors, Worlds Collide, w/ Special Guests Stinky Dink, DJ Tommy B and more, Hosted by Henry Rollins

Sunday February 24
3:00 PM
$25
9:30 Club

Celebrating PUMP ME UP: The DC Subculture of the 1980s at the Corcoran Gallery & the release of the film THE LEGEND OF COOL "DISCO" DAN

got my tickets

Just read at lunch Sietsema in the Post Express sorta dissing Hanoi House, the Hilton Brothers Vietnamese restaurant. How many DC places do those guys own now?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2013/01/25/komi-no-longer-washingtonians-top-restaurant-in-d-c/

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2013/01/25/tonight-sean-hannity-exposes-boomtown-d-c/

Missed this Fox News expose on DC and politics and money. I'm sure it was insightful

huh. this exact subject was already exposéed a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/washingtons-economic-boom-financed-by-you.html

Yep, mentioned upthread (I always forget to read far enough upthread too)

You guys are about to get 69F??!

and it's snowing/ice raining right now. then wednesday, supposedly high of 61F (last night it was saying 70F!), then friday, snow again.
?!?!

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...

But she doesn't think so:

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cindy_adams/nation_crap_ital_HhE3movzcOu5eJzrxfwuwO

Help us. Help your country. Help your capital. Help Washington, DC. Clean it up. Drive into it, drive by the approach, see how rank it is. How murky. How smelly. How putrid. How vile. The area’s a sewer. It lacks only a dead body decaying there.

tbf there probably is a dead body decaying there

more like the STINKIN monument amirite

It absolutely horrifies me that people write things like that.

"In open areas around gutters, roadways, open deserted lots, it’s discarded soda cans, graffiti, syringes, rotted junk, rubber tires, strewn paper, chalk marks, cigarette butts, dog poop, empty bottles, thrown out plastic bags, open garbage, drug paraphernalia, abandoned needles, filthy rags, needles, junky clothes, broken plumbing facilities, backyards and front yards filled with detritus. Elvis alive is probably in there."

syringes, drug paraphernalia, abandoned needes, and needles all at the same time!

It's like fifteen paragraphs consisting of lists of things and ending with a ridiculous sentence fragment like "And it's shameful." What is she even saying? I'm tempted to fault her for identifying a problem w/o suggesting any solutions but she's not even identifying a problem; basically it's "I saw some urban decay in a major metropolitan area; here's some hyperbole and a lot of misconceptions I have about stuff."

"i drove to washington once"

also lmao @ "geezers"

christ on a cracker has this person ever traveled to a city in a developing/third-world country? After three weeks in Sri Lanka, it took me a while to get over how relatively spic-and-span our city is!

oh god why did I read that. Is that how she always writes? It hardly qualifies as "writing" in the formal sense. Ugh wanna punch her. Hack is too kind a word.