Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

At the National Gallery this Sunday: Killer of Sheep, with the director present. Anyone else planning on seeing this?

that sounds freaking awesome. i'd like to go, but not certain yet - might have a conflict, trying to meet up at some point this weekend with a good friend who's been through some stuff lately

Burnett never made many movies. I wonder if he's a professor now

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021106500.html

Anyone see these newish Jem Cohen film shorts? I was busy with a family birthday party

I was there, but I didn't think much of the works. Although I do plan to go to the Instrument screening on the 27th.

I've kinda thought all of his stuff was a bit overrated including Instrument.

His non-narrative approach is "interesting" but it doesn't wow me (I was hoping his newer works might offer more).

The newer works were of a piece with his older ones (set up a camera, film hours at random, select seemingly at random snippets from those hours of footage, put a drop d soundtrack over the whole thing).

Burnett never made many movies. I wonder if he's a professor now

I left before the Q&A, but the woman introducing him said he's currently working on a film about Barack Obama's mother.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/20/travel/20110220-SURFACING.html
http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2011/02/in-defense-of-columbia-heights-really-the-neighborhood-is-bigger-than-dc-usa/

Morbidly enjoying the NYT 11th St spot-blow-up/ongoing Prince of Petworth comment frenzy. ("Number 5: I like Silver Spring.") Remind me why I read Prince of Petworth again.

i saw ian mackaye in columbia heights a little over a year ago, so it must be okay

it's been my impression that cherkis has been hating everything in DC for at least a decade and a half. you name it, he hates it. sometimes i wonder why he lives here. i remember columbia heights 10 years ago. my roommate worked there at a nonprofit, we lived nearby, and while i'm not thrilled about a ton of chain stores, it is nice to have chain stores, metro, being able to walk around after dark. better than empty storefronts and frequent shootings and having to drive everywhere because it was dangerous.

Prince of Petworth is great! Always amusing.

"here's a place I walked by! What's up with it?"

"this is a restaurant I heard of! Does anyone know how it is?"

"lost pet!"

"I heard this rumor! It's completely unfounded and I have no idea what I'm saying."

"here's an ugly house/restaurant/streetscape! It looks great!"

I've never read a more frequently updated site with less informed content.

lol

http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2010/03/friday-question-of-the-day-at-what-point-do-dress-codes-go-overboard/

I’ll admit it right away – I hate dress codes. But when I saw this sign on 18th Street in Adams Morgan I couldn’t believe it. “No timberland boots”? How can they possibly single out a brand like that? I mean why not say – no boots? I suppose I can understand places that want to maintain an air of class by banning sneakers and shorts but Timberland Boots? Am I thinking too deeply on this? Or does this seem a bit odd? I know it’s going to go there so I’ll just straight up ask it – is there a racial element to this?

This is a particular classic from last year. (Great comment section, too: "Also people need to be aware and stop putting on blinders, the long white shirts symbolize a cocaine or crack dealer.")

i will subscribe to this newsletter with great rapidity

I have never seen The Red Shoes on the big screen, and if the Metro will permit me, I think I'll head up to the AFI to see it tomorrow.

tuomas of petworth

^^^^^lolz for real

i loled

just plz nobody photoshop him onto a sundae

This $1,900 a month leased Navigator (now 2 of 'em) for DC City Council member Kwame Brown will undoubtedly be used as a political weapon again the city as a whole(although I'm not sure why DC taxpayers are paying for either of them)

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/debonis/2011/02/dc_politicos_react_to_kwame_br.html

TBD.com, the much-touted local-news Web site, will reorganize its news staff, change its focus to arts and entertainment and lose about a third of its 36 staff positions.

Under the reorganized structure, some TBD employees will be reassigned to work on a second Web site, WJLA.com, which is also owned by TBD's parent company, Allbritton Communications of Arlington.

Welp.

Looks like editor Wemple and the former Cp arts writers are still employed at tbd

oh i have so much to say about that but i can't do it here.

Tombot baby!

Guys I saw a picture of tombot baby and her expression is 100% OMGWTF??!?!?!

aww <3

ANybody seen these exhibits yet:

Gaugin exhibit at Nat. Gallery; small room exhibit of photos of DC blues musicians at Govinda Gallery in Georgetown; and at the Nat. Museum of Women in the Arts: "Drawn from Bank of America's renowned collection of international photography, Eye Wonder features more than 100 works by a wide array of artists, including Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Rineke Dijkstra, Gisèle Freund, Candida Höfer, Graciela Iturbide, Dorothea Lange, and Hellen van Meene."

nope

i should def go to that though. that and buddha 2.0 at the freer. i saw gary snyder there saturday for a lecture on east asian poetry, it was pretty rad.

can't believe people are still asking him kerouac questions

'ringo tell us more about what john was like in the studio'

Hey guys, how's it going. I just moved here.

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

welcome sir i am v glad to have you

oh hi

los blue jeans rules fyi

i hadn't heard hide nor hair of you since january so i didn't know what had happened!

you are too kind sir and a great american

yeah, i was pretty busy with work, moving, etc. actually, I'm going to CT for a week tomorrow morning

welcome! the weather's great!

lol

you def need to be made aware of this thread

Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Welcome? Whereabouts are you residing?

uh I meant Welcome!, not Welcome?

Thanks?! I'm in Bethesda, renting an accessory apartment in one of the residential neighborhoods. Everything pretty groovy so far.

I lived in Bethesda when I first moved to the area--convenient place to live, but I encourage you to make the leap over into DC proper at some point!

HAI QUINCIE

Um where were you on 3/5???

:(

Huh?

A Duke reference?