Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

I'm thinking Friday may be better just to give a little more time to ppl for planning etc. we are staying with my brother in SE.

Omg so glad I saw this! I want to meet the infamous dip!

Okay here's the deal:

- my brother is playing guitar at a show tonight and we are trying to go to it
- also trying to meet up with a singing friend from back in the day prob for dinner

I don't know the details for the show otherwise I'd give them, I just know its a rock band. If ppl want to come to it I can find more info, otherwise we might have to do tomorrow.

INFO:

8pm doors, Axum is a grungy ethiopian spot, 1934 9th St. NW Washington, District of Columbia 20009
$5 cover

i will try to make it! how long will you be there?

Probably for a while, I think my brother goes onstage at 9

I will be wearing a Donkey Kong t-shirt

WE ARE HERE, COME BY AND DRINK WITH US

sorry i couldn't make it :(

this weekend is full of visiting family but if there are any other goings on i will do my best to get there!

well that was a fun time. how are dcilxors faring with power, etc? ours came back last night but pepco tells my sister their estimate is 7 days.

Our power never goes out, but my in-laws who live a few blocks away usually don't get their power back for a few days after one of these things happens, so we always end up hosting the contents of their refrigerator.

I'm really thankful that we still have a/c. My baby came down with an ear infection/fever on Friday and keeping her cool is a priority.

No power; currently working on alternative living arrangements because it is Too Fucking Hot. Spent last night with friends in Calvert Co who have both power and a POOL. Still here, actually.

I lost power for a little while on Friday, and internet gone until late last night. Guess we got lucky in this part of Alexandria.

So lucky: no power loss. Very relieved as friend was staying from the UK and cousin is on his way.

Still no power at my ffx place

found effects?

bro had power, no cable

Had a flight out of DC about 20 minutes before the storm hit, got back this afternoon and my power never even went out. Yay for buried power lines.

My power was out for a bit but it came back. Sorry I missed DJP but was busy out in Maryland at Bat Mitzvah with relatives

Today was supposed to be my first day of work at a new job and I got sent home as soon as I got there. No power for the whole office.

Nice. Got to my job and was sent home too.

Finally got my power back last night. For all the talk of a "new" Washington, the place continues to exemplfy "Northern charm and Southern efficiency."

new Washington, same Pepco

i bitch about dominion sometimes but then i remember it could be worse and i could have pepco!

My parents' block in Arlington still has no power. It kinda blows since I am home this week.

Loving u friends on 16th who have power and are putting us up in their guest room <3 <3 <3

Kinda sucking for the cats, though. S suggested we shave them, as though that would not produce more problems than we already have. . .

apparently you ppl like to do vacays in Rehoboth--is anyone there btwn now and Thurs morn?

i am doing vacay in miami! starting: tomorrow :)

No Rehoboth till August for me.

A+ choice though.

Yay for buried power lines.

We all should have 'em but I guess power companies and local governments think that's too pricey to do

you know it is bad when you are considering abandoning DC for New Jersey until the power is back :(

*claws off face*

Aw actually I am now in New Brunswick (!) having a great time so yay to NJ! Also Stevie any interest in DC house sitting in Dec???

OMG!! Where in NB are you?! And also hells yes!!

I am staying at the hotel we call the Heimlich, though its actual name is something else, let me see. . . oh yeah Heldrich. I'm here for two more nights! Tell me fun stuff to do!

I'll txt you about the house sitting! That would be so awesome, kitties would be thrilled, as would all dcilxors.

Oh damn I remember when that was being built. I used to take classes at the art school across the street; I remember one time they were having some sort of *very distinguished* event and they had a red carpet that led from the entrance of the hotel to the entrance of the Mason Gross building and it was the most preposterous thing.

There's not much to do in NB except go to basement hardcore/punk shows. Most all of the 4000 pizza places serve falafel and other Middle Eastern foodstuffs, which is charming. If you really want to eat like the locals though I strongly recommend getting a fat sandwich on Easton Ave somewhere (the standard is the Fat Darrell which is chicken fingers, moz stix, fries and marinara, or the even better Fat Bitch which also has cheesesteak and swaps marinara for ketchup). Around your part of town, I remember Old Bay being a decent enough bar and Harvest Moon Brewery's pretty good too. The Zimmerli museum might have something decent though nothing compared to DC. Rutgers Gardens is supposed to be good too though you'd have to drive. Thomas Sweet's and Sanctuary are good for ice cream; the latter has a comic book shop and a really good buffalo veggie quesadilla. Next door is a great hot dog joint too. You're also a few doors down from a handful of decent theaters too though I never really went to any of them.

Also Olde Queen's campus is pretty to walk around but also very small and also lol at my recommendations of fun stuff to do being "eat food that a drunk 19 year old would eat".

Stuff opens and closes so quickly there that it's probably pretty different from 2 years ago. If you've got an afternoon to kill you could stroll down George St to Easton and walk up that, but there probably won't be much besides cheap food and awful bars. It's a city lacking any sort of hidden treasures.

This is my second trip to NB in as many months, and it is actually kind of growing on me! I have not yet gotten over to campus as I am supposedly working, but maybe this evening or tomorrow. A Fat Bitch sounds right up my alley!

Anyway sorry DC thread for so much NJ talk.

heard there's some pretty decent ethiopian in NB if you're missing DC

Dude there is an ethiopian restaurant on this very block, but I am stuck here with yet another husband who has injera issues!

Where is the man who seeks injera? Where?

Makeda iirc; supposed to be pricey but good I think? My friend used to work there

^^^that's the one!

Going to Frog and Peach tonight; excited for Fat Bitches tomorrow!

That post is basically "

Wait I was trying to come up w a good simile and accidentally hit post! But it's like saying "I'm wearing my Cartier diamonds tonight and I'm so excited to try out my new Claire's charm bracelet tomorrow!!"

hahah

It is soooo hot out, so when I go out for lunch I don't want to slog too far. If I want to try out this "jersey" "pizza," should I go to Angel's, Douglas, Filippo's, or Panico's?

Oh and Frog and Peach was closed for summer vacation but we are going to try again tonight. Spouse's work is picking up the tab up to $75, so we might as well. New Brunswick seems so inexpensive compared to DC! The beer prices are amaaaaaaaazing.

Are these Peter Greenaway movies at the National Gallery (in DC not NB...ha) this weekend worth seeing:

http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/greenaway.shtm#remjaccuse

Though Peter Greenaway (born 1942, Wales) is one of Europe's most cerebral and eccentric filmmakers, he was trained as a painter. Finding correlations between painting and filmmaking in his own practice, Greenaway believes that cinema should move away from "the text" (or script) as its time-honored underpinning and instead be based solely on images. Residing now in Holland, he has embarked on a series of idiosyncratic works about Dutch art.

Rembrandt's "J'Accuse"
July 7 at 4:00PM

Nightwatching
July 8 at 4:30PM

I've never seen them, and I'm pretty ambivalent about Greenaway in general, but those both sound kind of cool.

That new print of Celine and Julie Go Boating is playing at the National Gallery next weekend (14th) if anyone has a spare 190 minutes.

xp oh then for sure, tap that shit! Frog & Peach is supposed to be really great. Douglas is terrible and pretty much just for ppl too lazy to walk to Filippo's, but Filippo's isn't that good either. Panico is excellent but kinda gourmet; if you want an excellent cheap slice I always loved King's, PJ's, and Ta Ta's (<--actual name) though they might be a bit of a hike from the Heldo