Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

Tabard Inn is great all around!

please do better at meeting up with ppl than I did ;_;

Tabard is awesome, will totally have all the drinks with you there, or anywhere.

DJP next time stay loooooooonger!

Cool, that's good to hear. I'll monitor this thread and check back in when we have a better idea of our plans.

We're staying at the Tabard Inn, which I noticed, after reading this entire thread yesterday (Jesus Christ), has been spoken of approvingly. Or at least the restaurant/bar has. Anyway!

one of my good friends is the bartender there! and yeah, it's great. i'll definitely try to stop by when you're there!

which bartender, Z S?

Tim B!

ah I do not know T B

He's great! mid-20s, blonde hair, looks sort of like a 1940s movie star. also a hell of a bartender!

I love Tim B!

Not sure I can make it anyway, but any thoughts on this Hong Kong movie at 7 at the Freer tonight?

Like the famous Henry David Thoreau essay with which it shares a title, Life without Principle is a warning about the dangers of greed. This tense drama from veteran director Johnnie To (Vengeance, Mad Detective) taps into the zeitgeist by telling three linked stories of Hong Kong’s money-obsessed culture. A financial analyst (Denise Ho) pushes high-risk investments on her unsuspecting clients, a smalltime gangster (Lau Ching Won) plays the Chinese stock market to raise quick bail money for a friend, and a humble cop (Richie Jen) finds himself in need of dough when his wife puts a down payment on an expensive pad. Their fates intertwine thanks to a bag containing $5 million in stolen money and a stock market crash. (Dir.: Johnnie To, 2011, 107 min., Cantonese with English subtitles)

DC 2012:

H Street NE now has a place to satisfy your cravings for whole wheat-crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce

fact: nobody on H Street has ever craved a whole-wheat crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce. I know this because nobody in the WOLRD has ever craved a whole-wheat crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce.

crap, would have gone to that movie

Ugh, Julie and Celine Go Boating is on earlier than I thought. Got some things in the morning, plus train is down between Braddock Road and Reagan. I can see missing it.

waou, of rivette i've actually only seen la religieuse, maybe i will try to catch this now that my plans tomorrow got cancelled

hey i finally have a valid ID again (lol) and will have a real paycheck and am not a full-time rabblerouser now so soon so i'll actually be able to join yall at some beering

finally made it out to the much-loved taqueria la placita in hyattsville tonight - holy shit that was great. pork cheek, pork belly, cecina highly recommended

taqueria la placita rocks my world

also congrats to a hoos on re-upping the job/ID/life situation!

most definitely

big congrats HOOS!

Yay hoos! Look forward to seeing you (and all of the dcilxors) at some point! We are planning a backyard kegger in Sept/Oct, will keep all posted. Band may be involved. Also taco truck.

Um

dude Stevie you are a dcilxor at heart, are you not?

crap, would have gone to that movie

― american consumer goods (los blue jeans),

I missed all the movies at museums this weekend too, but did see "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (I liked this Louisiana magic realist meets Maurice Sendak effort despite its flaws and what Ms. Holliday in the W. Post attacked as patronizing faux-k culture) and "The Rise and Fall of the Clash" at the Positive Force benefit showing at St. Stephens Church. The latter movie was shown on a tiny screen and was all about the decline of the Clash(management issues, drug addiction, and more negative stuff)

Ha no that was more an "Un, that sounds insane"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/amid-the-districts-crisis-the-i-told-you-so-gloating-begins/2012/07/15/gJQA9dq8mW_story.html?hpid=z4

Post columnist Courtland Milloy wants more help for D.C.'s poor, but he has an interesting way of getting to that point:

Well look who’s back: the Fenty brigade, led by true believers of former D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty. Among them are my nemeses — whom I have referred to before as myopic twits because of their inability to see that dog parks, bike paths and cupcake parlors do not make a “world-class city.”

And still they come to gloat.

....But Gray has played right into their hands.

How could the myopics even imagine that the city was “headed in the right direction” under Fenty, as polls showed?

The District’s poverty rate shot up to its highest level in a decade, and the employment rate for African American adults dropped to a 20-year low. One in three black children were living in poverty. The income gap was among the highest in the nation.

I will leave this to dc residents to comment on specifics if they'd like; or just Milloy's abrasive style.

I always thought that the reason the city was heading in the right direction under Fenty was that he wasn't blatantly corrupt.

Sulaimon Brown calls rally for Mayor Gray "literally ridiculous & unconscionably stupid" in news release.

http://i.imgur.com/yjJZk.gif

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2012/07/20/mini-golf-at-the-national-building-museum-a-hole-by-hole-account/#more-75977

photos of the Building Museum mini-golf course have me less interested in going (but I will still probably go anyway)

a couple of good holes on that course, LOTS of shitty ones. Kevin Roche exhibit is totally worth seeing though.

I still haven't made it there yet. Played a boring course in Ocean City last week

anybody going to this?

http://dcist.com/2012/07/my_my_how_far_weezer_has_fallen.php

Won't that be a very crowded zoo? I guess their popularity is not what it once was if they're at a mall. Sometimes I don't mind crowds, and I like some old Weezer songs, but that one's not for me.

There will probably be less people at the National Gallery of Art for this:

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italian master filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, arguably the most influential director of the postwar era. The National Gallery of Art joins the American Film Institute and the Italian Cultural Institute, Washington, in a retrospective of his most distinguished works.

OK movie geeks, what should I see. http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/antonioni100.shtm

I've only seen the last four (L'Avventura, L'Eclisse, La Notte, and Red Desert) and I recommend you see L'Avventura if you haven't. Really though it depends on if you can vibe with Antonioni or not.

woah, awesome. i want to see l'eclisse on the big screen.

EVERYONE EVERYONE GO SEE RED DESERT ON A BIG SCREEN

Damn I might plan an entire trip around that

Seriously it's prob one of the top 10 or 5 most gorgeously composed, visually striking films I've ever seen. The colors!!!!!

damn, wish it wasn't showing at 2:30 on a monday. :(

Labor day, right?

wait, it is?

YES!

Also quincie you are being paged to the HIV thread bcz I would really like to hear yr 2c abt the whole thing

OK, I shall report to that thread!

i ran into govern yourself accordingly on the metro today!!! :D

good seeing you dude! that united ticket's still yours if you wanna go tomorrow

fact: nobody on H Street has ever craved a whole-wheat crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce. I know this because nobody in the WOLRD has ever craved a whole-wheat crusted pizza with mushroom truffle sauce.

I am pretty sure this describes my h street corridor-dwelling coworker.

Hi friends, I am not reading ILX so much these days why bc lyfe, srsly, but pls to email me when faps happen if you can?

<3

Hi T! I have missed you! Let's get together and curse the summer.

I am now officially resident in Toronto (though am in the UK at the moment). Other than DC ilxors (obv), I think I'll miss the small-town, can-really-get-to-know-it feel the most. I like big cities too, though, so should be ok.