Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

http://ourconvergence.org/events/syria-sacred-spaces-ancient-prayers

Jason Hamacher who has drummed in various DC bands went to Syria from 2005 to 2010 (before the fighting) and photographed ancient buildings, a synagogue & churches plus people and he recorded Syrian tranditional chant singers. He is exhibiting his photos (and the singing is heard) at Convergence church on Quaker Lane in Alexandria, near Fairlington/Arlington. Its only there for a little while longer -Wednesday through Sat. 10 am to 5. Metrobus accessible. If you can make it you should go. I was impressed (some of the pics are more interesting for who he photographed rather than his technique, but his technique/style is pretty good too).

From 2005-2010, Jason was granted unprecedented access to the Syrian city of Aleppo. He went to document ancient religious traditions and, inadvertently, captured the apex of Syria’s modernization before the eruption of civil war. Many of the people and places that appear in this exhibit have passed on, vanished, or been destroyed.
LOST ORIGIN SOUND SERIES -
Jason Hamacher created the Lost Origin Sound Series to introduce and share his archive of cultural relics with the world. Over the course of his travels, Hamacher was fortunate to record several albums worth of sacred music which are being released as a multi-volume series, Sacred Voices of Syria, showcasing ancient Sufi, Armenian, Syriac, and Assyrian musical traditions. The first album, “Ancient Sufi Invocations and Forgotten Songs from Aleppo” debuts on vinyl April 19 and CD & Digital May 6th.
www.LostSoundSeries.com to hear a sample.
Website: www.lostorigins.com
Washington Post Article (Before and after pics): http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-syria-i-saw-now-in-ruins/2013/09/27/3629abf8-2470-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html

Hi DCilxors. I am really, really, really looking forward to returning to DC for keeps on May 2. I have spent really, really, really too much time in suburban Houston and Birmingham. I really, really, really need to GTFO of the deep south.

Sooooooo I haven't actually lived in DC for just over a year, and need to get back in to the swing of things in town. What are your daily/weekly must-reads? I'll get the WaPo delivered because I am old-school like that, and the City Paper on Thursdays, and my beloved Northwest Current, but what else? PoP? DCist? Other stuff?

My school/internship schedule will leave me with more time than usual to Do Shit in DC, and I plan to take full advantage while I can.

Also: any DC apps I need on my iPhone?

Thanking u and looking forward to catching up soon.

Welcome back -- I still get the Post, too, but it has fallen off in recent years. Curmudgeon's shows list (referenced on this thread or Capital Swamp) is good, too -- I get hip to a lot of stuff checking these and the occasional website (mostly to see what films are playing at the museums). PoP is still the guide to clueless DC gentrification (National Zoo shooting thread comments are today's egregious example). Only DC app I found useful is the Metro one -- there is also a bus one that is/was good.

Thanx

Two days off and I might check out a museum or two tomorrow. Haven't been to anything in well over a year. Best exhibits worth catching?

Might go Thursday though as I could possibly be seeing Factory Floor.

maybe I can hit that today, along w/ Winogrand and Bldg Museum.

Def go to that destructive art show at Hirshhorn.

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Cheers!

hey quince i hear visiting Philadelphia is like SUCH A COOL THING TO DO these days, idK?

oh hai my internship schedule gives me 4 day weekends so I am so down with that! I love Philly! I wanna see your new place! I have a housewarming present for you that I have not yet gotten in the mail!

OMG FOR SERIOUS????

New place is not ready yet and cannot really house guests (or at least not for like a little while when I get a futon or something) but YES PLZ COME TO VISIT

Have thermarest and sleeping bag; will purchase and cook food and paint!

I may return to DC on weekend of 5/17

and i hang w/ you in Philly sometime before July 4, kid

Morbs you are welcome at our place (two cats, zero kids, walk to metro and bus) :)

ya'll may roll your damn eyes at me over this but WTF are these renderings in this Bloomingdale rental ad?

Oh hay here: http://realestate.popville.com/listing/3yd-MRIS-DC8325370/32-channing-street-northwest-bloomingdale-washington-dc-20001/

what are you talking about

HEY MAN SRS Q I mean u know me, u know I have no eye for this stuff.

OK OK now that I look at it again but I mean IS NOTHING SACRED jesus I would have gotten a rendering done of my rental prop if I knew that were a thing.

that said, there is nothing like spending a couple of weeks in Alabama to make one really, really yearn for DC real estate.

I mean I look at real estate listings here (Birmingham) and I think I should be envious but instead I am like "OMG GMTF OUT OF HERE I DON'T CARE WHAT IT COSTS"

that said, pt II:

My parents--aging, as are all or our parents (and us)--have announced that, while they would be thrilled if we would move down (to Alabama) to be near them, they know that this is So Not Gonna Happen.

Their choices, when they stop driving (because you can't get to shit without a car here), are: 1) California with my brother or 2) DC with me.

They choose DC. The claim this is that they are not "in to" California. I think it has more to do with their expectations of the eldest daughter.

They claim that they absolutely do not want to live with me/us. Just near me. So, DCilxors, where the hell do I put aged, non-driving, need-access-to-medical-care parents?

Srs Q. My mom has suggested a place in Gaithersburg where her Great Aunt Elsie once lived. Do I really want to have to drive to Gaitherburg to see the aging 'rents in assisted living/nursing care? What are my in DC options? What do they cost.

Ah fuck

Sorry about this. Don't know your DC options.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-d-stryker/save-the-smithsonian-folklife_b_5239900.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Park Service wants the mall with perfect country club lawn and noone using it. Grrrrr

i believe my feelings on the park service are well established.

back for a whirlwind visit a week from today... got a cheap Airbnb 2 blox from the W House for Thu-Fri! quincie, i'll let u know if i need your help after that. :)

Yes, please do!

apparently there is going to be some kind of a DELUGE on Friday, so I better hole up at the Natl Gal or a Smithsonian.

What will the DELUGE of tourists going to the newly reopened Washington Monument do...probably go to Air & Space museum

Another exhibit below, at the Goethe Inst. at 812 7th St NW, maybe of interest to you (classic shots of 20th C. jazz folks):

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/the-heyday-of-blue-note-records-captured-in-photographs/

http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/ver/en12531305v.htm

This Goethe Institute exhibit has the worst hours-- Mon. to Thurs. 9 to 5, Fri. 9 to 3

yeah I saw that in the other thread

I do have a rez for the Lincoln Cottage on Sat afternoon. Maybe I'll stop by Rock Creek Cemetery to say hi to Gore Vidal while I'm up there.

also are any of these allegedly undouchey bars worth drinking in? (the ones that are still open, anyway) I've only been to the Red Room i think.

http://brightestyoungthings.com/articles/the-least-douchey-bars-in-dc.htm

I like the Rock N Roll Hotel but it's a bitch to get to and I've only ever drank there while waiting for a gig to start. Going tonight, actually.

The Saloon, Red Room, Red Derby, Tune Inn. In terms of newer places Showtime in Bloomingdale is great.

standard DC caveat applies, which is that most places are douchey at 10pm on a weekend night and even the douchiest of places are fine during off hours.

my faves are saloon (tasty beverages, more expensive) and showtime (less expensive, best jukebox in town). there's also boundary stone across the street from showtime, which has decent drinks and apparently really great hot wings

ok, now i know where Bloomingdale is

Showtime Lounge, 113 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_05/the_usurpers_last_few_days050341.php#

According to this blogpost a bunch of tea party types are heading to the capitol Friday,

well it looks like I will get in around 4-5 thx to BoltBus delay... Seeing Shakespeare across the street from Gaga at Verizon Center tonight. :0 If i need to eat near there...?

Food Trucks! Or will they be gone by then?

haha, i mean like 6-6:30. i will probably wolf down a Jumbo Pizza slice on arrival if i have to.

Chinatown Express is on the NE corner of the Verizon Center block and is pretty legit and cheap. Daikaya is on the East side of the block -- downstairs is ramen, upstairs is all kinds of (pricier) Japanese food. Noodle Boy will be closed by 4-5 pm, but also worth mentioning.

Morbs, Gaga got moved to earlier in the week. Wizards game 6 basketball playoff game tonight against Indiana at Verizon.

Some Sichuan Chinese menu items at Full Kee at 509 H St NW are pretty good, although some folks think the place is too dumpy and don't like some of the menu

Yeah, i've eaten at that dump twice before! too filling for tonight tho, I would be in a coma before Falstaff gets renounced.

NY Times writer likes restaurants, the Library of Congress, H St Country Club and more in NE and SE DC but re DC coffee she says while she's at the Tune Inn:

The coffee is meh — a problem throughout much of the city

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/travel/36-hours-in-washington-dc.html?hpw&rref=travel

I really thought the Wizard were gonna have a game 7. Oh well, wait till next year.

Wizards

The coffee is meh — a problem throughout much of the city

shocking that a 60 year old dive with a neon "MIXED DRINKS" sign in the window would have "meh" coffee

Enjoyed the latte I had at Dolcezza last week.

Morbs, another Saturday option

Saturday at 3:30 at the Gala Hispanic Theatre is the DC premiere of "Looking For Johnny, The Legend of Johnny Thunders!"
Directed by Danny Garcia ("The Rise & Fall of The Clash") who will be present for post-film Q&A
3:30-5:30pm, Saturday, May 17th
Gala Theatre, 3333 14th Street NW
(1 1/2 blocks from Columbia Heights metro)

sorry ive gotta go up to Lincoln's cottage at 2pm, after switching rooms

also Jon Langford co-wrote a musical that's at Fringe, but the 'pay anything' matinee is tomw as well