Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

tyooooooooooou

Hey DC I missed you so much it's good to be home!

Also a big welcome to HOOS aka the car driver!

where have you been, dude?

How was Japan I.D.? We need an architecture, food, drink and music rundown...

oh japan that is dope

hey y'all

how's yr rally going, we were driving around 17th & Constitution and saw nothing

You're in DC again? Hey dere!
IDK just got back into town and decided the people on the metro were annoying enough so I didn't walk there.

i decided to sleep.

I went to the gym. Heading home I heard the last few minutes on C-span.

I just got back. It took two hours to get from the mall to Glover park.

ha, I have no idea why we missed the whole thing, we must have been driving by right in the middle of it but we saw nothing

rally was mildly diverting, though i was kinda puzzled at jon introducing kid rock as though he was elvis or something

favorite sign was "LIVE FREE AND DON'T BE A DICK" and i want it to be inscribed in the ilx faq

On CNN coverage I saw a number of anti- Fox News signs including "Fox is my comedy channel; the comedy channel is my news channel." Tuesday's votes and media coverage will likely show that Stewart's goals of sanity and civility will not be met.

Is a Thursday night thing happening?

I am still down! We wanna meet somewheres central I imagine? idk

Hi all! I am back from Mexico (not as exciting as Japan, but hey TACOS).

I am up for FAP and in fact have rejiggered my schedule today so that I could actually make it into the city during actual happy hour hours.

Big Hunt? Has a HOOS been to a Big Hunt yet? It is the scene of many a night of olddcilxdc good times. Someone pick a time, yo.

I can go to big hunt. Does 6:30 sound reasonable? earlier?

sounds good imo

I've just found out about the AFI theatre in Silver Spring. And there's a European film festival on!

6:30 works for me--see ya there! I do not have to go to the suburbs today, so I will not get stuck there again!

6:30 at the Big Hunt works for me. See you all there!

I've just found out about the AFI theatre in Silver Spring. And there's a European film festival on!

― Gukbe, Thursday, November 4, 2010 12:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

AFI is awesome. You just missed their "Noir City" series.

love the AFI. Have to check some of those out.. been watching too much football, time to get some culture.

I'm gunning for Certified Copy. I was also given a coupon for two tickets for the price of one if anyone wants me to forward it on.

Here's the list of movies for the European showcase. "Certified Copy" is the only one I've heard. Anyone hear anything about any of the other films playing?

You just missed their "Noir City" series.

― Moreno, Thursday, November 4, 2010 7:04 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Will be late to the Hunt but will see you there...

Tuesday, After Dark is meant to be good. Romanian New Wave, so ymmv.

i do love new wave iirc

cool. gonna check that one out. there's great burmese food nearby there too btw.

MANDALAYYYYYY

Awwwww Mandalay misses you, 69! BTW have not yet booked tix yet, but will be in SF/Oakland second week of December. Wanna see youuuuuuuuuu!

Hoos is stuck outside the Big Hunt b/c his ID has expired. Change of plan: meet him in the Mad Hatter a few doors down.

haha poor hoos lol

Dang where are you all?

Sorry to miss you all! Unfortunately weekdays I have to get up at 4:30, so I had to bail.

Question: has anyone reading this ever had to serve on a DC grand jury? I just got a summons, and the prospect of serving three days a week for eight weeks does NOT appeal.

Ouch. Sorry I missed you folks. I was seeing Brazilian bossa-pop singer Luisa Maita with a friend at Bohemian Caverns at 8 (the early show) and just did that.

woah, HOOS is in D.C.? that's crazy, man. i should probably post in this thread now and then anyway, since i'm not far from D.C.

yes post in this thread

also lol + <3 @ fap

so you found a bar that would serve you?

Virginia licenses have a transparent oval with an imprint of your face in them. Something to look forward to!

yes

and comma

borrifying

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/11/04/zanzibar-on-the-waterfront-closes-down/

I was busy getting this written the other night. The DC government at work--they don't think local nightclubs and tourist destinations can co-exist

wow, that is infuriating.

But this wasn't a case of eminent domain, right? Zanzibar took a lucrative buyout offer from PN Hoffman that they could have refused.

Yeah this seems like the owners making a call that's :/ culturally but not definitely not screwing them over or anything.

hah, just realized my high school reunion was there (didn't go)

No one is rejecting the buyout offers because I think the city may have made sweet deals with the developers.

I think help from the city is therefore making it easier for the developers to throw large amounts of money at the clubs. In August, Fenty was at Hogates/H20 for a ceremonial demolition ceremony. So yes, its not eminent domain, and yes the Zanzibar owners will do fine financially, and yes they theoretically could have turned the offer down, but I think the city could have made life difficult for them (especially since the city wants to shut down Water Street where Zanzibar is located, as part of their plans to change the traffic flow and build offices, condos and park space in that area).

so uh wow, not been ilxing for quite a while but stopped by b/c i've been on/off reading this
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61FAVwSQ9JL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
and came across curmudgeon quoted irl which was very cool.

anyway, rad to see dc blowing up with ilxors! who knew!