Brad Pitt Has Your Secret Shit: Rolling DC

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

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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!

didn't know he's in that. i was def reading this at the columbia heights subway years back and someone walked up showing me their photograph in it.

Yep, I'm in there. And lots of things I said to Marc Anderson when he interviewed me never made it in the book as they didn't fit the meme or theme he was going for.

How about that Jack Johnson (PG County exec) and his wife--$80,000 cash in her bra, check flushed down the toilet. But's he innocent he says. FBI set him up (a variation on the Barry defense)

Dude is deeply, deeply in the pocket of the real estate industry.

Yep and as the W. Post noted, has been helping out friends with jobs and contracts for years.

friend of mine who works in news texted me she was having a crazy friday "because jack johnson had to go and get arrested"

i spent several minutes trying to figure out why the arrest of a mellow frat rock musician was a big news story

Tick Tock liquor store allegedly involved in no-good also. I used to go there. Good 'ol PG County (I say as someone who grew up there)

Finally ate at Chez Aunt Libe's, Senegalese place up Georgia Avenue in Petworth. Aunt Libe gave us free plaintains (with a super spicy dipping sauce)as an appetizer---I think cuz she asked if it was our first time there. We had the lamb in peanut sauce stew and the fish with couscous as entres. Only other people there were a Senegalese family. Rockin' Senegalese music videos on in the background.

I wanna go to the Turntable restaurant and disco up that way next. It's a Jamaican restaurant and they play Jamaican oldies at certain hours and blast dancehall in the latenight hours (or so I've read).

chez aunty libe is still there?! i had some of their food at some dc festival thing like.. 7-8 years ago. for some reason just assumed that place was no longer around. i'll have to go for some mafe, senegalese food is one of my favorites and i didn't think there was any place in dc to get it. (have tried to cook mafe myself and it didn't turn out too badly, but the spices were not quite right imo)

me and this girl walked from chinatown to u street and my feet huuuuuuurt

^^^no complaining unless you got hit by a cab while walking, which is how I DIED's travel about the city tends to go.

hey, I haven't been hit by a cab for a couple years! I think for a while it was part of some cab driver initiation rite.

I think I have to come down to see this queer portraiture thing at the NPGallery.

That show sounds great, I'm supposed to see it next week and will report back.

i'll be heading down myself at some point, would love a morbs meetup

k, I will see when I can get a cheap room and hope you don't get one of your crippling 3-inch snowfalls.

Ha.

x-post to Daria--The maffe (peanut sauce stew) was good. The few online reviews of Libe's said the Yassa was just ok. We bought juice drinks too--They gave us a ginger juice drink in a plastic bottle with no label and a pomegranate tasting one in a plastic bottle also. It's a small family run restaurant. Not sure how far the restaurant is from the green line Metro stop up that way or via bus, as I drove.

Hey morbs I have a guest room if you don't mind sharing a bathroom with a me (presumably not at the same time). Also have a cat so no help if you have kitty allergies.

me and this girl walked from chinatown to u street and my feet huuuuuuurt

this is not really that far iirc

also might be coming down some time soonish . . .

right but i had on ill fitting converse

i blame the shoes more than the walk tbh

also i am from texas and not used to you people's "walking"

I've walked farther around DC in ill-fitting converse. Man up, Hoos!

noted!!

Where can really good fried chicken - not fast food but not an extra-posh version at a silly price - be got in DC?