DCist: About Tonight

monkeyrotica

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:01:02 -0500

Radiohead meets Foucault. Now there's a reason to find a rifle and a clock tower.

monkeyrotica

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:59:33 -0500

there are no absolutes in language. How uniquely absolutist of you! If I recall my Derrida "correctly," I "think" what you "meant" to say is that "there" are "no" "absolutes" "in" "language" "in" "quotes."

desaparecido

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:51:36 -0500

there are no absolutes in language. brush up on yer derrida.

boondoggle

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:51:40 -0500

I wouldn't mind tying every rock band back to Radiohead as long as it was 'Radiohead meets *someone interesting*' like Elvira - Mistress of the Dark or Mr. Belding.

IMGoph

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:45:32 -0500

mdove11: doesn't radiohead taste like chicken? or does chicken taste like radiohead?

monkeyrotica

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:45:07 -0500

boondoggle - Thanks for being just a little bit gay.

js adams

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:41:50 -0500

Sisters in Cinema: Cheryl Dunye's Short Films Filmmaker in person! National Museum of Women in the Arts 1250 New York Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20005-3970 Tonight - 8/27/2008 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Members, Seniors, Students $4; General $5; reservations recommended. Call 202-783-7370 or email reservations@nmwa.org. Join us for a special screening of the short films of Cheryl Dunye (Watermelon Woman, Stranger Inside, My Baby's Daddy) and a discussion with this feted filmmaker. The program includes: Greetings From Africa (1994, 16mm, 8 min.), which mixes film with video as Cheryl, played by the director, humorously experiences the mysteries of lesbian dating in the 90s; the hilarious queer film classic The Potluck and the Passion (1993, video, 30 min.), which explores racial, sexual and social politics at a lesbian potluck; the self-reflective She Don't Fade (1991, video, 24 min); Vanilla Sex (1992, video, 5 min.); and others.

boondoggle

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:36:13 -0500

The primary meaning of unique is "one of a kind." It's an absolute. How can a band be more unique than another? Absolutes? I used to think that way, but when I found out Mei Xiang was 'a little pregnant' this summer I got over it. 'Most unique', 'sort of pregnant', 'pretty much dead'... all just shades of grey my man. Expand your mind/adult magazine collection.

monkeyrotica

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:32:55 -0500

stmove - It's called "living vicariously through others when you're too much of a chickens**t to go out and do it yourself." It's what parenthood's all about! The soccer and football fields of America are rife with it.

mdove11

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:23:46 -0500

Can we put a moratorium on the use of "sounds like Radiohead meets......Part Radiohead, part.......If Radiohead and....had a baby...." ??? Don't all rock acts kinda sound like Radiohead and somebody else?

stmove

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:09:13 -0500

Not to hatefully spurn disapproval one of the selected "about tonight" picks, but- What the hell is up with Nancy Whitney-Reiter, how is a person leaving their "fortune 500" job and traveling Europe, lounging on the beach all the while “fulfilling and discovering herself”, worth reading unless it's erotic-fiction? Isn't that just what people with no financial worries do? How tough it must have been to be so successful, and busy and to have to throw all that away to have a few years off jet setting? Wait till all those illegal day-laborers read this one! They will throw off the shackles of their wage-slaves lives and be booking their flights to Baja—oh wait. The nerve it takes to write a book which should have been titled: "My Great Vacation; How I Single Handedly Invented the Sabbatical, and Did Whatever the Hell I Wanted, So Help Fund me by Buying This Book." Perfect.

monkeyrotica

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:03:01 -0500

Three of DC's most unique sounding bands The primary meaning of unique is "one of a kind." It's an absolute. How can a band be more unique than another?