Morning Roundup: Stairways to Nowhere Edition
Morning Roundup: Be Counted Edition
The Real World D.C.: The Morning After, Pt. 12
New Pennsylvania Ave. Bike Lanes Expected by May
National Marathon to Cause Roads to Close, Metro to Open Early
MUSIC: Three of DC's most unique sounding bands take over the Black Cat this Wendesday. Imperial China (***) packs a punch with furious percussion and keyboards that bring to mind bands like Battles. True Womanhood is more melancholy with their Radiohead meets Sonic Youth tunes. And Caverns round out the bill with a sound that's both punk and experimental. 9 p.m., $8.
HAPPY HOUR: Tonight head over to Toledo Lounge for half price grilled cheese and hot dogs, $3 rail drinks and $2 drafts, from 6 to 8 p.m.
JAZZ: Local saxophonist Stan Killian performs every Wednesday at Twins Jazz. Call 202-432-0072 for set time and cover information.
BOOKS: Nancy Whitney-Reiter will be at the Olsson's in Dupont Circle to talk about her ode to the process of self-discovery, Unplugged: How to Disconnect from the Rat Race, Have an Existential Crisis, and Find Meaning and Fulfillment. 7 p.m.
TEEVEE: Get back home around 9 p.m. to hear some of the big hitters at the Democratic National Convention speak tonight, including President Bill Clinton, Sen. John Kerry, Gov. Bill Richardson, and of course, Vice Presidential nominee, Sen. Joe Biden.
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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?
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.
Can we put a moratorium on the use of "sounds like Radiohead meets......Part Radiohead, part.......If Radiohead and....had a baby...."
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Don't all rock acts kinda sound like Radiohead and somebody else?
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.
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.
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 - Thanks for being just a little bit gay.
mdove11: doesn't radiohead taste like chicken? or does chicken taste like radiohead?
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.
there are no absolutes in language. brush up on yer derrida.
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."
Radiohead meets Foucault.
Now there's a reason to find a rifle and a clock tower.