I Don't Usually Like to Blog About Politics

Check out this link from Gawker. Somebody posted a fake craigslist ad posing as a Republican looking for a hate fuck. There are also some of the responses that people sent in.

This is as political as I get.

Just got an e-mail from Ben "The Best Date in Town" Vivari with details on the Cause show on Wednesday night:

I know what you're all thinking. what the hell is The Cause doing? what makes
them think they should keep going? why don't they just throw in the towel?

well who cares what you think? not us, that's who! and to prove it,
we're playing at DC9 this Wednesday, September 1st. For the low low (low!) price
of $5, you can come heckle, jeer, and throw vegetables at us (aim for the
drummer). Also playing on Wednesday are the Fake Accents. rumor has it that
they're good guys (and one girl) at rock n' roll. The rumors are true!

Here's the details:
The Cause w. The Fake Accents
Wednesday,
Sept 1st
Show starts @ 9:30.
1940 9th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

Ambulance LTD, Black Cat, August 16

Finally, here are photos from the Ambulance LTD show at the Black Cat on August 16.

I love you.

Can he get any cuter than this?

Happy Birthday, you drunken idiot.

Yesterday was Julian's 26th Birthday.

I get stoned, I ask questions

The other night, Liz and I made Boca burgers and guacamole, then Kelly came over and we got stoned with Bobby and date and watched TV and assembled ikea furniture in her new cape cod style living room. Watching TV and being stoned is a fun combo, but it provokes many important questions, that frankly, I will not remember the next day, so I have taken to writing them down and researching them the next day. There are also some comments and brilliant business ideas involved in this process.

Monday's questions:

Q1: Keane. How old are you?
A1: The lead singer Tom is 25. The other guys are 28 and 29.

Comment: Write fan mail to Ewan McGregor and tell him to kick that guy in Keane's ass.

Q2: What's up with that guy in Charlie's Angels with the haircut?
A2: That guy is Crispin Glover, but no information has yet to be revealed on the nature of his character in the film.

Q3: Is that Robbie Williams?
A3: No, that is not Robbie Williams, it is Justin Theroux, from Mulholland Drive.

Tuesday's Questions (Last nite, we listened to the 70's music station on digital cable)

Q1: Did someone save Elton's life?
A1: Yes. The song "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" is about an episode in Elton's life. In the late sixties, he almost got married to a woman who didn't even like his music and what he was doing. He wanted to get out of that situation, but was too confused, and also didn't want to face her. So one night he got drunk, then left his friends at the bar and went home. When Bernie Taupin got back, he found Elton lying on the kitchen floor, his head on a pillow for comfort, the oven open letting gas fill the room. But there was also a window open. So Bernie started to laugh. This suicide attempt was in fact a cry for help.

Q2: Is there a KFC on the Great Wall of China?
A2: Yes. The first section of the Great Wall opened to tourists, the portion at Ba Da Ling remains the most popular. In 1957 it was fully restored to its original Ming appearance -- although the reconstruction was sloppier than subsequent efforts at Mutianyu and particularly Jin Shan Ling and Simatai, where efforts were taken to preserve a sense of antiquity. A cable car was added at Ba Da Ling in the 1980s, followed later by a museum, a Circle Vision Theater, several restaurants, a large number of souvenir stands, and a KFC. Criticized by Wall "purists" for this profusion of facilities and an unimaginative restoration, it is still one of the most dramatic sections of the Great Wall. Set in a steep, forested mountain range, Ba Da Ling offers tremendous views and, for those willing to travel beyond the restored sections, worthwhile hiking.

Side Projects

1. We can write songs like this. We can bring the 70's back. We can write cheesey shit like this and sell it and P-Man will sing it.

2. Slide show photo music montage to 70's music using Kelly's laptop, Pri's LCD projector and Liz's wall.

More pics from Kelly and Warnock's Party

Hi Mammal!!


Bobby and Kelly

Mini Dilemma.

I just found out wonderful news. Former members of Jonathan Fire Eater (and not the ones that are in The Walkmen) are playing at DC9 tomorrow nite. Stuart Lupton, lead singer for JF*E, is also fronting the Childballads. Here is a review that I found from when they opened for Dead Meadow at the Velvet Lounge.

I am definitely going to try to check this out tomorrow. Except I just remembered that I am hosting a BBQ. Dilemma, shit! Well, they probably play here a lot.

Why am I so obsessed with the Strokes that I am bidding on this?

Ausome!!!!

I was in NY for the weekend. Plans to go to the Underground Garage Rock Fest did not turn out as planned, but I listened to the Strokes set on Sirius Satellite Radio. You can get a free 3-day guest pass. The quality was great and even though they only played a short set, it was great. Julian continues to crack me up, drunken bastard.

Otherwise the weekend was fun. Watched the huge HD tv with my dad, went to a stupid Long Island bar called the Crazy Donkey and got wasted with people from high school, went to the mall, and visited Mera in the city.

Last nite I got home from my trip at 12:30 a.m. Sarah was watching these weird shows on Fox, I think she was too tired to get up and change the channel. (Our remote is, and has been for quite some time been broken.) So finally, I could not take what she was watching anymore and I changed to the Olympics. We love Phelps. I love those swimmers, they are so shiny, I want to touch them. I especially love Thorpe from Australia.

OMG!!

It was impossible to shut the tv off between swimming and woman's gymnastics, but finally, we overcame the urge to stay up all nite. Finally got into bed around 3:30 a.m.

It was impossible to wake up this morning, mostly because of a strange dream that I had. In the dream, I was Conan O'Brien's assistant and Avram threw a portable phone down on the ground. And started attacking Conan. I had to answer the phone when Jeb Bush called, but it was a prank, and fend off Avram. I am an amazing assistant!

Tonite is the Ambulance LTD show. I am so excited I am going to burst. Now only if I knew what I am going to wear. This is important, being a groupie and all.

NOT SO MUCH A SECRET!!

Your Secret Lover is Julian!

Attracted by his way with words (or maybe just his ability to get it up while really, really drunk), you spend your hot, torrid nights in bed with Julian. Maybe it's the way he threatens to fuck people in the ass while playing pool, but there's something just delightfully and purely sex about him.

Which Stroke Is Your Secret Lover?

Two quick things:

A. I decided not to go to Randall's Island to see the Strokes, but it turns out that it's a great decision because they are ending the show early due to Hurricane Charley and everyone is only playing about 2 - 5 songs.

B. Why is Ben Kweller opening for Incubus? That makes NO sense.

"It was perhaps due to their drunkenness. They probably didn't know what they were eating," he said.

All I can say is OMG!!!!

Finally, party pics from John and Kelly's Birthday Blowout.



Glamorama.


It's hot.


Sexy cab ride to Velvet.


Mammal and Liz at the Velvet Lounge.


Birthday girl.

OMG!!! I just spent 6 hours at the DMV. But now I am officially a DC resident with temporary tags. I can drive to NY and not get pulled over for 'dead' tags.

So, today sucked, but at least I technically only have 2 more hours of work left and then off to Rumba for mojitos!!

Some necessary recaps:

On Wednesday nite, Kelly, Liz and I went to Jaleo for a Spanish Moment continued. We drank 2 pitchers of Sangria, ate some yummy tapas, talked about our problems and I cried at the table. ay! It poured periodically throughout dinner. After we finished all the of the fruit in our Sangria and it stopped raining we paid the bill and headed off the Rhumba Cafe on 18th Street to meeting Sarah, EW and Warnock.

Our loud drunken table pissed off our waitress, but we racked up a $200 bill drinking Mojitos.

Then off to Toldeo, where we cleared out the bar, did some shots and ruled the jukebox.

When the bar closed I thought that it was a good idea to go over to AC and EWs for the post party. We listened to the Killers and downloaded Ashlee Simpson songs. Finally, a cab was called for me and I headed home.

The next morning when I woke up I was still drunk, but I made it into work on time and was hungover and spacey the rest of the day. OMG!

Thursday nite, Liz finally got me to watch Swimfan with her.

Friday after work, I met up with Paul and Tom at Austin Grill and then I kidnapped them to join me at Saint Ex for Anne Ray's going away happy hour. We stopped at my house to smoke a bowl and then walked down to Saint Ex with Liz. Met up with Sarah, Liz Ruby and Kyle. I broke the news about Julian's engagement and everyone thinks I have my chance now. At some point, Paul disappeared and was never to be found again that nite (it turns out that he took a phone call outside and just decided not to come back in and went home.)

After Saint Ex, Liz, Tom and I walked to Adams Morgan, called Avram and had some drinks at Asylum. Liz got in a funk and left before Avram got there. Av finished the last of her beer and we went over to Toledo. I was starting to fade, but played MASH with Av and Tom. Av's future looks great, something about being a comedian who drives a tank and marries a Skupas sister. Tom's was not as great, he married some girl from high school and drives a Taurus in DC.

Walking home, we ran into the diner boy, who told ME that I looked fucked up. HA!!!

Saturday was a lovely day. Shopped at pop, went to Cob's tea party, back to Pop for cocktails and then off to The Side Bar in Baltimore for Caroline's boyfriend's hardcore show. The thing about hardcore music is that the instruments are punk rock (I like them) and the singer is more like screaming (and I don't like it.) Basically, hardcore is for angry teens who flail around. It's pretty interesting, not scary like I thought it would be. I apparently missed a pretty fun and long nite in DC. When I got home I called Liz and Sarah and when they called me back I was in my room blasting Ashlee Simpson (Caroline gave me her burnt CD.) They were having a big crazy postparty/danceparty.

I was glad that I didn't stay out until 3am, because I had a lovely Sunday of sleeping in a going to the National Gallery of Art East Building. I starred at some beautiful paintings:

Brice Marden, For Pearl 1970

Ross Bleckner, Falling Birds, 1994

Sol Lewitt, Wall Drawing #65

Then I went home to watch hours of TV: all the Fox Sunday nite (Malcolm, Simpsons, Arrested Development, Simple Life 2) followed by Dead Like Me (possibly my new favorite show) and then I got sucked into watching Showgirls (which I had never seen, but enjoyed.)

It's Monday now, and I am at work. It is so quiet here today and I love it. I am only working until noonish on Thursday and then its up to NY.

BREAKING NEWS - THIS JUST IN (thanks to Gawker and Sara)

'Stroke' Julian Casablancas Back To Banging Groupies?

We shed a few tears when we heard New York's pride and joy, The Strokes' Julian Casablancas, drunkenly announced his engagement to the band's assistant manager, Juliet Joslin. How could he leave us like that? It totally hurt us, like, bad. We even took down the JC poster hanging over the bed and burned all of our Strokes t-shirts! A music spy informs us, however, that perhaps our great unwashed proto-hipster is back on the market:

Julian Casablancas may be single again. The word is that he and Juliet Joslin have called off the engagement but remain friends.

Yeah, we didn't see that coming.

This gives me reason to get really fucked up on this gorgeous August day, just like Julian would. HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

I totally had to steal the new Paris Hilton song from Stereogum's blog

Photo of the Day (from Washingtonpost.com)

Young cute Kerry supporters in Iowa. Check out the cute indie rocker in back sporting the Lacoste v-neck sweater and the one holding a Liberation sign, behind bigface.

I have some things to say:

1. I take back what I said yesterday about Craig Kilborn. The man, although a pompous dick, is hilarious. Besides Ambulance LTD, the highlight of the show was the interview with Ling Bai, starring in the new Spike Lee Joint She Hate Me. She did not speak English very well, but described how when she met Spike she offered her ideas for a sex scene which involved her making out with chicken feet. Spike liked her ideas and she was hired. Craig asked her how she came up with that idea, was it from her culture or from her brain. Then she described how a litle spirit in a mini skirt talks to her and told her about it. This mini-skirt spirit also tells her what to wear. In fact, the spirit was sitting on Craig's shoulder, which prompted him to ask if she was naked. Totally bizarre and totally hilarious.

2. I was in Florida this past weekend and I would like to share a little story about a bird with you. There are tons of wild birds roaming/flying around in Florida. While I was there I saw pelicans and cranes and weird ducks. BUT, I also saw a peacock. This bird is amazing. I have never seen one out and about. I was in the car with my parents when I spotted it. My dad was just about to make a left turn onto the main road from a parking lot. I told him to wait a minute so we could watch the bird. So we watched as it looked both ways and crossed the road. Then it started coming closer to our car. Actually, it came right up to our car window. That's when my mom and I started freaking out and yelled at my dad to close the windows. We were thisclose to being pecked by this crazy bird. (Once I had a dream that I was being pecked by a duck.)

3. I might have posted about this before, but what could be better than a film written by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) and directed by Eli Roth (Cabin Fever)? The film is called The Box. It revolves around an unhappy married couple who receive a small wooden box on their doorstep. At the push of a button, the box brings its bearer instant wealth but also instantly kills someone the bearer doesn't know.

The music of Ambulance, as described by Craig Kilborn's producer:

"Amazing," "It's the Beatles meets Mozart meets Chaka Khan."

I totally missed Ambulance LTD on Letterman the other night. Bummer! But, I have a second chance. Tonight they will be on Kilborn. I hate him, but I love them, so it's a fair trade off.

Also, don't forget that the French Kicks are the house band on Last Call Tuesday - Friday.

And finally, check out my upcoming shows list, as I have done some research today and have found that ALL of my favorite bands are playing shows in the area soon.

Oh my gawd!