So we'll count every drop that falls.

Drew Barrymore's father died last nite.

So in honor of Drew and her dad here is her documentary The Best Place to Start. I posted about this back in September.

Make sure that you watch the last scene and credits to hear the unreleased Strokes song written by Fab and sung by the beautiful and talented Mr. Casablancas.

Beryl and Mike (aka my parents).

Me, Ivy and April in Penn Station on Saturday.

We were losing our minds on the bus.

Ivy turned blue on the bus.

D.C. Family Tree

This morning on my walk to the metro, I though about all the weird little connections that people have in D.C. There are so few degrees of separation that I thought that it would be interesting to create a D.C. family tree. This may be a good project to work on the bus to NY tomorrow. If I actually do this, I will turn it into a powerpoint and publish it on my blog.

Weekend Recap

Friday: Emily and Michelle came to town and it was a nonstop night of Sparks and dancing until about 6:00am when I passed out in the mammal's bed. We had the best IAP at the cave.

Saturday: I woke up to the sound of birds coming from the mammal's alarm clock and I had to make sure that person sleeping foot-to-head with me was actually the mammal. The rest of the day was spent preparing for Liz's surprise tea party. By the time the party came around, I was feeling exhausted, cranky and anti-social. Ape and I took a small break before dinner in Adams Morgan/Dupont edge with Em, Michelle, Ivy and my friend Megan from high school, who I just discovered living in Adams Morgan. After dinner and the walk home, I literally passed out by midnight.

Sunday: I actually woke up at 9am, went down to the Diner with Em and Michelle. I sent the girls off on their way back to Philly around noon and the rest of the day was spent with Ivy and Ape at Pentagon City on the tour de force of shopping.

Tomorrow is a half dayso that I can get my hair cut and colored and then its on the bus to NY for T-giving on Wednesday.

Remember Break-up News?

Do you remember breakupnews.com? Well, I now personally know someone with a featured breakup.

Check out Al-Dellemy/Mackey.

We are playing a guess that baby photo game at work tomorrow, so my mom sent me this photo. It's hard to believe I was ever so little.

Take Down

Check out the great review that NM gave to The Hard Tomorrows on Better Propaganda.

My favorite line:

"If they play their cards right and if everything goes their way, The Hard Tomorrows could be on the soundtrack to the next season of The O.C. "

Rishi said that if they are ever on The O.C. that I can be an extra (with a line) in the audience and I can shout out a request for them to play "Take Down." Yay!!!!!

Just some things.

1. The Cause was great last nite. Fictional Blues, my new favorite song, is definitely their power pop single. Ben has some new amazingly hot rock moves.

2. Bright Eyes is playing 9:30 Club in January. I will have to see if I buy the new album, since I swore off Conor Oberst after the blizzardy winter of 2002/03.

3. My good friend, Emily, is coming to town this weekend. We will get to run all over D.C. and do all the fun touristy things.

4. Sonic Youth and music critic Alex Ross are speaking at GW on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. as park of the New Yorker College Tour.

Why I love Long Island.

Growing up Gotti is one of the best reality shows on TV right now. Victoria is fabulous and I love those little Gotti boys. I guess growing up on Long Island, I get nostalgic rather than grossed out when I see a superfluous amount of hair product.

I used to live at the Roosevelt Field Mall. Too bad I missed this by almost 10 years.

Take the Gotti boy quiz and see who your Gotti hotti is.

Mine, of course, is the cutie babyfaced, Frank.

The Hard Tomorrows Take NYC

If you are in NYC on Friday, don't forget that the Hard Tomorrows are playing the Knitting Factory (Old Office Stage.)

Liberation Photos

Julz, Ivy, Jon and Ape!


Liz and Avram.


Katie and Warnock.


Ms Casa B and Trueheart


Avram and the lovely Kelly.


Jon, Ivy and Bobby.


Ape and Warnock!

You put the broke in brokenhearted, You put the art in retarded.

Check out the Bravery's new video, Unconditional.

Liz sent me this timekiller.

Sorry Everybody.

Support the Cause

Don't forget next Tuesday night. The Cause are putting on their party hats (they look like regular hats), and rocking out at The Velvet Lounge.

Out of town.

I'll in NYC this weekend for the Interpol show at Hammerstein, but if you are in D.C. don't forget to go to Liberation at DC9.

What: Liberation Dance Party
When: Friday, Nov. 12 9 pm - 3am
Where: DC9, 1940 9th Street NW
DJ: Minister of International Pop, Matt Dunn

It's all part of my fantasy.

It's all part of my babyfaced fantasy, Yeah!
It's all part of my babyfaced dream, NO!!!!

Now that is too young.


AND, apparently, she's an "actress" too.

The Weekend has No End.

I just realized why the weekend seemed so long. Friday night was the first Friday in weeks that I did not emerge from Warnock's at 8:00 a.m. Saturday morning. I actually woke up at 11:00 am. on Saturday and spent the day with April, Sarah and Warnock shopping in Georgetown. That does not mean that I went to bed at a reasonable hour on Friday and that I was not exhausted all day Saturday.

Let's back up a little. Friday night we all attended the long awaited Liberation Dance Party. First was dinner at the Red Bean in Mt. Pleasant. We had promised Frank for months that we would come in and try his place. Kelly, Liz and I met Frank over the summer at Tonic. He talked about running for mayor and called us Frankie's Angels. Tyler has been chroncling his adventures in the restaurant biz for almost 20 weeks now and Friday we got it together and went over there. Let's make this a mini review of the Red Bean. The food was delicious, especially the guacamole. He doesn't have his liquor license yet, but claims that it's coming this week. I was too anxious to get over to DC9 to eat, so I took a lot of cigarette breaks and walked around the table a lot.

After dinner, it was back to the cave to change into hotfits. I was going to wear a babypink hotfit, but last minutes I decided on purple and sneakers. I wanted to be more comfortable. Kel and Ape both wore hotpink hotfits and looked fabulous. I don't know if pics exist from this nite. Av wore a hawaiian shirt. (Earlier in the week, he asked me what to wear, and I told him whatever he wanted and he asked me if he could wear a Hawaiian shirt and I said that I told him he could wear whatever he wanted. So he DID.) It was cute.

The turnout at Liberation wasn't what we expected and the nite started out in the back room or what we refer to as the Makeout Room and NM wants to soon rename the VIP Room. Got snuggly with Trueheart and Kel on the couch. Met up with NM, MG, the DCSOB, Michael and Jeff. I didn't know what it was going to take to start me dancing, but finally The End Has No End came on and I channeled Julian and hit the dance floor.

I danced my drunk butt off all night with Trueheart, the girls, some beads and the bloggers. I never realize how drunk I am when I am dancing, but apparently I was pretty wasted. Things I remember (edited version):

Telling Bobby that I loved his wallet (camo with hotpink trim) and he told me that he would give it to me later.

Heading back to Hobart, but I don't remember how we got there or who was in my cab.

Drinking some delishy vodka lemonade combo at Hobart.

The pantry with the mammal and Warnock.

Trying to have a conversation with Warnock and others on the porch and stumbling my words and my feet.

Running back inside Hobart to grab my purse and kidnapping the boy.

Saturday, Ape, Sarah, Warnock and I had a lovely brunch at Tonic. We felt ambitious being up so early on a Saturday, it was about 2:00 at this point that we decided to walk to Georgetown. We took a few breaks and made it as far as the park on 18th street when we decided to hop in a cab.

April returned some things she had bought the previous weekend and Warnock bought some jeans at Diesel from Bobby. We had some beers, we cabbed it back to Asylum for a quick beer. Then walked back to Tonic for some more beers. Cute bartender who looks and sounds like Colin Farrell and basically IS Colin Farrell was there. Finally, we made it back to the cave.

Ape wasn't feeling well and took a nap in my bed. I tried to watch a Law and Order repeat and fell asleep. At about 10:30, Sarah started screaming at me that I had to get up and shower, because I had promised to chaperone her date with Peter Parker (who we had all met on Halloween.) Finally, I got motivated, even though I was exhausted and got ready and met them there by 11:30. I tried to drink a Sparks, but can you believe it, it wasn't doing anything for me, probably because I usually drink like 8.

We soon left for some party, which turned out to be boring and I spotted some guy I met at the Raven earlier this year, and he had blown me off, so I didn't want to bump into him. I was being cranky and trying to rally the troops to rescue us, but they were either sleeping or out of the city. Finally, we told Peter Parker that we had to go home and sleep. But as soon as we walked out the front door, I suggested that we go to Toledo.

Toledo was too packed so we went over to Asylum. Warnock finally called, but he was in his PJs already. Sarah ordered a beer as I got sleepy. Warnock called back 20 minutes later to ask if they did last call yet. Five minutes later he was there. I fell in and out of consciousness and finally cabbed my tired butt home.

When I got home April was on the couch watching the Queen of the Dammed. Turns out when Sarah and Warnock walked out of Asylum, they ran into Peter Parker and he was surprised to see her and backed away from them. He thought that she had gone home hours before. I wasn't there for this street scene, but I can only imagine that it was hilarious. We thought that this would be a good thing, cuz Peter Parker wouldn't call Sarah anymore, but we were wrong, he already left her a voicemail. Boys call that girl like she's their dealer, it's hilarious.

Finally fell asleep around 4:30a.m. Ape left a message on the answering machine about hearing gunshots outside her window.

Sunday was spent at Asylum brunch a fun trip to my new favorite weekend CD store, Crooked Beat on 18th Street. I got the Prosaics EP. Went home, listened to it for a little, then it was back to Adams Morgan for the Bobby show at Bossa. We missed Bobby and there was a $7 cover so we headed over to the Reef for some drinks. Ivy tried to kidnap our waiter, this little boy with nice bone structure and long blond hair. Sarah and I ended the night at Tonic cuz we thought that Colin Farrell would be there. She loves him now. I gave her my seal of approval, but told her that she is not allowed to bring him to the cave, cuz if I ever saw him there I would scream like a giddy little girl.

I fell asleep on the couch watching a VH1 program on the Secret Life of Swingers. I finally made it to my bed by 1:30 and fell asleep still drunk on wine, which by the way is the best way to fall asleep.

Now if you have made it this far, you can see that, other than the fact that I am an alcoholic, why my weekend never ended.

I feel liberated.

I'm having the BEST morning ever.

My apartment is CLEAN.
I founds $40 in a secret part of my wallet. (When did I slip $40 in there? Hmm.)
I got a free latte from my frequent coffee card.

Tonight begins the Liberation Dance Party.

Dance the night away to new music for the 21st century!

Such as:

Franz Ferdinand
Interpol
Dizzee Rascal
The Faint
Dogs Die in Hot Cars
Mooney Suzuki
The Libertines
...& more!

What:Liberation Dance Party-New music and videos every Friday.
When: Begins this Friday, November 5 (Doors open at 9pm)
Where: DC9 (1940 9th St NW)

No cover before 10pm. Look for discount flyers around town.

And if that doesn't liberate you from tyranny and this so called "democracy," then check out this website that Ivy sent me this morning.

Here's our way into Canada. All those cute Canadians have to do is Marry An American.