As everyone knows the Passion Pit/Tokyo Police club show next week @ 930 Club is super sold out. BUT! FEAR NOT! Tokyo Police Club (who have always been one of our favorite ready-for-anything bands) is offering up a sweet giveaway package of
- A Pair of Tickets to the Show
- A copy of their latest CD "CHAMP"
- An autographed posted
And to enter to win leave a comment challenging the band to anything while in DC. The band themselves will pick out the best ideas to win prizes and will actually go and do these things (and we will send a photographer to record it all)
You should be totally motivated to do this because they'll really do anything:
Goooooooo!
Previously in Misc/Awesome:
- 4/19: HAPPY National High Five Day!
- 4/17: Hangin' Tough with The D.C. Rollergirls
- 2/24: BYT Archives: Geek It Out
- 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
- 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
- 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
- 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
- 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
- 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
- 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
God loves a cheerful giver.
Come to Rolling Thunder on Sunday and ride with 1000s of bikes thru the city. Either on the back with me and my boys or buy/rent bikes this Saturday. Meet @ Pentagon parking lot 10:30 AM. Bam!!
Come put the 383 Stroker motor in my 1970 Chevy pick up truck while I sit in the shade of the Magnolias and sip Mint Juleps and yell at them for doing it wrong.
They should challenge each other to a DC Photo Scavenger Hunt. Within a set period of time (maybe 3 or 4 hours?), each member should produce the following photographs, in any order.
1. Ask a stranger for a cigarette and break in front of them. Photograph their reaction and the ensuing possible ass-kicking.
2. Urinate off of a building.
3. Play a song at the entrance to L'Enfant plaza
4. Find your least favorite congressperson and ask them for a mug.
5. Tie a piece of fishing line to a twenty dollar bill and photograph people trying to catch it.
Etc. etc. these are merely suggestions, but i think it would make for an interesting afternoon
Take to the public chess tables at DuPont circle. If you win - you cover 'We Are The Champions' either at 9:30 (or while standing on top of the chess tables). If you lose, you cover P. Diddy and the Fam's 'I'll be missing you'.
Chicken?
DuPont chess scene: http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2008/08/checkmate_dupont_circle_chess_for_noobs.php
I challenge them to The Stoners Triathalon consisting of mini-golf, skeeball and foosball. A best of three Bear, Ninja, Cowboy match will determine who goes first. Loser buys Bear Fights (Jager Bomb chased with a Carbomb).
Do a round of minigolf at H Street Country Club and finish under par.
dress like hillbillies, tourists, or hillbilly tourists and go to Georgetown, and fuck with people:
1) ask stores if you can use their bathrooms, use them for purposes other than #1 or 2
2) find college-looking kids, challenge them to contests -- drinking, pissing, spitting, booger-size
3) wash clothes in the Potomac, by the waterfront restaurants
4) try out ALL the colognes and perfumes in Sephora...also comment on how great their lotions would be for jacking off
5) go into Citronelle and Cafe Milano, get seated, order the cheapest, strongest drink possible, then when the bread plates come out, break open the jerky and canned shit (vienna sausage, spam, skanky soup) you brought
6) hit on EVERY trophy wife you see...especially MILFs who are out with their husbands or kids
7) leave georgetown and spliff with me!
Dress up as asian tourist and interupt people at muesums and monuments asking them to take pictures and make completely off the wall poses.
No trip to D.C. wouldn't be complete without a little lobbying. So I challenge TPC to show up at the office of some low-level hack Congressional representative with no clout and demand action on House Resolution 1055, which would amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow the importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada. Make sure to stress, with a completely straight face, of course, how important an economic driver polar bear sport hunting is in Newmarket. Maybe even bring a gift, like a real-life bear pelt, to illustrate how nice the imports are.
Speedos and snorkels in the Dupont fountain.
Thumb wrestling on the south lawn
The racist Michael with the stereotype of Asians wasn't me. Jesus Christ how hard is it to read the responses and see there is a Michael already and at least put Michae1 or something retarded?
Also in the 1980s Asians with cameras were fun to make fun of, now that every moron has a camera and does nothing but hold them up everywhere to snap pictures of everymotherfuckingthing it has lost its allure.
go to brickskeller in dupont circle area and drink a beer from every continent available (over 5000 beers)
Paper airplane contest from the top of the Old Post Office and/or play this song to picnickers in RCP:
Throw a slip and slide party on the lawn parallel to the reflecting pool.
Rent a rowboat in Georgetown and go rowing on the Potomac River.
Goddamnit.
rent kayaks in georgetown. row them to ~the lincoln. portage them to the reflecting pool. kayak in the reflecting pool. run from the park police. escape the park police. throw an acoustic set on the mall.
I'd kind of like to see you make no-bake cookies in a kiddie no-bake toy oven on stage while performing, and then pass said cookies out to the audience.
come to my house in Northern Virginia for a BBQ on the deck.
dance with the secret service members and the homeless guy/lady who sits outside the white house.
Go to Ben's Chili Bowl and insist on free food since you're celebrities.
Go visit the Air n Space Museum: ON WEEEEEED!
Go sit in Lincoln's lap at the Lincoln memorial and ask him what you want for Christmas.
And/Or
Dress up as zombie George Washington(s), go to Mount Vernon and yell at people to get off your lawn/out of your house like you still live there.
Dress up like U2 and set up and perform on top of the 9:30 club.
Have a contest to see which band member can eat the most 9:30 Club Signature Cupcakes. Devil's food cake, butter cream filling, chocolate ganache on top.
visit one of the "pleasure place" locations at either dupont or georgetown and pretend to be run of the mill shoppers. ask what certain retail items do.
wear something ridiculous and climb the information booth at the columbia rd intersection in adams morgan.
climb/pose on/with the u street african american soldier memorial
splash-giggle fight in the reflecting pool
photobomb tourists' photos
I'm thinking a makeshift Cowboy Segway posse.
First we sign up for a Segway tour of D.C..
We all place our Cowboy hats on (preferably 20 gallon).
While cruisin' we ditch our tour guide, and make a beeline for the nearest strip club.
While approaching the door we make it rain (canadian money of course).
We Dismount our hot new rides and walk into the club like "Champs."
We hang out party and chill for a bit.
Then we split and head for the national mall for an intense Segway demolition derby.
Play Train in Vain with Passion Pit and DOM.....
you should come to ADC MAP and Travel and Get a map of dc and then get some street cred on Ga AV METRO............
TPC should perform a song for the President in front of the White House using megaphones and whatever would be necessary for a an outdoor set.
Adding to what Suji said, you should play Train in Vain, on the train/metro!
Throw a TON of Canadian currency into the Dupont fountain then go fishing for it.
In this arid climate, I challenge you to water balloon dodgeball. If you pick me I'll bring justin beiber as the other half of my wolfpack.
Flashlight tag (or laser tag if the equipment is readily available) at Farragut Square.
Film an infomercial for a ridiculous product (maple syrup shampoo anyone? LUSCIOUS.) filled with real live testimonials - to be provided by DC's best residents/passerby's.
I live in the dc/metro area so this is perfect.
I challenge you guys to a pokemon duel!
Cocaine-fueled alternative ending to The Exorcist filmed at The Steps (you know what I'm talking about) and MacNeil House. You know what I'm talking about.
Do a free trial/rent a pedi-cab and spend the day lying to tourists and cougar-hunting!