15 years after "High Fidelity" hit the bookstores and I (naively) decided (at the tender age of 14, which I hope would account for some of the naivete) that reading Nick Hornby was the way to understand how men think (which during that summer resulted in the devouring of "Fever Pitch" and later on "About a Boy") I am rehaving a Nick Hornby moment. I read "How to be Good" and DVRed and rewatched "High Fidelity" the other day, and you know what-it is really a great movie. It will NOT (I repeat, NOT) lead you to understanding how men think but it is funny, and touching and full of unlikable characters that somehow grow on you and DEFINITELY VERY QUOTABLE.
So, pop in your Thursday afternoon mixtape and lets get this whole thing on:
(OH! But before you do-please READ OUR HAITI BENEFIT GUIDE and out ART ITINERARY. for more suggestions. OK? THANKS)
Feel good Beta Band moment to kick things off on the right foot:
THURSDAY
- Thievery eases into the 2nd night of their DC domination weekend tonight at 930 club.
In other, not so crowded clubs:
- Typefighter play DC9
- Sensitive (too sensitive?) boys who keep dream journals and like to talk about their bikes take their dates to Freelance Whales @ The Cat Backstage
- and people who still listen to We are Scientists head to mainstage
- Also-Brazilian Night. and gays frenching it (up) at Napoleon
Remember it is about "what you like, not what YOU ARE like"
FRIDAY
- The big ticket with all the cooler than cool kids is the SOCKETS Anniversary show @ The Cat Mainstage. This show oozes so much cool, I don't even know if there is a way to put it down. No-there isn't.
- Also-lots of HAITI benefits, Tommy Wiseau's "The Room" @ Midnight at E street and a solid local bill at the Velvet Lounge
- For those into electronica of sorts: Clinic celebrates its birthday with special guest M.A.N.D.Y. is at MUSE.
Hope you meet someone worth making a really good mixtape for:
SATURDAY
Art openings aside (including the 1st YiA2010 highlight show "Call & Response" at Hamiltonian) , dancing is the name of the Saturday game ("meeting promising women being the main reason one becomes a DJ" and all):
- Bubble rock (aka Ian Svenonius, Kid Congo and Kalani) @ 930 club back bar
- Bliss @ The Black Cat
- The Dig @ Trinidad and Tobago
- MIXTAPE @ EFN Lounge (rephrase that to "meeting promising men being the main reason one becomes a DJ")
Also: if you're heading to Baltimore it is pretty awesome David Morales is at Paradox
The time to seal the deal is now:
SUNDAY
- Peter has been talking about Controllar and Eubonics at Galaxy Hut all week (which I guess is not on Sunday, but on Monday, so go to it on Monday)
- Also-SEAS are playing and Thievery wraps things up
- At MODERN Nadastrom, Will Eastman and friends funk it for Haiti
Wrap it up with Barry Jive and the Uptown five:
All is a-ok now, isn't it?
TELL ME WHAT I MISSED.
God loves a cheerful giver.
"meeting promising men being the main reason one becomes a DJ"
I can vouch for efficacy.
What Bradley said.
I miss good John Cusack.
Our film programmer put HIGH FIDELITY into the lineup for our February "Screen Valentines: Great Movie Romances" series, and I'm so annoyed by it. Only dudes think this is a love story! Or, this is a love story between a guy and his record collection, really. Not that it isn't great.
i know, i know. but i really was all about it as i rewatched it. next up for cusack: "hot tub time machine"! which, i am not ashamed to say, looks AMAZING (feat. also Dale the religious roommate from "Greek" and Chevy Chase)
I am predicting that Hot Tub Time Machine will be Craig Robinson's much deserved breakout super stardom moment. Yeah?
The Controller/Eubonics show is on Monday night at Galaxy Hut
craig robinson is already a star in my mind. whoops on the controller show deeeetails
I recommend Party Lights on the black cat backstage friday night. and not just because i'm tending bar that night. i do think it's one of the best dance nights goin on right now. and it's free.
from the black cat bsite:
"There are your hip-hop and '80s tunes, but when it comes down to classic party music - the kind that gets people singing along and leaping up to dance - it's hard to beat '60s girl groups, old Motown cuts and stirring soul. DJs Mad Squirrel and Rob J. have taken this formula, tossed in funk and fuzzy up-tempo garage rock, and created Party Lights. "
http://bit.ly/74MAkn
"...angina's tough!"