BrightestYoungThings: High on Heroics, Low on Partyongarthography

Along with the tempering of my shit the last time I tried to shoot dancers at Hometown Heroes, I had this first encounter with Teddy Douglas to consider. At Red in '00, I think, back when I was shooting 30 frames per second instead of one frame per whenever. The fun starts around 1 minute 45 seconds.

Np. I got my nut about an hour earlier anyway, so I was fine (ho lord, ain't I always?) with staying downstairs, close to the bar where ex-bartenders were tending to self and the smoking crater that Meistro left after his strong set* was still aglow. Unfortunately I missed that set, as well as Jackie O's, but not Chris Burns', who closed out the basement session and recently summed up the state of DC nightlife's on DistrictSoul thusly.

... when I moved back here two years ago after college ... it just seems everyone stepped their fucking game up. The renaissance is really starting to take place and it is only a matter of time before we get our shine from other people and cities that think DC is a stuffy place full of choads and lamers.

Trust: that's 99% reportage and 1% salesmanship, coming from one of this city's busiest promoter/djs. Burns and co-hort Joe L. and the Everybody Loves Music peoples have their pick of monstrously pedigreed yokels in curating the Hometown Heroes series. That they're drawing a crowd that's equal parts Nouveau Richester and State of the Union/Red alumnus says a lot about this night's quality and appeal, and sense of fam, really. Unless you're this guy.