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Friday night plans, first draft
• Eat dinner in, for once this week.
• Go to Artomatic and watch a friend get her first tattoo (yeah … who knew?)
• Drop by Sticky Rice’s official opening and resist the temptation to shoot pictures.
• Wrap it up at the Dissident Display party — where Adrian Loving and Chris Burns are supposed to dj — and succumb to said tempation.
At 9:30, Chris texts “Party at ____ ____”. My night just got longer. I text back “What about Dissident?” and he replies with something about playing one playing one first then hitting the other later, not saying which spot. Meanwhile, I’m getting texts from a lady friend who’s partying at Saki in Adams Morgan, sporting a “cute party dress”, “boots” and …
Friday night plans, second draft
• Wash dinner down with the last two beers in the fridge
• Scratch Artomatic and Sticky
• Maybe drop by Saki, or maybe get persuasive and get Saki to come to me
• Dissident, then ____ ____
I still don’t know if I’m going to Dissident or ____ ____ first. Extracting data from Burns is … challenging.
“Which one’s first?”
“I’m probably gonna have u meet me at rnr “
It’s like we’re writing a frigging haiku together.
Anyway, “rnr” would be Rock and Roll Hotel where I’m pretty sure US Royalty is playing and buckets of familiar faces await. Except I’m banned from the place for some mysterious reason, (I got an explanation second-handed to me that sits somewhere between “improbable” and “unacceptably absurd”) plus I already scratched a bunch of other shit off my list from out that way so …
Finally, Chris texts me at 11PM with some concrete biz.
“Come to ____ ____ at midnight”.
I get there at 1. I’m led to the beer stash. I pay my respects, then walk around and shoot (in some cases, not in the way that I’d like). Will Durkl asks me “Is that your first budweiser (in your whole life)?” I see that Chris is djing with Gavin Holland — Party Bro-union — with a live drummer in the same room. Libby turnt 24. I take more pictures. Cory — who’s moving to Berlin this summer — comes through with a grand caravan of haircuts and emo-tight jeans in tow, most of whom leave yawning sooner than later. I meet BYT photog Melanie, and remember how hard it is to shoot photogs. At one fuzzy point, I open the wrong door and get jumped by this crazy little Chilean man. I find a time machine, hit rewind, and remember to bypass that door. Bands are rehearsing, people are dancing, beer is running out and then somehow, not.
The cops never come, but neither does the party of interest at Saki, despite my best efforts.
“Well, do you want to get breakfast at Kramer’s or the diner?”
“No. Bed time.”
:(
The complete photoset’s here.
turnt?
June 2, 2008 at 11:27 amMy fault.
Meant to say “turnted”.
I am a huge supporter of creative grammar.
June 2, 2008 at 11:38 amSuper fun, last minute shindig.
Gavin slamming in Donald Byrd’s “Love Has Come Around” made my weekend. Thank you for that buddy.
June 2, 2008 at 1:13 pmThis entry/article calls to mind folks in college who, on Monday morning, would talk about how much they partied over the weekend…with people that were at the parties!
Speaking of parties, how does a party become a “secret party”? Seems to me a band in the basement of someone’s house is much different than, say, three bands playing the old bakery on I Street NE.
June 2, 2008 at 1:58 pmClever monkey day? Already?
June 2, 2008 at 2:11 pmText message play-by-play, personal social calendars, and oh-so-hilarious conversations are pleasant enough, but if you can’t even bring yourself to disclose the super-secret location, why write it up here?
Come to think of it, it’s been tough to sift the useful/interesting stuff from the junk on BYT lately. I get the feeling the cutting room floor is squeaky clean.
June 2, 2008 at 2:25 pmIt’s mating season…mate.
June 2, 2008 at 2:25 pmplease feel free to send all useful (and not-so-useful) content suggestions here:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/misc-awesome/tip-us/
June 2, 2008 at 2:28 pm@Yawn
I simplpy enjoy bugging the living crap out of you. that’s all. tee hee hee.
@George Townsend
I get it. I called you a clever monkey and you pulled the ol’ rubber-glue-switcheroo on me. hahaha. you’re cool. I can tell.
@both:
seriously folks. what would you do with all that excess bile and clever turns of phrase if it weren’t for my crappy writing and awful photography? you get utitlity out of BYT. Oh yes you do.
@Sexy Fitsum
The notion of “coolness” ended in high school. You’re almost 40 and haven’t figured that out yet? Maybe moving to the District will change your perspective…
Aw George, reaching for the age thing … do you have any idea how transcendentally handsome I am? I’m being dead serious. Ask around.
If you’re so over being “cool” then what is it you’re going for by trying to out-whatever me? I mean, I could just delete all of your comments and be done with your peasant ass, but I’m kind of entertained by your …err … youthful tenacity.
Holla!
June 2, 2008 at 3:18 pmAw Fitsum, defending immaturity with narcissism…and then threatening to delete my comments and be done with my lumpenproletariat ass (I am not cool enough to be a peasant). Are you going to challenge me to a fight later? And to think, all of this blathering because I called you out on your self-important bloviating…
June 2, 2008 at 3:32 pmTHE ONLY WAY to win a comment fight is to quit while you’re ahead.
This fact has been empirically proven over hundreds of BYT posts and thousands of comments.
Just so everyone knows.
Man, all I’m saying is I’m a really good looking guy. And if you have a girlfriend she better be the best damn secret you’ve ever kept in your life. She won’t care if I’m 50.
Anyway, you win.
:)
June 2, 2008 at 3:52 pmturnt made my day.
but you already know this.
THE ONLY WAY that I will retreat from a comment fight is when Princess Svetlana steps in as the voice of reason. But let’s not forget how important Sexy Fitsum is…and how good looking he is.
Just so everyone knows.
Awesome night……to bad your lady friend couldn,t make it she must have been really tired tonot make it out!! ;)
June 2, 2008 at 8:11 pmyes Ginger. I guess she must’ve been
:)
GT has a crush on SF.
it’s funny cuz it’s true.
so what exactly is the difference between a secret and private party in a town where all parties after 2.30 am on week-ends are regarded as illegal?
June 2, 2008 at 11:47 pmparty
house party
party in a private residence
party at a friend’s house
party on the d/l
secret party
same shit, all achieve the same goal
(bitches+tunes+liquor)
Sexy is the man. When I’m sick and have to stay at home and miss parties, he is my eyes.
June 3, 2008 at 9:12 pmAnd the Tiger is your muscle.
And kodo and podo the ferrets are your stealth.
So Dar, do you carry the mark?
June 6, 2008 at 12:53 am
hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa:
June 2, 2008 at 11:27 amLibby “turnt” 24