cathead27 (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cathead27) wrote,@ 2009-05-11 09:20:00 |
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weekend in dc-ish.
holy crap, a new post. sorry it's been so long, i'm always on the twigga, but too much stuff in dc for 140 characters.
i was still getting better most of the weekend. jasten gave me swine flu last week. we played a show at cat club, he didn't have a beer on stage and asked for a swig of mine before singing - i totally asked him if he had swine flu. he said no, and next day he's got the flu. what a jerk.
at the d.c. airport they have these little shuttles that drive all over the airport - they look like waiting rooms with smokestacks on top and don't feel like they should be a vehicle at all. i'm sure they were crazy futuristic in the 50s, but now they just feel dumb. i would like one to drive around in.
after getting to dc went to a starbucks to wake up - the rehearsal dinner place was somewhere right across the street, so time was to be wasted first in this minimall. the starbucks was about the nicest i've ever seen. it was huge and had a fireplace and tons of seating and good music. if they were like that here, i might actually go to them. also went to a cool quaint little coffee shop in frederick md yesterday that was nicer and had better snacks. good coffee places out there.
they had chicago style stuffed pizza at the rehearsal dinner, to bring some of chicago (for the bride) to dc (for the groom). it was a valiant effort. problem was, as far as i know, the groom only had stuffed pizza once, at christmas with me suzi and ross in greektown. so he was trying to coach chefs who'd also never had it. they used way too much garlic, not enough oregano, and the crust was a little crispy, but it was a real good attempt from dc people.
when my dad had heart surgery, one day that i was home taking care of him he suddenly got up from his drug induced stupor and sat on the computer for like a half hour. i was worried at what the hell he was doing and checked on him, and he was looking up books on the battle of monocacy. he's a big civil war nerd. well, monocacy battlefield was like 3 minutes from the hotel, so i went there to walk around saturday. it was real pretty, and cool to think that these old trees saw thousands of us killing each other there 150 years ago. also, and it's probably all the vonnegut i've been reading, i thought it was pretty sad and stupid that we honor these soldiers by not using all this great land for anything. there's quotes from all the soldiers' diaries/letters about what great farm land it was. so farm that shit. i don't know... big open unused field doesn't seem very honorary. i think they would want to help corn grow.
also, in the same vein, didn't go to the typical dc stuff. kind of wasn't interested beforehand, but once i was in frederic and saw all these super old quaint houses... that seems way more interesting to me than a giant gold obelisk we stuck in the air that has no relation to anything, except that we named it washington. yaknow?
the band at the wedding were the dude's who wrote that song "who got the hooch." for real. there were only like 5 little girls dancing most of the night, they were playing all typical wedding covers, and then when they started who got the hooch, we grabbed everyone we knew and crowded the dancefloor. we were the biggest jerks. it was amazing.
-tim.
holy crap, a new post. sorry it's been so long, i'm always on the twigga, but too much stuff in dc for 140 characters.
i was still getting better most of the weekend. jasten gave me swine flu last week. we played a show at cat club, he didn't have a beer on stage and asked for a swig of mine before singing - i totally asked him if he had swine flu. he said no, and next day he's got the flu. what a jerk.
at the d.c. airport they have these little shuttles that drive all over the airport - they look like waiting rooms with smokestacks on top and don't feel like they should be a vehicle at all. i'm sure they were crazy futuristic in the 50s, but now they just feel dumb. i would like one to drive around in.
after getting to dc went to a starbucks to wake up - the rehearsal dinner place was somewhere right across the street, so time was to be wasted first in this minimall. the starbucks was about the nicest i've ever seen. it was huge and had a fireplace and tons of seating and good music. if they were like that here, i might actually go to them. also went to a cool quaint little coffee shop in frederick md yesterday that was nicer and had better snacks. good coffee places out there.
they had chicago style stuffed pizza at the rehearsal dinner, to bring some of chicago (for the bride) to dc (for the groom). it was a valiant effort. problem was, as far as i know, the groom only had stuffed pizza once, at christmas with me suzi and ross in greektown. so he was trying to coach chefs who'd also never had it. they used way too much garlic, not enough oregano, and the crust was a little crispy, but it was a real good attempt from dc people.
when my dad had heart surgery, one day that i was home taking care of him he suddenly got up from his drug induced stupor and sat on the computer for like a half hour. i was worried at what the hell he was doing and checked on him, and he was looking up books on the battle of monocacy. he's a big civil war nerd. well, monocacy battlefield was like 3 minutes from the hotel, so i went there to walk around saturday. it was real pretty, and cool to think that these old trees saw thousands of us killing each other there 150 years ago. also, and it's probably all the vonnegut i've been reading, i thought it was pretty sad and stupid that we honor these soldiers by not using all this great land for anything. there's quotes from all the soldiers' diaries/letters about what great farm land it was. so farm that shit. i don't know... big open unused field doesn't seem very honorary. i think they would want to help corn grow.
also, in the same vein, didn't go to the typical dc stuff. kind of wasn't interested beforehand, but once i was in frederic and saw all these super old quaint houses... that seems way more interesting to me than a giant gold obelisk we stuck in the air that has no relation to anything, except that we named it washington. yaknow?
the band at the wedding were the dude's who wrote that song "who got the hooch." for real. there were only like 5 little girls dancing most of the night, they were playing all typical wedding covers, and then when they started who got the hooch, we grabbed everyone we knew and crowded the dancefloor. we were the biggest jerks. it was amazing.
-tim.
