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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Samantha on July 15, 2004, 09:41:00 pm
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my big 18th is on August 7th, and I have no ideas as to what to do. except registering to vote and buying a lotto ticket. I quit smoking. so what should I do to celebrate?? I've only got 3 weeks to plan something...I don't even have enough friends to have a big crazy party...argh...what to do??
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If I were a hipster 18-year old, I'd gather some folks for dinner at Cafe Saint Ex on 14th Street, then see a show at the Black Cat. All of it's all ages.
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Get loaded! Just don't drive or do anything too stupid.
Just kidding. I would never condone that underage drinking. I thinkg Bags' suggestion was a good one.
There's a good show at the Black Cat this Saturday night. Carlsonics and High Strung. But I don't know anything about the band playing there on your birthday. They're calle Mae. You could always check out who's at the Velvet Lounge or 9:30.
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at the 9:30 club:
N8 Presents Kosmic Brothas
Martin Luther with special guest Cody Chesnutt w/ Amp Fiddler & Eric Roberson
I've read that cody chesnutt is really good...
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A gang bang was always my favourite birthday celebration.
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sigh. I have no interest in any of the shows that night, otherwise that would definitely be the first thing I would think of.
ps. I'm not a hipster :p
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Originally posted by chaz:
You could always check out who's at the Velvet Lounge or 9:30.
Just a head's up, the VL is a 21+ venue.
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I didn't realize the British Navy hazed.
Originally posted by Bollocks:
A gang bang was always my favourite birthday celebration.
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Compared to us old geezers you are.
Originally posted by Samantha:
ps. I'm not a hipster :p
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Originally posted by Samantha:
my big 18th is on August 7th, and I have no ideas as to what to do.
Since your birthday falls on a weekend, why not go out of town if you can/want to?
To the beach, etc. Bring your friends/have them meet you there.
It could be fun/a different scene! :)
Cheers
DJ Medusa.
(who wishes she had a summer birthday)
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On my 18th birthday my sister and I went to see My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult at the Metro in Chicago. And it was an 18+ show. We were the only ones NOT on drugs, but it was still an awesome show.
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Originally posted by Medusa:
To the beach, etc. Bring your friends/have them meet you there.
It could be fun/a different scene! :)
Cheers
DJ Medusa.
(who wishes she had a summer birthday) [/b]
That's a good idea. Drive or take that $20 bus up to NYC for the day. Go shopping, hang out, whatever.
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my dad won't let me travel without an adult. my parents don't trust me as far as they can throw me, which is DC. I think I'm really screwed as far as this b-day goes.
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Originally posted by Samantha:
my dad won't let me travel without an adult.
You will be an adult on your 18th birthday.
Well, I don't hate my parents
I don't get drunk just to spite them
I've got my own reasons to drink now
Think I'll call my dad up and invite him
I can sleep in till noon anytime I want
Though there's not many days that I do
Gotta get up and take on that world
When your an adult it's no cliche it's the truth
'Cause I'm an adult now
I'm an adult now
I've got the problems of an adult
On my head and on my shoulders
I'm an adult now
I can't even look at young girls anymore
People will think I'm some kind of pervert
Adult sex is either boring or dirty
Young people they can get away with murder
I don't write songs about girls anymore
I have to write songs about women
No more boy meets girl boy loses girl
More like man tries to figure out what the hell went wrong
I can't take any more illicit drugs
I can't afford any artificial joy
I'd sure look like a fool dead in a ditch somewhere
With a mind full of chemicals
Like some cheese-eating high school boy
Sometimes my head hurts and sometimes my stomach hurts
And I guess it won't be long
Till I'm sitting in a room with a bunch
of people whose necks and backs are aching
Whose sight and hearing's failing
Who just can't seem to get it up
Speaking of hearing, I can't take too much loud music
I mean I like to play it, but I sure don't like the racket
Noise, but I can't hear anything
Just guitars screaming, screaming, screaming
Some guy screaming in a leather jacket
Wooah!
(Chorus)
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Time to move out of the house like my wife did at 18...
Originally posted by Samantha:
my dad won't let me travel without an adult. my parents don't trust me as far as they can throw me, which is DC. I think I'm really screwed as far as this b-day goes.
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Originally posted by Samantha:
my dad won't let me travel without an adult. my parents don't trust me as far as they can throw me, which is DC. I think I'm really screwed as far as this b-day goes.
isnt the Cure show the night before on the 6th?
perhaps you could go there, sneak backstage and have a little birthday ooh la la with Matt Bellamy from Muse! If i was a girl, thats how i would want to spend my 18th birthday :)
or how about an amusement park?
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Originally posted by Bagalicious Tangster:
If I were a hipster 18-year old, I'd gather some folks for dinner at Cafe Saint Ex on 14th Street, then see a show at the Black Cat. All of it's all ages.
And stop off at Casa de MindCage after dinner or the Cat since you're right there ;)
what...she'll be 18!
MindCage
Mindless Faith (http://www.mindlessfaith.com)
Deep6 Productions (http://www.deep6.com)
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
[QB] Time to move out of the house like my wife did at 18...
She left it late....I made it to 16, and that was with cool parents!
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I heard that sonickteam2 still lives with his parents.
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maybe it was 17, since she graduated high school a year early. Not sure, I wasn't on the scene at the time.
Originally posted by Bollocks:
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
[QB] Time to move out of the house like my wife did at 18...
She left it late....I made it to 16, and that was with cool parents! [/b]
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I'm not an adult to my parents. they are paying for college and everything so I still have to kiss their asses for awhile.
I am going to the Cure concert, but I really wanted to do something on my birthday, besides staying home like every other weekend.
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Ah c'mom you aint got it so bad.
At 18 I was a virgin who couldn't even get laid. I lived out in the country, miles away from any of my friends. And I grew up in upstate NY, where your choice of live music consisted of heavy metal acts, or third rate country singers at the county fair.
So don't fret, think about all the poor souls who gots it worse.
Originally posted by Samantha:
I'm not an adult to my parents. they are paying for college and everything so I still have to kiss their asses for awhile.
I am going to the Cure concert, but I really wanted to do something on my birthday, besides staying home like every other weekend.
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I really like that Pursuit of Happiness song
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Originally posted by brennser:
I really like that Pursuit of Happiness song
Great song.....I actually thought it was Dramarama for while.
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
At 18 I was a virgin who couldn't even get laid.
Shocker! ;)
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Originally posted by ggwâ?˘:
I heard that sonickteam2 still lives with his parents.
actually i am living with your parents.
i was raised by wolves.
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Getting to hear TOPH on the radio was one of the advantages of living in a Suburb of Windsor, CA... Moe Berg was great songwriter.. "Two Girls In One", "Cigarette Dangles"
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Take a trip to one of the many Canadian provinces that allow drinking at 18 and have some fun.
I think Alberta and Ontario are 19 though :D
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Originally posted by smakawhat:
I think Alberta and Ontario are 19 though :D
correct. and that sure makes for too many accidental nights of bringing teenage girls home from the bar cause "they had a stamp on thier hand!"
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how about finding a cool coffeehouse with a soundsystem and getting a dj to spin tunage...
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dont you have any friends with a house you can just have a shindig there? someone with a loud stereo, a grill, liquor.....whatever...fun AND cheap. :)
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
dont you have any friends with a house you can just have a shindig there? someone with a loud stereo, a grill, liquor.....gang bang....whatever...fun AND cheap. :)
NOW yer talk'n! :D
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I'm a loser with few friends :(
rhett, I wasn't fretting, I don't mind living at home rent-free one bit. if I did, I would move out.
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Originally posted by Medusa:
Originally posted by Samantha:
my big 18th is on August 7th, and I have no ideas as to what to do.
Since your birthday falls on a weekend, why not go out of town if you can/want to?
To the beach, etc. Bring your friends/have them meet you there.
It could be fun/a different scene! :)
Cheers
DJ Medusa.
(who wishes she had a summer birthday) [/b]
Good idea. Go to Philly or NYC.
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if i had friends, and it were my birthday, i would make them have a surprise party for me.
at the beach.
with lots of alcohol.
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you know what
that might be a good idea. make my friends plan it for me. hmmm...
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Originally posted by Samantha:
my dad won't let me travel without an adult. my parents don't trust me as far as they can throw me, which is DC. I think I'm really screwed as far as this b-day goes.
Samantha, I'm not criticizing, but if your attitude were better, I think there'd be a million ways to celebrate your birthday and have fun... Man, get folks to go to Tryst on 18th Street and just be silly all night pretty easy for 18 year olds. Is DC9 21+? If your parents are cool with you going out in DC, you have so many options....way more than most kids in the burbs not near a pretty cool city. And bless your parents for paying for college -- it's the nicest thing they can do for you. (Not sure why they won't let you go to NY, but who knows what's happened with you or siblings before....you've got lots of time for road trips).
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I'm a pessimist by nature :o it's just seeming really bleak right now. what is tryst?
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Originally posted by Samantha:
I'm a pessimist by nature :o it's just seeming really bleak right now. what is tryst?
It's an artsy-fartsy hangout bar/coffee bar in Adams Morgan.
Here's a birthday joke for you dear.
A man broke into the local police station and stole all the bathroom fixtures.......so far, the police have nothing to go on!
:D
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Originally posted by Samantha:
my big 18th is on August 7th, and I have no ideas as to what to do. except registering to vote and buying a lotto ticket. I quit smoking. so what should I do to celebrate?? I've only got 3 weeks to plan something...I don't even have enough friends to have a big crazy party...argh...what to do??
Call Smackie.
:D :D :p
(That's my sister's birthday too.)
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tryst is nice. very hip, apparently.
i like the diner better. meze is pretty cool too.
these are all in adams morgan, by the way.
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I like Tryst but it reminds me of a hipster study hall.
I like Meze too.
Joyti is also nice, if we're talking 18th St. here.
How is the Rhumba Café, or whatever that place is called? Almost ate there the other week but ended up elsewhere.
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the diner has a great atmosphere but is really overrated food-wise, i think. not bad food, but not great typical diner food.
tryst is annoying because all of the hipsters with their wireless internet take up all of the good spots on the couches and/or stare you down while you crawl over chairs to get to the one table in the back that hasn't been taken. good chai though, and it's fun to sit there with friends if there is enough room.
there's a fun little place in arlington called common grounds that is a nice relaxed coffee place/bakery-ish hangout. close to clarendon and an interesting record store - orpheus.
hope your birthday is fun. if you don't have high expectations you won't be let down! but don't feel pressured to make it like the best day, ever. go skydiving.
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Originally posted by Samantha:
sigh. I have no interest in any of the shows that night, otherwise that would definitely be the first thing I would think of.
ps. I'm not a hipster :p
get a massage...not really something that only "adults" can do, but definitely a nice treat for yourself! congrats on quitting smoking!
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I love how everyone on this board bashes hipsters.
As if 20something (or 20something wannabe) alternative music loving urban dwellers such as yourselves AREN'T hipsters. Yeah, right.
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i am such a hipster.
if one admits this, doesn't it completely cancel out the true status of being a hipster?
i think so.
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bahahahaha
thanks celeste. it's easy when your best friend has lung cancer :(
I really don't think I'm a hipster, unless hipsters are George Thorogood fans :p I have been "labeled" as a "faux goth"
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why not gather your friends in front of the wilson building and protest dc's 21-year-old drinking age? (Remember, as much as the FHA tries to dictate 21, states still have the discretion to set it as they choose. Districts too, as long as the feds don't reverse it.)
either that, or get a fake ID.
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Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
....states still have the discretion to set it as they choose. Districts too, as long as the feds don't reverse it
And that's what'd happen. The feds won't let us decide for ourselves on slots, they'd never let us do something nutty like change the drinking age...
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why not picket in favor of the 21 drinking age...they're saving your liver from three years of abuse..but picket in favor of clubs being all ages, all the time.
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Why not gather up a bunch of good friends and have some capri sun. You can watch C-Span while you're at it and see government in action!
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Originally posted by Bagalicious Tangster:
Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
....states still have the discretion to set it as they choose. Districts too, as long as the feds don't reverse it
And that's what'd happen. The feds won't let us decide for ourselves on slots, they'd never let us do something nutty like change the drinking age... [/b]
Why are some so adamantly against slots? It's like that in MD too.
If it's generating revenue...what's the big deal as long as it's administered properly. I think slots are no different than playing the lottery, which I don't, but for those that do....knock yourselves out!
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Slots are great -- social darwinism in action. A tax on the stupid. I'm all in favor of them!
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haha
I have no problem with the 21+ drinking age as I have someone to buy alcohol for me, as well as even if the drinking age was say, 18, I wouldn't be able to drink much anyways because my family is anti-alcohol and I'm still living with them. but Rhett had a good idea. it's the 21+ venues that piss me off. I don't care at all about wearing big huge X's on my hands...put one on my forehead, if you want. I just want to get in and see bands or hear music or see friends! but I guess if you let a lot of non-drinkers in, you don't make as much money. ah well.
thirsty, you're a party animal, aren't you?