Just Announced

[azaghal1981]

Damn dawg!

Goblin/Zombi
Dec 13
9:30 Club

[DotTheEyes]

A Winged Victory for the Sullen
3/19/2014
Sixth & I

[calecp01]

TMBG DJ set (plus an Animal Collective DJ set) after the show: https://fffvseit.eventbrite.com/

10/11 TMBG

[bellenseb]

Hayden
11/12
DC9

[ggw]

i do not hate you, ratbastard.  i love you. 

I just spit out water all over my computer screen. "I do not hate you, rat bastard" is maybe the funniest thing to imagine someone saying ever.

Have you ever met him in real life?  Feel free to hate his political views - I vehemently disagree with many of them myself - but why don't you withhold your knee-jerk judgments until you have actually met someone.

[azaghal1981]

I think he was just laughing at the phrase. Pretty sure there was no judgment of the person in question in that post.

[DotTheEyes]

Lord Huron
2/6/2014
9:30 Club

[hutch]

Flamin' Groovies
11-12
U St. Hall

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

Have you ever met him in real life?  Feel free to hate his political views - I vehemently disagree with many of them myself - but why don't you withhold your knee-jerk judgments until you have actually met someone.

I have met him actually. I'm on record recently as saying he was one of the nicest, most affable people I've met through here. That does not change the fact that "I do not hate you, rat bastard" is a hysterical sentence, especially if one suspends their recognition that RatBastard is a username.

[Yada]

ratbastard contacts me every once in a while, to mainly talk nice stuff and tell me how shocked he is that someone like me, a younger gay man from this century who does not believe most of what comes out of his older conservative yap, can still be friends with him and talk nice stuff back to him all the time.  humans can be capable of such things, and i find it cute that other humans can be shocked by such actions.  but here we are. 

i think he has gone off the deep end now.  his medical problems weigh heavy on his soul and heavy they are.  his mouth emotes the anger from which he is forced to deal with such things on a everyday basis, into created, ham handed bullshit that he throws out to anyone who will listen.  people in pain sometimes have a bad habit of bringing others into their worlds of shit, while others say nothing and shun all light of it out from anyone who could see to help.

i offer any hopes of help from my outstretched arm, my hands grip yours in the comfort that you are not alone.  i do not hate you, ratbastard.  i love you.  you are nothing more or nothing less, than anybody else i have sincere emotion toward.  be well, my friend.  stay strong, my friend.  love is stronger than depression, my friend. 

If this was a practice writing session and I was a creative non-fiction professor at a Liberal Arts School, I would give this entry an A-.

[DotTheEyes]

The Wild Feathers
11/10
Ottobar

Celebration, Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band (with Tunde Adebimpe)
12/6
Ottobar

Lupe Fiasco
12/11
9:30 Club

[killsaly]

I guess this year is going to end up being a three Celebration show year for me!

Animal Collective at 930 Club is finally sold out. 

[i am gay and i like cats]

kill sally . . . why do think, after all this time, celebration can not play places like nine thirty or u street or lincoln or howard or dar or someplace i know off the top of my head that i will go to?  you know, the places that say, nice, that band has "made it."

[azaghal1981]

Maybe they don't want to play those places? Not saying this is the case but it is not all that far fetched. Some bands would rather not be big.

[i am gay and i like cats]

i get that . . . but i love celebration too much for them to settle for meh as their career.  i want big.  of course, i always want big.