trumpet guy July 30th, 2010

   

Is it just me, or can you can almost hear the sounds of jazz coming from this silhouette near 14th and U St?

   

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Mechanix December 18th, 2009

   

This past Wednesday evening, we were on our way home from Christmas party #1 with Matt’s coworkers and decided to stop in and check out Mechanix at Steve’s Bar Room. The music was just getting going when we got in there, and it didn’t disappoint. You come straight off the elevator and right into the mix — the DJ booth is literally in your face, with all the various musicians on top of that. Billed as “classical music, jazz improvization and underground electronic music, the duo’s live ‘musican vs. DJ’ aural hybrid is both organic and original…” we weren’t quite sure what to expect, but for me, anything with live drums is usually worth it. We didn’t stay too long since this was already our second destination of the evening, but it looks like it’s a regular jam for Wednesday evenings? (hard to tell from their website?), but I would definitely check it out again.

   

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crate o records November 20th, 2009

   

A huge pile of old records sitting out on a nice day in Dupont Circle. For sale or for listening? You never know, because these guys also had a huge old vintage looking record player with them, so maybe they just wanted to break out the collection.

   

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This Day Needs… November 19th, 2009

   

It’s gross outside today… soooo.. we can just enjoy the street musicians that we saw last Sunday at Dupont Circle. When it was nice out.

   

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Sugarland and Keith Urban at Verizon Center August 21st, 2009

Even though I have seen both of these acts perform on numerous occasions, I still get starstruck every single time. There is just something about country music concerts that always gets me. Last night we were lucky enough to enjoy free box seats to the show (just one of Matt’s job perks for having connections in the construction industry!) It was a really long set, and I don’t think anyone left disappointed.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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Artomatic opens tonight May 29th, 2009

   

If you haven’t made plans for tonight yet… now you have some!

   

Artomatic 2009
May 29–July 5
Capitol Riverfront – Navy Yard
55 M St., SE

   

Matt’s wall is on the 9th floor, titled “Whitewashed.”

   

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9:30 Club April 19th, 2009

   

No cameras were allowed for Friday night’s show – Lily Allen at the 9:30 Club – but of course Matt snuck this picture anyways. It had been awhile since we’d been back there, and maybe it was my choice of show/musical taste, but I feel older and older every time I go there. Anyways, the show rocked, I love Lily Allen and her quirky lyrics, and I especially enjoyed her ability to dance around onstage in the tallest sparkly heels I’ve ever seen…. and, I even enjoyed the first band, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head even though I wasn’t that into their music on myspace, they weren’t too bad live.

   

On a side note, I love this website: Scanwiches.com

   

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Drummers November 14th, 2008

   

On Sundays there is often a drum circle in Meridian Hill Park , so we went to check it out last weekend. We were probably on the late side–it was close to 5:00 in the evening– so by the time we arrived there were just these two guys tapping away. It seemed like the old guy was teaching the younger guy as if it was his first time there. I sat and listened for a little bit while Matt took this shot. It was definitely a good background beat for fall in the park, but we gotta go back later to catch a bigger group of drummers…

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la di da September 19th, 2008

   
Just a guy with an eye patch, singing and dancing for the masses….

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ahh the Fort Reno concert days of summer… June 26th, 2008

 

   

After work today I rode the one-wheel-newly-replaced and the other-wheel-newly-realigned bicycle over to Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown for one in a series of outdoor concerts… Why is the bike wheel new you might ask? Well that would be because the bikes crashed to the ground this morning while attached to our now-broken bike rack as we careened over a poorly marked speed bump on Gallatin Road NW. Let me present all the facts, fair and honest, and we’ll let our readers decide where to place the blame for my $80 spent at Silver Cycles repair shop today.
 
 
 

Throwing blame around is mostly healthy, so… is the offender: me (Lori)? is it Matt? the bike rack company? the DC government/road surfacing department? the early morning hour?
 
fact #1. Matt was driving. Lori was navigating. (For the record, this is already quite a backwards situation.)
 
fact #2. The speed bump is not painted. It is the same color as the road. The road is wider that most DC side streets. There is small sign indicating speed bump, it is on the side of the road. It is difficult to see the sign (this is unbiased).
 
fact #3. I have previously careened over the speed bump in question on a prior trip to the pool.
 
fact #4. It was 6 am. We were *almost* at the pool.
 
fact #5. Lori and Matt attached the trunk-mounted bike rack together this morning.
 
fact #6. Lori and Matt first trial-installed the bike rack 2 nights ago, while Lori read the instructions for doing so. Today it was discovered that Lori did not read aloud (this is important) the very last step, which involved tying off the straps, BUT
 
fact #7. the Straps had previously been tied off by Matt on a successful bike trip yesterday in which no bikes were spilled onto the road.
 
fact #8. Straps were not tied down this morning when the bikes flew off.
 
fact #9. Lori’s bike wheel got mangled.
 
fact #10. Matt’s seat, previously wobbly, got miraculously re-tightened during the flying-off of the bike rack and bikes!! Thank goodness for a silver lining.
 
fact #11. The bike rack is missing two pieces of plastic tie-downs. Actually, they’re broken, they’re not missing… because they are resting on the side of Gallatin Road where I flung them this morning.
   
So it’s up to our loyal readers to decide in the comments who is to blame here. Do remember, Matt was driving.
    
Ok, fine, I will say that, after writing out the facts, I think I am to blame. SAD FACE. If there was a moral or an end to this story, and there is, it would be this: it’s better to sleep in past 5:30 am like a normal human being instead of trying to bike *and* swim before working a 10 hour day.
   
I also just noticed that this post started out with the title of “ahh the Fort Reno concert days of summer…” and I didn’t even get to that part. In summation of the concert, there was a lot of mostly crappy acoustic singing, and lots of teenagers, so we went and got Thai food. Goodnight!

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