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My intention was to spend Saturday night at a show with some local bands. As for how I actually spent Saturday night? Well...this is the email I sent to one of the band's singers:
9pm: I leave the apartment building with a friend. I moved into this apartment building right before SXSW and I *think* I remember how to make to RnR Hotel.
9:08pm: Wrong turn #1. Continue looking for an exit that doesn't exist but that's okay as I'm pretty sure I made this mistake last time I tried to go to RnR Hotel.
9:17pm: I reach the spot where I'm sure I made the wrong decision on the last way-too-long drive. I make a turn which turns out to be wrong turn #2.
9:25pm: I'm pretty sure I'm in Maryland now - but that's okay! I used to live in Silver Spring and actually know how to get to RnR Hotel from Maryland, and all it takes is a trip down the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, which is a few minutes away and takes ten minutes.
9:35pm: I turn onto the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and start driving.
9:37pm: I come to the startling realization that the Baltimore-Washington Parkway is more of a Parking Lot than a Parkway. Desperately search for some sort of flashing yellow or red and blue lights.
9:57pm: I'm about halfway through Live and Let Ghosts...which I started right before turning onto the parkway have now crawled along for 20 minutes at 5mph. I'm pretty sure that I've missed the Beanstalk Library at this point but figure I can still get there for you guys, right?
10:16pm: I see a sign that says that there's roadwork ahead and to proceed with caution. 5mph is apparently not cautious enough? We wonder aloud how cautious these people are who are using the shoulder as their own personal lane because clearly, they are that much more important than the rest of us. Douchebags.
10:20pm: The red sea parts to let an ambulance through. I can't help but wonder if aforementioned douchebags ran into someone on the shoulder who actually broke down and needed to be there. I never got confirmation of that. I see blue flashing lights ahead.
10:25pm: I realize that the blue flashing lights ahead have completely blocked off the B-W parkway and are forcing us off into an area where, unlike the previous hour and a half, I actually truly have no idea where I am.
10:30pm: Gas station dude is completely unhelpful. We attempt to use our sense of direction to find an entrance farther south.
10:32pm: We find one...and a police car is blocking it off.
10:40pm: We find another one! Hallelujah!
10:45pm: Unfortunately we have completely overshot the actual exit that we need to get off and have now returned to the area of wrong turn #2.
10:47pm: So, let's forget highways and just use roads, right? Additional wrong turns ensue.
11:08pm: I had been on a street in Northeast two seconds ago...how am I back on the highway?
11:10pm: It occurs to me that by the time I even make it to RnR Hotel...you guys will probably be done. My brain no longer works and I give up.
11:30pm: Make it back to apartment building and resign myself to ice cream, Bailey's and SNL rerun. Vampire Weekend is the musical guest. Ezra Koenig is nice eye candy but when it comes to rocking out, Ezra Koenig < Aaron Leeder. Just sayin.
Live and Let Ghosts is an album by another local DC band, Jukebox the Ghost, who all of us know and love. Aaron Leeder is the guitarist for her band, Exit Clov. He is a beast. Ezra Koenig is not a beast. And as Erinn pointed out...he (and Chris Baio who is a truly nice person) are awkward dancers onstage. On account of Chris Baio being a truly nice person - he is forgiven for being an awkward dancer. The lesson from all this is that I should actually set up the GPS that I got as a Christmas present. Yeah.
On Sunday I also pulled a muscle in a pretty unfortunate spot. I told my sister via text message and she started laughing in the middle of a crowded library. Oops. Hope everyone's doing well and sorry for not checking this recently.
9pm: I leave the apartment building with a friend. I moved into this apartment building right before SXSW and I *think* I remember how to make to RnR Hotel.
9:08pm: Wrong turn #1. Continue looking for an exit that doesn't exist but that's okay as I'm pretty sure I made this mistake last time I tried to go to RnR Hotel.
9:17pm: I reach the spot where I'm sure I made the wrong decision on the last way-too-long drive. I make a turn which turns out to be wrong turn #2.
9:25pm: I'm pretty sure I'm in Maryland now - but that's okay! I used to live in Silver Spring and actually know how to get to RnR Hotel from Maryland, and all it takes is a trip down the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, which is a few minutes away and takes ten minutes.
9:35pm: I turn onto the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and start driving.
9:37pm: I come to the startling realization that the Baltimore-Washington Parkway is more of a Parking Lot than a Parkway. Desperately search for some sort of flashing yellow or red and blue lights.
9:57pm: I'm about halfway through Live and Let Ghosts...which I started right before turning onto the parkway have now crawled along for 20 minutes at 5mph. I'm pretty sure that I've missed the Beanstalk Library at this point but figure I can still get there for you guys, right?
10:16pm: I see a sign that says that there's roadwork ahead and to proceed with caution. 5mph is apparently not cautious enough? We wonder aloud how cautious these people are who are using the shoulder as their own personal lane because clearly, they are that much more important than the rest of us. Douchebags.
10:20pm: The red sea parts to let an ambulance through. I can't help but wonder if aforementioned douchebags ran into someone on the shoulder who actually broke down and needed to be there. I never got confirmation of that. I see blue flashing lights ahead.
10:25pm: I realize that the blue flashing lights ahead have completely blocked off the B-W parkway and are forcing us off into an area where, unlike the previous hour and a half, I actually truly have no idea where I am.
10:30pm: Gas station dude is completely unhelpful. We attempt to use our sense of direction to find an entrance farther south.
10:32pm: We find one...and a police car is blocking it off.
10:40pm: We find another one! Hallelujah!
10:45pm: Unfortunately we have completely overshot the actual exit that we need to get off and have now returned to the area of wrong turn #2.
10:47pm: So, let's forget highways and just use roads, right? Additional wrong turns ensue.
11:08pm: I had been on a street in Northeast two seconds ago...how am I back on the highway?
11:10pm: It occurs to me that by the time I even make it to RnR Hotel...you guys will probably be done. My brain no longer works and I give up.
11:30pm: Make it back to apartment building and resign myself to ice cream, Bailey's and SNL rerun. Vampire Weekend is the musical guest. Ezra Koenig is nice eye candy but when it comes to rocking out, Ezra Koenig < Aaron Leeder. Just sayin.
Live and Let Ghosts is an album by another local DC band, Jukebox the Ghost, who all of us know and love. Aaron Leeder is the guitarist for her band, Exit Clov. He is a beast. Ezra Koenig is not a beast. And as Erinn pointed out...he (and Chris Baio who is a truly nice person) are awkward dancers onstage. On account of Chris Baio being a truly nice person - he is forgiven for being an awkward dancer. The lesson from all this is that I should actually set up the GPS that I got as a Christmas present. Yeah.
On Sunday I also pulled a muscle in a pretty unfortunate spot. I told my sister via text message and she started laughing in the middle of a crowded library. Oops. Hope everyone's doing well and sorry for not checking this recently.