New To DC

Here's what the sky looked like the day I moved in

I just moved to Washington DC and I love it here. It's expensive, there's traffic, and the Metro escalators are usually stairs, but it is home. I admit it took time to find a place I could afford on my musician's budget and scholarship money. After looking at about 30-40 places advertised on various sources such as Craigslist, the Washington Post, and the Washington Times among others, I found a one bedroom apartment in a renovated mansion. Hardwood floors, high ceilings, stainless steel appliances and views of the neighbor's brick building...yes I have all the amenities of city life. The only thing I was missing was pointers on how to spend my downtime and I figured I'd fill that myself. After all there's only a few thousand other bloggers in this town, why don;t I take a crack at it. So here's my crack. It's filled mostly with stuff about venues, but since I like new technology and good music, I'll try to get a bit in on those as well. Maybe.

Indulj...

Its 10 after 8p and smooth ass acoustic soul band is playing at the front of the venue. Their cover of my cheri amore is vibrating real nice some guitars and bongos, a cool male and sultry female vocalist leading the way into the night. I’ve got a feeling they have a few more clever innuendo laden covers on the twilight horizon.

The service is excellent. Beautiful young bartenders (thanks Jewels), waitresses, and a couple handsome males flirting with their patrons are well versed in both the fare and the specials. A few appetizers ranging in price from 7-10 dollars and a couple key cocktails and beers are priced at 3-7 dollars as well. The menu is simple and light, and somewhat mismatched but pleasant. I’m craving chicken so I ordered the jerk chicken and judging by my neighbors red sauced stained fingertips it should be pretty good. Its taking a good while but that’s ok with me, I suspect they might actually be making it fresh. I’ll definitely be devouring them wholeheartedly because I’m hungry as hell. Until the food arrives I’m having a Georgia Peach. It’s not really my kind of drink but I’m in an experimental mood.

The place is filled with a few young professionals watching college football, and some eclecticly clad females who have obviously been Induljing in their happy hour specials. The décor looks like it a smooth ass jazz bar from the late 90’s with big galss windows and mirrors and some original abstract pantings by a very talented artist I can’t seem to place. The only bad things are 1) the absence of Wifi, and 2) I smacked my face on the bathroom door which is jammed in some kind of weird way (fellas kill that long stride or you’ll have a nice line down the middle of your forehead that looks just like mine) and . The bathroom is clean, well kept, and filled with cool little vases and paintings I can look at while I “relax standing up”.

All in all I like it and I’ll be back. You can’t beat food, drinks, and live music for 20 bucks. My jerk chicken is here and I’m not getting this sauce on my keyboard so...

follow the light,

L.

...in the beginning

... there was the night and everyone loved to get down. fortunately, we still love to get down its just sometimes we don't know exactly what we'd like to do and where. So as a nocturnal kind of guy i've taken it upon myself to start trying to figure out ways, means, and places to enjoy the nightlife in Washington DC.

Fact of the matter is i'm a musician and over time i've come to get to know lots of places and i'm getting to know even more people so i figured i'd start blogging about it all. we'll call it the Chronicles of a Visitor: Vol. I.

Since you can go just about anywhere in DC on a friday and saturday and have a blast i want to start off by focusing on the off days. so tomorrow night, monday, august 9, i'm on the big hunt.

follow the light,
L