GeeCee's Not-Entirely-Original Miscellany

Because I never remember to go check their site, upcoming stuff at Jammin Java that I wouldn't mind seeing. October looks especially bad for my wallet good.

8/25: Adrian Belew Power Trio
8/28: Paul and Storm
9/11: Peter Tork and Shoe Suede Blues
9/13: Sarah Bettens
10/1: Charlotte Martin (eh, kinda)
10/3: The Ditty Bops
10/3: Popa Chubby
10/8: An Evening with Marshall Crenshaw
10/14: Guggenheim Grotto
10/19: Erin McKeown and Jill Sobule
10/22: Justin Trawick
11/4: Richard Shindell and Antje Duvekot
11/6: Ellis Paul
11/20: Grant Lee Phillips
11/21: Robbie Fulks
11/28: Enter the Haggis
1/7: The Asylum Street Spankers

Entries I'd like to see (without filtering for things that don't work based on timing):

Bi the Way
How do homosexuals feel about bisexuals? How do bisexuals feel about bisexuals? Does bisexuality even exist? Filmmakers Josephine Decker and Brittany Blockman take a cross-country road trip to find answers, and more questions, in this smart, hip and sophisticated study of sexuality in the 21st century.
# Thursday, June 19, 09:15 p.m.
# Saturday, June 21, 11:45 p.m.

Bulletproof Salesman
For civilians, diplomats, and soldiers, roadside bombs in war-torn areas are a constant scourge. For Fidelis Cloer, they are a check in the mail. Cloer sells armored vehicles to the highest bidder, and his business acumen provides a disturbingly simple and unsentimental context in which to understand international conflict and suffering.
# Friday, June 20, 08:15 p.m.
# Saturday, June 21, 09:00 p.m.

Encounters at the End of the World
In his first documentary since GRIZZLY MAN, Werner Herzog travels to McMurdo Station in Antarctica as a guest of the National Science Foundation. The resulting account is a lyrical meditation on the stark landscape and a portrait of the researchers who risk their lives and sanity for the sake of science.
# Friday, June 20, 02:30 p.m.
# Sunday, June 22, 12:45 p.m.

( cut for length )

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
#Thursday, June 19, 10:00 a.m.
Free

Note to self:

http://www.splitthisrock.org/schedule-Saturday.html
8:00 p.m. Featured Reading, BMHS (BMHS—Bell Multicultural High School, 3101 16th Street, NW)

Dennis Brutus
Kenneth Carroll
Mark Doty
Carolyn Forché
Alicia Ostriker
Jeffrey Thomson reads “Achilles in Jasper, Texas”

Tickets will also be sold at the door for individual readings, $8 general admission; $5 student.

Note to self: stuff coming up in the next several months tht I want to consider seeing.

The Birchmere:
Jan. 18-20 - Eddie from Ohio (Er,except that I'll be in Boston that entire weekend for Arisia. D'oh.)
Jan. 23 - Richard Thompson: 1000 Years of Popular Music (at Lisner, actually)
Feb. 1 - Lowen & Navarro
Feb. 20 - Jann Arden and Holly Cole
Mar. 5 - The Saw Doctors
Mar. 7 - Jonathan Coulton and Paul & Storm
Mar. 12 - Los Lobos
Mar. 26-7 - Buddy Guy
Apr. 8 - Asia (the four original members)
Apr. 21 - Colin Hay (I could make it a birthday outing)

The State Theatre:
Jan. 1 - The Smithereens
Jan. 25 - North Mississippi All-Stars
Feb. 14 - VAST

The 9:30:
Dec. 21-22 - Rufus Wainwright
Dec. 28 - Patti Smith
Jan. 15 - Editors

Jammin' Java:
Mar. 15 - Adrian Belew Power Trio

Note to self: Jacqueline Carey is Writer GoH at Lunacon 2008.

"PotC: At World's End" (trailer to be posted apparently around 1 AM Eastern, if their counter is to be believed)

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon, due out May 1.

"Grindhouse". Tarantino and Rodriguez. It'll be beyond awful, and I'll love every minute of it.

In the more near-term future, VAST at the State Theatre on Wednesday with Army of Me.

Colin Hay at the Birchmere April 25.

Lisa Gerrard at the Birchmere May 7.

WEEKLY WORDS OF WISDOM
chosen by Lama Surya Das


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Take the first step. You don't have to see the whole staircase to take the first step.

~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Note to self: Virginia residents qualify for in-state tuition for the MSIS program at UT Knoxville.

Addendum to note to self: your GRE scores are too old (must be five years old or less). Also, not good enough on the quantitative anyway and so you'd need to retake it regardless of the age.

Note to self

Tthe book referenced on the Kojo Nnamdi show: Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah.