Welcome to the Liquid Stunning

( Dolemite @ WPFS/Warehouse Theatre, Tuesday 17 November )

Not completely Goth in nature, but thought this might be of use to some.

DC is throwing it's first semi-annual Tweed Ride this Sunday, November 15.

Read details here: http://dandiesandquaintrelles.blogspot.com/

More information and photos from past events in other cities here: http://www.projectbeltway.com/2009/11/must-do-dc-tweed-ride-sunday-november-15/

If you ride a bike, like to dress up, and drink gin, I highly recommend this.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Nerdsquee! Nerdsquee times infinity!

OMG!

I hate making posts like this, but I've had enough situations that it's probably time to bite the bullet. :P

I work in Communications for an iron and steel trade association, which means that I do a LOT with social networking and, particularly, sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. Now, I have filters for Facebook. I didn't start using it for work until well after I'd established myself there for fun, and it's got a nice filter feature that keeps me from worrying about any potentially off-color posts and such.

LinkedIn, however, is 100% for my professional career. If I don't add you on LinkedIn, it's because we don't have a professional relationship. Period. I don't know your work and I don't know your work ethic, I don't want to link *my* career with people I only know through a social hobby. So please don't hate me if I deny your LinkedIn request. It's not personal. Personal is for Facebook and LiveJournal. This is for my career, which brings me monies...and the monies feed the Casa de McCrady...and pay for Casa de McCrady...and provide for entertainment like movies and WoW and other social hobbies.

I like monies. Monies are good! Jobs are good! Help me keep both by respecting my separation between work and play! :)

I understand that you have needs. We all exist in this crappy economy, and are doing everything we can to eke out a living. I know that sets have gotten more elaborate, cast members want more money, and expenses all-around have risen for you just like they've risen for everyone else. It's a tough world we live in, tougher now than it was even 10 years ago. And yes, tougher for everyone means that things are also tougher for you.

However we look to you, in part, to bring us beauty -- especially in times when belts are tight and the world looks bleak. So while I do understand the fact that ticket prices have been rising for the last few years, please stop now! It's gotten so that none of us can afford to experience your awesomeness anymore, which makes this musical theatre fan a super sad panda.

In 1998 I was able to purchase 20th Row Orchestra seats for a night performance of Les Mis at the Auditorium Theatre...for $55 a ticket. Compare that to now, where a 3-week engagement of Wicked in Philly is charging $110 for orchestra seats and $70 for nosebleeds?

Please stop? Please bring prices back into reasonable zones. I don't expect I'll ever see another $55 orchestra seat again but, for the love of art, please find a happy medium in there somewhere!

I miss you! Other people miss you! Still more people have never been to a show because they can't afford it and, unless something happens to make prices more reasonable, probably never will. I know how much of an influence you've been on my life, and the thought of you not being able to reach a whole huge section of humanity makes me so sad.

We've spent years campaigning to bring art back to schools. I think it's time we started working to bring art back to everyone in general.

Love,

Your Faithful Fan
Megan

Preorders are now being taken directly from Metropolis Records, and at the special price of $25.98! The street date has been officially set as February 9, 2010, and LIMITED to 2,500 sets! The compilation consists of some of the best names to grace Industrial music history, and is packaged in a beautiful DVD size digipak. All tracks are EXCLUSIVE to this compilation, and produced specifically for it. The compilation has been created as a means of generating proceeds to donate to the "Foundation for Cancer Research and Wellness." What more can you ask for? 5 discs of awesome music for donating to a good cause!

Disc 1 - Diagnosis & Insurance:

1.SMP-Stay Sick
2.Stromkern-Notes From A War(First new track since 2004's Light it up)
3.Boole-Smoking Gun
4.Interface-Never Say Farewell
5.Chemlab-Solar Max(The Jimmy Sextex Coil)(First New Track since 2004's Oxidizer)
6.Bow Ever Down-Goodbye
7.The Gothsicles-Jim, Let Me Know When You Can Drink Again(Extreme Party Stylezz)
8.Terrorfakt-Painkiller(First New Track in 3 years since Teethgrinder)
9.16 Volt-Things Unkind
10.Rein[Forced]-Malignancy(Pancreatitis Mix)(First New track since 2006's Futile Longings..)
11.Ego Likeness-Save Your Serpent
12.Burikusu!!-7 Dimensional
13.Inure-Rapture
14.Cesium 137-Endure(Encoder Mix)
15.Cyanotic Feat Eric Powell of 16 Volt-Axiome(Grey Version)
16.Silent Auction-Deliverance
17.Terror Firma Sky-Cancerous Catalyst Converter(First Released Track since Static Landscapes comp 2000)

Disc 2 - Chemotherapy & Radiation:

1.The Dark Clan-Beat it, Kill it
2.The Azoic-Search and Destroy(Savior Mix)
3.genCAB-Version 2(Aesthetic Perfection Mix)
4.Christ Analogue-The Fight
5.Prometheus Burning Feat Jimmy Semtex of Rein[Forced]-Malignant Disco
6.Boxed Warning-Run First
7.Assemblage 23-Impermenance(Flight AC-112 Mix)
8.I:Scintilla-From A Wasteland To A Dream
9.Imperative Reaction-Giving In To The Change(Assemblege 23 Mix)
10.ThouShaltNot-Sick
11.Combichrist-Nosepad
12.Sonik Foundry-Stigmata
13.XuberX-Fear Is Fear
14.Mindless Faith-Into The Wind
15.Cyber Strukture-Some Sorta Rhythmic Machine
16.vircon-Count Backwards From Ten
17.Jordan Decay-The Great War

Disc 3 - Surgery:

1. Deathline Int’l-Breaking
2. Encoder featuring Jimmy Semtex of Rein[Forced] and Patricia Wake-Jim’s Song
3. Vicious Alliance-Right Beside You (Save Me Now Mix)
4. backandtotheleft-Maybe Today
5. Nachtmahr-Katharsis(Purification Mix)
6. Null Device-Under the Gun Immune Response
7. Suicide Commando-Until We Die (Winter Edit)
8. Agnes Wired For Sound-Don’t Worry (We’ll Meet Up Again)
9. System Syn-Blood (2009 Edit)
10. Acumen Nation-The Juice of Rotted Fruit
11. Aesthetic Perfection-The Ones (genCAB Mix)
12. Dismantled-Not Me
13. FGFC820-Children Of Decay (Northborne Mix)
14. Everything Goes Cold-I've Sold Your Organs on the Black Market to Finance the Purchase of a Used Minivan (I Don't Want Those Organs If There's Cancer in Them Mix)
15. Leæther Strip-The Scalpel song (Neoplasm edit)
16. Mordacious-Sleeping Beauty
17. Flesh Field-Detritus of Reason

Disc 4 - Recovery:

1. Noisuf-X-White Noise (Gift Mix)
2. Hardwire-I Am Forever
3. The Atomica Project-Transmission
4. Massiv In Mensch featuring Mind.In.A.Box-Supermassive Gravity (Endanger Mix)
5. SD6-Free (Interface Mix)
6. Obscenity Trial-Here and Now (Banging Mix by XP8)
7. Alter Der Ruine VS Premeditated Light-Dawn
8. nolongerhuman-Survival
9. Iris-Imposter (ThouShaltNot Remix)
10. Debutante-Alive
11. Andraculoid-You Tried To Kill Me, But I Killed You First
12. Deviant UK-Access Denied (Rotersand Mix)
13. Hypefactor-The Sweetest Soul(Rex Mix)
14. Freezepop-Duct Tape My Heart (Chinese Theatre Remix)
15. Spahn Ranch-In the Aftermath (Moroder Mix)
16. Caustic-Jim Made Cancer His Bitch

Disc 5 (digital bonus) - Medication:

1. Wreckcreation-Incomplete Me (Remix)
2. Borderlines-Visualization
3. AimOniA-Three
4. Beloved Dead-Twist of Fate
5. Derek C. F. Pegritz-Please Let Me Go
6. Molecule Party-Riser
7. Patricia Wake-Peaceful Shores
8. Neurobash-Left 4 Dead
9. Jon Zaremba-The Best Way to Tear Anything Down is to Blast!
10. Less Like Flesh-Virus Free
11. EVP-Schrödinger
12. Surviving The Odyssey-Dissolving the Sanity
13. Retar-D2-EXTRA LIVES!
14. The Hose Face-Dread
15. Sachem Orenda-Evident Product of Effort
16. TowerOpensFire-With Heavy Hands

This Saturday, you'll have another chance to catch ENGLISH BEATS, a fun-filled free night at
the Argonaut in the Atlas District.

On the second Saturday of each month, you will hear the best in new indie and electro from the UK and beyond. You'll also have the opportunity to sample some of the best food in town, and meet the great bar staff.

English Beats at the Argonaut
1433 H Street, NE
Every Second Saturday from 10 pm - 2am, upstairs
NO COVER!

( Click here for flyer )

This Saturday we'll be celebrating Midnight's 7th anniversary, and we've got an outstanding lineup in store for you! 23 Rainy Days is performing live; DJs Phae, DuJour, and Cheetahdave will keep the dance floor hopping; The Meeting Place is providing us with another hour of "open bar" and other drink specials; and Slyx Fashions is back in the vendor corner. The cover's still just $5.00, and there's much more, of course--including your annual opportunity to give us feedback in our survey...

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voodoo magic
DC's premier industrial fetish circus
DJs Panic Hardware, Cosmo, Dirty B
White Shadow Live
Tons of vendors
giveaways and more

Friday the 13th of November 2009
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Your automatic updates and their ninja-like installation of IE8 have screwed up my ability to work for the last time! Bah! I keel you!

( A new monthly gothic-industrial event coming next week - flyer and info behind the cut! )

Friday - needed to take a half day in order to head down to the DMV to get my shiny new DC driver's license. Went to Georgetown and was surprised at how efficient and nice the people were. Big difference from my Virginia experiences.

Saturday - Had folks over for some geekery. Also, got my passport book and passport card in the mail. For those who are thinking of getting a passport, their website is a big, fat liar. Four to six weeks is patently laughable. It took them thirteen weeks to process my passport. Be forewarned. And yes, as expected, my photograph makes me look like a skinhead drug dealer.

Sunday - went to tour the West Wing with friends, which was as awesome as expected. We saw the door to the Situation Room :), the Oval Office, the Roosevelt Room, the Cabinet Room, the Rose Garden, the Press Room, and the Navy Mess (cafeteria). Right after we left, Marine One dropped Obama back home. That afternoon, I drove over to votishal's house for some kibbitz time about some stuff we're working on and enjoyed some delicious mac'n'cheese. Came home and wrote for a bit.

And now I'm back at work.

( Dracula's Dog @ WPFS/Warehouse Theatre, Tuesday 10 November )

( 11-7-09 )

Washington Post dropped by Kiss Kiss Bang Bang they took some really nice shots and wrote up a review of the venue, Little Miss Whiskey's Golden Dollar.

If you haven't checked Miss Whiskey's tonight is a great time to drop by as I'm spinning Alter Ego with Franke Death. Hey, and if you're hungry Horace & Dickie’s Seafood Carryout - as featured on Man Vs. Food - is right down the block.

From this Bunny comic, which is itself a reference to this XKCD comic. Both of which are awesome. :-)

For my bebeh, who is having a bit of a rough day:



I love you!

TOMORROW
DC's only dark-euro Alternative Dance Party


Philly Invasion Birthday Party
Guest DJ Mike Saga
more

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This Saturday
DC's longest dark answer to cheers
Open Bar
Belly Dancer
DJs Panic, Vlad, Javier

This Saturday

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NEXT FRIDAY
DC's premier industrial fetish circus
DJs Panic Hardware, Cosmo, Dirty B
White Shadow Live
Tons of vendors
giveaways and more

Friday the 13th of November 2009
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ALTER EGO ~ FRIDAY 11/6
with special guest DJ Rev. Franke Deth
( Details about this rockin' monthly event under the cut.... )