I’m in Vermont until Wedensday, so here’s a list of things I won’t be doing the District of Columbia this weekend.
Friday
* Some asshole thinks he knows so much about how we pick candidates just because he’s a fucking neuroscientist. Drew Western will talk about his book The Political Brain. Free, 7pm at Politics & Prose. [P&P]
* Free show by Andy Zipf and the drinks are free if you can believe it though it might be some ploy to get you to buy pants. Free drinks from 9-10pm at Denim Bar at Pentagon Row. [Denim Bar]
* Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is a one-man band doing lofi shit on 80s keyboards. $8, 8pm at The Red and the Black. [TR&TB]
* They grow up so fast! Palace of Wonders opened a year ago and they’re having an anniversary party at which you can get drunk and experience a whole plethera of bizzare acts from burlesque to vaudeville to Western rope tricks. $15 advance, $20 at the door, 9pm at 1210 H Street NE. [Palace of Wonders]
Saturday
* The National Gallery is screening a couple of Hungarian films as part of its examination of war-era Europe. [NGA]
* Golem is one of the leading only klesmer punk bands. $10, 8:30pm at the Rock & Roll Hotel. [R&R Hotel]
* Boring Kitchen at Comet Ping Pong is sort of like hanging out in your friend’s basement when you were in middle school except there are some key differences. The basement wasn’t immacultely designed, you were significantly less drunk most of the time, there was no DJ and the pizza was from Dominos. Don’t forget to tip your tall, handsome, red-headed server. He’s my roommate. $5, 10pm at 5037 Connecticut Ave. [Comet]
* Lobster Boy isn’t just a burlesque performer - he’s become an institution. Join Lobs and all of his friends at their Tiki Party at the soon-to-be closed Warehouse Theater. $12, 11pm. [Lobster Boy]
Sunday
* Buster Keaton classic, “The Camera Man,” has Buster pretending to be something he’s not to win over a lady, sort of like when you take a date to see a classic movie. $9.25, 4pm at the AFI Silver Theatre. [AFI]
* Will Mullins and the Virgina Playboys are going to be playing classic bluegrass as part of the Folklife Festival. Free, 6pm at the Kennedy Center. [Kennedy Center]
* Thomas Mallon set his new novel Fellow Travelers in the McCarthy Era. His books are good supposedly and it might be worth it to hear him read from it. [P&P]
You know that feeling that you should be having fun, but you’re not? When going out makes you feel lonelier than staying in? This Brit chalks it up to the raw fact that ‘clubbing’ is a verb equivalent to ’sucking.’
