buon capo d'anno, tutti. i hope your new years were not as painful as mine was. after not really having any concrete plans for our evening, and resigning ourselves to the fact that the night might involve hours of mario party + cheap champagne from the 8th street giant, we were rescued by two possible parties to which we could tag along. we first visited kriston and yglesias's house, where they were all dolled up in order to attend the libertarian party (which i will continue to refer to as such, even though yglesias informed me that the libertarianness of the party may have been overstated, seeing as the house throwing the party actually consisted of one libertarian and two liberals). after a few beers there with kriston, though, tommy, charles, julie, jon, paul and i decided to attend erik brolis's party near brookland, because he is latvian, and we all know what that means. actually, i don't know what it means, except latvians drink a hell of a lot, and erik's parties usually end up with his father taking shots with everybody.

anyway, i told tommy i think i got roofied at the party, because there is NO WAY a healthy, responsible girl such as myself would drink so much that she became a rambling idiot who loved and hugged everybody and then proceeded to black out and not be able to move from the couch for the next 24 hours, only having enough brain cells left to watch 5 episodes in a row of the alias season 1 dvd she received for christmas (and by the way, HOW EXCITED AM I FOR TWO HOURS OF ALIAS ON WEDNESDAY; shall we make a party of it?). nope. that was not me. okay. it was me. it hurt, but i had a fabulous time (i think), so it was worth it.

and now it's 2005. some things of note that are not at all related to one another:

-the arcade fire show is already sold out. DCist has two extra tix (yay foresight), though, so we'll be doing a contest this week to give those away.
-the wilco dates at the 9:30 club go on sale january 5th at 10am. here. i tell you because i love you and also i didn't get tickets to the sold-out show last year, so i don't want that to happen to any of my friends this year. i am so empathetic.
-cocktails using italian digestivos are apparently going to be hot in 2005, which only proves, once again, how ahead of the curve tommy and i are. okay, we're never ahead of the curve, but just humor us. we (well, mostly tommy) have been into digestivos for YEARS now, especially the artichoke-flavored one, cynar! actually, that one is really disgusting. if you're going to try a digestivo, go for averna or braulio.
-the NYT lets us know that " There is a growing fraternity in the American tourism industry: vacationers who plan their travels primarily — often solely — around food and wine. " and they're named tommy and catherine. i don't even give a shit about tourist sites anymore. bring on the bacchanalian times!
-speaking of bacchanalian, my 25th birthday is in 8 days. i would like to maybe do something for it. tommy and i are already going to ceiba during restaurant week to celebrate avec food, but i think a bar night with some friends is in order. any suggestions as to where or when? this saturday is the blue state DJ night at the black cat, so i think i'd prefer the weekend after that, if people are amenable. let me know!