The Hall Monitors at the Velvet Lounge
At a barbeque last Friday I met another Ginger! I NEVER meet Gingers my age so I was pretty excited. It turns out she's in a band and they were gonna be playing this week, so she invited Zakia, Stephanie and me to come. I invited Caitlin and her roommate Ali and we hit up the Velvet Lounge on U Street (my first time there) to see Ginger's band, The Hall Monitors.
The Velvet Lounge is actually pretty small, it's not like some big concert hall, and has a little bar downstairs and a stage upstairs. It's VERY divey - the walls were punched in on the stairway, there are stickers covering EVERYTHING (including one right on the toilet seat), you could get Schlitz beers for $2... they definitely had the hole-in-the-wall thing going on. It was cool, though, not gross.
Me, Caitlin, and Ali in between sets.
So we five girls headed upstairs to rock out. The Sundresses played first and they were really good, and have a crazy-hyper-head banging bassist, so that was fun. Then Ginger (it was definitely fun for me to cheer her name) came on with her band and they were really great. She described their music as kind of 60s rock, and it is, but not like "Love me Do" or anything like that.
There's the other Ginger!
It was a great night and makes me see there is a lot of DC that I haven't checked out yet... better get on that...
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Ginger! You didn't tell me you got a spiral perm!!
Haha shut up I can't help it, it just turns out that way when I wear it curly. I think it looks like a wig.
I'm just kidding...it looks cute. I didn't know your hair got that curly!
i second it's cuteness - i love your hair.
Hey Ginger! I started reading you awhile back because I had spent some time in Sioux Falls in 04 and I knew you were from Dell Rapids. Now it turns out that you work right across the street from me (well, assuming there was just one Labor protest in DC last week), AND you just ran into Ginger R, who I worked with up until a few months ago. A small, small world after all.
Oh my god, yeah it is!
I apologize on behalf of my organization for the picketing - I actually got called a rat on my way into the building today so I can't imagine it's very much fun for anyone else in the neighborhood, either.
Hey, I'm just glad it's not my building they're picketing. I'd be loathe to cross a picket line, but when it's about building management decisions - ones that had nothing to do with your company or bosses - what other choice do you have? Anyway, good luck!