I. Hate. Most. Things.

UPDATE: After a torturous two-hour journey to Maspeth, Queens; I got my XBox back! It was even a brand new one! However, it still came with the pandering one month free of XBox Gold as opposed to a real prize. Loving the shit out of Assassin's Creed 2 right now.

I had just popped open the neon-green clamshell to Assassin's Creed 2, anxiously ready to embark on one of 2009's hottest videogames a couple of weeks after I had received the game for Christmas. Ever since I was three years old, I've spent a large portion of the winter months holed up, sitting Indian-style in front of a TV while play videogames and keeping myself as caffeinated as possible.

I powered up my XBox 360, ready to kill shit. I'm perennially three years old when it comes to videogames.

Words could not express the fury I experienced when I received the Red Ring of Death.

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Metro Center, at 11PM on a Friday night in the heart of Washington D.C, is absolutely dead. You might as well be in Springfield, Ohio.

The only other people within a visible radius were the other people who had taken the Bolt Bus with me from New York, and a couple of wandering tranny prostitutes who were clearly new at this. If there are any newbie tranny prostitutes looking to make a quick buck in our nation's capital, head over to Georgetown and Capitol Hill. That's where our closeted elected officials with deep pockets live.

After hopping on the Metro, two things quickly occured to me about the city that I used to call home:

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It was through Facebook that I found out Dan Haubert had died.

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I'm not sure how it happened, but I lost my driver's license last week. When Lifetime switched offices over to the Google building on 8th Avenue, instead of giving me a new building pass I had to check in with my driver's license and be issued a daily temporary pass for admittance into the building. It was definitely a bit annoying, but it was hardly a deal breaker.

Until I somehow lost my license. Obviously.

This left me in a bit of a Catch-22: my ID was a valid Ohio driver's license. In order to get a New York state driver's license after misplacing your out-of-state ID, you need, among other things, a social security card. 

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Back when I lived in D.C, DJing is what kept me creatively alive while simutaneously crucifying my immune system. It always seemed like when the stresses of climate change reporting and diving through energy leglsiation were about to end me, my DJ responsibilities would save my life. Thursday nights on the second floor of Rock and Roll Hotel. Friday nights on stage at The Red and the Black. And when-the-fuck-ever at DC9, Saint-Ex and Marx Cafe.

But when I moved to Brooklyn, I had to start from scratch.

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