April 2-4
Another classic weekend.

Stepped into the night on Friday wanting to dance. Arrived at SBNY at midnight and squeezed through the crowd at the door and made our way inside to the music. DJ Alex Lauterstein was keeping the boys happy with some Old School clubbing beats, happy and upbeat but not too hard... yet. The crowd was kept simmering until the club boiled over into an explosion of tribal house. Keeping the feet happy as always. He made it easy represent for those on stage, on the dancefloor and of course on the speakerbox. We couldn't stay too long, plans the next day, but time was definitely well spent. Our barman Brett kept the drinks flowing until we had to go and I left the place in a great mood. Way to start a weekend.

The next day was busy for a Saturday, all kinds of family events mixed in with some shopping but it was all wrapped up with plenty of time to get back home for a disco nap. The night was kicked off with a birthday party for my friend "Q" and the usual cast of dozens that was all too happy to show up at the Chelsea jump off. Conversations were spun, introductions were made and house drinks were imbibed. I even got my first taste of Michelob Ultra, not too bad, went down real easy. So easy in fact that I was finished almost right after I started. A beer without its kick, I guess it has a place, when you don't want to be distracted from your partying by your drink. Hmmm. Anyway we stayed at the party until 12:30 and then made our way over to the "Rox" for another great time that was waiting to be had. Hardworking DJ Chad Jack kept the multiplexing beats flying with sounds both premiere and familiar. We danced to some all-new versions (at the Roxy anyway) of cool beats from Janet, Chads own version of "Just a Little While", Kelis "Milkshake", The always popular Monica "Get it Off" and quite a few other excerpts of dance classics spun over some totally danceable beats for a DJ design that was most definitely on point and in the house. Even off the clock Barman Brett chose the right one and made Roxy drinkmeister Barker his drink mixer of choice. The early drink cut off made it hectic at the end, as to be expected, but a timely announcement at 3:45 and of course great party placement and movement by yours truly made sure we had our drink allotment well in hand for the evening. We still stayed well into the night to enjoy the show that Chad put on for us and danced until we couldn't dance no more. Even birthday boy Q enjoyed the mix and our posse of partners that came along for the ride enjoyed another great Roxy Saturday. We exited the space into a whirl of sprinttime rain (remember That season?) and found ourselves a taxi that was just unloading someone to take us back to our native environs. A nice sedate ride home to decompress and another clubgoing weekend is wrapped up. Classic.