Sept. 3-5 - Not So Hard Labor and Three Days of Fun

The first weekend in September and it is still warm outside. I left work and got home fairly quickly. A dinner of Chinese food fried chicken and fried rice was enough to get dinner out of the way. Then I finished up my new mix CD playlist for my peak-hour mix. I was able to get all of the songs down and ready to mix and then I finished off evening preparations with a haircut and a shower. I then called up the car service and got my ride into the city. I arrived at
Splash around 12:10am and made my way past the doorman and into the club. My barman Brett had been moved but I did not know yet so I had two drinks at the front bar before I found him serving drinks at the second bar. I then moved my base of operations to the back bar and proceeded to dance on the dancefloor and hang with friends. DJ Alex Lauterstein kept the boys moving to some hard tribal beats well into the night and I stayed there dancing and having a grand old time until around 4am. I got home safely and slept in Saturday morning.

I woke up late and proceeded to finalize my Peak Hour dance mix CD and watched some of the programs I had saved on my DVR. I left late in the afternoon to take advantage to one of the final days of Tax-Free week. I went down to Bay Ridge Brooklyn to complete some shopping for both clothes and hit up the Vitamin Shoppe for some supplements. I made my way back home and finished my dinner while listening to the finalized mix placed on CD. Finally the stir -crazy built up enough I decided to leave the house and head into the city. I could not easily locate club G so I instead went to SBNY first. The place was ridiculously dark and the mood was there to match. A lot of boys standing around and some dancing on the dance floor waiting for something to happen. After speaking with my friends on the phone I decided I had waited long enough and made my way over to the Roxy. It was around 11:30pm and the open bar was still underway. I decided to wait until I was going to get my normal drink and just chill out listening to DJ Peter Rauhofer get the crowd into the evening. Once 12:01 hit I made my way up to the front bar and said hello to barman Barker. I ordered up my normal cocktail of Stoli Orange and Red Bull and proceeded to get my dance evening underway. I noticed that some of the more enterprising party goers had stockpiled free drinks on the rear speaker but wrote them off as amateurs as anyone more ready to party would either be taking something so they would not have to stockpile those bottom shelf free drinks to continue to drink all night. I may not be ready to pay for Grey Goose and Cranberry all night but I can deal with a Stoli and since I got there early enough I did not have to pay the full price that people pay coming in later. With plenty of drinks served up in a timely fashion, I was able to hang with my friends all over the place and not have to worry about my good time or that of my friends. Rickey did his part to keep the party going by saving a large group of people from certain injury when the stage separated and began to sway back and forth towards the middle of the dance floor. Due to his timely warning and a quick motion to the security we were able to clear the stage and have a crew in to fix the faulty stage before anyone got hurt. Later on the night it was all well and good to have more people dancing on it once again. I even met friends (from yesterday), Mageara and Matt and right before 4am and managed to buy them a drink before the cut-off. I then put down my final drink of the evening and proceeded to dance in lounge area. At 4:20 the DJ proceeded to play "Lola's Theme"by Shapeshifters the remix by Victor Calderone. I proceeded to find the widest spot, light up both my hands and put on a full-speed floorshow for 5 solid minutes. That Saturday night was one of my all out highest level danceathons having danced with my own asian backup dancers in the asian section, having danced on the stage with the crowd screaming for the DJs attention, danced on the dancefloor in front of the stage and in the middle of the dancefloor and even saw the spitting image of Fresh Prince era Will Smith dressed in a skirt and a pale blue dashiki. I made my way out of the club around 4:45 and caught a taxi home fairly easy. Even though I had to argue my taxi route with the taxi driver that I had to go over the Manhattan Bridge and not the Brooklyn Bridge, the ride was uneventful and speedy and I was able to give the driver a nice tip because of it.

Sunday was a day spent resting up and just hanging out at home. I wandered out the house once to buy food but realized I had brought the wrong wallet and ended up with just enough money to buy a bottle of soda. I was too tired to go back out and buy something to eat so I settled for a meal of hot dogs on bread and a dessert of popcorn. I went out at around 11:30 and arrived in the city around midnight. I decided to stop in on my barman Brett and drop off a copy of my new mix cd. The party that night was with DJ Frankie Knuckles and the place was packed. I had never been to a Sunday party at Splash that was so well attended and the door-woman stated that all of the parties for Frankie Knuckles were usually well attended and this one was good because it was a holiday weekend as well. I ended up staying at the party until 4am and left after dancing on the stage to David Morales "How Would You Feel".

Despite being very tired and bleary eyed after my 3 days of hanging out I was very happy with my weekend and hope that the coming weeks bring a party and a vibe that are at least almost as entertaining if not more so.

Hope all the boys don't burn themselves out and the new kids keep coming as the parties seem to be just getting better after such a long lull in the vibe. Gotta go to work in the meantime but until next time. Keep the party bumpin.