Sep 9-11 - Much More and then some. Light me up and keep it moving.

Friday Night upon us once again. I left work and headed home another week of work closed out and some fun times with friends up ahead. The all Hurricane all the time newswatch continued but I was the one looking for it and it wasn't just getting thrown into my face with no effort on my part. I was glued to the newswires and constantly checking on the drama from multiple sources. From tales of ineptitude by FEMA such as not allowing through food and water to the people who needed it, to even the poorest of poor countries such as Bangladesh and Afghanistan feeling so bad for Hurricane victims they were giving even small amounts to help. I got back to BK and quickly settled into the delivery dinner that had that was in house before I even arrived and I made sure I finished up the dinner before preparing for the rest of the night. The muscle relaxants I had been prescribed for my upper back pains (right smack in the middle of my upper back) had me feeling a little more lethargic than usual (always wanting to nap on the trains) but my back was definitely feeling better and the pain was spread over a much wider area than the pinprick of sheer torture pins I had at the beginning of the week. I still had plenty of weekend to look forward to so I went ahead and cut the hair, cleaned up and outfitted so I was ready to head out just after 11pm and make my way into the city along with Pais in the Murano.

We made it through the traffic crossing the Bk bridge and then across downtown over to Hudson Street to head up the west side to make it up to 8th ave and 18th street. A parking spot right around the corner and we walked back down the street to head on into
Gym. Brett was already over with his tour at the bar but he was still in house so we picked up a drink from the bartender and hung out for a bit before he returned upstairs. I said hello to DJ Smoky and watched the crowd playing pool, watching Boxing and baseball on the big screens. After Brett came back upstairs I said hello and gave him the Pop Life and Street Beats 2 CDs (you've been busy he commented) and he rushed out as he had many chores to complete over the weekend as he was finally off work. We bid each other goodnight and I went back over to the bar to have another drink with Pais. After my first Smirnoff Ice the sweetness of the drink came back to remind me I had just finished it off. I then switched over to Vodka drinks instead which seem to stay with me better. After the second drink was finished off we headed out to retrieve the car and made our way east 2 blocks to park before heading in
Splash. The DJ of the eve was Susan which meant the mood was hot but fickle and the crowd was restless to recognize even the slightest change in her musical canvas. I headed downstairs and picked up a frozen margarita before heading back up to check out the music and the people on the dancefloor. The music was pretty much the same she played for her birthday set with some new beats thrown in. Pais was in telephonic contact with The Jimmy who was around the corner and pretty close. After hearing "Black Betty" remixed once again I decided that if we were invited to go someplace else there was nothing holding me there. We met up outside with the boys and decided we would find parking up near club Deep and KRASH. The night was the afterparty for the annual trip down to Six Flags and the party was on with DJ Demarko upstairs. The music was good though not as varied as we had listened to a few weeks before at Splash. He seemed to be trying to push the crowd to listen to something new but was not really giving them anything to go on to continue the trip. The $11 dollar drinks didn't put too much of a damper on my eve as I hung out with boys, including the always in attendance Anthony Lamont, along with friends Ed and Stephen. I danced next to the dancefloor just on the other side of the first box, facing the stage and watching the DJ and Light board guy as I lit my hands and danced to the beats. The girl box dancer was very into entertainment and I myself was right there with the crowd all the way up until around 3:45am when I finally gave up all remembrance of the evening but from all accounts I arrived at home (after a short stop for a hamburger at McDonalds) none the worse for the wear.

I woke up Saturday and enjoyed delivery breakfast from the cafe down the street and after rehydrating and cleaning up I felt good enough to just chill for a while before we headed out briefly to stop at the drugstore for Pais and then Lenny's pizza down the block for a slice before heading back up to the house and cleaning up some and then taking a brief late nap after some CD Mixing before it was dinner time and I received a delivery dinner of chicken caesar salad. My sister stopped over briefly to pick up some baby gifts (RC Car and baby pillow) as well as my older upright vacuum (bye Kenmore) and they hung around for a bit with dinner from Lenny's before they took the car service back home. I cleaned up and changed before the arrival of The Jimmy and Pais and I hung out for a bit before heading out of the house at 11:05 to make our way into the city.

Once again major delays at the Bk bridge but once across town to the west side we were warned about the delays heading downtown but the way uptown was clear as we headed up the west side and looked for parking. We ended up parking on 23rd street and 10th ave and I made my way down the block and over to 18th ave and Roxy. The crowd to start with was kind of light and I even thought that barman Barker was not in and was hanging with barman Matt before Barker showed up in his mechanic shirt. We made up quickly and I gave him the Pop Life CD to match the CD he had received the previous week. I hung out at the front bar for a bit before heading to the back of the dancefloor with drink in hand to dance right on the floor at the back curtain to finish up "Love has come again" which segued into Jody W and "I'm looking for a New Love". No one else seemed as into the Chus and Ceballos mix as I was but it was a good start as DJ Hex Hector let the night slowly build as the crowd got more and more into the music. As the crowd on the dancefloor was getting respectable the 4 towering drag performers took to the stage and whipped the crowd into a frenzy with their antics. I was standing near the stage watching the show when the called me over and made me the center stage attraction as the grinded on me in the middle of the stage and then stripped off my shirt as I stood under the hot stage lights and in front of the whole crowd on the dancefloor. After I moved on one of the performers came over to me and asked me if I was embarrassed by their acting up onstage with me in the middle. Of course with my usual speaker dancing, stage walking self I told them "never" and we smiled and moved on with the night. The music hit some older points with high energy remixes of MJ and "They don't Really Care about Us" as well as "Want To Be Startin Somethin" and JLo and "Waiting for Tonight" along with more recent hits such as "The Light" and some more hits for the crowd that grew to a respectable amount but was still not as busy as last weekend with the crowd that had made it in to fill the space for the 3 day weekend. This weekend crowd was still plenty fun and I also gave a gift CD (Beats the Heat) to Duane who was heading out early around 2:45am. We got plenty heated up dancing for the crowd on the stage, on the speaker in the asian section and only watched one person get sick and called security to clear their sick self out of our partyspace. The rest of us stayed until 4:15 before it was time to call it a night. Ahhhh Roxy...

Sunday I still felt pretty good and after delivery breakfast and plenty of water we headed out to go shopping. First into Lowes to pick up white Duck Tape (Duck Brand Duct Tape) and then over to Pathmark to pick up the fixins for a dinner of spaghetti with sweet sausage and red sauce. Me likey the homemade italian dinner. Back at home the dinner cooked fairly quickly after the sausage was done (covered pan for 10+ minutes in enough water to cover the bottom of the pan). The sauce made from a tiny tomato paste, crushed tomatoes and some cubed tomatoes and red peppers (Contadina) and all the seasonings, brown sugar, parmesan cheese, olive oil, red wine vinegar and some beef flavor (the stuff they make the bullion cubes from but easier to deal with). Dinner was ready around 7:30pm and we were digging in shortly afterwards. Very good, very filling and so very fresh. I then sat down to watch the Fox lineup at 8 but feel asleep during the Simpsons. I woke up 20 min later though and watched the rest of the eve's programming and laughed and laughed. We headed out for our weekly foray over to McDonald's to get a McFlurry and listened to the tunes to and fro. I closed out the evening watching the news and then some DVR programming and tried to get to bed a little earlier than the previous Sunday nights. Anything before 2am was admirable.

Another great one with more stuff learned and more friends met and plenty of fun to look forward to.