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All Acting Regiment

09:28 / 20.05.07

Or at least I haven't slept since I was pissed, and I keep nearly falling over.

You know the clothing line DIE? Well, the female zombie in their catalogue pics had her birthday last night.

Been to Smile at the Star & Garter!

This is the level of cool we're working at right now.

Can't find any photos but my pal E took this of KML which is essentially the same night:

I've got really cool friends.

Cheeky.

Yellow.

The measure of a venue is how quickly it goes from being COOL people standing around FRONTIN' and being COOL, like ICICOOL, to being a big CSS sweaty orgy thing and you start spinning on the dancefloor and then everyone starts. You don't get that at Club NME. Club NME have to use the shit union bar and it's full of idiots. When people slag off Nathan Barley culture they should stop, come with us to sparkle land, then redirect their anger specifically at club NME. Why the fuck is club NME even in this town?

So anyway I went to the loo and the lasses were all in there. LOLZ they said WE ARE IN YOUR BOYZ TOILETZ DOING LINEZ. WOW I said CAN I HAS A LINE?

I suppose the moral of that is mixing grape and vine is fine but stuffing shit up your sniffer ain't so chipper. Except it was quite chipper, actually! I CAN HAS LCD SOWAUNDSYATEM? I queried the DJ; then later LOL I HAS SLITES, SLITES CONTROLS THIS ZONE.

On a more serious note, I probably won't be doing coke again.

I hope you've all enjoyed this thread and it has brought some going out happiness to people who for whatever reason can't.

09:57 / 20.05.07

Cant you go and get yourself a blog or something Alecto?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

10:00 / 20.05.07

Dude, you can has Lievjernal.

All Acting Regiment

10:49 / 20.05.07

I do, I do! But I wanted to bring a dollop of joy here as well. Also, I was pissed.

11:51 / 20.05.07

But... But... But what does it all have to do with Simon & Garfunkel?

All Acting Regiment

11:52 / 20.05.07

I'm Simon, you're Garfunkel.

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:49 / 20.05.07

I feel old, and not in that sort of smug "I don't get or like what the kids are doing" way. I want my early 20s back, and if I have to go 'New Rave' to get them, so be it.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

13:25 / 20.05.07

I want someone else's early twenties. I'm going to wait outside Allecto's house and mug him for his.

misterdomino.org

14:28 / 20.05.07

I’d agree; I suddenly realize how incredibly uncool I am, seeing as how I’ve never even heard of a CSS sweaty orgy.

17:12 / 20.05.07

It's so weird realising that you are not a yoot anymore. That there are parties and clubs and music scenes that are passing you by, when a few brief years ago you would have taken them by the horns and rode them right into a cloud of speed and flickering strobelight.

These days I don't have the time, energy, money, knowledge, physical stamina and lack of responsibility to get re-engaged with any of that stuff. What makes it even weirder is that some of my friends still manage it somehow.

Christ, it's fucking New Rave these days. Seems like yesterday it were plain old Rave. Oh for the long distant heady days of Electro Clash...

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

19:26 / 20.05.07

Y'know everynow and then I crave my early twenties back - and then when I actually act like I have them, I invariably seem to find myself out in some club or pub, both trashed and bored and wondering what's actually wrong with a nice cup of milky tea, a good book and being in bed by ten?

Whisky Priestess

19:31 / 20.05.07

If only I could remember my early twenties, I'm sure I'd want them back.

I have a vague impression of temping, working in bars and going out with tossers, but perhaps I've just been reading too many first novels ...

Essential Dazzler

20:05 / 20.05.07

Someone can have my early 20's if they want, I'm really not using them.

20:14 / 20.05.07

I know what you mean, Shiny.

20:20 / 20.05.07

I wouldn't want to be young again, not for all the tea in fucking China. Who the hell wants to work that hard?

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

23:56 / 20.05.07

Amen that, except that I might do it for all the tea in China because then I could be both in my early '20s and staggeringly rich, which would be a marked difference from the way my original early '20s rolled out.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:58 / 21.05.07

I think I had a 20s at some point, and I can guess that at least some of it must have qualified as "early", but...

I'm not entirely sure.

Disco is My Class War

01:59 / 21.05.07

I want my mid 20s back.

Also, and I am trying to say this in the spirit of blithe inquiry rather than, "Please translate your incomprehensible yoof kulcha for the old git in the back there," but what is 'New Rave'?

07:58 / 21.05.07

New music scene that fancies itself as the successor to the original rave scene, but is also influenced by disco punk and electro clash (as far as I can see).

Wiki

Disco is My Class War

10:51 / 21.05.07

The New Rave scene can be viewed as a media construct, largely propounded by the NME

Now I know why I never heard of it. As you were.

All Acting Regiment

11:08 / 21.05.07

It's so weird realising that you are not a yoot anymore. That there are parties and clubs and music scenes that are passing you by, when a few brief years ago you would have taken them by the horns and rode them right into a cloud of speed and flickering strobelight.

There's an aesthetically-managed thin person in a retro leather jacket hiding just inside the lip of your boundaries. Just inside!

12:18 / 21.05.07

He doesn't wear a leather jacket - he's trendier than that

The New Rave scene can be viewed as a media construct, largely propounded by the NME

Aren't all scenes largely media constructs? Author=prat? I say "yes".

12:27 / 21.05.07

I was once viewed as a media construct, it kinda tickles.

Disco is My Class War

12:31 / 21.05.07

Sorry, B, didn't mean to knock your awesome definition-finding skillz. But I realised I didn't know about it cuz I'm not in the UK. And therefore, such things as Klaxons (notice how I didn't type Teh Klaxons, there?) have passed me by.

12:55 / 21.05.07

Oh no, I didn't think you were knocking me, I just noticed that my awesome skilz had brought up a definition that included a really silly bit of thinking about authentic scenes built from the bottom up by the fans for the fans with no nasty input from horrid horrid media nasties

13:37 / 21.05.07

Shurely 'Nu-Rave'?

Anyway, I'm boringly old too and agree. Last time I was at a trendy event I wondered why people weren't dancing and spent so long standing around trying to be ici-cool, and I realised they were all single. They're standing around impressing the guys/girls, y'know, for the sex. If you have a partner(s) then suddenly there's a lot less motivation to stand in a loud dark basement drinking overpriced spirits off your tits simultaneously bored and wired.
I thought it was because I'm old and boring and enjoy dinner parties where you can hear a conversation, but I recently went out to a night where the music was great and people weren't there to pull, and I had the best fucking time just like when I was in my early twenties.
I think the main difference is that now I have the confidence to admit I'm bored and go home, instead of trying to enjoy something that's not actually fun.

13:52 / 21.05.07

If you have a partner(s) then suddenly there's a lot less motivation to stand in a loud dark basement drinking overpriced spirits off your tits simultaneously bored and wired.

I've been meditating on this for quite a while and I have to agree. It's amazing how much my impetus to socialize was driven by a desire to find a sex-mate.

Mind you, when I was in my late-teens early twenties I was also strongly driven by the desire to dance all night and take drugs, although, it should be noted that the boundaries between sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll are somewhat blurry.

All Acting Regiment

13:58 / 21.05.07

I thought it was because I'm old and boring and enjoy dinner parties where you can hear a conversation

I'm intrigued by the notion that the above and being young/drugs/teh sexy etc are mutually exclusive - they aren't, in my experience, but then I am a Neitzschean Hellic.

14:10 / 21.05.07

I don't think anyone's saying that they are necessarily mutually exclusive, just that there are often factors that go hand in hand with getting older that can make for a little bit of exclusivity.

I tried to list my personal humps above when I mentioned "energy, money, knowledge, physical stamina and lack of responsibility". I've found that the responsibility one is particularly life changing, and has definitely increased with age.

14:12 / 21.05.07

Also, stamina, stamina's a big one for me. You wait, Regina, your body will get crapper. Oh yes.

15:53 / 21.05.07

I am going back to university this September in a hope to become more like Lecto. Fact.

I am also going to see Hadouken! play. If i can't be cutting edge, i will at least be at the papercutting edge of NME.

I worry about getting old.

At 23 i have stopped going out on worknights because it makes me too tired. I also stopped the drugs. And i moan about the smoke in bars.

"Can't wait for the smoking ban" I say ten times a night.

July First gleams resplendent in my future outlook.

"When my lungs fear not the hurt of bacco, i will dance all night!" i tell myself, but i fear it is a pretence.

So lonely.

Regrettable Juvenilia

17:44 / 21.05.07

23 seems a bit early to be making these kinds of changes, my friend.

17:54 / 21.05.07

Why d'you say that, Flybs? These are things we're all gonna have to deal with as we grow older; better sooner than later, no?

18:10 / 21.05.07

Might be worth pulling out of some things at twenty-three, so as to jump back with a vengeance five years later, no?

I can remember slowly quitting alcohol temporarily sometime around twenty. And then I did more or less stop going out to nearly as many parties or clubs, just a few years ago. It wasn't going out, really, that was getting to me, though, it was going out to Starshoes or whatever new club happened to have a novelty and that sort of thing. If it were a simple quiet bar, where I could sit with a whisky... but places that are designed to look like Chuck E Cheez's with the tinniest soul-destroying music, I just found myself meeting people and splitting to go dance, party, whatever on a rooftop or apartment, instead. The inanity of some scenes, plus an overload of work, just soured me on all aspects.

Fate and business have conspired to soon toss me right back in the frequent going out mode. And I'm determined to enjoy it, even if I have to get back in the habit of stealing interesting people away from the blacklights of Toucans or wherever, and just bailing. That right there's why I don't want my early twenties back; I wasn't comfortable bailing, then, and now: I'm not driving, so I'm not holding anyone else up.

18:16 / 21.05.07

Couldn't go back to the drugs, personally. Drugs and Boboss ceased to fit back in my early twenties.

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