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This particularly if you've got different drugs at a party, there may well come a point where, for example, the drunk people want to be shouty and jump up and down, which could well be the last thing you want/can cope with if you're tripping.
Case in point, last New Years when I had to make the numbers on the telephone stop moving around in the phone book in order to call a cab for the drunken people shrieking Bon Jovi songs in the laundry room.
Anyway, Good friends mixed with an equal if not slightly larger ammount of good acquaintances mixed with a slightly lesser ammount of complete strangers that only some people know. Alcohol or some fairly mellow drugs. A decent music collection where no one person has control of the stero but music is informally agreed on by committee. A quieter room where the more introverted people can chill and comiserate with another room for the louder, possibly inebriated, group. Some in bewteen rooms if there's space, plus snack type items. Knowing some doms. Having kittens that like people and attention. Maybe some neat things for strangers to look at and ask about, like a suit of armor or your sarcophogus converted into a tape case. Peking opera masks are also entertaining sometimes. Knowing a bunch of bohemians with semi-similar interests but not exactly the same. So those two guys can talk about film even though one's a hip-hop fan and the other is into punk music.
And most importantly, a willingness to roll with the party and not worry or freak out if something unexpected happens. Like if someone brings abandoned kittens to the giant new year's shindig or the said Bon Jovi contingent. Or if the brother of one of your friends invites his band who invites their friends who invite etc, until you suddenly look into your tiny living room and see fifty teeneagers crowded around the snack table while a ten year old you've never seen before walks by chugging a Bud Light. If there's aproblem, defuse it quietly and politely if at all possible.
Seems to work for me. Every party we've had someone has had sex in our basement. My girlfriend and I are quite proud of that actually. |
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