Yes my weekends can start on a Thursday if I want them too. Thursday started with the Sassy City Chicks event at the Witherby. Then it degenerated to waiting for someone to join us in downtown that never made it. So after 4 visits to Ralphs for drinks, bathroom, drinks, and another bathroom break we called it a night and watched kung fu hustle back at a friends pad.
Friday night was a marathon run on the gaslamp strip. I got out of my Filam Fest meeting early and headed downtwon. While waiting for the friends I was going to party with that night I went to say hi to my friend who's a manager over at Osetra. While waiting for her to get paged I bumped into my friend Bobby who told me it's his first night having to manage Belo and On Broadway at the same time and gave me a couple passes to Belo. Finally my friend's free so we head to EXY Chic Greek to do a little recon. The place doesn't do events weekly but have hosted a private event or too.
The night was supposed to start at 9pm at Martini Ranch but the girls where circling for parking. I sent them to my favorite parking garage with $8 valet parking. We made it to the bar with 15mins to go. I had to strategically elbow us into the head of the bartenders cue by throwing down my tip before ordering. You'd be surprised at how much people don't tip at an open bar! it's like come on the drinks are free already! We pounded drinks like it was a cure for cancer, boogied for a few songs, and bounced on out to location two.
Onyx was starting to go off as we barely made it in before the cut off to use the secret password for no cover. Norm Rockwell had the place going off early so after I bobbed the apple out of my friends appletini we raided the cracks between furniture for dance space. Figuring everyone wanted to lounge more than party we headed to location three.
When we got to Thin the drinks started to kick in so someone had to come up with the idea of getting "Slave 4 U" played by the dj. Did I want the rest of the dance floor to know it was us who requested it? No way! so I said fine but he has 15 minutes to play it or else we're going to head to the next club. When the DJ threw the cut on my friend quickly disarmed my scowl with an impromptu rendition of Britney's music video followed by a vivacious photo shoot on the nearby steel poles.
It was time to cash in on my Belo passes. I have the same reservations about Belo that I have with On Broadway. I'll save that for another entry though as one of my main pet peeves was taken care of. They used the big room for hip hop and the red room for techno. Music was better than average that night too but I wanted to make another appearance somewhere else. For some reason the sewer threw up next to the exit or no one bothered to clean the exit stairs since the place opened!
Osetra came next and we were randomly reunited with someone from Martini ranch. Turns out he met my friend who manages the events there and was invited over. Using Osetra as a meeting place for some very late friends to join our crew and to stock up on Tokyo Teas we went to our last destination.
The W is now only half of what it used to be because of construction. I called the night early and took everyone over to Golden Dragon because it's the best damn late night cuisine you can get!
You can probably tell that I got tired at the end of writing this post =/ Man it's easier to go party in 6 venues than write about it well!
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