"she said I was a HIPSTER DOOFUS."

[lauralh]

Went out to the Bar last night with Steve. I suppose we thought it would be a nice change of pace, a chance to perhaps mate outside our usual social circles, but well, it didn't quite work out that way, and now I finally get every anti-Seattle rant ever written. Or at least one of them.

Quite funny as I had recently had a convo with kamakhai about how scenesters "tend to keep to themselves and are rarely overtly obnoxious [but] they're certainly not a lot nicer." Steve and I felt like we had stepped into an 80s party movie or something. "Wow dude, I'm like the only girl in here without black hair and bangs!" It was really amazing. I think it wouldn't have been too bad if people were less insular. I mean I can understand if you just go to a bar and you only want to be with your friends, but why pay cover for the privilege?

Anyway, after a few drinks it wasn't too bad, and I even screwed up enough liquid courage to hit on the cute boy. And when he shot me down I took it in stride and just danced with Steve for a while. "It's the Faint! How the hell are you supposed to dance to this?" And I'm not just saying this, but the girl DJs were better than the boy DJs. It's kind of weird in 2003 to dance to music with lyrics beyond "Will I ever love you again" or whatever the latest eurodance number is; it felt like high school, especially with tracks such as "The Humpty Dance."

We were going to try to hit Aristo's before close but BP called us, asked us to join him at the Contour. WHICH WE GLADLY DID. "I was watching Dr. Zhivago and it depressed me, so here I am," he explained when we got there. Talked to the door girls and bartenders, got a free drink. Gave it to one of the off-duty girls. Well, ok, I drank a lot of it while she wasn't looking. That's probably what put me over the edge of rational drunkenness - I have no idea what was in it, it was like an LIT but very orange tasting. We didn't stay too long, though, which was good as Steve was about to start his drunken-ex-rant.

Comments

[billyfleetwood.livejournal.com]

What's funny is I completely agree with you, and completely disagree with you at the same time. The crowd you described was definitely in effect, but there were other people there too. Sometimes it's hard to ignore the shiny hipster glare, but if you look away, you'll find some nice, friendly, outgoing folks. Like me for example. Actually I'm pretty sure we were introduced, but I was pretty toasted. Hey! Nice meeting you.

But I do have to agree with the fact that people in this city go out in groups, and stay in those groups. It's one of the things I hate most about going out in this town.The other thing is the prevalence of "nights". You go someplace on a tuesday, and think, oh, this place is cool, you go back on thursday, it's an entirely different crowd, different music, might as well be a different place. Give people a chance to settle in someplace, get to know the staff, become a regular, and you'll find that it becomes a much friendlier and outgoing environment.

[hotcrab.livejournal.com]

yeah. i'm pretty sure kerrin introduced the two of us to you.

[billyfleetwood.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, the secret lj handshake... (hazily putting together the details of the previous night...)

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[hotcrab.livejournal.com]

i had totally forgotten about that
damn

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, you.

(No matter what I do, though, I feel like I'm at the high school cafeteria where everyone has there own little table and you can't really break in. But that's probably more because I'm shy.)