CarrieMpls said:

it was soooo much easier back then wasn't it??? almost as if you could have a personality AND be friendly at the same time. it was much more of a colorful and encouraging atmosphere than these cookie cutter clubs the younger folks frequent nowadays

Ottensen said:

That's another thing. The people I was around at those clubs were snobby and acted like their shit didn't stink. A MAJOR turnoff right off the bat for me.

purplecam said:

That's so retarded. The whole point of going out to clubs when I was young was to SOCIALIZE and be ENGAGING. I think there probably was a delusional smugness at large commercialized clubs, but the smaller, hipper scene with the REAL inside track to all that was cool and au courant was actually the most RELAXED place to be...I'm telling you, locals, starlets, and royalty partied right next to each other with a laid back attitude and not a care in the world...and we bought each other drinks and shared our cigarettes together to boot

Club girls are easy.

That's why I go.

Illustrator said:

That's why I came to Earth. I'd heard rumors and they were completely true.

The only clubs that i can say that i go to are latin dance clubs. I love it there because people are there to dance, not to drink and not to fuck, but to dance. I always have a blast.

Sometimes there are snobby people there who are all about themselves and their egos and sometimes there's one or two drunk jerks but the majority of the people there are cool and there to have a good time.

yeah, i'm a social dance geek.

it's boring... i dunno, i love to dance, but why not dance at a live show? or just DANCE?

SammiJ said:

that's why I don't hit the clubs like I used to

kidelrich said:

And you've got a great pick up line:

Earth girl - " So where you from?"

You - " Uranus."

Earth girl - " Tee hee...would you like a blow-job now?"

i had one of my meanest moments when i was about 21/22 at a bar

some older guy was trying to pick up my friend
i went over and said "dude! i can see the mark on your finger from your wedding band! what are you trying to do? pick up the girl to make you feel youthful? well stop it! it's not working! it just makes you look like an idiot. go home to your wife!"

now, he very may well have been a cheater. but now that i am older i realize he was more likely newly divorced or separated and trying to get back into the social scene

i probably crushed any self esteem he had left

Illustrator said:

If I had a nickel for every time I've had exactly that exchange, I'd still need a nickel.

i used to go a lot when i lived in new york, but not so much now that i live in chicago. why? i don't like the music they play in clubs here...at least not in the gay clubs. berlin nightclub plays good stuff (even when it's not prince night ), but that's about it. i got spoiled in new york - dancing to glam rock and industrial and all the crazy shit they'd spin at squeezebox really raised my standards for what a good club should be. meanwhile, i can't get with that hi-NRG munchkin music they play at the gay clubs here.

i got that out of my system 15 years ago. it was a really magical time in miami beach before it became commercialized and over-exposed. i was really lucky to have been part of the scene there when it was underground, full of quirky creative types with the largest imaginations. this was the time when most of the hotels on ocean drive were still retirement communities. the fashion industry was just taking foot and had only french and germans at the helm. the nightlife was fueled by new york city transplants left over from the studio 54 crowd or internationals who frequented regine's. they created an atmosphere that was heady, decadent, and stimulating to all your senses-taste, touch, smell, sight, sound. it was unmonitored (liquor licscenses? permits?) and equal opprortunity. you only needed to be open minded and have a zest for living, drinking, dancing, creativity. no velvet ropes. no celebrity squawking. no people stalking. you could be in a club that was set up just for the night in the ballroom of a run down art deco hotel, where they got the furniture the day before from an area thrift store. someone would tap you on the shoulder to light their cigarette from yours and it would be maybe princess chantal of greece or prince albert of monaco. u could share a cab with wesley snipes, or say hi to micheal stipe when he ventured into the club wearing nothing but a beach towel, swim trunks, and flip flops 'cause he just never quite managed to make it back to change after being at the beach all day. the club scene was uninhibited and outrageous, but everyone had a great attitude. i remember people used to show up in "ensembles", rather than whatever the latest designer look was. you or any celebrity could show up in a thrift store evening gown or your pajamas if you wanted to and no one cared, as long as it had some "oomph" to it. people were allowed to bring shoulder animals into the clubs and bars- i remember there was an organ grinder monkey that was a practical regular on the scene...and then there was this tiny south american who was the world's smallest man, practically the size of a toddler- people just used to pass him around on their hips and take turns dancing with him, he always wore these bright polyester suits and tuxes from the kids shops in little havanna and buster brown baby shoes. it was all so pleasantly bizarre it often felt like a cross between scenes from a fellini and david lynch film,..i managed to stay away from the drug use part of the scene, but i know it was there...and the sexual aspect? goodness, there was sex EVERYWHERE...but people were at least safe and took "precautions" because were watching people drop like flies from AIDs from what they did the decade before...but it still didn't, at least, keep you from dancing topless on the dance floor if you felt the urge, or watching nude voguing, or cheering while linda e. and christy t. groped & french kissed each other on a nightclub swing in the middle of the warsaw ballroom...yes, those were heady days indeed. glad i was there to see it. . i think i've seen everything i could possibly "see" then, and that era will never be duplicated. besides, i have no interest in the nightlife anymore at any rate...

...now i just go to live music venues for concerts when i want to go out.

don't go clubbing a lot anymore, I do check agenda's so I know that I have to go when favorite dj's come. DJ's I've been to recently:

* Tiefschwarz (Ali & Basti Schwarz, Germany, awesome!)
* Jazzanova (various DJ's from the Sonar Kollektiv, Berlin, Germany)
* Erick E (dutch DJ, progressive)
* Rainer Truby (Truby Trio, Freiburg, Germany)
* Roger Sanchez (Mallorca, Spain)
* David Guetta (France)

Would love to go to Kruder & Dorfmeister again (Vienna, Austria). Saw them a couple of years ago, but they're so god-damn lazy, they hardly tour or produce.

I went clubbing a lot in my 20s and it was great fun.

Now I only go when certain djs are in town and/or when some local djs have their club night.

abierman said:

Good list.