For about 8 months there going to clubs was a big deal for me. I was overseas, just ended a very bad period in life, and it was my way of rebelling (some how...)

Now that I am back in the states, I really don't feel the need to go. The club girls here are nasty, and everyone seems to have this smug attitude.

Who here goes/doesn't go to clubs, and why? I hate to think I am losing my party edge

actionthisday said:

clubs usually =

i just go to have fun every now and then. but its not really my thing either. as a matter of fact, ive never been into clubbing. it seems like its the same o same o. in the past i would just go 'cause my friends wanted to go. now i only go like once a month to get outta the house. personally i enjoy hanging out with friends and playing cards or just jokin' around.

brownsugar said:

I agree, it does get boring, if you go to the same place long enough, you realize it is the ame folks

When I was a young buck, I would go to clubs to shake my ass hard.

I don't drink in public, and it became ever more understood that clubs were more about drinking and hooking up then about dancing. That was a disapointment to me for I liked the showcase of my ass shaking talents.

MickG said:

Yeah, I am tired of the whole "hook-up" process.

I've gone to a few clubs in the last couple of years and I've discovered that they are not my thing.

1. It's more about hooking up and looking good just to get in than on the music and having a good time. I shouldn't have to rely on a club just to find a man or whoever but that's me.

2. The environment of the clubs made me feel uncomfortable. It was too dark for me, literally and figuratively.

3. The music sucks and unless it's an old school type of thing, like disco or 80's funk and pop. I can't get down to no London Bridge, Deja Vu or SexyBack.

Sometimes I feel like an old fart cause I think I should be into clubs since I'm 27 but we all like what we like and I'm glad I see that I'm not the only one who feels this way.

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.

The first and LAST time I went to a club,some guy wanted to fight me because I wouldnt dance with him
I dont feel like Im not missing anything

I'd prefer to throw private parties with people I know.

ThreadCula said:

me to.

ThreadCula said:

yeah, some guys take that shit personally.

When I used to go to more "traditional" clubs it always seemed to be about wearing ridiculously high heels and letting some guy feel on you. And if you don;t let the guy feel on you he gets all offended as if it is his constitutional right to do so.

So yeah, social dancing is where it's at! salsa, tango, hustle, or swing!

I'm a dancer!
Dance dance dance the night away.
A few drinks never hurt me, either.

CarrieMpls said:

dancing is so much fun. too much fun to miss out on, that's for sure.

I don't go, unless it's a bachelorette party or something. It's so expensive, and those long lines are rediculous! Not to mention, no one ever wants to dance with me, and I once got beer spilled on me, and burned with cigarettes by careless dancers.

I'm an introvert, shy and not quite dynamic enough for club life, too old for the young girls there and don't care enough to keep going full speed all the time. A club night every six months is just my speed.

I think I got all my clubbing out of the way before I was legal, I was done by 22

And people get too stupid when they're drunk, I've had one too many assholes in my face MAD b/c they couldn't get the number - no time for shit like that

I've always gone to pubs instead, so see bands

I loathe clubs, full of robots chained at the knee. No-one can hear your winning banter, see your hairdo. I don't want to dance with strangers in a demonic artificial vision of a party. I remember I used just to stand in the corner, filling my hate hump. I much prefer pubs and mansion orgies.

Im sick of clubs too. Too many leching men that think theyre in there if you catch their eye accidentally once. I wanna sit down and talk! And dance in a space where theres room to move!

Saying that though, I was in a bar-come-club last night and it was pretty good fun

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.

CarrieMpls said:

I do miss going to clubs to dance and have a few drinks. I have not been to one in years, I am sure it would not be as much fun to me now..
I still love to dance though- what an awesome release...

shanti0608 said:

I'm going to dance at the pub next Friday night the band is great!

ZombieKitten said:

Sounds like fun!!

shanti0608 said:

it has taken MONTHS to organise, so it better be f@#&ing good!!! I never get to go out anywhere anymore

I guess I can understand what everyone is complaining about. Except I just say that I don't go to clubs like that. Music is the number one priority for me if I'm going out and if it's bad, I won't go. If the crowd is one I don't wanna deal with, I don't go. There are only a couple of clubs in Mpls I will go to right now, and only one of them is a 'straight' club. These days, I only go out once a month or so, though over the last few months its been a little more frequent. But clubbing was probably my number one hobby thoughout my early 20's. Going out several nights a week, creating new outfits each time I went out, talking to just about everyone I could talk to, dancing, dancing, dancing.. It was FUN! But only in the 'right' clubs.
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I'm too old for clubs I think. Plus, there are hardly any worth going to anymore here in Holland or in Mpls.

clubs suck, usually, the only time you'll find me in one is if there is a concert I want to see there.

It is fun to go every now and then...but I work in sorta a nightclub so I need a balance for myself with more wholesome activities, daylight and not boozing it up! I really don't need to go out with the girls every saturday night, sometimes watching a movie with my boyfriend is just as fun or having lunch with a girlfriend and having a good talk is just fine.

I try to make my life as much about balance as I can...but I love going out dancing, hitting the clubs and when I do I really have a good time.

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.

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