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Weekend Roundup


As my time clock still goes through various stages of setting and resetting, I’ve managed to a least get out to a few clubs here and there. I Love House Music Wednesdays celebrated their 1 year anniversary at The Note, and they had the place packed to capacity. Friday was Little Louie Vega at Zentra… I was only there for 5 minutes and I have never seen the club so crowded in my life. ‘I hope there’s no fire’ I think to myself – talk about sardines freshly packed. Both were great parties. I heard some of my friends took Louie Vega to an afterset, which surprised me since he didn’t strike me as the afterset/grimey type of guy. But I heard he was extremely cool and down-to-earth.

Saturday night I hit up Generator, Smart Bar, Tini Martini and finally Ohm. I am so exhausted and still have to take more pictures for the magazine deadline. But I love the upstairs of Ohm on a Saturday night!

Reality check: I wake up Sunday morning to a very flooded bathroom, and struggle to mop up what looks like a growing house pond. My house guest watches my (questionable) domestic struggles indifferently, not bothering to help or ask if I’m ok. He then asks me if I’m going to be grumpy all day because he doesn’t want his day ruined by my stress. It is moments like these where I realize that I must be a closet masochist, because I should be hanging out with people who want to help me and who give a shit about me. Note to self: look at self in mirror 3x a day and say “I love me.” or “I love you.” We thrive on emotional S&M.

In the afternoon I go see this chick flick movie called Holiday, which was actually an excellent movie. It’s about 2 girls who try to get away and forget their ex-assholes, so they exchange houses over the Christmas holidays. It was just the movie I needed to see. Of course the men they meet were a little too perfect, to the point of prince charming status, but hey. We can all dream and hope can’t we?

Later that night I hit up the MLK parties at The Dating Game, Farley at Ohm and Betty’s Blue Star. All were pretty quiet, because the nasty cold and rain dampened people’s party moods. I didn’t care I was out and about like a trooper, partying with my dancer friends all night.

Happy Martin Luther King day!

Monday Night

While driving around boystown doing mag drops, my dancer friends Kirby and Tracey tell me to join them at Cocktail. I didn’t feel like going inside a bar at 6pm, but then Kirby says “The strippers are here!”. I look for parking. There is one fiiiiiiiine ass stripper that makes us all swoon, so I set my erotic laser beams on him. When he joins us I get all shy and Japanese-girl-giggly on him, but I couldn’t help it he was so damn sexy! It turns out he is half Filipino like me (the other half is Dutch), and knows limited words in Tagalog such as “fag”, “I’m going to kill you” and “son of a bitch.” “Good teachers you have!” I enthuse. He agrees to meet us at Madrigals (another male strip club) later that night.

Later on a group of us go to Madrigals sadly learning that they are about to close for good. I bring my new gay friend Stephen from the Generator so he can check it out. The dancers that night are okay, and we are a bored group of onlookers. The funny thing is that while driving home, I pass the liquor store that me and steroid stripper man used to frequent at 8am (see previous blog entries). Just then I see him sprinting across the road with a girl right behind him. I screech-stop the car and call his name. He runs to the car before she does and urgently whispers “Help me get me away from her I can’t stand her help me…” Oh shit it’s that same crazy girl from before! He’s giving me that “please save me” look but I smile and ignore it. She comes running up to the car looking crazed so I diffuse the situation by pretending Stephen is my boyfriend. They go jogging off and Stephen comments that he’s never seen a man so scared of a woman in his life.

All Hennaed Up

Went and got my hands and arms all hennaed up with crazy designs at a salon in Devon to relive my childhood memories of Indian weddings. Henna lasts a few weeks, and I realize too late that I cannot look like one of the Supremes for my show this Sunday with tribal markings all over my arms. Shit. Where’s the scar-hiding makeup?? My drag queen client will kill me!

Friday night Zentra gets pepper sprayed and we all have to leave the club by 3:30.

Saturday night was the Generator and Zentra again. Sunday night I roll solo to Celebrity, the Dating Game and Betty’s. Thankfully people left me alone for most of the nights, and I got to sit by the bar in peace. No heads screaming in my ear about how I should run my magazine and how they or their boys need to be on the cover. This hasn’t been the greatest week for me and I need something to cheer me up.

67th St Loft

Saturday night me and Lits hit up Zentra, the Generator (Lits and I did our first tag team french kiss on a gay boy), Prophouse and finally the 67th Street Loft Party. It’s Andre Hatchett’s birthday…the place is packed and the music is banging. My mini carry-on bottle of tequila was done in like 2 seconds. Damn vultures oops I mean friends. I was so hungry and thirsty that I chowed down on potato chips and beer in true cow-like fashion. I wanted to moo. Andre was wearing his t-shirt presents, one of which said “Fuck you you fucking fuck”, underneath that was another shirt that just said “fuck”, and one under that that said “You’re pretty when I’m drunk.” I’m jealous that he has friends who give him gifts like that.

Craig Loftis was telling me that there are 2 free chatlines (1 gay, 1 straight) programmed in all cell phones. He highly recommended them as good opportunities to catch tail on ugly people nights.

Hi to you guys at the party who read my blog. You know who you are. Nice limo by the way.

And as we did last time, we stayed till the very very very end…as in 3pm Sunday. Shots, potato chips, taking pictures, music, gossip, bad girl things, and more music. I love these parties.

Bad Girl Shit

Thursday night after choreographing a dance I get a call and do some last minute bad girl shit. Friday me and Lits go to Zentra to hear Miguel Migs and bring steroid stripper man with us. We are constantly watching over him to make sure no fights break out, because he is one big ball of anger. We get a hookah and mad dudes start asking us if they can suck on the pipe, and of course the angry stripper wasn’t having no one else suck his pipe. Well except me. And that’s cause I paid for the damn thing. Later on him and Lito run around the White Hen pantry on the north side while I chill in the car, and they are literally in there for 45 minutes buying every kind of food imaginable. Then stripper man whips his manhood out in front of the window to entertain me and I’m praying we don’t get arrested. “Put your wingwang back in, you retard!” I yell.

Saturday Lits and I go to a friend’s very scholastic Univ. of Chicago party, and we are shocked at how respectable everyone is. We’re so used to hanging out with degenerates and crazies that the normalcy is making me nervous. We then go to the Generator and hang out with Dana Powell, and finally go to Zentra. Lo and behold the ex that I have managed to hide from for 2 months shows up and is puppy-dogging me hardcore. He looks really cute and sad, and I wanted to pet him, but then I had to remind myself that he used to be my boyfriend and not my dog. (And yes I will take the high road and refrain from going there with that last statement.) To end the night we go to an afterset at F212 and talk dance talk. Must remember to bring shades so I can keep that dracula vibe when the sun comes out.