Guest web_norah Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 do people party sober ? just a question.The Sober BunchLife's a Party for New York Nightlife's Sober Hipstersby Tricia RomanoIt's somewhere between 2 and 4 a.m. and everyone is wasted. It could be any night, any club, anywhere. But tonight, it's a freakishly cold March evening during the Winter Music Conference in Miami, at a club called the Pawn Shop. Beyond the main dancefloor, where hundreds of revelers groove, in the darkened corners of the gargantuan club, you can see people doing drugs. Their heads bob over their hands as they take a sniff off a key; they scamper behind the DJ booth for a quick bump before going out for another grind. In the V.I.P. section — an actual school bus — if you know where to look, cocaine flows almost as freely, if more discreetly, than champagne. In the side room, where a band named Booka Shade plays, girls dance in ecstasy, clearly on Ecstasy, their eyes rolling in the back of their heads, their mouths fixed in a clenched-jaw, pleasure-filled grimaceThough it's Miami, the club is filled with familiar faces from New York's club scene. DJ Justine D. of Motherfucker, one of the most notorious nightlife events in Manhattan, carries a clipboard and walks briskly through the crowd. Princess Superstar, the bottle-blond bad babysitter cum rapper cum DJ, climbs into the booth and gives German superstar DJ Hell a friendly bite on the head. As the French DJ duo Justice pummel the crowd with the Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up," promoters Michael Cohn and DJ Patrick "the Captain" Rood literally whoop it up on the dancefloor, shouting and hollering.Around 4 a.m., DJ Tommie Sunshine turns up just in time for Hell's set. The crowd has started to thin and you can sense the collective comedown. Sunshine is hard to miss: Standing over six feet tall, he has long blond hair and a bushy beard that makes him look like a disco Jesus, his ever present suit and sunglasses completing the look. He's dancing furiously in the center of the room, his hair flying in his face, his hand gripping a bottle of water. There's a quote painted on the wall above the bar. It reads: "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.""Oh yeah," Sunshine says, his voice simultaneously registering sarcasm and sincerity, "Dean Martin. I used to live by that." http://villagevoice.com/nyclife/0622,romano,73365,15.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrzyC1414779017 Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 The answer is yes...but they are hard to find during WMC... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrzyC1414779017 Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 BTW...the rest of the article is good as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 I could hang that writer out to dry. Not a very good lead-in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest swirlundergrounder Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 do people party sober ? just a question.The Sober BunchLife's a Party for New York Nightlife's Sober Hipstersby Tricia RomanoTrica Romano??? Holy shit..I know her from Seattle. I have not talked to her in about 10 years right b4 she moved to NYC.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 Tell her she sucks. ;D Yeah I'm biased, but portraying a decent club like Pawn Shop like she did was so off base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest web_norah Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 Tricia is cool peeps, she often writes about the hipster scene // techno glitterati, in NYC.i am not sure whether she meant to write just about WMC, i think this was more about 'people who used to do drugs, gone sober' still being part of a party scene minus the messiness, excess.whatever the case, i thought this article presented a good glimpse -wmc and beyond ;D-- hey at least she wasnt talking about Space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 Well whatever club, it was kind of a "sensational" entrance to an article. Excepting the intro, it was a good article though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest web_norah Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 ;Di thought so, kind of funny, how all these DJs are all about the green tea and caffeine, no drugs, no substance plan.i wish she had talked about people who dont touch drugs ever, as opposed to those who once did and now are 'cool' because they 'don't' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 Yeah the 23-year old who hasn't done anything would have been an article all on his own. Not to label the "reformed" ones as bad, but what I kinda sensed from them was a "holier than thou" attitude towards anyone who partakes in anything. Sadly, that attitude is all-too-common amongst reformed drunks and drug users. I mean, the recovery from living live on a permanent binge is something to be admired, but don't talk down on people who still might be either A) in the same situation, or choose to maybe have a drink or three on a Friday... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest saintjohn Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 Welcome to 1983:Out of Stephttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_edge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BIOBLIZZARD Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 Wow I just got flashback's triple x's and Propaghandi arguement's............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tres-b Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 This quote is dead on..."Drugs are the product, hip is the marketing plan. Decades before the advent of lifestyle advertising, hip linked drug use to a lifestyle that is sexy, rebellious, and streetwise. . . . To be hip or high is to be outside the authority of church, state, work, school, and the law. . . . It is the elitism of last resort." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Seb Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."I think that's an Ol' Blue Eyes quote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan2772 Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 i saw tommie sunshine spin at pawn shop during wmc....he was wearing a t shirt that said "will fuck for coke" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted June 1 Report Share Posted June 1 Maybe it was laundry day at the Sunshine household. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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