as mentioned in my previous post, this wednesday i had an absolutely wild night and had the best time ever. a recap.
before heading to the ad lib party at sway, a big group of us went to black pearl to eat lobster rolls in celebration of keith from kemado's birthday. i loved the food. here's a picture of my lobster roll. mmm.
here's a picture of the birthday boy. note the key lime pie with candles on the left.
so much fun. so much fried food.
black pearl is a great place for bday dinners because you can get really good (although admittedly not that cheap) seafood and drink boddingtons on tap, and they don't care if you play pool during dinner or program the jukebox to play all heavy metal. i did feel bad for the family of tourists who were trying to have a civilized dinner at a neighboring table though. luckily, the ice cube wars didn't start until much, much later.
anyway, we hopped in a bunch of cabs and headed over to sway for our friend dave's weekly ad lib party. tim harrington of les savy fav and christie from cheeseburger were the guest DJs and they absolutely wrecked the place. i tried to pay attention to what tim was playing, but now i can really only remember ted leo, dolly parton, and biggie smalls. that should give you some idea though.
we all commandeered a booth in the back and dave got us a free bottle of vodka (hooray!). which is when things started to go downhill. what was civilized at first. . .
. . .quickly devolved into a messy, drunken free-for-all.
that's boyfriend john attempting to drink out of the vodka bottle with a straw. he makes me so proud. next up...group shot! check out how stoked johnny is about his red stripe.
this is new friend meghan, who recently starting working at kemado. we're going to go listen to some techno in a couple of weeks or something.
at this point i seem to have starting taking a bunch of random pictures of strangers. i especially like this one because i didn't even notice the guy in the middle of the picture at the time, but he's staring at me all 'who died and made you that creepy guy from last night's party.com?'.
tim harrington on the decks.
soon tim proved his ultimate dj awesomeness by announcing that it was time for. . .the limbo!
and as if the party wasn't already ridiculous enough, he then announced. . .a dance contest! people danced on banquettes, christie from cheeseburger among them.
do you know this guy? i don't.
. . .but he sure got into the party spirit.
david, who throws the party, with james and christie.
at some point, tim and morgan (of diamond nights) came through, and everyone got their second wind. an awesome shot of tim harrington, morgan from diamond nights, and some guy i don't know. in addition to bringing the fun to the party, tim was a really nice guy and was really cool about drunk people drooling their admiration all over him. when i told him that the savy fav show at volume a year or so ago was one of my top ten favorites, he said that it was one of his favorites too, and i felt totally special.
then people started doing things like this when i asked to take their pictures.
uh, and here's what happened when me and dave ad lib tried to take a drunken picture of ourselves.
. . .at which point i decided to retire my camera for the night. all in all, the best night i've had out in ages. and if this week's party was any indication, wednesdays might suck a lot less in the future.
so where were you? on your couch watching one tree hill?