Happy New Year!!!
I just came back from DJ Derelict's GOMP NYE party - REVERB! I was very impressed. I have been attending the annual GOMP NYE party since it started (I think) and this party really outdid all the others. There must have been around 200 revellers in attendence, and a huge chunk of those were part of a "new generation" of ravers. Candy kids, glow stick freaks, soother suckers, wiggers, hippies, Castro-Beards, tramp stamps, even good ol' SunBun, everyone was represented.
A lot more eye candy than before, in terms of both sweet young thangs, and impressive decorations. I really liked everything, from the simian grotto in the basement with paper-mache mushrooms that glowed under the black lights, to the wire-frame TRON room (made from glowing yarn), to the sexy and erotic mannequin display in the trance room, to the towering electroglyph egyption room with video streaming from "The Scorpian King" in the background.
The GOMP crew really outdid themselves this year, and DJ Derelict hooked Lobo and I up BIG TIME. Props to Derelict! They had champagne and fresh cut fruit being doled out by a pretty little girl walking around with an exuberant smile. Lobo liked it, he commented on how ripe her fruit was, or something. "Tastay" I think were his exact words.After a stumbling count-down, I toasted with Lobo and Derelict, quaffed the champagne, and proceeded not to give out any New Year's Kisses. I know Lobo and Derelict were disappointed, but they survived.
Finally Lobo and I headed off to the Baccarat Casino downtown, but all the tables were closed except for the poker room. Since we don't know how to play Omaha, we declined to pursue the $30 buy in, and instead tried to guess which of the poker players had been there "for 3 days" as we had been told by the poker room manager. I figured it must be one of the more greasy customers, maybe someone with a hat. Lobo just couldn't stop laughing at the older Chinese woman who was wearing a huge French Maid costume style hat that said "Happy New Year" on it. She was obviously the arm jewelry of the older gentleman with a ton of chips.Yes that was how we brought in 2006. It started off promising with eye-candy galore, rocking beats, and toasts with best friends, and ended with greasy gamblers, games we didn't know how to play, and a funny old lady in a French Maid costume donning a "Happy New Year" hat. What that says about what this year has in store, we have yet to discover.
All said, 2005 had its time to shine.
New job, new condo, bro got engaged, and business trips to foreign lands (including the unforgettably sweet topless beaches at Barcelona). Definitely a net thumbs up for this past year even including a recently broken down car.
I'm looking forward to a new year, a new government, and some new adventures.
Happy New Year!!!
posted by Blight @ 4:53 PM
13 Comments:
happy new year! best wishes and good luck!
Thanks Dalban. Shame we didn't meet up in Jasper, but the mountain was pretty icy. You didn't miss out on too much.
We'll have to meet up in Cali!
good to hear that you e-town boys rocked it up, although you could have posted some friendly pics of that fruit girl....
Man, sounds like you guys had a blast. I'm jealous. And you went snowboarding too. Its been too long since I've gone skiing.
The fruit girl was probably Mel. As in Melissa, so Cibby would know her.
Yeah man, apparently we had over 500 people, or at least that's what I was told. Probably not an exaggeration.
I still can't believe I passed out that early. I mean, AttackBeaver would have had the endurance to keep going.
You passed out? From old-man-partying- with-the-young-bloods fatigue or from too much champagne at midnight?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh ... I'll tell you the story over email.
I'm just glad I made it past 1 Am this time around. Usually, I'm in bed by 9:30 PM, with a glass of prune juice next to me.
Me too... I thought about going to a bar after midnight, but I just looked at the lineup and all the retarded posers acting like they were rap stars, and I said Fahgeddaboudid
Blight, your brother is engaged?
He's going to get married before you? Man, your family will have to lower the price of your dowry, maybe throw in an extra goat or two...
Yes engaged, and I think he is going to be very happy. Slightly jealous, but mostly glad :)
I don't think I have any dowry going for me other than my fine collection of videogames.
I'm not interested in marrying a girl that would be interested in that kind of dowry either. There's only going to be room for one game nut. I just need a cheerleader to root for me while I kick Ganon's ass.
I'm sure CAB knows what I'm talking about. "The wife" (as she has asked to be called) follows your avatar's every move as he climbs the Colossus with baited breath and cries out in terror when you are close to being smited. Am I right? right?
I think your video game habit is something you have to break to your girlfriend before things get serious. ie:
Blight: "I have to tell you something. I have..."
Kim Joo Sung: "Omigod, AIDS! It's AIDS, isn't it? I knew it..."
B: "No, no, nothing like that. It's just that, well, I have a PS2."
KJS: "Oh, is that it? Eh, all Korean men play video games."
B: "And a DS."
KJS: "For on the road, sure."
B: "And a Gamecube."
KJS: "Really? Why?"
B: "And an XBox 360. Just for comparison, I swear!"
KJS: "Holy shit."
B: "And, of course, a computer, for late night surfing."
KJS: "I don't love you anymore."
Um, the wife usually has little to no interest in my gaming. Usually I'm gaming hard core when she's quilting hard core, so it works out.
And the key to breaking habits to the significant other is something I call "trickling". You reveal you nasty/geeky/horrible/illegal habits one at a time over a long period. Then they don't seem so bad, and by the time she knows everything, she's locked in.
Of course, one had to watch out for friends who like to reveal all of these horrible truths before your girlfriend is ready. It um... happpend to my friend.. Mevin.
Mevin's Friend One: Did you know Mevin plays a ton of video games? He's got like 5 systems.
Friend 2: And he loves the RPG's too. Stack and stacks of books. He made his own RPG too. Cried when his character died and everything.
Friend 1: Don't forget the freaky porn he's into either.
Friend 2: There was this one time in junior high, when Mevin tried to put his legs behind his head...
Friend 1: There's this star trek board game we gotta play. Mevin loves it.
And so on.
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