Oh, the Utopian night on the brink.
Jul. 1st, 2006 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaCurrent music: Epic Soundtracks' collected postmortem leftovers album, Everything Is Temporary, bought from eMusic. Damn this is fine.
Pretty much missed Crimson Altar due to running way late and being crap. Sorry ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
missykittykat. I also forgot my Howl's Moving Nightclub handbill so had to phone redcountess for directions from London Bridge to SE One. Doin' great!
SE One is a nightclub for stupid people with too much money that lives under a bridge. Entry was five quid as usual but the drink prices were on crack. I drank Rolling Rock at £3.50 a bottle, vodka and Red Bull was seven goatfucking quid. The toilets have a most helpful attendant who you are meant to tip. The dancefloors are carpeted, which only makes sense in terms of helping airheaded sticks in spike heels who can't dance not fall over. So that's the goths taken care of. The hideously sweaty weather didn't help.
I'm down on the venue and it made the night seem less fun than, thinking back, it actually was. I had a most wonderful time hanging out with eyeliner297 and flickgc all evening and natassja13 for much of it. They made my evening fundamentally not suck. And many others who I won't attempt to list as I will forget one or two.
The Ixus 50 got quite the workout. It was Front-Fill Flash evening, so the shots are bright red and blurry with a focused face in the middle. godgirl even got a half-decent shot of me!
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greap's horrible new beard; nniaa and sweetcyanide; the happy main floor.
flickgc; eyeliner297, branded by Flick; me by godgirl.
I left when it shut at 3:30am and walked all the way to Angel for my bus, accompanied by Clive, who was doing the same walk all the way to King's Cross. Of course I got pics.
Southwark Bridge from London Bridge; Tower Bridge from London Bridge; the green line that guides half-blinded outpatients from Moorfield Eye Hospital to Old Street station.
I got home at 5:30, fed the cats and fell over. Woke up at 1pm with the Hayfever from Hell. My mouth tastes like a carpeted dancefloor.
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Date: 2006-07-04 06:17 pm (UTC)It has a great (pair of) sound systems (unlike Clockwork). It has air-conditioning (arguably), but certainly better than Slimes or The Toilet. The furniture doesn't look like someone was knifed to death on it, the floor doesn't look as though someone gave birth on it, and your nostrils aren't black at the end of the night. They actually have cleaners!
The fact that they're extremely squeaky clean in terms of fire exits, number of fire marshals, first aid staff, security, stopping people taking drugs in the loos and so on is sadly reflected in the cost. We can't give you all that without it being paid for somehow.
As "mainstream" nightclubs go, it's actually at the cheaper end.
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Date: 2006-07-01 04:47 pm (UTC)London looks so beautiful. (and so do you, so do you)
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Date: 2006-07-01 05:57 pm (UTC)I could probably walk home from that venue..
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Date: 2006-07-01 07:54 pm (UTC)Speaking of, are the rest of the Dev photos up anywhere? Aside from the entirely too embarrassing one of me completely losing my shit, that is ;D
I *must* make Kira an animated .gif icon of "Dinosaur Sodomy," may I add . . . that is absolutely utterly the best thing ever ^-^
(And I'm in a superlative mood tonight, does it show? *grin*)
*garlicky smooches from Paris*
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Date: 2006-07-01 07:59 pm (UTC)Here's a first attempt at a "Kira losing it" icon. I did it in black and white so as to make it fit within LJ's 40KB limit - a full-colour version was 57k.
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Date: 2006-07-01 08:07 pm (UTC)*immediately posts in LJ*
Thank you!! That was truly a priceless moment ;D
*muchas smooches*
-- A ^-^
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Date: 2006-07-02 09:36 pm (UTC)Arkady has some great shots of my dolls, too, so I may ask her about possible icons when she is home :)
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That's not right.
I'm SO glad that I only drink water when I'm out, those prices are outrageous.
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Date: 2006-07-04 05:58 pm (UTC)My personal attitude is that if I don't use his aftershave, and I don't eat his lollipops, then I'm not tipping him. If there is noother soap and towels available than what he has, then I'm STILL not tipping him. However, I do understand that the attendants are kind of intimidating. We didn't know they were going to be there beforehand, and we will try and get them sorted out if we go back.
I suspect, to be honest, that they are REALLY there to make sure that only one person goes into each cubical (sic). I certainly can't imagine it made sense from a fiscal point of view on their part, with a bunch of goths in the club.
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Date: 2006-07-01 10:16 pm (UTC)(Miss you. :-* )