Spencer Chow FAP NYC 10/23-10/27?

We'll do that on Friday?

Haha this entire thread:

Hey Spencer! Do you want to come do piles of things you could easily do in LA, in fact probably the very next week, that involve none of us really being able to hold much of a conversation with each other? Yay!

Sorry. It's just funny.

Coral Room looks awesome the more I think about it but will it make it difficult for the people going to gigs to show? DO WE EVEN CARE SINCE THEY ARE IGNORING OUR PLEAS FOR SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHAT MIGHT FACILITATE THEIR ARRIVAL AT OUR PARTY?

the disc is yrs, spencer. re what to do -- it's totally up to you folks! i really hope i can stop by. plan whatever and i'll adjust my plans (hopefully) accordingly.

(i was so happy at the first fap i went to cuz NOBODY (that i was talking to anyway) talked about music. is there a duller thing to talk about???)

Yes and the answer is Momus

Shecky's on Coral: "If you're overweight, underpaid, modestly dressed, or unwilling to beg hard enough to gain entrance (and pay a $15 cover), these door dudes will let you know."

It sounds fun as hell otherwise but bad news for a big group of people. Has anyone been there? Is the door really that rough?

I'm not going to any shows, though I would be into dancing.

espcecially if it's like THIS!
http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/garethfap/tomgareth.jpg

I want to meet ilxorz and have drinks and discussions with them, preferably in a festive atmosphere!

Tom, I think you simply must teach Mr. Chow the kahuka.

Oh and I didn't read that part of Coral, I didn't know about all what you just said, bnw, so now I've decided it is out. Not that our crew couldn't totally slay the doorman on looks, come to think of it?

What about The Hole? I have never actually been there? Will there be DANCING or will we have to eventually end up at Lit and/or Potion?

If we wind up downstairs at Lit again can I actually murder someone this time?

No.

We probably shouldn't go back there then.

Hole according to trendcentral:
"Sometimes this bar is gay, sometimes it’s polysexual, and sometimes (particularly on Saturday nights) it’s overflowing with the hipster cognoscenti (the other week we spied actors Chloe Sevigny and Leo Fitzpatrick, designer Benjamin Cho, and the fashion collective As Four). The music is heavy on electro, hip-hop, and dancehall, and the scene here is pretty much the scene documented by photographer Ryan McGinley: lots of graffiti, lots of heavy drinking, and plenty of elicit behavior going on in bathrooms and dark corners. This cool kid clubhouse, which truly is a dive, feels and looks like a dungeon of sin but it’s probably one of the best spots in town for checking out the latest fashion trends."

Another site mentioned a dj mixing Prince and Gang of Four.

GOD ok fine, do you want to go dancing or not? We'll find somewhere! We won't go to Lit. I didn't realize you had such a huge issue last time we were there! Anyway are you going to teach Spencer the kahuka or not?

The Hole sounds both awesome and like the most horrible thing I could possibly imagine ever all at once. Spencer, do you want a blow job from Chloe Sevigny??? That will decide whether or not we go to The Hole.

"elicit behavior"

"cool kids"

Cooler Kids!

I want to go dancing but last time Lit had that awful dumbass mix going on downstairs and all those fucking twerps, I was feeling serious crowd hate. The best part was Raj: "What are you doing? What are you doing? Stop that!"

ALL THE HATAS WHO ALWAYS DISS MY SUGGESTIONS MAKE SOME OF YOUR OWN FOR ONCE IT'S EASY TO BE NEGATIVE SO HARD TO BE POSITIVE THANKS

Hole sounds super duper fun. Phil, which do you think is less crowded on a Sat. night, Hole or Botanica? Omigod we are going to end up at the Magician I just know it.

(Can I have the other Stars CD, Y?)

If I had my say in these things, we would all end up here at this dive bar in Chinatown, but it would merely be one another of my "interesting choices" that would be left immediately for some hang in Carroll Fucking Gardens grr.

PS, Dear out of towners: Dancing should take place in a club and only in a club, that is what God built them for. This means a club that you go to specifically for dancing, not a bar in which you enact a pas de deux. Thank you for your appreciation.

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(If you were so moved by the music, why are complaining about the music at Lit upthread, huh, punk? Because of the one Flock of Seagulls song they played? If you want to dance you have to pay, suckah.)

the last night we were there it was like they hired the guy who did your middle school spring dance, you know, they were played all that do the twist do you love me blah blah horrible crap.

I know you have to pay to dance! I'm not saying otherwise! Fuck it maybe I'll just stay home and smoke INSIDE the bar and DANCE WHEREVER I PLEASE.

Aw Tom I was just teasing...Friends again?

If it's Bob Saget, I'm there. If it's Belle & Sebastian, I am there. With guns.

Speaking of Sevignys and bad DJing, I heard that her brother once dropped Jagger and Bowie's "Dancing In the Street" to floor clearing effect.

Ok friends again!

BTW that really is a great sit-down-and-drink record. It has hardly any other purpose. And then you have to discuss ahem ahem.

(I think Coral might be a better place to go on a weeknight. Our old friend Tobias used to go on Tues. nights and he never mentioned anything to me about a door policy.) One reason I'm not plumping for it for us especially is I bet it's pretty expensive. Though...for $15 I bet you could dance there!

I think we should avoid cover-charge places, to encourage attendance.

Oh yes! Well The Hole is better on Wednesdays than on Saturdays, but its still not bad for a Saturday. And its only a few blocks away from Lit. Lit is going to be incredibly hot and crowded though on Saturday night. The Hole really isn't all that sceney on Saturdays anymore [for better or worse]...

So I think I'm finalizing my CMJ plans. Wednesday: Kindercore then Frenchkiss. I'm pretty sure my dinnerdate isn't going to want to come, and I have a plus-one if anyone's interested. Thursday, Kill Rock Stars afternoon party at Starfoods, then The Shins at Virgin USQ, then the Rough Trade @ Bowery, and then the DFA thing at Tribeca. Zoinks! Saturday, Stars & Soviet at the daystage, Enon & The Rapture at night. Sunday, Salteens in the evening and Slumber Party at night.

Again, anyone got a CMJ badge I can use in the afternoons to go to a few panels?

But last time I was there on Saturday, the DJ played SUGAR SUGAR by THE ARCHIES which is my FAVORITE SONG EVER.

Coral Room is pretty crowded with trashy hos [for better or worse] on weekends! But its pretty cool, but really expensive and theres a cover on the weekends. I think a Hole/Lit combination would be okay. Although neither are really good for sitting and chatting, but at least you can smoke in them. Can't we go to The Cock? or The Slide?

Although last time I was at The Hole a few saturdays ago, I walked into the bathroom [they finally installed doors for the men's bathroom!] and there was some dude peeing into the sink and another three people doing lines of coke off the nasty toilet porcelein. I think one of them was L*o F*tzpatrick, who was looking really HOTT...

Why do these threads always turn into this? Wait, I know exactly why, never mind.

Coral Room being expensive is a big no no I think. I want a place that will play music I want to hear and not be too expensive. I'm starting to think we really SHOULD just go to the Magician and then work it from there once everyone shows up. A) Room. B) Jukebox is decent. C) relatively cheap.

I 2nd something like the Magician at first, because
1- You can hear people talk
2- It's not crowded
3- It's not expensive

Oh ha!ha! The indiepop disco 2000 took place at that 169 Bar, Mary!

This "Magician" sounds good to me.

Because once we get drunk we won't care about not hearing each other talk.

Once we get drunk my camera comes out and it all goes to shit!!

Although, I think the 11th St. Bar has a curtained backroom with a TV, in case we long for the days of NBC Thrillogy night.

Phil, how crowded is the Slide on a Sat.? I'd love to go there as well...I would much prefer NOT the Magician but I'm willing to go with the flow...

(X-post) Is that where we went with Hopkins? I'd love to go back there again--though it looked crowded last Sat. we walked past it...

Errr,,, Do you all REALLY want to go to The Slide? I totally thought you were joking about that It's as crowded as any other bar on a weekend night, I suppose. Anyhow, I would prefer not Magician as well, in favor of somewhere more, I dunno, fun... But if everyone else wants to go, thats fine too. As long as y'all are there when I show up, unlike the time I trekked up to Siberia to meet Gareth but everyone was already at Lit!@#$

Soviet is playing at Don Hills and my friends are DJ'ing afterwards... And we can get a bunch of comps or something....

Ohhh I want to go to Don Hill's that where I can meet Morrissey look-a-likes!!! I mean, not that I am interested in meeting anyone...

(PS I REALLY want to go to the Slide. Please take me sometime, Philster.)

Rudy's Bar has free hotdogs and a backyard.

Location?

Meatpacking
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/pages/details/4106.htm

i actually was looking at the VV cheap bars article.

IT IS URGENT AND KEY THAT I GET SPENCER TO EAT A HOT DOG!!!!!!!!

http://www.pitt.edu/~mrmst55/header.jpg

Oh sorry, Hell's Kitchen,

okee dokee Mary, lets go to The Slide! Only if you promise not to tell anyone anything that might possibly happen - not that anything would.... And maybe you can meet the nineteen-year old who dissed me, since apparently he hangs out there all the time.

Shit. I don't know what I am talking about. It wasn;t a VV article.

Here:

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/urban/guides/nyonthecheap/pleasures/bars.htm

I am up for dancing, hanging out, etc. and a show if decided, but i'd rather the hanging out and then the dancing in that order.

Also sat eve and sunday are the only days i will be open so no cmj shows for me :-(.