{"id":142,"date":"2000-05-13T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-05-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/05\/13\/hobnobbin\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T16:18:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T00:18:30","slug":"hobnobbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/05\/13\/hobnobbin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobnobbin’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Squeezebox<\/a> wasn\u2019t that much fun,<\/strong> yet again. I\u2019ve had some of my most fun nightlife times ever there (watching huge bar brawls, Sherry Vine<\/a>\u2019s Pat Benatar<\/a> show, lots of cute punk rock boys) but it\u2019s often a bust, too.<\/p>\n

The night wasn\u2019t a total wash, though. It’s fun to hang with a new pal who is something of a scenester. One of his friends there turned out to be this superfly woman who worked with me at the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> Gift shop the summer after my senior year of high school<\/a>. That was the summer that the first sugarcubes<\/a> album came out, and about a week after I heard it for the first time and became an instant fan. She recognized Bj\u00f6rk<\/a> and her son coming down the street and into the shop, giving me my one memorable chance to talk to the Icelandic pixie. Damn her, but she looks even cooler and better now than she did 12 years ago. It was a crazy moment last night, though, when we were introduced and both of us pointed at each other slack-jawed for a moment until we each realized why the other looked familiar.<\/p>\n

My idol John Waters<\/a> was also there for a while, but I never got a chance to chat him up, since he was surrounded most of the time by enough fawning groupies already. I usually don’t make the effort to talk to famous people when i see them, even when I love them, because I hate the idea of being just another glassy-eyed fan with nothing more to say than \u201cOh my god you\u2019re the best ever you changed my life I love you oh my god.\u201d You know how it goes. I met John a few times when I lived in Boston, and frankly I was just embarrassed afterward.<\/p>\n

To console myself, I\u2019ve been watching Pecker<\/a><\/i> on DVD with the director’s commentary. In it, John actually talks about how he loves going to squeezebox, saying that it’s his favorite kind of crowd in a club: three-quarters gay people, one-quarter really cool straight people, and lots of punk music to keep the disco queens away. I guess that\u2019s exactly the formula that keeps me going back, even when it’s a slow night. (The Pecker<\/i> DVD, by the way, also has a great featurette on the really cute photographer who actually shot all the photos for the movie. You should check it out.)
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Squeezebox wasn\u2019t that much fun, yet again. I\u2019ve had some of my most fun nightlife times ever there (watching huge bar brawls, Sherry Vine\u2019s Pat Benatar show, lots of cute punk rock boys) but it\u2019s often a bust, too. The night wasn\u2019t a total wash, though. It’s fun to hang with a new pal who … Continue reading “Hobnobbin’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77383,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/77383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}