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!misshapes19
!party11
!dance6
!band5
!prom3
amber2
!balloons2
!bar2
!best2
!halloween2
!karaoke2
leigh2
!roof2
!166 sanchez st1
amy k1
!bachelor party1
!boardwalk1
carol1
!coney island1
!dj1

crowd — But it was so crowded inside that we lost track of Amanda and Grant. After 20 minutes of searching, Siege, Katie, Meredith and I decided to call it a night and head home.

crowd — First stop in Manhattan was to say high to Leigh at the MisShapes party at the Tribecca Grand.

crowd — Check out the insane view.

crowd — Crowd Shot.

crowd — Crowd shot. (Hi there, foxy girl in the grey sweatshirt! Rowr!)

crowd — ...watching the lingering crowd.

crowd — With our costumes all finished, we walked out of my apartment door and were immediately met by this insane crowd of people. My apartment was on Market and 15th like two blocks from the heart of the Castro. Which means that Halloween in my neighborhood looks alot like...

crowd — See, it's just like Misshapes. Oh wait - except for the fact that there are NO GIRLS AL ALL! Seriously, this is what a straight bar in San Francisco looks like on a Saturday night. Have you ever seen such a writhing mass of dudedom in your life?

crowd — After excessively patting each other's back to help shake loose any potentially embarrassing "burger burps," we headed over to Rickshaw Stop to check out their Halloween party. Eh.

crowd — ...MisShapes.

crowd — I even saw my first "Hot Sanfranciscan!" Hello there, cutie with a little sleeveless striped sweater on.

crowd — ...people out dancing on a Wednesday night! Woooo!

crowd — And it sorta was! The venue is tiny and the whole back area has all this foam stuff everywhere that makes the walls look like rock so it feels like you're in a cave.

crowd — ....dancefloor sausage party. (Holy glut of dudes, Batman!)

crowd — After Audrey was done, Grant and Susan were shocked to see...

crowd — What I lacked in technical proficiency, I made up for in balls to tha walls rock the fuck out tracks. Off the top of my head, a few of my choice jizzams of the night were:

Judy is a Punk - Screeching Weasel
I Don't Want to Grow Up - Descendents
Mustapha Dance - The Clash
Gimme Some More - Busta Rhymes
99 Red Balloon - 7 Seconds
Ready Steady Go - Generation X
Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks
Dancing Machine - Jackson 5
Gloria - Laura Brannigan (of course!)
Dance Hall Music - Murder City Devils
Bombshell - Op Ivy
Mona Lisa - Slick Rick
Miss You - Rolling Stones
Rat Fink - Misfits
Maneater - Hall & Oates

and my personal fave...
Jump in the Line - Motherfucking Harry Belafonte

crowd — Meanwhile, back at Misshapes...

crowd — Around 2am, we headed over to Misshapes

crowd — Mah-mah-mobscene! I always swear I'm going to watch a few of the bands, but then it's always so hot and crowded that I instead opt to stand on the boardwalk and people-watch...

crowd — See? Check them out! Especially the guy on the right in the black shirt doing a little two-fisted cheer. Awwww.

crowd — Reggie working tha crowd.

crowd — Later that night, we headed over to MisShapes to celebrate...

crowd — And here's my favorite pic of the night. Check out Lawrence screaming like he's got Beatlemania. Awwwwwww.

crowd — With a jam-packed crowd awaiting...

crowd — I got to Rothko and it was all crazy prom-decorated with pastel balloons everywhere. It looked almost exactly like my prom...

crowd — Luke and LeRoy (the bar) was all decorated like a high school gymnasium during prom.

crowd — With the dancefloor in riotous full-effect, it was time to announce...

crowd — Yawning on the dancefloor? Party foul!

crowd — Here's Sarah overlooking the unwashed (and please note that at a Vince Neil concert I'm using that adjective un-ironically) masses down below.

crowd — Vince was supposed to play around 9ish so we got there around 8:30 - which we figured would be just enough time to warm up with a few free cocktails in the fancy VIP section that Sarah's rokk credentials scored us.

crowd — If you look real careful in the background you'll see naked ladies! Naked! After getting all sweaty, we wanted to go outside and get some air. Oh, and also to check up on our new friend Dave - who we found...

crowd — ...some more dancing.

crowd — More blurry artsy dancefloor action.

crowd — ...MisShapes. Woo.

crowd — ...same practically all of his friends sitting in Remote Lounge and smirking because they'd all just watched his friend Candy paddle him in his undies. Hahahaha.

crowd — We got to the Chance, showed off our cameras and said that we were there to cover the show for "a major music magazine." We were wisked in with no further questions asked.

crowd — Yay, danceparty!

crowd — I left the party solo and headed back into Manhattan to check out Misshapes.

crowd — The packed dance floor upstairs.

crowd — Here's the near-riotus scene from almost a block away.

crowd — After returning home and doing an hour of jumping jacks to ensure I'd exorcised the majority of my spicy thai burps, I met up with Vinay and we headed over to Misshapes.

crowd — See? Moves being busted.

crowd — I used to never go out on Saturday nights but the Misshapes party is always fun. It's pretty much only kids that are there to dance and have fun instead of just standing in the shadowy corners and acting sulky. Ok, actually there's a lot of that too, but at least it's occasionally punctuated with a move being busted.

crowd — Crowd dancing.

crowd — After M Bar, we bid Bev and Jessica goodbye and headed over to Misshapes to shake our bums.

crowd — After the show we all went over to Filter14 for the afterparty.

crowd — Obligatory crowd shot (complete with a multi-ringed man rocking out.)

crowd — So then I went back up to the balcony and watched their last song from up there.

crowd — Here's the scene from where I walked in.

crowd — The (mostly female) crowd (ahem) went absolutely batshit while they played.

crowd — Their singer got the crowd going something fierce.

crowd — ...at the super exclusive Spin party being held at Stubbs. Despite being the DJ and the Emcee of the show, Sarah still managed to cordinate getting me a VIP pass and I breezed through the line with the quickness.

crowd — Group shot.

crowd — The enthralled audience watched as she took her performance...

crowd — MAC had all these celebrity sponsors there, Boy George, Missy Elliot, Christina Aguilera, Linda Evangelista, etc. But they just sort of hid out in the corner and didn't intermingle (not that I can blame them). So instead of some hot celebrity akshun, here's a crowd shot. Yay.

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crowd — ...and ultimately, the cermonial, birthday freaking of strangers on the dancefloor. Happy bday, Amber!

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