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misshapes + crowd — Total funsanity.

misshapes + crowd — See how packed the place was?

misshapes + crowd — After getting drinks, we went to the DJ booth - the only place in the whole bar where you could drink your drink without someone else rubbing their sweaty, bare arms all over you!

misshapes + crowd — I rode my bike over a little after midnight. The line to get in was totally out of control! It went from the door, to the corner of the block...

misshapes + crowd — ...and people pose for the second photo! Girl with the blue scarf striking a "sassy" pose, I'm talking to you!

misshapes + crowd — ...and then all the way around the building to the next block! PS. - You know it's a line for MisShapes when you take a photo of the crowd...

misshapes + crowd — Grant! I know you still read this site! What do you think - is that guy with the braids in the yellow shirt THE smelly braids guy that almost handed you a beat down after he almost caught you SNIFFING HIS HAIR waaaay back in the day???. EPIC LOL.

Anyway, the crowd was a little strange (in that it wasn't that strange)...

misshapes + crowd — MonsterMask (ok, and Jackson) got the crowd dancing...

misshapes + crowd — Despite it being so-so, we stayed and danced until closing.

misshapes + crowd — Madonna at the decks at Misshapes. Who woulda ever thunk it, huh? I stuck around for the first song, but there wasn't room to dance (or even breathe), so while the place continued to go absolutely bonkers, I managed to squeeze my way back through the crowd and snuck downstairs.

misshapes + crowd — I finally managed to squeeze my way through the crowd and ended up against the wall near the DJ booth...

misshapes + crowd — Turns out we picked a cherry spot! Madonna had to walk right in front of us in order to get to the booth.

misshapes + crowd — When we got there, it was absolute fucking pandemonium. The upstairs was so packed, you could hardly move.

misshapes + crowd — A few minutes later, a limo pulled up outside and the place went fucking apeshit.

misshapes + crowd — There was finally room to dance upstairs!

misshapes + crowd — These two even took a dancefloor time-out so they could up the ante and make out on the couch! Ooooh, illicit!

misshapes + crowd — Everywhere I looked people were making out!

misshapes + crowd — ...makeout party!

misshapes + crowd — People dancin.

misshapes + crowd — After the show we headed to Misshapes to celebrate Heidi's bday.

misshapes + crowd — Old school Misshapes, I miss you.

misshapes + crowd — Friday was my last night in town before my trip and I went to some party the Misshapes were DJing at Rafifi to say goodbye to the Tinny.

misshapes + crowd — Saturday night we hit Misshapes and I danced so much (hey, remember when there actually used to be room to dance there?) that I forgot to take any pictures.

misshapes + crowd — The best part of Misshapes is after it's closed and they kick everyone out except for the totally wasted party people who still want to get their dance on and...

misshapes + crowd — Forget Madonna! Isn't that motherfucking Jeff Garland from Curb Your Enthusiasm on the dance floor?

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

misshapes + crowd — ...MisShapes.

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

misshapes + 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

misshapes + crowd — Meanwhile, back at Misshapes...

misshapes + crowd — Around 2am, we headed over to Misshapes

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

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

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

misshapes + crowd — Yawning on the dancefloor? Party foul!

misshapes + crowd — More blurry artsy dancefloor action.

misshapes + crowd — ...MisShapes. Woo.

misshapes + crowd — Yay, danceparty!

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

misshapes + crowd — The packed dance floor upstairs.

misshapes + 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.

misshapes + crowd — See? Moves being busted.

misshapes + 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.

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

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