Privilege

A buddy of mine recently starting doing promotions for Privilege on Wednesday nights, so he got me and some friends on the list. As it turns out both guys were indisposed for different reasons, but I didn't want to waste a guest list'ing so I decided to roll solo and see what happens.

Now my last attempt to roll solo was back in SF and it was... less than ideal results. It was important to me to see how well I'd do in this kind of situation again, only a year later.

The venue: Hrmmm, to be honest I can't say that I particularly like it. If you've never been to Privilege it's basically one giant dance floor with speakers at every turn (even in the connecting hallways). The smoking area is also the dance floor, so there's basically NO WHERE that's lower energy. Meh.

Although I've learned how to open in these kinds of environments I just... wasn't into it. I dunno, maybe I've already found my groove with lower-energy environments (i.e., The Edison, J Lounge, Bar Lubitsch) but I didn't really have it as a goal to get laid tonight (sounds weird, I know) nor open ten billion sets. I talked to whomever was around, I didn't run any real game, I was just social to be social.

I ended up hanging out most of the night with twin sisters who were promoters for Forbidden City/Dragonfly (may end up going, it's on Thursday and Sunday) at a table and just people-watched. We'll see how Forbidden City is on Sunday, that might be more my speed (Dancehall/Hip-Hop). As it stands I had a pleasant Wednesday evening making some conversation about nothing. Like an episode of Seinfeld except no Kramer.