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Who but a New Yorker... ;)

It's a sad fact that there is not one single good nightclub in New York. 

I'm not really into nightclub and bars too much more. 

When I was younger and single, I put up w/ it because that's where I met ladies. 

Other than that, I never could figure out what was so great about a place where I couldn't communicate w/ others due to the music being too loud, had to pay alcohol 5 or 6 times the price, and put up w/ music I didn't chose and people I don't necessarily want to see. And there's a line to the bathroom...

Seriously, the last couple of times we went out, I felt totally miserable. Though there's one quiet little bar we went w/ our tattoo artist in East Village which I totally dug.

Any place that plays Mr. Bungle and has a projection of Beetlejuice going in the back is off to a good start w/ me...

I hate anywhere that plays crap music loud. The only real "clubbing" I did was in the early 90's when the rave scene was in full swing, but then it was abandoned warehouses and forests and it was exciting and friendly. And then of course the whole culture turned mainstream and we saw the rise of the "superclubs" and the flash overpaid DJ's playing bad music, and the gangsters on the drug scene. I really despised all that. 

I think the last time I went "out" out was sometime last year, for a friend of a friend's birthday. We ended up at this brass-rails bar on the Lower East Side in which the music was so loud you couldn't have a conversation with someone a foot away. We were all sat round a table screaming and shouting at each other. About an hour into the night I looked around and saw all of these people with beaming faces looking so happy to be in such an environment, and wondered how in the hell they could possibly be enjoying themselves. I think some people just like to be seen in certain places, and they figure the louder the music is the better time they're having. And I realized that I didn't find anything pleasant about it at all, and made my excuses and left. The only good time I've had in a bar in the last few years was a night at McSorley's when I took a couple of my British buddies there. We sat at a table with some friendly American dudes and had the best night. You could actually talk and be heard.

I know what you mean. And all in all, it's got more to do w/ being w/ a bunch of people you appreciate and enjoying the moment. When the music isn't that loud, it makes it easier.

But then all the rest sort of becomes incidental - drinks, music and all the rest are just  part of a great moment you share w/ folks.

I'd be lying if I said I'd never had good times in bar, but more often than not, we could have been in a restaurant or at home or whatever.... And the rest of the time, as you say, I'm usually just looking for an excuse to leave.

I remember the premiere party in Moscow last year - the coolest part of the evening is the part we spent discussing w/ a few guys in the band, outside the club, smoking and drinking a beer. The minute we walked in, it was boring as heck after a couple of minutes (yeah, even w/ free drinks and all)...