Weekend Mania

So let me caveat this post with saying: Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Ok, so I went to the Nine Inch Nails and Dresden Dolls show on Friday night. Above and beyond the concert (DD was great NIN was too bright and was all about the show and not the music), a group of us..."The 13" if you will...had fun during the rest of the day too.

Anyway, from the beginning, we ended up caravaning down with 3 vehicles through Maine to Boston where we ended up at the Hyatt in Cambridge. Very cool looking place. Needless to say, the only time I saw this place was when I checked in and checked out. :)

Anyway, our schedule was such that we would head over to the Museum of Science at around 4, go on a Duck tour thanks to our friend Jet Black (who you should go on a tour with btw!). It ended up being 11 of us (2 of us went to the wrong Hyatt *cough*) in this Salmon (not Pink) colored Duck and took a tour of the Charles, well part of the Charles. The fun thing was is that we ALL were wearing our goth/black gear on the tour because we would not be able to go back to the hotel before the concert or going out after.

In any event, we got lots of looks, especially when we got dropped off at our destination, a quaint little Italian restaurant we had reservations for (well 8 had reservations and then it changed to 13, thanks mgb :) ). The food was excellent, the staff was pleasant but forgetful and fun was had by all.

Next was the concert. The Orpheum was packed and it was a great venue, if bad for the legs. In other words, anyone taller than 5 feet would be extremely uncomfortable. Needless to say, the Dresden Dolls played wonderfully, as usual, and I was totally into the show.

Then NIN came out, and they played stuff from their new album, which is not very good IMHO. Anyway, the only time I was in a bad mood was during the NIN part of the show. If they started with something I really liked, I might have been more into it but it really got me thinking that this show was all show and no substance. Too much lighting and flashing and crap and not enough "just play the fucking song so we can enjoy it".

That's a rant for another time. I think Trent lost his love for the music and was doing things for his enormous paycheck. Moving on.

So we all meet up outside, according to some plan I was not privy to, and we head over to Manray.

This was my first experience at Manray and it was a lot of fun. Three different kinds of bars in one. I was more into the dark/goth side then the techno/industrial side vs what I call the "gay side". :) Not sure what the theme was but lots of trans and mostly naked men. Not really my thing. I prefer the mostly named women. :)

Anyway, I drank lots of Guinness (or is it Guinnei?). And got a bit toasty. I did get to go on the dance floor and had some fun there in between the "Mexican wrestling" shows. Definitely not a place for the timid or shy. Unless you like that sort of thing. :)

So mgb's friend/co-worker was at Manray after the call out a few days ago on her blog. Anyway, some people were way tired and others were not, I was not, just a bit drunk. :)

We headed over to an after-hours party where there was more drinking. This is the part where I made the mistake of going for hard liquor after all my beer.

Anyway, had some fun. Had enough fun that the Boston PD showed up and had us leave. :) It really wasn't that loud IMO but hey, some people suck.

They waited for everyone to leave. Which was weird to me but I guess we would have just started up again otherwise. :) So the few of us remaining of "The 13" walked down the street a little bit and stopped. The humorous thing about that was the cops saw us and said, "Go all the way down the street" or something to that effect and we all grinned and said, "yup, you caught us, we're moving on."

Once we got moving again we watched as the cop turned around the corner and then we stopped again. :)

Anyway (I have been using that segue too much I know), we end up going to mgb's apt and crashing. I lost track of time after about 5am but I did see the light of day before I fell asleep/passed out.

In any event (see a new segue), I only got about 4 hours sleep. Then I had to check out of the hotel, get people together, eat something, and head back to Maine.

We got home at around 5pm and I had to take a nap (thanks for the ride stoikangel! :) ). Jaded's birthday (aka Jet) was Saturday, so we went over to Meritage at 9pm and had some wine. Then we headed out to Asylum and danced. Well I played pool, drank some Magner's, had some food (I only ate breakfast), talked, and danced. I had a lot of fun.

I closed the Asylum. Everyone else didn't make it. Tallon was the closest, he left after last call but before the music died.

Ok, I think I made this blog way too long for anyone's casual perusal but I had fun needless to say.

If you went, say so and lemme know if I forgot anything hehe.

*begins "Day of rest"*