saturday afternoon i hooked up with my sister for dinner at my favourite japanese restaurant, ho su bistro at queen and john. our office used to be at king and john, and i lived at queen and beverly, so ho su was an essential part of my diet. i would eat there 5 times a week sometimes. they always have the most affordable and delicious food. for $4.99 you can get chicken teriyaki on rice with shrimp and vegetable tempura, coleslaw, and glass noodle salad. i don't think i can make that much food for less than $5.
after dinner, we hooked up with my friend laurien, isa and darryl at the paramount theater to see harry potter and the goblet of fiyahh! i had never seen the theater so packed on a saturday night....everyone was out to see this movie, parents and children alike. there were even some people dressed up as wizards, complete with hogwarts uniform. normally, the hard cores who get dressed up are out in full force opening night, but i guess that goes for the whole weekend.
i've never read any of the harry potter books, but i have seen all of the movies, and this one is definitely the best. its the darkest of all of the movies, mostly because it deals with death head on (someone dies). its also full of hormones, raging hormones. it seems like everyone is gettin some, or at least dealing with puberty. even haggrid has a love interest. harry potter naked in a bathtub gettin hit on by myrtle the ghost....randy!
my favourite quote from the movie..."an evening of well mannered frivolity" *bahahahaha* i can't wait to describe an evening like that. maybe that's how i will frame my going away party. "join me for an evening of well mannered frivolity" teehee.
after the movie, laurien and i headed back to my place where we met up with my friend graeme. we didn't have much time to get ourselves together because we were to meet up at a map point for the free techno party. that's right, old skewl rave styles. show up at the map point at a certain time, get directions to the illegal venue that the party was being held in. this reminded me of the daze of old, the original rave days.
we arrived at king and strachan (across from the former industry) where we connekted with a large group of partiers. there was no map though, instead we followed a guy across king street under the dufferin bridge and into the warehouse distrikt. we trekked past the go train station and followed the tracks for about 100ft where a large abandoned warehouse stood. inside it was large, dark, beat down, covered in dust, and raw....pure old skewl styles. the generator wasn't working, so we had to amuse ourselves for about 40 minutes before a replacement one arrived. this was fine though, as i was able to spin glowing poi in the darkness (and i had my lightning wire sunglasses too).
i was surprised at hos the venue was decorated, seeing as it was an abandoned warehouse. of course there were no bathrooms, only relics of a bathroom that once was. yah, we still took leaks in the busted up toilets (and anywhere else you could find to piss)
once the generator got there, the beats began to play. nothing like starting off the evening with a little dire straits singin "money for nothin and the chicks for free". the crazy thing is that most of the people at the party weren't even alive when dire straits released the song in 1985! yes, the average age of the people at the party was 18. i was taken back at how old skewl the jam was, an illegal party in an abandoned warehouse with blasting electronic music to dance to. i thought those daze were gone, but i realized that they never left...i just got older (read able to go to clubs). there will always be youths who are not old enough to drink who still want to dance all night.
i remember this warehouse venue from years ago during the dot com explosion...the age of the 21yr old millionaires. shift magazine held their launch party in that warehouse space in the late 90's. i remember that party clearly because it was huge and off the hook. i remember a wall of pcs linked up for some unreal tournament action, as well as g3z connected to the net for your browsing pleasure. man, the promise of the internet was a golden cup back then...too bad it went up in flames a few years later. not everyone was going to embrace technology as fast as the venture capitalists thought.
it was good to see the relic of that warehouse years later, and dance in there once again. there were many dark corners there to hide and be naughty *rraow*
what a great saturday of majik and dancing. big ups to laurien and graeme for the company, and to the free techno krew for putting on such a great free event. fuck you to the person who liberated my lightningwire sunglasses. i lent them to you to play with, not have. you suck.
if i had a camera i would post pix, but i'm still cameraless :( anyone want to donate one to me?
normaste
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