Running the Rat Race

Things carry on.

still working at Executive Grapevine, earning some money and living for the weekend, which ive never really understood before the last few weeks. after working all week the urge to go out at the weekend is so intense. I used to think how can all those people move like cattle towards those terrible clubs, now i understand why they go out, although i really dont get why they go to those clubs. This moves me on to my next point, which is really the same point. 'i dont understand why people go to those clubs'.

By those clubs i mean clubs that play generic R&B and the latest indie anthems, the music is boring, the club is poor and its likely that a fight will break out. This weekend me and a few friends went to Fabric in Farringdon, i went with medium expectation due to my general disdain of clubs but brief optimism because i knew it would be more extreme and i knew that a couple of artists were playing that i like. Friday came along and i was really excited to get out of the office. We arrived in Farringdon and went to a couple of local pubs which were really authentic and quite lively with young people. We had to queue to get in and i began to get very excited, as i walked in and tried to get my money out to pay i became extremely excited which was strange because i hadnt expected it at all. We walked in and explored a little, the venue is brilliant, it is entirely brickwork interior and underground which was nice and the music was literally exquisite. the drinks were quite expensive but got served instantly because not many people are drinking because a lot of drugs seem to go down. The whole atmosphere was quite friendly, not intimidating or rowdy but at the same time very intense because of the extremity of the music. I got into it pretty quickly because one of my favorite Dub tracks 'V' was played and it was brilliant. I was wearing ear plugs because my ears always ring and i didnt want to become entirely deaf and this was neccessary (sp?) because there was one room where the floor vibrated with the music due to the massive speakers under the floor. There was a lot of Drum and Bass being played and Pendulum did a DJ set which i was sceptical about because i am so bored of their mainstream nature but it was quite good and they played some real nice tracks. Everything was so aggressive but at the same time just enjoyable because there were hardly any dicks in the place. The only people who are idiots are so drugged that even if they wanted to kill you all they could do would be to say oiii maaaaaaa (by this time you are the other side of the room having a conversation with the barmaid about the price of drinks) tteeeee. just to re-iterate this point, they are slow and unthreatening, and besides the people on drugs seemed to just talk to you about how good the place is. So yes, all in all i actually had an excellent time and we left the club at around 5 30 am, which was late but didnt really seem it because we were carried by the music, any time i felt tired a really good song seemed to play, none of which i knew by the way. I knew hardly any of the music there but that didnt matter at all.

I doubted i would enjoy it but the reality is if you havent been to one of these proper 'raves' or large clubs that play specialist music you really cant understand, i just thought it was a load of guys on pills skanking to crap drum and bass, but its actually more like an experience shared with a lot of people, kind of like when you were younger and used to go to gigs and there was always that feeling that you were doing something good together...(maybe i was the only one to feel this?) but yeah i really really thoroughly enjoyed it, and if you can take it for what it is it is such a good time.

Another note on it - everyone dances with each other, its a very communal atmosphere, i was dancing with people including this woman who looked fit from behind but turned out to be at least 30. haha.

This post is turning out to be quite long! the other thing that happened this week was my results which i was a little bit disappointed with. i got 57% which is a 2:2, only three percent of a 2:1 and my second year is only worth 30% and all those other excuses, but i wasnt pleased at all. I really wanted a 2:1 this year. it is difficult to get a 2:1 in Law in the second year, most people do get 2:2's and then get 2:1's in third year, and they say that marks are almost 20% lower in Law than other subjects etc etc, but i just set myself out to get a 2:1 and i failed to do so. Ive basically just repeated myself there, the second time actually using the excuses. laugh out loud.

anyway, bed beckons as i have to be up to head on down to the old Executive Grapevine at seven.

AL = OUT