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Friday, May 15, 2009

Last Night D List Magazine Two Year Anniversary Party Recap

Posted by Gina Young on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:11 PM

The D List Two Year Anniversary Party was last night, and this morning I can't seem to get out of bed. There was dancing. There was alcohol. There was one of those massive Hollywood-style searchlights outside of the venue that was bright enough to be seen from Yelm. Oy. So in lieu of a coherent beginning-to-end narrative of my night, I'll provide you with some highlights.

Statistics

Number of stretch limos outside Jonas Jensen Fremont Studios: 2

Number of "What Would Jesus Do" bracelets spotted by me while in line at the bar: 1

Number of members of the band LMFAO and their entourage who were wearing shirts with LMFAO lyrics on them while on stage: 5

Number of times Lady Gaga was played during Sam Ronson's set: I lost count after 3

Number of local burlesque celebrities spotted dancing on stage: 2 (Fuschia Foxxx and Honeysuckle Hype)

Number of people involved in the fistfight outside around 1:40am: 3 throwing punches, 12 or so rubbernecking

Best Quotes

Blonde about to put her stillettos back on: "Beauty is pain— you've just gotta fight through it."

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Me to the guy on the right in this photo: Are you one of the sponsors of the event?
Guy on the right, in the VIP area: Bouncers? Hell no I'm not a bouncer!
Me: No, I just mean, are you one of the event sponsors or promoters?
Guy: Oh. No. I just make a lot of money.

Highlights of the Night

1. Samantha Ronson seems genuinely nice and unassuming.
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2. Her set, if a bit frenetic, was undeniably fun.
3. Two strong vodka Red Bulls and two bottles of water = only $16 dollars!
4. Our cab driver on the way home had some boss stories about prison life and the LAPD.

Lowlight of the Night

Two charmingly handsome gay lads were mauling each other against one of the go-go dancer pedestals, attracting quite a bit of attention. Johanna and I tried to surreptitiously snap some photos in a manner that wouldn't egregiously violate their privacy, a la:

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They saw the camera and started blowing kisses. Realizing the potentially lecherous nature of what we were doing, I picked my way over to introduce myself with intent to tell them they were adorable and explain that their faces wouldn't be in the pictures. Bad move. One of them seemed receptive but the other one blew me off so hard he practically shoved me into the stage.

Ouch. I guess I deserved it for objectifying their moustaches like that.

Also, while we're on the subject of lowlights, the disparity between dykes and douchebags wasn't tipped in the direction I would have preferred— what with Samantha Ronson being one of the only young out lesbians in Hollywood, I expected the crowd last night to look a little more like Girl4Girl and a little less like a New Jersey prom. But Elizabeth from Riot GrrrLife Zine set me straight; "Lesbians can't afford to spend 25 dollars to see a DJ in this town, Gina."

All photos by Johanna Breiding.

Comments (13) RSS

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With more sleep, I would attempt to say something lasting about the complexities of being in high femme drag at the aptly analogized New Jersey Prom.

Here's my analogy-
Reality TV:Reality
This experience:Fun

one test-taking strategy for this kind of analogy is to create a sentence that combines the analogized words and describes their specific relationship. If anyone is reading this, I'd love to hear your sentences.

some questions still remain:
where did all those straight people come from?
does the fact that I fuck girls make me more interesting in a sea of female-bodied drag queens?
does seattle REALLY need to have bottle service?

Posted by honeysuckle on May 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM

I went home after that super straight party and dreamed DJ Sam called me ( I gave her my number p.s.) and we had a romantic date at a co-ed spa where we were massaged and swam in a huge glowing aqua pool.
The dream was way more fun than the party...

Posted by Fuchsia FoXXX

on May 15, 2009 at 4:52 PM

co-ed spa? why would two women (in a fantasy or otherwise) ever go to a co-ed spa?

Posted by Carollani

on May 15, 2009 at 6:32 PM

Why would anyone pay money to hang out with a bunch of nobody $30,000 millionaires and their orange-tanned wannabe classless dates?

Jaegerbombs dude!!!

Posted by JesseJB on May 16, 2009 at 12:07 AM

"Lesbians can't afford to spend 25 dollars to see a DJ in this town, Gina."

I don't know why not. They certainly aren't spending their money on tips.

Posted by Seattle Dykes are cheapskates on May 16, 2009 at 7:21 AM

"I don't know why not. They certainly aren't spending their money on tips. "

QF motherfucking T.

Ladies, just because you've given up the change purse in bed doesn't mean you can't whip it out in a restaurant.

Posted by Slackster on May 16, 2009 at 8:25 AM

So ya thought this would be a "lesbian" event because of Samantha Ronson?

Posted by Bill W.

on May 16, 2009 at 8:36 AM

Hi Bill,

I knew it wouldn't be a "lesbian" event per se, and I actually had a really good time overall. But I did expect a more mixed crowd, and I DEFINITELY didn't expect to hear the next day that a young lesbian from Tacoma got sucker punched by a

Posted by Gina Young

on May 16, 2009 at 12:57 PM

Hi Bill,

I knew it wouldn't be a "lesbian" event per se, and I actually had a really good time overall. But I did expect a more mixed crowd-- a few gaggles of young lesbian Ronsonites, at least?

And I definitely didn't expect to hear the next day that a girl from Tacoma got sucker punched at the party for being gay. (I should say allegedly because I didn't witness it personally.)

If only all gaybashers were putting their entertainment dollars so blatantly back into the pockets of queer people. :) Oh wait...

Posted by Gina Young

on May 16, 2009 at 1:02 PM

sorry people. laptop is NOT DJing. You put vinyl on those round spinning things that you keep your crap on. They are called "RECORD PLAYERS", use em.

Posted by not a disc jockey on May 16, 2009 at 6:50 PM

@ #10 -we evolve, and while many laptop DJ's use only the internal playing tracks (human jukebox style) many use very nice mixing software setups which include either Rane's amazing Serato Scratch, or FINAL SCRATCH.

There ARE records triggers for these programs which are vinyl discs, which helps blend the old and new massive collections most DJs own, and also makes portability and ability to play in most venues easier.

Posted by disc jockey on May 17, 2009 at 12:39 AM

you keep lying to yourself 11, your precious $3k laptop daddy bought you doesn't change a thing. I'm sure you have all your playlists are already premade and just need a posing monkey to dance behind the tables and squint at the records in order to keep the lie going.

Posted by nice try on May 17, 2009 at 6:05 PM

What we need to talk about is the girl who was gay bashed outside at the end of the night. I think you had left right before Gina. But at the end of the night a guy sucker punched a dyke, knocked her out cold and continued to beat the crap out of her and kick her in the face.

Blood was everywhere and no one was defending her. All the big guys standing around that couldve stopped him and no one did. WTF SEATTLE?!

This girl has a fracture in her face and her eyes have been swollen fucking shut. Because of this douchebag who called her a dyke as he continued to beat her face in while she was already knocked out. May I mention that he was around 6'7" and she was about 5'5".

Believe you and me were going to get this guy on a hate crime.....

But thanks for the shout Gina about the zine. Appreciate it. And would love to talk to you more about this gay bashing maybe you can help spread the word?

Posted by Elizabeth (Riot-grrrlife Zine) on May 18, 2009 at 10:55 PM