The Adventures of Joe Trap

This weekend I went to Turnmills with Chelsea for a Trance Friday night. I saw M.I.K.E. and Chris Warren spin, which was nice to see. They also had a once a month "joy" theme night in the back room where the played classic vocal trance, and speedy euro-ish anthems. I had a great time, and learned that Armin Van Buuren is playing on the 16th of December, so I already booked my ticket to go!! Chelsea brought her bubble machine to the club, so we had some fun with that. The three rooms had chilled out trance for the small room, the main room had various styles of trance, and the back room had speedy, vocal trance. I had to say that I preferred the back room the best, because I knew almost all of the songs. There was a lot of jumping around and glowstick spinning as well in that backroom, which made it entertaining. On the way to the club, I miscalculated the time it took to get there, and we arrived an hour too early so we sat in a pub right above part of the club. A drunk British woman in her late 20's was giving and her friend was giving boyfriend "raspberries" on his belly button and they thought it was hilarious. Then she came around to our table and asked us if we didn't mind. We didn't care, so she commented on my hairy belly, but she loved chelsea's belly--she even got two out of it. What a strange thing to do...maybe by dad was right in saying that even the brit's are drunks similar as the Irish. haha!

Saturday, 26th November

On Saturday night I wanted to go to Fabric, but everyone ditched out on me, so I went to check it out alone at 9:45. St James Park was closed, so i walked to Victoria Station...that happened to be closed as well (do to someone jumping onto the tracks at Green Park), so I walked to Sloane Square (for the first time ever!). I met some kids from the theatre from Oxford and Northern England on the way who were trying to get on the district tube line just like me. One of the girls thought I was Irish until I told her where I was from...What a complainant. We finally found Sloane Square, but it was closed because of engineering work on the entire district and circle lines this weekend. So we got a bus to Marble Arch, took the tube to Oxford Circus, transferred and took it up to Bakers Street and went west from there when i should have went east! By the time I got back to Bakers Street It was 12:00 so the tube line was closed! So i walked to International Students House and had a drink hoping that some of the central guys from the program were still there. They never came I later found out...But I met a chief named Joe from Massachusetts who has been in London only a week. By talking with him for an hour, I found out how experienced I was with the British Culture and how I felt he was especially American in his views of the British and even his very slight Eastern Accent. Wow how much I've grown! When I go out with the guys, I may give him a email. After about 1:45, I took a night bus home to Trafalger Square and walked the rest of the way through St James Park. Quite an interesting night!

Monday, 28th November

On Monday night, I had plans with Diane to go see a play together. On the way to Leister's Square, A man stopped me to try to sell something and do you know what he asked?

Diane From Rochester, NY

He asked If i was Irish! Wow that's been twice recently...both times I wasn't wearing my tennis shoes too...maybe that has something to do with it. Either way I was flatterred, but i walked onward. We ended up having dinner at Bella Italiana with two pizzas, and some tirimisu. We went and saw Otherwise Engaged, a comedy which starred Richard E. Grant. He plays Simon Hench, a sophisticated, urbane and selfish publisher. It was quite fun to watch, and I enjoyed myself.



Cheers,
Joe