Sorry I haven't posted in awhile, I've been non-stop the past two weeks, with two circuit party weekends and full weeks of work in between. Heaven, right now, would be a night with fifteen hours of sleep. With this weekend over though I have a good couple of months to rest up. That being said I had a great time in Vegas, and here's how it all went down.
I missed my boy Eddie Elias' party on Friday night, which I heard was amazing. It was a pool party and apparently the space was all Playboy grotto'd out. Instead I was holding down my duties at Rockit here in NYC. I woke up bright and early Saturday for my flight out. Let me precede this next statement with this, I am so grateful to be able to travel on these trips to other interesting places and have it all paid for, and then get paid to have fun on top of it. That being said, sometimes we have to cut corners and this was a bit of a budget trip since it was Matinee's first weekend music festival in the States, so my flight out was a bit ghetto. Southwest airlines apparently caters to a lower middle class family clientele, there's no first class, no seating assignments, and since I was the last section to board I had my pick of 4 middle seats with overweight people or babies. Then there was the 2 hour layover in Denver which wasn't so pleasant either. But I got to Vegas!
I arrived pretty much in time to unpack my things and meet my roommate, who was a cute as a button southern kid with perky little bubble butt, then I was off to the first event "Full Tilt" at the Hard Rock Casino at the Body English space. The Space was cool, big staircase leading down to a dancefloor. It wasn't totally a "Matinee" space, as the stage was a bit low, but that didn't affect the party much. DJ Thersea was amazing, and the costumes were out of this world. The theme was playing cards, and Marco Marco who does many of the Black Eyed Peas looks styled most of the outfits here. Overall it was a good party, there were some of the regular Matinee dancers and some that were hired from LA. And here's my PSA to LA queens.....STOP INJECTING!!! It's not hot in anyway, I saw so many lip injections and botox in that backroom it was crazy, and the queens with the enhancements were walking around like fluffed up chickens so proud of it all and had rotten personalities on top of it. Good for them I guess. There were a few really sexy ones and nice ones too though that I met and it was a pleasure to get to meet and know those few. After the party I met up with some friends from NY and did a little bit of gambling, it was my first time and I didn't win anything but just the feeling of winning a little and then losing it again with my friends was somewhat bonding.
Sunday I went to the pool party so I could get a view of the crowd in proper lighting. I met some really fun locals and had a good time, but wanted to get a little look at actual Vegas, so me and my boys took a trip to get some food at In and Out. I think I ordered wrong, but I wasn't impressed, all these years I hear west coast people talk about In and Out and it didn't live up. I ordered a single burger, which I think was the mistake, because the burger was so tiny compared to all the toppings that I could hardly taste it. I think 5 guys still takes the cake. And while we were in the burger joint we experienced one of Vegas few thunderstorms, which was incredible, huge lighting that covered the sky and sheets of rain that could have started a flood ( I love a good thunderstorm). Again Vegas is not a pedestrian city and I find myself running across streets that aren't supposed to have pedestrian traffic to try and hail a cab, whats a New York boy to do???
The party Sunday night was the main event at Rain nightclub in the Palms hotel. Now this space was made for a good party, there was a massive dancefloor, huge LED video screens all over, pyrotechnics from the ceiling, and our dressing room consisted of all the VIP boxes in the rafters of the club. The crowd for this party was much cuter, but I was up dancing so much I hardly had time to come down and enjoy the people. I did have quite a few people come up and say hi and talk about the blog with me, I always appreciate that, it's really great to meet some of the people who I let into my life who would otherwise stay pretty anonymous.
Following the main event there was an afterhours, which I was supposed to work. Let me say, afterhours in Vegas are nothing like afterhours in NYC. Here, the environment is relaxed and inimate, it's basically a small circuit party with everyone you would want to see at the big ones and none of the ones you wouldn't. This party in Vegas was sketchy from the get go. We arrived and I set my bag down in an area that looked like a change room, and went inside to scope the place out. I came back outside and my bag was gone, we searched all over and thanks to a lovely soul Walter, we found it in a bathroom with its contents scattered all over the floor. I danced one set before the lighting guy had a Meth freakout and punched the DJ in the face and then exited the club to our "changing" area and began screaming like there was an exorsism being performed. He was kicked out and then he snuck back in and was kicked out a second time, and I took that as my cue to leave, only to be about ran over by the crazy lighting guy as he sped off into the distance, hopefully not harming anyone on his way to wherever.
By the time I got back to the hotel there was a pool party beginning with DJ Derrick Montiero spinning, there werent many people there since most had to check out and head back to life but I stayed and the music was amazing, he's now one of my favorite DJ's. I danced in the sun by the pool mostly by myself until my skin couldn't handle the burn anymore. I took one last walk around the strip after the pool and got on my Delta flight back home, where I was upgraded to first class and slept the whole way with my pillow and blanket and pre-flight water AHHH.
And that my friends was my trip to Vegas, sadly I didn't get any play, but thats probably for the better.
Here's a little clip from the party at Rain with Javier Medina....I'll post the professional video when it comes out.
