I've really been wanting to check out Steve Aoki, so we stopped by last night around 11:45. He was already on the decks. Unfortunately I wasn't feeling it -- the crowd was very W Hotel-tourist (sorry if I sound snobby, but it's true -- a good handful of 50/60-year-old guys in sweaters), and when we walked up to get a drink, a drunk guy in a pastel button-down asked me if I would grind up on these girls in front of me. Umm.... no.
Steve looked like he was having fun. During the 10 minutes that we stayed -- all while waiting for a drink in the short line, which for some reason was taking forever -- he played a lot of clubby house. I wasn't into it. What about "Shake & Pop" Steve? Or at least something kind of unusual or different. Even the hardcore metal music on his MySpace would have worked.
I got the feeling that he was playing what the crowd wanted. And that's fine. So we left and went to Fallout Lounge.
It was the first Disqo Disco Tuesday night, and I thought it might be kind of dead. But they had a good crowd in there -- lots of young people, lots of smoke, lots of guys wearing skinny jeans and T-shirts. A bunch of people were dancing.
A guy friend of mine took a look around and announced: "I'm not ironic enough to be here."
We all digged the music. They played "Shake & Pop" as we were leaving. (Sorry, I'm obsessed.) My only wish is that Fallout had a better ventilation system -- it gets really humid and smoky in there.
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