Category: Nightlife

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Club bouncers make more than the president

Pure nightclub in Las Vegas got the shake down in Vegas last week. It seems too many red flags from flaunting bouncers shaking down their patrons – a shit practice that has contributed to the downfall of the club scene. One eye’d Willie Norm! reports:

Sources have been telling me that doormen at several clubs are clearing $8,000 to $10,000 a night before they share tips. So much cash is pouring in that some doormen are making $400,000 to $500,000 a year, several nightclub executives told me.

“Pure has guys at the door making more than the president,” said one executive with intimate knowledge of the cover-charge system. He was referring to the annual salary of the president of the United States, which is $400,000, plus benefits.

400 – 500 sounds a little light to me. If a guy is pulling down 8K 3 nights a week for only 25 weeks, he’s taking down over 600K…

Vegas, New York, LA and Miami are all shake down club spots where hot spot clubs or nights with popular parties will always draw a crowd that can float the cash to get in above the line. In my day, I knew enough people to not have to wait in lines or even pay so when it comes to an evening when I have to wait, pay or even pay to wait… I’m just not that into it…

Pure I’ve heard was one of the worst offenders of this growing policy. Terrible lines unless you’re ladies or have constant cash. You’d have to pay to move up the line, pay the bouncer/clipboard nazi to get in, and then pay a cover to the club. You’re already out $300 – $1000 before even buying a $15 beer.

It’s “business” but I hope with the feds hanging around and this in the news, I hope some of the club managements pull back and manage this better for their customers (really the people that really care about clubs don’t go to these spots any more).

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Swirlin…

what do you do when you’re head is all ties up in personally thoughts… I mean..very specific, life changing personal thoughts….

I think most men go out and drink… and that;s what I did.

Braving the 20 degree weather; which coincidentally made me utter “It’s really not that bad out”, I met a good friend at the Belgian beer bar. and drank…. heavily…

Sella.. Delirium… Parliament… Stella… Stella… mmmm…..

We bull-shitted about pubcrawls, “the ladies”, the lack of newly interesting bars or clubs in the area… While in the patio area, I ran into David C. Not initially introduced as such, however, later I learned he was one of the frat boys in the RV scene in the movie Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. In town we mulled over why this bar with “all this techno” was any good and what else he and his gf could check out in the area.

Several of the other guys from the scene were at the bar and I brought up the suit I had heard about.

David had let me know, he did not sue, but that two of his faternaty members on the RV did sue over deformation of character and the two guys. Much of the suits against the movie, were deemed frugal and attempts to garner some cash from their infamy. However, in the case of these guys (and apparently anyone that signed the waiver for the movie) Century 21/Fox is able to counter-sue (language added to the waiver) and now these guys are forced to PAY the production company over six figures.

Damn… sucks for u to try to make a buck after signing a legal waiver uh?! Always read what you’re signing!!!

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What’s a DJ?

As someone who’s played music to a crowd live, in the living room or in a club this comes up not as often as it once has. A DJ has become synonymous with nightlife but really not may people notice mediocre DJs just really bad ones or really good ones (and there are many of the former). I have a shirt I wear sometimes and for those that don’t get a chance to read it:

DJ (dee-jay) I. n.: a retarded individual who receives undue credit, extravagant amounts of money, fame, recognition and sexual favors in return for playing music created by other people. 2. a moron who plays records at volume levels which prohibit coherent thought while you are attempting to have a conversation at the bar. 3. an arrogant idiot adored by countless lobotomy cases who attribute this ability to talent (sic.). 4. a legitimate argument for mandatory sterilization. 5. a first class parasite with delusions of grandeur who inexplicably makes a living by leeching off the talented individuals who have actually bothered to the hard work involved in creating individual music. 6. I really wish they would all fuck off and die.

In reality there are many fucktards that buy a pair of ipods, or a Mac computer, download some MP3s and play it over a loud system – then claim themselves to be DJs. Just because you push play does not mean you know anything about rhythm, style, flow, focus and moving the crowd. Even some good DJs have let their skills go because the standards of a DJ have slipped so far. I find this despicable and coupled with the decline in focus of the club scene from the Music to selling bottles to douchebags, the nightlife scene has forever failed to live up to it’s heyday in the early 90s.