Party!

It was certainly a late night last night! I watched Doctor Who which was a good episode involving the Daleks in 1930s New York.

After that I headed out for Jackie's 21st birthday party. We met at Frankenstein's, which is basically a Frankenstein-theme bar. I think it used to be an old church or something and inside it's decorated like a haunted castle covered with posters of old Frankenstein films and at around nine o'clock they turn down the lights, play this loud clap of thunder and start some scary music and a model of Frankenstein's monster is lowered down on a kind of metal bed, where it sits up, looks around and is winched up to the ceiling again. It's quite fun. Jackie came with Joe, her boyfriend. My friend Alan, from work, was there with his girlfriend, Rosie. I think there were about ten or twelve other people there, who I didn't know at all, except for a couple who I'd met briefly once or twice before. I had a couple of pints of beer, and Joe bought a bottle of champagne, and so I had a glass of that. After Frankenstein's we went to a place called Bar Kohl, which I had never been to before, and seemed nice enough, but very crowded (which was only to be expected on a Saturday night) and I had a pint of beer there and a shot of some green liquid called an Apple Sour, and true to it's name, tasted like sour apple juice. Jackie and most of the rest of the party vanished, and Joe, Alan, Rosie and myself were left to make our own way, because Joe wanted to find a friend of his in another bar, but in the end couldn't find him. We ended up in a bar called Siglos were we met up with the others and I had a couple more pints of beer. I went home before a lot of the others did, because I thought I had really drunk enough, and got home at around half past two in the morning.

I woke up at around eleven, with quite a hangover. I went round to my parent's house for my lunch, as usual for a Sunday. Lunch today was roast chicken, peas with small onions in them, baked potato, and chopped strawberries in cream, with some cherry brandy over them. It was a nice time, actually, and the latest issue of Sight and Sound had arrived during the week. with a free poster of El Topo, a very surreal and violent Western from the 1960s, which is being released on DVD.