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“I don’t think I’m cool enough to be here.”

Contributed by David Harewood

Friday, 23 March 2007

So Tuesday I went to Celebrity to check out a few sets that the spin duo Iconoclast were hosting. (Check out their respective Myspace pages here and here.). For it’s part, Celebrity struck me as out-and-out Bucktown: The lights are low, the décor grim/chic and the candles all match each other. The bartender was hot and quick to serve up anything I wanted. The movie they were screening (some odd-ball Brit/spy movie whose only memorable moment was lots and lots of great legs and just a teeny bit of nipple here and there) was befittingly weird enough and somehow “artsy” enough to fit as the wall-dressings they were. For their part, the members of Iconoclast (Joe Vor-Tech and Mr. Automatic) were cool as hell to me and their other friends.

But here’s the thing: I didn’t come alone and I didn’t know whether to watch the movie, schmooze with Iconoclast’s friends, or hit on the bartender despite the fact that I showed up with a woman already.

The place has style, sure; but I’m the sort of a guy who revels in artists, not in people who love to play the role of artists. There was a movie on that no one was watching, drinks being tossed that fewer were drinking, and once the schmoozing was done and the music started, there were so many hipsters in the place I didn’t know where to start being anything but a fly on the wall.

It’s possible that the place just didn’t fit my mood that night; that Celebrity’s dark lighting and cute little benches with their cute little bartender and their cute little clientele just didn’t fit with the hipster that’s supposed to be inside of me. The only chuckle I got out of the entire night was when the hippie (that is, the girl I came in with,) said as she sipped her beer:

“I don’t think I’m cool enough to be here.”

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