the night started real chill though, we went to haebongcheon and listened to some good bands (and some bad ones too). There was a smoking hot bartender at the orange club. amazing! And most importantly, whiskey sours were only 5,000 and they were making them strong. At some point in my coming to Korea I became an enthusiastic drinker of whiskey. How and why that happened i'm unclear on, but there you have it. Come to think of it...it's probably just cause the beer is so goddamn awful. We were throwing down pretty good when we decided to head to hongdae to meet up with the rest of the crew. it was really fun to hang out with a bunch of waegooks in costume while the rest of Korea just went about it's regular business. Korean's don't celebrate Halloween and i think they just barely tolerate us. We met at a club called FF, which is right above my favorite club, Gogo, but always seemed like a sketchy snotty place. It always has a cover is one problem I have with it. But anyways, we pay the cover and head in, things are going pretty great. FREE DRINKS! For one solid hours drinks were free. That hour is why it took me so long to remember most of the night, it's still coming back in pieces. The bands were pretty good too. When i first got there they were playing daft punk! I love that Koreans love daft punk. It makes everything a little more bearable. I'm basically bebopping all over the place up and down the stairs and in and outside the building. If alcohol brings out the real you then i'm a crazy dancing fool. Anyways, this is when this happens
Yea, so i'm coming up to the group, making faces at this one girl (names excluded), when this dude comes out of nowhere and starts dancing up on her. It being Korea we both figured this was both safe and hilarious. Then the dude gets all grabby and (later learned) biting her. Basically I intervened and the spock method was how it went down. It only last for maybe 5 seconds of me having him in a choke hold before the bouncer came flying up and locked him up and dragged him out. The bouncer was pretty damn impressive. Of course he came back to get me but the girl had my back. that was pretty much the end of it. We never saw the dude again. The bouncer later asked me to explain what happened, concerned about a fight or whatnot. by this point I was preeetty drunk and i was politely trying to use "simple english" so that he would understand, though i'm pretty sure he spoke good english. The conversation went like this. Bouncer "You fight?"
Me: "no, no fight. Girl say no, stop. dude says yes, don't stop. So I say stop (I gesture the choke hold), then you (gesture the head lock he put the dude in). No fight."
and that was that. thankfully it was brief and other then a little scare for the poor girl no one was hurt. I'm pretty sure the guy was plastered and thought he was being a cute vampire or something. I'm not making excuses for the guy, i'd do the same thing again in that situation, cause it wasn't funny or acceptable, but i don't think it was maliciously done.
Anyways, the rest of the night is pretty much a blur of dancing and reveling. we actually left pretty soon after that, for some reasons people were a little hot headed that night. Sometimes it goes that way though i can't understand the purpose behind it. I did the walk of shame back home this morning, all the way across seoul, alone, in my halloween costume, and I'm sure I looked like shit and smelled like whiskey. Oddly, rather than stares Koreans were studiously ignoring me. That is until I got back to shillim and my students saw me, THEY never ignore me ;). I think the real win of last night was that I didn't smoke a single ciggie and my clothes don't reek of smoke. yay!
Happy Halloween America.
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