Ken with Ken

I noticed that I prefer to go out on Friday better than on Saturday (of course I can go out Friday and Saturday !). For this many reasons. After a hard work week the only thing you want to do is decompress of all this dust you have on your body and mind following the stress of the job. You need to clean yourself to be happy again and the only possibility is going out. The people who go out on Fridays are not the same than the ones on Saturdays. Friday you go out because you want to have fun. Saturday you go out because you must and if you're single, you must fuck. So from my side It's no fun. And because I go out on Friday most of the time I have no plan for Saturday except if we organize a dinner at home. And It's also harder and harder to recover quickly when you're not in your twenties anymore. At some point you fall. I don't know how do young people these days. So last evening it was so windy I could not take the bike but the metro. While geting in a group of girls sat together while speaking loudly. I don't really pay attention until the moment I notice that they share together Martini that they directly drink from the bottle. I was very surprised. I can understand It is very expensive to go out and buy a drink at the bar (especially Martini). Nevertheless It's something I noticed lately. Of course here everyone has his bottle of beer afterwork in the street and you don't really care. But alcohol in some bottles of water (water was never brown ?) is a new phenomenom. I remember now that a few days ago I met a woman I saw once at a dinner and we started small talk, you know. But I found her tired and when she left I ask a friend of hers what was wrong. She answered the woman has troubles with her second daughter who is thirteen. One day when she came back from work she found her daughter naked in the bathroom lying with a bottle of vodka ... empty. It makes you think. And It does not seem a way of socialising or to be happy. Young people seem so frustrated, agressive and unhappy. Is this what we did ? It is true that we are the first generation that had to try everything new and we did not manage very well, apparently. I don't say they have all excuses, I say parents dismissed from their responsabilities, certainly because they had other ones. I guess they thought It will go easily like when they wanted to have a new toy and they had it. Well anyway. So I took the metro to meet friends at Barbiebar. I wanted to go there for a long time because I heard a lot about it and wanted to make my own opinion. The area of Mehringdamm is quite far from the center but the gay scene here is very active and It's where everything started in the city. It's one of the takiest bar I ever saw. I know another one as popular as this one but Barbiebar is really something. Barbies everywhere, wood tables and chairs, a corner where you can kiss. But good italian wine and the owners are also very nice Kens. Because I arrived the first one (I am on time, It's boring) I had time to look at the clientèle. I like it because it's a mix of every style but I would say men and women from the neighbourhood who dressed to party. It has this "je ne sais quoi" that makes it friendly. You feel there quite at your ease even alone. Soon the friends arrived and the barman refueled. There was a party at the disco Schwuz. It was back in 1971 a gay culture/information center in the city. They have now at least 12 parties a month with different themes so there is no possibility you don't find one you like. And the entrance is via the café Sundström so you always have the possibility to join the barmen. And the prices are all correct. I had good and bad memories from the place. The first time I went we had a wonderful time and the other times were catastrophy. So I was not that convinced and I had a plan B. We never know. But this time I was one of the last to leave. It was so enjoyable. Pop Music from the 60's, 70's with disco hits like Silvester's You make me feel or Silver Convention's Fly Robin Fly. 3 rooms (one smoking, it's OK, I'll get used to it, although ...) are available to enjoy with different music. Because it was pop oriented last night you heard german music from this period and I can tell they all know the words ! The atmosphere is good and people just enjoy being there. It's one of the rare club in the city you don't need to play a role or wearing the last "no brand" t-shirt of next summer collection. And the best thing is the good wine. They have a nice Côtes du Rhône that took me by surprise with its nuts taste while descending in the throat. Because the music was appropriate I try to make dance with me boys and girls but only some were receptive. First I guess they are ashamed to be leaded and/or they don't have the rythm for it which is a shame. Even the girls do not want to dance. A friend of mine told me they are afraid I will ask for sex in return (heuuu.... no) and I should tell before that I don't want to have sex (they are sooooo complicated but this typically the situation of the country). So really it was like being in the garage of our parents organizing a saturday evening disco. Except that at this period of life we only drank limonade !