Wanderer
I woke up at 4:30 again this morning and did my usual, which is to go to the Carlton lobby and use the free wifi there to do some work. On the way over -- it was about 4:55 by this time -- I walked by a small, dimly-lit club packed with the usual vampires. You could hear the cheap music blaring two, three blocks away. And right next to the Carlton yet! Are they keeping Sean Penn up? If I were Penn and the music was keeping me up, I would walk down to the club and spit in the doorman's face.
Hardcore criminals and sociopaths excepted, is there any lower life-form than clubbers? Drinking and jabbering and hitting on people you want to go to bed with for six or seven hours straight. Indiscreet, loud, coarse. A couple of assholes were walking down a dark street near my place -- guys who'd obviously been at it all night -- and they were talking so loudly you'd have to call it shouting. No respect for the time of night or people sleeping nearby or for God's general rule, which is that only the aimless and the Godless prowl around in the wee hours.
Walking west on the Croisette a couple of minutes later I heard an American guy say to a couple of friends, "I can't fucking believe you...300 for a lap-dance?" (That would be 450 US if was talking euros.) I ran into an unattractive prostitute with big feet a minute later. She offered the usual enticements. "What I really need is a bottle of water or a can of Coke," I replied. "You know where I can get that?" I was feeling thirsty, dehydrated. A door man at the vampire club wouldn't let me in to buy a Coke or a glass of Perrier. "You won't let me in for two minutes in so I can buy some water because I'm thirsty?" I said to him. What an arrogant waste of skin. I finally managed to talk the night clerk at the Noga Hilton into selling me a large bottle of Evian. It cost 10 euros or $15 U.S. This town is dangerous.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 15, 2008 at 9:50 PM
comment #1
hiviper
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Jeff, do you actually want us to believe that you never stayed up untill 5 partying and trying to get laid when you were, oh, 19 to 24? Maybe even later, God forbid?
Posted by hiviper
at May 15, 2008 10:22 PM
comment #2
hiviper
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ok, you revised this post a bit since i commented, you sly dog. I would never keep Seam Penn up - I wouldn't be able to live with myself
Posted by hiviper
at May 15, 2008 10:32 PM
comment #3
David Ehrlich
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"...which is that only the aimless and the Godless prowl around in the wee hours."
crap. i'm agnostic... so does this mean i can't continue to partake in my (quiet) pre-dawn, thought-collecting strolls around chelsea?
Posted by David Ehrlich
at May 15, 2008 10:41 PM
comment #4
Gaydos
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I hate to say this Jeff, but I hope your jetlag hangs in..I'm digging your Jeffrey Hubert Selby Chandler Wells prose. Very evocative, even if I do agree with hiviper and suspect you spent decades actively participating in the behavior you are now decrying...at least I hope so....and if you see Sean, tell him that until he releases his anger he won't be the human or the artist we know he aspires to be. And then duck....
Posted by Gaydos
at May 15, 2008 10:44 PM
comment #5
T. Holly
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For Pete's sake Jeff, don't get robbered.
http://lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080515/ENTERTAINMENT/805150355/1164
Posted by T. Holly
at May 15, 2008 11:18 PM
comment #6
Terry McCarty
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No respect for the time of night or people sleeping nearby or for God's general rule, which is that only the aimless and the Godless prowl around in the wee hours.
Reminds me of last September in Dublin when my wife and I stayed at the Hotel Clarence and our upstairs room was opposite Ground Zero of the Temple Bar area.
Posted by Terry McCarty
at May 15, 2008 11:49 PM
comment #7
berkguru
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lol @ big feet - you have a serious fetish
Posted by berkguru
at May 16, 2008 12:18 AM
comment #8
lipranzer
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I don't object to clubbing, Jeff, but I'm with you on the guy not letting you into the bar so you could buy a Coke or bottle of water. What a jerk.
Posted by lipranzer
at May 16, 2008 6:32 AM
comment #9
GonePostal
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I rarely agree with Jeff on cultural stuff, but I hate Clubbers as well. There's a difference between hanging out at a bar all night with your friends drinking beer and hitting on girls, which is what I did when I was young enough to stay out all night, and paying 20-30 bucks just to get into a crappy, dark club that plays terrible techno and serves you 10 dollar beers and 15 dollar jack and cokes. Plus, the doormen are always way too self-important. You're working a front door asshole, not protecting the Hope Diamond. Clubs suck.
Posted by GonePostal
at May 16, 2008 7:50 AM
comment #10
Movie fan09
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Gaydos [TypeKey Profile Page] says ...
I hate to say this Jeff, but I hope your jetlag hangs in..I'm digging your Jeffrey Hubert Selby Chandler Wells prose. Very evocative, even if I do agree with hiviper and suspect you spent decades actively participating in the behavior you are now decrying...at least I hope so....and if you see Sean, tell him that until he releases his anger he won't be the human or the artist we know he aspires to be. And then duck....
just seeing Jeff's exhausted face the other day was awesome enough.
Posted by Movie fan09
at May 16, 2008 9:10 AM
comment #11
almirtovar
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Dangerous? no disrespect, but...come on....how old are you, Jeff? Particularly, i dislike the clubbing gang myself, but....it's Cannes. Were you expecting quiet nights with classical movies and piano clubs? And Sean Penn is, surely, either sleeping very well in a soundproof room, or partying and snorting around in the same kind of clubs you are writing about. Oh, yeah, sorry, i forgot - now he is a good guy, doesn't do it anymore.....
BTW, very good review on Three Monkeys. too bad it will hardly ever be released here in Brasil (unless it gets an award, i guess...)
Posted by almirtovar
at May 16, 2008 10:43 AM
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