Today Club Culture turns into a makeshift flea market.

Well it’s not really a flea market as most of the stalls here are from local brands like SuperrZaaap and the Diet Pills. If you’re into Soma and Dudesweet style and love indie rock and electropop music, then this is your heaven.

What is the most interesting is how different Club Culture looks.

If you missed this one then don’t fret. It looks to be quite a popular event so there will be one again soon.

I used to work in Silom. By day it was just an ordinary office-friendly street with food carts scattered about for hungry employees to grab a bite before heading back to their cubicles after lunchtime.

Everyday I walked past the famous Soi 2 to get to the office and never really thought about what was inside, despite me always wondering why there was the “Do not enter if under 20″ sign at the front of this rather quiet and empty Soi.

Well at night the soi is a completely different world. And that’s where I had my first gay bar experience Saturday night.

I was always a little bit intimidated about the idea of going into a gay bar. I always had this image of a wild party where guys take their shirts of dancing against each other to the tunes of Lady Gaga remixes, and the last thing they would want to have there is a timid inexperienced female walking around looking clueless, ruining the whole testosterone-filled scenery.

And the obvious realization kicked when I entered the soi full of men. There were at most FOUR girls that night, including myself. We left a little too early to witness the famed shirtless phenomenon as my boyfriend became a little anxious towards 1am when the music started pumping.

Well let me tell you one thing, from my brief stint at DJ Station, besides being the obviously safest nightlife venue for girls where your humps will be left un-groped by undesirable creeps, it was also one of the friendliest pubs in Bangkok. Compared to other bars in Ekamai and Thonglor, it was like a charm school. Everybody was smiling, no one crushed me when I tried to get through the crowd despite everybody being at least 10 centimeters taller than me. At a similar venue in Thonglor in terms of popularity and affluent clientele, my feet would get crunched, drinks would spill on my hair, I would get stared down from head to toe (by both men and women) if I was wearing what I was wearing that night.

Unfortunately though, all the cute guys in Bangkok were there. OK there were some balding wrinkly old bears and effeminate high school boys but there were also clean-cut, sophisticatedly attired young men appeared as if they had walked right off the covers of GQ. Then the even sadder fact: what’s left for straight girls are the stuck-up fugly greasy-haired ones as found in their overcompensating power cars in Ekamai. I never felt comfortable going into those pubs back in the day.

On Saturday night the vibe was fun and friendly. If we had been there earlier there was even a mini cabaret show, with men in drag lip-syncing to divalicious tunes. DJ Station was also the most popular one in the soi we could hardly find a spot to stand.

I’m definitely going back. Now that I have learned my lesson, I will remember to wear high heeled shoes and to leave my boyfriend at home.

I’ve been so obsessed about editing this blog that I forgot about posting this.

Electro Underdogs Cover Story

Another article that I utilized my own surroundings for a story.

Released just in time for Culture One, it’s about why Bangkok electronic scene is not happening. There were some things I wish I could add, or keep, but the feedback has been great so far so there’s nothing to complain. The process of writing it did put some strain on my life a bit though but it all worked out fine.

The festival starts quite early, like 3pm. Personally, the Thai acts to look forward to this year are Gene, Nannue, and The Diet Pills if you’re into The Ting Tings kinda music. I saw Gene live a few weeks back at a Dudesweet event at Santi Chaiprakarn Park and I think it was more than awesome. I like his post-Futon music so much more.

The BKMag website is down so click here for the text if you can’t find the copy in town.

With what happened to Santika last night, I am thankful that my Thonglor/Ekamai pub crawl days were long over.

But that doesn’t mean that any other hangout places are safe in Bangkok.

Did you know that the party at Santika last night was called, “Goodbye Santika,” as they were moving the club to RCA?

None of my closest friends were there last night as far as I’m concerned.

Another great piece of story to be added to our wonderful 21st century history.

EDIT: Stupid Quote of the Day

Police Commissioner-General Pol Gen Phatcharawat Wongsuwan Thursday ruled out an arson in the fire that killed 59 pub-goers at the famous Santika Pub in Bangkok late Wednesday night.

Phatcharawat said he had received a preliminary report from forensic officials but the cause of the fire had yet to be determined.

He ruled out an arson, saying nobody would intended [sic] to cause so huge casualties.

The Nation

Well, isn’t that really any arsonist’s intention?? Arson or not, there was definitely an idiot involved. A firework indoors??

This YouTube video is like a clip from a movie:

Look! Bua! At Soma! Out of the house after 9pm! The world is ending!

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