tonight was a night of last goodbyes; of false beginnings, and of false endings…
there used to be this club in Kettering, Ohio, called 1470 West. it was named after it’s own address, at 1470 W Dorothy Lane. it was where a lot of us who never quite fit in, fit in. we’d go and dance our angst out of our bodies as we danced the night away, burning away our scar tissue along to the beat of that primal inner drum.
i was 19, i think, the first time i saw those neon palm trees, and felt the bass pounding in my chest, urging me to move. it was magic, and it was real… and it was ours.
some friends and i used to trip on acid and dance the world away in that place (there i said it!). a lot, needless to say, got figured out under the strobe lights, beneath the fog.
the place burned down several years ago, i hear. i don’t know; i was in Florida at the time. so when they opened the new place, of all places downtown, people whined and said it wasn’t the same. well, i suppose that for a long time that was probably true.
but tonight, that place was 1470 once again. even the old DJ was there (and boy, was he old!). he came out at the end of the night to light a fire of classic early 90s club tracks under some hot, sweaty asses.
the place was packed. i could only get 2 drinks, the lines was so long. i made sure they were strong ones.
i didn’t close the place down like i wanted to, but then again, i am older now, and do not have the stamina like i used to have. and it was so very hot and steamy in there… it was all i could do to keep myself standing, much less moving my ass like some devil-worshipin’ slave to the groove. but i was too hot, and too tired, and absolutely drenched in sweat by the time we left.
it was time. it was time.
i feel much like i just graduated from something. i wasn’t even a regular for these last ten years. but i still consider 1470’s to be my alma mater.
i had some fun there, and got into enough trouble (oh the time i passed out at the bar and woke up being drug on my knees, &c!).
some things never die.
and some things, i suppose, must, eventually.
