Am I the only one who noticed how crappy New Year's was this year party-wise. Clubs and promoters hired a bunch of D-list celebrities to come out and party, paying most of them five figures (and I'm pretty sure travel and lodging as well). And for what? To charge us $200 to see Kim Kardashian's skanky ass? I'm sorry, she isn't worth a dime in my book. Neither is Ashlee Simpson, Pete Wentz, New York, Brody Jenner, Adrien Grenier or whatever other quasi-celeb you want to throw my way. Please, someone kill this trend already! I fucking hate it! These people don't deserved to be gawked at and admired. They are nobodies who happened to luck out because they either did a sex tape or hoe-downed their way out of embarrassment on national television.
Maybe I'm a little bitter because I went to bed on New Year's Eve at 11:30 p.m. because I have the worst group of friends in the world (kidding, or am I?), but no party seemed worth the steep entrance. And what the fuck Downtown? Were you even alive on NYE? Studio A had the Spam All-Stars -- again, and White Room, well lets just say I heard it was rather easy to navigate inside despite no cover. If anything, Downtown you disappointed me the most for not offering the anti-South Beach. Where was that spectacularly dirty NYE party I hoped a Downtown venue would offer? Nothing!
Miami, we aren't even 24 hours into the first day of 2008 and you've already disappointed me.
The going out to dinner thing is also out of control. Most places were charging an average of $150 - $200 per person. So if you are doing the dinner-thing before New years, then most likely you are a couple, so dinner is going to cost you about $400 - for FOOD, and then you have to worry about shelling out MORE $$$ to go dance the food off. The place I ended up going to is the Oceanaire downtown. That was an awesome place, but I chose it because there was no set menu or price fixing - just their normal one, so I could decide my own financial fate. I ended up spending about HALF if I had chosen those other set price places.
After deciding to forget the downtown scene, we decided to head to the Grove to be closer to home, and man, was that place DEAD. Sure there were people around, but overall, it was DEAD. The only benefit was that after midnight, I only spent $20 bucks to get in somewhere - cheap considering they were charging $75-$100 per person right before midnight. Screw that.
i really wish I too had friends without kids or with a sense of partying and throw a real house party instead of having to shell out mega $$$ every year for something that is even more disappointing than going out on a regular non-holiday weekend in Miami. Its that "obligation" you feel to have to go out and party like the end of the world on NYE that I truly hate...
cheers guys!