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May 03, 2005
clublife
i was a bouncer briefly back in the summer of 2004. my friend Lisa bought Eli's Mile High Club, an old blues club in Oakland, and reopened it as an indie rock joint with live burlesque shows on Tuesday nights. i moved back from Brooklyn where i'd been living for six months, building a system for serving ads in real time into computer games, to be mister security guy for her.
the part of Oakland where the Mile High is located (just down MLK from MacArthur) is not the safest for waifish indie rock girls to park and walk solo. i like to think that my bald/bearded/sideburned mug and offensive lineman frame were enough to deter most of the drunken bums from hassling people most of the time. i never had to deal with any real violence, luckily, although i did get a death threat from one ass clown who was so drunk/fried it took him 5 minutes to parallel park in front of the club and then tried to get me to bring our door girl outside for a chat.
i can conclusively say, however, that my bouncing experience was nothing like this guy's. at this point, i'm happy to live vicariously through a random person's blog and employ myself in a field where i can possibly actually distinguish myself.
Posted by bcm at May 3, 2005 08:53 AM
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