Your perfect party

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waiting inevitable zings

crystal waters otm

Surmounter's list is awesome & zing-proof imo.

I was at a pretty good party the other week.

10. Sunny day
9. Charity cricket function at picturesque rural location
8. Free barbecue and hog roast
7. Free cold alcoholic and fruit drinks
6. Captain one of the teams (Popbitch) and get yr highest score in a victory

ok and here's 5 things that didn't happen but would have made it even better

5. All old friends turn up
4. They turn out to be mega-nice and funny
3. Night falls and we go to a big mansion with enough beds for all of us
2. Karaoke
1. We drink limoncello, watch movies and play Pro Evo until dawn

10. Show up on time!
9. Don't leave at midnight bcz the bars close at 1 a.m.; there's booze & fun at the party, why are you going to the goddamn bar?
8. Leg-wrestling contest.
7. Watermelon.
6. Good whiskey, but not Crown Royal bcz then I can't tell how much is in the Coca-Cola and I get in a lot of trouble.
5. Wear clothes that allow full range of movement.
4. Karaoke!
3. Funny pets are present.
2. Whiskey drinking contest in the bushes outside, pref straight from bottle (best for this is Rebel Yell).
1. Laughing ass off!

10) outside
9) bocce/volleyball/soccer/badminton/croquet
8) good drinks, ample
7) good food, ample
6) 20/40/40 old friends/new friend /people i don't know
5) animals
4) music, but not too loud
3) no time anybody has to be home
2) old friends
1) guiltless hookups

6. at some point, bring up gloria estefan.

I would never have thought of this but somehow it would make my evening if someone else did!

ya remy's is good, quite similar to mine but more general and therefore more widely enjoyable, also a range of outdoor sports is a super idea

10: Clear night
9: Comet in the sky
8: Citrus juice
7: Asceticism
6: Nike "Cortez" Sneakers
5: Armbands
4: Vodka
3: Spaceship
2: Phenobarbitals
1: Heaven's gate

remy's sounds good but ONLY if the sport is croquet. And if it moves inside after dark – I hate skeeter bites.

Okay Øystein wins.

10. It is the end of summer and it is outside even though you can feel the chill in the evenings.
9. Everyone gets cold at the same time and there is not enough jackets
8. For some reason, this is the last night everybody will be together for a long time.
7. There is more whiskey than everyone can drink
6. All the whiskey gets drank.
5. The sky stays clear and bright even though it is very very late.
4. There is nobody else for miles.
3. There is a frisbee or a football or something but everbody is idle and it just gets tossed around lazily.
2. No food is organised but somehow the cupboards seem to throw up various combinations of junkfood and everybody knows some really gross way of eating everything that somehow makes it even more delicious.
1. It is fun, there is barely enough floor space to sleep and in the morning everyone rolles up their trousers and wades in knee deep in the edge of the river but there is not so much time left because by the afternoon everyone must be somewhere else.

in no order:

10. homemade food, lots of appetizers, veg options
9. afternoon/early evening that mutates into some other activity (to keep things interesting and also get people out of your house)
8. BYO but plenty of booze on hand
7. one drink/cocktail (like a hot toddy) that's the centerpiece of the party
6. invite all the funny gays you know
5. invite all the funny girls you know
4. use coasters but don't be anal about it
3. smoking allowed, esp if there's a balcony/fire escape/etc
2. board games!
1. fire pits are awesome if you have access to one

4. use coasters but don't be anal about it

at my sort of party this directive would be met with disapproval

i have pretty coasters that people usually want to use :)

10. It is the end of summer and it is outside even though you can feel the chill in the evenings.
9. Everyone gets cold at the same time and there is not enough jackets
8. For some reason, this is the last night everybody will be together for a long time.
7. There is more whiskey than everyone can drink
6. All the whiskey gets drank.
5. The sky stays clear and bright even though it is very very late.
4. There is nobody else for miles.
3. There is a frisbee or a football or something but everbody is idle and it just gets tossed around lazily.
2. No food is organised but somehow the cupboards seem to throw up various combinations of junkfood and everybody knows some really gross way of eating everything that somehow makes it even more delicious.
1. It is fun, there is barely enough floor space to sleep and in the morning everyone rolles up their trousers and wades in knee deep in the edge of the river but there is not so much time left because by the afternoon everyone must be somewhere else.

-- I know, right?, Saturday, August 16, 2008 2:32 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

great post

yeah, trouble with Tiarnan's is that not all of us live in mid-Irish country idyll, maybe he shd invite ILX for a CAMPFAP

ihat do you look like: an idyllic thread

10. Somebody else's place
9. Decorations that make it look like a 1960s BBC science fiction set
8. Slow jams
7. Cocktails, wine, mixed drinks
6. Lots of chairs in the back garden, smoking, confabulating
5. Everybody doing low budget glamour but with obvious effort made
4. SLENG TENG RIDDIM
3. Weed, pills optional
2. Back to slow jams and slow sleepy flirty chats that lead nowhere but round in circles
1. Walking home thru the park in the first hours of sunlight with only very occasional passers-by walking dogs

#5 OTM

#1 is especially nice if u have your ipod

I can see how an ipod wd be good but I like the small sounds at that time of the morning. I guess this is only possible in a small-ish city like mine tho.

noodle vague entirely otm

yesss small sounds it'd be good with that king crimson track "i talk to the wind"

Also this thread is making me sad for long time no party

Thx surmounter I wd definitely dig your perfect party too fwiw

Surms, I have had "Always Be My Baby" in my head all day. All giving me junior high dance flashbacks & shit. Can't say I'm sad about this.

;) i heard it out of some store the other day, drifting out onto the summer sidewalks. was perfect

i want to go to a surmounter party now

u_u

really can't top I Know, Right?

10. It is the end of summer and it is outside even though you can feel the chill in the evenings.
9. Everyone gets cold at the same time and there is not enough jackets
8. For some reason, this is the last night everybody will be together for a long time.
7. There is more whiskey than everyone can drink
6. All the whiskey gets drank.
5. The sky stays clear and bright even though it is very very late.
4. There is nobody else for miles.
3. There is a frisbee or a football or something but everbody is idle and it just gets tossed around lazily.
2. No food is organised but somehow the cupboards seem to throw up various combinations of junkfood and everybody knows some really gross way of eating everything that somehow makes it even more delicious.
1. It is fun, there is barely enough floor space to sleep and in the morning everyone rolles up their trousers and wades in knee deep in the edge of the river but there is not so much time left because by the afternoon everyone must be somewhere else.

-- I know, right?, Saturday, August 16, 2008 2:32 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ perfect

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/7/10577320_0a859b1b74_o.jpg

I know, right?'s just made me almost, ALMOST tear up and now I feel like real DB.

Boards Of Canada need to make a concept album about T's party.

pretty much

10. make some punch with everclear and give it a retarded name. keep pouring alcohol in it throughout the night
9. play a good party game. kings is basically the most fun one for icebreakers unless theres that one guy who uses 'never have i ever' as a way to 'subtly' brag about sexxual exxploits
8. if you need a good way to figure out how drunk everyone is put on 'juicy' or 'california love,' anyone not singing along needs more liquor
7. make sure theres enough room for everyone to stay if they want to.
6. have a good post-party movie or cd on hand like gladiator or pure moods to put on when it starts dying down
5. do something that would get you in trouble if anyone found out, like peeing in the oven or making out with your friend's sister
4. even if everyone is staying over there needs to be a designated driver to make the trip to wawa before the sun comes up
3. invite everyone at wawa to your party
2. treat your best friends like siblings and your acquaintances like your best friends. make it your mission to meet every stranger and make each one feel like you threw the party for him or her.
1. crunk hits

man i forgot 11. invite every cute girl you see that day to your party and tell her to bring her friends

dude, can i get a invite?

2. treat your best friends like siblings and your acquaintances like your best friends. make it your mission to meet every stranger and make each one feel like you threw the party for him or her.

this is so beautiful! :D

i second many other suggestions

1. outdoors in a field + forest setting into late summer
or in a big shared loft-like space in a weird part of town
2. campfire, bbq, rooftop hangin'
3. lots of people but not tonnes of people
4. people you know, people you don't know, people you can potentially make out with
5. making out but not hiding out all night and making out and missing the party right
6. music that is good and diverse on a stereo/system that is good
7. live music that is awesome but that you can get away from if necessary
8. being able to just lay down and look at the stars or ceiling or wahtever at some point and no one bugs you abt it
9. some kind of magic easy transport home and/or crawling into a tent or cabin in the early hours of morning
10. no regrets only fun/love/yeeeah

(i can't believe a wrote a list abt a party when i shld be at a party haha i have had a long enough night already tho.)

kings is basically the most fun one for icebreakers

otm, great game

1. dmrs dancing to paul's boutique
2. catsup dude w/blond wig
3. morbs liking wall-ee
4. minnesotans
5. stephen meowlkmus
6. krazy kat
7. yuengling x 1000
8. tza/genius
9. the schef
10. BACON SALT

11. this thread pretty good

1. various beers of varying qual (cover the extremes PBR/Lonestar -----> Guinness or w/e n yr peoples will fill in the blanks )
2. a bro who bartends and volunteers to make everyone's drinks
3. pretty movie on mute while everybody conversates over music. most recently used tokyo drifter.
4. friends you see on the regular
5. friends you haven't seen in years
6. acquaintances you wanna be friends with
7. way too many people crammed on your loveseat
8. at least three people sleeping on the floor when you get up in the morning
9. a record to play in the morning

8. at least three people sleeping on the floor when you get up in the morning

this is a must, w/ added caveat: you end up sleeping somewhere else in your house besides your bed

10) start on a warm afternoon during the late summer
9) cook something awesome and elaborate on the grill
8) others bring snacks and junk food
7) one particular somewhat novel drink that you stick to all night, or a couple of good beers or wine or sangria
6) people you haven't seen in while and won't see for a while again but love dearly who start casually showing up around 3 or 4pm
5) Lake Superior is finally warm enough to jump into
4) hot sauna
3) stars + moon + northern lights while standing naked on the beach after the sauna
2) bonfire
1) nobody gets too fucked up, decent amount of sleep, pannukakku and sausage the next day and no hurry to get anywhere

(0. Thinking no one will show and then later in the evening suddenly realising your house is full of people)
1. The place for mingling at the beginning of the evening becomes the place for dancing halfway through the night.
2. Someone shows up late with a buttload of good champers and everyone gets silly but no-one throws up
3. unending supply of old and new grooves to dance and conversate to
4. yummy appetizers and dips, no-one sweating over putting out more foodstuffs
5. old friends show up with a crew of new people in tow, who turn out to be the life of the party
6. surprise arrivals of cool people, ie old friends
7. new friend teaches everyone a cool new drinking game
8. everyone sleeps over, plenty of rooms and floor for all
9. leftovers magicked into breakfast for all
10. sitting outside with everyone, having weird half conversations and making weird profound observations in bleary semi coherent hungover state.

making weird profound observations in bleary semi coherent hungover state.

^^^^^^^

1. smoking inside. outside sucks
2. gin

that is all.

I think I like the sound of rrrobyn's party best so far.

But this thread it making me realise how long it's been since I went to a good party.

I think rule No. 1 would have to be... MAKE SURE THERE IS MORE THAN ONE LOO!!!

hs dont blow up my spot

this person was part of a 3-strong gang of earnest music snobs, one of whom could be clearly seen manically air-guitaring the rhythm chords of "coffee and tv" at one point, while another discovered to his joy that my friend's iTunes contained Can

they were largely shunned and left quite early

-music you didn't expect that unites everyone..a curveball
-people you've never met before that readily say hello and start chatting and having fun
-lots of beds for when they're needed
-some person you've never met before that you develop some dumb all night joke with...

i love this thread...and these parties.

the 'chick' that put on disney tunes was actually max

Tomorrow I have having a party in my apartment and everyone will be there and we will remember everything and we will get as drunk as possible and you are all invited.

I'm back in Dublin tomorrow, see you there...

was at a dance party recently where someone put on "my way" in the middle of a block of songs using the "but everyone likes sinatra!!" defense

he was quickly told to gtfo

same dude dropped like four bottles of beer on the floor that night too iirc

was at a dance party recently where someone put on "my way" in the middle of a block of songs using the "but everyone likes sinatra!!" defense

he was quickly told to gtfo

― donna rouge, Sunday, September 28, 2008 8:25 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u could make this work

at first i thought donna rouge meant usher's "my way" and i was like wtf is wrong with that!

it killed the momentum pretty bad, but i agree: switching it up to something unexpected and maybe not necessarily "dance-y" can be done to devastating effect if done right. also the mp3 volume was like 50% softer than whatever was being played before

"my way" by usher is fine anytime, obv

Surmounter, i made this

4. later in the evening, lead all the girls in a rendition of "Always Be My Baby," preferably on the roof.

happen at my sister's birthday party this year; it was amazing!

well not the roof part because it was january, but

This thread makes me want to listen to Mariah Carey. This is not something I usually do.

yay! i feel i've done my job :)

So guys I invited too many people to a party I thought was going to be in a bigger space and then had to move to my small-ass apartment. I'm going to have like 20-30 people in 400 square feet. Anyone wound up in this situation? Thoughts?

open all the windows, get some fans, move furniture somewhere else

btw this is one of my all-time favorite threads despite the digression about drinking games

just preserve the sexy

oh here's a good one

- at some point in the evening, turn the music up. a lot.
- unless it's metal.

someone at 10.00 in the morning goes "oh yeah! i forgot about this!" and pulls out a wrap of ketamine

^^

ugggggh

change that to mushrooms and i'm with you

otm.

Altho with me it's usually someone realises they had a gram of MDMA or 5 pills or whatever.

you guys stop, i'm at work and it's not fairrrrr

at some point, when everybody is ready, play round two "new day"

xpost actually these days i'd probably rather they pull out a party size bottle of leffe

though those go down QUICKLY in my experience so maybe a couple. maybe like a blue offy bag hidden behind a sofa full or something

Put some of your furniture on the roof. Even if it rains.

This has made me want Mariah Carey's 'Butterfly' and drugs. Who'd have thought?

2. have a wig somewhere.

^^ works wonders

The only problem is if you make cool friends at a party and they're wearing wigs, it's hard to recognize them later in public when they do not have a green bob or somesuch.

Mmmm, drugs.

yh this is a good thread, wkiw tiarnan & most everyone else here

btw i think for my birthday i am going to have a pinata full of ~brownies~

there is even a pinata store not far from my house. it's all they sell. what type of pinata should i choose??

This has made me want Mariah Carey's 'Butterfly' and drugs. Who'd have thought?

― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Friday, June 26, 2009 5:55 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

omg perfect friday night (i've been really getting into butterfly lately)

Dudes, this thread will be helping the 4th of July party next weekend. Thus far, I can predict:

10. Elaborate and varied grilled meats, homecooked
9. International crowd (one dude's girlfriend is from Germany, several others are from Mexico, and a blue-eyed Bahamian)
8. Mixed occupational crowd - two lawyers, three computer folks, three non-prof people, two artists, etc. - who don't all know each other.
7. Keg of something tasty
6. Card games, most likely Racing Demons and other hyper-competitive, yelling at each other type games
5. Sangria and Planter's Punch
4. At least one noise complaint
3. Adjourning to the hills above the Rose Bowl to look DOWN on fireworks all over the San Gabriel Valley
2. A continuation of the Michael Jackson Tribute Weekend
1. Some sort of yard game - I may need to do some research

this thread is ilx top 5 of all time surely

Jesus fuck what the hell is wrong with me that I am still panicking about having too many people coming to my party. I think I'm losing my nerve. Fuck.

I'm not really into parties anymore! I think I get overwhelmed. The last big one I went to I ended up falling asleep on the couch and sleeping through most of the festivities. Maybe I'm boring. Idk. I think I just prefer smaller or one on one activities.

btw i think for my birthday i am going to have a pinata full of ~brownies~

wow!

Yeah - I might change my mind about parties if they all had brownie filled pinatas.

I haven't thrown one in a long time. I usually like smaller parties too. This is for the wife's 30th, but I wound up inviting as many people as possible out of fear of having too FEW people in the original bigger space.

It'll be fine. Focus on having enough ice and drinks and stuff - the people will sort themselves out.

definitely glad I picked up an A/C

Also, if you do keep your furniture in the place, DON'T shove all the chairs/loveseats/sofas/ottomans to the walls to there's a big empty spot in the center. Because people will park on them and not mingle, and it will end up like a midwest church youth group prayer circle.

1. it's at your place. u start off late afternoon hanging out w/ best friends. they're visiting from out of town & spending the weekend at your place. maybe u went for a hike or explored the city or something during the day. they help u set up for the party
2. in a 20 minute span tons of guests arrive and apt. is full of people
3. beer range is wide = fancy belgian, american hop bs, high life/bud /or pbr, maybe some homebrew even
4. you don't have much experience making drinks but you make sangria w/ a jug of carlo rossi that a friend gave your wife as a gag gift for christmas a year ago. you worry the sangria will be terrible but turns out great and everyone loves it
5. new friends come who you want to get to know better, they bring cool folks you've never met. your best friends who are visiting from out of town get along great w/ your new people
6. new people browse records and throw on classic soul & r&b
7. someone brings a really, really hot homemade salsa that kicks everybody's ass but no one can stop eating it. there's blue & yellow corn chips
8. 2-3 people u invited but totally didn't expect to come show up
9. outdoor area to chill - rooftop/porch/yard/balcony where smokers & non-smokers are hanging out together happily. (i don't smoke but i feel like i always get along well w/ people at parties who do smoke)
10. clear night - stars or full moon or skyline and city lights to look at
11. as the party's slowing down (but not dying), someone breaks out the fancy liquor that is very strong, maybe a little expensive. maybe a really good bourbon or scotch that blows everyone's mind
12. most guests leave around 1am, but core group of 4-5 really good friends remain and hang out laate, end up sleeping over

^^ my man

yea that's pretty good

core friends and fancy liquor in particular :)