Yo, check it. Friday May 17th. That's right, we're doing another CYBERDELIA.
As per longstanding tradition, we are dressing up DNA Lounge as Cyberdelia, the club from the movie HACKERS! This means a 90s cyberpunk movie screening followed by a 90s cyberpunk dance party! Also featuring retro video games, rollerblade ramps, and a costume contest!
But this time we're branching out just a little bit: instead of our traditional pre-party viewing of HACKERS, we will instead be screening the 1995 Keanu Reeves cyberpunk classic, JOHNNY MNEMONIC! The year is 2021 and Johnny is smuggling 160 gigabytes of data in his overloaded brain implant, on the run from zaibatsu assassins. (You may know him better as Johnny Silverhands: Mnemonic was his maiden name.) Dolph Lundgren, Ice T and Henry Rollins co-star. Screenplay by William Gibson himself.
The last time we did a Cyberdelia with a pre-show that was not literally Hackers was that time when we did Tank Girl instead, and some people were confused by that, so lemme emphasize that from 10pm onward this is exactly the same party as all those other times, we're just watching a different movie first.
As I was painstakingly putting the mayonnaise into the bottles putting the new and improved labels on the Cyberdelia floppy flyers, I came across a few classic disks that I was not able to make myself plaster over, see wondrous artifacts below.
Number of times in the last week that I heard a customer ask a bartender, "Are these... coasters??"
Four.
16 Responses:
I want to get on-line. I need a computer!
Jesus. Mosaic. I nearly spit out my dentures and discomported my truss.
The DNA Lounge still exists?!
The one owned by Rob Schneider?
With the Swing Club hidden in the back?
That was almost 30 years ago. That just isn't possible.
believe it, baby
Wow.
Jamie has been a par excellence caretaker of the place. He also has a detailed history:
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/1906-1998.html
That's so cool!!
It says at the end to tell him anything he is missing. Itdoesn't mention "Spenger's Speakeasy" But I'm guessing he knows about the ersatz swing club during the Schneider years - and maybe stuff on the Schneider years might not be worth dwelling on (no argument). What do you think?
I think the issue is that there appears to be little/no citation of it, so there's nothing to point to but rumor.
Well...
I was in Spenger's. I danced to Bei Mir Bistu Schein there. I used an attractive friend to lure Stanley Spenger into giving both of us entry cards. My friend might still have hers.
This was 1997, I think.
If I described some of that somewhere, do you think that would be a primary source he could use?
mail him?
I might just.
So easy to use, no wonder it's #1!
The iridescent AOL floppy belongs in a museum.
@textfiles
Yeah, buddy, they're coasters shaped like "Save File" icons. You got it.
Spry Mosaic. That's a name I've not heard in a long time.
(oh noes, it's disk 2. I hope someone has disk 1.)