Down the Ruby Rabbit hole

Dec 13, 2004 22:49

Sydney is a hole on Sunday nights. It’s as if everyone agreed no one should be late for work the next day. Clubs are closed, pubs are only open till midnight and there’s usually something good on TV.

So what did I get up to?

Checked out Ruby Rabbit, a new club in Oxford Street where Urban Hits Magazine was celebrating its birthday bash.

Urban Hits is one of only two RnB and hip hop magazines in Australia. I expected that many of the local industry movers and shakers would be there. But it was Sunday and no more than 120 people came, which I thought was a pretty small number.

Empress Camielle and chicken kebabs.

A local RnB artist named Empress Camielle (and her backing band) provided the main entertainment. Nothing beats watching a band perform live. She started with a ballad titled ‘Love ain’t hurt nobody’ then a semi reggae-influenced ‘I’m a righteous woman’. In the corner of my eye, I saw a mohawk-sporting white guy mouth the words ‘I’m a righteous woooo-maaaannn’. :D Good for him.

After Camielle’s performance, B* and I danced for a few and then drove off to Kings Cross, Sydney’s sex district, for chicken kebabs.

We parked the car in front of a massage parlor. The sign on the door said ‘Night ladies wanted.’

Pimps and prostitutes every few meters. One prostitute in particular caught my eye, an Asian with eyes that slant downwards (they usually slant upwards).

Another prostitute with breasts the size of watermelons passed by.

B* and I finished our $6.50 chicken kebab and walked back to where we parked the car. I couldn’t wait to get out of there. Arrived home at 4am.

It was a great night. Although right now, I am thinking of the Asian girl we saw. How sad she looked. How my world is so different to hers. No social commentary here. Just a thought.
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