Category: drinking

This doesn’t look good…

I went looking for some quality beer (among other things) yesterday. I went to what has properly been my favorite store in all of Copenhagen, BarleyWine, in Læderstræde.

But shock, what met my eye? The store seemed closed! A green plastic cover filled the windows from the inside. No sign in the window or otherwise indication as to why the store was not open – or when (or if!) it might open again.

I’m crossing my fingers that they are just closed for the holidays and will open again soon. Their website is still working (although it says last update was 22.11.07) so I guess that is the last straw of hope that I will hold on to.

Oh, and not to worry, I found beer and did get drunk (in the company of, among others, Søren) through other means.

“I am Megatron!”

I finally got to see the Transformers movie. I ‘missed’ it at the cinema but caught it with Søren Wednesday night. And what do you do after seeing a movie a Wednesday night in Copenhagen?

I know what I did. I went to Studenterhuset, The Moose and Basement (in that order) to get drunk. And looking back I can only say: “mission accomplished”.

At The Moose I ran into a couple who claimed the were going to open a restaurant with french cuisine just down the street I live in. It might have been a big fat lie (I’m very gullible – especially when drunk), but if the do I guess I really should stop by and see if it is any good.

Get a haircut, hippie!

Another 3 days of light (and heavy!) drinking come to a halt. (Well, today is not over yet, and my uncle might just be serving a beer or two when I go visit this evening… so make this the start of day four.) Thursday was just a few beers before going to see The Simpsons Movie (for the third time) and to relax after my first day of work.
Friday was a bit more heavy. Our group of five (give or take a few, people seemed to join and leave through out the night) started out drinking a few at The Old English Pub before we went to see Saybia play fredagsrock in Tivoli.

See pictures (not by me or anyone I know) from the concert here: http://flickr.com/photos/m-alo/sets/72157601358584697/

I have never really been a great Saybia fan – and must admit that they had to play more than one tune before I even started to recognise the music. I was not the only one not feeling the full concert vibe, so we headed out of Tivoli and ended up at Den Glade Gris.
After a bit of waiting a live band started playing some nice Rock covers. One hour followed the next and after a while some of the guys and girls started leaving, so the rest of us moved on to Heidi’s to meet some new people. It was hot (as always) and our entire group managed to get thrown out over a quarrel with one of the bartenders. At first he just called the doorman to move one or two of us out, but as the rest of us started to question the logic we were all asked to leave. The doorman of course had to follow the requests from the bartender, but deep down I think he him self could see that it was a bit silly throwing us out. His said something along the lines of “You’r clearly having to much fun” to justify throwing us out. Which makes a lot of sense – usually people come to Heidi’s to sit and be depressed? If I want to have fun, I go out, if I want to be alone and depressed I will stay in my room and watch a wall, Swedish television or something similarly depressing/boring.

Anyway, we moved on, was thrown out of another bar (because they closed, not because of our good spirit) and finally ended up in Lades Kælder.

So, I had hoped yesterday could just be easy and relaxing, but Søren had just returned from a month of inter rail, so when he asked me to a party at his dorm I really could not say no. And as always in the dorm I ended up getting a lot of Harboe gulds and liquor. Long story short, after a lot of heavy drinking at the dorm and a few other places I finally went home from a party (with a bonfire in the back yard and everything) in a collective in Bellahøj.

Lækker fredags rock!

Jeg var inde og høre Rasmus Nøhr og Marie Key Band til fredags rock i Tivoli i fredags! Jeg har længe været rigtig glad for Rasmus Nøhr, men må indrømme at jeg troede Marie Key Band skulle spille for/med Rasmus og ikke var et band for sig selv. Men jeg blev overrasket – glædeligt overrasket!

Så den første time underholdt Marie og band med finurlige tekster, akkompagneret af god musik (og en lille smule twist). Hendes stemme er meget speciel. Jeg ved ikke helt hvad jeg skal sammenligne den med… den lyder måske lidt barnlig, men det er også en dårlig beskrivelse – den skal høres!

Da Rasmus Nøhr endelig gik på kunne jeg godt ærgre mig over at aftenens program ikke var blevet fordelt på to aftener – jeg tror godt Marie Key Band kunne have underholdt længere, og jeg tror også godt Rasmus skulle have fundet noget at bruge en ekstra time på. Men Rasmus startede stærkt ud med et nyt nummer der vist hed “fyr den af” og holdt ellers dampen oppe resten af koncerten! Numre fra hans første 2 albums blev mixed med et par helt nye numre og jeg gik i hvert fald fra koncerten med en følelse af at jeg havde fået hørt alle de numre jeg var kommet efter, lige fra Til min far over Hash eller gas og Ring nu, til Det glade pizzabud og Kysse under stjernerne.

Efter musikken i Tivoli snuppede jeg lige et par øl med de andre, inden vi tog hvert til sit med en aftale om at tage på stranden lørdag. Det blev så ikke til noget da vejret lørdag ikke lige var som vi havde håbet – men sådan kan det jo gå. Jeg fik klaret en del oprydning lørdag, og selvom det jo ikke er lige så sjovt som at tage på stranden så er det jo også meget lækkert at kunne komme rundt i sin lejlighed uden at man skal ligne en af de ynkelig hunde der tvinges til sådan noget “agility træning”



HMKC Spring 2007 Agility Trial, originally uploaded by SheltieBoy.

I byen I Vejle

Onsdag aften var jeg (efter en lidt kølig MC tur fra København til Vejle) i byen i Vejle med min lokale ‘guide’ og nogle af hans venner.

Der var mere gang i Vejles natteliv end jeg egnetlig havde forventet – men man har jo som Snobbet Københavner Snude lov til at blive glædeligt overrasket over provinsen.

Vi var bl.a. på Den Knæhøje som var en hyggelig lille bar med rigeligt påskebryg på fad.

Update…

Hvad har jeg gået og lavet på det sidste? Tjah, skrevet på min blog har jeg jo ikke… men lad os se:

Torsdag d. 8. marts var jeg inde og se Per Vers (og andre) spille på Rust til en Unicef støttekoncert.
Fredag d. 9. var jeg til kollegiefest, lørdag var jeg til 24 års fødselsdag. Mandag eftermiddag følte jeg mig ikke helt på toppen og kunne efterhånde udelukket at det var tømmermænd der ville forsvinde naturligt, så jeg blev hjemme fra forelæsning tirsdag med ondt i halsen (og måske lidt feber?). Endelig var jeg inde og se Blood Diamond onsdag.

I dag har jeg været til demonstration mod krigen i Irak, med for-demonstration fra Blågårds Plads… Selve demonstrationen blev bl.a. dækket af Politiken her.
Nu skal jeg af sted til kollegiefest / bar om lidt (eller, jeg skal ud og have noget junkfood før festen)… og sådan kan man jo hurtigt bruge 1½ uge…

Minesweeper

I went folk-dancing (and later on to Park – no folk-dancing there) with the ESN-Copenhagen Thursday. While at Park I was told of a ‘drinking’ game called Minesweeper. I had never heard of it before, so I thought I might as well share here on my blog…

You play the game at a club, bar or really anywhere with a lot of people (most fun if you don’t know everyone, so a public place is best I guess). Then you go around to pickup and drink ‘abandoned’ drinks.
If the drink you pickup is not entirely abandoned part of the game is of course also to not get noticed by the right full owner of the drink.

So, how do you ‘hit a mine’?
The example I was given is that if you get a drink with drugs in it, you have ‘hit a mine’! I don’t know if putting drugs in drinks and leaving them around a bar is common practise anywhere, but I have never heard of it before… anyway, I guess you could add to the game and decide that getting a beer bottle with a cigarette bud in it or getting caught by the right full owner of the drink would also count as hitting a mine…

Sounds fun? I thought it was a very fun idea when I heard about it…

PS. Don’t try this at home kids! Of course you should not go around drinking drinks you haven’t bought your self or you don’t know whats in… (without bringing me along to judge your performance!)