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This boat is reeeeaaaaaal. In a city where privacy is all but extinct, New Yorkers relish being in on a secret, even if hundreds of other people are in on it too. The Bushwick Boat parties offer the same degree of clandestine exclusivity as PDT or Milk and Honey, which is to say not very much.
Over 1,500 people RSVP'd to Saturday's party (the boat holds 900), some of them realizing that you can get in just fine if you make up a password. The party is run by a group of artists and friends, some of whom live on the boat, offering a night of music, dance, and performance art in a couch-strewn hull. Very Lost-Boys-meets-Frat-boys. There was "Dirty Santa" enticing revelers to sit on his lap in a room full of fake snow, the "Green Fairy" offering absinthe punch from a pump on her backpack, and hosts offering everything from henna to hot tamales to "Olde Timey Hair Cuts," though most of the barber-work looked like conservative trims.
The highlight of the evening came with a show from Arkansas natives 3 Penny Acre, who drummed on trashcans and belted out bluegrass classics into the sour-milk-stenched air over the Gowanus. Though the pre-party text urged guests to show up early, the party didn't really get started until after midnight, when increasingly packed shuttles brought group after group, ready to dance until dawn. There is no information as to when the next party is, but at this rate it looks like they're gonna need a bigger boat. Or at least some new couches, as those Ikea throwaways had "bed bugs" written all over them.
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Are people really that desperate to pretend they're cool?
Wait, don't answer that. Of course they are! Enjoy your shit-boat, hipsters!
Groan.
That man drumming atop a garbage can really just says it all, its all trash. But if you're wasted enough sometimes trash looks good right? Trash can't hide from the flash though!
yawn
Jaya Sexana is the the worst pseudonym i've ever heard of Jen Carlson. You're not fooling anyone.
fuckin hipsters
Parties have been happening on that boat all summer. It is a new thing in this town- a venue for parties that has an actual certificate of occupancy (or whatever the maritime equivalent is)for a sizable amount (900)of people, is not a decaying firetrap, and is pretty much bust-proof thanks to it's neighborless location and adherence to fire regulations. Finding a space that will not gouge the fillings from your teeth (like: pretty much any licensed club or venue), has space for people to dance and do fire performances, and is not a risky, bust prone potential deathtrap is very, very difficult, pretty much impossible if you want to have upwards of 500 people at your event. If you think otherwise than you have not tried to throw an event in the last few years. As far as the "anti-everything I did not personally create or did not know about commentors:
You are totally right. Everyone but you is wasting their lives. You win. Now: Shut the fuck up.
Also:
It might smell, but it is not the Gowanus. English Kills,most likely. Newtown or Maspeth creek, maybe, but the Gowanus goes nowhere near Bushwick.
I disagree: Bushwick is what happens when the Gowanus backs up after a storm.
I agree.
Now everyone else, sit in front of your TV sets and pretend you're happy.
Fail boat.
Oh My God!! What is he supposed to be in the 3rd pic ... a dirty old Santa Claus? He should have gone overboard!!