Kinda HOT Alegria Video I shot

The hot part happens in the middle when the Alegria Mirror Ball drops into the picture... I think thats hot...

I hope to have some good news soon about some more exposure for myself, but in the interim I will gladly promote this website, cause the music is very good and the DJ lineup they have is pretty fierce.  Of course it could be a little fiercer, I'll let you know when that happens ;)

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The New Black

Mr. Black has relocated again this time to the space formerly known as Rebel on 30th  Street between 7th  and 8th, we were there last night I thought it was GREAT!  I think things may finally pick up around here Saturday Nights soon... The DJ played a really good song last night that Tres and I liked, Tres went up and asked the name of the song and I downloaded it and am posting it here for her to get, and anyone else for that matter.  Its Blind by Hercules & Love Affair, this is the Frankie Knuckles Remix.

http://www.joecaro.com/CDS/blind.mp3

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Halloween Weekend NYC/Philly

We went to Pure in Philly for Tony Moran on Halloween Night with some friends from NYC that made the trip down, nice crowd, Tony was fine, crowded til 5am and the party continued til 8am as advertised., We wore the same outfits we wore to the Pines Party this year figuring to try to win the contest but alas the contest (thankfully) is done early on so as to not disrupt the party later on, we didn't arrive til 2am.

Saturday Salem at Roseland. I didn't follow the theme and went as a Boxer with an authentic Everlast hooded robe and the Red white and blue stars and stripes everlast boxing trunks that Apollo Creed wore in Rocky and a pair of boxing gloves around my neck and a very authentic, though drawn on Black eye... I thought it would be nice and coolk but eh robe and hood were soaked as was I most the night, but it was a cool outfit, pics on my facebook/myspace pages. The Saint at Large pulled off a fairly decent party, the dancefloor was full during the peak hours and the party went until about 2pm or so. The place was decorated much the same as they do during black party with a bunch of stuff between the front door and the steps leading down to the coat-check, in this case it was a lot of jack-0-lanterns and pumpkins, downstairs the coat-check was not nearly as busy but was still available, the photographer was set up there taking pictures much like Black Party, a bar and a couple of bathrooms also a hallway leading to a dark loungey area that i explored later in the morning, but got there just as the DJ in that room was ending, not many people back there but very dark and about 4 or 5 small rooms off a small main corridor where the dj was set up, I'm sure it was interesting down there at some point. Back upstairs, way upstaris, not much going on up there, the walkway that goes the entire length of the dancefloor was closed off you could go upstairs and there was a bar and some seating overlooking one end of the dance-floor, Guy Smith was set up here doing lights and that was it for upstairs the other end was closed. The music was adequate, nothing legendary by any stretch of the imagination I think Junior had the better set peter had more people in attendance during his set. Plenty of people there as I mentioned before, almost a who's who of whats left of this scene and at the same time a familly reunion of the people that are hardly part of this scene at all anymore because there hardly is a scene at all which is a shame. A lot of reminiscing and re-aquatinting even if it hasn't really been that long, there is still a major void in this scene, something that someone will soon capitalize on I can only assume. I can at least hope. I left about 5 minutes before Junior ended and I walked out into Times Square at 2pm still dressed in my knee high doc martin boots, the stars and stripes shorts and the royal blue and white hooded robe with the red boxing gloves around my neck, the back eye long since faded away and hopped in a cab home... fortunately i got the day off of work. I was fully prepared to go to Penn Station at 1:15pm and catch a train to Philly to work all day Sunday before returning home to New York City for Alegria, but the party gods smiled on me and I stayed home and rested all day before Alegria Sunday Night.

Not knowing what to expect and showing up a bit late, at almost 4am I was pleaseantly surprised to find of course no line and i could barely even hear any music or sound coming from the building when I got out of the cab at Webster Hall, past security at the VIP entrance and checked my coat and still not a soul to be seen and barely a whisper to be heard from upstairs, as I made my way up I heard someone saying "... thank you Alegria, I love you!!!" and I realised that I had time my arrival perfectly the show, whoever that was, has just finished and Abel's recognizable beat hit me as soon as I turned the corner at the top of the first marble staircase entering the main room at Webster Hall. I went up to VIP to get a drink the 3rd floor mezannine was more or less desserted compared to past alegria's with only the light men and the vip security and bartender up there, along with a few straglers. NOthing wrong with that. There was definitely a critical mass on the dancefloor and people who normally don't even attempt to make it to the dancefloor before 8am or so where able to enjoy some peak hours on the main floor. Abel was great, the decorations were great and I think Ric and Abel silenced any nay-sayers or doubting thomas' that may have had 2nd thoughts about Alegria's ability to continue on as the premier party in New York City month after month, it was a fun, well run, safe, joyous occasion that was enjoyed by most in attendance and enjoyed by many until 1pm on Monday Afternoon... 1pm on a Monday afternoon that is not a Holiday, Bravo!!

All in all a fun weekend, and I look forward to the next Saint at Large party which appears to be the evening pf January 1st, a Thursday night, New Years Day Night, at Espace, which I guess is a new space in Hells Kitchen on 42nd between 11th and 12th, if that is even called Hells Kitchen, I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong. They're website has a lot of "Coming Soon" pages and not a lot of info about the facility thats why I guess its new. We'll have to wait and see I suppose. I know Victor Calederone will be at Roseland on New Years Day Morning at 9am following a Tiesto performance on New Years Eve itself. I am also assuming there will be some kind of Peter Rauhoffer and or Junior Vasquez Party somewhere on New Years Eve so we don't have to go to Tiesto. Next Alegria will be MKL weekend in January, a Sunday when some people are off Monday. Interestingly the Presidents Day Alegria is in Ft Lauderdale as opposed to New York, in Ft. Lauderdale two weeks before winter party which is a week before the March Atlantis Solstice Cruise, which means we will be logging plenty of frequent flyer miles duirng the month between February 15 and March 15th back and forth from New York to Florida.

xoxo
Joe