Hallucination Before Christmas – The Aftermath
Hallucination Before Christmas was a party thrown at Club Czar on 12/12/09. The overall theme of the party was Nightmare Before Christmas meets Christmas themes like santa and people dressing up in Christmas themed costumes.
This night we wont forget in terms of the amount of awesome that went on like light shows, the music, oh, and getting hit by a car.
Before heading out we all decided to meet up at my friend James’ (Cognitive Function) house. While there we decided to make a set of LED gloves out of white LEDs and gloves. Using some day-glow markers, we drew up some pretty sweet designs which glowed in black light. Overall, success.
Around 8:30 we finally headed out. We swung by the store to pick up some cans of food because Hallucination Before Christmas was also taking donations for the hungry. I bought 3 large cans of ravioli, sweeeet. While in line we successfully convinced the clerk we were apart of a Grindcore band that didn’t know how to play our instruments.
Finally setting off, it took us about 1 1/2 hours to get to Club Czar which is located right in the middle of Ybor.
Getting inside we were immediately blew away by how awesome the club looked. There were 3 areas: a general loungy type bar, a middle bar area with a floor and the final room with a large dance floor and bar.
The music they were playing was absolutely killer. The first room had some bangin toons, second was similar but the third room took the cake. The third room in Czar had some really sweet minimal going on.
We were some of the first on the floor so we stood up next to the bass bins, loud as hellll. The first thing we noticed was this old guy in a santa hat and a speedo – you only find this stuff at electronic music parties.
After the crowd started to fill in, we kept hitting the bar. Not bad prices but the fact that I kept running into people I know and buying them shots wasn’t helping my budget.
After a short amount of time James put on his gas mask that he painted up orange and black – really killer looking. I grabbed out my set of LEDs and start flailing like a maniac.
Almost immediately we were confronted by this really cool Asian couple so we gave them a light show. They gave us some glowsticks for the night and chatted for a bit – wish I could remember their names.
As the party went on we continued to cause some mayhem on the floor. The toons continued to bang as the vibe started setting in really nice. We ran into people that were obviously doing…stuff…so we hunched over them and gave them all sorts of awesome light shows – all of them loved it, should have seen their faces.
In the distance I heard dubstep playing so I grabbed my friends and dragged them into the room. Standing right up on the DJ booth, we jammed out to some really filthy dubstep tracks.
As soon as I turned around, I found someone I’ve partied with a long time ago and kept running into, so I bought him a shot and a beer.
The party kept going, lots of great tracks, a girl doing acrobatics on a swing, hugs for people, running around and jumping like mad.
When the party finally came to a close everyone wanted more but alas we had to pour back into the streets.
Heading home it got quite interesting. Just as I fell asleep in the car I was woken up by a loud ass boom and my friend freaking out. I look behind us and all I see is a SUV spinning around behind us – we got rear ended.
Just to make it clear, James was DD.
We jumped out and assessed the damage, it was bad:
After exchanging some information a lady cop finally arrived. Let me detail what happened:
Lady Cop: “Are you guys okay?”
Us: “Yeah, everyone’s okay”
Lady cop gets in car and leaves
Uhhhhhh, good job Florida patrol.
So, after calling again we finally got a cop to come out and write a report. Then after the cop, tow trucks finally arrived along with James’ parents – thank goodness.
In all, it took 3 hours to get everything worked out, good thing no one was injured or we’d be f%#@ed.
So, overall, the party was awesome as hell. If you didn’t make it out to Hallucination Before Christmas you missed out on a great party. The car is pretty much totaled and James will be getting a new one, so it’s all good in the end.
Moral of the story? If you stop at IHop on the way home you can avoid serious accidents.
Just wanted to share.
