On a cold, snowy, horrible Thursday night what could possibly get me out of my nice comfy bed and all the way across the city to Sway?  Um… a 90’s themed party of course! My friend Pebbles asked me to come out to take pictures of the fiesta which consisted or Rok One and Michna spinning songs I really hoped to never hear again.

I mean there was some pretty great hip hop in the 90’s and you know Nirvana was fucking awesome, but pretty much everything else was fucking horrible.  From the day Kurt Cobain died until the ball dropped on 1999 I listened to almost exclusively punk rock in the 90’s and listening to Stone Temple Pilots and Alice And Chains seemed like the worst idea ever, but once I got there I sort of changed my mind and I realized that even these songs I hated 15 years ago I sort of have a fondness for. At some point in the night I was actually yelling at people for not doing the bee dance during Blind Melon’s “No Rain“. I would have not guessed my life would have ever come to that.

If I were DJing a party like this I would have played Doggystyle, the Judgement Night sound track and The Bevis and Butthead Experience straight through with “Do The Bartman” thrown in there to change it up a bit.  I was pretty offended when Rok told me he didn’t have the “Hey Dude” or “Ducktales” themes ready to go, but hits like Candyman’s “Knockin Boots” and C&C Music Factory’s “Things That Make You Go Hmmmm….” kept me pretty much sated.

It was a good night and I had a ton of fun and I even managed to find a cab even though it was snowing like crazy and it was after 4am when I finally left.  And all was good in the world.

Click here to see the Reality Bites photos from Sway.

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