Every time it's played in a club, every time some drab house party is fleetingly enlivened by it, every time I sit in my room and it blares tinnily from my shit laptop speakers, just every time I hear it, it is the best time I've heard it.
Then, in the 2000s, luxury became all the rage, and a new owner, Swig Equities, retooled the drab space for parties, painting it a bright purple, installing an impossibly long marble dining table and a 500-crystal chandelier.
Since it's been made clear that the ill, the unemployed, the poor and the old are a drain on resources, while disgruntled Tory backbenchers have moved in dribs and drabs to a party represented by a man who condemns medical treatment for immigrants with HIV, there's an argument that the government should just drop all pretence and build a euthanasia clinic.
"So we thought, 'Let's go to the opposite direction -- deeper into the room, deeper into the characters.' " The three colleagues are representing a chemical lubricant firm at a convention in Wichita, Kan., trying to land an important new client with a party in their drab hospitality suite.
A metal factory that has not done well since the collapse of Communism springs back to life for two months each summer, opening its drab workers' cafeteria to huge wedding parties.
So now, when some drab functionary presents himself as speaking for the party, he is no more than scurf on a sea of money handed out by any opinionated casino magnate.
EL ALTO, Bolivia — Turn a corner in this sprawling, bustling, fast-growing city and the Ovando family home suddenly bursts into view, a party-colored mirage floating above the drab, brick-red metropolis like a beacon of an alternate Andean future.
The two main parties seem to be making the drab offer of the last two wallflowers at the dance: "At least I'm better than that".
See, like the party, the Wise-Walker is a standard, fairly drab shoulder laptop bag with a black nylon exterior (it also comes in grey and navy) and a bright orange liner.
So Kyle's "Let's Pretend To Celebrate My Drab Dining Room But Hope A Fight Breaks Out" dinner party continued.
