Why Drink Helps?


Do you know how many people say "yeah, Jimbo is my drinking buddy!"

I like to drink! Not as strong as before though, I still have a big capacity to consume alcohols. (But in NYC dance clubs, I don’t drink that much (still drink a few though). It's only in this city. This is just because it is more intense and technically difficult for me to dance in the way they dance in NYC. I have to focus and work really hard when I dance in NYC, otherwise I got screwed.)

But other than New York city, I usually go straight to the bar counter when I get into dance clubs even before I take off my coat. For example, in Tokyo, it normally requires 3 drinks before starting feeling really comfortable about dancing (of course, it depends more on other circumstances like whom I go with or who the DJ is).

Maybe I am just an alcoholic (sometimes people call me with this nickname, and I try to ignore them when they do it.) though, I just would like to explain how I feel dancing with drinking since people sometimes wonder why I do that.

Alcohol makes me happy. That is basically it! It makes me forget everything I don’t have to think or I should not think. If I had something bad at my workplace on the day or if I just had a bad conversation with my girlfriend, I might not be able to stop thinking about it even at the night in the club. But alcohol can enable to get rid of those negative thoughts out of my head. In addition to that, since I don’t have to think about those things, I can use my brain cells to focus on only the things I can feel happy.

For example, alcohol can influence on my vision. You know your distorted vision sometimes makes you think an ugly girl as a beautiful one. Usually it happens in a bad way though, we also can use this illusion in a good way. Not about the beauty of your partner, but some awkward moves or mistakes your partner made can be felt less disgusting with the help of alcohol. In my case, the most important thing is that I even feel like I can really really focus on the music, like the music going through into my body. I think I can feel music more instinctively with the primitive part of my brain and can less think of it logically.

Believe it or not, I am a kind of perfectionist, tend to criticize everything, and tend to think things logically (since I am a scientist), if I don’t drink. In other words, I just think too much. Without alcohol, I am usually worried about a lot of unnecessary things like these.
- “Woooo, I make this mistake again. Stupid!”
- “Ouch, I always do this shine! I should be tired of this… Why am I doing this?”
- “Why this girl always doesn’t follow? I was not going to lead you in that way! What the hell are you trying to do? Hello? I’m here. Could you dance with me?”
- “Shit, I could have done it better. That was not beautiful”
- “OK, now I should use the pattern that I have learned last week.”
- “Oh, thank god! She has come! (a hot chick just get in at the door of the club)”.

Yeah, I think too much, right? If I drink enough, I can go like this.
- “I did a mistake again! Well…. Whatever. The more mistake I make, the less chances I will make the same mistake again.”
- “This shine again? Well, it’s OK as long as it fits with music.”
- “Oh, I knew you are not going to follow my lead. OK, I will adjust myself to you.”
- “I could have done it better. Well… That might have looked beautiful for people…”
- “Next move.. OK, let’s just try to follow my instinct. Here we go!”
- “Oh, another hot chick just comes in!! I’ll go get her after this hot one.”

To me, it is good to drink when I am dancing because I can think of things more in a positive way. So..... anyway, please allow me to drink, OK? It's my money. But I would have to add this for the other ones who drink when they're dancing. I have been practicing really hard to be able to dance well with getting drunk, as well as when I dance without alcohol. You may need to practice before you start doing this.

Posted: Tue - November 22, 2005 at 09:01 PM          

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