The Boat

The Boat is a "venue". Even it's purpose is random.
I went to The Boat last night. It was a dark, dank, ambiguous feast for the senses.
I would assume it is named "The Boat" because of it's decor. It is fashioned as if you are were in the belly of an old sailing barge, complete with porthole mirrors on the wall. If I were to prescribe some sort of categorical label to the furnishings, I would call it 1970's Cheap Novelty Chic.
It smelled. Not one consistent smell of scent, but as you wandered the large low ceilinged space, there would be a wiff of body odour here mixed with a wiff of bad breath there and a wiff of a mixture of far too many B-rated colognes and perfumes.
Much like the combination of human and laboratory scents, the music was an odd combination of beats as well. Violent and rhthymical, yet often melodic. They music sounded as if it were the soundtrack for a ballet about putting a cat in a bath. Erratic and frantic, but, being music from a ballet, somehow easy to dance to and enjoyable.
My friends and I determined that The Boat was the mothership for the Toronto Arty Stylish Indie Young Crown, which is inevitably sexually ambiguous. (There was an even distribution of those couples making between straight and gay)
Point in case: The Man in the Yellow Sweater. He,at first, would dance very close to my girl friend. Then, he would dance close behind me. We were clearly in each other's personal space (which admittedly is much smaller on a dance floor, but even dimunitive in size, personal space does still exist at such a club, and we were clearly in each other's space). Most straight men oppose an obvious homosexual (or often any man at all) in their personal space, but The Man in the Yellow Sweater, was either oblivious to it, ambivalent to it, or just plain too high to care. Despite my efforts to make eyes at him and attract his attention, he was unresponsive. Gay? Straight? Bi? Who knows? This is the enigma of the Toronto Arty Stylish Indie Young Crowd.
The Boat was an adventure. Random. Unusual. But ultimately enjoyable.
If you haven't yet, it is time for a cruise!