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Thursday, August 12, 2004

Last nite I missed it, I missed the old Sweetwater more than ever. Walking home from a friend's place I felt this sad little tugging feeling when I turned down North 6th. Zablozki's was packed, but it was packed with drunk strangers & it wasn't the same. Even when Sweetwater was filled with drunk strangers it was Sweetwater. I wanted to find someone who could tell me where it went, or where I should go. There was a large group of people standing in front of the new Sweetwater Bar & Grill, or whatever they're calling it now. It looked like they were from Long Island or Bay Ridge or somewhere I imagined people like them to live. They were classic drunk strangers, very clean-pressed & cologne-scented & shiny-faced, four men & one woman; they surrounded me on the sidewalk. They said they wanted me to join them.
But what are you doing, I demanded to know, what are you doing at the old Sweetwater?
"Having a drink," one of them answered, perplexed at the question. They explained that they were on bar number 9 of a 12-bar bar crawl.
It felt so final, that answer. Sweetwater thru the glass looked so clean, & there were so many candles. ("They've turned it into a funeral home," Matt half-jokes these days.) It was already gone, everybody was always saying, but they were wrong. Back then it wasn't gone, but now it is.

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but also, sweetwater was a pain in the ass - i distinctly remember having to piss at like 3am and the toilet being not just out of order but actually broken in half. also, huck, or puck, or fuck, whatever his name was, turning off the juke box when he didn't like the song you played. also, never getting buy-backs (not in the last few years anyway) even though you drank there all night. plus i bruised my knuckle terribly by drunkenly throwing a punch at the napkin dispenser in the bathroom one night after i couldn't get some girl to go home with me. or something. i do actually miss it i guess. maybe i just miss getting drunk. i think i'll go get drunk now.
 
It kinda reminds me of when the chef Vernon Gaines on "A Different World" is going to have his lease at The Pit run over by the corporate thugs who run burger barn, and the senator who is in love with Whitley and happens to be in town for that episode helps The Pit stay open just so he can kiss Whitley. Too bad Sweetwater didn't have a snotty college student and her love-in senatorial candidate to save it way back in the day. How much Minor Threat do you find in a juxebox? Even for Brooklyn.
 
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