DATELINE: Dallas, TX 3:46 AM

Right, so I planned to chillax in my room tonight & watch Soylent Green. The idea was to rest up for my big day tomorrow at the Creation Evidence Museum Saturday. When I went down to get some papers out of my car at around 9pm I bumped into this drunk guy with dreadlocks who was kind of chatty. I found out he was in a neo-soul band playing Saturday night in Dallas & since I had nothing else to do we talked for a bit. He said that he had toured for three months opening for Erica Badu & wanted to go to her club in Dallas but didn't know where it was. After parting ways I went back to my room and found out the address, and then went back down to tell him where it was (it's close to the school I've been working for on this project). He got excited & said that he was going to go. I decided that this would be more interesting than Soylent Green & said I was going to but needed to go upstairs and put on my shoes. When I returned to the lobby two other dudes in the band were ready to go & wanted to roll immediately without the dreadlock guy because he was pretty fucked up, so we jumped in a cab and headed out. Unfortunately the club was closed (weird) but on of the guys said a friend of his as playing at another club downtown so we went to check it out. That club was also closed and we were a bit discouraged because there's not much in downtown Dallas. Luckily one of the guys started talking to a security guard, asking him where we should go & he said he was getting off work and would take us to Deep Ellum (where there are a bunch of clubs).

After the security guard dropped us off we began walking around Deep Ellum looking for somewhere to go - the guys had the goal of finding a place where they could find girls who would 1) give us a ride back to the hotel and 2) have sex with them once we got back to the hotel. Though that seemed like a tall order I decided to support their plan.

Deep Ellum was totally dead. Lots of bars & clubs that were empty along with abandoned store fronts. When I lived in Dallas & worked in Deep Ellum the place was really hopping on the weekend but not now. We did stop at a club with a live band backing a bunch of rappers and the drummer got on stage and played with them for a few songs, but we left and walked around for another 1/2 hour before returning to the bar to have a few beers. One reason we went back in was that a girl at the club had locked her keys in her car & the drummer thought if could open her car she would give us a ride home. He did try to get it open to no avail & finally realized that even if he got it open she wouldn't have had any room to drive the three us of anywhere.

I'm too tired to relay the rest of the story and will give y'all part two later, but in short we ended meeting some people street who to us to their house where we partied & played foosball. Chau.