angelx03 wrote:
Oh yeah! How was the Clamp Ball? I'm VERY curious of what happened there. Is it like a formal dance?
It was intended to be a formal dance where people either dressed up as their favorite CLAMP characters (mein Gott I don't think I've seen so many Persocom 'ears' in one place before) or just normal formal-wear. My wife and I opted for the normal formalwear. To me, it reminded me a lot of either HS or Junior High dances. Lots of people standing around, some people pigging out on the small buffet of appetizers, only a few people dancing. We were there for like 30-40 minutes I believe, and over the course of that time they played like 1 song that you could actually slow dance to (the whole point of a formal dance, IMO) and that was just as we were getting there and looking around. More people by far were kicking around the baloons they had on the floor than dancing at most points. I wasn't too thrilled with the selection of music, but maybe I'm just old- but "Baby Got Back" and "Ninja Rap" (from the TMNT movie) just don't have a place in a playlist for a formal ball IMO. Assuming they have it again next year, hint to all the single guys: There were far more females there than males.
It wasn't a total wash, there were some interesting (that should be Interesting) outfits to be seen and we had fun watching the other attendees and attempting to dance to the music they played, but I think we both agreed we would probably have been better off having skipped it and watching DDDR and all of the NES Project.