High heels, low expectations

Send Help!
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

Send Help!

I thought I was meeting my friends for drinks, I expected cocktails. I got an intervention, a detox schedule, and a rehab facility whose brochure clearly oversold the experience.

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Struck By Lighting
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

Struck By Lighting

I still need to tell you about VICE, where they'd changed the lighting again last weekend. I asked them to never change it back. No promises were made.

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Tuesday Was a Glorious Blur
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

Tuesday Was a Glorious Blur

Four hours of ecstasy, blurred eyes, missing time, and one camera pushed beyond its limits. These are all the memories I have left of Tuesday…

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Void If Not Used
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

Void If Not Used

NEXUS\ VOID turns one this month and it's as hardcore as advertised. I really needed all the synthetic help I had to keep up.

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Sunday in the Grotto
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

Sunday in the Grotto

Before Monday could ruin everything, I said goodbye to the weekend in Sanctum’s Grotto. Nice place, but it came at the expense of a perfectly good pair of boots.

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Two Problems, One Tuesday
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

Two Problems, One Tuesday

You're always late, Tuesdays are always slow and here’s your fix. My girl Peanut opens a new club with Nikki and Invad3r testing the sound system live for the first time.

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Peer Review
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

Peer Review

My hotness study got peer reviewed at The Continental. I went for the science, obviously, and came home with several findings I still haven't looked at.

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For The Record
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

For The Record

Apparently you still had questions. Opie sat me down for an interview and for once I was the one answering them instead of telling the story.

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A Study in Hotness
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

A Study in Hotness

Suddenly everyone says they’re hot, and the only cure is pool parties? I’m not buying it, so I figured it was worth doing some scientific research.

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London Calling
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

London Calling

A night in London gave me beautiful architecture, handsome financiers and enough financial metaphors to make breakfast slightly awkward.

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Bring It On!
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

Bring It On!

Saturday became my chance to make up for missed plans, and it led me to some of my favorite dancefloors. Blue, smoky, loud and the challenge I needed.

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And the Oscar Goes To…
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

And the Oscar Goes To…

What had to be a quiet night of shopping turned into an unexpected party, a packed dance floor, and the resolution of a very embarrassing misunderstanding.

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They Started Without Me. Rude.
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

They Started Without Me. Rude.

I showed up late for Phorbin’s fantastic debut after which my rescue mission failed spectacularly. Everything else was a success, as usual.

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Shots, Green Tea, And Trance
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

Shots, Green Tea, And Trance

Months after I first reached out, DJ Fredy found the time to meet me. We talked about trance, packed dancefloors, and what keeps her behind the decks after all these years.

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Everything Went Wrong. FML.
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Everything Went Wrong. FML.

Some weekends go according to plan, this wasn’t one of them. My camera fought me every step of the way, leaving me in desperate need of some Doreen time on Sunday.

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From the Hood to the Beach
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

From the Hood to the Beach

Sonance called for a hoodie and VICE promised tropical rooftops. I thought I figured it out,  but still understood only half of it.

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Burn Rabbit, Burn
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

Burn Rabbit, Burn

I thought “Burn It All” was just another thing people yell in a nightclub. Lucky for me, DJ Nina understood exactly what the dancefloor needed.

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The Sunday After
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

The Sunday After

Some things are better done than said. Fortunately, Sundays at Bardeco are about recovery, familiar faces, and getting ourselves ready for another week.

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I Never Made It To New York
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

I Never Made It To New York

I started the night in Tokyo, found myself struggling on a London sidewalk, and never made it to NYC. That may have been the least surprising part of the evening.

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Clear Minds, Full Hearts
Doreen Elytis Doreen Elytis

Clear Minds, Full Hearts

A few hours on a dance floor full of familiar faces, and for once nothing extra needed. Sometimes a night off is simply being exactly where you want to be.

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