Melody, Jeff, and I revisited Embassy Friday for yet another night of top-notch hip hop/reggae/top 40’s dance mix. This place is quickly becoming my favorite clubbing locale as both the attractive Asian crowd and mind-blowing, immersive dance music help redefine Friday-night-out for me. I did have a run-in with the bouncer that night when he told me I was dressed too casually, and almost didn’t let me in. Fortunately, after a bit of jedi mind trick, I was able to join my friends and dance the night away. It was almost a difference of night and day when comparing the experience with last friday night’s annual HST formal at the Charles Hotel. Though the hor d’oeuvres (can anyone actually spell this?) and Jazz music were quite enjoyable at the beginning, the dance afterwards totally blew. The music consisted of some rather bad Latin techno/trance stuff that wasn’t really possible to dance to. Oh, we also caught a showing of “Better Luck Tomorrow” last week. The movie received a lot of hype at the beginning ’cause it was the first major film starring an Asian-American cast that DIDN’T feature martial arts or other cultural stereotypes. Personally, I felt it was an above-average film though certainly not groundbreaking in any way. My Asian friends from Cali did remark how much the setting of the story reminded them of home. I guess it was quite different from my childhood growing up in Brooklyn. Of course, having gone out so often recently, I’ll really need to haul ass in lab now…