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We took a little break after a busy summer but the YDH2S newsletter is back and there's lots to tell you about....

(This newsletter will be published as a fancy email as well as on our Tumblr. The Tumblr will be updated as things progress, so it's always the most current. You can subscribe to the newsletter, follow us on Twitter, and follow us on Tumblr or read this newsletter on Tumblr, eschewing the mere idea of subscriptions. Faugh!).

UPCOMING PARTIES

September Sat 9/20 - Here Comes Your Gloomy (Feeling Gloomy's Pixies tribute) @ Grand Victory Sat 9/20 - CRAZY $INCE DA 90$ @ Union Hall Sun 9/21 - Tiki Disco Season Ender @ the Well Sun 9/21 - Mr. Sunday @ Industry City Thurs 9/25 - Fixed presents Lindstrøm w/House of House, JDH & Dave P Sat 9/27 - Brooklyn Flea Record Fair Sun 9/28 - Mr. Sunday @ Industry City

October Sat 10/4 - Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog SING-ALONG and Joss Whedon-Themed Party @ Union Hall Fri & Sat 10/10-11 - Escape Music Festival w/Girl Talk, Neon Indian, Plastic Plates, Moon Boots, Tesla Boy, Anoraak, JDH & Dave P, more @ Pier 9 Thurs 10/16 - The Brokelyn High Homecoming Dance: Brokelyn's 5th year anniversary! @ the Bell House Sat 10/18 - Feeling Gloomy NYC's 5th Anniversary @ the Grand Victory

HERE COMES YOUR GLOOMY (Feeling Gloomy pays homage to the Pixies)

Want to feel old? Pixies' Doolittle came out 25 years ago. Holy crap. If ever there was a band that helped us get through high school, being weird, putting up with Tyler Durden being a dick, and comprehending why bands ever reunite, it's the Pixies. (Sorry, it's hard sometimes to drop the "the.") So for this month's Feeling Gloomy we thought we'd pay tribute to one of the best pre-indie rock bands.

   + DJs Gordon and Nathaniel Gloom will play play armloads of songs by Frank Black, Kim Deal, Joey and David, both together and apart. Plus we'll delve into our late 80s / early 90s college rock collections and play some of the gloomiest songs from their contemporaries like the Cure, R.E.M., Love and Rockets, the La's, etc.

   + Got a Death to the Pixies T-shirt (or the like)? Wear it and we'll let you in for $4

   + A Pixies-themed cake!

Here Comes Your Gloomy (Feeling Gloomy pays homage to the Pixies) w/DJs Gordon & Nathaniel Gloom Saturday, September 20 @ the Grand Victory + 3rd Saturdays every month Dress to depress 245 Grand St, Williamsburg L/G to Metropolitan $4 advance / $6 at the door / $4 if you're wearing a Pixies shirt Facebook event Feeling Gloomy NYC FB Group The Brothers Gloom on Twitter

Crazy $ince da 90$

We're getting crazy again on Saturday night at UNION HALL! Cause uh, DUH, the 90s was only like the raddest decade ever!

We'll be throwin down all your favorite 90s joints to get you all nostalgic for those awesome times. All the good stuff and maybe some bad stuff. It's gonna be da bomb and all that. No diggity. No doubt.

DJs: STEFONIX :: BRENDAN :: BIANCA

SPECIAL GUEST: DJ VINYL RICHIE

HIP HOP :: R&B :: HOUSE :: ALTERNATIVE

FREE before 11pm for the first 100 RSVPs $5 after 11pm or w/o RSVP RSVP: ticketf.ly/1s2CJOG

**$7 gin & juice drink special all night**

Crazy Since da 90s w/DJs Stefonix, Brendan, Bianca & Vinyl Richie Saturday, September 20 @ Union Hall 702 Union St, Park Slope, Brooklyn R to Union / Everything to Atlantic Terminal

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog SING-ALONG and Joss Whedon-Themed Party

This show is so popular we already sold out! But don't fear, we added a 2nd show at midnight: http://www.unionhallny.com/event/685659

Your application to the Evil League of Evil has been received and you (and your henchpeople) are invited to Union Hall for our Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Sing-Along and Whedonverse Party to sing along to the musical based on our newest member, Dr. Horrible! We'll be showing Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog in its entirety with all the lyrics on screen so everyone can sing along together to their favorite songs. Come in costume as your super villain (or hero) alter ego or as your favorite character from the Whedonverse! Throughout the event we'll have contests, prizes and surprises to make the night even more horrible...we mean, memorable.

Featuring:

Dr. Horrible and Whedon-themed contests and trivia with cool (and evil) prizes like memorabilia from across the Whedonverse, Evil League of Evil membership cards, free drinks and gift cards for frozen yogurt!

Drinking games paired with the movie so you can sing-along AND drink-along!

Audition for the Evil League of Evil! Impress Bad Horse with your original super villain costume!

Show your love of the Whedonverse and dress up as a character from one of his TV shows or movies like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Angel, Dr. Horrible, Dollhouse, or The Avengers…if Whedon is in the credits it's fair game!

Our bartender has a Ph.D. in Horribleness…and awesome cocktails! We've got themed drinks like the Wonderflonium, Moist's Lemonade, the Freeze Ray, and more!

Soundtrack and jams provided by our Henchman Union-certified DJ, DJ BRIAN BLACKOUT!

Presented by New York Comic Con's New York Super Week and Secret Formula

ABOUT NEW YORK SUPER WEEK New York Super Week – a first of its kind pop culture festival. With different pop culture themed experiences happening in every corner of the City – including concerts, comedy shows, gaming events, lectures, podcasts, storytelling, food tastings and more – New York Super Week brings the entire universe of popular culture to every corner of all five boroughs of New York City.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog SING-ALONG and Joss Whedon-Themed Party Saturday, October 4 @ Union Hall 702 Union St, Park Slope, Brooklyn R to Union / Everything to Atlantic Terminal FB Event

For more info, visit: newyorkcomiccon.com/New-York-Super-Week

Brokelyn High Homecoming Dance Celebrating 5 Years of Brokelyn

Brokelyn is turning 5 and we're taking you back to high school to celebrate!

Join us and principal Scott Rogowsky (of Running Late) at the Bell House for a night of dancing, awkward school photos, games, comedy, music, and a sweet raffle featuring hundreds of dollars in prizes from around Brooklyn, including A BRAND NEW BIKE FROM Ride Brooklyn!! Also featuring special guest homecoming committee member Danny Tamberelli (of Manboobs Comedy and Little Pete from Nickelodeon's "The Adventures of Pete and Pete!")

Homecoming activities include:

Shaking your body to classic school dance tunes with DJ Brian Blackout

A Brooklyn words spelling bee (with prizes!)

The Hot for Teacher dance off (also with prizes!)

Crowning the gender-neutral Brokecoming king and queen (with crowns!)

Free awkward high school pictures photobooth

And even though it's our birthday, we want to give YOU presents, so the Best of Brooklyn raffle will include:

$100 towards a tattoo at NYHC Tattoos

4 passes to TrivWorks‘ next Pat Kiernan-hosted event

$100 to spend at Film Biz Recycling (and an absurd naked man statue from them too)

A new helmet and a tune up from Bicycle Roots

Dinner for 2 at Water Table

And did we mention: a BRAND NEW BIKE?!?

And much more yet to come!

Brokelyn High Homecoming Dance Celebrating 5 Years of Brokelyn Thursday, October 16 @ the Bell House 149 7th St, Gowanus, Bk F/G/R to 4th-9th $12 cover - 8pm til late

[All proceeds from the party go to the Brokelyn Writers' fund and to help keep Brokelyn going for another 5 years and beyond]

February is here! You Don't Have to Settle have a few gigs coming up in the next couple weeks we wanted to tell y'all about. We're still hoping to expand this newsletter quite a bit but it will have to wait a minute, our January has been intense. On to the events

This newsletter will be published as a fancy email as well as on our Tumblr. The Tumblr will be updated as things progress, so it's always the most current. You can subscribe to the newsletter, follow us on Twitter, and follow us on Tumblr (or just read about it there, eschewing the mere idea of subscriptions. Faugh!).

UPCOMING PARTIES

February Fri. 2/7 - Release the Beast @ Grand Victory Fri. 2/14 - Head On: Love vs Lust @ the Bell House Sat. 2/15 - Feeling Gloomy presents The Rebound Ball @ the Grand Victory

March Fri. 3/7 - Release the Beast @ Grand Victory Sat. 3/15 - Feeling Gloomy presents St. Stephen Patrick Morrissey's Day @ the Grand Victory Fri. 3/28 - Head On @ the Bell House

RELEASE THE BEAST

Starting in February, Release the Beast moves into regular rotation, we'll be throwing the party every first Friday. Starting this month we'll be showing our favorite blaxsploitation movies projected onto the stage. This month we'll be showing Three the Hard Way, packed with guns, explosions, karate kicking, and some great songs by Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions.

We also have a very special guest coming in for February! Eugene Tambourine has been spinning sublime dance classics at events like his former Solid party for ages. He's done more disco edits than anyone we know, including more than a few we've played at Release the Beast. His ability to hop around from genre to genre effortlessly should make for a fine time!

Release the Beast Friday Feb. 7 @ the Grand Victory & 1st Fridays Special guest DJ Eugene Tambourine & residents Brian Blackout (Head On) & Doctor Mister (Feeling Gloomy) spinning soul, funk, disco, arena rock, psychedelia, krautrock, garage and a little of everything in between. + go-go dancers & a projection of Three the Hard Way @the Grand Victory 245 Grand St, Williamsburg L/G to Metropolitan NO COVER

HEAD ON: LOVE vs. LUST

Like it or not, Valentine's Day is fast approaching, and we decided this would be the perfect time to pose the question: which makes for better dancing? Hot, burning love? Or hot, throbbing lust? Should V-day be the domain of lovers? Or of the sort of lovers who pass in the night? Are the best songs sung by Romeos or Lotharios?

Head On, the party that every month pits two themes and two DJs up against one another, aims to find out. Resident DJs Brian Blackout & Spoolwork are combing through their records to find the cheesiest, sappiest love songs, and the sweatiest, stickiest songs about lust. We'll pit them against one another at midnight going head to head until the audience picks a winner by going nuts on the dancefloor. Help us celebrate the Hallmarkiest of holidays by going dancing instead!

Head On w/residents Spoolwork & Brian Blackout Saturday Feb. 14 @ the Bell House front room 149 Seventh Street, Gowanus, Bk F/G/R to 4th-9th 11:00 p.m. - late no cover Facebook event Head On FB page Head On Twitter

FEELING GLOOMY PRESENTS CHEER UP, BOWIE

We fast approach the time of the year when greeting card companies like to reminds us we should all be in committed relationships that involve spending lots of money on each other. Here at Feeling Gloomy, we're not that interested in happiness, glee, that sort of stuff. So we'd like to offer up an alternative to Valentine's. The Saturday following V-Day, we shall throw… … … (pause for dramatic effect) THE REBOUND BALL.

Feeling Gloomy is always a dance party that focuses on the maudlin, and in rejoicing in sadness (and British-ness). This month we're going to pay special attention to all those songs about heartache, breaking up, unrequited love, and all the emotions that get swept under the rug by this stupid holiday. This is a party for the lonely, for the dumped (or, we suppose, for the dumper, that's tough too we're told). We'll be creating anti-Valentine's hearts that you can wear (and make yourself) to show off how sad, heartbroken, or clever you are (hopefully all three).

We're also going to hold a bad poetry competition. Anyone can enter by posting bad poetry on our Facebook wall, and we'll choose three finalists who get free passes to Feeling Gloomy. The finalists must recite their godawful poetry on stage and the winner of those, the Superbowl of Awful Poetry,™ will win a Pathetic Prize Pack curated by FGNYC. So…