Manhattan Strip Clubs: Best personal pop-culture experiences of the decade
I’d have to say the coolest part of the ’00s for me occurred in the spring of ’01, when I was introduced to Europe via a monthlong tour with my friends’ band. I’d been dying to go overseas, and seeing Europe—specifically England, Wales, Germany, Holland, Italy, France, Austria, Czech Republic, Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg (blink and you’ll miss it)—from the level of a bunch of dudes in one-window van was pretty amazing. The schedule didn’t allow for visiting the touristy sites, but those will always be around. The experiences I had won’t happen again. When else will I stay in a radical communist squat in the middle of Milan, bike through east Berlin at 3 a.m., wind up at a strange strip club in Prague, discover in Nancy that alcohol greatly improves my memory of French, or zoom through Holland watching a German-subtitled Jenna Jameson film? Well, maybe next March—but that first trip changed my life and introduced me to a whole new world of pop culture.