I have to say that I agree with your assessment of BBeat. I have tried to emphasize in several reports that this joint is not for everybody. What it takes to thrive there is patience and consistency. Sometime during most evenings, a pretty hot girl or set of girls will stroll in. I never sit in one place but wander about to keep the fuglies off balance and they are hovering around generally every night.
When I see someone to my liking, I strike but in a subtle passive / agressive way so their fee does not go into auto escalate. But totally understand why fellow mongers might be askance at what they see.
As I have noted before, many of these girls join the great unwashed at some point in Climax. The talent there is appreciably better but so are the prices and then the overall ambience of the place is tough to take.
Look forward to your next report.
[QUOTE=Kumbu;1890660]This is the second of a three-part series of posts. No sex here, just thoughts about Bangkok Beat.
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We all know what beer goggles are, but in our chosen way of life (mongering is indeed a way of life, not a fucking hobby), we need a term that more accurately describes the situation where pure horniness impedes our ability to make rational decisions. Let's call that Cum Goggles. This is not the fetish of ejaculating on some bespectacled lass, no, though that does sound neat. Rather, this is where you take the easy way out by picking up a willing and available girl who [B] clearly[/B] does not meet your standards. And you do this all just to get your nut off, that's it. For me, this is the worst way to end a night. I spend the time and effort to sift through all the sand on the beach not so I can go home with a piece of gravel. I want that fucking cowrie, goddamit, I want the cowrie. Having a chunk of rock in my pocket might make me feel like I found something, but it's not what I went looking for. But after looking through enough piles of sand, desperation to feel that comforting lump of something in your pocket overwhelms you, and you just succumb to fatigue and desperation and take the gravel home. So no, the Cum Goggles are not my friend.
1 am, Monday night, just got off the plane from Amelikaa, been to Soi Cowboy and trotting towards lower Suk. Time to check out Bangkok Beat. The weather was the epitome of symmetry: temperature was 88 degrees, with roughly 88% humidity, and that's the kind of symmetry I could do without. So I took a taxi down, the ride being a full 3 minutes and costing 40 baht (well worth it). Bangkok Beat is in soi 7, the soi where Subway and Vasu Money Exchange sit, so it is easy to spot. As soon as you turn into the soi, you see it on your right.
As I entered, there were five girls standing by the doors, and this small, tight little girl opened the door for me. Thank you very much. But there was a second set of doors inside there, identical to the first set, and no one to open the door for me. So I opened the door, but such was it's heft, and such is the wispiness of Kumbu's frame, that I staggered and stumbled through the door. So let me get this straight. The 4'10" girl opened the first set of doors with adroit strength, and I can't even manage to pull the door halfway open without stumbling and groaning? Yeah, that's right. So this is how I entered Bangkok Beat: stumbling uncontrollably into the middle of the club. Welcome Kumbu.
First impression: the place is very. . . Woody. There is a lot of wood everywhere, which perhaps looked nice a few years ago, but it looks aged and slightly run down, IMHO. There is an upstairs and a downstairs, but there were plenty of tables available downstairs. I walked slowly through the people all the way to the bar, and then found a table in the corner, pretty far away from everyone. That is, there were several empty tables between me and everyone else (such was the emptiness of the place, at 1 am, mind you). My beer arrived and I started the Gaze of Kumbu. As I did this, I counted three Kumbu-worthy prospects. Everyone else was below my standards, or with some farang. There were plenty of farang around too, just sitting there with their apparent Thai GFs, all looking bored.
I sat there, far away from everyone, very obviously aloof from the crowd, for a good 10 minutes. Meanwhile, the girls were scoping me out. I was the fresh meat. I was dressed *much* better than anyone else there. Everyone there was wearing t-shirts, or drabby short-sleeve collared shirts, many had flip-flops on, many had shabby shorts. I'm not dissing anyone there, but there was a definite dress difference between me and the others, and that's because I had obviously over-dressed for BB. This was quite unintended, since I have never been to BB before and so did not know what the norms for dress are. I was not trying to be pretentious, it just happened by mistake!
But this worked *really* well with the girls. Not only was I fresh meat, I was well-dressed fresh meat. Plus my apparent age was probably a good 10 years below the median age in that joint. I am in my mid-forties (probably median age, I think), but I pass for a mid-thirties kind of guy (not sure how long that will last, though). Anyway, in all, I'm not trying to brag, but descriptively speaking, I think I was a catch in there, at least on that night.
The three prospects I had identified had all started making moves, but the distance between me and them was really hard for them to navigate. They couldn't just walk over: that would be waaay too obvious. So there had to be some distance-courting, which was fine by me. It gave me an envelope of safety, at least temporarily. One girl was giving me the regular head-turn. The second girl got up off her stool and started to grove, showing off some undulations that were indeed appreciated. And the third girl walked past me to the dance floor, and then started some sexy-dancing by herself, giving off the occasional longing glances to me.
But none of them were spectacular to me. They each had long pants on, two of them had non-conforming pants, and so I could not tell what their lower bodies were like. Their faces were all really wonderful, but hey, I'm not here for a beautiful face alone. I want the whole deal: face, legs, ass, boobs, todos. I want the Prix Fixe, but if I have to order a la carte, then it will be legs with a side of ass. Face optional, and boobs only if they are complementary. So I decided to not lead these innocent creatures on any further and I bailed. See, Cum Goggles were tempting me, and truth be told, I am sure I would have had a decent time with any one of those three girls, but I would always have felt that I settled. And in retrospect, given what eventually happened, I am so very glad I did not put on that pair of Cum Goggles. As I walked out, I could feel their eyes on my back, but this is best for all.
In all, then, I think Bangkok Beat is not for me. I can see why some would like it. It is more casual, less mercenary, more relaxed. The band is pretty decent, and there is talent available there. My guess is that prices are decent in that place, and there is very little pretention on display. Bonus: mighty midget girls to open doors for you.
But on the negative side, there was not a whole lot of options for the average punter like me. Three girls? Nah, I need more options (remember, there were plenty of other girls, just not to my standards). Moreover, the quality of these three girls was not outstanding. Granted, this changes from day to day and time to time. But really, there are other places where you can get the talent, reliably, and with no more fuss than here at BB. To wit, Climax, in my next report. And hang in there friends, the dirty details are on their way.
Next Report: The culmination of a night that was well worth the effort.[/QUOTE]
