All photos by Vincent Dermody

On Tuesday night, Decon threw a release party for A Million in the Morning at the Red Bull Space in SoHo. With a screening of the film, tons of free booze, and performances by Cerebral Ballzy and Ninjasonik, it was a blast. If you couldn’t make it because of poor life decisions (living outside of New York, tending to your job, school, friends or family, etc.) here’s what you missed:

The evening started off with a press-only screening of the film. Gavin introduced it with the same disclaimer he gives before each viewing: a bunch of excuses for the apparent smallness of his penis, blaming it on Adderall, cold, and fatigue. It’s a little sad really, but luckily the lights were soon dimmed and everyone could move on.

A Million in the Morning director Jason Goldwatch (What the fuck kind of last name is that? Dude sounds like he’s a villain from James Bond — Ohhh, that explains the hat.)

After everyone had laughed, booed, clapped, and cringed at the movie, the after party began. Ciroc had sponsored the event, so there was free vodka, and it was the Red Bull Space, so there was free Red Bull and Red Bull Cola, but there was also a couple of kegs of mystery beer and a ton of Colt 45. I don’t know what advantage these companies think they’re getting from giving away all this shit; I can’t remember what Ciroc tastes like and I’m pretty sure I can’t afford it — but I hope they never catch on to that.

Although we thought we had ousted the super secret, double-classified musical guests as Ninjasonik, it turned out that the real surprise was a performance by Cerebral Ballzy. Their set was short, only five or six tracks which, when considering the brevity of hardcore songs, accumulated to maybe seven or eight minutes of music. The mics must’ve been fucked up because despite using two, you could still barely hear Honor’s voice. All that considered, Ballzy still threw down.

During Cerebral Ballzy’s set, it became obvious that the after party crowd was made up of two groups who normally wouldn’t be socializing in the same room: press and business types, who were there to review the film, cover the event, and schmooze with one another; and kids out looking for free booze and a party. While the latter double-fisted Colt 45s while dancing, the former stood by the bar wondering what a Cerebral Ballzy was and whether or not it was contagious.

Friction between the two groups came to a height when Ninjasonik took the stage, and Telli told the people chattering near the bar to shut the fuck up, called for a moment of silence for Guru, and threatened to throw someone out a window:

The amazing thing was that it actually worked. People hushed.

Ninjasonik’s set was also pretty short. Them and Cerebral Ballzy had to head over to Piano’s to play another show that night, and when all the alcohol dried up, much of the crowd followed.

Oh and by the way, Jay Electronica recently dropped a song inspired by the movie. Check out the new music video, which was also directed by Jason Goldwatch:

-ARV
@ArvSux

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