
Who let Karpf off the 1's & 2's........







Hey everyone,
From here on out this blog will serve to keep everyone informed on our current and future activities... We are all extremely exited looking to the future, both for our company and as individual sick guys.
However, before we begin living in the present and pontificating on our future we find it necessary to look at our past. So without further ado, and at the risk of getting right up our own asses with pats on our backs, here is a brief view of our most significant milestones and most memorable events...
October 14th 2007
“The Gathering” at Rockwood, or as I like to call it; “Amateur Hour”
This was our first real independent party where we were in control of everything. It took months of prodding to convince Rockwood owner Tommy King to let us throw this party. We basically bullshit him the entire time, never really sure we’d be able to pull it off. Much appreciation goes to Tommy for giving us the chance, and mad props to us for not letting him down (not too much tho, we’re still garbage).
The success of that night gave us the confidence in our abilities to move forward and believe that this could be more than a onetime thing.
February 8th 2008
“The Red Carpet Massacre” at West Lounge
After a string of successful parties at Rockwood we received a chance to throw a party at a new venue, West Lounge. The Red Carpet Massacre showed that we could fill a new venue with a seriously sexy crowd, proving that we officially knew what the fuck we were doing, and that we actually had a following... In our eyes the party was a major step for us in terms of marketing and pushing our own brand; we were able to draw the crowd we wanted and gave them exactly what was promised.
Summer 2008
“Maturity, Growth, DJ KARPF and Strangelove”
The summer of 08 was a period of significant transition for Paradime.
The 90 or so days between the last week of May and the last week of August were probably the most eventful in terms of choices, growth and evolution since the establishment of Paradime.
At the beginning of the summer we were still essentially a crew of barbacks with a decent rep for throwing kick ass parties. Throughout the summer we, as a group and individually, worked hard to refine our image and by the end became known for our underground sound, hot crowd and the unique flavour of our events.
By August, DJ KARPF had created a considerable buzz for himself and Paradime became Saturday night residents at Strangelove, a new venue on College Street.
As a holy trinity, we witnessed Strangelove become one of the city’s hottest venues, DJ KARPF became one of the industry’s pre-eminent dj’s and Paradime became synonymous with “SICK PARTY!”
September 20th 2008
Vice & Virtue Official Launch Party
“Diversify Bitch” aka “Copious Amounts of Dopeness”
Our partnership with Toronto designer Taylor Swan and his clothing line Vice & Virtue, marked our first foray into the other end of our business; marketing and advertising.
This event was an unbridled success in every way possible. The party was absolutely ridiculous, Mr Swan received the recognition he wanted and deserved and Paradime metaphorically entered a spaceship and blasted off never to return to land.
October 11th 2008
Sex Show
“Pussy Poppin on a Handstand”
Pornstars, Lube, Sex Toys and enough Condoms to last me a month!
On October 11th we hosted the kickoff party to Canada’s largest sex industry trade show, The Everything to do with Sex Show.
This was a wild night to say the least, with some of the porn industry’s hottest starlets in attendance, free sex toys, movies and perv paraphernalia for all and some of the hottest fun this side of hedonism, Paradime and the show’s director Mikey Singer showed everyone how sexy sex could be!