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SEBASTIANO SERAFINI & LA CARMINA IN LOS ANGELES! LA GOTH ALTERNATIVE MODELLING, NEW YEAR’S EVENTS & PARTIES. KOREAN FASHION SHOPPING SITE.
Adventure Team… ASSEMBLE. It’s official! “Latest victim” Sebastiano Serafini ( セバスティアーノ セラフィニー ) and I will be in Los Angeles, from December 28 to January 10. Each day will be filled with business and pleasure — two things excruciatingly intertwined in our Rocky Horror world.
What scandal is brewing? Seba and I are being hosted by a gorgeous boutique hotel. We have meetings with TV and entertainment execs. Modelling gigs with Lip Service and other Goth alternative labels. Prominent photoshoots, including the NOH8 campaign (to protest the Prop 8 ban on gay marriage in California). Red carpet events, and of course, a royally decadent New Year’s!
Sebastiano and I may be hosting events in LA — we hope you can join us and hang out. Please stay tuned to my blog and social networks for announcements. If you’re interested in having us model, do promotions or anything else in Los Angeles (Dec 28-Jan 10), please email La Carmina. (Paying gigs only.)
You can look forward to a full exposé of Seba’s first visit to America! I’ll soon post an interview with Sebastiano, our h.NAOTO collaboration photos, and news about a massive project debuting in 2011…
Both of us are quite OCD about travel planning, so we’re already thinking about what to wear. A new Korean fashion website is providing me with inspiration. AsianFashion.com sells men’s and women’s clothing from Japan and Korea, such as Ageha baby-doll dresses and criss-cross ankle boots. There’s an impressive selection of Asian beauty products, including circle contact lenses. The shopping site is very well organized and easy to browse; do check it out.
At least I don’t need to worry about how to dress up my legs. Artisan Socks sent me 18 pairs of stockings. In the words of my no-ears celebrity cat Basil Farrow: “Wahhh!”
Artisan Socks has an impressive stock of Japanese socks. Floral prints, skulls, stripes, tattoos, and even cyber fuzzy leg warmers!
Decisions, decisions… which ones to wear first?
Thank you also to Maru Music for sending me the latest Visual Kei music by The GazettE and Alice Nine! I was talking to Adventure Teamster Lemon about DIX-mas shopping. We agreed that Maru is the place to pick up CDs and MP3s as Jrock gifts. The label has also digitally released the hit single from the Kanon X Kanon project, and two albums by Vidoll. Visit Maru Music for more.
Are you psyched for our LA invasion? Can you suggest new places for us to visit? I have an Los Angeles Gothic Punk shopping and club guide here.
PS: If you’re interested in working with me and Sebastiano in LA (Dec 28-Jan 10, paid gigs only), please email La Carmina.
Japanese Word of the Day: Zaiaku = Sin
Song of the Day: Rocky Horror Picture Show – Don’t Dream It, Be It (Give yourself over to absolute pleasure / Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh)
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KAGRRA DISBANDS, VISUAL KEI BAND BREAKING UP IN MARCH: FINAL CONCERT TOUR & CD. HARAJUKU COSPLAY BRIDGE, HALLOWEEN COSTUMES & CRAZY STREET STYLE.
Oh SaTaN. Many of you sent me messages yesterday about Kagrra — the latest Visual Kei band to be pulling a Journey and going Separate Ways. After a ten year run, Kagrra is saying sayonara with a final album, Hyakkikenran, to be released February 2nd. Their final tour will start on February 13th and finish March 3rd at C.C. Lemon Hall in Tokyo.
Reader Shadowpal2 sighs, “Is this normal? I mean just looking in the year 2010…there has been countless disbandings and hiatuses…(hiati?)” Just this week, J-rock bands Valluna, nil delete heads, ALiBi, ZEST, Bi;shop and DISQLOC called it quits.
“Anyway… I call it something having to do with companies. This is just getting ridiculous. Honestly makes me want to buy a one way ticket to Japan and just head from the airport to the Ridiculous store.” What do you think?
On a happier and cuter note: Harajuku girls in Halloween costumes! After the Goth wedding, my spooky crew went to Jingubashi (the famous cosplayer bridge) in Harajuku to see and be seen.
As I mentioned before, the iconic Harajuku bridge is usually empty these days. Even on Sundays, you won’t find very many flamboyant cosplayers hanging out on Jingu-bashi (located to the right of the station).
However, on occasions such as Halloween, the ghouls come out to play…
Tourists swarmed us like paparazzi. We retaliated by shooting them back.
Also on the bridge: Heil Hitler? Not exactly. In Japan, the swastika is called manji and represents represents Dharma, universal harmony, balance.
The kawaii award goes to these two…
It’s fun spending October 31st in Harajuku. But for us spooky kids, every day is Halloween!
Thoughts on the latest round of Jrock band breakups? Who do you think is next? How about Harajuku cosplayer fashion — is it dying? I personally think it’s moved to the club scene…
Japanese Word of the Day: Housou = Broadcast
Song of the Day: Aion – Gasp For Breath (Forefathers of Visual Kei!)
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