Category Archive for Nightcrawling
JAPANESE GOTHIC NEW YEAR’S EVE OUTFIT: H.NAOTO, YOHJI YAMAMOTO, KERA ARENA.
Happy New Year, my dear darklings! Here’s to yet another year of scandal and drama!
Dress: hEAVEN by h.NAOTO (vintage, from Closet Child Harajuku)
Faux fur jacket: vintage
Crystal and leather bracelet: Yohji Yamamoto (vintage, from 10/TOW in Shibuya)
Platform boots: Kera Shop Arena (vintage, from Closet Child Harajuku)
I decided to set the tone for 2009 by tying a stuffed Ugly Doll bat to my forehead and wearing a skull hat meant for a cat on my shoulder. Oh, to have run around with Salvador Dali and his collection of freaks!
Blade Runner eyeshadow: Elizabeth Arden
Fake eyelashes: from SaSa in Hong Kong
Blue glitter pen: Too-Faced
Let’s make the new year our most decadent one yet! How did you celebrate the countdown? Did you make any resolutions? I’m going to hop onto my elliptical machine…
Song of the Day #18: X-Japan –
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MARK LANE @ M/R/X: MINIMAL WAVE, ELECTRO POST-PUNK SYNTHPOP, CAMPY FASHION.
A while back, I wrote about Goth lipsticks and shadows. Last Saturday, I caked on two of my favorites: blue eye dust from Medusas Makeup, and dark blue lipstick from Make Up Forever Professional. I only had an hour between the airplane photoshoot and the party, so I threw on a Sex Pot Revenge t-shirt and some odds and ends…
All dressed up – where to go? How about the Wolfpak + M/R/X club night, described as minimal-electronic-wave-synth-punk-Goth, or “dancing with tears in our eyes”? And could there be a more perfect venue than El Cid Cabaret in Silver Lake: a replica of a 16th century Spanish tavern (complete with flowering courtyard and antique brick fireplace), built around 1900 by D.W. Griffith and used in his controversial film “Birth of a Nation”?
With a cherry on top: minimal-synth pioneer Mark Lane, performing live in LA for the first time in 24 years! (You can read a fantastic article about him on LA Weekly.) He thrilled me with his strong vocals and somewhat-tongue-in-cheek delivery, set to not one, not two, but FIVE keyboards (Moog, analog synthesizers, toy machinery…) You never knew which one Mark would attack next!
The fashion at the party was the best I’ve seen in LA: a meeting of debonair and Gothic, 1930s Weimar Berlin and 1980s Vivienne Westwood.
The men out-glittered the women with Boy George makeup and fox fur scarves (with head and feet still attached). The dandy on the right wasn’t satisfied with studding his top hat – he extended the decora onto his face!
The boys were especially dashing on the wood dance floor. The DJ was Veronica of East Village Radio – and I was in analog synth heaven. I’ve been listening to her weekly show, Minimal-Electronik Plus, religiously for the past few years. It’s hard to describe the sound of dark/minimal wave… you’ve simply got to tune in!
Decora nail art, undead elegance… M/R/X felt a lot like a Tokyo nightcrawl. It was a pleasure to meet Gloom (right) and a few other Angelinos who read this blog. I only wish I had more time in LA to venture into the night… I certainly don’t want to miss the Modern Romantic club night that the organizers are debuting soon.
In lieu of the Song of the Day, check out the video footage I took of Mark Lane’s performance (above) and stream Veronica’s Minimal-Electronik Plus radio show.
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