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MORE TV APPEARANCES IN 2010! CO-HOSTING TOKYO SUBCULTURES & FOOD DOCUMENTARY WITH ANTOINE DE CAUNES OF EUROTRASH, JEAN PAUL GAULTIER!
Yaoi = yow-ee! Welcome to 2010, kiddies. The first half of the year will be absolutely insane. So hold onto your top hats… I’m unfurling the roadmap.
First off… more TV work and more time in Japan! In May, French TV station Canal Plus will fly me to Tokyo to be featured in a 90-minute documentary. It’s part of an ongoing series that takes a surprising and subversive look at world capitals. And the host is none other than Antoine de Caunes, one of France’s biggest TV and film stars. Perhaps you may know him from the hit UK series Eurotrash, which he co-hosted with Jean Paul Gaultier!
So you can look forward to much more Tokyo Decadance (literally — we’ll be painting the town red with party organizer Adrien le Danois.) Of course, all my favorite Tokyo Spooks will be involved in the filming, like the Andrew Zimmern Bizarre World shoot (which will air this April).
Next week, I’ll be in front of the cameras for a Japanese TV station, NHK. As I mentioned before, I’ll be the subject of a New York Wave documentary on cute food and character bentos. Hello Kitty and schoolchildren will be involved… yes!
And where will I be in February/March? The City of Angels, with the infamous Yukiro Dravarious! (Above: Yukiro with Das Ich and DJ SiSEN.) We’ll be rooming together (!!) and collaborating with LA luminaries, leaving a trail of ostrich feathers and blood in our wake…
What else do I have planned for 2010? Quite a lot. I’m continuing to write about Asia pop culture/music/fashion/food for CNNGo (see all my articles here), and I want to get started on my next book project. There’s additional TV stuff in the works, which I can’t talk about quite yet… but so far, everything’s pointing to a green light. And the fashion collaboration will be revealed soon, so keep checking back.
2010 is going to be a killer year of filming, friends, fashion, and flamboyance — can’t you feel the electricity in the air? Who’s coming along with me on the wild ride?
Song of the Day #274: I’ve been blasting Cure Radio, the free 24 hour J-rock stream, nonstop.
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WHITBY GOTHIC WEEKEND 2009: PRETTY GOTH GIRL PHOTOS, VICTORIAN MOURNING CLOTHING, STEAMPUNK & FETISH FASHION AT UK FESTIVAL.
Remember my lovely friend Zoe from the Mad Hatter Tea Party and Wizard of the Opera outing? When I saw her photos from October’s Whitby Gothic Weekend, I had to ask her for a report — you can tell she had the time of her life! Better late than never, right? So here we go.
Whitby Gothic Weekend is a twice-a-year Goth extravaganza in Whitby, North Yorkshire. The cobbled streets turn into a gridlock of black clothing — it’s like travelling back in time to sooty England!
The Abbey’s ruins are a favorite spot for phototaking. Whitby’s ocean and mountain views are breathtaking.
Zoe says: “The best car in the world (that I’m naming the ‘Sir William Welles Mobile’) was parked outside our hotel- awesome! I wish it was my car SO badly!” She also visited a cool custom car show; love the Wallace and Gromit (top left) and the Pink Panther (bottom right).
Zoe has been to Whitby numerous times. Did anything surprise her? “I discovered that the house Lewis Caroll stayed at is now a tea shop — how appropriate! Also, the Japanese band Psydoll were playing at one of the fringe events. It was a huge surprise to bump into Nekoi-san in a small Yorkshire fishing village!”
Left: glorious La Vey corsets and Cruella de Ville hair. Right: Watchmen fetish cosplayers!
What did Zoe think of the fashion? “Fantastic as always! Steampunk seems to be the big thing in UK Goth fashion right now, and it’s currently my favourite trend. At Whitby there were so many creative outfits with handmade accessories and it was nice to see some colour variation too. Thomas of Brute Force Leather and Amanda AKA Professor Maelstromme were my absolute favourite couple: Amanda wore a fantastic custom-made dress uniform jacket and corset with a pith helmet — fantastic!”
Any tips for travellers? “I would advise potential festival-goers to book their accommodation early. I book around March for the October event so that I get my usual room at my favourite guest house overlooking the sea. It is a brilliant weekend even if you don’t fancy the bands that play at the main festival event. There is always great shopping and the atmospheric Abbey and town to look around.”
Have you been to Whitby Gothic Weekend? What do you think of the event? I’ve never been… augh, one day!
Song of the Day #266: Cabaret Voltaire – I Want You (1980s synthpop week continues with a spooky track…)
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