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)