ROCK INN CURRENT: SHINJUKU HEAVY METAL MUSIC BAR. TOKYO BEST INDIE BARS, CLUB SCENE, SUSHI RESTAURANTS.
Yay yay yay for LA! Stay tuned to my blog, Facebook and Twitter for world-shaking announcements about our Los Angeles invasion! There’s a lot in the works, and Sebastiano and I want you to join in on the fun…
First, back to Tokyo. I “test-drove” the panda bear purse I got for Rose… hope she’s not mad.
Dress: Algonquins, from Ragtag (Harajuku secondhand store with a small Goth Lolita Punk section. It was $12!)
Black sheer tank top: bought it a while ago in a Goth shop
Floral lace tights: I’ve had these for years
Spiky black ankle boots: Tripp NYC, from Trash and Vaudeville
Cute panda purse: Heart E, from Closet Child
Black felt hat with flowers: Emily Temple Cute, from Closet Child
Cyber eye decal: Takuya Angel (have you seen photos of his new store?)
Spider ring: from Closet Child
Makeup: Shimmery taupe eyeshadow, cat-eyes and dots using black liquid eyeliner, deep red and purple blended lipstick.
A funny story… Andrew Zimmern’s friend asked me to recommend a nice sushi restaurant. But I’ve never eaten fancy fish in Tokyo! My friends and I go to high-quality but low-priced conveyor belt parlors like Hibari in Kabuku-cho. Every plate is only 130 yen, but when we took the Norway TV crew there, they admitted the raw salmon is better here than at Nobu. (More photos from Hibari in this blog post.)
A few of our friends recommended Rock Inn Current, a hard rock / heavy metal themed bar on the west side of Seibu Shinjuku Station (on the other side of Club Marz). Here, the bartenders headbang to the music and make the devil horns sign. Our kind of people.
Rock Inn Current often has live performances; the walls are covered in hair metal posters, and there’s always something shreddy blasting from the speakers. It reminded us of Fu-ki’s Bar Midian in Osaka.
After, we walked to Christon Cafe Shinjuku to visit our cyber-fab friends at Decadance Bar. Porco poured us absinthe, and Adrien le Danois cooked up delicious food.
What (or who) do you think G-suS and Yukiro are gossiping about?
Do you like to visit different theme bars, like we do? Which are your favorites? We’re always drawn to Visual Kei, metal and alternative drinking holes.
Thanks to ENVI Shoes for featuring me today in a Blogger Love interview (I’m currently on their front page). I talk about wanting to wear glitter-ball, fire-breathing, seven-inch KISS boots. What haven’t I done yet that I still want to do? You can find out in my interview here and after the jump.
Japanese Word of the Day: Suneru = To be sulky, in a bad mood
Song of the Day: Welle:Erdbal – Telephon W-48 OT (Chosen by G-suS. Soon, you’ll see us torture our new minion in an Evil Queen makeup fake-up video!)
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FRANCE JAPAN TRAVEL TV SHOW, FILMING AT DON QUIJOTE, SHINJUKU DISCOUNT DOLLAR STORE. CAT NEKO COSPLAY.
It’s true… travel TV hosting and arranging is the best job in the world. You get to be your silly self, bring in your friends, and showcase alternative culture in (what I hope is) a positive light, to a multitude of viewers.
Merci to everyone who wrote to me after seeing my Canal + France documentary, Toque de Tokyo — I’m glad you were enticed by our spooky world. On the last night of filming, the TV crew met up with me, Comte de Sang, Yukiro Dravarious, and Naomi (First Mate of the Pirate Ship) at Don Quijote, the famous Japanese discount chain store.
Despite weeks of shooting on a tight schedule, Antoine de Caunes was dressed up and ready to rock. He’s a prominent TV presenter and actor in France, perhaps best known for the BBC late-night program Eurotrash.
My makeup is inspired by my Scottish Fold cat, Basil Farrow. I wore feather eyelashes and gold eyeshadow, drew on a brown nose and W-mouth, and added a kitty sticker.
Who says Goths can’t be colorful?
Floral Lolita dress: h.NAOTO Frill, from Closet Child
Leather studded corset: Bed Behavior in Hollywood
White bunny purse: Innocent World
Kitty hair clips: gifted from Komodokat
Naomi sewed the orange ring-collar herself. The original Sebastian and Vincent stopped by to say bonjour to Antoine.
We had made arrangements with “Donki” (the store) — so we used the opportunity to run around and be crazy! My friends and I grabbed giant orange hammers and chased each other through the cramped aisles. The shocked reactions of the customers were priceless.
Wigs and vibrators are recurrent themes in our escapades. Have you seen the drag queen film, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert? Our lives are eerily similar (as you know from our YouTube videos)…
Antoine de Caunes is a fantastic sport. He went along with all of our nutty antics.
Someone looks a little too happy to be tortured.
After we ravaged Don Quijote, we took the French TV crew to Tokyo Decadance for the grand finale. Photos and video clips coming right up.
So many exciting projects are happening in December and January! I’ll let you know what’s going on as soon as I can…
Have you visited Don Quijote or a Japanese dollar store? They’re the greatest places on Earth.
Japanese Word of the Day: Shouganai = It can’t be helped
Song of the Day: Rebecca – Vanity Angel (1980s Japan pop power. As Yukiro says, “The dance is so random and amazing.”
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