LOS ANGELES GOTH NIGHTCLUBS: CLUB HELL, BAR SINISTER. GOTHIC INDUSTRIAL FETISH EVENTS IN HOLLYWOOD, CA.
Good news: I’m going to compile Goth Nightlife Guides for NYC and LA for this blog, in addition to Tokyo!
First, let’s finish up the LA nightcrawls. Hollywood’s Bar Sinister (the site of the Goth Alice in Wonderland party) is probably our favorite venue. It has absinthe. Frightfully well-dressed guests.
A torture corner, where you can try out paddles and cuffs. Or get whipped on a giant cross. Or pet a gargoyle, or flirt with an attractive gender-bender.
Sometimes, looking too good has its downsides. We went to Club Hell at The Ivar, and it… was hell. At least six lascivious men hit on Yukiro; one kept asking strange questions, another grabbed his phone to input his number, yet another wanted to take the spanking show up a few notches on the violence-meter. The last straw: an old man LIFTED Yukiro in the air and then dipped him into a back-bend — hell no! We got the hell out of Hell.
Some of the Hell-dwellers had interesting handmade outfits, but on the whole, there was a lot of skin that could have been covered up. Perhaps it was an unusually hellish night.
Sometimes, a nightcrawl goes completely down the drain. The Adventure Team went to one place (that shall remain nameless), and it was a bummer. We tried to swing by a party, but when we got there, it was closed. Double bummer.
But one can always stay in and partake in wholesome activities such as board games, right? Riiiight.
Do you enjoy going to clubs? What are your favorite ones? Yukiro and I can’t function without regular nightcrawls!
WAHHHHHH! My big-headed Scottish Fold, Basil Farrow, has gotten bigger-headed. He’s one of the celebrity cats featured on Almost Famous Cats blog, along with the feline friends of Dita von Teese, Robert Smith (The Cure) and other Goth greats.
Have you checked out the fold-eared cuteness on Basil’s blog?
Song of the Day #338: Sopor Aeternus – We Have A Dog To Exercise (A song I can listen to over and over. The horns at 4:07!)
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VISIT UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD. NEW SIMPSONS RIDE, HOUSE OF HORRORS, CLASSIC MOVIE MONSTERS.
Welcome to Universal Studios in Burbank.
Since I’m blogging about our adventure, I was fortunate to receive four free passes (which are otherwise $72 a pop). My tips for visiting are the same as for Disneyland: go early on a weekday, bring snacks. There were no lines, so we saw everything we wanted and made a getaway in our Deathmobile before the dreaded LA rush hour.
Our first stop was the Studio Tour, a mandatory ride that takes you through the movie lot, where productions such as Desperate Housewives are currently filming. We trolleyed past Hitchcock’s office and a partially-rebuilt New York facade (it was burned last summer in a fire).
Part of the fun was being thrown into special effects situations, such as a collapsing subway station and a Jaws shark attack. The Japanese vending machines and signs are convincing little pieces from Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Just like in the movie, a gas station caught fire and — ka-boom — the cars exploded into the air.
On the angry face side… we kept getting soaked by water! It turned into a bad joke: every single Universal Studios attraction left us drenched. Including the Shrek 4D ride. (Apparently, the fourth dimension is having water spat at you.)
Thankfully, the new Simpsons Ride was H2O-free and had us smiling from start to finish. We felt like yellow 2D characters as we explored Krustyland and the Kwik-E-Mart. There’s usually a line, but waiting isn’t so bad when you have Simpsons episodes to watch.
The ride itself is “psychological,” meaning that you sit in a 6-person box in front of a 360 degree screen. Although you never leave the room, the images and movements make you feel like you’re roaring down a rollercoaster with the Simpsons!
The classic House of Horrors is a scream: as you tiptoe through scary sets, monsters jump out at you! Outside, we saw plasters from the faces of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and other Universal stars.
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Thanks to all of you who donated to help Takumi get badly-needed heart surgery.
Song of the Day #337: OMG Moi dix Mois released a new track! Come check it out!
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