sweetcheeks

yes... definitely, definitely fun I'll go every week probably.

um.

yeah.

uhh... what you said

Yeah, everyone I knew in NYC had one. Keep in mind that traveling to Europe winds up costing several hundred dollars less from NYC and Boston than other places in the country, so that could also explain it a bit. Sounds like a great trip, you'lll have a blast, I'm sure.

Ssshhh - here's the plan. Everyone just reading the thread will get these details in a day or two, but here's what I'm doing...

The evening will be a sort of a night of darkness. My initial thought had been to make it purely industrial, alternative, and gothic. But there are already a number of clubs in LA that do that, and do it well. My goal, however ambitious or ludicrous as it may be, is to do something that's kind of exciting and never been done before. In this case, I'm combining the best elements of the underground music scene & burning man culture (some incredible nights that are more event than party or nightclub - there's art everywhere and a unique atmosphere is created) and the alternative/industrial culture (give people a chance to get decked out in fetish gear, lingerie, black, or whatever the hell they want to imagine as being The Apocalypse).

From there I landed the venue, a 1920's era Methodist Church. On the ground floor in the church I'll have DJ's playing alternative/industrial stuff, then later some darker ambient music. Upstairs in the big room, the music will have some bigger name DJ's, folks who typically specialize in house, breakbeat, and sort of a tribal breakbeat sound. All of them will be playing darker, heavier records than they normally get to play. Then outdoors I've got a few more people playing the breakbeat stuff (again, darker than they normally play. Not only are most of the DJ's I'm close with part of that scene, it's a big part of the underground music scene right now and I'm in the fortunate position that my friends are also some of the best breaks DJ's in the world... I have to take advantage of that, right?

In addition to the music, I'm working on getting the use of a number of video projectors. I've got friends who've done some really incredible and cool dark pieces of work, and I want to project things onto the interior and exterior walls of the church. I'm also recruiting a number of artists and photographers to display their work. We'll adorn the walls with cool, dark images. I'm also working on getting some sculpture pieces made or brought over (the only things I'm having made for the event are things I'll also be using for my camp out at Burning Man, so that way I'm not being wasteful). The venue has three good sized bars, so people can get their drink on, and then finally I've got my friend Voltaire doing a number of burlesque performances, and then a fire performance troupe putting on a few shows for me out in the yard. Those guys are incredibly talented, and even if they just did the same stuff they do at some of the regular 'burner parties' it would blow people away. I'm really excited that they're so into the idea and going to such great lengths. And finally I've got a professional event photographer working the event - he takes some amazing pictures, and will capture the evening quite nicely I think.

It's going to be a lot of fun, I think. And hopefully we'll raise a couple bucks for my camp along the way.

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