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[emchy]

The reading last night was fucking ROCKING. Ryka reading amazing work, thick and sacred and awesome. I did well and liked chewing over my words in a new way in a new place. Alison de la Cruz blew me away (look out SF Alison is heading north in May). And Trystan Reese sang, told stories and read some poems that made me say wow.

Wanna see what the cafe was like?

then we went off to Black Sun at the Monte Cristo the club of the uber goths who were nice and friendly (watch LA Dead for a pic of Ryka & I) and the creepy hitty on guys who made the dance floor occassionally icky. That said - we had a good time.

then we went for all night thai food and it was awesome. There was a live performer who came on and played guitar at about 3am. is this normal in LA?

The photographic evidence is up on www.flickr.com/emchy
More to come when i am not gaffling ryka's mac.

Comments

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

the late night culture is so... refreshing
we go to sleep early up here for the most part
there was just so much jumpin and open and wow

it was just a really charming city

so much of america - meaning old fifties ephemera, every immigrant culture you could name all mixing and neighborhooded, bohemia, strippers, rockers, tattoo love, pop culture overloading and just so much friendly about it all - it felt like the america that i could be proud of.

[glamtasm.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that you had such a fabulous and successful time there! What ou wrote reminds me so much about what I loved and miss about LA. Yes, there is a lot of bad stuff there, but to my memory, as well as what you mention, there also seemed like there was a lot more intermingling of different subcultures, and the lines between who was part of what were a lot more blurry. My last trip there was a few years ago, so undoubtably the styles have shifted again a few times since then, but I also recall digging what passed for Goth wardrobe there a lot more, and appreciating the fact that people seemed a lot more likely to talk to one another in clubs, even if they weren't part of the coterie or clique.

Except I fear I am too immersed in the going to sleep early thing these days to keep up there any longer.