Finland has a whole lot of cools things but a few that have gained my interest would definitely be 1) the late burlesque club in Helsinki, 2)Graveyard Party (http://www.graveyardparty.com/) a cool event specialized in electronica/industrial/EBM etc. music and culture, 3)Hevimesta, a bar/club in Oulu (used to be in Helsinki as well) that caters for the more harder side of life, 4)Turun Baletti (http://www.turunbaletti.net/?p=etusivu&g=&l=en) organizes fetish-related events and 5) SYN/psi (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103534533016723) an event for cyber/EBM music lovers that is done for… maybe 5-8 times a year. The best event by them that I’ve attended had COMBICHRIST performing, awesome!!
Would be cool to have some Finnish blood splattered on your blog ;D
[noora]

theres no chance they have shoes in my seize right~^^?
love the pics by the graveyeard <3

Are parties also included?
Cause on octobre 31st this awesome photographer, Viona holds a Halloween party, in a castle in Gaasbeek. The theme is Grimm characters and there’ll be a show including some of the them, like red riding hood.

I hosted a haunted tea party on my birthday (does that count…?) The punch had a ice hand inside, My cake had white cotton candy on it for cobwebs, and the sandwiches were coffin shaped. It was pitch dark with black candles as the only light. All my guests were ether gothic lolita or guro lolita. My Butler (brother) wore gothic aristocrat with bright blue lenses. I bought five pounds of dried ice so the table was overflowing with fog. The background music was candy spooky theater, Kerli, Kanon Wakeshima, and dir en grey.

Those shoes are awesome.
There’s a bar in New Orleans French Quarter called “Pravda.” They serve absinthe and vodka from around the world. The clientele, staff and decor favor a steampunk & goth aesthetic. There’s dark red walls, lowlight abounds and a classic New Orleans courtyard with lots of foliage and a fountain where they sometimes have parties or someone dj-ing. It’s rather small and cozy and it’s a great place to sip absinthe that has been served from an old-fashioned absinthe fountain, listen to haunting music and make friends with the people next to you. There are tables set along the mirrored wall where people set up their laptops or pull out books or notebooks and write. I always imagine they are writing poetry inspired by the green fairy…

San Antonio, Texas.
“Goth-themed” doesn’t really come to mind when you first set foot here. I didn’t think so either being born and raised, though through a surprised encounter, I learned of an interesting club called Atomix. A leaning building that looked empty and abandoned on one side, but the pumping techno music gave it away when we got out of the car. (SiSen was playing that night, along with BLOOD, so I just had to go:). I’m glad I went because it introduced me to an amazing club.
The decor was startling (in a good way of course). When you walk in, you’re greeted by a very friendly door gal decked out in whatever changing theme day it is. The lights are dimmed considerably low, but not to the point of where you can’t see a foot away from you. Arrays of purple lights flitted through the low curtains. A room off to the side is set to where you can comfortable talk to new individuals in an almost romantic setting. Skulls adorned the walls, elluding a soft glow in a relaxing manner. The couches where extremely comfy, and from what I’ve heard the drinks are deliciously cheap. And the MUSIC! The music was the best part. If you’re a fan of the 80′s New Wave – the underground kind – you will love this place. It was also good to be able to actually dance on the dance floor. There’s so much space!
Definitely a club to visit when you’re in town.
<3

I am so lame, I can barely think of anything. I wonder if this will do~
St. Louis, MO ~ City Museum.
As a child we went on field trips to the City Museum, but as I get older I still can’t stay away from it (It’s like trick or treating, right?). It may seem really childish but It’s seriously a lot of fun xD;;. So it’s a huge building, with an outside front, composed of recycled junk(sanitary junk) that creates obstacle courses and uber-exciting adventures.

I wish I could enlighten you with something better…
So I’m not old enough to go to bars, and not close enough to anything exciting, but I gave it a try ^-^.

P`S` I’ve told quite a few of “La Carmina and The Pirates” and I post all of your contests to my Facebook~

As a girl who has always had a thing for insects and oddities, I didn’t have the privilege, in my pre-internet childhood days, of having easy access to the types of bizarre stuff I was into. That’s why I give my thumbs up to San Francisco’s PAXTON GATE, a unique natural history/oddity/gardening store in the hip Valencia St. District of San Francisco. Paxton Gate carries an impressive array of pinned insects, fossils, taxidermy, macabre books and art, skulls and bones, macabre vintage goods (e.g. like vintage laboratory supplies and glass eyes). They offer insect mounting classes (now that’s impressive!). They have a gallery/exhibit space in store (they’ve showcased a famous taxidermy artist’s work, for example) and a beautiful back-store and yard space that showcases their landscape design capabilities. They also carry very cool jewelry that’s generally “dark” in theme. If one is looking for oddities and curiosities to decorate their personal space, Paxton Gate is the place to look!

The shop is exquisitely arranged. Wandering around, one feels like they’re inside a curio cabinet. Also, the store is in a prime San Francisco people watching location. That particular stretch of Valencia St. boasts some of the most heavily and creatively tattooed and pierced people in the United States, and the area is dense with a rich array of thrift stores, used book stores, funky bars, and independent coffee shops. You can draw creative inspiration from what you see right outside the store, as well as what you see inside.

For more info, visit: http://www.paxtongate.com/about.aspx

I write about Zeitgeist with hesitation…
because it’s easy to have a love/hate relationship with the place…if one reads online reviews of the bar, they’ll see many strong reactions. My friend was once refused entry to the place because she was too hippy-ish! Some people perceive the place to be too grimy and too “aggressive” in vibes. If one can past this, Zeigest offers a wealth of alternative-people watching opportunities that no other venue in the San Francisco Bay Area does.

Zeitgeist is a beer-garden-style bar in the hip/hipster Valencia Street stretch of San Francisco’s Mission District. On an given non-rainy evening, a slew of alternative people occupy the picnic style table/benches of Zeitgeist’s outdoor backyard seating area, transforming the place into an alternative-beer-garden with strong hipster/grunge/subculture/alternative/gothy/rockabilly/vintage/biker/bike messenger flair.

Zeitgeist draws a diverse alternative crowd (mid 20s to mid 40′s). And black is the dominant clothing color. BBQ food is also served and part of the patron experience is also the rough-and-tumble manner in which bar staff yell out orders to patrons in back. Many of San Francisco’s hardcore cyclists go to Zeigest and on any given day, you can see dozens of fixed gear and modified bicycles parked in the garden.

The bar also has indoor seating and an indoor pool table, but the real action takes place in the back. On one hand, the bar has a very grungy/grimy/dive-y feel to it. On the other hand, the energy is so very strong and alternative, that I believe it’s worth a visit, just to see the colorful display of people and alternative energy. The energy is aggressive and grungy
(the bar is pretty much the diametric opposite of fancy and classy!). On any given visit, a patron is likely to share a table with an eccentric array of other people, ranging from goths, psychobilly/rockabilly peeps, burlesque performers, go go dancers, actors, black leather clad motorcyclists, BDSM dungeon-goers having a drink before their foray to their dungeon, tattoo artists, musicians, alternative techies and tech gurus having a drink after work, artists, etc.

Zeitgest is a place I used to routinely take tourists and friends from out of town too. On every occasion, people enjoyed their experience, even if the grungy hardcore style wasn’t their cup of tea. Most people simply haven’t been to a bar like it and it is truly a different experience.

Zeitgest is truly the best place in San Francisco to people watch the most “hardcore” of the alternative crowd. It’s a great place for cool hunters or curious folks to see firsthand examples of the Pacific Northwest style of in-your-face hardcore alternative-ness. You really need to be there to get a sense of it, however. Online photos don’t do justice.
One needn’t worry if they’re not alternative, because there are also “yuppies” in fleece frequenting the bar as well. You don’t have to be hardcore and grungy to feel comfortable there.
The place is best visited on clear not-to-cold days (on rainy days or unusually cold/windy days the backspace beer garden is generally not operative and the true experience would be missed) and NOT on a Friday or Saturday night–Fridays and Saturdays draw a lot of tourists and non-alternative “yuppy’ish” college crowds and the hardcore patrons don’t usually come on those days.

http://www.zeitgeistsf.com/

forgot to post link omdominion.com/community/index.html

Just sharing some of my favorite but not cool at all thing here:)
There’s a Maid dancing group called Candy Star here in Taiwan. They’re not professional
entertainer,just a group of lovely girls who loves ACG world very much. They perfome lots of anime and Jpop songs, just for love. some of the members actually work/had work as maid in maid cafe. And the group leader,Ichigo, sells her own design/handmade Lolita dress on-line(not big business).The member Hinako was the commercial agent of the be loved Lolita brand Baby,The Star shine bright of Taiwan.Sadly she closed the business early this year. They’ve been invited to most of ACG events here. They also have entrance fee needed Party for their fans about once a month.
Here’s their Offical blog: http://pipipipinku.blog126.fc2.com/
Lots of video can be find on youtube:)
If you love Gundam store,SD doll and Daiso, you can find them all at Kmall, in front of Taipei railway station.
And,there’s a very adorable(and very small) cat cafe near my home called Mr.Nekochan’s Friend.Their pancake is very delicious.(this one’s for Basil, the shop cat little lamb is always welcoming friends.lol. you can bring your cat photo to the cafe if you can’t bring your cat their and get a photo on the wall of lamb in exchange:D)
Over, Captain:D
xoxo

Wednesday, the middle of the week, implying that you have to get “over the hump” before you can anticipate the weekend. The term was not originally intended to carry a second, more risque meaning.