Hollywood: Hardly a dream mecca
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next night it will be Allah Harley,
a Muslim biker sushi disco.
The bars close at 2 a.m., but you
can drink all night if you ask where
the “outlaw” clubs are on a particu
lar evening. These clubs serve
drinks until dawn, let minors in and
lack a legal alcohol license, so they
are often located in out-of-the
way, hush-hush places like aban
doned warehouses. The outlaw
club of the moment is Ground
Zero, an ultra-chic haven for punk
ers that was recently featured in
People magazine (it’s not THAT
secret after all).
Ground Zero’s portable decor
includes numerous slide projec
tors that flash scenes from old
camp films, pictures of Patti Smith
and tabloid headlines all over the
walls. Television sets showing
Nazi films are everywhere. Every
thing vibrates here, thanks to the
cacophonous industrial and elec
trogothic dance music the DJ
spins.
Other hip-at-thc-momcnt clubs
include White Trash A-Go-Go,
situated in a man-made white cave
that actually drips water. At White
Trash and Scream, a portable club
that features live punk bands,
you’ll see performances of every
thing from thrash versions of bad
Bee Gees songs to outrageously
awful ‘performance art.” For a
good laugh, check out Rockers, a
predominantly gay club that prides
itself on not playing disco. Gays
grooving to Sonic Youth and X has
to be seen to be believed.
You can’t possibly visit L.A.
without going to the beach. Venice
Beach is so sexually phantasmago
ric it looks like a living Fellini
iilm. Bag ladies, bikini-clad girls
on roller skates and iron-pumping
body-builders mingle together,
thinking nothing of their exhibi
tionism.
Forget about Disneyland. The
truly amusing sights of L.A. can be
seen without driving all the way
down to Anaheim. We’re talking .
. restaurants? Yes, L.A.’sgcnuine
cartoon characters can be seen at
two Hollywood eateries that must
remain anonymous. One bills it
self as a “performance art dinette
and juice bar” and sometimes
books local performers like cult
figure Glen Meadmore, an indus
trial schlock-rock poet who sports
a 6-foot-plus frame, numerous
fright wigs and claims he likes to
lick little boys’ toes on stage and
stuff chicken heads into his nether
regions. Another unusual eatery
advertises the fact that it’s an “all
you-can-eat lesbian restaurant for
wimmin who prefer to eat in a non
male-dom mated atmosphere .”
With all this sin snaking
through its reprobate valleys and
beaches, it’s no wonder Los Ange
lenos worry that their sunny para
dise may soon erupt and fall off
into the Pacific.
But as long as there are people
who wish to escape the bad
weather and middle-class banality
of the rest of America, there will be
a Los Angeles.
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