This is a challenging review for me to write. Believe it or not, I don't usually frequent strip clubs; it's just not my scene. However, I needed to attend a special event being held here:
Jason Ellis: The Reckoning!!
The quick part of the review of the place is: It's very small, parking is pretty much on the street or valet, which sucks, beer prices weren't outrageously expensive, but the bar service left much to be desired. Apparently being a chick in a strip club doesn't necessarily help to get drinks any more quickly. The waitresses were pretty quick, however. The 'stage' was a thin, runway type strip in the center of the place where there was plenty of room for the ladies to dance and work the pole. This is a 'bikini bar' type place, so no nipples or 'southern' nudity. Apparently the law (In LA? in CA? dont know which) is that if there's nudity, then there's no drinks; drinks, then no nudity. Seems odd, but fine by me. Interesting mix of dancers: traditional, girl-next door cute type, 'exotic asian' type, punk rocker huge mohawk and tattoos type, etc.
Now, or those of you not familiar with Jason Ellis (probably most people, even though he has the 2nd most listened to show on Sirius/XM, next to Howard Stern. He's on Faction 41, weekdays 12-4), he has a show on Sirius/XM radio. He is an outrageous Australian who was a very good pro-skateboarder and who dabbles in riding moto, mma, being in bands, and, for a while last year, was on the NY Times Best Sellers list with his memoir I'm Awesome. Memoir is far too fancy a word to describe his book, which are some pretty amusing retellings of some of the crazy stuff he's done and endured throughout his life. The book was dictated by Ellis (he's not much of a reader or writer) and actually written by one of his co-hosts, Michael Tully. He's really good friends with Tony Hawk, Carey Hart, Everlast, tons of porn stars, and a whole bunch of other people in various fields.
The Reckoning was put on as a result of a bet; he and another co-host, Josh "RawDog" Richmond, made a bet about the election. RawDog very much wanted Obama to win but knew that tons of the audience would want to see him lose the bet, so he claimed that he was very confident Romney would win, thinking it might make people vote for Obama. The loser of the bet had to, for a period of at least one minute, take into their mouth a phallus from a dead horse (trying to not gross too many of you out by using more elevated language. is it working?).
It was an insane night. Watched some pretty good dancers work their stage, watched Ellis' band Death!Death!Die perform a decent set (considering how trashed some of them were), met Jason Ellis, Mike Tully, RawDog, and Jason 'Mayhem' Miller (one of Ellis' good friends), and watched porn star Joanna Angel shove a phallus into RawDog 's mouth and nearly choke him. Now my usual Saturday night, but hey, it's certainly an event I won't soon forget. I'll spare everyone and not post some of the photos ;) read more