This weekend I had my first paid photo shoot. Before that, however, I had a full day of activity on Friday..I had to get the baby up, go get my tax rebate money, go get a tattoo (I'll get a photo up as soon as inhumanly possible), blah, blah, etc, etc..we finally got to Detroit at about 10:30 Friday night, and all I wanted to do at that point was check into the hotel and then relax.

I went to change into pajamas and found that I had had an unfortunate pants mishap..specifically, my pretend leather pants had a big rip right across my butt. Well hopefully someone got a show. LOL. I was less than pleased, but it gave me a great reason to go to Noir Leather the next day.

We had breakfast in the little diner in the Leland, and we found out that they are filming a movie starring Ron Perlman in Detroit. How cool is that? We had wondered because there were all sorts of signs announcing that you Absolutely May Not Park Here from this time to this time on Sunday, and also that the little diner was closing at 2 on Sunday. I thought it was all rather exciting. Especially because they are actually using the diner in some scenes. Too bad I couldn't have sat there eating food on film, eh?

Noir Leather is awesome..I could have gone completely broke in that place. I did get a cute casket clutch and a couple of very nice skirts, but there was a leather flogger in there that I simply drooled over, as well as a plethora of other things that I really, really wanted very badly. Damn. Next time I am armed with a shitload of cash, I know where I am going!

Unfortunately, I didn't get to go to the zoo. But my good friend and her husband showed up right before my shoot, and that was excellent, because I really had wanted her to be there. They even brought me presents..they're so sweet. I got a mesh top (you can never have too much mesh, in my opinion) and a Marquis de Sade book..I was bouncing around like a crack ridden monkey.

The shoot was awesome, three hours of me being mostly naked in front of two total strangers, which was a lot less uncomfortable than I had anticipated. They were very professional, but very nice, and it was all the way around a really fun experience. I would more than happily shoot with them again. If you happen to come read this, Mark, thank you, to both you and James. You guys are so cool!

After the shoot..food. I eat very lightly before shooting, and I was hungry. So we, in our infinite wisdom, decide to walk to this Chinese place that W found on his phone. Unfortunately, when we got there, it was all boarded up, so we had to walk MORE. I did, however, get to walk by the beautiful Masonic Temple..wow. Such an awesome building. We ate at the casino, and that was the ONLY place in all of Detroit that someone made a snarky remark about the fact that I am goth and wear 5" platform boots. Sigh. He was probably from out of town.

We walked back, collected the lovely and then went to club..which was awesome! Thanks to the wonder of the internet, I have been making friends with several awesome Detroit goths, and I met several of them on Saturday night. My feet hurt too much to dance, but I did get to cuddle and talk about the emo zombie with W, and if His Spookiness hadn't had a raging headache and had to go upstairs and go to bed, I think I'd have had a perfect night. I very nearly did, but of course my SO sleeping upstairs while I am having fun sort of made the guilt creep in.

This journal entry is horribly long, and there was some more silliness, but I'll write about it later. I hope everyone had a wonderful time this weekend!!



Dosvedania

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In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.