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Group Skate at the Rink, Part Deux 02/28/09

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24505 Halsted Rd in Farmington!

So, don't try to tell us that you can't go because it'll interfere withyour club time!! We don't want to hear it! Skate time is between 8 & 11pm, and you can bring your kiddos to this one!! It's top 40 night, but you can tune it out.

Saturday, 02/28/09. Be there, THEN go to City!!

But it'll interfere with my club time.

*runs away from Brenda's wrath*

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You can wear quads or blades, PG!

Guess what? I'm GOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've shit-canned the road trip. Who can give me a lift? :)

EVERYONE: This is on Saturday 2/28. Look at the 1st post!! There seems to be confusion.

But it'll interfere with my club time.

*runs away from Brenda's wrath*

*kicks Der Nister's butt*

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Did anyone know about this? Is this how our skate night got started? Because I think we should grow our skate night until it IS worthy of the DGN title:LA times article on Gothic Skate Night

Where all the goth kids go for roller-skating and tacos

March 06, 2008 in print edition H-26

THERE are combinations in life that make no sense yet seem to work. Chicken and waffles. Run-DMC and Aerosmith. And roller skating and gothic industrial music.

The latter pairing makes for a quite a spectacle at World on Wheels on a recent Monday night. Yes, that’s a trauma victim circling the rink, not far from the top hat-wearing Victorian gentleman and other daringly costumed devotees done up as if they take their fashion cues from the Cure’s Robert Smith.

The occasion is a monthly skate night called Wumpskate (a play on the name of gothic industrial band Wumpscut). Attracting goth enthusiasts by the hundreds, the alcohol-free themed night lures fans with a dark-edged playlist that includes the likes of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, Ministry and KMFDM. And the hosts don’t just do eyeliner well – they provide snacks such as candy, cookies and even tacos.

“It started out as a joke at first,” a woman known simply as DJ Wednesday explains. “Five years ago, [DJ Xian and I] thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be an interesting idea? Let’s just do it!’ The first night we had over 250 people show up and we’ve been doing it ever since. We’re all-ages, so it’s a nonalcoholic event. Skating and alcohol sounds like a bad idea to me, so we thought, ‘What can we do to swing it the other way? Let’s make it as G-rated as possible: Sell people energy drinks, have vendors and get people up on sugar.’ ”

Perfect, apparently, for families, friends … and members of the L.A. Derby Dolls.

And maybe anybody else with a sense of humor. Last month’s “Valentine Skate Massacre,” for instance, attracted 6-foot-4 Damian Stellabott – who cut a forbidding figure dressed in a white nurse’s uniform, striped thigh-highs and a brown wig.

He anticipates a question before it can be asked. “I don’t normally dress like this, no,” he says, explaining his costume choice thusly: “Valentine’s Day is sometimes referred to as open heart surgery, so I borrowed this outfit from a friend.”

Stellabott, who works at what he calls “the amusement park in Anaheim,” says that Wumpskate is unique. “I don’t think there’s anything like this anywhere else … and it’s fun.” But goth music and roller skating? He shrugs: “Seems to work.”

WUMPSKATE

WHERE: World on Wheels, 4645 1/2 Venice Blvd., L.A.

WHEN: 9 p.m. Monday (and the second Monday of every month)

PRICE: $6

INFO:www.wumpskate.com

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Did anyone know about this? Is this how our skate night got started? Because I think we should grow our skate night until it IS worthy of the DGN title:LA times article on Gothic Skate Night

Genius!! I nominate Brenda to approach the management with this idea. Skate of Doom! Invite not just the goth community but a broader range of alternative peoples from around town... ? Who to DJ?

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Well I havent seen a DGN'r in like a year... so im going to try to make it out to this! hopefully i wont be closing at work.

YEAH! You know, I saw you at the derby on Saturday night, but you were busy talking...as usual!

Did anyone know about this? Is this how our skate night got started? Because I think we should grow our skate night until it IS worthy of the DGN title:LA times article on Gothic Skate Night

This isn't where it came from, but I think it's a brilliant idea. I don't see why it ISN'T worthy of an "official" DGN title. DGNers are going, and the "event" is growing in numbers. Not everyone thinks that CityClub is that awesome(no offense, Roman!), and a lot of us would like it to become official. We were even discussing it on the first night that we did it.

Genius!! I nominate Brenda to approach the management with this idea. Skate of Doom! Invite not just the goth community but a broader range of alternative peoples from around town... ? Who to DJ?

I think my posts have been enough suggestion. I can't even go there right now. I'm no longer a part of "the powers that be," and therefore don't have a say. I would appreciate it if certain people here wouldn't take offense to the afforementioned commment.

I'm even more excited about this now.

Recently, the only CC thing hasn't been as awesome as it used to be...I'm craving DGNers just chillin' together.

:w00t:

Exactly.

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Did anyone know about this? Is this how our skate night got started? Because I think we should grow our skate night until it IS worthy of the DGN title:LA times article on Gothic Skate Night

I came across the name while searching for Cali goth clubs, but I never clicked on it to see the details. That's pretty cool!

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I also think that Sunday nights would be better because it's 18 and over. I'd hate to think that the goths wouldn't be allowed to skate because we ran over some normie's kid.

Well... I'm not sure that'd be a problem. If it's a night advertised like the one in Cali.. "normies" aren't likely to be showing up too much, particularly with children, anyways.

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