Yesterday, Robby & I rode our bikes past downtown Culver City into the artsy gallery district that surrounds the ever-so-popular Father Office (gourmet burgers without ketchup for $14; we've reviewed in it in a previous blog entry). On Washington Blvd., we rode by a Japanese-inspired gallery & cafe called Royal-T. All sorts of creepy vinyl dolls were displayed behind big windows, so we decided to stop and explore the gallery a bit. The large gallery had modern art of modern materials (plastic, vinyl, acrylic paint, figurines, etc.). The gallery works generally had a superhero theme: photos of aged superheros (a dejected Wonder Woman standing outside a mobile home...). The cafe stood in the center of the gallery and the waitresses were dressed up as maids. Maids! Just like the ones in the maid cafes in Tokyo! The first thing I thought was, If I were a gaijin opening this Japanese-inspired gallery, the first thing I would bring is a maid cafe. We Americans love novelties, especially ones that take the form of adolescent, submissive Asian women in pigtails and French maid outfits. There were about 4 parties there, all cool looking young people, not the way-cool, too-cool-to-make-eye-contact-with-you hipsters in Hollywood or Silverlake, but cool for Culver City.
It was a weird but pleasant reminder of our time in Japan.
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