It's not just a T.V. show.

Yesterday was all about Melrose Avenue. This famous street is loaded with designers boutiques, vintage clothing stores and the purely bizarre.

This is the Ed Hardy store. They use classic tattoo designs in their clothing. They have red carpet around the store and two-hundred dollar baseball caps inside the store.



Fairfax high is right across the street and was just getting out as I walked by.



It's where Anthony Kiedis and Flea formed the red hot chilli peppers. Apparently you can see their grad pictures on the wall.

Half the stores on Melrose are used clothing stores, vintage clothing stores, stores that sell new clothing that looks vintage and stores that sell vintage clothing that's been made to look new.



By far the strangest of all the stores has to be Necromance. I don't really know how to describe it...other than everything they sell used to be alive.



So if you're looking for human teeth, a rhino beetle or an accurate reproduction of a two-headed fetal skeleton...Umm..then...I guess this is the shop for you?

While I was walking back I saw this lamp post ad for a show at the Museum of Contemporary Art and thought "Well there's my next adventure".




















When I got home I checked the gallery's website only to be doubly rewarded.

PS - Later I had dinner with two of my cousins who go to Santa Monica High. I asked them what was new and exciting and they both said "Not much". Then the one of them said "Kanye West played a concert at our school just for the students last night". I found it pretty hard to believe but it was actually true. I think one sign of getting older is being envious of the experiences of younger people instead of older people. Great.