The New Lex Edo is the one club I'd recommend to anyone, regardless of the type of nightlife they prefer. Kind of divey, but fun and unpretentious, the real draw of the place is Bill Hersey, who has run the place for more than twenty years. Dude is cool. We chatted about how awesome his friend Javier Bardem was in "No Country for Old Men." We both synced with the "Night of the Hunter" parallel. Then he introduced us around and got us some food. Cool place.
Not much of an image, I know.
It is important to note that the next club, Velours, we had to return to twice more to finish filming. Velours is one of the most opulently decorated places you will ever see. The first thing you see is a wall of broken mirrors, hanging in a green marble hallway.
Down the hallway to the left is a line of tables and the dance floor, complete with a respectable stage and hip-looking dj booth, enclosed in a sound-proofed room. To the right is the bar, and past that (a part I did not see until me third visit the following week) is the VIP room, with lush couches, hanging art and much taxidermy. Of particular note were the stuffed peacocks in glass cases.
The DJ booth of the FUTURE.
Opulence.
Badass chandelier.THEN. Then we went to Womb, a club that such and such a club magazine named the second best club in the world. They had a pretty crazy party going on, and we managed to get an English interview, which was nice. Then we shot the space, lord THE SPACE. Womb has it's dance floor, and three lounges on three different floors around it. The top one having it's own party. Yeesh. They barely let me use the light too. It was harrowing, but I think it will make a good feature.
Then we went back to Velours to shoot crowd b-roll.
2AM. We went to the last club, Warehouse, which had a bumping party going on. Lights, crowd, it was very exciting. The light was good enough that I thought I'd be able to get all my club b-roll done here. So I shot for a very long time. The sun was up before we left.
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