How funny! I'm going to a town I have been before, Calico Rock in Arkansas, population 900~, around Thanksgiving for the second time as a halfway place for meeting relatives. Nothing weird in the sense of those Deja Boo pictures (WTF?) but it's filled with old industrial junk from its better days -- I'll post pictures here if I can remember this time.

Cottbus in Germany was pretty weird.


I was there with a band I was doing sound for, before the gig, we walked for a while in the town and we noticed that everyone looked either like skinheads, shaved heads or really really tall and fit.
It seemed that it was written on our heads that we weren't locals, it was a very strange feeling.
Most of the girls were 2 meters high, with massive shoulders.
And for the gig, nobody turned up, the venue was almost empty, apart from a few skineheads again, drinking beers at the bar.
That town was the most inhospitable place I've ever seen.

Those pictures of Morecambe make me want to schedule a 2-week vacation there.

A paradise for the depressive photog in me.

Adam CR wrote:These dead industrial (dead-fishing I suppose in Grimsby's case) towns are all very (un)well, but they are tiny (massive) oceans of paradise compared the WORST PLACE IN ENGLAND that is Morecambe.

Morecambe is pure, fucking hell-on-sea.

Looks like a Silent Hill set.

burun wrote:Those pictures of Morecambe make me want to schedule a 2-week vacation there.

A paradise for the depressive photog in me.

Been to Asbury Park recently? Makes Morecambe look like Monaco.

vockins wrote:Been to Asbury Park recently? Makes Morecambe look like Monaco.

No car, so no go.

It's on the list, though, for when my shooting partner and I rent a car in a few weeks.

When I was on tour this past summer with Blame Game (EA board member Wiggins band) we stayed at this place in Milwaukee that was amazing. First off the guy was amazingly nice, being in a touring band himself he hosted bands at his house many nights a week. He cooked us some amazing curry, gave us beer, and let us look at his rather impressive record collection.

What made this house strange/amazing was two things:

First the shrine to Williw Nelson that was the living room...Every single thing in this room was Willie related...the picture does not do it justice.


Then the coup de grace....the bathroom. The walls are covered with signed polaroids from touring bands that are taken with the polaroid camera which is helpfully hung right by the john. All four walls of this bathroom were 95% covered with pictures of shit.


All of this, plue we got the rare treat of drinking Old Style.

I think the single weirdest place I've ever been is maybe inside of Buckingham Fountain here in Chicago, during the breif period where it was under construction and not filled with water, back in maybe '94. Some friends and I got inside of it and walked around underground in its bowels where the pumps are and there are deposits of some sort (calcium?) forming stalactites all over the place. Great place to hang out and smoke if you're into that sorta thing.

Some other pretty weird places...

Inside "The Armory" here in Chicago when it was immediately pre-demolition and in a state of heavy disarray. Some friends and I broke in and looked through what seemed like everything. The only really exciting thing we found was that some guy had a couple Playboys in his desk, which of course we took. In general, it was like a big garbage dump for office-type stuff. I guess they figured since they were demolishing it, there was no point in actually throwing stuff into dumpsters or whatnot?

Hanging out on the runway at a military base, with a Harrier performing a vertical landing and takeoff about 100 or 200' away. Boy are those things loud!!!

In a 0%-white baptist church on the west side of Chicago where the preacher was passionately advocating violence as the proper response to a corrupt world.

Inside several of the rat rooms at the National Institutues of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration.

On the catwalk of the United Center. Holy frick is that a long way down!

Climbing up the fire escapes of highrise buildings in downtown Chicago to do on their roofs. Not *super* tall buildings, but a good 30 or 40 stories. The scariest part is at the very top, making the transition from the fire escape onto the actual roof.

Hey Dimpfelmoser, those pics reminded me a lot of a building here in Chicago that some friends and I used to go to in 1992/93, a gigantic building down on the near-South side (Chinatown) that was some sort of factory that had been abandonded because of structural failure... it would go something like this...

Walk up the stairs in a pitch-black concrete stairwell, using a lighter to see. Go up a few floors. Walk out of the stairwell into a gigantic room not unlike a floor of a parking garage. Be really careful because the floor was only intact for a few feet along the exterior walls... the center of the room (or maybe 80% of the room really, not just the center) had broken free and was floating in place held only by the steel infrastructure, with the concrete flooring having been completely severed. It was a good 2 feet drop from the floor to the collapsed sections of floor. The building was abandoned and condemned because, presumedly, it could collapse completely at some point. Boy were we stupid!!

Then we'd walk up higher and throw rocks and bricks through what windows were still intact. And then go on the roof and throw cinderblocks into the river.

That building was awesome. I'm sure there are still plenty of places like that throughout the city, especially heading South.

Actually, now that I think of it, Philly feels kinda like that all over the place, too.

scott wrote:On the catwalk of the United Center. Holy frick is that a long way down!

Climbing up the fire escapes of highrise buildings in downtown Chicago to do on their roofs. Not *super* tall buildings, but a good 30 or 40 stories. The scariest part is at the very top, making the transition from the fire escape onto the actual roof.

How exactly do you get to see all of this stuff? Are you a firefighter or what?

Holland.It`s a beautifull country,but I find the people a bit creepy.
Seeing and talking to them gave me chills.