Transcend
The night of last was Transcend. For those of you who don't know, Transcend is a suspension event. That is to say an event where people have hooks (or a singular hook) put through some part of their body (or many parts) and are suspended in the air by them. It was interesting to say the very least.
To begin with I was a little tense. I didn't know what to expect. I've seen this stuff on Ripley's before but never this intimately. The venue it was held at in St Kilda was normally a bondage/fetish venue but The Hanged Man team had hired it out for the night, so it was all dim lighting, incence, caging, projections of random piercings (P.A up close...no thankyou!) and music which I swear was meant to stress you out or put you to sleep. One of the two.
Haha I must have been the only person there with only my ears pierced!! What a loser!
Most of the suspensions were from the back--which eventually, I could deal with seeing--but there was one guy who was suspended by his knees!!! Not too fun to watch. But it seemed as if he'd done it before because he was chewing gum and it appeared as though he was just (is it possible?!) going through the motions!!! So that put me at ease a little.
I think about 8 or so people were suspended. And for each of them, it seemed that the main difficulty was getting themselves up off the ground. Once they were up there they were suprisingly chilled: joking with the crowd, describing how they felt and asking to be pushed. The whole thing was not as horrific as I had originaly anticipated. Though the suspension 'tug of war' wasn't too delightful. It aint easy to watch 2 girls pulling at their conjoint rope with the hooks in their backs, seeing whose rope will break first.
We weren't able to actually see the hooks getting thrown or any other piercings because the venue was so tiny. Which was kind of a pity because I wanted to see one of the girls getting her thigh corset piercings done. The end result was awesome. Aww I'd love to get a corset piercing! Shame they are so temporary.
In between suspensions were a few bondage/fetish acts. Harnesses, gas masks, unbelieveably petite naked women suspended by ropes--the works. One guy kept lying down on the ground as girls walked over him in stilettoes. Perhaps I wouldn't have minded seeing the bulge in his pants grow if he hadn't been old and fat and sleazy looking. Perhaps.
The whole night convinced Pennie to make arrangements with one of The Hanged Man team members to suspend at his own house. She's been looking for a private location for months so it's good that she's finally found somewhere. John, Corey, Danni, Ross and I have been invited to come alone. It's going to be hard to watch because I love that girl so much and will just despise having to see her in that amount of pain...but she wants us there to support her. So it's probably the right thing. I must say, I'm a little more comfortable with her doing it now that I've seen it being done to strangers. I just hope everything goes as well as it possibly can come suspension day.