April 18, 2006

• More successful than whom? If it's the general population then perhaps that's because they have parents who indulged them in that sort of nonsense, which means they might be more likely to also pay for their college education. Poor inner city youth don't seem to be well-represented in the throngs of goth culture.
• I remember when I was 12 years old, & Goths were the new big thing. Now when I see them, along with Punks, in the street, I get the same feeling I get when I see people dressed as Charlie Chaplin. I think 'join us in the 21st century'.
• Old Goths are terrible (although I still wear a lot of black, just give the eyeliner a miss these days), but the young 'uns, good on em I say. Self-harm though? Bollocks to that. All my goth chums were cheerful little blighters.
• gother ye rosebuds while ye may
• I don't know about the general run, but there are three goth girls who work in my building and hang out in the smoking area and are just supremely luscious. Often I ask myself: how does a nearly 40, bald, bspectacled, dandyish ex-fratboy who may or may not look a lot like Hunter Thompson impress these pale-skinned, ebon-haired, big-booted vixens? The answer is, invariably and sadly, "he doesn't."
• Start reading Byron and Shelley while you're smoking. Or, switch to a meerschaum pipe with a tiny skull engraved on the side.
• I'd hate for them to think I was trying too hard, though. That'd be worse than just being the leering dork with the colorful ties and the glossy head.
• MonkeyFilter: worse than just being the leering dork with the colorful ties and the glossy head.
• tattoo a skull on that glossy head.
• Tattoos are on the official MissusFes Banned List, along with motorcycles, cocktail waitresses, that "E" drug all the kids are taking these days, giant bowls of M&M's for dinner, fartlighting in the house, potato cannons, waitresses (non-cocktail), hosting WWII re-enactments, going "commando", and teaching the children the various and proper uses of the F-bomb.
• But, strangely, hitting on the Goth chicks at the office is not...
• Well, "hitting on" them might be something of an overstatement.
• But fartlighting outside the house is A-OK, right? Helloooooo summatime! *brrap* *whoosh*
• stop, drop and roll, dude!
• > giant bowls of M&M's for dinner couldn't you turn them round and eat a giant bowl of w&w's?
• OK, I can get behind Missus Fes on most of that - but no WWII re-enactments?
• and she requires you to wear underpants????
• I don't know about the general run, but there are three goth girls who work in my building and hang out in the smoking area and are just supremely luscious. Often I ask myself: how does a nearly 40, bald, bspectacled, dandyish ex-fratboy who may or may not look a lot like Hunter Thompson impress these pale-skinned, ebon-haired, big-booted vixens? You could always try this route.
• but no WWII re-enactments? Not since the "incident." I have a notable friend with a truly prodigious collection of militaria. she requires you to wear underpants???? Well, you know, in case of I'm in an accident. Plus, even I admit, I gotta have the support. I can't be walking around like the innards of some pinkish grandfather clock - it's over here! It's over there! Forget that - I firmly believe in properly bungie-ing down a load for travel. try this route. Subtle!
• Monkeyfilter: The innards of some pinkish grandfather clock
• tick...tock...tick.... cuckoo! cuckoo! cuckoo!
• it's over here! it's over there! heehee!
• **GramMa stops laughing, falls to the floor wheezing and clutching her chest
• Poor inner city youth don't seem to be well-represented in the throngs of goth culture. Definitely not well represented, but there are some present. Not every gothling is a spoiled suburban white kid wearing a $150 blouse and $20 eyeliner. Although, I'm still kinda creeped out when I see a nubile, Nubian youth trying to do the Golden Cast thing, I must admit.
• Yeah, the nice thing about Goth and other non-mainstream styles of dressing is that they can usually be carried off with a minimal layout of cash. A lot of the gear looks homemade. As a teen I was into the Cyndi Lauper/Molly-Ringwald-in-Pretty-in_Pink look, for pretty much the same reason; I couldn't afford anything else.
• Goth chicks - all right!
• I don't know about the Goth kids today (or what Goth even means today), but *every single one* of the Goth kids from the 1980s that I knew were frighteningly intelligent and very very cool, and I'm talkin' from all parts of the country. All of them went on to great academic achievement, much more so than myself. I decided that if I ever had a kid that turned Goth in their teen years, I would be thrilled.
• Goth chicks were the reason I was a Goth. That and an affinity with all things dark, obv...
• I had to google 'golden cast' but I am still not sure if I get it....its um...a clothing company? right?? goth is fun, goth is cool, goth is sexy, woohoo!
• a goth is but a hippie in black
• Golden Cast is from "Vampire: Gothling Nerd Pastime the Masquerade". It's taken from a minor character in Queen of the Damned who is an African-American biker. He has golden skin since he's a vampire. Someone trying to pull this look off in real life will use sparkling golden makeup. They generally look like a cross between an Oscar statue and a very stylish clown with fangs. As with most goth fashions, it can either be very sexy or very creepy.