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digitaldiscipline · 3 months

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Notably, I was able to return to a particularly intense and interesting dream after waking up and getting back to sleep.

Big fancy fucking corporate party filled with what felt like an extended circle of net.goths and assorted similar types. For those of you who know what Convergence is, imagine that, but in a weirdly buttoned-up hotel, but featuring an even more extravagant array of drugs and booze, of which even I partook - some pills that were the color of Mountain Dew, something that was apparently a combo of oxy, cocaine, and ectasy, and a cannabis-infused pretzel stick.

I was assured they would fuck me up. The only notable effect on dream-me was some dry mouth and an inability to pour the fancy blue and purple liqueurs into their weird glasses to get the proper layering effect the professional bartender did. They tasted like slightly warm slurpees.

Unfortunately, I knew exactly one person there, who I saw for ten seconds and our standard greeting (him throwing me over his shoulder and smacking my ass for the entertainment of others), and I spent 99% of the dream being flirted with and awkwardly not knowing what to do about it, and not catching anyone's name due to the noise of the crowd everywhere.

I also had to drive a small robot (think the mouse droids from the Death Star) to pick up widgets and doo-dads to form a bomb, which was supposed to be detonated underneath some Evil Executive's[1] office as part of the festivities, but nobody would give me good directions as to where he was, where the party was, or how to get anywhere useful, so I spent a lot of time standing around, sweating like a motherfucker in my now-defunct leather duster, and trying not to get drenched by a collapsing downspout in the hotel's lobby pull-through parking area, where several people were standing around to smoke and such.

[pee break]

Managed to get back into the dream, where I ran into @mcmcgreevy and regaled him with most of the above, after randomly encountering a former colleague struggling into some hockey goalie equipment, and regretfully pointing out that I hadn't brought mine with me so he could use it instead.

More drugs, alcohol, and bafflingly frustrating flirtation continued, though I was able to successfully pilot the bomb droid, but the target was in the next room and was unharmed.

[1] Played by Hank Azaria, who was married to Sela Ward, and who was understandably very upset that the bomb damaged his big octopus squishmallow

#dreamshit

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fuckyeahfightlock · 4 years

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What's the most goth outfit you've ever worn? Also I hope you're doing well!

I am actually worse than ever, but I’m eating cookies about it, so it will be fine.

I had a lot of beautiful stuff I used to wear when I was a young, thin, goth club regular (Wednesday, Friday and Saturday! I had a usual table and a usual dancefloor spot and usual colleagues whose names and Looks I knew but who I rarely spoke with [and my usual girls I got ready with and chatted/drank/danced with, of course!]).

I found a photo, not of anything I describe below. This is from Convergence IX (annual net.goth gathering), 2003. So I was 31, and in a Velvet Goldmine moment (hence the silver lashes glued to the top lid of one eye, bottom lid of the other). GOD I LOVED THOSE PANTS.

Oh, those skinny ‘90s/’aughties eyebrows! I still have that hair; I found it when I redid the bathroom last month, along with many other hairpieces. I wonder if some young goth would want them? Meantime I just hung them in the closet.

Some memorable things:

I had a black vinyl bustier/minidress with lenticular insets that looked cute with a tutu under it. My BFF at the time and I cultivated a particular look that had a sort of Lolita silhouette--Giant ponytail falls, narrow waist, flared skirt, platform boots. We felt like superheroes. Tipsy, snarky superheroes.

My favourite skirt was made by a designer in Boston called Eddie Kent, who restyled vintage clothes and had a little boutique in the vintage store I managed for a bit. One of his collections was inspired by Cher, and it was all black and silver; lace and leather and velvet. . .I bought a lot of that collection. The skirt was ankle length, made of angled gores of multiple fabrics so it had a lovely swirling quality. Black velvet, black/silver lace, black lace. . it was lovely. I wore it with a top from the same range, black pleather, fitted, open in front but laced shut (piratical!), with long fishnet sleeves with points down onto the backs of my hands and drapey shoulders I can’t describe. I loved that outfit. Long black and white ponyfalls all down my back, with matching ribbons and flowers or other gewgaws (our motto back then was “I want to put that in my hair!” so we wore circuitboards, playing cards, bits of fur, whatever we liked).

I had two long, drippy sleeved velvet coats I wore with long dresses, including a 1950s black lace ball gown with a faux-bustled back. I cut off the sleeves. It had buttons up the front. With petticoats under it, that dress was a vampire fantasy! One Halloween I wore that with a velvet coat that nipped in my waist (my waist was so tiny!) and styled a wig with piled braids atop looonnng waves, and wove fairy lights all through it. I think I stuck in these black chopstick-things I had, with sprays of slim/stiff paper, I think they were for flower arrangements but they just burst out everywhere like matte-black fireworks. Flowers and ribbons. Fantastic.

LOL I was just thinking about this coffee table book I have about the Mods in 1960s London, which is an oral history full of people who remember the collar on a particular white shirt they wore 30 years earlier. Those are my people. I still have some of my club clothes in the back of the closet, but only for nostalgia purposes. I miss the smell of that club; at long last none of my clothes or hairpieces smell of it anymore.

#ask #personal #goth as fuck!#fashion #nostalgia #1990s goth #long post

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sodomyordeath · 7 years

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Convergance 8 Playlist

Found an old backup while cleaning up

Behold my playlist from Convergence 8 (May 31-June 2, 2002): Montreal with my original comments

Friday:

I'm dedicating that Set to my Grandfather Adolf Würdinger who died a week prier to all that.

-Opening-

The Astonished Eyes of Evening by Cinema Strange (End to End)

Machina Supremacy - Giana Sisters

Uranium 235 - You Spin Me Round

Suspiria - (Now You See ) The Swine (Re-Mix)

Manuskript - The Sun Always Shines On T.V.

Orgy - Blue Monday [1]

Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons

Killing Joke - Eighties (Serious Dance Mix)

Tubeway Army - Cars

Yazoo - Don't Go

Fad Gadget - Ricky's Hand (Single Max) [2]

- Captain Matt's Armada Featuring Axel

(where Trevor writes all the songs and does all the work) [3]-

Ghoultown - RotoRiculous

Reverend Horten Heat - Baddest of the Bad

Waltons - Truck Me Harder

Nekromantix - Demons are a Girls best friend

Batmobile - Transelvanian Express

- Fashion Show Part I [4]-

Mark Stewart - Anger

Converter - I died today (Fisted)

Noisex - K. V. (Live)

- Fashion Show Part II [4]-

Atari Teenage Riot - Sick to death

Esplendor Geometrico - Al-Giaber

Einstürzende Neubauten - Haus der Lüge (Live)

Premature Ejaculation - Pigface Show & Tell / Blue Honey

The Eternal Afflict - Kinski is Dead

- This Ascension [5] -

Nina Hagen - Auf'm Friedhof (Long Version)

Schwefel - Metropolis (12" Version)

Bella Morte - Were Shadows Lie

Dreadful Shadows - Chains (Autumn-Remake '96)

- Bella Morte [6] -

[7]

Gigantor - Everything Counts

Vice Squad - Princess Paranoia

The Normal - TV OD

Ghost Dance - Search Lights

The Vibrators - Disco In Moscow

Joy Division - Dead Souls

Sex Beat - Sex Beat

Misfits - Die My Darling

Killer Barbies - Skulls

Wendy O. - It's My Life

Faith and the Muse - Hallow Hills

9XDEAD - Wild Women

Ghoul Squad - Pogo Is dead

T.S.O.L. - Code Blue

The Brickbats - Zombie Flanders

Rammones - Sheena is A Punk Rocker

The Cramps -Sheena's in a Goth Gang [8]

The Fools - Psycho Chicken

999 - Homicide

Ghoultown - Pale Skin Diva

45 Grave - Partytime (Zombie Version)

Christian Death with Rozz - Deathwish [9]

Bloody Dead And Sexy - Bloody Rose

Der Fluch - Rattengift

Jay Kay - Feuer & Asche

Fliehende Stürme - Das Chaos Brütet

The Rorschach Garden - State Protection

[some more that i don't remember right now]

-The Spectrum closed-

Sunday:

[10]

-DJ Doc-

I was there @ 8:20 and started spinning at 8:25 [11]

1000 Homo DJs - Supernaut

Oomph! feat. Nina Hagen - Fieber

[12]

Flying Lizards - Money

Splatterday - Keine Schmerzen Mehr [13]

Sex Pistols - EMI (Unlimited Edition)

The Damned - Neat Neat Neat

Vampire Beach Babes - Tomb Mau Mau

Ghoultown - Boots of Hell [14]

Electric Frankenstein - Grave Yard Truck Race

Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 - They Only Wants to Eat Your Brain

The Brides - Dress Code Blue

The Vladimirs - Grave Girl

AFI - Last Caress

Baby Horror - El Hotel Del Horror

Action Pact - Suicide Bag

Bordello - Free Ride [15]

Cinema Strange - En Hiver [15]

Bella Morte - Logic [15]

Psychopomps - Badlands

Morbid Poetry - Children of the Eighties

The Merry Thoughts - Boy Sinister

Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 (Short Version)

The Normal - TV OD *

X-Mal Deutschland - Polarlicht

Malaria - Kaltes Klares Wasser [16]

Holy Orange - Pretty Baby

The Rorschach Garden - State Protection *

Alien Skull Paint - Fly With Me

Anne Clark - Abuse

Cat Rapes Dog - Motordead

The Invincible Spirit - Love Is A Kind Of Mystery

Slickee Boys - This Party Sucks

Toy Dolls - Livin La Vida Loca

The Vibrators - Disco In Moscow

Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone [17]

The Stranglers - No More Heroes

P.I.L - The Order of Death

- DJ Mr. Black - [18]

Bella Morte - The Rain Within Her Hands

Crüxshadows - Her Comes The Rain

VNV Nation - [19]

Blutengel - Black Roses

Einstürzende Neubauten - Haus der Lüge

Tears For Fears - Mad World

Depeche Mode - Share The Disease

Pixies - There Is My Mind

- DJ Psyche -

Salome's Wish - Frozen

Faith and the Muse - Running Up The Hill *

Deep Red - Living In Black

Regan - I Am Your Garden

Rhea's Obsession - Memento Mori

Crüxshadows - Cruelty

Written In Ashes - [19]

The Cure - Primary

If/Then - Equal + Opposite

Tapping The Vein - [19]

- DJ Doc -

Alice Cooper - My Generation (Live)

29 Clocks - Psychotic Louie Louie

Dead Kennedy's - California über alles *

Elvis Hitler - Dance of the Living Dead

Motörhead - God Saves The Queen

The Voidoids - Blank Generation

Nina Hagen - Auf'm Bahnhof Zoo

Kiss - God of Thunder [20]

Dee Sniders SMF - The Kids Are Back [21]

Rose Tattoo - Nice Boys

Asylum - System Overload

Sepulerum Mentis - Scary Monsters

Dominator X - Psych Sister

The Redresser - Held Back

Sleepless (br) - Cliche [22]

Antiworld - King of all Monsters

The Plague - Never Die

Strange Boutique - Quicksand Minds

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden

Scarehead - Ha Ha

Voodoo Church - Eyes Scond Dead

Penis Flytrap - Cemetery Girl

De Sade - Venom

Killer Barbies - (The Came From) Mars

Nina Hagen - Viva Las-Vegas [1]

Ghost Dance - Walk In My Shadow

New Days Delay - Glass-Made Savior

Joan Jett - I Love Playing With Fire

Skeletal Family - Promised Land

Texas Terri & the Stiff Ones - Cave Women

Iggy Pop - Lust For Life [23]

The Clash - I Fought The Law

Peter & the Test Tube Babies - Banned From The Pubs

The Exploited - Punk's Not Dead

Rammones - Blitzkrieg Bob

Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The U.K.

The Cramps - Naked Girl falling down the Stairs

Gigantor - Everything Counts

The Cramps - Do The Clam *

Ghoultown - Pale Skin Diva *

Misfits - We Are (138)

T.S.O.L. - Code Blue *

Flesheaters - The Wedding Dice

Stiffs Inc. - Sad Song

Gun Club - Sex Beat

Andi Sex Gang & Mark Almond - The Hungry Years [24]

Birthday Party - Release The Bats

Virgin Prunes - Baby Turns Blue

Cinema Strange - Speak Marauder (Unreleased Version)

Specimen - Beauty of Poisin

Ausgang - I'm A Horse

Alien Sex Fiend - Silver Machine

Lords of the New Church - Method To My Madness

Misfits - Last Caress [25]

Dr. Feelgood - Milk and Alcohol

Screaming Dead - Paint it Black [26]

- the end-

* Request

[1] Blame JAK for that one [2] Dedicated to DJ Ricky Prinz, Munich's finest [3] What an opening Act, Axel is really a Modern Day Sex God TM [4] They were doing there own music for the actual fashion show [5] Sadly I wasn't able to enjoy that show as much as I wanted. I was fighting with a headache. And had to re-sort all my CDs after drooping 'em all to the floor earlier @ when we got the notice that everything should start 1 hour before schedule [6] To be honest I didn't like most of what I have of BM on CD but that Show altered my view 180 degree. You guys ROCK. I haven't seen that much energy since Antiworld last year Herbstnächte. BM is a band we should really look forward to see in Europe. [7] Sorry from here on it isn't in order and I'm not sure if I got all songs 'couse I wasn't able to write down the playlist [8] And don't forget what Sheena became [9] Should be in Order from here on [10] Well sometimes strange things are happening an so I had an other set to do on sunday don't try to find me on the web site it wasn't officially announced [11] Just o entertain the crew while doing last preparations [12] Some more songs that I haven't written down just to get a feeling for the volume and decided after that to go as loud as that damned thing will let me go. [13] A local Munich Punk/Power POP band that were playing @ the new years party I did with Ricky earlier that year. [14] Who ever will do Convergence 9 try to get Ghoultown [15] A little tribute to some of the great bands we had the pleasure to here the last days [16] That one goes to Miss Janette [17] That one goes to Maria my beloved one who was turning heads all weekend long [18] Thanks to Mr. Black and Psyche for giving me a break and to Sexbat for checking back from time to time to see if I need an other [19] Can't read that one, sorry :-( [20] This one is for the best Stage Manager on the planet [21] For Brian, not exactly Twisted Sister but the best I could do for you. [22] Time to honor the best Masks [23] From now on it's dedicated to Bella Morte [24] From now on it's dedicated to Purp an all others who still hold the flag of deathrock up. [25] This one was a request of the bartender girl [26] I wanted to end the night with "Beerdrinkers and Hellraisers" by Motörhead but I forgot it at my hotel room so I ended the night with my preferred version of Paint it Black ;-)

#net.goth #2000s #2002 #canada #goth #gothic #convergence #playlist

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elfyourmother · 6 years

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if you have the time, i was wondering if you have any personal suggestions for researching goth? i kinda consider myself one n i've done a lotta reading but 1) i live in megachurch hq Colorado n i don't know how to find the goths 2) all the books n essays i've found have been SUPER white and SUPER skinny (im former but not latter) & i /know/ goth exists beyond this tiny selection of ppl and that goth welcomes more than just that type of person n i wanna read different experiences?

Honestly this is hard for me to answer I’ll be real w you. Because when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was a baby bat just getting into the subculture it was a totally different situation. there was no “researching” per se like I literally just started dressing weird and hanging out with ppl lol. the internet wasn’t ubiquitous then to the point that goths who hung out online actually had their own label lol (net.goths). I mean there was alt.gothic on Usenet and...uh. email lists. So I got involved literally from ppl I met irl bc there was massive overlap with the local goth scene and the other circles I ran in (witchy/queer/rennies/nerds). I found out about bands from digging thru CDs at Tower Records and I found out about parties/events bc I hung out in brick and mortar goth boutiques and Vampire the Masquerade LARPs. This is a generational gap thing and I literally don’t know what to tell you. I didn’t read anything I literally just met ppl...irl...heh. I can’t tell you how to be goth or w/e. first of all there’s no one way to do it. there’s 9000 subgenres of music and style that no one can agree on. I’m heavily into Victorian/Edwardian goth fashion and darkwave music and you may not like that shit. It’s all good. expose yourself to as much as possible. In some ways you have it easier than I did coming up bc Spotify exists. it depends on the area, there’s a ton of goth FB groups (which yeah FB I know but I’ve met some cool ppl). there are goth scenes everywhere even if some are on life support. even in fundie focus on the family ass colorado. I promise. you just have to look. also I highly rec gothiccharmschool on tumblr for baby bats and newbs bc she’s been around forever (I actually found her site years ago before tumblr was a thing) and she knows what’s up. she’s also really sweet and gives good advice.

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