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user-inactivated  ·  3451 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Simply Acknowledging Trans People Isn’t Enough. The Media Needs to Change Its Language, Too.

    "going goth" is (for some, not all), just a phase

Humph

Don't mean to derail your thread, it just amuses me that this is the example they chose.





kleinbl00  ·  3451 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fuckin' A

user-inactivated  ·  3451 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What the fuck man? Do you just post every obscure thing you can find in hopes of being able to self reference yourself down the road? This is twice in one week.

kleinbl00  ·  3451 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    The goths were my tribe. Up in Seattle goths could really take it seriously; I mean, 11 months out of the year you can wear all black and suffer not in the slightest. What was interesting was how "tribal" it was - the Vogue goths didn't much talk to the Fenix goths didn't much talk to the Catwalk goths didn't much talk to the MachineWerks goths. I mixed at the Fenix and mixed at the Catwalk and was friends with DJs at the Vogue and MachineWorks. And we'd have massive Goth/industrial bands (Lords of Acid, Die Krupps, Laibach, Front 242) at the Fenix and we'd staff so light on the security, particularly compared to the cover band nights. I asked one of the security guys about it once. He scoffed. "These guys? They're too busy trying to out-cool each other to get in a fight."

    It's been 15 years and I'm still in touch with a lot of those folx.
coffeesp00ns  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    These guys? They're too busy trying to out-cool each other to get in a fight.

... amazing. I love it.

tacocat  ·  3451 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Surgical reassignment as goth remains the stuff of Naziesque experimentation

user-inactivated  ·  3451 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Anna-Varney Cantodea wasn't born a character from a F. W. Murnau movie.

user-inactivated  ·  3451 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I take umbrage to the line "Punks grow out of it."

user-inactivated  ·  3451 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, there are plenty of old punks out there too. I guess the subcultures that don't endure also don't get remembered well enough to serve as examples like that. "New Romantics grow out of it" just doesn't work.

user-inactivated  ·  3451 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Somewhere out there is a man in his fifties rocking a Flock of Seagulls haircut. He has my respect.

kleinbl00  ·  3451 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Bitch, I saw him last weekend at the Whole Foods in Manhattan Beach. Skinny Jeans, pot belly, eyeliner and a Mercedes.

tacocat  ·  3451 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think you saw a former member of Flock of Seagulls

randomuser  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know that it's former. I'm pretty sure they still play aroud here, saw the at Hollywood park after the horse races right before they stopped doing them.