Seasonal Affective Disorder for Goths.

[reddragdiva]

• Any Perth goth could have told you this. Let alone the Melbourne ones.

• Well, that about wraps it up for goth. (Courtesy hirez.) Well-spotted on Deathboy, though.

• Today is Sysadmin Appreciation Day. They need it.

My return to work after a week off has been entirely stress-free, and my Esteemed Cow-Orker did not leave several Annoying Bullshit Traps awaiting my return. All is going well and I am enjoying learning Windows' little foibles. I am also quite pleased that the new NT drone is as keen on 6pm shifts as I am. This paragraph is false.

This week has been busy quiet poor-but-loving domesticity with redcountess, with a visit yesterday evening from cyberneph and greap. This evening I have been in St. Albans, watching arkady bleach her fringe and chatting to her remarkably well-behaved and civilised children. Tomorrow evening redcountess, arkady and I intend to attend deathboy's Garage show. (Print and present the flyer for a quid off and a showbag!) Sunday afternoon, we plan to attend Dr Keen and Dr Trafford's Most Excellent London Historical Stagger.

Comments

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Oddly, the last figure I saw suicides peaking in winter in the northern hemisphere. So I'd be less likely to attribute it to sunlight, but instead too many insipid holiday carols.

Death boy

[twicezero.livejournal.com]

Had a quick, well ok, a long listen to some of their stuff on the website. I didn't like the album samples, but i did like the recent stuff in boxesoftricksandtraps. Kinda stuff i'd wanna hear down the ballroom.
Are their live gigs (a) like the album, (b) like the new tracks or (c) like something different?

Sorry for the pop quiz... thanks for the recomdation

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Mostly I'd say a mixture of (b) and (c); they tend to play the newer stuff (as that was primarily written with the whole band and their respective instruments, as opposed to earlier stuff which was created by Scott as a solo effort), and there's certainly a sense of energy and aggression to a live performance which I think doesn't quite come across quite so well in the recordings as yet.

You should definitely go and give them a chance. They've built up quite a bit of a following in the past year, and they play a lot of little one-off amusement pieces you won't hear anywhere else but at a live show.

And hey - it's only a fiver with a flier. ;-)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

IIRC Emile Durkheim pointed out the seasonal nature of suicides in his famous 1897 study. Ahhh, here's the quote:

"If voluntary deaths increase from January to July, it is not because heat disturbs the organism, but because social life is more intense. To be sure, this greater intensity derives from the greater ease of development of social life in the Summer than in the Winter, owing to the sun's position ..., the state of the atmosphere, etc. But the physical environment does not stimulate it directly; above all, it has no effect on the progression of suicide. The latter depends on social conditions. (Suicide, pp. 121-122)."

It's quite a poignant point and part of Durkheim's general hypothesis that even the most individualistic of all acts actually has a high degree of correlation with social circumstances.

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Iniitially misread title as "Seasonal Defective Disorder for Goths."
Nothing else to say... ;)