What is goth?

[reddragdiva]

It's a state of mind. And it was invented by Lord Byron. On absinthe.

Comments

[trayce.livejournal.com]

While eating Marmite.

[tintintin.livejournal.com]

In the dark. In a churchyard. With a cat.

Sounds like the worst game of Cluedo ever. ;)

[jozafeen.livejournal.com]

At Halloween. Wearing velvet.

[kits-the-dm.livejournal.com]

with a Cure CD sandwiched between yer hand stapled and yer forehead. :)

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

While composing angsty poetry and smoking a clove-ciggie (while adjusting his PVC pants that were riding-up his arse-crack).

[reddragdiva]

Yes, adjusting them to make them ride up further.

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Seeing as he's already pretty far up there himself, I imagine he'd be resembling a human Klein-bottle. :-P

[reddragdiva]

"He's so up himself he can do his lipstick from behind."

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

*laughs* :->
[Ya learn something new every day.]

[kits-the-dm.livejournal.com]

You both forgot the cowboy hat!

Reductio ad absurdum

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

If Lord Byron was alive today, he'd be wearing PVC corsets and chrome platform boots, smoking cloves, dying his hair unnatural colours and listening to VNV Nation and Wolfsheim.

Re: Reductio ad absurdum

[ladykathryn.livejournal.com]

He would have made a terribly pretty goth boy.

Re: Reductio ad absurdum

[kellydamnit.livejournal.com]

But would the club foot have prevented him from wearing Nice Boots?

Re: Reductio ad absurdum

[ladykathryn.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing probably not (though he might use it as outward evidence of How Scarred and Tragic His Soul Is) - they can do remarkable things with orthopedics these days.

Re: Reductio ad absurdum

[reddragdiva]

Given the height of some New Rocks, I think people would hardly notice.

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

while I'm thinking about it... any news? :)

[reddragdiva]

I'll give 'em a yell shortly!

[baralier.livejournal.com]

Bleeding edge goth (http://www.straker.net.au/) apparently (unsure if the pun is intentional)

[seahorsemystic.livejournal.com]

with his wonderful friends, Mary Shelly and Percy. And Mary invented Frankenstein with the use of absinthe or really laudlum, an opium based drink.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Laudenum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudanum).

[reddragdiva]

Whet wes thet?

[seahorsemystic.livejournal.com]

yes, that's it! :)

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Horace Walpole might have reason (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_novel) to disagree with you on that point.

[reddragdiva]

He probably doesn't even have the original Bauhaus albums.

[hestia.livejournal.com]

Nah. It's much much older than that. It started with Kali-Ma, Black Mother Time and her skull necklace doing everything we're not supposed to and making it divine.

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

If she had skull necklaces, she wasn't a goth but a New York hipster. She probably wrote for VICE Magazine as well.

[gths.livejournal.com]

Wasn't he that guy that fucked everyone?

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

That so fails to narrow anything down.

[megabitch.livejournal.com]

*contemplates taking absinthe chocolates to the next DWCon* There's a chocolatiere near here that makes them.

[kest]

should I put that in the FAQ?

[reddragdiva]

Absolutely.

(You may note in a second paragraph that some differ on this.)