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NotN: WEF moots Cthulhu-led recovery.
Cracked to MAD: HA-ha!

The teenagers have new haircuts. It appears eighties haircuts are back in fashion (though dyed black), as are skinny-fit polyester shirts (also black). They refuse to believe this; we'll save pointing them at Sheena Easton videos until they're really asking for it. (Then they'll adopt the look, but in black. "My baby takes the emo train ...")

Tonight, nyecamden and I are off to Vagabonds. You?

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From:

drzero.livejournal.com

I'm reasonably certain that the next line is:

"He drinks naught but absinthe and then.."

From:

reddragdiva

Emos are NOT GOTHS despite apparent similarities. Also, their music is actually worse.

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gths.livejournal.com

You can dance to The Cure and actually some of that other stuff. Well, after a fashion.

I see the odd person with their hair done up like that around here. Though I haven't seen any rat-tails. I had a rat-tail. When I was 11 or 12 or something.

From:

mindspillage.livejournal.com

Of course. If emos were goths the line would have been instead "my baby takes the mourning train"...

From:

xlerb.livejournal.com

But I thought it was goths that were Not Goths, and then maybe people like my freshman-year roommate are Not Not Goth, and now I'm confused.

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kineticfactory.livejournal.com

Do goths still do the "I'm not a goth" thing, or do they now say "I'm a goth, not an emo" or something?

From:

greylock.livejournal.com

Don't emos drink absinthe?
I thought it was to emos as Grey Goose is to NY Guidos.

(The Cracked magazine this is, in concept, quite amusing).

From:

sharplittlteeth.livejournal.com

It's convergent evolution. From squid eyes to mopey haircuts, form follows function.

From:

tcpip.livejournal.com

The difference between Goth and Emo? About twenty years.

From:

valkyriekaren.livejournal.com

he writes a mopey poem again
and listens to My Ruin

From:

hairyears.livejournal.com

I remember a former boss - very much the 'strine - talking about teenygoths:

"Aaaaahhh G'day! I remember them, back in Daaaaaaahhhwin: we called 'em Emu kids".

The early 80's were a terrible, terrible time: all the fashion crimes of the 1970's with an extra dose of smug pretension and arrogant consumerism. Also, the hairstyles were very high-maintenance: teenagers primp and preen an inordinate amount already but now... you will never get into the bathroom again. Keep a bucket handy for emergencies.

From:

battlekitty.livejournal.com

It's like glam rock never died...

Oh, wait, it didn't. It just started looking sillier.

From:

reddragdiva

In 1992, hair metal didn't die, it just started wearing a flannel shirt.

From:

xlerb.livejournal.com

I already had my OMGWTF a couple years ago, when the Flashdance sweatshirt thing rose from the grave.

Edited Date: 2009-01-31 04:33 pm (UTC)

From:

kineticfactory.livejournal.com

Are 80s-music-video haircuts and skinny jeans new? I thought the look had been commercialised to death a few years ago with Mormon boy band The Killers, a wave of NME firework indie bands and the third season of The Mighty Boosh, to the point that the hipsters forswore anything "new wave", "angular" or "electro", grew woodsman beards and started playing ukuleles and knitting.

I expect to see breakfast cereal animal mascots wearing stripy tops, thin ties and asymmetrical haircuts any day now; that look is now as cutting edge and "cool" as the 1950s rock'n'roll greaser dude look.