Tonight I spun at, as Electric Six has so eloquently put it in the past, the "Gay Bar". Damn, those boys & girls are demanding.
However, Wednesday was lots of fun. Got to meet up with Quiescence (thanks for lending me more cds!), Sid, and lots of other fun people, including my bf Zi
The Eyes Without A Face was stunning on the big screen. It really is the ultimate elegant French horror movie. Thank god Billy Idol was still in diapers when the movie was made (no, not last year, silly! 1959...ooh...bitchy!) so he couldn't contribute the title song. The amazing vilianess in her black pvc trenchcoat (remember, this was in 1959) and the stunning heroine Simone, in her white face mask and beautiful white flowy lace robes should make this every goth girl's fantasy flick. With justice for all dramatically and beautifully dealt out. The night ended with a couple of drinks at my across-the-street-from-my-house-pagan-pub River Gods, and too much absinthe back at my house afterwards. Sweet (and vivid) dreams!
For those who are enjoying the recent Quiznos sub TV commercials and those chinchillas with undulating eyes, i suggest you take a little trip to
rather good, the site of the guy who made them. Apparently he has a BBC TV show in the UK, and does lots of music videos...make sure you see his Laibach video with the goose-stepping kittens. You may be amused. Oh, and the naughty hedgehog video.
More later. Big wishes for happiness, health and a large dose of naughtiness to all who make it over to my silly little journal.
However, Wednesday was lots of fun. Got to meet up with Quiescence (thanks for lending me more cds!), Sid, and lots of other fun people, including my bf Zi
The Eyes Without A Face was stunning on the big screen. It really is the ultimate elegant French horror movie. Thank god Billy Idol was still in diapers when the movie was made (no, not last year, silly! 1959...ooh...bitchy!) so he couldn't contribute the title song. The amazing vilianess in her black pvc trenchcoat (remember, this was in 1959) and the stunning heroine Simone, in her white face mask and beautiful white flowy lace robes should make this every goth girl's fantasy flick. With justice for all dramatically and beautifully dealt out. The night ended with a couple of drinks at my across-the-street-from-my-house-pagan-pub River Gods, and too much absinthe back at my house afterwards. Sweet (and vivid) dreams!
For those who are enjoying the recent Quiznos sub TV commercials and those chinchillas with undulating eyes, i suggest you take a little trip to
rather good, the site of the guy who made them. Apparently he has a BBC TV show in the UK, and does lots of music videos...make sure you see his Laibach video with the goose-stepping kittens. You may be amused. Oh, and the naughty hedgehog video.
More later. Big wishes for happiness, health and a large dose of naughtiness to all who make it over to my silly little journal.
how great that you had a groovy spin session. it reminds me how much i miss the scene in boston. sooo many places to hang out and dance, do all sortsa cool queer activities, really be involved et all. there is stuff here, and i don't do enough of it, but its a very different vibe. ah, well, too much reminiscing is dangerous.
as for my wee pupsters - you know, i wish that they discounted earlier counter cultures in some sort of grasp for their own sense of rebellious authenticity, but i fear its something far more sinister. seriously, these kids are among the most homogenized folks i have ever seen. their attitude towards school seems to be much more the consumer model - i pay money, you tell me stuff, i regurge in paper, you give me A. intellectual curiousity seems to be at an all time low - its shocking to me! i remember in high school we used to debate philosophy, watch underground/cult movies, and everyone knew about at least the big counterculture figures of yore. now even the punk or goth kids (and those are few) tend not to know about the history of their own style. of course, there are exceptions from my few beloved freak geniuses to the mainstreamers with curious, clever minds, but on the whole there is little intellectual energy. to me, these discussions are relevant to life, to thinking, to growing. to many of them, its the hour and fifteen minutes to survive before lunch, a nap, and binge drinking. woo.
not to be apocalyptic, because there is always hope. i firmly believe that even if you don't see kids grow before yr eyes, if you challenge them it will spark growth - or at least questioning. and yet ... i don't know ... maybe its the current entertainment industry or the megacorping of so many things ... maybe because these are 80s babies. but, when no one in the class gets even the tiniest aha moment out of a disucssion of Marxism and ideology - not even to oppose it - then i am concerned. however, the discussion did liven up once we got going, so perhaps by the end of this semester we can get a good game of name that ideology going.
wow - what a ramble!!
and dude - the spongemonkeys? - classic! love that sight.