haunterofthedark

Meltdown is missed

Meltdown (its a goth thing) magazine was the UK's biggest selling magazine for Goths. That does not mean that it was anything more profitable than a labour of love by its editor, Natasha Scharf: according to the site, over the years, she ... had many offers from companies to buy out meltdown.

If you subscripted to that publication, with its unbiased...
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(`.Album-of-the-Day.`)

'Violator'
Depeche Mode(1990)

~~~~ How to Navigate My Journal ~~~~[

I purchase a lot of tat, a hell of a lot in fact. I have an amazing collection of tat. Army surplus tat is a particular favourite. I keep my oil painting rags in fireproof ammo crates, have enough pairs of hand and leg cuffs to supply a small Police State, often wear died black scrim nets for that mercenary-ghoul-for-hire-out-on-the-town look, have black camo netting...
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(`.Lyrics-of-the-Day.`)

'The Prisoner'
The Clash, album: 'Black Market Clash' (1980)

The prisoner meets the muppet hi-fi
North of Watford Junction
We get in but we don't have fun
An' we leave before the truncheons
So it's back to watch the day to day
Saga of working people
Hanging out the washing and clipping coupons
And generally being decent

Johnny too bad meets Johnny be...
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I just finished writing this very short 'gothic fragment'. It's the dream I was having just before I was woke up this morning. I don't know what happens next.... Strange dreams, guess it was something I ate....

(`.GORGE: A Fragment.`)

I have gorged myself on the world--as he put it--Ive stood over her corpse, bleed her dry, picked clean her bones and sucked-out every last...
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