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November 10th, 2009
03:05 pm - oh noes, she's been "thinking" again...
on days like this i have a lot of free time.
which means i have time to think.
usually i'll think of something like philosophy, life, death, all that boring crap.
which is also usually defeated by blasting a little Dr Steel an then I can get back to being fun!
today I've had free time to think about goth.
I wish I could share all my recent discoveries and epiphanies, but that'd take days to type up (I'm a fast thinker) and I'd probably forget the majority of it
anyway, the one thought that stood out to me today is "there are the goths that wear ankhs and then there are the goths who know what they are" </only half metaphorical>
basically branching off of "people that say "I'll wear this, it looks cool, it's goth, what fun!" and the people that care a bit less about the fashion and appearance and more about the mindset and meanings of things. Especially things considered classically goth"
or maybe even the things that aren't considered goth but probably should be? things that are influences and meaningful that have gone overlooked or forgotten...
Maybe that doesn't make sense to you, you might have to know all the other thoughts that buzzed around in order for it to.
  
but it never fails, i always return to the same thought, no matter the subject (steampunk, goth, even "art" sometimes) it's just a word.
what does it do? well like all words it has a meaning, a definition, and like some words that meaning or definition is arguable. Or there are multiple that can coexist and it can be many things at once and still fit in. 10 pounds can be £10, 10 hits, 10 lb, etc. but what is all of this doing relying on a word. You don't build a mansion on an old, rotting pier. Maybe the pier is called "foundation" or you were told it was a strong foundation or maybe you just like the way the pier looked, a lot of other people like that pier, but would you really live in that heavy mansion?? It's not right. You would build it on a strong foundation, where maybe the foundation isn't as popular as the pier, it's stronger, it can be put where you want it, you can make it your own, and you have nothing to fear, no worry of fitting into the pier. </full on metaphorical>
figure it out? the mansion is your goth (steampunk, artistic, etc.) lifestyle. The pier is the word goth (steampunk, art, etc) Maybe your house is small enough to fit on he pier. go for it. it's a lovely view. but the larger and more hardcore your lifestyle the more dangerous it is to try to fit on the pier.
it's cool. you can name your foundation "Goffy" if you wish, you can name it whatever you want. and hey, you can still visit the pier and hangout with the other goth kids there, but what's the use of a word if it's going to be so shaky?
(a friend sent me these pics, said they're from http://www.blackwaterfall.com/viewall.php )
Now, boys and girls, it's time to go get "What is Goth?" by Voltaire and "Gothic Charm School" by Jillian Venters (?)
Both amazing and if you're still shaky about the meaning of Goth, Voltaire's book CAN help! and i understand this post CAN sound a little bit anti-goth (the word "goth" that is) and it ISN'T please, know that! I will continue to use the word goth, even to define myself as I do steampunk, too. this is an observation of a simple "word" meaning so much more than what it defines, and that maybe that's wrong, that we rely too much on the words and labels and forget what it is sometimes.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/roshi/palefaces/thoughtful.gif) thoughtful
Current Music: what? stop using the word goth?? are you nuts?! I love using it! =D
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November 9th, 2009
12:05 pm - VGCats. They has it right again. Gamers.
the truth!
Clicky clicky! make big!
Gamers! I remember being a gamer! i remember paying real games. then.... I'm not sure what a viva pinata is, or who cooking mama is, but it doesn't look... like real games...
Current Music: beats antique - break me
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November 8th, 2009
07:41 pm - just rambling...
I've spammed my usual sites enough today and yesterday, I thought I'd take it out on LJ
so these are just things.
My friends = amazing (that's you guys, too)
i must never ever again underestimate free middle eastern music! \m/ er... *shimmy* er, something....
we have the blog up for SPATS, but not much on it
yesterday REPO! turned 1 year old! (hence the celebratory userpic)
we're meeting next week to discuss Firestorm cafe and books (@ firestorm) wanting to redecorate "Victorian fairytale" style- in other words... you guessed it. and they want our help- they said something about the Asheville skyline with airships docked to monuments and such.
Fun fun!
we met last night at chameleon's, got some planning and job-assigning done for SPATSFEST 2011 (yes it's over a year away, in January)
I'm in charge of (but not soloing I hope) decor and con-stuff: badges, handouts, lanyards, swag, etc.
I'm also leading the Dr Steel Toy Soldier Recruitment then, too
We want Abney Park to play, we do not know how possible that is, given all other specs of the event I'd say not very.
we will almost DEFFINATELY have Hellblinki, we can't not have them and aether knows they love the crap outta our events we pull together.
OH!
speaking of Hellblinki!!
Wednesday is Hellblinki's 10th birthday! There's an ALL AGES show at Rocket Club at 7 or 7:30 i forget.... with PUPPETS!!!!
I am SO there!
good bye.
(p.s. the guy with the puppets has the worlds coolest shoes- patchwork boots. I need those boots. he was at victorian uprising, sadly not with puppets. We gotta him in whatever we throw next!!)
(p.p.s we're eating pancakes tonight.
pancakes made with Egg Nog instead of milk. *droooooool*
Current Music: Emilie Autumn - Liar
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November 6th, 2009
04:25 pm
i know i haven't been the world's best etsy seller, and it's been foreveh since i listed anything, but I'm now taking custom hairclip orders! Leather color, styles (which I'll be making a chart of) and a small charge (50 cents!) for extra additions: ones you might have seen before on me are watch faces, zippers, feathers, clock hands, and other little random bits, really any little things I find that i think would look alright sticking out of a hairclip.
Just thought I'd let this out and when I get some time, I'll make some charts, an inventory of my supply stock, and lists of what all can be used and make the listings for hairclips, and seperate 50 cent listings for add-ons
Current Music: Oingo Boingo - Weird Science
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November 3rd, 2009
01:44 pm - can I ask you something??
I'm a bit busy with NaNoWriMo to do it this month, so it would have to wait until later...
I went a very lovely half rant/half argumentative editorial article of observations about "post-metal" just now.
It reminded me of the LOVELY articles I used to write in middle school. The school's first ever paper (i.e. newspaper with articles written by students as opposed to the one sheet "newsletter" on "recycled paper" (the stuff that got messed up in the printer so they used the other side for their newsletters)) came out about half way through my last year there. We made one a month so I only got to make like 4 or 5 papers but I made MANY more articles. My teacher loved them! I kick brass at this kind of crap! It's fiction I suck at. Anyhow, I REALLY missed doing that crap and thought "I could still write them, it'd just be pointless" well it's a little less pointless if I posted them online... I have a blogspot I've not used but on or two posts and this, which isn't doing a lot either.
So I ask you question now!! Should I post them here (and they be here together WITH any other personal/sharing posts I make) or put them on the blogspot?? (where they wouldn't bother you if you didn't care too much about them, which I don't expect you to, but if you did, they'd be far away!)
So what do you think???
It's not like I have an amazing list of friends to show off here either, just thought posting them would make the feeling of making these articles a little less pointless, you know?? I'm mainly making them for me, honing skills further; getting some writing done can't be a bad thing for my poor little minuscule hardly-existent poorly-executed skills that people inexplicably continue to compliment.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/roshi/palefaces/curious.gif) curious
Current Music: Bella More - Where Shadows Lie
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October 30th, 2009
08:07 pm - Sepiachord cd
This.
You need it.
http://www.sepiachord.com/cdannounce.htm
forgot all about ordering it and it arrived today.
Wonderful, pleasent surprise in a very crappy day.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/roshi/palefaces/bouncy.gif) excited
Current Music: Abney Park - Until the Day I Die
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02:51 pm - I resign from Halloween!
So if I hadn't said it already, i want you to know I hate the universe.
We're all adults here (well, except for me technically, but not my point)
Nature is always waiting until I have a nice big project to work on and BAM! Once again victim to something my male friends can't help but mock. I want them to try it out for month see how they like it. ... ANYHOOO! Since... THAT happened AND the party I was going to got canceled and there was no chance in hades I was going to be able to finish my "costume" I decided to resign from Halloween altogether this year. Sure, I'll wear black and listen to goth rock and eat candy, but that's not a holiday for me, that's everyday
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(okay, did not originally mean to reference Ministry, but now that song's stuck in my head)
SO in my boredom and lack of plans I'm getting some serious movie watching out of the way before NaNoWriMo hits!
(btw I finished the outline for my story Mythopoeia! There's zombies and witch doctors and vampires and steampunk technology in an alternate 1876! Fun!)
First up for movies is Tank Girl then Time Bandits then... I don't know what after that, I'll have o see what Josh has that I haven't seen, point is I'll be catching up on the times, man! Maybe Rocky Horror if I can! =O
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October 28th, 2009
02:25 pm
What I love about geekiness is that I can still be goth. Very few things mix with goth. It's a strange, fragrant oil, where most thinks are shallow, uinterestingly-cluttered water and geek is the worlds best emulsifier.
Surfactants = love.
(a point I made on Facebook inspired by a shirt I saw that read "%20 The Final Frontier" and the fact that I GET that makes me a nerd, no? And the fact that I LOVE that makes me a geek, no??)
Oh please tell me YOU get it!
%20...
Anybody??
COME ON!
(and I chose that userpic because, well, anyone who know V knows he's a total geek!! <3 )
Current Music: Screw the Okampa!
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October 16th, 2009
11:36 am - HA!
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October 15th, 2009
01:40 pm - Dog Tag
Long story short, I had a bit if a "Job Rant" on facebook.
Here's how it ended.
A happy ending! =D
"so in times like these I grasp the dog tag (and newly acquired guitar pick) hanging around my neck. What once was a reminder of a promise to learn an instrument has turned into a reminder that I can do anything.
Just *one more* reason I have to thank the amazing people of Abney Park for.
Maybe they don't know it, but the way things work, how small things affect more, bigger things, it's all their doing."
Frak, this thing is always going to be important, isn't it?? :)
probably the quickest I could sum this up is it has to do with a talk I had with Robert at D*C in 08. Oh there's much much much more to it, but we don' want to be here all day, do we??
Oh, do you not know?? Yeah, You can pick out the majority of the importance in that paragraph but (if my math is right) this is day 406 of wearing it. Don't look at me like I'm obsessed fangirl! Well, I am, but there's reason I wear it, is basically what I'm saying. =D
*Edit:
Okay, I'll throw in a couple more details, cos they're a little important
it's major that I learn violin because I give up on everything, and from my point of view suck at everything
to get mooshy and fangirly, roberts words mademe try again and I promised I wouldn't give up no matter how long it took, so I needed a reminder, so I just... chose the tag I was wearing at the time ^o^
so that's one point on how it turned into how I realized I can actually do crap!
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