| What it is | What I like | What I don't like |
| Music | visual kei (Luna Sea, X Japan, hide, Sugizo, J, Yoshiki, Baiser, Malice
Mizer, Pierrot, Penicillin, Dir en grey, Angel Dust)
Glam/BritRock: (Queen, Bowie, Eurhythmics, Culture Club) Sterotypical Goth &Goth Favoites: (The Cure, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus, London After Midnight) Industrial etc: (Front 242, Laibach, Skinny Puppy, Ministry) Glam |
Country western
Elevator Music Rap Hip-Hop Anything by Mariah Carey or Celine Dion Alannis Morrissette (to whom I have most likely attributed too many consonants and who was relatively cool when she was on "You Can't Do that on Television") Grunge, Disco, trendy |
| Television & Movies | Addams Family (any medium)
vampire movies (cheesy or not) Covington Cross (which existed for about 2 months) Visual kei concert videos Anime (shoujo, WEIRD, comedy, and some mech) |
Aaron Spelling dramas
Soaps 99% of all sitcoms ever made Anime (most Hentai, most mech) X-Files (get over it) |
| Fashion | Dark eyeliner, lipstick, eyeshadow, etc
black fingernails pallor Black* Velvet, silk, lace, PVC, satin, brocade Boots Long skirts Corsets Frock coats |
Blush
pink lipstick fake tans White Polyester, rayon, dark blue denim Shoes and sandals Shorts Belts Windbreakers |
| To Read | -Manga (Angel Sanctuary, any Gundam Wing, Fushigi Yuugi, Yaoi doujinshi,
J-Rock doujinshi)
-Good comics (Anything by Neil Gaiman, James O'Barr, Jim Groat, Phil Foglio) -Well written classics: Keats, Byron, Shakespeare, Poe, Coleridge, Blake, Stephen Crane, Hawthorne, Melville, Wilde -Urban Fantasy (Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, Emma Bull, Pete Beagle, etc) -Terry Pratchett (who deserves a category to himself) -Gothic horror collections -Poppy Z. Brite -Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat, The Mummy, Queen of the Damned, Interview with the Vampire, and The Master of Rampling Gate ) |
-Macross and Robotech graphic novels
-Bad Comics:almost anything by Marvel and DC -Dull classics: Shelley, Wordsworth, Milton, and almost everything taught
in 20th century American Lit classes
-Piers Anthony (who takes himself way too seriously)
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| To look like | -Me
on the way to a club to enjoy myself in nice cool weather
-Me after a long night in costume just schlepping in full makeup because I can. -Me with bloo hair and glasses.. -Me with bloo hair and a corset... |
Me
after a long day in 120 degree (50 decgrees C) heat housecleaning while
wearing black
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| To Eat (yes, I eat. How un-goth) | Fresh green corn tamales
Huevos rancheros Stuffed grape leaves steamed Cheesecake Marinated foods Chicken and Turkey Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Greek, Indian, Mexican, Italian, Southwestern Spicy |
Stale red corn tamales
Scrambled eggs Stuffed grape leaves in oil Fruitcake Fried foods Pork and beef German, Southern, seafood bland |
| In Politics (I had to add it) | -Power to the state and individual
-Concentration on real issues -Logic and reason |
-Power to the federal government
-concentration on "moral" issues -Religion and "morality" |
| To look at | -Drag queens
-Pre-20th century art -pretty gothy people -visual rockers -cats -beautifully overgrown forgotten places -cemeteries with headstones and trees and grass and monuments (cliche, but true) |
-Cowboys with beer guts and tight clothes
-"modern art" -ravers and Gs with pants large enough for Divine -cute trendy American pop stars -dogs -cookiecutter suburbia -cemeteries with identical plaques and no landscaping |
| To Do | -4x4/driving
-exploring -shopping -reading and writing -MUCKing -Freeform RPing -designing costumes and clothes -listen to j-rock -Get gifts of j-rock |
-sitting around bored
-Doing the same thing over and over and over -hanging out aimlessly in the malls -watching TV -MUDing -playing D&D or Magic -sewing -listen to anything in the "music I hate" category -get gifts of j-pop |
