goths

i have always liked goth music - it can be moving and silly all at the same time. i have always loved goth girls, i mean what isn't there to like, they wear black, they wear boots, they wear corsets, it doesn't matter if they are fat or thin short or tall there is just something special about a goth girl. jay's favourite place in the whole world (camdem) is filled with them, and they come from all over europe just to be in camden, to wear black and to avoid the sun.
sure there are things to put you off goths - some take the vampire or anne rice thing a tad too far and become as boring as doctor who fans. others are scared to smile in case it cracks the white make-up they plaster on.
but all in all i like goths.
and for a long time it must have been great to be a goth – as you could call on the sex appeal and outrage of people like marilyn manson and cradle of filth, with the matrix films the goth look was made superheroic. even the music was sounding good.

and then like a skinhead’s 18 hole dms to your nuts along comes this report to really take the wind out of the goth sails.
i mean there can be nothing worse for a youth subculture than to be described as “…. middle class to the core.”
perhaps in america where it has been associated with a spate of shootings (well people who wear black coats have been shooting others…) does the goth subculture have that outsider vibe. sadly the “goths for bush” site has turned out to be a bit of a hoax.

the study not only rains on their parade of being rebels but it goes on to tell their parents not to worry about the sudden desire to dress all in black, be pale and swoon around listening to doom laden music because in all likelihood you will grow up to do well in college and end up doing something like being a doctor or lawyer….
yet for all of that there is still room for a little depression for goths
"romance lies very much at the heart of the goth ascetic but it's a romance in which tragedy is only a sigh away."
ah bless……..