This is an excerpt from one of those 'online journals' where random exhibitionist-type people spill their guts to the world. Checkit. *P*L*U*R*
~*~ Ashke ~*~
P.S. I am very non-goth. I am the anti-goth. Please do not let the last pic on the Bluelight photo album fool you!
Okay on to goths vs. ravers..
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Some gothboi wrote this on Friday, March 14, 1997...
"Monster Boy knows a couple of raver kids who work at Little John's. It's a funny story. It seems they (I don't know how many of them there are) are sort of dorky and want to have more friends. They have apparently decided that goths are "cool" and would like to know more of them. This may be a consequence of the fact that ravers are happy all the time, to an extent that is as pathological as the morbid sadness of goths. By hanging out with goths, perhaps ravers can become more firmly grounded in reality. The happiness of ravers, meanwhile, would have a similar effect upon goths, I imagine. But in actuality, ravers and goths are like matter and antimatter. They have similarities, to be sure. They love drum machines, musical samples, taking drugs, dying their hair, assuming temporarily shocking identities, dressing up and making love. And they are both reactions against dominant social trends of the 80s. Still, the world of the raver seems like froth to the "deep" concerns of the goth. A goth will never have any real respect for a raver. The reverse isn't true, though. Ravers are not exclusive like goths since their goal is world unity through decadence. The goths meanwhile strive for isolation from a depressing world they do not understand. They exclude non-goths from the world they create, and their decadence is a sublime waiting room outside the office of Dr. Death."
-- Gus
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Checkit. Gus makes cool trippy art:
http://www.spies.com/~gus/art/gus/divide.jpg
[This message has been edited by Ashke (edited 13 December 1999).]
~*~ Ashke ~*~
P.S. I am very non-goth. I am the anti-goth. Please do not let the last pic on the Bluelight photo album fool you!
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Some gothboi wrote this on Friday, March 14, 1997...
"Monster Boy knows a couple of raver kids who work at Little John's. It's a funny story. It seems they (I don't know how many of them there are) are sort of dorky and want to have more friends. They have apparently decided that goths are "cool" and would like to know more of them. This may be a consequence of the fact that ravers are happy all the time, to an extent that is as pathological as the morbid sadness of goths. By hanging out with goths, perhaps ravers can become more firmly grounded in reality. The happiness of ravers, meanwhile, would have a similar effect upon goths, I imagine. But in actuality, ravers and goths are like matter and antimatter. They have similarities, to be sure. They love drum machines, musical samples, taking drugs, dying their hair, assuming temporarily shocking identities, dressing up and making love. And they are both reactions against dominant social trends of the 80s. Still, the world of the raver seems like froth to the "deep" concerns of the goth. A goth will never have any real respect for a raver. The reverse isn't true, though. Ravers are not exclusive like goths since their goal is world unity through decadence. The goths meanwhile strive for isolation from a depressing world they do not understand. They exclude non-goths from the world they create, and their decadence is a sublime waiting room outside the office of Dr. Death."
-- Gus
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Checkit. Gus makes cool trippy art:
http://www.spies.com/~gus/art/gus/divide.jpg
[This message has been edited by Ashke (edited 13 December 1999).]
