80's Goth Nostalgia.*

so i stumbled across these images on this blog called nowthisisgothic and fell into a momentary lapse of the age-old "remember when..." nostalgic haze. i wasn't even old enough to be into this until a decade after it passed, but it still feels like a part of my heritage in a weird way. i wish real goth kids still looked this cool....*



thorston & friend, cermany. (who knows who this kid is, but he is only of the only non-band-related faces on the web from this time period.

@the bat cave in 1984.

skinny puppy.

bat cave, london, 1980's.

holly, vancouver. (i definitely wore this outfit recently.)

siouxsie

Amsterdam Steez.*

are they NOT the cutest couple in the world? princengracht, amsterdam must be a super hip, stylish place. going on the to-go list....*

RIP Ian Curtis.*

i know i'm a day late, but he still deserves extended ups. ian curtis, your voice has haunted me since middle school, and will continue to do so forever. 31 years ago yesterday, RIP. thank you for changing music.*

OracleHeptaNauticalMaphradite: The Tumblr Revolucion!*

so i have been posting on tumblr way more than here recently, but i try to connect as much as possible. it is the current leading force among young people worldwide on the web. i thought i would share some of the best blogs on there. what's interesting is that it's not like flickr, where all your images are YOURS. it's about sharing, stealing, reblogging, and creating an entire aesthetic for yourself from images that are completely mysterious and unoriginal to you...then other people are like, "yeah, that's my aesthetic too!" and it goes on and on and on...the editing skills and visual maturation of these young kids around the world is incredible..check it for yourself.

psychonautical: <3 the landscapes....



vermaphrodite: the best editing eye i have seen yet. shapes, patterns, textures...new themes daily.



heptagram: embracing the darkness...




and, last but not least, my own, beastly oracle: magickal trip outs....

Witch House.*

so following along with my OG goth rant, allow me to introduce the musical signifier of this cultural blend: witch house. pitchfork.com discusses this new genre at length: "...It's been called "drag," "witch house," and "haunted house,"...it's ghostly, slow-moving electro-pop, each with their own unique spin...."drag" is partly a reference to screwed and chopped hip-hop, the syrupy style cooked up by DJ Screw and others in 1990s Houston,...but they're also toying with dub, goth, current electro, ambient house á la KLF's Chill Out, and even chart pop...twisting it and slowing it down, making it druggier..." oh, post-post-modernism. you are at your finest.*























(cemetary, alligator, and church from hexagram.tumblr.*)

Witchsters and Gypsters.*

it's like malcom gladwell's idea of the tipping point: all of the sudden, things become wildly popular and everyone is into the same trends. in a way, it's cool to see the things i've loved since puberty finally being appreciated, but it's also annoying that things get so appropriated. so it is with all things goth at this moment: everyone is a tarot reader or a gypsy (or, as i recently heard, a "gypster," or a "witchster" ha!), everyone wears black lace and capes and witch boots and loves upside-down crosses and stones and chains and cats and owls...i was talking with my fellow OG goth homegurl on friday night and we were lamenting over this recent aesthetic appreciation of our ever-cherished subculture and the neverending phenomenon of co-opting subcultures for popular culture. there's more to it than black lipstick, dudes (even though we know it does look realllllly cool).*


Givency, Fall 2008


Sisters of the Black Moon




Dash Snow




"Pagan Chic" by Luella Bartley




Gareth Pugh; Gemma Slack


Alexander McQueen photographed by Terry Richardson


Raquel Zimmermann by Terry Richardson

bat cave hair.*

maybe it's my approaching birthday, but i need a change.... to do this week: this haircut.*

Retna & The Mac.*

i went with ian to go photograph retna and the mac as they painted. those two are incredible. retna created his own hebrew/arabic-looking language and the mac paints like i've never seen before, 3D shading and crosshatching and detail like you'd never image was possible to achieve with spraypaint. i sat on the fire escape and wrote in my journal as the boys be'd boys. i guess i'll never escape my teenage gothness at heart.*





This is what some of their walls look like....