10/31/2006

Boston Terrier Halloween Costume Showcase 2005


Soorrrry no postie...sick kids again,

and I think I'm getting it too...blech.

Happy Halloween!!!

10/27/2006

Puppy Videos

OMG... these are so cute...

10/26/2006

Very Scarey Kiddies






this one rocks:)



















10/25/2006

killing loneliness

"
A version I had not seen before, cool...

Montana principal returns after 'wedgie' - Yahoo! News

ok this is funny, Livingston is a VERY small town.
I mean you blink you miss it , we used to go through it all the time
while going to events or camping or going to Chico Hot springs,
one of our Food /WC pitstops...I find this hilarious....

::::insert Cello music from JAWS:::

Best Costume...lol....

10/24/2006

Madame Kat Von D

"Win A TATTOO From Me!!! Halloween Costume Contest!!!
Hey Everybody!

It's almost Halloween and it's time to dress up!!!
A few of you have emailed me saying that you were thinking of dressing up as me for Halloween. So Oliver and I came up with a really awesome idea!!

Check it out...

Dress up like me for Halloween, take your picture and email it to: KATVONDLA@YAHOO.COM
and I will pick the very best Kat who will receive a tattoo from me!!
The tattoo will be 3'x3' and the winner will have to travel to me to get it in Los Angeles at True Tattoo at a mutually agreeable date.

The winner will be announced November 8th--so submit your photos no later than November 5th.

Go crazy and get super creative!!

Remember there are no gender restrictions...so boys get your legwarmers out!!!
Can't wait to see what you guys come up with!!!

Ciao!

Kat Von D
www.katvond.net

ps. there will also be a prize for the best under age 18 costume as you can not get tattooed until you are 18!!!"

10/20/2006

Quote of the day.

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the
other. We are all prime numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Jean Guitton (1901-1999)
Philosopher"

10/19/2006

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Marine Initiation

:shaking head...some people will believe anything....this is so false.
I know they NEVER do things like this.

Human species 'may split in two'

Well I know I won't be a Morlock, ....so :P::rasberry sound

N.Y. funeral homes plead guilty to body part theft

ok this is just wrong, on so many levels...really.

10/18/2006

How to tell where they're from by how they drive

* One hand on wheel, one hand on horn: Chicago

* One hand on wheel, one finger out window: New
York

* One hand on wheel, one hand on newspaper, foot
solidly on accelerator:
Boston

* One hand on wheel, cradling cell phone, brick
on accelerator:
California.

* One hand on wheel, cradling cell phone, brick
on accelerator, gun in
lap: Los Angeles

* Both hands on wheel, eyes shut, both feet on
brake, quivering in terror:
Ohio, but driving in California.

* Both hands in air, gesturing, both feet on
accelerator, head turned to
talk to someone in back seat: Italy

* One hand on latte, one knee on wheel, cradling
cell phone, foot on brake,
mind on game: Seattle

* One hand on wheel, one hand on hunting rifle,
alternating between both
feet being on the accelerator and both on the
brake, throwing a McDonalds
bag out the window: Texas city male

* One hand on wheel, one hand hanging out the
window, keeping speed steadily
at 70mph, driving down the center of the road
unless coming around a blind
curve, in which case they are on the left side
of the road: Texas country male

* One hand constantly refocusing the rear-view
mirror to show different
angles of the BIG hair, one hand going between
mousse, brush, and rat-tail
to keep the helmet hair going, both feet on the
accelerator, poodle steering
the car***
, chrome .38 revolver with mother of pearl inlaid handle
in the glove compartment: Texas female*** Coal is an excellent driver, he sits on Bianca's back and Prish works the brake and gas...

* Four wheel drive pickup truck, shotgun mounted in rear window, beer cans on floor, squirrel tails attached to antenna: West Virginia

* Two hands gripping wheel, blue hair barely visible above window level, driving 35 on the interstate in the left lane with the left blinker on: Florida"

10/17/2006

Music..

Rammstein will release a new live DVD titled "Volkerball" in mid-November. The DVD contains footage shot from various concerts around the world and is 140 minutes in length.
"Volkerball" comes in 3 versions: a Standard Edition that includes a bonus audio live CD, a Special Edition that includes the audio CD and a bonus DVD, and a Limited Edition that includes both DVDs, two CDs, and a 190 page photo book.

Eisbrecher will release their next album, "Antikorper" on October 24th.

Fans of Rammstein should love Eisbrecher's pounding yet groovy German industrial/metal sounds.
The first two singles from the album, "Leider" and "Vergissmeinnicht" both charted on the German Alternative Charts (DAC) and the combined "Leider/Vergissmeinnicht" limited edition double single has been a hot seller .

Soldiers' Angels

this is a very good thing.

Funny T-shirts

some of these crack me up...

10/16/2006

Police dog falls 2 stories, but gets man - Yahoo! News

Good Dog!

10/15/2006

Devious Wigs & Things

sorta whacked...

10/14/2006

Cute Overload: The 'overload' part of 'Cute Overload'
















People—I hope you're sitting down, because "Starr" might require it of you. Introducing "Starr" the 2006 blond Rodeo Queen of Western Days. She won hands down, obvy.

Disapproving Rabbits!

bunny-tude! love it!

10/13/2006

USMC - MCRDSD/WRR - Depot Mascot

Meet Molly, a native Texan...UUUURAh!

Scottish Free Stickers - REAL MEN WEAR KILTS

Cool...and yes it is TRUE!!, they do...:)

Friday The 13th

According to Smithsonian Magazine "fear of the #13 costs American a billion dollars per year in absenteeism, train and plane cancellations, and reduced commerce on the 13th of the month."

Fear of Friday the 13th dates back to Nordic Mythology. Many of their thirteenth Gods met with violent deaths, such as Loki, the trickster.

Ancient Romans regarded the number 13 as a symbol of death, destruction and misfortune.

Lizzy Borden uttered a total of 13 words at her trial.

There were 13 original colonies.

A witches coven consists of 13 members.

Tarot Card number 13 is the Death Card, depicting the Grim Reaper (although it is read as transition or change and not literal death).

Hotels rarely have a room number 13. Usually it is called 12a or 14. Same with floors of buildings and the elevators without a #13 button.

Highways sometimes will skip exit 13 altogether also.

There are 13 steps leading to the gallows.

13 knots in a hangman's noose.

13 feet which the guillotine blade falls.

The driver of Princess Diana hit pillar #13 at Place de l'Alma when she was killed in Paris, France.

13 people, Christ and his 12 disciples, were in attendance at the last supper. This is where the Christian belief ties in, making Friday a believed unlucky day, as the crucifixtion occurred on a Friday.

Certain ocean liners will be held in dock until after midnight to appease passenger's fears on Friday the 13th.

British study concluded that even though there were less cars on the road on Friday the 13th (as compared with other Fridays) more accidents were reported.

Trisadekaphobia is the technical name for fear of Friday the 13th.

Apollo 13, 1970, the 13th mission launched from pad #39 (13 x 3), mission was aborted, after an explosion occurred in the fuel cell of their service module. The rocket had left launcing pad at 13:13 CST and the date was April 13th.

Epluribus Unum has 13 letters.

The US Seal has 13 stars, bars, feathers in the eagle's tail, 13 bars in one claw, 13 olive branches in the other.

A "quatrorzieme" is a professional 14th guest hired by the French who had only 13 guests in attendance for dinner, who felt that was unlucky.

A baker's dozen consists of 13 for a reason! So the story goes a witch near Albany, NY demanded 13 items every time she came in to a particular bakery, and one day the old baker could not afford her extra biscuit. She sneered some strange words at the man, and he suffered terrible luck from then on, until he brought her another 13 rolls. After that life was once again easy for the baker and word spread around town. The custom is still sometimes practiced today.

10/12/2006

Beautyhabit Clearance

oh lala! c'est Magnifique!

10/11/2006

Fossils of giant sea reptiles found in Arctic - Yahoo! News

Bowie hits "SpongeBob" Holy Grail - Yahoo! News

should be good for a laugh...

Bell Wants Friedman To Quit Governor's Race; Friedman Says No

GGGGOOOO KKKIIINNKKKYYY!!!!!!!!!

You Know You're Addicted to Ebay When...

Every time you go to the grocery store, you offer the cashier one cent more for each item in the cart of the person in front of you.

To cut costs, FedEx and UPS are considering relocating their operations centers to your house.

Sitting on the floor of your empty apartment, you stare at your fingers and wonder whether they'll sell better individually or as a matched set.

Your spouse is loving and caring but you decided to file for divorce because you need the storage space.

You're the reason they adopted the "No selling your children's vital organs" policy.

You find yourself searching eBay auctions for milk, eggs and bread.

When your wife agrees to have sex with you, you become suspicious and ask how many other bidders there were.

Just ask your kids, eRay and eFaye.

After a particularly passionate night, you lean over and whisper in your spouse?s ear, "Excellent service, great communication! Would recommend again! AAAA++++"

You set your alarm clock for 3 am so you can log on to protect your bid.

You've called someone a naughty name for outbidding you at the last second.

You've questioned your sanity because of the price you've bid... more than once.

You've changed all your clocks to "eBay official time (PDT)."

You've bid on something even though the picture doesn't show up correctly.

You've purposely run up the bid on something similar for which you paid more.

You've rolled your eyes at the word "antique" or "vintage" used on something made in the past decade.

You've gritted your teeth each time you've clicked on a description that uses the word "L@@K."

You've turned up the volume on your email alert so you'll never miss an Outbid Notice.

You've made "My eBay" your default home page.

You've emailed a seller to correct their description with accurate dates or details.

You've come to rely on "convenience cash" from PayPal and wish you could pay all your bills like that.

You've earned a "Shooting Star" Feedback Profile for more than 10,000 purchases!

You won't go to estate auctions because they don't take PayPal.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are addicted to Ebay.

Who was Spring-Heeled Jack ?

a rabid wombat....?

Read it

The Life of A Soldier


Your alarm goes off, you hit the snooze and sleep for another 10 minutes.

He stays up for days on end.
_________________________

You take a warm shower to help you wake up.

He goes days or weeks without running water.
__________________________

You complain of a 'headache', and call in sick.

He gets shot at as others are hit, and keeps moving forward.
__________________________

You put on your anti war/don't support the troops shirt, and go meet up with your friends.

He still fights for your right to wear that shirt.
__________________________

You make sure you're cell phone is in your pocket.

He clutches the cross hanging on his chain next to his dog tags.
__________________________

You talk trash about your 'buddies' that aren't with you.

He knows he may not see some of his buddies again.
__________________________

You walk down the beach, staring at all the pretty girls.

He walks the streets, searching for insurgents and terrorists.
__________________________

You complain about how hot it is.

He wears his heavy gear, not daring to take off his helmet to wipe his brow.
__________________________

You go out to lunch, and complain because the restaurant got your order wrong.

He doesn't get to eat today.
__________________________

Your maid makes your bed and washes your clothes.

He wears the same things for weeks, but makes sure his weapons are clean. __________________________

You go to the mall and get your hair redone.

He doesn't have time to brush his teeth today.
__________________________

You're angry because your class ran 5 minutes over.

He's told he will be held over an extra 2 months.
__________________________

You call your girlfriend and set a date for tonight.

He waits for the mail to see if there is a letter from home. __________________________

You hug and kiss your girlfriend, like you do everyday.

He holds his letter close and smells his love's perfume. __________________________

You roll your eyes as a baby cries.

He gets a letter with pictures of his new child, and wonders if they'll ever meet __________________________

You criticize your government, and say that war never solves anything.

He sees the innocent tortured and killed by their own people and
remembers why he is fighting.
__________________________

You hear the jokes about the war, and make fun of men like him.

He hears the gunfire, bombs and screams of the wounded. __________________________

You see only what the media wants you to see.

He sees the broken bodies lying around him.
__________________________

You are asked to go to the store by your parents. You don't.

He does exactly what he is told
. __________________________

You stay at home and watch TV.

He takes whatever time he is given to call, write home, sleep, and eat. __________________________

You crawl into your soft bed, with down pillows, and get comfortable.

He crawls under a tank for shade and a 5 minute nap, only to be woken by gunfire. __________________________

You sit there and judge him, saying the world is probably a worse place because of men like him.

If only there were more men like him!

____________________________

If you support your troops, re-send this to everyone you know,

If it gets to another veteran who hasn't received it yet, it will bring back memories.

DVD Verdict Review - Elizabeth I

might have to get this...

10/10/2006

Girls-Only Blogthings - What Fall Shoe Should You Wear?

You Should Wear Animal Print Shoes

You have a brash personality, and you aren't afraid to wear something outrageous.
You're the exact personality designers design for - so enjoy yourself!
"

What Superheroine Are You?

You Are Trinity

'Touch me and that hand will never touch anything again.'
"

- What Retro Girl Are You?

Your Inner Retro Girl Is

1980s Goth Girl
"

Girls-Only Blogthings - What Kind of Bra Are You?

"
You Are a Lace Bra!

Dreamy, romantic, and ultra-feminine
You're a womanly woman who makes guys feel like men
Your perfect guy is strong, determined, and handsome
With a softer side that only you can draw out
"

Blogthings - Which of the X-Men Are You?

You Are Storm

Exotic and powerful, Storm descended from a line of African priestesses.
Emotions can effect your powers, but you are generally serene.

Powers: controlling weather, creating winds that lift you into flight, generating lightning
"

Blogthings - What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence

You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well.
An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly.
You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view.
A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary.

You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator.
"

Mars rover photographed from orbit

cool

10/09/2006

Defiant North Korea conducts nuclear test - Yahoo! News

not good, ...idiots.

10/05/2006

Lighted Bras: Enlighted Illuminated Clothing

ok I know kinda weird, just happened across it???
my first thought was...
as a female who wears them...

WTF?????

Why did the chicken cross the road?

DR. PHIL:
The problem we have here is that this chicken
won't realize that he must
first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the
road before it goes after
the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What
we need to do is help him
realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on
his 'CURRENT' problems
before adding 'NEW' problems.

OPRAH:
Well I understand that the chicken is having
problems, which is why he wants
to cross this road so bad. So instead of having
the chicken learn from his
mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life,
I'm going to give this
chicken a car so that he can just drive across
the road and not live his life
like the rest of the chickens.

COLIN POWELL:
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly
see the satellite image of
the chicken crossing the road...

ANDERSON COOPER - CNN :
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but
we have not yet been
allowed to have access to the other side of the
road.

JOHN KERRY:
Although I voted to let the chicken cross the
road, I am now against it!
It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled
about the chicken's
intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

NANCY GRACE:
That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY!
You can see it inhis eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN:
To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART:
No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going.
I had astanding order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs
when the pricedropped to a certain level.
No little bird gave me any insiderinformation.

DR SEUSS:
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad?
Yes, the chicken crossed the road,
but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: (this is my favorite one)
To die in the rain. Alone.

JERRY FALWELL:
Because the chicken was gay!
Can't you people see the plain truth in frontof your face?
The chicken was going to the "other side."
That's why theycall it the "other side."
Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay.
And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too.
I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination
that the liberal media whitewashes with
seemingly harmless phrases like "the other side."
That chicken should not be crossing the road.
It's as plain and simple as that!

GRANDPA:
In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road.
Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS:Isn't that interesting?
In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken
tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a
serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of
crossing the road.

JOHN LENNON:
Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

ARISTOTLE:
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

BILL GATES:
I have just released eChicken2006, which will not only cross roads,
but will lay eggs, file your important documents,
and balance your check book.

ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Did the chicken really cross the road,
or did the road move beneaththe chicken?

BILL CLINTON:
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken.
What is your definitionof chicken?

AL GORE:
I invented the chicken!

COLONEL SANDERS:
Did I miss one?"

Once a Marine Always a Marine

- Welcome to Sgt Grit Marine Corps Specialties

OutStanding!
I'm going to be a Marine Parent soon,
My Step Son, is going to Marine Boot Camp Next week...
We are very Proud of him.
He's doing a very good thing.

Sgt Grit Marine Forums - Oct 2-16, 2006

I personally agree with this....

"What should we do in the war on terrorism?

Be more aggressive (72.2%) UUUUURRRAHHHH!

Be more understanding, negotiate more (22.2%)

Cut and run (0%)

More circle singing of Kumbaya (5.6%)

10/03/2006

UPDATE :Bonk


Well Bianca (Bonk) is doing well.

she is healing and starting to eat food again.

she is still on the very thin side..

She really hates the "cone of silence".

She thinks she looks great, for modelling : High FUR-shion...

We are spoiling her rotten ,handfeeding her ,

and loving her.

Glad she is ok now, it was an extremely close call .

From the Dark One,a fwd .. Back In Black..

"The Faversham, a pub close to Leeds University, is a brightly decorated bar, popular with lawyers and office workers. But a couple of decades ago it was the very heart of goth. The Fav, as it was known, was where goth's dark lords, the Sisters of Mercy, would hold court, and where black-clad students who had enrolled at the university or Leeds Polytechnic to be close to their heroes would go in the hope of some goth stardust rubbing off on them. 'Heads would turn the minute we walked in,' remembers Gary Marx, the guitarist who founded the Sisters with singer Andrew Eldritch. 'People wouldn't literally throw themselves at our feet, but it was close.'

Goth has returned to cast a long and dark shadow over rock music this summer and autumn.

In August, the NME put the Horrors on the cover - a London band influenced by the Cramps who look like five grinning death's-heads. Other new acts such as Betty Curse and Dead Disco have put out CDs, and two compilations have claimed to bring together goth's forefathers. Goth has even reached the mainstream. Victoria Beckham and Colleen McLoughlin have recently dabbled in 'goth chic' - faces made up to look pale, black lacy clothes and deathly nail varnish - though it's hard to imagine the Beckham and Rooney households rocking to Betty Curse, let alone the forgotten bands of the first wave of goth.

It's a dramatic revival: barely a year ago, London's goth hangout, the Devonshire Arms, was saved from closure after a nationwide appeal to goths to boost its business.
The original goths seem unnerved by the return of their cult. 'I read this thing that described Russell Brand as 90% gothsays an appalled Julianne Regan. The singer with All About Eve, she admits to "exploring" graveyards despite being in her 40s and is thus "guilty as charged" of being a goth. "I thought, 'Don't they mean 90% twat?'"
And the Horrors?

"Pure NME Camden wankery. As goth as a daffodil in a yellow kitchen."

Oh dear. So what is goth anyway?
And how did a dead cult become, well, undead?

Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees - who always maintained they weren't a "goth band", but were nevertheless a pivotal influence on the black-clad bands of the 80s - insists it's important to distinguish between "goth" and "gothic". "Gothic", Severin says, describes the bleak, dark music being made by Joy Division and also the Banshees around 1978-79. Severin admits his band pored over gothic literature - Edgar Allen Poe and Baudelaire. But "goth", he says, has connotations of "people in purple lipstick running off to Whitby". According to Severin, the prototype goth band may have been the Velvet Underground - "intense, feedback-driven songs and macabre subject matter" - although Bauhaus's 1979 single Bela Lugosi's Dead is now generally credited with starting the genre.

Initially, it wasn't called goth. In February 1983, NME lumped together several mostly forgotten bands (Southern Death Cult, Sex Gang Children, Brigandage, Specimen, Blood and Roses) and tagged them "positive punk". Meanwhile, Marx fondly remembers tabloid hysteria about "suicide pact kids killing themselves listening to Sisters of Mercy", an eerie precursor of a story the Daily Mail ran only last month warning of the "threat to our children" posed by goth and emo (although they're two different cultures).

Most of goth's enduring musical cliches were laid down by the Sisters, who lived together in Village Place, a stone's throw from the Faversham. Marx (formerly Mark Pearman, before a name switch fooled the DHSS, as was) had come to Leeds from Hull, attracted by gigs by the likes of the Fall and Gang of Four. His co-conspirator was a languages student who decided that the name Eldritch (meaning "wizard") carried more mystique than his own Andrew Taylor. Eldritch has often claimed the Sisters/ goth phenomenon was his immaculate conception, but Marx admits at least some of it was fluke.

Yes, Eldritch had the band's logo (a dissected head surrounded by a pentacle, which he had adapted from Gray's Anatomy) before they had even played a note. But according to Marx, the characteristic doomy goth sound only emerged when the Sisters added Craig Adams, a child piano prodigy. Adams was "running from his past", says Marx. "He turned up with a fuzzbox on his bass and wanted something brutal, relentless." A £60 drum machine (nicknamed Doktor Avalanche) replaced Eldritch's early bashes on drums. When the "wizard" concealed his less-than-Sinatraesque vocals with reverb, goth's defining sound was complete. The Sisters namechecked MC5 and Motorhead in interviews and caused a "considerable reaction" within a music press who had been frothing over Haircut 100.

Eldritch became thought of as a poet of doom, fond of dark pronouncements. But Marx admits that there were no black candlesticks at Village Place. In fact, even the goth look was partly happenstance: wearing nothing but black meant the band could put all their washing in one load. In fact, in early photos the Sisters looked "nondescript, like students", but that changed when Marx realised his check shirts looked silly next to the leather jackets worn by Eldritch and Adams in homage to the Ramones. Once Marx also adopted black, a uniform was born.

The enduring image of the Sisters live is of four black stetsons poking out of dry ice: a cross between Once Upon a Time in the West and horror flick The Fog. That, too, was an accident. Guitarist Wayne Hussey, who joined in 1983, recalls that the band had been touring America in a minibus and one night he got so drunk that he fell asleep on Gary Marx's shoulder. Marx then "threw up in his sleep all over my head. The venue wouldn't let me in 'cos I had sick in my hair. So I went across the road and bought a hat - and that's where the look came from."

Around the country, others realised black could have benefits above and beyond its ability to conceal stains. Alien Sex Fiend's Mrs Fiend (she is literally Mrs Fiend, having been married to the band's Nik Fiend for 28 years) remembers a disastrous photoshoot when a green light wiped out all her make-up.

"I looked like a fucking corpse, but not in a good way," she remembers. After that it was "black, the blackest you could find". Home-dyed clothes and hair horrors proved equally striking: "People said, 'Excuse me, dear. Have you been electrocuted?'"

Early goth was largely a provincial movement: the Sisters in Leeds, Bauhaus in Northampton, the Cure in Crawley. The London scene congealed around the Batcave club, associated with bands such as Alien Sex Fiend and Specimen; there, boys and ghouls rubbed shoulders with the likes of Siouxsie Sioux and Nick Cave. Mrs Fiend remembers "fetish gear, Victorian clothing, girls with their tits out. One night the DJ played the Sex Pistols and for the first time, everyone sat down. It was obvious that no one was interested in continuing what had gone before."

Goth spread rapidly - fans visited the Batcave or Leeds Phonographique and then set up their own clubs - and a sense of community developed. Goths formed bands with each other, slept with each other, copied each other and recorded with each other: Severin collaborated with the Cure's Robert Smith as the Glove. The Sisters' Merciful Release label helped soundalike bands such as the March Violets and Salvation, which Marx suggests was a hangover from the self-help culture established by Leeds bands the Mekons and Gang of Four. The "suburban Siouxsie" clone became a peculiar feature of 80s Britain, and whenever the Banshees toured in Latin American or Mediterranean countries, Severin notes, they noticed Siouxsie had become "a role model for dark-haired women".

Goth could be silly, but many bonded through genuine alienation. Regan admits she was "introspective and depressed" and sought solace in darker music. "Mentally ill?" she considers. "Some of us."

Another glue binding the scene together was drug use. Goth is virtually the only youth movement not identifiable with a single substance, but Regan admits that it was "very wild. It started with snakebite and a laugh and ended in psychosis for some. Luckily, I was a sissy."

"All my friends took drugs," admits Hussey. "I used to put speed in my coffee." Initially, drugs enabled the guitarist to mask a natural shyness, but eventually his character transformed. He began the 80s quietly reading Rimbaud and ended them fronting the Mission, whose wine-spilling, cartoon image was almost Carry On Goth. "We made buffoons of ourselves in public," he says, "but it was endearing for a lot of people."

It didn't last. Hussey vividly remembers standing on a railway station platform and seeing two girls in Stone Roses T-shirts. "I knew something else was coming."

In the 90s, goths all but disappeared as dance music became the dominant youth cult. The movement went underground and fractured into cyber goth, Christian goth, industrial goth, medieval goth and the latest sub-genre, zombie goth. Around the world, however, goth hit the mainstream. Goth crossbred with electronica and heavy metal in the form of Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. While the music of Nine Inch Nails owed more to the industrial-influenced music of Throbbing Gristle and Ministry, their subect matter (murder and trauma) and style (head-to-toe black leather) were unmistakably goth. Marilyn Manson, meanwhile, fused Alien Sex Fiend's electro-goth with Alice Cooper's theatrics and went to the arena circuit. In Germany, the industrial-techno-metal sextet Rammstein took much from gothic horror, and Hussey says his mother often tells him how much the cult Finnish band HIM sound like the Mission.

And now it's hip again here.

Goth will exist in one form or another as long as young people are alienated and fascinated by death.

Mrs Fiend expresses anxiety that goth could turn into an off-the-peg fashion style. However, Severin is darkly optimistic.
"They read French novelists. They've gone into it with a complete passion and I don't blame them," he says of the new goths. "I've always thought there's room in pop for different languages, one of them being an exploration of the blacker side of human nature.

There's nothing to be afraid of in the dark."

Five goth classics
Bauhaus: Bela Lugosi's Dead
The 1979 single that invented the genre overnight. In an atmosphere of unease, Peter Murphy eulogises Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula with a cry of "Undead! Undead! Undead!"
Available on Crackle - Best of Bauhaus (4AD)

The Sisters Of Mercy: Amphetamine Logic
This stark, driving track defines the Sisters' oeuvre and sums up Andrew Eldritch's cod-vampiric lifestyle: "Nothing but the knife to live for."
Available on First and Last and Always (Merciful Release)

The Cure - A Strange Day
The Cure were always more of an alternative pop band than 100% goth, but A Strange Day's melancholy sees them fitting into the genre.
Available on Pornography (Fiction)

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Walking on Your Hands
The Leeds-based Lorries, originally a typical if moody indie band, adopted goth cliches such as flanged guitars for this thrilling 80s nightclub staple.
Available on The Gothic Box (Rhino)

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Night Shift
One of the darkest cuts from the album Juju: a harrowing groove that explores street prostitution.
Available on JuJu (Polydor)

· The Gothic Box 3CD/DVD set of early goth is out now on Rhino. Blue Sunshine by the Glove has been reissued by Universal

Ban stupid people, not dogs.

Odd Quote of the day.

"Loooo My darling, Looooo."

MermaidMan

Mermaidman & Barnacleboy VI - The Motion Picture,

SpongeBob Squarepants

Season 4, episode 65

10/02/2006

Shop with the Big Dogs

Woof! : alright, cool store!

Blunt's "Goodbye My Lover" most requested funeral song - Yahoo! News

humm, I'll have to go take a listen, never heard of it...no pun intended...

Wanted: Home for terrorist puppies

those are my kind of terrorists

Godsmack, Rob Zombie rock metal fans near L.A. - Yahoo! News

Paned Expression Studios - Stained Glass Patterns

cool...

The Blue Wolf: The Epic Tale of the Life of Genghis Khan

hummm, that would explain those thoughts of "I Must Conquer", my amazing horseriding ability, and fondness for yurts....
Hey you never know?

wolf?

S.C. official: Sterilize bad parents - Yahoo! News

I agree...

10/01/2006

AENEMYA.COM

Dark fantasy digital art and website design by kReEsTaL aka Marie Guillaumet - Gothic, erotic and dreamy original artwork

Pretty cool...some good links for Dark Art...Enjoy!

fiftyRX3

sorta different, might be interesting to some....
eco-green stuff

Sustainable Clothing, Corsets, Bridal Corset, Certified Organic Cotton, Hemp Fabric Store, Austin, Texas

Yeah!! I'm absolutely going to be checking this place out:)