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10-02-2007, 07:19 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Atlanta, GA
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An intro, before I begin crashing all of your conversations
Being a new kid makes me incredibly nervous, so I'm sticking to the posted questions...
01. What do you do? (Hobbies, job)
I'm a professional computer geek, lucky enough to work for a company that tolerates my fondness for fishnet and lace. When I'm not telling people to stop hacking their phones, I'm usually taking pictures, cooking, or compulsively compiling books and music.
02. Where are you from?
San Diego originally, Atlanta for now.
03. Who is your favorite author?
I'm going to pretend that last word is plural. Margaret Atwood, Bram Stoker, Poppy Z. Brite, Oscar Wilde, Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, Mellville, Jhonen Vasquez, D.H. Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, and many I'm forgetting, I'm sure.
04. What are your favorite films?
The Third Man, Corpse Bride, Amelie, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Exorcist, Donnie Darko, The Hunger, L'Homme de Train, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but only if it's live.
05. What music do you want played at your wedding?
I...have no idea.
06. At your funeral?
Well, I'll be dead. So I don't care all that much. Possibly Die, Die Darling...just because I can.
07. This IS a gothic website, so... how do you want to die?
I want to be drained of all my blood while wearing a black corset on a bed of dying rose petals, by a dark and mysterious vampire. Duh.
08. What kind of casket would you want?
Ideally, I'd like to be cremated and tossed into the water at Ocean Beach. Not so gothic, but it takes up a lot less space.
09. What's your FAVORITE outfit?
A pencil skirt and a corset are a rather fetching combination. Particularly when combined with pin-up-style shoes and a leash.
10. What's one thing you miss about being a little kid?
I'm obsessed with fairy tales, and with anything related to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. When I was 8, this was considered adorable. Now, I get funny looks for deciding I want to be Alice for a day.
11. What's your favorite band?
Again, pretending it's plural. Type O Negative and Bauhaus share the favorite spot. Also quite the fan of Sisters of Mercy, E Nomine, Collide, Emilie Autumn, The Doors, The Cramps, Black Label Society, kidneythieves, :wumpscut:, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Alien Sex Fiend, Ministry, Snake River Conspiracy, Midnight Syndicate, and Bob Dylan. Yeah, I know the last one is strange. But the voice! (Also, having read a couple previous intro threads, I'm gonna go ahead and say I totally know that many of those are not gothic bands.)
12. What kind of education do you have? What is/was/will be your major?
I'm a Poli Sci major, planning to go into environmental lobbying or the law division of my current company. Or possibly open a sex shop with a friend. So the options are pretty open.
13. Why did you join?
Because my boyfriend listens to annoying indie music and reads happy books. I'm hoping to find some people willing to discuss the awesomeness of Peter Murphy and Victorian fashion...
14. If the first 13 questions didn't give it away. What is your gender?
Female.
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10-02-2007, 07:22 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Back in Wisconsin(thinking about invading the south)
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Originally Posted by wonderland
13. Why did you join?
Because my boyfriend listens to annoying indie music and reads happy books. I'm hoping to find some people willing to discuss the awesomeness of Peter Murphy and Victorian fashion.
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I like having somone like you here but are you looking for advice on how to dump him?
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"Never overestimate the intellect of someone so foolish that they would exploit and perpetuate stupidity in the people around them, for they create their own damnation as they tear out and sell the pillars that support society as a whole, bringing it crashing down upon them."-me
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Einstein
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10-02-2007, 07:23 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canada
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Welcome to the boards!!! You have a very interesting list of bands. And I like your preferred way to die. I would ask the vampire to make me one too though. 
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10-02-2007, 07:32 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Back in Wisconsin(thinking about invading the south)
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Gotta agree, living forever in a risk free world where you are free to kill all the airheads that get on your nerves. Not to mention consuming such a lovely colored warm liquid in such a manner seems only fit for the erotic foreplay of gods.
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"The chaos of the world viewed from a distance reveals perfection."- me
"Never overestimate the intellect of someone so foolish that they would exploit and perpetuate stupidity in the people around them, for they create their own damnation as they tear out and sell the pillars that support society as a whole, bringing it crashing down upon them."-me
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Einstein
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10-02-2007, 07:55 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 951
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You are awesome.
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10-03-2007, 03:50 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,041
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Nicely put Renatus. It's true though.
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10-03-2007, 05:41 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 175
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You've got some good bands listed up there.
I saw Rocky live once; it was awesome. I'm getting ready to see The Woman In Black play and I could not be more excited.
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10-03-2007, 08:25 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Happy Valley, Utah
Posts: 283
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I like you already. Welcome!
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10-03-2007, 08:57 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: California
Posts: 152
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Wow, I didn't feel one bit annoyed while reading this... that's a good start.
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10-03-2007, 11:20 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Near Southampton
Posts: 1,319
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Welcome!!! You have really good taste in just about everything
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10-03-2007, 11:44 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Osaka, Japan
Posts: 1,472
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I have decided that you are cool.
Welcome.
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10-03-2007, 06:37 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 137
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Originally Posted by Necropolis
I saw Rocky live once; it was awesome. I'm getting ready to see The Woman In Black play and I could not be more excited.
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I went to Rocky Horror every week for almost five years...that movie is embedded into my subconscious, I swear. The Woman in Black is supposed to be amazing, I'm jealous!
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10-03-2007, 08:47 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: gothic.net
Posts: 132
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Originally Posted by OCD Insomnia
Wow, I didn't feel one bit annoyed while reading this... that's a good start.
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Originally Posted by viscus
I have decided that you are cool.
Welcome.
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By my regal decree you are henceforth given allowance to the usage of gothic.net. You've made an adequate first impression, and as Viscous and that other person have made clear to you (if our assumptions about your intellect hold), you'll relish as to how very lucky you are to have made it thus far without being shoved outside into the snow, where the average introductor and introductrix find their cold and homely keisters. Just a word of warning before you get too comfortable: don't blow it.
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10-03-2007, 09:15 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Canada
Posts: 2,095
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Welcome to the boards. Awesome taste in music.
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10-04-2007, 06:42 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: New England
Posts: 895
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Welcome to G-net.
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10-04-2007, 07:05 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Pond Path, East Setauket, NY, 11733, US (Come Serial Killers, Come)
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I've attempted to go to Rocky Horror with friends Five times, and each time it's been cancelled or I had to do something else. To this day I'm still a RH Virgin, I haven't even Masturbated yet.
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-Smiles- I was hoping I'd meet someone who was into EGA or EGL here, I do a lot of Victorian Styles, do you do shoots? Can check my space : z_Wt
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10-04-2007, 07:35 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Canada, BC
Posts: 1,949
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The girl kissed all your asses, so yeah she's welcome.
As for me, I'm just welcoming you as a human being, not because your band list satisfied my standards.
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10-04-2007, 07:39 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Canada, BC
Posts: 1,949
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HOWEVER
Midnight Syndicate is pretty much one of the only band that plays the exact music I like, only they don't have a singer which is their only draw back in my eyes.
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10-04-2007, 07:56 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Bard College
Posts: 256
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Welcome...I'm a bit of a corset-whore myself...We shall get along splendidly!
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10-04-2007, 08:26 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Originally Posted by wonderland
Bob Dylan. Yeah, I know the last one is strange.
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Never apologize for liking Bob Dylan!
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10-05-2007, 01:25 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 78
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Bram Stoker, huh? Ever read Lair of the White Worm, or see the vaguely similar B-movie adaptation?
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10-05-2007, 08:13 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 137
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Originally Posted by Stuporman
Bram Stoker, huh? Ever read Lair of the White Worm, or see the vaguely similar B-movie adaptation?
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I actually just got my hands on a freakishly huge collection of his work last weekend. It includes Lair, one of the few I haven't read already...should I be really excited about that one?
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10-05-2007, 11:02 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Temple of Love
Posts: 1,641
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Originally Posted by Uncle Smoov
By my regal decree you are henceforth given allowance to the usage of gothic.net. You've made an adequate first impression, and as Viscous and that other person have made clear to you (if our assumptions about your intellect hold), you'll relish as to how very lucky you are to have made it thus far without being shoved outside into the snow, where the average introductor and introductrix find their cold and homely keisters. Just a word of warning before you get too comfortable: don't blow it.
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You are no where near as funny or clever as you think you are.
But yes, to the poster, Tolstoy? seriously? ok then....
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10-05-2007, 11:30 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 78
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Originally Posted by wonderland
I actually just got my hands on a freakishly huge collection of his work last weekend. It includes Lair, one of the few I haven't read already...should I be really excited about that one?
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Your heart should be palpitating with excitement. It does have the same sort of formula as Dracula and as a result seems kind of like a one-hit-wonder's other song. On the other hand, I haven't read anything of ol' Brammy's besides those two, so that might just be how he rolls. In any case, it adapts folklore directly into the story. In this case it's the Lambton Worm, a little well-eel that grew into a big hill-eel.
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10-06-2007, 06:04 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 137
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Originally Posted by Stuporman
Your heart should be palpitating with excitement. It does have the same sort of formula as Dracula and as a result seems kind of like a one-hit-wonder's other song. On the other hand, I haven't read anything of ol' Brammy's besides those two, so that might just be how he rolls. In any case, it adapts folklore directly into the story. In this case it's the Lambton Worm, a little well-eel that grew into a big hill-eel.
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I'm officially excited, perhaps I'll cheat, skip to the back, and read that one first! My problem is that the book weighs as much as a small house, and so is very difficult to carry around with me. I can only really read it at home, and I'm rarely there. I wonder how my boss would feel about me taking a day off work to read creepy stories, in honor of Halloween...
Wormboy...yes, I'm a huge Tolstoy fan. Is that good, or bad?
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