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Cylence

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Jul 16, 2002, 11:19:55 PM7/16/02
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I seem to recall a thread a while back about the bastardizing of the
term "gothic" on Ebay. Many items don't do their "GOTH PUNK CYBER
BONDAGE WITCHY GYPSY" description justice...here is my current
favorite out of all the blasphemous displays of poserdom. Reminds me
of the WWF tshirts popular among the hockey hair crowd. Add your own
as you come across them.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=943394259

Cylence

Her Serene Highness

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Jul 16, 2002, 11:33:02 PM7/16/02
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"Cylence" <cylen...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I needed that laugh. It's not goth- it's stupid!


gatonegro

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Jul 17, 2002, 8:30:43 AM7/17/02
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Cylence wrote
Duuuuude. Did you catch that wicked Slayer laser show at the
planetarium last night? Then, my girl and I went home, smoked some
schwag and listened to some great old Foreigner while making sweet
love.

Kirstie
http://www.geocities.com/kirstie54

Psyyche

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Jul 17, 2002, 5:47:58 PM7/17/02
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"gatonegro" <kirs...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=943394259
> >
> Duuuuude. Did you catch that wicked Slayer laser show at the
> planetarium last night? Then, my girl and I went home, smoked some
> schwag and listened to some great old Foreigner while making sweet
> love.

You just made me snork chai tea all over my work monitor. :D

Can you just *feel* the mullet power?

Duuuude. Sweeeet! Duuuuude? Sweeeet!

:D

---,--'-{@
Jessica

harlaquinn

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Jul 17, 2002, 8:33:00 PM7/17/02
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>
> You just made me snork chai tea all over my work monitor. :D
>
> Can you just *feel* the mullet power?
>
>
> Jessica

Isn't it hilarious how the fashion industry is so desperate for new
material they're bringing back the mullet? What's next, Jams? Zubaz?
The entire guido repertoire?

--harlaquinn


--harlaquinn

Scarab

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Jul 17, 2002, 10:02:22 PM7/17/02
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cylen...@yahoo.com (Cylence) wrote in message news:<2413b414.02071...@posting.google.com>...


I don't think most goth guys are as prim and proper about clothes as
women are. They'll wear all sorts of shit and call it goth. You should
have seen the wardrobes of some of my male goth friends. I think they
would have liked that eBay shirt. *shrugs*

c h e r r y - r i o t

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Jul 17, 2002, 10:45:03 PM7/17/02
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>sacr...@hotmail.com (Scarab) wrote:
>I don't think most goth guys are as prim and proper about clothes as
>women are. They'll wear all sorts of shit and call it goth. You should
>have seen the wardrobes of some of my male goth friends. I think they
>would have liked that eBay shirt. *shrugs*

i'm a guy and i wouldn't be caught dead in that!

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tristen cherry-riot
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The Anti Kathy

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Jul 18, 2002, 9:37:35 AM7/18/02
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Tristen fashionably said:
>i'm a guy and i wouldn't be caught dead in that!

Yes, dear, but we all know (from your posts) that you're a fashion GOD, too!
::Aunti-fied cheek smooch::

Anti

celaeno

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Jul 18, 2002, 12:15:51 PM7/18/02
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check out their other stuff *evil grin*. (psycho skull shirt
description:) "one small skull on the big skull. CREEPY! two small
skulls on the back skull. CREEPIER!" *rotfl* actually, i wish they'd put
that description on a shirt, i'd probably get one of those....
and i actually some guys with some of their shirts (though not the
posted one) at the zillo festival last weekend. sad, really...... :)

c.

Scarab

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Jul 18, 2002, 11:38:26 AM7/18/02
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othersi...@aol.com (c h e r r y - r i o t ) wrote in message news:<20020717224503...@mb-fz.aol.com>...

> >sacr...@hotmail.com (Scarab) wrote:
> >I don't think most goth guys are as prim and proper about clothes as
> >women are. They'll wear all sorts of shit and call it goth. You should
> >have seen the wardrobes of some of my male goth friends. I think they
> >would have liked that eBay shirt. *shrugs*
>
> i'm a guy and i wouldn't be caught dead in that!

I know. You are different (more fashion-conscious).

And I do agree with the original poster. Ebay has all sorts of odd
things labelled as goth.

Faintly McAbre, The Singular Pocketwop

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Jul 18, 2002, 12:18:51 PM7/18/02
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harlaquinn <harla...@chateaubizarre.com> wrote in message news:<3D360E69...@chateaubizarre.com>...

YES! Joey Buttafucco chic! Now everyone from my home town will be
back in fashion, muscle pants and gold chains and big hair (yes,
still) and all... New Jersey will suddenly become the fashion capital
of the U.S.

Fondly,
Faintly

Her Serene Highness

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Jul 18, 2002, 5:25:57 PM7/18/02
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"celaeno" <cel...@gmx.net> wrote in message
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<irony button on>

But what I RILLY want is the Terminator Skull shirt! I can give it to my
boyfriend, and he can wear it while he's making change at the video arcade,
and I can look at it when I get off from work at the Cinnabon, right before
his dad picks us up in the station wagon!! And then, I can tell his fortune
with the NATIVE AMERICAN TAROT CARDS! 'Cause, like, I RILLY love Native
Americans- I have a DREAMCATCHER and EVERYTHING! I mean, those Natives-
whoever they are- they are soooo COOL!!!!! And spiritual- like, they are SO
back the the LAND and everything!!!!!

<irony button off>

Actually, I don't want those cards or the t-shirt, and I really don't work
at a Cinnabon, although I love the fresh-baked goodness of same. What I
RILLY want are EUROPEAN TAROT CARDS- with like, CELTIC SHIT all over them!
I'm RILLY into European tribal shit- like, I have a claddagh ring and
EVERYTHING!!!!!

Ok. I've finished channelling Long Island mall-rats, now. And I've taken my
pills, so there'll be no more silliness today from me- unless the medication
wears off again.
:)

Michele


Her Serene Highness

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Jul 18, 2002, 6:09:52 PM7/18/02
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"Her Serene Highness" <nysm...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Here's yet another Gothic shirt- YOW! This company has TONS of them! I can
buy one for each of my buds down at the head shop, for when we go to that
weird club to scope those spooky GOTH chicks! I hear they really put out-
and they're all into that S&M SHIT too! Why else would they wear dog
collars? Shit, I'll have to buy a whip on eBay, too!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=944087767


Jaden_Kale

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Jul 18, 2002, 7:24:50 PM7/18/02
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"Her Serene Highness" <nysm...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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*shrugs a little* Um, I don't know but I sorta like the Miss Muffet shirt
they have *waits to be smacked*

I don't wear t-shirts very often but if I need to, I'd like to have that one
but, I like the Celtic Knot designs better. I really like some of the
Celtic designs I have seen although none of them are with this ebay seller.
(is more into the classier designs though and I am a little suckered into a
wolf t-shirt from time to time, but I don't have any, which explains how
picky I truly am)
They are selling an Art Neauvue (sp) style Ivy Fairy shirt that looks really
nice but I think I'd only consider it if it was less than $22-$24 to buy it,
you have to remember that S&H ya know. :o/

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=944087628


Their shirts remind me of the shirts that you can get at Wal*Mart or the
'hippy store' in our mall. Indian Weavings, although at times has some
pretty things, I haven't bought anything from them since I got my Alice in
Wonderland Shirt from their store when it was downtown.


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Her Serene Highness

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Jul 18, 2002, 7:45:11 PM7/18/02
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"Jaden_Kale" <Jaden_Kale@_Celtic_Knot_Tattoo_msn.com> wrote in message
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> *shrugs a little* Um, I don't know but I sorta like the Miss Muffet shirt
> they have *waits to be smacked*

You won't get smacked by me. Some of their shirts were ok, but I'm not a
big t-shirt wearer.


>
> I don't wear t-shirts very often but if I need to, I'd like to have that
one
> but, I like the Celtic Knot designs better. I really like some of the
> Celtic designs I have seen although none of them are with this ebay
seller.

Those are nice. Or just plain. Although when I go to SM day events, I wear
my Hot Topic 'Got Blood?' t-shirt.


> They are selling an Art Neauvue (sp) style Ivy Fairy shirt that looks
really
> nice but I think I'd only consider it if it was less than $22-$24 to buy
it,
> you have to remember that S&H ya know. :o/

Nouveau (I took French this year). I think their shirst are pretty pricey.
I had fun looking at them though- I needed a good laugh today. The
descriptions made even the nicer shirts into laugh-riots.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=944087628

A nice shirt- but Wicca? I think not. It's a knockoff of Alphonse Mucha
stuff.


>
>
> Their shirts remind me of the shirts that you can get at Wal*Mart or the
> 'hippy store' in our mall. Indian Weavings, although at times has some
> pretty things, I haven't bought anything from them since I got my Alice in
> Wonderland Shirt from their store when it was downtown.

All opf which would be cheaper than these shirts. Friends don't let friends
buy overpriced blah t-shirts.

Her Serene Highness

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Jul 18, 2002, 7:48:22 PM7/18/02
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Jaden_Kale

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Jul 19, 2002, 5:36:40 AM7/19/02
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"Her Serene Highness" <nysm...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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LOL thanks for the links and for the Spelling correction (my computer
recently puked and I don't have a typing progrm loaded yet... I have XP
though, so I'm testing new waters.) plus it doesn't help that I'm too tired
to think long enough to spell it correctly. You should have seen me earlier
trying how to remember how to spell "material" once I screwed it up in a
post before sending it off... Took me something like 10 minutes to figure it
out *smacks her sorry self*

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/mucha/mucha_dance.jpg.html

^ This is exactly what I think of when someone says Art Nouveau. I used to
babysit a little girl during one summer and her mother's bathroom had a very
large piece of art on it much like this (it went floor to ceiling and it was
one entire wall) They had a claw-footed tub near that wall. Ever since,
that's what I associate that time period with ... well that and Anything
Frank Lloyd Wright (I have one of his places here about an hour's drive or
so from me: Taliesin http://www.franklloydwright.com/ ) I figure if you
know that much about Art Nouveau, that you have heard about FLW. Funny
enough, a fair distance up the road from Taliesin, there is the House on the
Rock that every one assumes is FLW's doing. It was created by this guy
named Alex Jordan and it's claim to fame is the "Infinity room" which is
juts out of the house some 218 ft and not supported:

http://www.mds.rmit.edu.au/~dirk/Port/HouseOnTheRock.htm
http://www.saukcounty.com/house.htm

Every 5 or so years, we go up there and check it out (it's like a crazy
man's museum) It's very dark and creepy. I LIKE it. I always look forward to
the infinity room and the four horsemen of the Apocolypse hanging from the
ceiling. The carousels with the old dolls is quite creepy, as are most of
the things in that place. (I noticed the last time we went that the nymphs
that are suspended from the rafters in one place are mannequins with wings,
and that's totally intentional... freaky)


*ok enough late night babling from me...* Thanks again Serene

c h e r r y - r i o t

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Jul 19, 2002, 10:18:00 PM7/19/02
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ack i totaly lost the link to that first skull shirt that was posted in this
thread, but OMG!! i was at the club last night and acturally saw a bloke in
that EXACT tshirt!!!!!! i had giggle just a tad and then run here and post!

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tristen cherry-riot
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Chelsea Polk

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Jul 20, 2002, 7:47:06 PM7/20/02
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"Jaden_Kale" wrote

> Funny
> enough, a fair distance up the road from Taliesin, there is the House on
the
> Rock that every one assumes is FLW's doing. It was created by this guy
> named Alex Jordan and it's claim to fame is the "Infinity room" which is
> juts out of the house some 218 ft and not supported:

In case anyone wondered, Yes. This is the same House on the Rock that was
featured in American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

I also had a look at those Alphone Mucha links and affirmed that Thomas
Canty's work is strongly influenced by him - but it took a number of
examples to be certain. Tom Canty does cover art for books - if you've
picked up an anthology edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling - The fairy
tale series or the year's best fantasy and horror, that's the guy I'm
talking about. his covers practically sell books.

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