NaDruWriNi 2018: The Cast of Characters
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the_siobhanWhen I asked what I should write about, elusis responded, "How you got into the punk/goth scene."
It was a case of mistaken identity mostly.
When I was a teenager my sister and her friends were into bands like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Ramones, Teenage Head. I liked the Pistols OK and I thought the Clash and the Ramones were fine but I didn't really get why so many people thought they were the bst bands ever. (And I've never liked Teenage Head)
So you know, I thought punk music obviously wasn't my jam.
Then I heard The Demics and went, "Oh.".
And then I heard the Stooges and the Deadboys and went, "OH!"
Fast forward a few years when I was in University. It's in a small town outsdie of Toronto and there are a small cluster of weirdos at school and I get to know a few of them. There are also a number of weirdos who live in town who are not associated with the Unversity at all, and I get to know some of them when I shack up with one of them. Around that time we start seeing this group of younger kids around town who dress all in black and have very big(tm) hair and somebody tells me eh calls them "Curepunks" because apparently this is a Cure thing. And I think the Cure are OK, but not all that and a bag of chips so whatever floats their boat and I forget about it.
And then one day I walk inot class and I'm wearing my Carl McCoy hat with the conchos and my black duster coat and my pointy boots with the skull buckles all up the side nad one of my friends squints and me and says, "So... you're a goth then."
And that's the day I found out all about that.
So basically I'm just oblivious and keep tripping into these things while looking completely in the other direction.
elusis responded, "How you got into the punk/goth scene."It was a case of mistaken identity mostly.
When I was a teenager my sister and her friends were into bands like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Ramones, Teenage Head. I liked the Pistols OK and I thought the Clash and the Ramones were fine but I didn't really get why so many people thought they were the bst bands ever. (And I've never liked Teenage Head)
So you know, I thought punk music obviously wasn't my jam.
Then I heard The Demics and went, "Oh.".
And then I heard the Stooges and the Deadboys and went, "OH!"
Fast forward a few years when I was in University. It's in a small town outsdie of Toronto and there are a small cluster of weirdos at school and I get to know a few of them. There are also a number of weirdos who live in town who are not associated with the Unversity at all, and I get to know some of them when I shack up with one of them. Around that time we start seeing this group of younger kids around town who dress all in black and have very big(tm) hair and somebody tells me eh calls them "Curepunks" because apparently this is a Cure thing. And I think the Cure are OK, but not all that and a bag of chips so whatever floats their boat and I forget about it.
And then one day I walk inot class and I'm wearing my Carl McCoy hat with the conchos and my black duster coat and my pointy boots with the skull buckles all up the side nad one of my friends squints and me and says, "So... you're a goth then."
And that's the day I found out all about that.
So basically I'm just oblivious and keep tripping into these things while looking completely in the other direction.