A WALK ON THE DARKER SIDE


well turns out that i have a little bit more free time to post a few more halloween thoughts, than i had originally anticipated!! and by 'free time' i mean while i'm waiting for my laundry to finish drying at dear old "dinah's" across the street from school. and with the absence of my iPod today, i'm at a loss of activities to drown her incessant ravings out...so here i am!!

after a much unneeded ordeal with the opposite of fine people at "coastalcontacts.com", my original halloween contact lenses ("manson" style) are not coming. so at the risk of having a 'bad' costume (which will never happen for yours truly), i've decided to modify my "goth" costume idea just a tad.

basically instead of scary white-out-marilyn-manson style lenses, i'm going to refurbish last years "angelic" model...hopefully they will do the trick...although i'm not going to get into just how retardedly pissed off i am at the shits at coastalcontacts, all is not lost dear readers...halloween will still come as expected...

anywho...

this year i've decided to dress as i am not, and go as a "goth" for tonight's halloween festivities. why would a blue eyed sun loving blonde such as myself want to dawn dark apparel and black nail polish for such an event, you ask? well i guess you could say that i've always found myself a tad bit taken by the "goth culture" of yore. you don't see too many "stereotypical" goth-like kids these days, but in my opinion the 'gothic' subculture hasn't strayed too far from view.

what's it all about anyway?f according to my new best friend; wikipedia.com one can identify the subculture as so:

The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture prevalent in many countries. It began in the United Kingdom during the late 1970s to early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre. The goth subculture has survived much longer than others of the same era. Its imagery and cultural proclivities indicate influences from nineteenth century Gothic literature, mainly through horror movies.

The goth subculture has associated gothic tastes in music and fashion. Gothic music encompasses a number of different styles. Common to all is a tendency towards a “dark” sound and outlook. Styles of dress within the subculture range from death rock, punk, androgynous, some Renaissance and Victorian style clothes, or combinations of the above, most often with black attire, makeup and hair.

does wikipedia have it right in your eyes? is it really just a branch of the 80's punk vibe that we all fell prey to at some time or another? or is it a deeper idea than that?

no one can deny humanity's fascination with darkness, and the macabre. i think it would be foolish for us to say that all of us don't have a dark side to our personality's. even "little miss sunshine" has her shitty days, right? so why do we hide them? has it become so socially unacceptable to dabble in ways that are not the norm that these subcultures have been forced completely underground and out of view? and who's fault is it anyway,that this way of life has become so tabboo?

couldn't you say that maybe those who follow a gothic style of life are just simply being honest? perhaps they listen to that other voice on their shoulder, and this is simply the way they express themselves! i always find it funny that we accept certain styles/ways of life/attire more than others. who ever said that "preppy" is acceptable, and not "goth"?? and will it always be this way? and am i falling into society's trap of alienating certain groups by merely adorning the 'dress-up' attire on halloween? maybe i am adding to the idea that it's not acceptable by almost inadvertantly making fun of it tonight? what do you think?

whatever their/your/my reasons for sometimes allowing the darker side of life to creep in a little, we can't deny that it's there. so yours truly (who's considered 9 days out of 10 as a self-proclaimed Mr. Brightside), will walk on the shadier side of life tonight as a full size, life-like portrayal of HIS dark side...

photographic representations to follow.