Goth branched off from punk, new wave, and metal scenes of 70s/early 80s. The initial "goth" bands were all post-punk, essentially. It just got more and more stylised from there and polluted by other cultures (i.e. Emo and angsty little kids who think they're "goths").

So... yeah

bauhaus ftw.

Although I like the slightly later stuff (nosferatu, sisters of mercy, fields of the nephilim) more

Bauhaus

And Joy Division, and Siouxsie & the Banshees.

I have two orders of business regarding the Ebonguard. First and foremost, the Ebonguard maintains that it's merely trying to make this world a better place in which to live. Perhaps it would be best for it to awaken from its delusional narcoleptic fantasyland and observe that if it were paying attention -- which it would seem it is not, as I've already gone over this -- it'd see that it's easy to tell if it's lying. If its lips are moving, it's lying. It has long been obvious to attentive observers that the Ebonguard's maneuvers must not go unchallenged. But did you know that before I knew anything about it, I was once an onlooker at a few of the Ebonguard's mass demonstrations, without possessing even the slightest insight into the mentality of its forces or the nature of its circulars? The Ebonguard doesn't want you to know that because its sound bites reflect a duplicitous bias that will sentence more and more people to poverty, prison, and early death by next weekend. So don't feed me any phony baloney about how 75 million years ago, a Soulless named Xenu solved the overpopulation problem of his 76-planet federation by transporting the excess people to Lusternia, chaining them to volcanoes, and dropping Kethuru on them. That's just not true.

The Ebonguard sometimes uses the word "schizosaccharomycetaceae" when describing its quips. Beware! This is a buzzword designed for emotional response. The Ebonguard believes that we should abandon the institutionalized and revered concept of warfare. That's just wrong. It further believes that anyone who disagrees with it is ultimately noisome. Wrong again! Finally, to those of you who are faithfully helping me give war a chance, let me extend, as always, my deepest gratitude and my most affectionate regards.

I hate that money doesn't grow on trees.

But I love that the season premier of House comes on tonight!!!

I hate that I can't see what I type in telnet, so the last few days I've only been able to pop in and read messages and news posts basicly cause I was on my sister's computer and she doesn't have Java and forbade me to download anything onto her computer and so I was stuck on telnet and making so many typos it wasn't funny.

But I love that I'm back on my lovely Broadband connection and so tonight after House is over and I run a few errands, I'm gonna plaaaaaaaaaaay!

I hate that I can't pay to have my cable turned on at my new apartment until the 15th and I'm not getting a land-line so I'm going to sans internet for 9 days!

But I love that I will be moving into my new apartment tomorrow and enjoying a distinct lack of roommates!

But I love that the season premier of House comes on tonight!!!

This thread is now 3% of the entire Idiots! forum.