It's time for a change and I decided to start with my hair. I usually do something different with my locks once a year, so I'm going with a funky emo / goth cut in shiny black. I think I've had my hair every color at one time or another, but never black. I guess I figured I'd look too washed out with my pale skin. Now I keep thinking the contrast would be awesome and it would force me to add a little color to my lips, eyes and cheeks, and stop being lazy!
Here are my inspiration shots.... I found a website for this amazing salon here in Vegas called Curl Up N Dye. Kinda cute, huh? All their stylists are tatted up, pierced, and have really funky hair, so I figure I'll be in good hands.
Other than that I've been trying to re-establish my goth roots with some new clothes and jewelery. I never go overboard with all that, but when done subtly it suits me. Also, there's a Cure concert coming up that I'd like to go to. How cliche is that?
I'll make sure to post some pictures after the hair is "did."
Oh and listen to my playlist song, Black No. 1 to get you in the proper goth mood.
Quote of the Day:Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. ~Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato
Sometimes you have to make difficult decisions. This weekend I had to make a decision that reminded me just how old I really am.
I used to be borderline Goth about 10-13 years ago. I began my Goth phase nearing the end of high school and had the tendencies off and on until my junior year in college. I never wore the black lipstick or nail polish, but I had the long dark hair, the whiter shade of pale skin, the 18 hole Doc Martins and the vampire obsession. I was also heavily into the Gothic music scene, from hard-core obscurities like Nosferatu and the Virgin Prunes, to more popular stuff like The Cure and Bauhaus. And sheesh, I knew Bram Stoker's Dracula, with Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder, like the back of my hand. I'm still in love with Gary Oldman.
I'm not sure who first introduced me to the band Type O Negative, a goth metal group with blasphemous, vampiric and romantically morbid songs, but I was instantly hooked. Their melodies and lyrics spoke to me at a time when I was "finding myself." Not to mention their lead singer, Peter Steele, is a six foot six sex god with long black hair and a deep penetrating voice that would make any woman quake in her boots. I had the privilege of seeing them twice in concert. Both times in L.A., but years apart. I noticed a few months back that they put out a new CD (mighty amazing since reports said Peter was on the verge of committing suicide a year before).
Well, to make a long story possibly shorter, they are touring and happened to be at the House of Blues here in Las Vegas last Saturday. I didn't go.
Here are the reasons why:
1) I had to work at 7am the next day and put in 10 hours.
2) They were touring with two other bands, whose music I happened to listen to and could not get into.
3) I didn't think my boy friend could handle the Goth scene.
4) Because of 1) I wouldn't have been able to drink profusely, which may have helped with 2) and 3).
5) It might have been too loud.
Reviewing these reasons, I began to feel old. I chose responsibility and reality over youthful pleasure. Because really, the one reason I wanted to go, was to hold onto something from my youth that, like so many other things, is slipping away faster than I had anticipated.
I will always love Type O and their music because it reminds me of a different time in my life. It wasn't necessarily a good or bad time, but it was a time when I could go to a loud, drunken, metal concert and then survive a 10 hour day as the sun rose. You know why? My body could take it. I was young and full of energy. Now I'm reliant on a pillow-top mattress for quality sleep so that I can wake up without an aching back or head and make it through 8 hours of sitting at a computer, so I can come home and relax on the couch before dinner, TV and doing it all over again. I'm depressing myself.
Watch a Type O Clip and you'll make me feel better. Warning, it can be a little hard to take, but this isn't the full video and he had to change a few of the lyrics for the mass video.
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Quote of the Day: Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien
