PINK?!?!?!

[JaneDead]

nope, still don't know you. but now at least i know people who do so it almost counts.

[Paper Hearts]

nope, still don't know you. but now at least i know people who do so it almost counts.

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It's been great almost knowing you all these years, so close, but so far...

[wheresmypiggy]

Pink is the new black???

I get called goth alot. Funny part is I hardly ever wear all black to the club. Normally I wear a white skrit with a white wife beater and pink kangaroo shoes.

I get the "Hey are you new here? You know you're supposed to wear black right?" alot. I respond with "Really wow, in the 6yrs I have been coming here I never knew that, thankx a million butt head"

[kellygrrrrrl]

I LOVE Pink.

Pink and black go well together.

[DarkChylde]

I cant stand pink, too bright for my vision taste. Black/Purple/DarkRed are the only colors I like. But of course I dont discriminate against anyone wearing pink or other colors though

[Brenda Starrr]

I cant stand pink, too bright for my vision taste. Black/Purple/DarkRed are the only colors I like. But of course I dont discriminate against anyone wearing pink or other colors though

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That's because you're more mature than certain other persons.

[Head Wreck]

purple rocks.

love my purple shirts.

would love a pair of dark purple cowboy boots

[Guest MsMaldoror]

Maybe we can just promote color-blindness instead.

[Fierce Critter]

It took some time for me to respond to this, as I had to track down an audio file & transcribe it - I'd previously referenced this on EZB DGN, but all those posts went bye-bye when EZB was hacked.

The following is from Sarah Vowell's "American Goth", a piece from one of her books. She can frequently be heard on NPR and the program "This American Life." The entire bit is about her investigation of and initiation into the goth scene, and is very, very funny. You can hear an audio of the entire piece at This American Life - What You Looking At?, the piece starts at almost exactly 5:00 minutes into the audio file, and lasts 15 minutes.

The applicable bit (And Nerdcore - no offense!!! )

Before we broke out the eyeliner, we all sit in a circle and go through my homework. The whole thing reminds me of graduate school seminars, except these people are smart and funny and have something interesting to say.

They outline and debate the finer points of goth theory. They all got into goth when they were in their early teens, and they are, as Indra puts it, “Sooo in their 30’s.” Step one of the guidelines is choosing a goth name. Indra says, “most of us have changed our names to be something more gothic. A lot of people legally change their name.” According to Mary, if you go into any of the goth clubs nowadays, you’ll find a lot of spooky names like “Raven” and “Rat” and “Sage.”

When I was pondering a good goth name for myself, I paged through my reference books on death and dying for something gruesome. Nothing felt right. I think it’s because I came of age in the 80’s and I’d seen “Blue Velvet” too many times, but to me, the really frightening stuff has nothing to do with ravens and rats. The truly sordid has a sunny, waspy glow. Therefore, I tell them, the most perverse name I can think of is – “Becky.”

It turns out that by saying the magic word “Becky”, I have suddenly moved to the head of the class gothwise. As Monique puts it, “You are understanding the Pink of goth. You’ve skipped a couple levels and you went straight to pink.”

The group’s consensus is that pink is the apex of expert goth, that newcomers and neophytes should stick with basic black. But those confident enough, complex enough, can exude gloom and doom while wearing the color of sugar and spice. Indra argues that pink can be, “an intelligent, sarcastic color.” Though Terrence says of experimenting with pink, “proceed with caution – I can’t warn you enough.”

As if they need to warn me. It would never occur to me to wear pink. Just as it would never occur to Michael Douglas to play a poor person.

[fleshly_one666]

i cant stand pink...pink ruins the dark side of things for me..but hey if you like it its your likes not mine.. its to pretty for me......CRIMSON RED for me.

[float]

Pink as the Sheets that we Lay on, 'cause Pink is my favorite Crayon

it's hot on the right chicks

not everyone can pull it off

I would like to see more big burly tough guys (like bikers), sport pink

LOL

[Brenda Starrr]

Pink as the Sheets that we Lay on, 'cause Pink is my favorite Crayon

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That is one of my favorite songs. And even though I prefer crimson, I can rock the shit out of pink. So there.

[float]

how do you do that?

where you just pull out a single line from someone's post?

[Brenda Starrr]

Click on "quote"

[float]

Click on "quote"

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thanks B

[Brenda Starrr]

Anytime, J.

[Shade Everdark]

I despise pink, but I will defend to the death your right to wear it.

[wheresmypiggy]

I'm wearing pink right now.

[Homicidalheathen]

I had pink and purple hair and it was the bomb.

[wheresmypiggy]

I had pink and purple hair and it was the bomb.

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ooooo!

When I worked at Pure Gold before it became Crazy Horse I had black and pink dred locks down to my ass!

Before there I worked in Highland Park. You would think they would be used to weird colored hair, balck girl weaves and all but man they acted like I was from Mars.

[Homicidalheathen]

This whole thread reminds me of my goth daughter, I cannot wait to take her to City. She will see all the pretty boys in hot neon pink glow shit mixed with black pleather and freak.

She is anti pink only because as a children they looked so much alike, as soon as she was out of the tub, she got the pink so I wouldn't mix them up.

The other one was always less.....uh...feminine? And now she looks androgenous.

[PantherKitty1979]

Say you have a black shirt and there's words on it that are in pink then I'm ok with it. But if the shirt itself is pink then I have to burn it immediately.

[Lilith]

theres someone driving a pale pink merc A class in our town.

has to be a blonde woman who owns that

no one else would buy a "Barbie Car"

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I actually know a very gothy freaky chick who bought a MAry KAy pink car, i love it soo much it is so her she has all usual gothy freaky stickers on it too, dark tinited windows. I have to laugh cause every once in a while i will see her driving and i am in my bright ass purple car and its like odd color car love. :blink

Just cracks me up

Lilith

[Brenda Starrr]

You know, I own pink things. I wear pink rather well. Perhaps you own a color that someone else can't possibly stand, yet you love it and would keep it till it disintegrates.

Get over it.

[Lilith]

You know, I own pink things. I wear pink rather well. Perhaps you own a color that someone else can't possibly stand, yet you love it and would keep it till it disintegrates.

Get over it.

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YA know i also notice that certian colors i dont like look very flattering on other people and they wear it well. I had a customer who wore a bright green shirt, a very odd color to me to be the main color on a shirt, but she wore it so well and it brightened her up allot. I told her that too. Now me personally if i wore green i would look horrid.

Wear what ever make you look and feel good.

lilith