The Grand Theatre of Freaks

[OmniTense]

We don't have exams...at least, I don't. Nothing rigorously scheduled, anyway. But those dates sound good to me. So love-day or the end of January. Either works for me... Anyone else?

[Fishie]

Originally posted by Govinda
I don't know if Americans have exams in January. I only have 2 and they'll be over after the 15th (HOW COOL IS THAT), so if nobody else has any, then would...the end of January be okay?

I have exams but it shouldn't be an issue. Heh. I'm still in high school but we get half days during exams so they divide it up for us to have more study time.

Originally posted by Vampiric Delirium
I do love to read. Usually something like Ann Rice, Darren Shan, one of the many versions of 'Dracula', Scott Westerfeld, Stephen King or Gary Crew. I'm also reading "The Dreaming" at the moment, a great horror manga by Queenie Chan. Only published Aussie manga ever.

Yeah. I love Stephen King's works. Salem's Lot is a personal favorite of mine. Have you heard of the "Vampire Diaries"? Its a good book. I got it today from a friend and wow, this book is awesome. I'm not even done with the book and I just got into it earlier. >< Its like a horror/romance kinda novel though. Its really good.

And welcome to the club!

[Anachlirium]

Squishie - Thanks. I read one of them I think, yeah. I'm actually not a massive fan, I must admit. It's just a bit too.. Normal? Little too much of a Typical vampire book for me. Doesn't feel like anything new, you know? I mean, it's okay.. Just not my kind of thing.

Sinister - Thanks. I'm not particularly talented at it either, But gathering the ends of sleeves with elastic and sewing bits of lace on really isn't hard in any way ><. And if you use black thread, it can afford to be messy with lace. You can't really see a thing.

It is quite unusual that we have such similar tastes in music. Great minds think alike? XD.

Govinda - Thank joo. And I've no idea what's going on [Miss Froggie needs to do some backreading.], but those dates sound fine to me? ><.

Oh! Has anybody here heard of Stephanie Dosen? Somebody recommended her to me. She's apparently Ethereal. I found an interview. Sounds a little insane =P. "I write my music for my ghosts". But interesting, so I'll probably end up downloading a bit. Anybody heard of her?

[Govinda]

I've never heard of your lady m'dear, but you've given me an idea...

Ever notice how most 'strange' people tend to listen to some variation of rock music? Please tell me if I've just been hanging around with a bubble of weird rock-type fans and have missed a point. But anyway, have you noticed that?

While we're on that subject...music's always a good thing to talk about. I'm loving this lady at the moment. The very end of that song is brilliant.

Night night loves

[Anachlirium]

I clicked that link there, haha. She's certainly.. Different, isn't she? In a good way though, haha.

I do see what you mean by alot of the 'different types' listening to rock or more rock-based things. Rarely you see one of us tuning into a bubblegum pop station ><. I used to listen to alot more rock than I do now, though. Alot of what I listen to is somewhat gothic, and a fair bit of Dark Wave or ethereal lately.

People, you -have- to try listening to Hannah Fury. She's simply.. Perfect. It's gorgeous music. The lyrics are slightly sinister.. But wow.. Nothing like her around, ever. I could only find one YouTube clip [she's a bit underground..] of her and that's the linky with her name there. Try it out.


EDIT - Found this.. It's one of her actual clips, with her singing and that. So.. Yeah. Maybe watch this?

[Silver]

I have noticed the whole rock thing... And some seem to like classical.
I'm not that big a fan of most classical songs, but ones such as this one are awesome to listen to... That Wagner was one hell of a composer...
And that link also has an interesting accompanying clip.

Apart from that, I personally like some genres such as grunge that haven't been as popular in very recent years (though pretty much everyone knows Nirvana and the like) and whatever I like the sound of when I hear it somewhere. Something I noticed was that a band I like, deftones, is basically unheard of by many hear, yet I heard from someone in the US refer to deftones as 'mallcore' suggesting it's played in malls and stuff. If that happened here I'd be damned surprised...

But then most parts here are stuck in 'dance', 'pop' and 'emo-rock'...
Some shops still play those old Venga Boys songs that make you want to rip your head from your neck with a rusty shovel.

[Anachlirium]

I'll give any music a go, really. Favourite genres though.. Probably include:

Dark Wave [I'm not dressing that way, just listening to it..], Synth Pop, Violindustrial, Fantasy Rock, Ethereal, Gothic rock, Dark Caberet,

[Now I can't be bothered with links...]

Also Rockabilly, New Romantic, Industrial, and EBM. But I'll listen to bits of acid punk and pop, some indie.. ETC. I'll try almost anything. I like alot of older music, also.

And Deftones are mallcore now? XD. They tend to play Celine Dion and Delta Goodrem.. Nice sweet female artists that won't hurt kiddies ears ^^. Haha.

I do hate the limit of genres.. You hear people talk about "Pop, Rock, Emo, Punk, Goth, Indie, Country, Metal"... Totally unaware that there are about a hundred different sub-types of each.

[OmniTense]

Very true, Vamp. The "genre" of Goth alone has so many different sounds and variations it would make your ears bleed. The ancient goth like Andrew Eldritch. There's Darkwave ala Faith and the Muse. There's Industrial. There's Ethereal. There's Goth Metal. blah blah blah blah... And Tao knows that's just one.


Celtic, I love the Valkyrie hotdogs... Eventhough Wagner and I don't typically care much for eachother. I always laugh when I hear ride of the Valkyries. Think of pink exploding bunnies because of an old Lucasarts game called Full Throttle...eh...nvrmnd...


As far as people like us liking similar music... Based on current evidence that this club supplies, I'd have to agree. I'm big on Bowie, Nirvana AND Cruxshadows. And somehow I don't know if any of us here are big Britney Spears fans... But I imagine that that too, has it's limits.

[Anachlirium]

Mk.. You're all gonna bad rep me now...

I love Britney :x

Seriously. I own her greatest hits album, and One of the other ones.. *forgetful*... That one where she did that collaboration with Madonna? The album that features that song.. I have that.

I know, people call her music basic plastic dance pop... But honestly.. It's unique. There's nothing else out there like it, however mainstream it appears. She put that distinctive plastic pop sound on the map.

I like her alot too because she [in music sence] isn't trying to be something she's not. She's not a popper trying to be punk or a pop-rocker trying to be emo. She's pop-dance and she knows it. And she's good at it.


..Leave Britney alone!!

[Chez Daja]

I think that I have a really varied taste in music. I listen to most genres. I attempted looking up some of the bands CD's I've bought from eBay, Amazon and the like and a lot of it is so rare, you'd never even hear of it.

I listen to a lot of different genres in metal mostly, though.

This is Xasthur. Never mind the terrible video, as it sucks. Didn't even watch it the whole way through.
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=KwcMGo...eature=related
Xasthur's D/SBM, with drone, as you can hear it.

If slow dragging music isn't of interest, I enjoy Hypocrisy, as well.
This is medolic death metal. http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Uwa453gHQ
Another shite video, but it's cute how men think headbanging in unison is "awesome". Poor gits. Wonder if they looked back and saw how wankerish they looked.

Non-metal artists that I enjoy are vast in amount, too, but I won't post any for now.

[OmniTense]

rofl...

omg

That's right. I forgot. Hmm. Well, even I like Enya and Eminem. But...Britney that's just...erm...ahem. A unique taste. But everybody has an artist or two like that. If it makes you feel better, and believe me it should, I like Styx.

-Sin

[Govinda]

You like Britney, Vamp? Excellent! I've never met anyone else who says that. I think most are too embarrased to. Good show.

I listen to lots of stuff. I like my classic rock - Bowie, Zep, that lot. I also really like 1970's ska punk, ala Ian Dury and the Blockheads. And Wreckless Eric because he's fun.

Just now I'm getting into more modern music. The Be Good Tanyas are brilliant; Cat Power is lovely; and Feist is just excellent. She's got a bit more popular lately because one of her songs was in an ipod advert or something...so a bunch of people bought The Reminder and only listen to the first track on it. And of course, my lady Regina!

I also like 90's Britrock quite a lot. early Oasis, Kula Shaker, that crew. Pulp a lot. A few Blur songs. Loudon and Martha Wainwright are brilliant: here's my favourite song of all time, sung by Martha.

Chez, Xasthur make me sad . Or is that the point?

[Momo Mastermind]

Wellll I'm just gonna hop on in here and state the kinds of music I like... for being a member of this club, I'm such a comformist aren't I?

Anyway; I like many different genres of music. Some I do not like, however, are rap, heavy metal [including death metal, etc...] annnd.... that's all I can think of. I've just really never liked the sound of pots and pans banging together and that's what metal reminds me of... as for rap, it's all about sex, money, and drugs... lmfao.

I'm more into synth-pop and electronica, techno, house, dance, industrial, cyber- etc...

A few of my favorite artists are: Tempo Shark, Freezepop, Ayria, The Knife, Sissy, Thompson Twins, Garbage, Combichrist, Rotersan, VNV Nation, and on and on.

I do love other kinds of music though, such as Lifehouse, Googoo Dolls, Nickelback, Matchbox Twenty, Avril, The Spice Girls.

I know, how strange?

Well that was my little jump-in y'all.

PS: We got an area rug for our apartment, and our living room ACTUALLY looks very nice and clean and such. I'll take and post some pictures if anyone wants to see! Otherwise I'm really a living statue. :3