A little kid at school asked me if I was a goth. Hahahahaha! Funny. I was wearing a corduroy shirt and flared corduroy trousers and a cardigan at the time. This prompts me for a new subject at school, called "Youth Studies". You would get taught about slang and what swearwords mean, and then be shown pictures, like TEACHER:This is an indiekid, now can anyone tell me what kind of trainers indiekids wear? PUPIL 1:They all wear different ones with very small logos 'cos they want to be different TEACHER:Now, where would you go if you were going to a Goth party and wanted to look like everyone else there? PUPIL 2:Camden. TEACHER:A Merit mark to Susie! For your homework, you have to write a brief summary of 5 diiferent youth subcultures: Indiekids, Goths, Nu-Metal fans, Rudeboys and Skaters. That's for thursday. It would be cool wouldn't it. And then little kids would know I wasn't a goth. Goths are irritating, I know, but has anyone else met a phenomenenenenen even more irritating? The Wannabe Goth. These are people who think: Hmmmmm, I want to be different and stand out from the crowd, so, they buy some bracelets and carefully construct rumours around themselves involving "Chemical imbalances" in their brain. And talk about Pentagrams and listen to System of a Down. These are truly the twats of this earth. What really irritates me, though, Is that they don't like go for the proper goth thing, they just sort of make a really half-arsed attempt to get attention. If they were proper goths, they'd get piercings and wear far far too much mascara and really be goths but they are just to cowardly to do that. they want to stand out, but without being called freaks. I really, really dislike them. I bought a CD yesterday. it's quite good, but to be honest, I would never have bought it if it had been just by any band and I'd heard it on the Radio. The second track is great, I dance around the room to it but all in all, the experiance is underwhelming considering what amazing music they have produced in the past. Yeah, it's Ok, but nothing too great and for a B&S single it ain't up to much. OK, I'm off now to buy a shield to fend off the spiky mail that will fly at me after thse comments. !Viva Rachels! Rachel Pancake/Joe Vester P.S. I'm gonna have pancakes for breakfast tomorrow, by the way, as a tribute to my female alter-ego. P.P.S. Inside every lanky boy is a fat girl who loves pancakes. P.P.P.S Not to suggest anything _whatsoever_ by that. I'm not specifying what it doesn't suggest, just so as to keep all options covered. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+