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Good dance music, reminds me of L.A. goth clubs
have a great holiday Jamie Michelle!
Well, who's to say what you kooky and crazy L-Aliens listen to in your Goth and Visigoth clubs, after you're done sacking Rome. Yeah, I haven't forgotten about that little number you guys pulled, either.
Ha! I'm being silly! Go ahead and sack Rome all you want, for all I care. As if I'm Caesar's handmaiden.
I kid! Of course, the modern Gothic aesthetic is named after a medieval Christian artistic style, not after the Germanic tribes. Silly me! How easily I forget.
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Speaking of the Gothic aesthetic, here's a different form of it. The following album is by a Texas band.
* "This Will Destroy You - S/T [10th Anniversary Edition] (Full Album)", Tura Suicide ( youtube.com/channel/UCXfnwlJ-TZc91zTQVYGrsUA ), June 13, 2018,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhDU_85lHLE . Mirror: "This Will Destroy You: A Line Rider Feature Film", Rabid Squirrel / Ben Harvey ( youtube.com/user/rabidsquirrel117 ), July 23, 2017,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qasxqKScOfY .
This album is something to be taken in when one has the time. I think it might be something that grows with time.
What this album speaks to me is discovery. Of the first Asiatics who came over Beringia, and eventually into Texas. The trepidation and sense of awe that they would have experienced, knowing unmistakably that they were the first humans who had ever tread over that ground. Knowing that it was just them there, and no one else. They might as well have been exploring a new planet.
The vast expanses they would have seen, and knowing that it was all theirs. But also the fear of knowing that they had no other tribe to call on. No one was coming to aid them. By the same token, no one was there to make war on them. Peace, yet distant solitude.
Until their numbers grew, so as to make war again upon each other.
It's not a bad story, after all. The war does stop. But that requires technology, to make the horror of naturally-evolved creatures into the majestic beauty of superintelligent artificial creatures. And the discovery never stops, only this time we will be safe--no more death, no more pain.
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Boys will be girls.
Author (under a nom de plume) of "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Dec. 4, 2011,
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