I feel like I should be offended.
Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.
'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polter-Cow - Jun 22, 2007 9:28:54 am PDT #2960 of 28195
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Frankenbuddha - Jun 22, 2007 9:30:07 am PDT #2961 of 28195
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Like Hostel, Part 2 or something?
Closer to early Clive Barker (who would be the William Gibson), but Hostel-type stuff probably fits. As Jilli notes, it was a mostly parodic appellation, though I do have a splatterpunk anthology somewhere in my library.
Early Peter Jackson probably would count too, film-wise.
DavidS - Jun 22, 2007 9:34:04 am PDT #2962 of 28195
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I feel like I should be offended.
I own and love lots of Twee Pop. Embrace it. Be Twee as Fuck. Be a Monster of Twee. (It is just a subset of Indie Pop that's bit on the emo side.)
Atropa - Jun 22, 2007 9:35:40 am PDT #2963 of 28195
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Closer to early Clive Barker (who would be the William Gibson), but Hostel-type stuff probably fits. As Jilli notes, it was a mostly parodic appellation, though I do have a splatterpunk anthology somewhere in my library.
Huh, I never think of Clive as a splatterpunk author, even tho' his early stuff certainly fits. When I think splatterpunk, I think of David J. Schow, and the Dynamic Duo of John Skipp and Craig Spector, back when they WERE a Dynamic Duo and still speaking to and writing books with each other.
Hayden - Jun 22, 2007 9:37:54 am PDT #2964 of 28195
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Be Tweecore! Be A Tweehugger! There is unrest in the forest; there is trouble with the twees!
Connie Neil - Jun 22, 2007 9:39:52 am PDT #2965 of 28195
brillig
You mean emo used to mean something other than "I'm *SO* sensitive! Excuse me while I swoon."?
You may have noticed I don't make it much of a priority to stay au courant with the genres de jour.
And I suddenly seem to have gone French.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 22, 2007 9:41:06 am PDT #2966 of 28195
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Huh, I never think of Clive as a splatterpunk author, even tho' his early stuff certainly fits. When I think splatterpunk, I think of David J. Schow, and the Dynamic Duo of John Skipp and Craig Spector, back when they WERE a Dynamic Duo and still speaking to and writing books with each other.
Yeah, that was probably a stretch on my part (probably based on stuff I read in the intro to the anthology and in a Village Voice article), but it seemed closer to what I was thinking of than the recent spate of torture porn movies.
Polter-Cow - Jun 22, 2007 9:41:49 am PDT #2967 of 28195
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I own and love lots of Twee Pop. Embrace it. Be Twee as Fuck. Be a Monster of Twee. (It is just a subset of Indie Pop that's bit on the emo side.)
I think of myself as more of an indie rocker than an indie popper. Well, at least in what I listen to; it's more on the loud side. I don't act Disturbed when I eat my Korn.
"Twee" sounds so derogatory when people use it.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 22, 2007 9:42:42 am PDT #2968 of 28195
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"I'm *SO* sensitive! Excuse me while I swoon."?
No it's more "I'm *SO* sensitive! Excuse me while I thrash away on this guitar/this bass/these drums."
Atropa - Jun 22, 2007 9:46:35 am PDT #2969 of 28195
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
"I'm *SO* sensitive! Excuse me while I swoon."?
Add "While drinking absinthe and reading vampire novels by candlelight", and you've got a shorthand for goth.
No it's more "I'm *SO* sensitive! Excuse me while I thrash away on this guitar/this bass/these drums."
Yes. This is my understanding of Emo, tho' I think you need to add "While wearing skinny black jeans and a lot of eyeliner".