Those sound like good choices, Jilli. I bet Dana could pitch in on the Goth operas.
megan or amych can assist with Baudelaire.
Jilli, I know you won't let me down when I get to Top Ten Goth Makeup Items Which Are No Longer Available.
Looks like civilization finally caught up with us.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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."
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 9:26:48 am PDT #6462 of 28377
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Atropa - Jun 20, 2008 9:27:08 am PDT #6463 of 28377
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Also a book of poetry titled Flowers of Evil should be a well spring.
For extra Goth pretentous points, no using the English translation. Stick with the original French. (It was a ... thing in live-action vampire games for certain people who thought they were Sensitive Artistic Types to lurk at the fringes of the game and whisper poems from that book, in French.)
For Poe, I vote Lenore or The Raven.
Kat - Jun 20, 2008 9:28:03 am PDT #6464 of 28377
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Annabel Lee would be my Poe rec.
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 9:28:44 am PDT #6465 of 28377
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
(It was a ... thing in live-action vampire games for certain people who thought they were Sensitive Artistic Types to lurk at the fringes of the game and whisper poems from that book, in French.)
They get plus points for adding atmosphere, though. And you can't dock them pretention points in a goth vampire masquerade.
Atropa - Jun 20, 2008 9:28:54 am PDT #6466 of 28377
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli, I know you won't let me down when I get to Top Ten Goth Makeup Items Which Are No Longer Available.
Charles of the Ritz "Paper White" pressed powder, Revlon "Blackberry" lipstick in the original formula, and Maybeline black liquid liner in the original formula.
Now if you want to talk vampire books, I'm here for you. But I'm really weak at poetry.
Kat - Jun 20, 2008 9:29:55 am PDT #6467 of 28377
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Now if you want to talk vampire books, I'm here for you
Just not Twilight.
Steph L. - Jun 20, 2008 9:31:46 am PDT #6468 of 28377
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
what would be the Gothiest Opera?
Lucia di Lammermoor.
Atropa - Jun 20, 2008 9:32:07 am PDT #6469 of 28377
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
They get plus points for adding atmosphere, though. And you can't dock them pretention points in a goth vampire masquerade.
You can when they refused to actually interact with anyone else, and hadn't given any thought to their character concept besides "stand around and whisper poetry while looking moody". From what I remember, that particular character got eaten by an NPC.
I want a Dracula opera. It's been a ballet!
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 9:32:22 am PDT #6470 of 28377
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Now we're talking, Kat.
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Charles of the Ritz "Paper White" pressed powder, Revlon "Blackberry" lipstick in the original formula, and Maybeline black liquid liner in the original formula.
Excellent. I'm going to need Ple and Raq to opine on this point as well.
Now if you want to talk vampire books, I'm here for you.
Let's hear it! Top 20 Vampire Books by Jilli!
DavidS - Jun 20, 2008 9:33:42 am PDT #6471 of 28377
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I want a Dracula opera. It's been a ballet!
I might be holding out for a Suspiria opera.
Of course, we've already heard The Elephant Man musical.