interesting label

It's like the companion label to Hec's book.

It's like the companion label to Hec's book.

Definitely the same impulse.

Just got an email from our publisher. It's kind of a good news/bad news situation, though heavier on the good news.

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Kim:

I've just FINALLY discovered the reason that copies haven't made it to all the contributors -- we're sold out!

We have a rush reprint in the works but it will probably be about 3 weeks before books are on hand.

I'm sorry for the delay -- but obviously we wanted to ship store orders (and paid orders) first.

My apologies to any contributor who didn't get his/her copies on the first go.

Thanks--

Sincerely,

Richard Carlin
Executive Editor, Music and Dance
Routledge Publishers

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Jeez, I wonder what the original print run was anyway. Like, three dozen? Maybe that's why it's hard to find in the bookstores. On the plus side, it bodes well for doing another book with them.

I told you I was looking to get a couple more for some friends and couldn't get one until next month. I should check and see if I still can (I ended up giving up last time because I wanted them for X-mas).

Cloudbursting - Kate Bush (not Goth. Start to deviate more towards Jilli-land here.)

Mmmm, Kate Bush. When in doubt, always add more Kate Bush.

Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) - Concrete Blonde (I didn't even know there was a video for this. Crumbling mansion etc. Very goth.)

It's a fab video, and I'm oh! so happy that you put it on the tape.

Closer - Nine Inch Nails (not Goth? But...pretty much defining everything around the scene for years to come.)

NIN is industrial-lite, but the videos are always pretty eyecandy. I need to find a copy of the video for "Perfect Drug".

The print-run sold out?! Yowza.

I need to find a copy of the video for "Perfect Drug".

Yeah, see that's one that I wouldn't hesitatate to include on a goth collection. It's got the long velvet coat, and the cane and the absinthe and the vulture and the hedge labyrinth...

That video rules. It's really great if played in a totally dark room, cause during the bridge all that green flashing is way cool.

It's got the long velvet coat, and the cane and the absinthe and the vulture and the hedge labyrinth...

When it was in high rotation, a friend taped it, and then we sat down with all of our Edward Gorey books and went through the video frame by frame, finding all the visual references. Yes, this is how goths amuse themselves on a rainy day.

I was describing how great the song "Perfect Drug" was to someone and realized that I was really describing how great the VIDEO was. Unfortunately, I mentioned this stunning realization and was made fun of.

The song's pretty cool, too.

realized that I was really describing how great the VIDEO was.

Well, it is a great video.

I've realized this is as close as I come to a guilty pleasure, but I do love music videos. Not uncritically, but still, for somebody who listens to as much music as I do, this is not the Right Attitude. But I've always loved watching music. When I was in high school in the seventies, I spent many many Friday nights riding my bike to midnight movies just to watch The Song Remains The Same or Get Back.

I love watching old Elvis and Little Richard live clips, Louis Jordan's movie clips and scopitones, Duke Ellington soundies, and James Brown and Bo Diddley and The Ronettes on The TAMI or TNT Show and Dick Dale in beach movies and Serge Gainsbourg's weird little art videos and my New York Dolls documentary and TMBG animation and Siouxsie's super stylish videos.

I've always loved a band's visual style, whether it was in their clothes or their record sleeves or their videos. I love watching performances and thinking about Peter Hook's bass playing or Keith Moon's drumming, or the twin guitar attack in The Church. I love NIN's uncanny industrial/horrror show aesthetic - it's a big part of what the 90s looked like.

So I think that's my musical heresy. I love videos.

but still, for somebody who listens to as much music as I do, this is not the Right Attitude.

Why isn't it the Right Attitude? I don't understand why it would be musical heresy to love music videos.