This is the Title of My Introduction Thread

PixelAvenger · 02-12-2010, 03:40 PM

I've been finding myself bored online lately, so I'm hoping to make a few friends here to alleviate this. I've been listening to gothic music for 8 or so years now. The rest of my music collection consists of post-punk, some industrial, and a smattering of oddities that don't fit into the aforementioned categories here and there.

1. What do you do? (Hobbies, job)
I read comics, play some MTG, listen to music, watch movies, and drink good beer.

2. Where are you from?
Claremont, CA.

3. Who is your favorite author?
Stephen King, I suppose. I don't read as many traditional books as I should, to be honest. Something I need to remedy.

4. What are your favorite films?
Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2 (1 especially), The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Nightmare Before Christmas

5. What music do you want played at your wedding?
Plainsong by The Cure.

6. At your funeral?
I don't particularly care.

7. This IS a gothic website, so... how do you want to die?
In the least painful way possible.

8. What kind of casket would you want?
Black with a red velvet interior.

9. What's your FAVORITE outfit?
I don't have one. I hate my clothes and I desperately want new ones.

10. What's one thing you miss about being a little kid?
The sense of wonder, and Sonic games not sucking.

11. What's your favorite band?
According to last.fm, Bauhaus, which I tend to agree with.

12. What kind of education do you have? What is/was/will be your major?
Couple years of college. I'm going to major in English but that could change.

13. Why did you join?
To find people to talk to who are also interested in gothic rock.

14. If the first 13 questions didn't give it away. What is your gender?
Male.

(heartofflames) · 02-12-2010, 06:13 PM

Welcome. I hope they don't tear you apart here; you seem pretty earnest.

Lochnar · 02-12-2010, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by (heartofflames)

Welcome. I hope they don't tear you apart here; you seem pretty earnest.

Everyone gets that...

PA - you're short, you're eyes look funny and your mother smells of elderberries! Welcome.

Mariner · 02-12-2010, 06:45 PM

I'm not a huge Stephen King fan, but I like many of his short stories, and The Stand is absolutely amazing. Welcome.

Mariner · 02-12-2010, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by (heartofflames)

Welcome. I hope they don't tear you apart here; you seem pretty earnest.

Eh, it seems to me just about everyone gets torn apart here, I'm sure my time is coming lol.

PortraitOfSanity · 02-12-2010, 08:15 PM

Stephen King? Have you had a lobotomy, Y/N? Because that would explain liking Stephen King.

If you haven't had a lobotomy, you just have really bad taste, or you're an idiot, or both.

Saya · 02-12-2010, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by PortraitOfSanity

Stephen King? Have you had a lobotomy, Y/N? Because that would explain liking Stephen King.

If you haven't had a lobotomy, you just have really bad taste, or you're an idiot, or both.

Hey! He has good books.

Some really, really stupid ones, but he is capable of putting out a good one every now and then.

Mariner · 02-12-2010, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Saya

Hey! He has good books.

Some really, really stupid ones, but he is capable of putting out a good one every now and then.

Must agree, he's created some terrible work but it isn't all bad.

PortraitOfSanity · 02-12-2010, 09:12 PM

I've never found a King novel I could get halfway through.

PixelAvenger · 02-12-2010, 11:49 PM

Stephen King is the only author I've read a book by recently, so I picked him. I can't say I'm particularly attached to him.

Ben Lahnger · 02-13-2010, 08:16 AM

I love the comment about the Sonic games. Too true.

Welcome to this place. I look forward to your contributions.

Mariner · 02-13-2010, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by PixelAvenger

Stephen King is the only author I've read a book by recently, so I picked him. I can't say I'm particularly attached to him.

Have you read The Stand? I would say that's the one book by Stephen King really worth reading.

FlowerGirl · 02-13-2010, 10:09 AM

Yeah...Stephen King isn't really worth your time. I would go for something more like Jeffrey Archer.

PixelAvenger · 02-13-2010, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Mariner

Have you read The Stand? I would say that's the one book by Stephen King really worth reading.

Yes, that's the one I'm reading. I haven't read his others.

Ben Lahnger · 02-13-2010, 12:18 PM

You know, I liked King's "The Stand", "Salem's Lot", "The Shining", "The Dead Zone" and "It". All were about equal in style and technical proficiency and came from the same period of his career. I don't know how one can pick out "The Stand" as being the only work of his worth reading, unless you made that judgment solely on the basis that "The Stand" had the epochal end-of-the-world story while the others were of a smaller, more intimate nature.

Many criticisms of King's early work are fair, including the fact that he couldn't write a fully fleshed female character to save his soul. However, he has gotten better at this in his later career.

I was reading his works as they came out ... then with "Firestarter" it started feeling thin, strained ... as if there was not enough skin to stretch over the bones of the story he was laying out. "Cujo" completely turned me off, and I proceeded to ignore his work while he churned out "Christine", "Pet Semetary", "The Dark Tower", "The Tommyknockers", "Misery" and so on. Part of me always wanted to read "The Talisman" and "The Eyes of the Dragon" but I shied away from them because of the overall quality of his writing during this phase ... plus this is when all those atrocious movies based on his books were coming out.

I was given "From a Buick 8" a while back and enjoyed reading this quiet, quirky little story. It shows more maturity that the middle section of his body of work, but wasn't compelling enough to make me want to go back to the well.

Mariner · 02-13-2010, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger

You know, I liked King's "The Stand", "Salem's Lot", "The Shining", "The Dead Zone" and "It". All were about equal in style and technical proficiency and came from the same period of his career. I don't know how one can pick out "The Stand" as being the only work of his worth reading, unless you made that judgment solely on the basis that "The Stand" had the epochal end-of-the-world story while the others were of a smaller, more intimate nature.

Many criticisms of King's early work are fair, including the fact that he couldn't write a fully fleshed female character to save his soul. However, he has gotten better at this in his later career.

I was reading his works as they came out ... then with "Firestarter" it started feeling thin, strained ... as if there was not enough skin to stretch over the bones of the story he was laying out. "Cujo" completely turned me off, and I proceeded to ignore his work while he churned out "Christine", "Pet Semetary", "The Dark Tower", "The Tommyknockers", "Misery" and so on. Part of me always wanted to read "The Talisman" and "The Eyes of the Dragon" but I shied away from them because of the overall quality of his writing during this phase ... plus this is when all those atrocious movies based on his books were coming out.

I was given "From a Buick 8" a while back and enjoyed reading this quiet, quirky little story. It shows more maturity that the middle section of his body of work, but wasn't compelling enough to make me want to go back to the well.

lol I must say this judgment of his work on my part wasn't well founded at all. Really...The Stand is the only book by him I have ever read. I only said that because his other books never looked that interesting to me. I don't often invest time in a book unless I'm pretty certain I'll like it. I don't know...I just mostly like to stick to classics myself.

Ben Lahnger · 02-13-2010, 10:57 PM

Mariner, you've established that your tastes in classical literature are pretty respectable, and you could spend your whole life trying to read them all without time to ever crack open another King book in your whole life. That said, I was just saying that in his whole body of work, if you've found one worth reading ... there's probably another.

Sorry about the long-winded analysis.

Mariner · 02-14-2010, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger

Mariner, you've established that your tastes in classical literature are pretty respectable, and you could spend your whole life trying to read them all without time to ever crack open another King book in your whole life. That said, I was just saying that in his whole body of work, if you've found one worth reading ... there's probably another.

Sorry about the long-winded analysis.

lol Not a problem Lahnger.

JethroAranas · 02-14-2010, 06:56 PM

Well Cum! Is Nightmare Before Christmas really was that popular that until now, backpacks, wallets and other stuffs with prints of are still being sold?

PixelAvenger · 02-14-2010, 11:22 PM

I've liked Nightmare Before Christmas since I was like 5. I realize that there's somewhat of a bandwagon these days, but I've been into it since before some of these people could talk.

CarrionCorpse · 02-15-2010, 12:25 PM

I've always loved TNBC, way before all theses emofucks got ahold of it and made it all fucking trendy and shit.
I love The Cure.
Welcome.

Stormtrooper of Death · 02-16-2010, 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Saya

Hey! He has good books.

Some really, really stupid ones, but he is capable of putting out a good one every now and then.

Agreed! King is an excellent author I think. The Complete and Uncut Edition of The Stand is one of the greatest psot-apocalyptic books ever written.

To the OP welcome.