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Re: Goths and Kentites / *bio+mechanic purism rant*

Jaharnish2 at aol_com wrote:
> gothbert nightshade asketh:
> > >Are there really goths from all over the country
> >  >here? Where are you two from?
> 
> mistress ysobelle replyeth:
> >  Well, I'm from Philadelphia, acknowledged my Gothness in
> > London and Florida and Atlanta, now in Pittsburgh, but
> > moving back to Philly for a bit. See?=20
> > Totally random. Jay over there's from-- well, what, various bits of
> > Ohio, now in the Motor City? I never could quite get that straight.
> 
> (yz, isn't this when you'd normally say, "SCORE!!" ?)

?

> started out at 3 in a stinky post-industrial hole (Follansbee, WV),
> move to the farmland country (Alliance, OH), cut my teeth in the
> town of Cinci, then *really* cut my teeth in the Destroit area
> (with aid of GLOD and company, plus the auto industry)...
> 
> seeminly random? yes.
> 
> but, ah, it's *not*. not at all.
> all part of the 'gothindustrial super-plan'(tm), baby.
> 
> (smirking for a moment at my own pretense)

Keep the pretense, may it be a wreath around you.

> side note, may i explain a couple things to you, yz and friends:
> i work at a stamping company. this entails strips of steel coming
> off huge coils, being sucked into huge presses (up to 800 ton)
> and basically getting the soul banged out of it.   l o u d l y .
> (as you can imagine, this generates a tremendous amount of heat)
> 
> the first time i came on a plant tour before i took the job up here,
> i literally lost my speech as i was led in front of the press.
> my dream come true, images i've always adored: flywheels, huge
> honkin' gears, intermittent oil sprays, STEEL getting STRUCK HARD.
> ...and the sound alone. (oh, dear)

Like Die Fabriek? Or Laibach?

> so i took the job. i still haven't recorded anything here yet, but i
> really must one of these days. (um, Chris? you visiting anytime soon?)

If you follow through with this recording, you WILL make it accessible to us
non-Detroiters, won't you?

> so, anyway, it appears this has become my rant for man+machine.
> the bio+mechanic. makes me remember all that scary H.R. Geiger
> stuff i studied years ago, all the imagery and music and inspiration
> from many sources, all of them pointing at this synergetic marriage of ~

H.R. Geiger is scary indeed!

> blood + oil.
> bone + spur gear.

Yes.

> skin, sprockets, hair, and hydraulics all woven together gloriously.
> physics. pain. action + re-action. auto-mate. re-create.

Yes, yes!

You mean, "pain + release". You cannot have one without the promise of the
other.

This is pure.
Robotics with clutching grip on humanity.
Humanity with seizing grasp on machine.
Ne'er shall the two part.

Let us also not forget that a [simple] machine can be a lever, a pully, or
an inclined plane. These have been intuitively used since the beginning of
man. Again, Ne'er shall the two part.

> (it's just something i much enjoy, i spend hours staring
> holes in the walls over it all, tightening up all over)

You as well?

> yz, gothbert, all, it shouldn't be difficult to reckon why all the purist
> industrial musick...
> 
> this is partially why i've spent many hours of my life banging on
> whatever scrap metal i can with what lengths of pipe i can find.
> (along with a drumset i made in the Home Depot aisle last autumn)
> ...but these are only miserable and weak attempts at my ideals.

Wonderful. Now we'll have to cover Over the Rhine songs in true fashion.

> indeed, gothbert. you've got my attention now. tell. tell.

Cincinnati. Over the Rhine fan. Goth. Pierced and well-inked.

> NP: Le=E6ther Strip - _Serenade for the Dead_

Excellent choice, but don't you mean Leaether Strip?

> The machine does not isolate man from the great problems
> of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
> -Antoine de Saint-Exup=E9ry (1900-1944), French aviator, author.

indeed.


thank you,

Gothbert Nightshade




"Beware thoughts that come in the night.
They aren't turned properly; they come in askew,
free of sense and restriction, deriving from
the most remote of sources."
William Least Heat Moon [William Trogdon]




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