FAO Goths, esp in flatland:

[zotz]

You've made the Guardian too.

Comments

[naranek.livejournal.com]

> There are no hymns but goth music is played instead, including artists such as Depeche Mode, Joy Division and the Sisters of Mercy, said Mr Ramshaw, 34.

Oh, I do hope Andrew Eldritch is reading .. :-).

[zotz]

Do we know his email address?

[taoist-goth.livejournal.com]

countvon@elvis.tv

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

I do hope the church is paying for the performance rights. I would hate something bad to happen to them...

[zotz]

A good point. A very good point.

[casilda.livejournal.com]

I would like to move cities please. Far, far, away from Cambridge and all it's deviousness!

[zotz]

Edinburgh's nice. Everyone should move to Edinburgh. Except the bad people. They should move to Glasgow.

[casilda.livejournal.com]

Well if it had endless opportunities in science and mobile phones, we'd be there:)

[zotz]

Not so many mobile companies, I'm afraid.

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

seconded!

[fizzyboot.livejournal.com]

Ummm... aren't the bad people in Glasgow already?

[zotz]

Strangely, not all of them. Yet.

[shaunotd.livejournal.com]

You've never been to Hull, have you.

[taoist-goth.livejournal.com]

Which city would you like to move?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it's worth the Calling organisers writing to the Guardian to disassociate themselves from this, and to point out that The Calling has been running a lot longer than Goth Eucharist?

[jinxcw.livejournal.com]

Not really - it's not as if the article claims that the club is in any way a Christian event. Besides, why would they want to argue with free advertising in a national paper?!

[zotz]

In order to get more free advertising in a national paper?

[jinxcw.livejournal.com]

:-) I had thought of that, but I don't think it counts when you're essentiually beating your own drum. Especially since there's no way that it would come across as anything except peevishness.

[taoist-goth.livejournal.com]

Goths like peevishness, no? What could be more hip to a Goth than their local goth club having a rant at a newspaper for being associated with Christianity?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Parasols.

[taoist-goth.livejournal.com]

Parasols are only hip if you use them in the rain. At night.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Not lace ones. You get wet hair.

[zotz]

There's no such thing as bad publicity. It doesn't say when it's on, but otherwise it's pretty good. How much would a national ad that size usually cost?

[shaunotd.livejournal.com]

The spelled it correctly, got the venue right and everything!...there's no pleasing some goffs 8-)

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Eh? The article doesn't suggest any connection between the two that I can see. It could say they went to get dinner together afterwards, nobody would think the church ran the restuarant.

[taoist-goth.livejournal.com]

It doesn't suggest the Church runs the Calling, but it does suggest that Christians might like to hang out there after a good sermon. Or sommat.

[zotz]

Clearly, certain of them do.

[technotom.livejournal.com]

Shit, it's the same guy and his crowd of "goths". Zeroes to heroes in a 3 minute Look East report. What's the world coming to? Treacherous swines.

[decomposingsoul.livejournal.com]

Looks like the church is getting really desperate now! They'll have a ned equivalent soon. I wonder how they'd do that!? RnB in church, then off to the nearest street corner to throw bricks at cars?

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

I think they did that in Sheffield a few years ago. IIRC it got horribly discredited after some dodgy behavior by the vicar.

Gina

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Gosh, really? I can't imagine that happening here.

[casilda.livejournal.com]

It cetainly couldn't happen in Cambridge.....

[frazerpenman.livejournal.com]

What about the metalheads church that could be funny. Especialy a black or death metal soundtrack to a service. The song "read between the lies" comes to mind

[decomposingsoul.livejournal.com]

Oh dear -->

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http://www.howardforums.com/archive/topic/793219-1.html The Chav Nativity

[grendelis.livejournal.com]

I think it was a Norge (Norwegian) Death Metaller who burnt down one of the few remaining beautiful old wooden 'early' stave christian (?) churches in Norway. Guess it really wasn't to his taste.

Doesn't seem to affect my liking ofDimmu Borgir, though.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Cambridge = Flatland ; I like it.

It's not quite the brouhaha they had when they got The Damned to switch on the Christmas lights.

[zotz]

I'd forgotten about that. I must dig out the lyrics for Antipope, actually. Someobody must have posted them somewhere.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Religion don't mean a thing
It's just another way of being right wing

[zotz]

Thank you. Much appreciated.

[grendelis.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of:
"Religion is the petrol on the fire of hate"
by some punk band from Dunfermline in early '80s, commenting on Northern Ireland.

I've just always loved that line.

[jan-rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

That's brilliant..

I attended church myself in full Goth gear a couple of times. Most of the old ladies thought it was lovely.

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

I don't go to church but that sounds amusing.

flatland

[sheridanwilde.livejournal.com]

Ah, I immediately thought of the book, A Romance in Many Dimensions

Re: flatland

[zotz]

And why not? It's very good.

Sometime in the late Eighties I read another book about a 2-D universe, but I can't remember what it's called now.

Re: flatland

[sheridanwilde.livejournal.com]

Now that I've visited the amazon page (while logged in) the homepage has highlighted a few related books - looks like Flatland has built up a cottage industry in plane-based sci-fi.
Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension
The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-dimensional World
Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So

Though I'm also getting loads of dieting books recommended to me as well - the kind of connection I guess only computers would make :)

Re: flatland

[zotz]

It was The Planiverse. Thank you. It's very good.

Re: flatland

[grendelis.livejournal.com]

Now THAT reminds me of a co-worker I had at HWU who was into Paved Earth. very 2D, and er, very flat.

[grendelis.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Sounds like Cambridge is getting more interesting again.