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?

[casilda.livejournal.com]

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

[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?

[zotz]

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

[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]

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?

[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.

[zotz]

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

[casilda.livejournal.com]

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

[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]

countvon@elvis.tv

[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?

[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.

[taoist-goth.livejournal.com]

Which city would you like to move?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Parasols.

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[shaunotd.livejournal.com]

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

[zotz]

A good point. A very good point.

[zotz]

Not so many mobile companies, I'm afraid.

[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.

[zotz]

Clearly, certain of them do.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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]

seconded!

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

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

[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

[casilda.livejournal.com]

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

[decomposingsoul.livejournal.com]

Oh dear -->

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[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

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

[zotz]

Thank you. Much appreciated.

[fizzyboot.livejournal.com]

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

[zotz]

Strangely, not all of them. Yet.

flatland

[sheridanwilde.livejournal.com]

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

[shaunotd.livejournal.com]

You've never been to Hull, have you.

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.

[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.

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.

[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.