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Your Senior Year in High School
What Year Was It? 1987-88
What were your three favorite bands? The Cure, The Smiths, U2
What was your favorite outfit? I wore Levis, tee shirts, and Chucks on muh feets.
What was up with your hair? Short, parted on the side.
Who were your best friends?Tom (
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evilxyzzy), Mike, Anita, Jason, Ted.What did you do after school? Worked.
Where did you work? Busch Gardens: Williamsburg in the summers, Wendy's in the winter.
Did you take the bus? Cheesewagons were for losers without cars.
Who did you have a crush on? Tanya.
Did you fight with your parents? That would have required interacting with them.
Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on? No one that I can recall.
Did you smoke cigarettes? Since I was 12.
Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker? These people who are afraid of lockers don't exist in Real Life.
Did you have a 'clique'? People who wore lots of dark colors, rode skate boards, and wore trench coats.
Did you have "The Max", a hangout like Zach Kelly and Slater? I don't even know who those people are.
Admit it, were you popular? Not particularly.
Who did you want to be just like? No one in particular stands out.
What did you want to be when you grew up? Not in jail.
Where did you think you'd be at the age you are now? Dead.
Okay, that was a bit long. Cut for your protection.
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We listened to punk and alternative (before it was another category on the shelf at your local Best Buy), skated, smoked, and generally got into trouble. None of this fascination with lace and death shit.
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Did you fight with your parents? That would have required interacting with them.
Did you smoke cigarettes? Since I was 12.
Did you have a 'clique'? People who wore lots of dark colors, rode skate boards, and wore trench coats.
Admit it, were you popular? Not particularly.
Where did you think you'd be at the age you are now? Dead.
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I don't wear fangs and run around V:tM LARPs.
I don't dye my hair.
I don't own a button down fluffy shirt.
I have friends who fit the stereotype, I am not them.
As far as music goes, let's look at the other choices available to us in 88: Debbie Gibson. Tiffany. New Kids on the Block. And you're gonna gimme shit for what I was listening to? Punk was dead, and I hadn't found Industrial yet at that point.
I don't talk to my parents because my mother is nuts.
I started smoking as a teenager, but I don't see your average goth inhaling Cowboy Killers either. I did not grow up middle class. We were definately a blue collar family.
I don't think our Powell-Peralta and Vision Street Wear gear fit the Goth aesthetic either, except for the colors. I did have a bright pink tee from 17th Street Surf Shop (corner of 17th St. and Pacific Ave, Va. Beach, VA) with a skeletal skater on it, but I highly doubt any self respecting goth type would have worn it despite the presence of the undead.
What does popularity have to do with goth?
I'll give you that last one, but not for reasons you'd think.