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Being Gothic- Movies, Music, and Literature
Movies:
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This is one of my favorite movies!! It tells the story of Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley and Lord Byron's experimentation with love, sex and drugs that purportedly inspired Mary Shelley to write the novel FRANKENSTEIN. |
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Another favorite of mine, Henry & June stars Richard E. Grant, Uma Thurman, Fred Ward, and Kevin Spacey. "American expatriate author Henry Miller one day meets Anais Nin in Paris. Their voyage of self-discovery is faithfully noted in her diaries. In their search for new truths, they are both tantalized by Henry's enigmatic and haunting wife, June." |
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3-d is always a good thing. Add to it the horror genre, and you've got yourself a party. |
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Also available from the Tower Records UK, the Stephen King collection on DVD and Fright Night, 3 horror classics. |
Music:
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Hot Topic boasts that it is "Everything About the Music". So chances are, if you like your clothes you buy from them, you're gonna be able to find music as well. |
Magazines:
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One of my favorites. Mostly, I clip out pictures for my sewing idea journal. But they can fill you in on designers and where to buy there goods. Or give you inspiration on how to dress and beauty tips. At this site, you can order back issues, or get a subscription. |
Books:
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Fire:From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934-1937 As you can probably tell by my movie suggestions, I'm a fan of Anais Nin. "The diary which Anais Nin would eventually call Fire begins when she is newly arrived in New York City. Chronicling her unfulfilled marriage, affairs with Henry Miller and psychoanalyst Otto Rank, she confesses to her diary: "I'm awaiting a lover. I'm restless". "Erotically charged".--Publishers Weekly." |
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How Gothic can you be without a copy of Anne Rice's
Interview With the Vampire? "We are in a small room with the
vampire, face to face, as he speaks--as he pours out the hypnotic,
shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first
two hundred years as one of the living dead." |
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I find Poppy Z. Brite to be a little too cliché, but I know a lot of Goths like her. Especially the younger crowd."In Missing Mile, North Carolina, in search of supple young flesh and thirsting for blood, three beautiful vampires--Molochai, Twig, and Zillah--follow vampires Nothing and Ann on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans." |
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Some Goths choose to dabble in the Wiccan arts and vice versa. I'm very big on candle magic myself and this is a nice little starter book. |
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One of my favorite shows, whether you think it's cheesy or not, is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As an actor I love to read scripts. I think they're interesting to anyone who likes to read. |
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A complete guide to the world of the undead is a must for anyone. It is a huge encyclopedia of myth, folklore, literature and popular culture in the Vampire world. |
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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed. "This is the style book you can’t wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of humor." |
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To save money, you can find any of these books at Half.com, one of my favorite places to shop. Movies and audio books can be found there as well. |
Audiobooks:
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On a long drive from Northern to Southern CA, I love to listen to stories. You can find a great selection, at once again, Catalog City. |
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