What got you interested in "Goth"

[Charles Crowe]

what got me interested in goth was the cartoon series "Beetlejuice" from waaaaaaaaay back. i remember back when i first got cable [around 5] i was channel flipping, and came across this odd little cartoon. i was hooked.

a link to the first episode

come on, share with me.

[jynxxxedangel]

<< was born "bats."

[dragonluv]

My love of cemeteries, skulls, and as someone said, "Halloween should be everyday". One of my ideal of a wonderful date, would be a walk through a cemetery. I feel like I am forgetting more. Damn it, I should have coffee earlier.

[prick]

I love punk and Goth is close enough.

[StormKnight (1)]

The Heavy Metal Movie when I was ten. The song "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" by the Blue Oyster Cult in the opening of the first story (Harry Canyon,) was what flipped the switch. Was kind of outside of most of society until I did my gaming conventions and started hanging around like-minded people.

[Msterbeau]

Style and music... and being generally off the beaten path of life.

[phee]

Long story... but I will sum up.

The beginnings:

I was the younger of two brothers, therefore I was always the decepticons, cobra, etc... I was also always the "bad guy" when playing war, starwars, etc...

Youth:

I was picked on a lot in Junior High... I mean A LOT. All of the "cool" and "popular" kids picked on me, as well as most of the ones who were not cool or popular, I was more or less the sub basement of Junior High popularity, even the nerds picked on me. But in this basement at the age of 12 I found certain things, Tangerine Dream, Ministry, Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Banshees... and they seemed to have no issues with me. I noticed that the stranger I acted and the more out there my behavior the less I was bullied. I also liked the DEATH METAL

Then the way women looked and dressed.... OMG there was nothing in the world more beautiful then punk/goth girls... it is the truth as I know it. Goth chicks JUST PLAIN RULE AND ARE SEXY AS HELL.

Now:

I just seem to find more like minded people in this genre of art, dark, and stuff....

[Charles Crowe]

Then the way women looked and dressed.... OMG there was nothing in the world more beautiful then punk/goth girls... it is the truth as I know it. Goth chicks JUST PLAIN RULE AND ARE SEXY AS HELL.

qft even better if they have mowhawks

[jynxxxedangel]

I have to add, that I always wished the Munsters and the Addams Family were my real family, as a small child watching television.

[pomba gira]

Now:

I just seem to find more like minded people in this genre of art, dark, and stuff....

Same here. Basically it's just what I evolved into... I think that happened to a lot of us first-gen punks, those of us who still fly a freak flag seem to be either goth or hippies now. I tried to get with the hippie thing, but knew it wouldn't work when my boyfriend & I ended up rolling around the lawn punching each other at this big hippie party out in Bath. LOL they were all trying to act like they couldn't see us or hear us shrieking obscenities at each other. So here I am!

I like that there are a lot of other damaged or just miswired people who can at least come close to understanding me.

I do like the style more than the music... most of it (at least the more clubby stuff) is just repetitive & annoying. But I guess that's what everyone says about whatever genre they don't care for!

[Simon Bar Sinister]

Those early Sisters of Mercy singles, especially their cover of Gimme Shelter.

[Kit Kat P]

the clothes, the girls, the boys, ohh and the music

[hunhee]

Goth? what's that? Yeah, I know, that's another thread altogether.

*whispers* I see goth people.. they're everywhere!

Actually, I don't really consider myself goth, yes, I love the music, I love the people, I love the look, I'm always dressed appropriately, but I'm more of a camelion, I tend to fit in with my surroundings. I'm as comfortable wearing khaki as I am vinyl. I PREFER goth people, because oddly enough, they're the most friendly and accepting.

Edited July 2, 2009 by hunhee

[Homicidalheathen]

I just sorta fell into it. Was already dressing, acting....believing and dancing a certain way just didn't label it 'goth'. Others do.

[CaT]

the Wicca religion ... used to study the stuff like crazy when i was 10... i grew up to be the devils child anyway

[torn asunder]

a crush, long past.

[Destroit]

I've been goth since the day I was born. Was never an option for me...actually when I was 13 I thought I INVENTED it. I still think I did... (J/K sadly).

[phee]

I've been goth since the day I was born. Was never an option for me...actually when I was 13 I thought I INVENTED it. I still think I did... (J/K sadly).

Marilyn Manson invented goth..... DUH?

[gothkytten (2)]

i have no idea.

[Head Wreck]

helping my dad maintain a 1952 humber imperial hearse

beatlejuice

beatlejuice cartoons

scarybones cartoons

cure music vids

but like hunhee i kinda do my own thing and blend in as best as my own brain lets me

[Invictus]

I'm not entirely clear on what the term means, but I'm pretty sure I'm not it. That said, I've often ended up hanging out with people who could be considered goth, or those who consider themselves goth simply because they were more open to my outlandish thoughts and opinions than the vast majority of people.

[bean]

My mother was kinda gothy, so I was just raised that way I suppose. Then I started hanging out with goth kids and it just made me get into it even more. Watching The Adams Family was an influence as well.

Edited July 4, 2009 by bean water

[Enishi]

A friend of mine introduced me to City last year and that was what got me started. Like Hunhee, I can't really say that I'm goth per say, just that I feel more comfortable around goth people.

[Mean Salley]

Saviour Machine.

[asphyxian_doll]

Cellular memory.

I just have been into goth since I was old enough to have some form of identity.

The closest explanation I can give is Cellular Memory.