I, HORROR NERD!
Halloween’s coming! And with that in mind, HORROR NERD is also coming! This August, it’s a witch-themed show featuring Jackie Steele, Samantha Hale, Allusia, Subhah Argawl, and me! Tickets are HERE!
Category: goth
How To Make The Perfect Blade Runner Movie!
What will we need to make the perfect Blade Runner movie?
Something boiling
Neon in the rain
Fetishy latex jackets
Crowds of pedestrians in weird masks
Wet sex workers
Pianos
Giant buildings shaped like pyramids
Street food/night markets
That opthamologist setup where lenses are flipped with other lenses
High contrast lighting
Inexplicable accents
Origami
Printed photos
CRT screens
Vangelis
Lens flare
Eyes: close up, tattooed, missing
Serial numbers on everything
Harrison Ford holding a square glass tumbler
Cityspeak
Jazz
Cigarettes
Slow ceiling fan
Saxophone
What else?
The Man Who Sold The World: On Autoharp And Guitar
The Man Who Sold The World On Autoharp:
If you give a goth an autoharp, she’ll ask for a Jazzmaster.
If you give a goth a Jazzmaster, she’ll try to play some Bowie.
I found an autoharp on Glendale boulevard in LA and tuned it and replaced the springs and felts, and then I accompanied myself on this Bowie cover, The Man Who Sold The World. I have probably gone insane. Thank you.
How To Quickly Cheer Up A Goth
Wondering how to quickly cheer up your goth? Try a bright mask! They’re safer, too!
GOTHIC CHEERLEADERS THROUGH TIME
My mighty gothic cheerleaders!
My friend Chris Christian pointed out that this week it’s been 20 years since we did this daytime sports goth event as part of the PDXINDGOTH bulletin board. Mike King made us SNEERLEADER t-shirts, the dudes played basketball, and I, despite having had my tonsils out the week before, led cheers like:
“DO it and DO it and DO IT FOR ROZZ”
and
“IT PUTS THE LOTION ON ITS SKIN OR ELSE IT GETS THE HOSE AGAIN.”
Anyway, sometimes a person just doesn’t ever change.
I was also really downing my post-surgical codeine syrup, which my doctor’s office was not happy about.
How To Make A PERFECT Guillermo Del Toro Film!
Let’s 
Make A 
Guillermo Del Toro Film!
What will we need?
Smoke wafting through air
Blood wafting through water
Blood wafting through air (ghost blood)
Insects
Ron Perlman
Cisterns
Specialized Metal Containers
Tools with Extensive Wear and Aging
A Fish Guy Who Loves Eggs
Mechanical toys
Intricate Clockwork
Catholic stuff
Gold/Amber colors
Stilts! More stilts! Additional stilts!
Robots Made of Clockwork Steampunk Shit
Children/Orphans/Dead Parents
Spanish Civil War
Vampires that are close to being vampires but are not really vampires, like slant rhyme vampires
Hand and Face wounds
Ghosts oh god so many beautiful ghosts
Doug Jones in a rubber suit
Eyes in places they should not be
A Jarred fetus, other Mutter museum stuff
A character who was born different, with special abilities, but who would trade it all to be “normal”
Elaborate carved stone labyrinths, waiting for circuits to be connected with blood
The Getty Challenge: Portrait Of Madame X
At the start of the Covid-19 lockdown, the Getty museum’s twitter account challenged people to recreate works of art at home, with things they had. I did John Singer Sargent’s Portrait of Madame X.
Someone commented that I referenced the original strapless version, which was so sexy that the artist had to add straps. It wasn’t a reference so much as my gown is made of a swimsuit and a bedsheet.
Trivia fact: The original model and I are both named Virginia.