John

Scene:
This Valentine’s Day, practicing piano alone at home, and my lesson moves to “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” by Elton John.
1) that’s such a good song
2) I realize this sounds like the saddest thing ever but… it wasn’t. Partner was off doing things she loves and so was I.

Fun fact:
You can play “Is It Cake” while watching Alejandro Jodorowsky’s seminal 1973 film The Holy Mountain. You’ll be wrong more than once.

Insula Iscariot

Impossible. I’ll always dance terribly. Or not at all. damn hips

“There’s merch available on the dryer”

At a house show. Basement show. The lights are on and they have the superb owl projected behind the artists.
I am the oldest person here by, conservatively, 15 years.
They had to stop the house’s washer and drier before the show because it might trip a fuse. Been there.

The first person paid to play American football:

Fuck ICE (but not this ice)

My night is Quickshow and Tiger Balm

As I make my way to Denver for Convergence27 the thought occurred:
Half of why I’m there is to shoot laser rainbows. There must be a non-zero number of goth songs where the villain is a guy who comes to a goth get together and shoots rainbows at them.
My super villain moment is here!

A group of evil supernatural musicians attempts to destroy a group of good vaguely supernatural musicians.
Sinners or KPop Demon Hunters?

Behold the floofs

Did you all hear about the straight pride festival in Idaho that drew tens of people and was crashed by an Army vet who sang a pro-trans song after lying about the lyrical content of his music?

Finished Expedition 33. Did… did I just play Belle Epoque Nier Automata?

They: “Isn’t my baby just the cutest?”
Me: “I’d prefer not holding an infant to modern society’s unrealistic beauty standards.”

“I feel like I’m watching a pansexual throuple who doesn’t believe in birds set all of their inside jokes to music”

“I wonder who there’s more of here: people with a vinyl collection but no record player, or people with a vintage record player but no vinyl”
“This may be the whitest thing I’ve ever seen and I’ve been to industrial festivals”

Thoughts I had while at the Charming Disaster show:
“Everyone in the crowd has been to New Orleans, but not as much as they claim”
“A non zero amount of people in this room have written erotic Alice in Wonderland fanfic”

Set two was fun

The set what I am playing tonight

#worldgothday

Photo of a striking black chicken with red comb and wattle.

Happy World Goth Day! It is a common misconception that chickens can't be goth, but Lavinia enjoys Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, and Victorian poems about beautiful women dying of consumption.

Present papal proclamations: Pietro Parolin preferred pope over Pierbattista Pizzaballa. Preposterous!

Ads seen on meta platforms this morning:
Church, other church, date Slavic women, Christian relationship counselors, church, Jordan Peterson, stock tip, stock tip, church, church but in an arena, other church but in the same arena

It’s been years since I contemplated…
What IF everything I ever wanted came in a rocket can?

Quick movie reviews:
Alien Romulus: scary fun, and the final xenomorph was as disturbing as the queen was 40(?) years ago
Crimes of the Future: verrrry Cronenberg, light on plot but good subtext about naturalism vs technology. Also I could watch Kristen Stewart get horny for surgery for days

Thinking about quitting my day job

When I started Cymbalta my weight shot up 20 pounds in the first couple of months. I started intermittent fasting (8 on, 16 off) when the scale hit 241. 3 weeks in and I’m down 10 pounds.
This is a long way of saying that I won’t have to buy new pants, which is really the driving factor here

I do not like that I now know the term “Dead Cat Bounce”, the origins of the phrase, and can use it in a sentence