My long-threatened post about The Scene and nostalgia ...

Over the past few weeks, I've been looking at goth magazines from the 80s and 90s. The issues of Carpe Noctem that stroppy_baggage discovered in the basement, a stack of Propaganda issues that I bought off of eBay. (Stop looking at me like that, most of the issues have actual interviews and pictures of the bands and random club-goers, and very few 'anorexic boi in eyeliner and skimpy clothing and/or Nazi regailia' Fred Berger photo spreads.)

The upshot is, I'm all nostalgic about the pre-Internet goth culture^*, and I'm trying to figure out (1) what I'm feeling nostalgic for, and (2) if what I'm missing still exists in The Scene somewhere, just not in Seattle.

( Ponder, ponder, witter, witter )

My goodness, that was a long ramble, wasn't it? I'll be interested to see if anyone has any comments.