Sleeeeep. And a video and some pictures!

[cupcake_goth]

The reading at the Bellevue Library was a lot of fun! Thank you to everyone who attended, it was lovely to see you there. Lisa the organizer recorded an audio interview with me before the event, and when that is available on the library website, I'll link to it.

Hey, speaking of links! Remember how I posted on Saturday night that I was going to be on QueenieTV on ustream.com? 73 minutes of giggling and general hijinks, featuring queeniex and myself, can be viewed right here. (clicky-link!) I adore Queenie to bits, and wish we could hang out more often.

I slept in today. I slept for something like 11 hours, and it was GLORIOUS. Today is going to be filled with exciting things like laundry, and reassuring the cats I still love them. In other words, a muchly-needed low-key day.

Here, have two pictures from the book tour. Oooh, and if you have photos, please send them to me!

	Cupcake Goth and Water-of-Fire at Books Inc! From the Books Inc. Gothic Charm School event in San Francisco
	Oooh, pink and black cupcakes! Like they were made for me or something! Posing with my cupcakes at Book Soup in L.A.!

Comments

[djeternaldarkne.livejournal.com]

Very cute!

[water-of-fire.livejournal.com]

Hi! Eeeeee! =D

You know, Miss Jilli, as I left for Burlingame I posted to my Twitter, "this might be the last time I goth up. I'm so tired." I've gotten so jaded about it, so TIRED. Just weary. And then I got there, and met some lovely, lovely people, and saw other lovely, lovely people I already knew, and I'm so in love with the book... I'm finding my faith in my cherished subculture reaffirmed. I think I can go on carrying the big, black, bat-festooned flag after all.

I need to find a way to mentally separate goth culture from the club scene -- it's not goth or being goth that I'm tired of, it's associating myself with a nightclub culture that, at least in San Francisco, has become the sort of thing that eats its young. I'm glad you're here, I'm glad I'm here, and I'm glad we were all in Burlingame on Friday night.

And this comment sounds kinda gushy and fangirly, but I'm okay with that. :)

[semy-of-pearls.livejournal.com]

Sweetheart, I hear you.

Tell you what. I plan to re-animate the Black Valentine's party this coming February. I've held it outside and at DunDraCon, and both work nicely. This time, I'll have tea and scones ready, not to mention my own Dorothy Parker book.

In the meantime, I'm terribly exited about making my own clothes again and doing it RIGHT this time!

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Oh honey, this comment made me a bit sniffly.

The goth culture, in many ways, NEEDS to be separated from the club culture. I mean, don't get me wrong, I adore my Saturday nights at the gothy club, but that's because I'm lucky enough to have a very good, friendly club to go to. Death Guild, in many ways, sounds like ... well, like something designed to chew people up.

But YES, you can be a goth and just ignore the club culture. Be who you want, like what you want, and if that involves you looking at the club scene and going "No thanks, I don't need that", then rock on.

It was so wonderful to finally meet you in the flesh! You are exactly like I pictured. :)

(oooh, give me the link to the best hoodie ever!)

[djeternaldarkne.livejournal.com]

Shh, don't let the DJ hear you talk about clubs in other places, it'll make him bitter that they eat the young.

[stroppy-baggage.livejournal.com]

"But YES, you can be a goth and just ignore the club culture. Be who you want, like what you want, and if that involves you looking at the club scene and going "No thanks, I don't need that", then rock on."

I smell the makings of a Lesson.

[water-of-fire.livejournal.com]

Yes please?

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

Me too!!

between that and something on the joys of Corp Goth life...

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

You are exactly like I pictured.
You mean she looks like her icon?!

[semy-of-pearls.livejournal.com]

Death Guild, in many ways, sounds like ... well, like something designed to chew people up.

So the lesson here is... we should all go up to Seattle and experience the club scene, then etch out a corner of the Bay Area and create a new one? :)

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Yes! But you can't take djeternaldarkne with you. He has to stay here and be MY DJ.

[semy-of-pearls.livejournal.com]

Heaven Forfend! Never would I do you and Seattle such a disservice. I went to Seattle on my honeymoon and would do nothing to marr such a lovely city. I am rather jealous of some of the lovely things there (especially the Underground tour,) though I have yet to sample the club scene. :D

[water-of-fire.livejournal.com]

May we borrow him for a few days, though? Please?

[thugg1ns.livejournal.com]

To the contrary... the Bay needs to come up here to Seattle and show people how a night of clubbing is done.

[water-of-fire.livejournal.com]

It was wonderful to meet you too, and you are also exactly as I pictured you. :)

I think my problem with the SF goth scene is totally solipsistic -- it makes me lonely, it leaves me cold, it's not what it was when I loved it! There's this disconnect between goths and dark culture in the Bay Area -- you see all of, oh, three really pretty, swirly gofficks at any given club night here and the rest is... sigh. You know. I can't even get into it. I wear BDUs to blend in and then I feel like I'm misrepresenting myself. I worry about kidlets getting into the Death Guild scene now, primarily because Guild has been around so very long and is still run by the same people who put it on in the first place -- we're planning our eighteenth anniversary party, which is only two years away, and it wigs us all right the hell out that there'll be people there who hadn't been born when we opened our doors. Ack. I know one girl on staff there in whom I see so much of myself at her age it's terrifying -- she's sensitive and sweet and I want to go, "Run! Run! This will eat you alive!" But she needs to learn her own lessons. And mark my words, it'll eat her alive.

(Am I being really fatalistic today? Post forthcoming on the subject.)

Oh yes, the ultimate hoodie: Ayya's Inanna Coat (edited to add that that's a clicky link)! It's perfect, I love it. The only caveat is that the sizing is screwy -- mine is an extra large, and I'm a medium in everything else in the world. Eek, I should have had you try mine on.

[icprncs.livejournal.com]

Trust me, there are PLENTY of us who are pretty well over the club scene, but still feel the pull of all the things that made us goth in the first place and still include it as part of our lives. Goth still happens in the daylight. ;)

[water-of-fire.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to reorient my thinking about it in this direction... well, I'm trying to. ;)

[mina5643.livejournal.com]

<3 I enjoy Death Guild, but at the same time I've learned to let the silliness wash off my back while I have a good time. I do think that it's important for us to have a scene outside the club scene, and I think the SF bay area is sorely lacking that--which is why a lot of our eyes light up at the thought of things like Tuesday Night Goffee, or tea parties or what-have-you. It's because they're sorely needed things to help give people a break from the oontz-oontz hearing-loss club nights.

[water-of-fire.livejournal.com]

<3 Miss Mina :)

I think the thing is I enjoyed Death Guild for, oh, fourteen years -- it's pure, simple contempt born of familiarity that makes me avoid it now. I'll still go occasionally to rub up against all my favorite bouncers and dance to a little oontz-oontz techno, but maaaaaan, forgive me my OldGoth[tm] moment, but the club scene in the Bay Area can't hold a candle to what it was when I was a little bat. This isn't to say that I don't want *you* to enjoy it -- believe me, I do. I pledge allegiance to David and all the old-school Death Guild crowd and I love that it's still fresh for other people. Please, go and love it for me. :)

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

I freaking adore your outfits for the signings.

so you love her every day wardrobe. :)

me too.

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

I meant that what she has been wearing to the signings is stuff she wears in her every day life. ;)


also... YAY DOLLIES!!! She needs a Jilli Dolly.

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

One of my girlfriends made the doll in my icon for and of me. I love her dearly. She is my proxy doll, so she goes to things when I can't (liek Convergence a couple of years ago).


I have seen your work before. I just love your dollys!! I am a big huge fan of soft sculpture, stuffed toys, and things of that nature. :D

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

YAY! Hi!!

I should add you to my friends list. then I could keep up with the new stuff and say hi more often. :D

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Aw, lovely pictures!

My pictures are all up here (http://pics.livejournal.com/spectralbovine/gallery/0001r25p), and there will a trademark epic post up tonight so you can relive the madness.

[domestinatrix.livejournal.com]

Shoot! I'm so sorry i missed that, for some reason i was thinking it was next week. I'm glad it went well, though.

[m-cobweb.livejournal.com]

That's what I did too. What the heck?

[mina5643.livejournal.com]

I have pictures up at my LJ, and I think I linked spectralbovine's pictures on a post of yours not long ago!

[queeniex.livejournal.com]

our 8pm-1am goth club needs to happen.
there are those of us that can't stay awake till 4am to have 'fun' ;p

im sooooooooooooooooo happy that we got to spend time with you!!

[stroppy-baggage.livejournal.com]

What makes this photo extra fun is Queenie's body language totally says "You can't have her, she's mine!"

[girlgoth.livejournal.com]

*whew!*

I thought I was the only one seeing that...lol :D

[queeniex.livejournal.com]

mine mine! :P

[javagoth.livejournal.com]

I watched part of the video - it was very cute! :D

[m-cobweb.livejournal.com]

Augh, I'm sorry I missed it.

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

I am glad it went so well. :)

I was wooooorking and then riding the bus home and then falling over.

[princekermit.livejournal.com]

You've probably received this twenty times already.

BLACKJACK!
http://roflrazzi.com/2009/06/25/celebrity-pictures-imelda-staunton-true-evil/

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Epic post! (http://spectralbovine.livejournal.com/171904.html)