http://ameliag.com Writer - Editor - Photographer Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:19:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://ameliag.com/2010/04/should-goths-kill-emos-and-eat-their-flesh/ http://ameliag.com/2010/04/should-goths-kill-emos-and-eat-their-flesh/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:28:27 +0000 Amelia G http://amelia-g.livejournal.com/502460.html Should goths kill emos and eat their flesh?

by Amelia G : April 13th, 2010

Maxim Golovatskikh might be hot and in a band, but he is a butcher. Well, actually a year ago that was pretty literally true, on multiple levels, but he has been in jail awaiting trial since then. See Maxim Golovatskikh was a goth boy in a band who worked as a butcher to pay his rent in a gothic group house in St Petersburg.

Unfortunately, it was Maxim Golovatskikh’s misfortune to have a cute emo girl get all hot for him. Cute emo Karina Barduchian was so into Maxim Golovatskikh that she kept right on going over to his place, even afer her mother forbade her to see him. The problem was he and his housemates were all goth-identified, but this Karina Barduchian chick was all emo and hanging out at their party pad, just flaunting her vulnerable cute girl killability. It has also been widely reported that she made fun of really uncute goth boy Yuri Mozhnov for being a florist and she was just really emo, ya know.

So, obviously, the only rational thing for Maxim Golovatskikh and Yuri Mozhnov to do was to wait until the festivities wound down and then drown Karina Barduchian in the bathtub. And cook the tastiest parts of her remains and serve them to their unsuspecting housemate Ekaterina Zinovyeva as a hearty breakfast with potatoes.

Now I’m kind of a foodie, so I used to be curious about cannibalism. Sorta grew out of it. Just a phase I guess. There have been certain warrior tribes who ate portions of fallen foes to gain some of their power, but how much mojo can one get from a cute emo girl with a crush on a gothic boi in a band? Kellie LaPlegua recently did a performance where . . .

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I discussed this with Michelle Olley years ago, when she was at Skin Two, and we were both trying to promote having models with unusual haircuts and tattoos and dramatic makeup and such in fetish areas. And meeting with resistance. Looking punk or goth-industrial or whatever and showing up to the BDSM party was not always the way to elicit the friendliest welcome in those days. The handcuffs on my leather jacket at the time were fully functional and one of the reasons I founded Blue Blood was precisely to celebrate an aesthetic which resonated with me sexually. 17 years later, I am less impressed by a daring hairstyle than I once was, partly because it takes less courage to rock one in a post-internet world, but I'm still enough of a fetishist there that I will look at two people with the same basic level of appeal and think the one with the mohawk is way hotter.

Something which troubles me deeply is that a lot of people have reinterpreted alt to be where girls (not women) who do not make the grade can put on wigs and LARP like they are modeling. These are generally girls who do not want to have to develop their minds or even their cooking skills, but they do not want to hit the gym either. So they call themselves altmodels and you are supposed to like them for their looks alone, without requiring them to look good.

Certain corporate players in the marketplace have aggressively attempted to de-sexualize alt. But a few more loathsome humans in the overall society doesn't make liking music and subculture-influenced looks not a fetish.]]> http://ameliag.com/2010/01/alt-vs-fetish/feed/ 0 http://ameliag.com/2009/04/msnbc-vs-adam-lambert-and-twilight/ http://ameliag.com/2009/04/msnbc-vs-adam-lambert-and-twilight/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:11:00 +0000 Amelia G http://ameliag.com/2009/04/msnbc-vs-adam-lambert-and-twilight/ http://ameliag.com/2009/04/msnbc-vs-adam-lambert-and-twilight/feed/ 2 http://ameliag.com/2009/04/blow-art-serena-toxicat-interview/ http://ameliag.com/2009/04/blow-art-serena-toxicat-interview/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:17:00 +0000 Amelia G http://ameliag.com/2009/04/blow-art-serena-toxicat-interview/ http://ameliag.com/2009/04/blow-art-serena-toxicat-interview/feed/ 0 http://ameliag.com/2009/03/twilight-vampires-pics/ http://ameliag.com/2009/03/twilight-vampires-pics/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:23:00 +0000 Amelia G http://ameliag.com/2009/03/twilight-vampires-pics/ http://ameliag.com/2009/03/twilight-vampires-pics/feed/ 0