“I have a thing for Vincent Price. I don’t just mean that I enjoy his body of work. I mean I feel desire for his body. You may be asking what, exactly, my feelings for a deceased horror icon have to do with the work we do at Scarleteen. The answer is that it gets me thinking about desire and how even those of us who consider ourselves enlightened can fall into old traps when it comes to attraction. Because I’ve been puzzling over why, whenever I make the above confession, I feel like the kid revealing a deep dark secret at a sleepover during a game of truth or dare. I’m an adult, and a sex educator to boot. I should know that desire is a weird, nebulous creature. So why am I sheepish about my feelings? A part of it is, I’m not just attracted to young, matinee idol Price. I’m attracted more to older Price, who often looks downright odd in his movies. But even that doesn’t get at the core of the matter. I started to think back to middle school, to the years when many of us first discover that we feel the desire to get sexy with other people. I remember the teen magazines I read, which frequently featured lists of “the 50 cutest celebrities.” I would also read copies of Maxim (ironically, I did in fact read them for the articles). Those had “hot lists” as well, and while the tone was decidedly different than what you’d find in my copies of YM, they had similar goals. They were forming, in my mind and many others, an idea of what an attractive person looked like. They told us what traits made someone worth drooling over. The unspoken parts of those articles were, of course, that there were traits (or the absence of traits) that weren’t drool-worthy.”
Hey there US friends! If you’re voting using these machines (Hart eSlate) or similar ones right now or in the near future, make sure that the machine has NOT changed your ballot before casting it, ‘k? It’s apparently an already known problem, and has been for years, but has never been fixed.
Remember kids, being a Goth isn’t about the wearing a particular style of clothes or listening to certain types of music…
It’s about ravaging the Balkans, threatening to sack Constantinople, actually sacking Rome and eventually establishing permanent kingdoms in Southern Gaul and the Iberian and Italian Peninsulas.
Every month I make a music playlist for my car and I like to get song suggestions from you guys.
It can literally be anything. New, old, well known or obscure.
No genre is off limits I will give anything a go.
I can’t get “Passing Afternoon” by Iron and Wine out my head so please join me in my suffering (not really it’s a good song it just makes me feel things)
“Tonight is What It Means to Be Young” by Fire Inc. is my eternal jam.
“Wayfaring Stranger” and “If You Could Read My Mind” by Johnny Cash
Aretha Franklin’s cover of “Let It Be” with the Royal Philharmonic
The Paradox Machine 