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conjuremanj · 4 months

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The Souls Within Spanish Moss.

Here in the Southern U.S states, our old trees have this spiderweb-like plant called Spanish moss aka (old man's beard) some say. It's really not a moss at all. But It grows from Louisiana, all the way to Virginia even through some of South Carolina I read, basically anywhere there a lot of moister. Even Native Americans used it for medicine. This is the kind of plant that gives the south a Gothic look, that is shown is seen in a bunch of movies and Tv shows.

This Moss absorbed the humidity and helps keep the heat bearable. Some Slave families would sit under those trees to rest. Some people with Gullah heritage would celebrate their, or Congolese people in Louisiana gathered by a big tree with moss to celebrate their hopes, dream. You can probably imagine the amount of spirits of slaves that still have their hearts, souls and struggles in the moss, The men & women who built these plantations all those years ago.

Spanish Moss In Magical Practices. In Voodoo & Hoodoo practicers Some use spanish moss for positive and negativity workings. It absorbs the energy that the practicer gives to it. This moss can be used to create dolls like our voodoo dolls here in New Orleans. Its added to bottles of War Water & Snake Oil. (See my posts on both) It can be used to create a protection oil or wash. Therefore, Spanish moss have magic properties that is used in southern hoodoo & voodoo traditions alike.

How to Work with Spanish Moss in Your Magick First, If you buy or collect your Spanish moss yourself wash it, Sometimes It can have small pests/ bugs, ants etc that lives with in it. And I would know I got bit by fire ants years ago collecting some.😁 Now after it's clean let it dry.

Ways That It's Used. Stuffed into dolls for workings, used to make War water, Stuffed into herbal pillows. Put in spell bottles. Attached to ceremonial clothing. Use on the altar as a representation of the South and traditional hoodoo. There's many ways to use it.

The Legend of Spanish Moss and the Princess’ Hair In Florida. I read a old Native legend about how Spanish moss began and I wanted to share it. There was a Native Princess who fell in love with a Spanish soldier. Her father, the chief, forbade her to see her true love. The story is tragic – the Princess hangs herself by a tree when she realizes her father had her true love killed. Her hair stayed in the tree and continued to grow, becoming what we call Spanish moss. Another variation of this legend tells the tale of an old man who’s long beard is caught in the trees and becomes Spanish moss.

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johnny-cages-used-sock · 3 months

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What do i do when i have several aesthetics and obsessions like its hard to juggle them. Its like im stuck between these egos SPECIFICALLY

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-mid 2010's dork watching markiplier and Garret watts and old Shane Dawson vids 24/7and dreaming of california and florida, late summer nights, solely drinking starbucks, having the soft girl aesthetic and religiously following niche moodboards from 2018...also downtown coffee shops

-Mcbling Queen living in the 2000s with a pink room and glitter everywhere, watching The Simple Life and going on shopping sprees alot while living off of starbucks, lowkey a slut

-Early 2000s kinda suburban, kinda country kid? Watching Supernatural, Listening to Big Thief, going out on hikes and practically living outside. Collecting bugs and plants, obsessed with the Midwest and South, writing poetry in a beat up journal, mazzy star and dreaming of leaving this town one day

-insane storyteller and writer with big collections turning her house into a musuem and searching for her dark academia soulmate

-cowboy.

-Southern Gothic/coquette? Like, redneck coquette. Out in the midwest or deep south, living in a small town, housed in a trailer park. Early morning runs to the gas station with almost nothing on. Walks in the farmers market. Exploring the woods. Church potlucks. Exploring folklore. Supernatural. Living my best life in the rural empty countryside.

-NEW OBSESSION THAT JUST DROPPED OUTTA NOWHERE FOR ME: 2010s, Buzzfeed Unsolved/Watcher, cryptidcore, pretending im a hunter, exploring woods and abandoned lots with starbucks and notes, writing a cryprid entry journal, being real dramatic and dreamy, flannel on and boots. BOOTS!!! coffee shop meetings downtown, rainy/gloomy days. Hyperfixated on mystery and supernatural tales and folklore, rambles alot

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Tbh I've embodied each of these but now I'm at a standstill, i want to be all of them but i feel like i just HAVE to dedicate myself to one!!! It's this weird conflicting teeth gnashing feeling like i want to rip all these things apart and eat them

But like, i can be a coquette cryptid hunter drinking starbucks stopping by a gas station in the rural south right? In my soft pink Juicy Couture tracksuit, right? With Markiplier merch in my car?

Also the worser part of this. The men. The men I fixate and associate with all of these.

Johnny Cage is Trashy Y2k, SPN cast is Southern Gothic, 2018 is Markiplier, Arthur Morgan is cowboy, some random dilf for coquette, and idk who it'll be for this new one....

#johnny cage #female insanity #aesthetic #rambles #ADVICE? HOW DO I CALM DOWN

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creativity-is-rebellion · 5 years

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My Love of the Southern Gothic Horror Genre

I’ve always been drawn to the Southern Gothic Horror Genre, with anything from Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories, to William Faulkner’s Sanctuary, and Anne Rice’s Vampire Lestat Series. It’s a genre I want to dabble with for my next story idea, but am concerned that I won’t nail it right, as I am not from the South, let alone from the U.S. For those of you who do not know, Southern Gothic is a sub-genre of Gothic fiction in American literature that takes place in the American South, and includes deeply flawed, disturbing or eccentric characters who may be involved in hoodoo, decayed or derelict settings, grotesque situations, and other sinister events relating to or stemming from poverty, alienation, crime or violence. Southern Gothic writing is thus an extension of Gothic fiction, which originated in England in the 18th Century, and includes novels such as Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1794), and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818). These novels all contained elements of horror, death and romance, often revolving around events that appear to be supernatural, but which ultimately have a natural explanation. Furthermore, the word ‘gothic’ can be taken as an historical reference to the Goths, the people responsible for the first known example of Germanic language during the 4th to the 6th Centuries AD. It denotes the Dark Ages, and the brutality, horror, and decadence associated with this period. It also refers to Medieval architecture; location is very much a character in itself in these novels, which often take place in castles, manors, and monasteries.

The popularity of Gothic fiction could also be seen across Europe: Germany’s Schauerroman (shudder novels) were much darker than their English counterparts, and stories such as Carl Friedrich Kahlert’s (writing as Ludwig Flammenberg) The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest (1794) and Carl Grosse’s Der Genius (1796) contained a greater focus on necromancy and secret societies. European Gothic fiction was used by authors to delve deeply into their history, allowing its audience to experience the thrilling terrors of the dark past, which was naturally echoed in the American Southern Gothic tradition.

Elements of a Gothic treatment of the South were apparent as early as the 19th Century, in the grotesques of Henry Clay Lewis and the de-idealised visions of Mark Twain. However, the genre came together only in the 20th Century, when dark romanticism, Southern humour, and the new literary naturalism merged into a new and powerful form of social critique. The thematic material was the result of the culture existing in the South following the collapse of the Confederacy, which left a vacuum in both values and religion that became filled with poverty due to defeat in the Civil war and reconstruction, racism, excessive violence, and the theological divide that separated the country over the issue of slavery.

The Southern Gothic style employs macabre, ironic events to examine the values of the American South, thus, it uses the Gothic tools not just for the sake of suspense, but also to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South, with the Gothic elements often taking place in a magic realist context rather than a strictly fantastical one.

Warped rural communities replaced the sinister plantations of an earlier age, and in the works of leading figures such as William Faulkner, Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor, the representation of the South blossomed into an absurdist critique of modernity as a whole.There are many characteristics in Southern Gothic Literature that relate back to its parent genre of American Gothic and even to European Gothic. However, the setting of these works is distinctly Southern. Some of these characteristics are exploring madness, decay and despair, continuing pressures of the past upon the present, particularly with the lost ideals of a dispossessed Southern aristocracy and continued racial hostilities.

Southern Gothic particularly focuses on the South's history of slavery, racism, fear of the outside world, violence, a "fixation with the grotesque, and a tension between realistic and supernatural elements".Similar to the elements of the Gothic castle, Southern Gothic gives us the decay of the plantation in the post-Civil War South. Villains who disguise themselves as innocents or victims are often found in Southern Gothic Literature, especially stories by Flannery O'Connor, such as Good Country People and The Life You Save May Be Your Own, giving us a blurred line between victim and villain. Southern Gothic literature set out to expose the myth of old antebellum South, and its narrative of an idyllic past hidden by social, familial, and racial denials and suppressions

The term "Southern Gothic" was originally used as pejorative and dismissive. Ellen Glasgow used the term in this way when she referred to the writings of Erskine Caldwell and William Faulkner. She included the authors in what she called the "Southern Gothic School" in 1935, stating that their work was filled with "aimless violence" and "fantastic nightmares." This is a sentiment that has been expressed less and less, as it’s seminal authors, such as Flannery O’Connor, become lauded as being some of the most important icons in American literary history.

Of course, the genre also exists in film and television, with movies such as The Gift, and TV series like American Gothic and Season One of True Detective, the latter being one of the greatest TV shows of the last 10 years. The first series of True Detective, in addition to its Southern Gothic setting and characters, incorporates many of the core aspects of Gothic fiction, as well as drawing on the work of specific American horror authors, notably Lovecraft, Chambers and Ambrose Bierce. The setting is truly breathtaking and depressing in it’s dilapidation, and it’s clearly poverty-laden surroundings, as well as it’s troubled but fascinating key characters. Every time I watch the series, I imagine what it might have looked like if it was in the form of a written novel instead of a television series.

But I digress. As much as I love this genre, my personal experience of the American South is restricted to visiting Florida on holiday for three weeks when I was 10, so I think that I might steer clear of writing the next great American Gothic horror novel for the moment. Instead, I might focus on a writing project centring around European Gothic horror, as I lived in Norway for 6-and-a-half years. Norway, with its bitterly cold autumns and winters, and sweeping fjords and mountains creating great chasms between communities seems like an ideal setting for writing a good Gothic novel. I am even privy to the fact that Norway is home to an infamous, long-since abandoned mental asylum, which housed the criminally insane and where lobotomies and mysterious, unsolved deaths involving patients were commonplace. So, this will be the setting for my next novel, and my American-style Gothic horror story will have to wait. Stay tuned.

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nprfreshair · 6 years

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Southern Gothic 'Florida' Spins Tales Of Hurricanes, Humidity And Humanity

Lauren Groff sets her new story collection in what she calls the "sunniest and strangest of states." Critic Maureen Corrigan says the tales are "brooding, inventive -- and often moving."

#Books #npr books #Maureen Corrigan #Lauren Groff #Florida #book review

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finishinglinepress · 6 years

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FINISHING LINE PRESS BOOK OF THE DAY: A Perfect Day for Semaphore by Holly Day $18.99, Full-length, paper https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/a-perfect-day-for-semaphore-by-holly-day/ Holly Day has worked as a freelance writer, indexer, and editor for more than 25 years. She has over 7,000 published articles, poems, and short stories, and more than a dozen published books of fiction and nonfiction. Her book titles include Insider’s Guide to the Twin Cities, Walking Twin Cities, Music Theory for Dummies (also released in Dutch, German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Persian, Polish, Italian, and Russian editions), Music Composition for Dummies (also released in German, Portuguese, and Spanish editions), Guitar All-in-One for Dummies, Piano All-in-One for Dummies, Nordeast Minneapolis: A History, A Brief History of Stillwater, Minnesota, The Book Of, and the poetry books The Smell of Snow, Late-Night Reading for Hardworking Construction Men, and Ugly Girl. Her writing has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, a 49th Parallel Prize, an Isaac Asimov Award, eight Pushcart awards, and three Dzanc Book’s Best of the Web awards. She is the recipient of two Midwest Writer’s Grants, a Plainsongs Award, the 2011 Sam Ragan Prize for Poetry, and a Dwarf Star Award from the international-juried Science Fiction Poetry Association. A Perfect Day for a Semaphore is exactly what I hope to find when searching for a poetry book: interesting thought process, compelling narratives, deep sense of place, depth of mood/tone/emotion. Some books yield only one or two good poems, this one offers an abundant continuity of written graces. –Rhonda J. Nelson, 2000-2001 Florida Fellow in Poetry “Beyond the curve at the edge of the world, there is a monster that knows who you are” — the poems in Holly Day‘s new collection brim with stories that chill the bones, hint at Grimm tales and bad choices made long ago, under neon lights and the influence of one too many beers. With an eye for the natural world and a dark sensibility, Day writes songs to discomfit the reader, imagines drowning, envisions wings, breaks the necks of small creatures in a Gothic assemblage of poems with a sense of the inevitable, yet dares to ask, “what if?” –Julia Park Tracey, Poet Laureate emeritus, Alameda, California Holly Day‘s A Perfect Day for Semaphore turns like the earth, dark one moment, light the next. Her poems break the crust of soil and blossom, strangely ordinary, and reveal what resides in the subconscious. There is the joy of becoming lovers, having children, and becoming family. Yet while we sleep, the subconscious sends out its slippery vines of doubt and dread. The poems instruct the reader to reject the colorful birds, the dun-colored sparrows that stay constant are the ones to count on and to nourish. Just when a relationship seems doomed, accepted, sleep arrives, and in sleep, the lovers’ bodies gravitate to the embrace, saying how foolish we are to think what we know is the one true answer. Day seems to say the gods of myth gave us stories, but failed to allow us access to all that wisdom, and yet, each of these poems is in itself, a key. –Jo-Ann Mapson, Los Angeles Times‘ bestselling author of Bad Girl Creek, Solomon’s Oak, and Owen’s Daught PREORDER SHIPS SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/a-perfect-day-for-semaphore-by-holly-day/#poetry

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creaturesfromelsewhere · 10 months

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New Tales of Florida Gothic - Chapter 2

" And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming" The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe

On an early morning jog along the beach, you stop to marvel at an ultra-realistic sand sculpture of a massive octopus, but ice runs through your veins as the sand-covered leviathan lurches back into the abyss.

You don't know what nocturnal horror hunts your city at night, but it brazenly leaves the remains of its victims tied to the highest tree branches.

You never know what to expect at your neighborhood laundromat. It is almost always deserted, but the machines always seem to be running. Sometimes your clothes are replaced with ones you've never seen before. Sometimes items disappear after one load, only to reappear in a later wash cycle. But the worst times are when no machines are running at all, and in the eerie silence, you can just barely make out the faint sounds of scratching from under the tiled floor.

You only visit the remote swamp store when times are truly dire. Although the shelves are mostly bare, the attractive young lady at the counter is always efficient and professional with business. Few words are spoken; just a quick exchange of folded, hand-written notes. On your note is something you desire. On her note is the name of someone you must eliminate. Delay too long in your task, and the name on your note - on everyone's note - changes to yours.

Deep in the swamp during moonless nights, you sometimes catch glimpses of the leathery winged monstrosities as they hunt for unwary, human prey. Your heart aches with regret that you were long ago cast from their ranks for your unforgivable transgressions.

You enjoy a lazy walk in the peacefulness of the moss draped cemetery until you happen upon your own grave. Your run in horror and disbelief, tears of shock streaming from your eyes, but just as suddenly, you forget what you saw. After a brief moment of mild confusion, you calmly resume your eternal, spectral stroll.

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#new tales of florida gothic #florida gothic #creaturesfromelsewhere #darkly inclined #gothic horror #dark humor #southern gothic #leviathan #creepy laundromat #winged terrors #swamp store #haunted cemetery

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mermaidinstereo · 7 years

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LIST: 10 of My Favorite Dark Music Videos

What you probably couldn't tell from my ongoing Christina Aguilera project is that I love dark shit. No, you probably won't find me at the local goth club nights (in suburban Florida, we don't have those), or crying to Sisters of Mercy, or blowing an entire week's paycheck at M.A.C. just for eyeliner (because ya girl is broke). Still, I enjoy a good vampire flick (and a lot of bad ones), prefer to rock a good dark lip, and one time blew $50 at Hot Topic on a coat that makes me feel like a tragic Edgar Allan Poe heroine. I guess you could say I'm barely a low-budget goth, but that's okay. That's just my vibe, I guess.

So today, I thought I'd count down 10 of my favorite music videos, that are all at once super totally goth and not at all. In no particular order, of course. (Because of Tumblr’s rules, I can’t embed more than five videos at once. So I’ll link to the bottom five, and embed the top five.)

10. "Mine" - Kim Jae Joong If the former TVXQ member was looking to make a name for himself, other than being just a K-pop prettyboy, well, he did it right. He was already a bankable actor, racking up views on both the big and small screens. And even after departing from TVXQ, with fellow ex-members Park Yoochun and Kim Junsu, formed the group JYJ, also successful in their own right. However, Jaejoong was not content with staying the course of K-pop typicality. In response, Jaejoong tapped into his inner rocker, unleashing "Mine," off his first solo mini album I. In this video, he runs through dark forests, plays with snakes, and struggles to break free from a wall, before appearing at the end of the video as a vampire that looks straight out of a J-rock band. One can only argue that this is Jaejoong's final form. Or is it?

9. "Hyde" - VIXX While VIXX started playing with darkness in "On and On," it was "Hyde" where they really hit their stride. Telling the story of a man struggling with a Jekyll-and-Hyde-esque duality in a relationship, images of the band's six members are juxtaposed--wearing white as cute, loving, boyfriend material, and black as horrifying, nightmarish, even abusive monsters. I gotta give an award to Leo for looking a little too into it when he strangles his lovely lady, shortly before black angel wings burst from his back. Dude is scary. And so is the setting of this video! It appears to be a vaguely decrepit mansion crawling with macabre decor...and some classic creepy crawlies. It's no wonder VIXX are pegged for K-pop's go-to goths. (For more creepy craziness from VIXX, there are a lot of videos to choose from, but perhaps nothing is more terrifying than “Voodoo Doll,” a video so gory it was banned from TV! Don’t worry, though--there is a clean version.)

8. "Election Day" - Arcadia When Duran Duran temporarily split in 1985, they birthed two side projects. On one side, the pop-friendly Power Station, led by powerhouse vocalist Robert Palmer, along with drummer Tony Thompson of Chic, and Duran's own John and Andy Taylor. Then there was Arcadia, the artsier goth-influenced group, comprised of Nick Rhodes, Simon Le Bon, and for a short period, Roger Taylor. In this video, Le Bon just looks like he got a nice dark dye job, but it's Nick Rhodes who got the full goth makeover, because of course Nick Rhodes did. I'm not exactly sure what's even happening in this video--leave that to anything Simon Le Bon did in the 80s--but the image of Nick Rhodes dancing around with a candelabra is pretty goth, if I do say so myself. Also, it's just a damn good song. And album.

7. "Married to the Music" - SHINee As K-pop acts go, SHINee have not always been the group that goes with the flow. Instead of ripping off T-shirts in music videos, they play with unusual concepts, sometimes freaky ones. Among those was 2015's "Married to the Music." While not exactly elegant, "Married" boasted a quirky, camp-horror concept, inspired equally by Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Michael Jackson's "Thriller." In the video, the five members visit a wacky house party in which, throughout the night, they find themselves having various body parts removed in bizarre methods. Key gets his head hacked off while spinning on a giant roulette wheel. Taemin's eyes pop out when he gets smacked in the back of the head by a baseball bat. A phantom hand in the sink rips off Onew's nose. Jonghyun's mouth comes off after some kind of kiss of death. Then, Minho's entire body is sacrificed in a birthday cake incident gone wrong. All this culminates at the end, where our mystery woman uses the discarded parts to build the perfect FrankenSHINee. Like Mary Shelley, but with more BB cream and an Off the Wall beat.

6. "Beast and the Harlot" - Avenged Sevenfold Unlike SHINee, A7X have always toyed with the darkness, but in a similar manner, do it their own way. This cut from 2005's City of Evil is actually a track describing the fall of Babylon, in incredible detail. The video, however, tells of a Faustian tale, through a lens of rock 'n roll excess. A visually striking video, and I'm not just talking about Zacky Vengeance's eyeshadow. Careful what y'all are getting into when signing contracts, guys.

5. "Call Me When You're Sober" - Evanescence I could list nearly any Evanescence video, really. In fact, I kind of owe a lot to Evanescence, since they kind of helped me discover my artistic identity a bit. That said, I picked this cut from 2006's The Open Door. In it, Amy plays Red Riding Hood, on a pretty bad date with the Big Bad Wolf, played by dashing British actor Oliver Goodwill. He cuddles up to the plaid-clad Amy, who is clearly uncomfortable with his advances. Somewhere there is an awesome scene with Amy surrounded by black-clad dancers as they float above the ground, and this is honestly the coolest thing I've seen in an Evanescence video (though, truthfully, "Good Enough" was pretty cool, too). But nothing tops Amy walking toward her douchey wolf--across the table, as dining utensils go flying off the table. Very Once Upon a Time. Regina would be proud.

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4. "Out of My Mind" - Duran Duran

This is an obscure cut from their 1997 album Medazzaland, a period in which the beloved New Romantics got suuuuuper experimental. It's hard to find this video in HD on YouTube, so you kinda take what you get. The then-trio of Rhodes/Le Bon/Warren Cuccurullo traipse around a creepy house, are sometimes ghosts haunting a library, or sometimes--in the case of Rhodes--are Rococo gothic drag queens. Also, Simon rocks a choker at some point. Totes 90s. Also, the setting and cinematography recall Marilyn Manson's "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)." Hey, wasn't that by an 80s band, too?

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3. "Frozen" - Madonna

I was maybe around seven or eight when Ray of Light was released. Maybe. But I vividly remember seeing this video on VH1 when my mom left it on. I was freaked out by it at the time, but of course, I was a child, of course I would be. A solitary, black-clad Madge dances around a barren wasteland, cuddling nothing but her flowing gown as ravens surround her. I think she was playing with Indian motifs at the time, considering her hand gestures and tattoos (also, Ray of Light boasted "Shanti/Ashtangi," never forget). This was probably the beginning of the Kabbalah thing, too, but it wasn't quite as big a story as it would become years later.

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2. "Within Me" - Lacuna Coil

I'd be betraying myself if I didn't include a Lacuna Coil video in all this, another group that, with Evanescence, led me down an aesthetically dark path. A mellower cut from 2006's Karmacode has vocalists Andrea Ferro and Cristina Scabbia at odds, with Andrea sitting lonely in some kind of elaborate chair or throne, as Cristina crawls the desert, producing these creepy black tendrils for some reason. It's just a pretty video and song.

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1. "Sayonara Hitori" - Taemin

For his first Japanese solo single, SHINee's Taemin pulled out all the stops. None of the cutesy image that was cultivated during SHINee's early period, instead, Taemin fully embraced his darkness, portraying several different characters. The first looks like he walked out of Inuyasha, dancing around a piano (no, I don't know why either) as blue flowers grow around him. The next scene finds him clad in the edgiest black garb possible as samurai spar behind him. Perhaps the most goth thing, however, is Taemin laying in a black coffin as very fabulous mourners lay blue flowers down. Not bad for a kid who somehow loses nearly everything he touches. Gotta keep it relatable. Of course, I subscribe to the belief that Taemin couldn’t have gothed it up without Jaejoong paving the way.

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Now, a few honorable mentions. Okay, a lot of honorable mentions:

Stone Temple Pilots, "Sour Girl"

Sunmi, "Full Moon"

4Minute, "Volume Up"

XIA, "Tarantallegra"

Rihanna, "Disturbia"

Taeyang, "I'll Be There"

Depeche Mode, "Walk in My Shoes"

30 Seconds to Mars, "The Kill"

Christina Aguilera, "Fighter" (I wanted to save this for the Xtina project, whenever I manage to get to this video)

Keane, "Disconnected"

FT Island, “Pray”

INFINITE, “Bad”

2NE1, “It Hurts (Slow)”

#kim jaejoong #shinee #taemin #evanescence #lacuna coil #avenged sevenfold #arcadia #madonna #vixx #duran duran #list

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badassbassguitarist · 7 years

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Since first picking up a guitar at the age of 13, musician/songwriter Jeordie "Twiggy" White has developed a style and stage presence all his own to become one of the more versatile players on the scene today. Influenced by the likes of Motley Crue, Van Halen, Metallica and Iron Maiden, he spent the better portion of his youth in the Ft. Lauderdale area, where he quickly embraced South Florida's burgeoning music scene. By time he was 15, he had joined his first band, The Ethiopians. Though it wasn't long before The Ethiopians had gone their separate ways, Jeordie was ready to take it to the next level. While still in his senior year of high school, he landed his first substantial and ultimately life-changing gig with local thrash/hard alternative favorites Amboog-A-Lard, first as rhythm guitarist and later switching to bass. The band's huge popularity on the local club circuit allowed opportunities for them to share the stage with internationally known acts such as Anthrax, Exodus, The Ramones, Savatage and Saigon Kick. In June of 1992, Amboog-A-Lard captured awards in five categories at the 1st Annual South Florida Slammie Awards, with White taking home the award for Best Rhythm Guitarist. It was with the band's 1993 release, A New Hope, that his talents as a songwriter first became evident. He takes sole credit for composing the music for the album's title track, as well as "Medicine Man", "A Matter Of Honor", and "Do Or Do Not." It was during his time with Amboog-A-Lard that he first crossed paths with Brian Warner, aka Marilyn Manson, controversial frontman of Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, who themselves were becoming serious contenders on the Ft. Lauderdale scene. Finding common ground in their mutual love of 80's metal and 70's hitmakers such as The Bee Gees and Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, the two became fast friends, collaborating together in several side projects until the departure of bassist Gidget Gein in December 1993 allowed for Jeordie to officially join forces with the Manson clan. Jeordie White became "Twiggy Ramirez", in homage to the 1960's British supermodel Twiggy and the infamous "Night Stalker" serial killer Richard Ramirez. His first show with the band took place on January 1, 1994 at the Squeeze nightclub in Ft. Lauderdale. While contributing marginally to the 1995 EP Smells Like Children (most notably the track "Scabs, Guns and Peanut Butter", which he wrote and performed), it was on the band's 1996 multi-platinum Antichrist Superstar that Jeordie truly emerged as an integral part of the creative process, the driving musical force behind Manson's powerful lyrics. If Brian Warner was the heart of Marilyn Manson, Jeordie had become the soul. Writing the majority of the album's music, he was also called upon to pick up the slack when guitarist Daisy Berkowitz left the band midway through the recording process -- many of the tracks feature Jeordie not only on bass, but on lead and rhythm guitar as well. With Nine Inch Nails visionary Trent Reznor handling production, the band hunkered down for several months in Reznor's home base of New Orleans to write and record. The ensuing debauchery and chaos are clearly reflected in the finished product's dark lyrics and relentlessly pounding music. Jeordie once described this full initiation into the world of Marilyn Manson as "one of the most painful things ever to do." 1998's critically acclaimed Mechanical Animals mirrored a new phase in the Manson saga, specifically the band's relocation to Los Angeles and induction into the world of celebrity and rock stardom. Taking a hands-on approach in the studio and again switching between bass, lead, rhythm and acoustic guitar, Jeordie reached back in time to the music that had inspired his idols -- David Bowie, the Stooges and Queen -- to weave a tale reflecting the darker side of fame and fortune. The album was a marked departure from the style of the band's previous efforts, incorporating a more melodic sound reminiscent of 1970's glam rock and disco. Cultivating musical styles from both Antichrist Superstar and Mechanical Animals, 2001's Holy Wood (In The Shadows Of The Valley Of Death) was recorded live at the reputedly haunted Houdini Mansion in the Hollywood Hills. Jeordie cites The Beatles' "White Album" as having influenced a more unconventional approach to the making of the record and in addition to playing guitar and bass, he had a chance to experiment with keyboards and drum loops as well. While some of the album reflects the backlash the band suffered after being made the media's scapegoat for the Columbine High School shootings in 1999, it mostly takes aim at a dysfunctional society's overall obsession with violence, religion and celebrity. Many fans were shocked and dismayed when it was announced in May of 2002 that Jeordie had left Marilyn Manson. Fueled by a desire to explore new creative paths and expand his musical horizons, one of Jeordie's first post-Manson projects was a collaboration with Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and an eclectric assortment of fellow musicians on Homme's "Desert Sessions" series. A subsequent encounter with A Perfect Circle drummer Josh Freese at a New Year's Eve party led to White's taking over as the band's bassist in early 2003. Referred to by some as "art rock with gothic elements", A Perfect Circle was founded by Paz Lenchantin and Billy Howerdel in 1997, featuring Tool's Maynard James Keenan on vocals. Though most of the music had been written for the band's second album, Thirteenth Step, before Jeordie came on board, he fully participated in the recording process and contributed to the writing of both "Crimes" and "The Package". An extensive world tour following the album's release paid tribute to Jeordie's competence and versatility as he tackled APC's more complex musical arrangements in a live setting. Brian Davis of internet radio station KNAC proclaimed Jeordie to be a "key element in the evolution and growth of the band's sound" with the bass serving as a "cornerstone and driving element in the music." With A Perfect Circle going on indefinite hiatus at the conclusion of their tour in 2004, Jeordie continued to keep himself busy with a multitude of other projects. Artists he has worked with in the studio include Melissa Auf Der Maur, Dead Celebrity Status and UNKLE. From March 2005 until September 2007, Jeordie handled bass and guitar duties as part of the Nine Inch Nails touring lineup, playing to sold out audiences around the world several times over. Although he did not have a creative role in the studio with NIN, he credits his time with them as having given him more discipline as a performer and helping him to "turn the page and make a clean sweep of the past". Additionally, Jeordie has teamed up with desert rock mainstay and long-time Queens of the Stone Age collaborator Chris Goss to form the nucleus of Goon Moon, who thus far have have released two records -- the 2005 EP I Got A Brand New Egg Layin' Machine and 2007's Licker's Last Leg. Jeordie has stated that there are "no rules" when it comes to making music with Goon Moon and this is clearly evidenced in both releases, with the influences running the gamut from folk to goth to 60's psychedelia and even a touch of swing. In addition to his musical abilities, this project also showcases for the first time Jeordie's talents as a both a lyricist and lead vocalist. Things came full circle when, in the latter part of 2007, a chance meeting at a Hollywood nightspot rekindled the long dormant friendship between Jeordie and Manson, which ultimately resulted in Jeordie's highly anticipated return to the band for the final leg of Manson's "Rape Of The World" U.S. tour in January 2008. The creative fire now fully ignited, the pair returned to the studio at the conclusion of the tour with keyboardist/programmer Chris Vrenna for the better part of a year, Jeordie once more reprising his crucial role as lead songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. The end result, The High End of Low, was released in May of 2009 and again highlights Jeordie's diverse musical background, from the country-tinged "Four Rusted Horses" to the Zeppelinesque dirge of "I Want To Kill You Like They Do In The Movies". The ensuing world tour saw Jeordie put aside his trademark bass to take on the more demanding role of lead guitarist, as well as contributing back up vocals on many of the live tracks. While Jeordie now considers Marilyn Manson his "home base" he continues to work on various side projects, and plans to write and record again with Goon Moon as soon as time allows. http://68.media.tumblr.com/82a6276823dd5749db9f3850a647700b/tumblr_nq9u01gHnr1t13et6o7_250.gif

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Southern Gothic 'Florida' Spins Tales Of Hurricanes, Humidity And Humanity

Lauren Groff sets her new story collection in what she calls the "sunniest and strangest of states." Critic Maureen Corrigan says the tales are "brooding, inventive — and often moving."

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Things to Do in N.Y.C. This February

Looking for even more reasons to get out of the house? Visit our Arts & Entertainment Guide at nytimes.com/spotlight/arts-listings.

Feb. 1

‘Lunar New Year Festival: Year of the Rat’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This daylong celebration includes a parade, performances and family-friendly art activities. (While in the area, head to Rumsey Playfield in Central Park for the free winter sports festival Winter Jam, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.) From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; metmuseum.org.

Feb. 2

BAMkids Film Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. A range of international works, from live-action features to animated shorts, should appeal to children of all ages. A carnival rounds out the weekend-long festivities. Feb. 1-2; bam.org.

Feb. 3

‘Five Hundred Years of Women’s Work: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection’ at the Grolier Club. With more than 200 items, the Grolier Club’s latest exhibition documents the history of women making an independent living. Among the works are one of the first books printed by women, a 1478 history of Rome’s emperors and popes, and a copy of Mary Seacole’s 1857 autobiography, the first by a black woman in Britain. Through Feb. 8; grolierclub.org.

Feb. 4

The Moth StorySLAM at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The writer Dame Wilburn will host this iteration of StorySLAM in which 10 Harlemites will be selected to share their stories on the evening’s theme: “Only in Harlem.” Doors open at 7 p.m.; eventbrite.com.

Feb. 5

Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ at Le Poisson Rouge. The Brooklyn ensemble Darmstadt performs its interpretation of this 1964 landmark composition ahead of the musician and composer’s 85th birthday this summer. At 8 p.m.; lpr.com.

Feb. 6

Art in Dumbo’s First Thursday Gallery Walk in Brooklyn. Galleries will stay open late so visitors can browse the Triangle Arts Winter Open Studios and other galleries on their own, or join an Insider’s Tour, a free guided tour of exhibitions on view at Janet Borden and A.I.R. Gallery. (Then stroll along the East River to take in Antony Gormley’s “New York Clearing,” a monumental public work piece called “drawing in space,” at Pier 3 in Brooklyn Bridge Park.) From 6-8 p.m.; artinDUMBO.com.

Feb. 7

‘Cane River’ at BAM Rose Cinemas. Horace Jenkins died shortly after finishing this 1982 romantic melodrama tackling issues of colorism, the legacy of slavery and deceitful practices against African-American landowners. After a negative was found and painstakingly restored, the film is now getting its theatrical release. Feb. 7-20; bam.org.

Feb. 8

Animation First Festival at the French Institute Alliance Française. Award-winning features, immersive exhibits, video game demonstrations and more are the heart of this festival. For those Academy Award-minded fans of animation, the Oscar-nominated feature “I Lost My Body” will be shown on Feb. 8 at 11 a.m., followed by a behind-the-scenes panel discussion with the film’s editor, Benjamin Massoubre. Feb. 7-10; fiaf.org.

Feb. 9

‘Visions of Resistance: Recent Films by Brazilian Women Directors’ at the Museum of the Moving Image. Stories of resilience and uprising are the focus of this series, which pays particular attention to the lives of black Brazilians. Feb. 8 and 9; movingimage.us.

Feb. 10

‘Hamlet’ opens at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Ruth Negga received rave reviews for her portrayal of Hamlet in Dublin. Now she will reprise the role that she says “cracks you open,” for New York audiences — and it’s a very tough ticket. Feb. 1-March 8; stannswarehouse.org.

Feb. 11

‘The Mother of Us All’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Virgil Thomson’s opera, with a libretto by Gertrude Stein, is rarely performed. All the more reason to see one of the performances of this work this month. Feb. 8, 11, 12 and 14; nyphil.org.

Feb. 12

‘Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures’ opens at the Museum of Modern Art. After its inaugural exhibitions, the newly renovated museum begins its rollout of new shows. Among the first up is Lange’s photographs, which sharply reflect the human condition. It’s the first major MoMA exhibition of Lange’s career in 50 years. Feb. 9-May 9; moma.org.

Feb. 13

Artist Talk and Book Signing: Rachel Feinstein at the Jewish Museum. In her first museum retrospective, the artist and fashion muse Rachel Feinstein presents fanciful works with a core of steel — a balance of the whimsical and the grotesque. On this night she’ll speak about her exhibition, “Maiden, Mother, Crone,” and the inspirations for her art, which underscore that there is no reality without fantasy. From 6:30-8 p.m.; thejewishmuseum.org.

Feb. 14

‘High Fidelity’ premieres on Hulu. The latest adaptation of Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel, Mike Hale wrote, “gender-switches the record-store-owning, Top-5-list-making protagonist, who’s now played by Zoë Kravitz.” She plays a record store owner in the gentrifying Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. hulu.com.

Feb. 15

20th anniversary screening of ‘Love & Basketball’ at BAM Rose Cinemas. Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, and teenage hoop dreams: See Gina Prince-Bythewood’s 2000 classic on the big screen as part of the “Long Weekend of Love” series. Make it a Valentine’s double-feature: “The Photograph,” a new Issa Rae-Lakeith Stanfield vehicle reminiscent of 1990s black love stories, arrives in theaters Feb. 14. bam.org.

Feb. 16

Irina Kolesnikova in ‘Swan Lake’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The Russian prima ballerina and the St. Petersburg Ballet Theater make their United States debut in Tchaikovsky’s beloved classic. Feb. 15 and 16; bam.org.

Feb. 17

‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’ open at Classic Stage Company. Kate Hamill reimagines Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” and Tristan Bernays adapts Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” for this repertory cycle of two Gothic tales. In repertory through March 8; classicstage.org.

Feb. 18

Toni Morrison’s ‘The Source of Self-Regard’ at 92nd Street Y. André Holland and Phylicia Rashad perform a dramatic reading of the writer’s 2019 nonfiction collection, consisting of works written over four decades that still resonate socially and politically. Morrison would have turned 89 on Feb. 18. At 8 p.m.; 92y.org/event/toni-morrison.

Feb. 19

‘Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks’ at the Brooklyn Museum. For this exhibition, the artist, who is of Choctaw and Cherokee descent, has selected items from the museum’s collection to be presented alongside his recent work. The result: a rethinking of institutional categorizations and representations of Indigenous peoples and Native American art. (Also on view: “Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas,” an exploration of the effects of climate change on Indigenous communities. It includes more than 60 works spanning 2,800 years and cultures across North, Central, and South America.) Both shows opens Feb. 14; brooklynmuseum.org.

Feb. 20

‘West Side Story’ opens on Broadway. New moves and plenty of tattoos: Ivo van Hove’s approach to this beloved musical is finally here. Jerome Robbins’s choreography has been replaced by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s; “I Feel Pretty” is gone; and this production has an intermission-free running time of 1 hour and 45 minutes. Open run; westsidestorybway.com.

Feb. 21

‘It’s All in Me: Black Heroines’ at the Museum of Modern Art. On the heels of Film Forum’s four-week “Black Women” festival, MoMA presents this intriguing series with works both familiar and obscure, including “The Watermelon Woman,” “Support the Girls,” “Sambizanga” and “Lime Kiln Club Field Day.” Feb. 20-March 5; moma.org.

Feb. 22

‘Platform 2020: Utterances From the Chorus’ at Danspace Project. “If contemporary dance holds a certain allure yet still seems intimidating,” Gia Kourlas wrote recently, this series “is a way in.” Ideas about performance and protest will be explored by its organizers, Okwui Okpokwasili, a MacArthur recipient, and Judy Hussie-Taylor, Danspace’s executive director and chief curator. Feb. 22-March 21; danspaceproject.org.

Feb. 23

‘Countryside, The Future’ at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The museum turns over its rotunda to Rem Koolhaas’s long-awaited exhibition. In addressing environmental, political and socioeconomic issues, it will examine changes to what Koolhaas calls the “countryside” — that is, rural areas not occupied by cities. Feb. 20-Aug. 14; guggenheim.org.

Feb. 24

‘Cambodian Rock Band’ opens at Signature Theater. Lauren Yee’s music-infused work, featuring songs by Dengue Fever, follows a Cambodian-American woman trying to prosecute a Khmer Rouge prison warden. Previews begin Feb. 4; signaturetheatre.org.

Feb. 25

‘Dana H.’ opens at the Vineyard Theater. Lucas Hnath’s latest is personal: It’s the story of how his mother came to be held captive by an ex-convict who kept her trapped in a series of Florida motels, disoriented and terrified — for five months. Previews start Feb. 11; vineyardtheatre.org.

Feb. 26

‘José Parlá: It’s Yours’ at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. For his first solo museum exhibition in New York City, Parlá presents new paintings that explore his connection to the Bronx. Expect works that “address the suffering caused by redlining policies, the waves of displacement imposed by gentrification, and structural racism,” according to the exhibition news release. Feb. 26-Aug. 16; bronxmuseum.org.

Feb. 27

‘Pioneering African-American Ballerinas’ at the Museum at FIT. This event focuses on some of the ballerinas who paved the way for Misty Copeland, who, in 2015, became the first African-American woman to be named a principal at American Ballet Theater. The panelists include Virginia Johnson, now the director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem; Lydia Abarca, first prima ballerina of the Dance Theater of Harlem; Debra Austin, the first African-American female dancer at New York City Ballet; and Aesha Ash, former ballerina with City Ballet. At 7 p.m.; fitnyc.edu/museum.

Feb. 28

‘Intimate Apparel’ previews begin at Lincoln Center Theater. Lynn Nottage’s 2003 play has been adapted into a chamber opera, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon. Nottage wrote the libretto and Bartlett Sher is directing. Set in 1905 New York, the story follows an African-American seamstress who through letter writing courts a laborer working on the Panama Canal. Previews begin Feb. 27; opening night is set for March 23; lct.org.

Feb. 29

‘Brendan Fernandes: Contract and Release’ at the Noguchi Museum. A collaboration with the dance and visual artist Brendan Fernandes is the focus of Saturday programming at the museum this month. Dancers engage with Isamu Noguchi’s works as well as with Fernandes’s “training devices.” Saturdays through February; noguchi.org.

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what I read this month: July & August 2018!

You guys! I have to admit with moving and summer craziness I have not been reading a lot lately - it's so sad! Usually I read SO much in the summer... but unfortunately not this year. So I apologize on the radio silence on books... today I am combining the books I read in July and August together in one post. The good news is that Labor Day weekend is the perfect time to catch up on some reading and this fall I can not wait to snuggle up by the fire and get down to business with some books. If you are looking for a few good books to add to your To Be Read list... consider these!

Tiffany Blues... This book opens on a scene of a large estate burning down. The history of the famed estate unfolds as the book comes full circle to how/why the home burnt down. The estate was a private mansion built by Louis Comfort Tiffany (later of the Tiffany company). The estate is a brilliant display of his creativity and work with glass, he soon converts a portion of it into an artists retreat which is where we meet our main characters. They all have secrets to keep and they are all extremely talented. This book was a little slow at some parts but I loved the setting and the characters kept me in it. Plus I had to figure out the mystery of the big fire! Overall this was a great historical fiction read that is based on some actual history. If you are interested in more stories about Louis Comfort Tiffany I highly recommend Clara & Mr. Tiffany which was an EXCELLENT read. (please note, an Advanced Review Copy of this book was provided to me complimentary in exchange for my honest opinions)

And Then There Were None... This classic Agatha Cristie read was a recent book club selection for my personal book club group. We were all a little mixed on whether we liked it or not. But if you love mysteries and you are looking to add a few more classics to your list, try this one! It was listed on the Great American Read book list - which is a great compilation of classics and must-reads. The premise of the story is that 10 strangers are summoned to a beautiful island home and as soon as they arrive they begin to die... one at a time. The guests quickly realize they are stranded on the island and by the time the police arrive... everyone is dead. This classic mystery has a great twist at the end that you will never guess!

The Death of Mrs. Westaway... When down on her luck Harriet receives a letter from a solicitor that she is a potential heir of a vast inheritance she knows it's too good to be true. She doesn't have living family and even if she did she's never known who they are. How would they know who she was? When she heads to the Trepassen House estate to meet this potential family and to escape some scary debt collectors, she realizes she is in over her head. The slow burn of this gothic mystery was a little TOO slow for me at times - I felt like the story went round and round in circles and then exploded at the end. If you love dark gothic mysteries that are extremely readable, try The Thirteenth Tale and Rebecca. Two of my all time favorite books and perfect books to read during the fall!

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle... This is a really great book unlike anything I've read before. When the main character, Aiden Bishop, realizes he's woken up in someone else's body and in an unfamiliar country estate he has no idea what is in store for him. He realizes he's been tasked with finding out who killed Evelyn Hardcastle. At the beginning of the day she is alive but she will die each night and he has the day before him as he inhabits different peoples bodies to solve the mystery. It's time travel and a race against time all together in one of the most intriguing books I've read in a long time! I highly recommend cracking this book open on a cool fall evening and completely having your mind bent over this twisty story. (please note, an Advanced Review Copy of this book was provided to me in exchange for my honest opinion)

The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna... I just LOVE a good historical fiction and this book did not disappoint. I've been super interested in the history of the Romanov family lately and this book follows the life of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna through her rise to Tsarina and the subsequent fall of the Romanov empire at the hand of her son. Think balls, gowns, palaces... to nothing. It's top to bottom a great telling of the end of the Romanov empire. If you too are interested in this fascinating royal family of Russia I highly recommend this book... but also you MUST check out I Was Anastasia which is probably my favorite book so far this year and I thought The Romanov Empress was a great companion read to that book. (please note, an Advanced Review Copy of this book was provided to me in exchange for my honest opinion)

Next Year in Havana... I absolutely ADORED this book cover to cover! It was a little vacation for me each time I cracked it open. With two parallel storylines we follow Elisa, a sugar barons daughter in Havana, Cuba in the 1950's and Marisol, her granddaughter that lives in Florida and is looking to shed some light on her families Cuban heritage in modern day. Both women are strong, smart and brave and easy to fall in love with as a reader. And Cuba itself is easily a dominant character in the book as well - as a reader it was difficult to know whether to love or hate Cuba. So many mixed emotions surround this country and the book covered them all! By far my favorite book of the summer you won't regret diving in to this sweet story! This book was recently picked as Reese Witherspoon's Book Club selection... and you know Reese wouldn't lead you astray!

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New Tales of Florida Gothic - Chapter 5

“Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Your early morning tour of the 'haunted' victorian mansion in Brooksville, Florida has been an absolute delight. Your guide, a young woman in period costume playing the part of a person from the late 1890's so convincingly, you half way believed her. As you leave, you pass another young woman who apoligizes for being so late and she'll begin your tour immediately. You point out that her colleague already took you on the tour to which she replies that she's the only one working that day. You look back at the house as ice runs down your spine.

You've now traveled 2,000 miles in a desperate attempt to escape your spectral torment, but it still isn't far enough. With the coming of twilight, you can still see the beam from the haunted lighthouse in Florida flashing across the horizon, searing itself into the depths of your eyes. Exhausted, you stumble back into your car and continue driving away.

As the storm surge from the hurricane fills your lungs, you are suddenly aware of all your past lives as your current one slips away. You are horrified to realize you have always died in hurricanes: in New Orleans, in Miami, in Galveston, in places so old they did not yet have names. And then you understand, no matter how many lives you live, you always will die in hurricanes.

As you drag the body into the back yard to bury it, you laugh as you see a sink hole has conviently formed there. With mirthless laughter, you roll the corpse into the sink and reach for your shovel. You freeze as the ground slowly closes of its accord until the hole is completely gone. Your shovel drops, forgotten, from your hand as you shuffle back into your house. The Florida soil demands to be feed.

As you lie sleeplessly in bed, your closet door slowly opens with a forboding creak. As you get out of bed and walk towards the closet door, you wonder for a moment what monster you'll become in someone else's closet. But the thought quickly passes as the hunger begins.

While renevating your bedroom, you discover an old diary hidden in the wall. As you read it, you learn it belonged to a young woman from the late 1890's, tormented by the gift of precognition - the ability to see the future. She writes of her anguish at seeing her family die despite all her attempts to prevent them from meeting the ends she had forseen. Gruesome sketches appear on some of the pages, showing the myriad ways her family and friends met their untimely fates. Then your blood runs cold as the young woman reveals that she can see a person in the distant future reading her journal, and that person is completely unaware that they too, are about to meet their end. As you turn the page, you see a sketch of youself, sitting at the same desk, reading the same journal, but the drawing reveals a hulking shadow from behind is falling across you. You turn to...

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Southern Gothic 'Florida' Spins Tales Of Hurricanes, Humidity And Humanity

Southern Gothic ‘Florida’ Spins Tales Of Hurricanes, Humidity And Humanity

Lauren Groff sets her new story collection in what she calls the “sunniest and strangest of states.” Critic Maureen Corrigan says the tales are “brooding, inventive — and often moving.”

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NPR News: Southern Gothic 'Florida' Spins Tales Of Hurricanes, Humidity And Humanity

NPR News: Southern Gothic ‘Florida’ Spins Tales Of Hurricanes, Humidity And Humanity

Southern Gothic ‘Florida’ Spins Tales Of Hurricanes, Humidity And Humanity Lauren Groff sets her new story collection in what she calls the “sunniest and strangest of states.” Critic Maureen Corrigan says the tales are “brooding, inventive — and often moving.”