(sub)Cultures

I just preface this by saying, the "sub" in subculture doesn't imply that a subculture is lesser than a culture, just that it exists within a larger culture.

I'm more or less aligned with the 'gothic' subculture. "What's that?" you ask. Not a bunch of dead Germans, that's for sure. Find out:

Gothic Beauty is a wonderful new magazine to check out!

Alicia Porter has created a site that explains "goth" to outsiders. It's an excellent socialogical study, and a good read for insiders, too.

Alicia also edits a very cool 'zine called Eklectique.

I DJ with Alicia at Submersion at Area 51, Thursday nights.

I used to DJ at Ascension at Club confusion, Friday nights.

I also used to rotate as the DJ at at Club Axis, Tuesday nights.

Don't cry for the Utah.Goth page.

The Utah Events Calendar has goth and other underground events.

Utah GOTHICS, our local Community Service group for concerned gothics.

Dark Side of the Web has tons of links to all things Gothic.

A sub-subculture, net.goths are goths with email, as if they weren't already insidious enough.

Here's a list of g-word clubs.

A fascinating participant-observer ethnicity of gothic dancing and clubbing.

Two more excellent academic treatments: Fin de Siecle Too: Identification and Gothic Subculture and Bela Lugosi's Dead?: On Gothic Music and the Inevitibility of Genre.

Convergence is a net.goth gathering that moves each year.

Aircrash Monthly is the hilarious work of SexBat, intrepid blue-haired net.goth.

The Goth Boi Babe of the Week often fits my personal tastes in bois - pale, girly, and GAF.

I'm not usually as excited about the Gothic Babe of the Week, but a lot of them are still very beautiful.