Honestly, I'm okay with people not liking it. It is what it is. I just wonder at the people that react so harshly considering they're on a Sonic Youth board...the same band that wrote "Eyeliner". And I find it EXTREMELY hard to believe no one here owns any David Bowie, NY Dolls, Nick Cave, Stooges, etc, records...all of whom have worn make up.
As far as the reason I wear it goes, I've never thought of it as 'trying to look pretty' or anything like that. I just think of it as an art thing..using the body as canvas. I don't feel that I NEED it for anything, whether it be playing a show or otherwise, I've gone on stage plenty of times without it. I just feel it adds something to the presentation, a way of standing out from the myriad of indie bands we regularly play with.

Yeah, I don't see much difference between choosing a certain outfit or choosing to put makeup on when performing. It's just an expression of a person's style/feelings/ideas. You may like it or not, but that should not affect your judgment on the music. I know there are many shitty bands nowadays putting on makeup, and that doesn't make their music better AT ALL. But there are also great bands whose makeup/outfits add something to their performances.
At least you can wash the makeup away when you feel like doing that, something pretty hard to do with a tattoo ha ha.
Dionysusundone, add Boy George to the list :) .

no, i always thought both of those companies were for surfers only. no reason to wear them if i don't surf. i mostly wear gap or ben sherman now.

most of the straight edge kids wore 100 dollar+ jeans from around 2000-2003. i don't hang around that scene anymore so i don't know if they still do.

yes and I thought their makeup sucked major ass, and made them look even uglier than they actually were.

every bit of venom can be heaped on these fucking losers

damn girl...most people look awful in these sorts of photos...

That's quite the stash to go with that beard.

I love it. Looking at peoples picture IDs is one of my favorite things to do. I believe I posted the one from my health card a while back.
Everyone should post one.

danke emmah....

maybe ill scan my driver's license...its legendary

Legendary as in really funny or as in a good picture?

aww, thank you. You know, you look hot no matter what your hair is doing. :)

that stache is fucking awesome!

:o
thats my oompa loompa style

emmah- moreso funny...at least i think so

The Burger King is real and posts in the Sonic Youth Forum!

Picture my friend took of me looking cracked out as hell haha

a month and a half ago, before i got my haircut
don't know why i'm smoking a cig

please become a model or an actress

you don't look cracked out to me. you look smoking hot.

What is that guy holding up to his face?
You shouldn't ever smoke Crypto! I'm not trying to be a nag but it's so terrible for your poor wee lungs. I want to quit before I go to Trinidad and Tobago at the end of March.

I don't, I was just really high


Good luck, by the way
You should start....





















now!

Hahaha, maybe I'll become an actress if I ever get over my anxiety. I'll do cheap infomercials ;)

I think you look like Christina Ricci on that pic.

Exactly what I was thinking. A mix beetween young Ricci and Tora Birch.

I was thinking Christina Ricci too, but it's only really in that picture.

True!

I'm waiting for a nervous breakdown. Then I'll pop the pills.

hahaha...i' be lying if i didnt confirm him as a hero of mine...

edit-You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Rob Instigator again.

uhler-thanks mang

Yes, this. I agree with this.

Crikey, thats beautiful.

I haven't liked much goth since they stopped calling it "death rock", but you state your case so well, I'd certainly be interested in checking out your music. It's one thing to be provocative, and entirely something more to do so and actually think about it!

sorry for the nudity!
im bored and at my gfs, shes at work




and comment me, i dont post pics too often..especially shirtless ones
:P

Are you going to regret this later, like Julian and his photos of himself shirtless?

im not stoned or drunk

so i dont think so...hopefully...haha

Funny you should mention 'deathrock' as I feel the same way regarding 'goth'...there is a new deathrock scene however, which is more where I come from in the first place...lots of amazing bands playing no-wave influenced music with a darker edge, along the lines of Birthday Party or Malaria!...you might check out The Vanishing, or Naked On The Vague for a taste to what I'm talking about...

As far as my own band goes, we're working on our myspace page now, should have some stuff online soon.

I'm starting a band and it will be hilarious and so fucking rockin' that we will all get thick pubes.

Because it's slightly more personally fulfilling than making poorly thought out and terribly written attacks on random people via the internet, I suppose.

And yeah, for the record, I'm not a goth. This is how I look most of the time.

damn u and your properly growing facial hair

oh you are a SEXY BEAST