Photo Source: Unsplash going round gliding over gleaming ice  like a stylus tracing the surface of a clean and clear long player balanced by upper body counterweight each leg is a tone arm each blade a needle misperception bent over in laughter, we watch billy flail his arms   and kick his legs out after swinging on a vine in the woods beyond the driveway we are far enough away to see only the surprising abandon of his movements having never seen such funny dancing we are too young to...

Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons “I like this song a lot. It’s like a slow song.”   Tell It To Your Heart   is the last song on Lou Reed’s 1986 album Mistrial . It’s the second-to-last song on his 1992 anthology Between Thought And Expression . And a beautiful live version can be heard on his 2004 album Animal Serenade .   On YouTube there’s an amazing video  of Lou Reed performing Tell It To Your Heart onstage at The Ritz in New York City in 1986. He’s backed by bass player Fernando...

Photo Source PxHere What does it mean to be goth? What does it mean to be anything? From the 1970s to the present day, the contemporary term “goth” – as applied to music, fashion, outlook, and lifestyle – has attracted innumerable interpretations and meanings. As a subculture, goth resists easy categorization. A better understanding of goth’s definition comes from considering what it is not. Goth is nonbinary, nonpartisan, and nonconformist. From the fervent believer to the...