Hello there.
Today I want to write about this overgrown trend which is wearing symbols.
Symbols are visual signs and this fashion trend is using mostly occult symbols, ehich are connected with faith.
In my opinion, it's good to belive in whatever makes a sence for you, but you really need to have the brightest intentions. I'm officialy an atheistic, but I personally feel like I am somewhere between christianity, buddhism and judaism..? I also live on the ground of pagans and i quite feel that it's hidden somewehe deep in the roots of our country.
I like to use some powerfull symbols for some special occasions and I belive on power of rituals. In a fashion thing... I like to wear jewelry with symbols on it, but they need to be special. I've got so many old jewelry from my aunt before she died and I know they are really powerfull, they protect me. I lose it when I'm too ignorant and on the wrong way, I find it when I am back on the right way. I've got Ankh from my boyfriend and he did a ritual with it. It protects me. And I really feel it and deeply belive in it. I like to wear golden cross from Spain that I bought from an old lady on the street. I also created pentacle with a piece of wire and yeah, why not, it was made with my own hands so I put some energy into the object... They are all full of some strong magic, they are full of memories and they are all symbols of protection.
Hamsa that my aunt gave me
But then there is this fashion trend when many of unkowning people are wearing pentagrams, sulphurs and inverted crosses and they don't even know what does it mean and they wear it just because of the trend. I don't want to be too moralistic, but I think they are just weak victims of fashion industry, wearing symbols that could be actually stronger then they are. Im not sure if it works like this, but I just don't like when someone is playing with dark magic just like nothing, not knowing the aftermath.
Killstar bag
The other thing is... that all theese killstar pentagrams must be from some cheap material, maybee it can't be even used as magical symbol... When it's made somewhere in factory. Without story behind it. Or not? I have an experience with cheap cross and I haven't feel anything... no protection at all. Anyway... Please, don't let the faith be the fashion thing. Don't call yourself satanistic before you really know that it's your way and don't just play with dark magic before you know everything about it. You don't need to prove your "inner darkness" this way. N.
I told you about the music I was listening a lot last year. I have to tell you also about concerts I visited last year, cause some of the interprets started to be one of my favourites after the concert and I want to show you which ones.
I remember my trip to Prague. It was at March I guess? And it was magical experience. Bestial Mouth
One of the czech bands I saw at leat three times and was aslo forerunner for Bestial Mouth, but they played also in Hradec Králové and I think they are really great czech newborn band. Ba:zel
I don't even remember when, I think it was at spring or in summer?? I was on the concert of White Hills that everyone know from Jarmush's Only lovers left alive. I remember that I felt like in a dream and this glam awesome blonde playing bass was like an half devil half angel.
As a fan of synthesizers and czech undergound band Plastic People of the Universe, I was on concert of B4 - synth covers of PPU. The idea is something like.. "if PPU were from Germany". The concept is quite funny, but you need to know context. As music it's great!
Another great concert of MENU (they're organizing concerts in Hradec Králové) was again Ba:zel but with Julinko and I absolutely fell in love with them. The magical atmosphere that was in old factory where the concert was is written in my mind forever.
I was on Prague Gothic Treffen after 2 years of absence and the organization was pretty awesome. They added live bands, so it's not just goth discoteque, but real concert. Undertheskin were pretty good. Thanks Sancturary.cz for organization.
Autumn. One of the best unsuspected musical experience in Pardubice. It was in little music club called DUB. It was the day when I was depressed that Im not on the concert of Christian Death so I went there to listen at least something and it was really one of the best live musical experience of the last half yer. All Your Sisters. I bougth their LP!
MENU again organized concert of Xarah Dion and she is now in my cold wave playlists. It's such a great music and, as I like to say, it's my cup of tea and it's my blood type.
And that's all. I missed many concerts and I was sad about it, I was also on some bad concerts, but this is quite good number of concerts I really enjoyed last year.
Hope this year will be even better! I decided to spent most of my extra money for culture and LP's and I also want to finally do some minimal cold wave music by myself.
Hello!
Because music is always so important to me and reflects my life, i decided to do a post about what music accompanied me in last year.
So basically... I was desperetly searching for something. I had enough of happy hippie songs all my friends are into. So...At the beggining of the year I was listening a lot of atmospheric minimal experimental electro? I guess..
It wasn't enough dark for me. I'm post-punk by a heart and this has just too much sentimental. I love disharmony, deep dark bass..
I was listnening a lot of Lebanon Hanover, which is my favourite band, i guess, but you can't listen one band all the time, so I was searching for something... The Soft Moon...
Okay... Never enough. I love magical womens in music. Cosmetics are great band, but it sounds more sexual than magical. I love them, but then I found my goddess... She's dark, she's smart, she has absolutely amazing voice... and she sings about things as it was about myself. Linea Aspera /also in other bands... Zainas and Keluar.
That get me right into the todays dark wave, which uses awesome sound of synthesizers, automatical drum machines etc.. I fell in love with the sound.
Another thing I need to show you are November Növelet / Haus Arafna as another project. They are so dark and so depressive and so cold.. awww i love it.
So... I fell deep into the pit of modern goth music. I exchange my music with other goths that I know. Im checking our czech goth web about music, I'm searching and searching, I need and army of dark and cold wave bands in my youtube playlist. She Past Away. They are here for longer time, but I discovered them this year. They are pretty "oldschool", which is not my cup of tea theese days, but still... It's the best todays but classical post-punk that I've heard in a long time.
Next... Absolute Body Control. Oh my... I just need to visit their concert. I'm so in love with this band and the best thing.. my boyfriend loves them too!
Hey.. than so many cold-wave bands that I know thanks to youtube, my friends and some articles... I can't talk ybout everything...
But what really gets me is... Vólkova. Goddess of dark atmosphere again. Bass that flows in my blood system.
My newest discover is Buzz Kill.
So that's all about the music I was listening this year. I think I'm on really great way :D I need to write also about concert in 2016.
Do you have some tips for me? Cold waves, goddess singers, disharmony, dark bass pulse, nihilistic atmosphere?
Not sure how to start, but let’s take it chronological..
I’m 1994
kid and I was born in golden age of grunge. Kurt Cobain was freshly dead
and his fame was rising even more thanks to this. I was born to
“underground” family, my father was famous hardcore bass player, my
mum’s nickname was Patti Smith.
So that’s my start. I was raised in
classic rock surroundings. When I was in uterus, my mum was listening
Nirvana. The first music that I ever heard and even now, when I hear
Nirvana, it’s for one hand too
over-listened, but for another it’s still magical and usually when I
sleep and dream about some music, it’s Nirvana.
Kid years are mostly about kids songs and what your parents listens.
So basically they gave me great music basics. Patti Smith, Velvet
Underground, The Doors, Alice in Chains, David Bowie, Hendrix, Janis
Joplin, Joan Jett, Jefferson Airplane, …
When I was like.. 10 years old, I started to really like some music,
that showed me my parents and I also started with finding something new by myself.
I became a big fan on Pixies, PJ Harvey and System of a Down. Especially PJ Harvey, I also infected my cousin :D
When
I was 12, we had almost the same music taste with my cousin, so we were
exchanging music that we like and it was almost like some competition
“who will find better music”. We found that the music we like is called
“alternative” and “indie”.
I loved Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arctic Monkeys, I
remember that The XX was really unknown new band, The Kills and The
Dead Weather, The Libertines and Pete Doherty…
Okay. I was 13-14, when I met metalhead guy and he was big
inspiration for me. He was the only intelligent guy in my age that i
knew. I was never metalhead, but at this period I found some awesome music that is
connected with metal. Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, The
Agonist, Deftones, more Serj Tankian..
Okay.
Next. I was 15, dating 23 years old guy who liked “soft” music. I was
still into all these old thing I was listening (when you start to like
something, it’s all your life with you. You can’t throw away your
“indie” period. It’s still with you.), but I was trying hard to find
some music that we both can like. I also started to listen dark cabaret.
So the queen for me was Emilie Autumn, of course. Than Amanda Palmer, Birdeatsbaby, Nouvelle Vague, Vermilion Lies..
Soon I discovered Siouxsie and the Banshees. I was 16, maybe 17. And
with Siouxsie, Bauhaus. My aunt was always listening Sisters of Mercy in
car and I started to love it. I also remember listening Alien Sex
Fiend, summer 2011, and my father who said “oh i was listening this when
I was your age”. Joy Division. I was also more and more depressed and
this music was just the right thing for me.
End of my first relationship. I was even more
depressed, crying daily with Nick Cave’s music. I went to Finland for
erasmus. Cure mania started. I tried to find some good post-punk and
“goth” music. Cabaret Grey, Echo and the Bunnymen, Jesus and Mary Chain,
Killing Joke, Savages, Sex Gang Children, Silent Scream,..
I started to be happy about this new “genre” i found for myself and
my parents never told me about it /and they knew many of these bands!/
It was like… patch for my bleeding. I started to look ahead for my life.
I dated the sexiest punk boy from my city and I was so proud of it.
We were listening punk mostly, but we both liked also post-punk and goth
music. Again it was like competition - who will find better music. It
was awesome period, but we were too stupid and like.. .”proud punk pair”
that was together just thanks to alcohol. So we broke up. It gave me
great music to listen! Misfits, I studied classical punk bands, also Tom
Waits, Christian Death, Black Flag…
Okay. Than the short period with jazz lover. We were listening Nick Cave together and Morphine.
Again - too much alcohol in relationship.
Even shorter period of dating with awesome and sexy goth guy, but we
started to date sooner then we could really know each others and i have to
say that this person is great friend but I need a totally different
kind of man. But he showed me some awesome bands and also he showed me
how to “find” goth concert in czech republic and that’s it’s not so
weird to visit them.
I'm listening Belgrado, Masquerade and Skeletal Family thanks to him.
Okay. I was 18 and my music taste was almost where it is right now. I
was trying to find something calm but dark at she same time. Crystal
Stilts, AKACOD, White Fence, Thee Oh Sees. Sonic Youth times. Something
between alternative, dark atmosphere and jazzy sounds.
I started to date my current boyfriend when I was 19. I was listening
my “dark” music, but he showed me jazz and I liked it. Typical Miles
Davis. Lou Donaldson, Herbie Hancock, Lonnie Smith. Than also calm
music as
Air, Can,..
But I was tired of all these stupidly “happy” sounds and I showed some of my music to my BF.
We together started to like more electronic music. I like electronic
sounds in cold wave music, he is more into normal electro or techno.
Today I like dark electronic music. I like typical old rock
legends. I like old goth legends. But now I’m examining cold wave
and dark wave and I'm not so much into deathrock as I was.
So now… it’s all about Lebanon Hanover, Xmal Deutschland, She Past
Away, Linea Aspera, Pleasure Symbols, Absolute Body Control, Beta Evers,
The Soft Moon, Gazelle Twin, Haus Arafna, etc.
But still… you can’t throw away your old times. So sometimes I just
need to listen something that I was listening while my punk period or
indie period or metal period… :)
And I have to say THANK YOU to everyone who influenced me.
Hello!
Since I was not here, many things happend in my life. I'm in long-term relationship, I am not ashamed for my blogging hobbies, I feel more "adult" and I made a huge progress with my art and now I am on the art crossroad again.
Theese years I was more interested with finding my own drawing style and this ends for me now.
I realized that there is still this little "goth femine fashion lover" in me. That I just love to draw for something, that I love to follow the trends I like.
I was desperite for a while, but now I found the way. I've got a scholarship for being good university student and... the money I get... honestly, I've never seen such a big number on my bank account. So I decided to invest. I bought a tattoo machine. I'm working on prints for my gothy fashion brand. Everything is in concept, but I'm getting closer and closer to some results.
I had a big blogging pause. Then I remembered all the blogs I liked, everything about it... I started with my new tumblr, but it's not enough for me. I need to write. About music, about movies, about things I like and I want to share it with you.
PS: I have a gorgeously long hair!!! After this short androgyny look I had on my last posts, I can almost hide my brests under my hair and that's my romantic idea of natural swimwear :D
Hello,
I'm having really strange times. I started with studies on university - art college. But it was in one of the ugliest cities you can visit in czech republic and very far away from my home. So I stopped with visiting this school after first month and now I hope that they will accpet my application for transition to art college in my town. It's not really art college, just art and graphic design department in college of education. And it doesn't have all famous qualities as normal art school, but for me it's good.
I remember that I had kaleidoscope two years ago. It was great to make photographies throught it!
PS: Does anybody of you know something about visualisations connected with music? I mean simple psychedelic animations... I'm searching for some simple software and i can't find anything.
27- What’s your favorite fairy tale or myth?
Alice in Wonderland, of course... and, even if I'm not christian... this:
A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, "Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like." The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew which smelled delicious and made the holy man's mouth water. The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles that were strapped to their arms and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful, but because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths. The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering. The Lord said, "You have seen Hell".
They went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the same as the first one. There was the large round table with the large pot of stew which made the holy man's mouth water. The people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons, but here the people were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking. The holy man said, "I don't understand." "It is simple," said the Lord, "it requires but one skill. You see, they have learned to feed each other, while the greedy think only of themselves."
28- Has getting into mori girl changed your perspective on life or how you life at all? how so?
Well... I realized that I'm not such a cool punk rock girl as I thought. And I admit it. So now, I feel that I can cry when I need and that it's not bad thing. I can be myself and myself is connected with the world around us and world around us is basically nature.
Also I care about the world around us. I'm trying to be ecological and eat just harmless food and use just harmless materials.
I am myself.
29- What other fashions are you interested in, if any?
Oh, of course. I was wearing lolita, but now, it's too uncomfortable for me. I'm wearing nu-goth, pastel goth, "grunge" or just something simple...
30- describe your ideal ‘mori girl day.’
Hey, I'm not sure!
Every day needs to start with a big cup of tea. Then some really tasty breakfast like waffles, crumpets etc.
I think it would be great to wake up in Finland. So, after breakfast, I would go out of my wooden cottage and pick up berries in forrest. Of course, I will pray for gods, so I can safely pick up berries without bears around. But still, I would like to see a bear :D Then I would eat some great lunch. I hate mushrooms, but still... This food has a mori atmosphere! So... Mushrooms for lunch. Then strawberry/blueberry/cranberry/whateverberry home made juice. After lunch, I will swim in the lake that is just next to my cottage.
And at the evening...... I would like to eat some "magic mushrooms" :) hahaa
finitoo!
1- naturally, our first question is how did you get into mori girl? 2- Who is/are your mori girl idols? who inspires your fashion? 3- Have you ever lived in a rural environment? if you have, do you
think it influenced your mori-ness? if you never have, do you think
living in a suburban or urban environment influenced your style any? 4- name 5 things you love about mori girl. 5- name 5 things you dislike about mori girl. 6- what sort of things, outside of fashion, do you consider to be part of a mori girl lifestyle? 7- are you also a lolita? I find a lot of mori girls do lolita as
well! whether you are or aren’t a lolita, why do you think this is? 8- What is your favorite type of plant life? whether it be tree, bush, flower, fruit or vegetable? why is it so special to you? 9- list 10 words that remind you of mori girl or inspire your mori girl life. 10- What are your favorite books? do you think they’re mori or not? 11- name 5 of your favorite mori girl style songs or musicians, even if they’re not explicity “mori.” 12- name 5 mori girl style hobbies! 13- What films, if any, inspire your mori girl look and life? 14- do you like to coordinate the colors in your outfits to match the
seasons? what colors do you think are most appropriate for each season,
and why, if you’d like to explain? 15- post a photo of your favorite personal mori girl coordinate. 16- post at least 5 photos that inspire you. They don’t necessarily have to be fashion! 17- What’s your favorite season and why? 18- Are you inspired by any foreign cultures other than Japanese? what about them inspires you? 19- Are you inspired by your own culture? if so, how do you encorporate it? 20- How do you feel about the fairly prevalent use of fur in mori girl? 21- Where do you get most of your mori girl closet? 22- What trends do you see taking the mori girl community by storm soon? 23- is your hair long or short? what’s your favorite hairstyle? 24- give us a mori girl inspired vignette! (a short, impressionistic
scene that focus on one moment or gives a particular insight into a
character, idea, or setting) Don’t fret too hard over it, we’re not all
writers by trade, haha. 25- What’s your favorite animal and why? 26- When you’re out in nature, where do you often find yourself? (in
the woods, a lake, river, etc. what’s your favorite spot? describe it
for us!) 27- What’s your favorite fairy tale or myth? 28- Has getting into mori girl changed your perspective on life or how you life at all? how so? 29- What other fashions are you interested in, if any? 30- describe your ideal ‘mori girl day.’
