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February 21, 2007

1051: "I thought this was shish kabob."

We saw this on the news this morning and, quite frankly, I'm a little disturbed...

Gothamist: "Dancing with Scissorhands."

I love dance and I love this movie irrationally, but I don't know that I love them... together. I assume Tim Burton OK'd this* and I certainly appreciate the sentiment but I can't help but feel this were all better left untouched. (Click here to visit the musical's official site.)

In fact, the creative team seems to have overlooked one major detail -- the casting of Edward.

Was Davey Havok not born to play this role?!

I selected that photo over more Edward-like ones because it has a wee, severed Danzig head in the corner -- which I like. Also, a bunny that can see into your soul! What I don't like is the mention of "goth-core." What the hell is "goth-core"? Is it "Music made by guys with eyeliner and guitars"? Wouldn't that be "Anything played on MTV which is not rap, r&b or pop"?

That's no jab at AFI, who've been receiving my love since they were covering Misfits songs with cracking voices and their college applications in the mail. The truth of the matter is that they've become the face for a soon-to-croak trend among babies. The last time we saw them, honestly, I don't know how the rest of the audience were allowed out so late. Of course, I'm pleased to see AFI so successful after all these years but ultimately, when the so-called "goth-core" thing implodes, AFI will fall out of favor bigtime. Although, to be fair, I've been saying that for some time now and eyeliner-and-Feria-bright-black bands keep popping up as the only rock-like answer to Akon (or whatever) -- at least in the MTV universe.

Do I even want to know what Danzig thinks about this? About how his straight edge, vegan demon spawn accidentally gave birth to... "goth-core"?

I hope he's too busy sacrificing goats in the backyard to have noticed.

* According to the site, he has.

Posted by ashley at February 21, 2007 12:50 PM

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