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October 22, 2022 10:02 AM Subscribe
Come and find me / at the Goth Beach
I'll bring my SPF 666!
posted by a complicated history at 10:26 AM on October 22, 2022 [14 favorites]
posted by a complicated history at 10:26 AM on October 22, 2022 [14 favorites]
This goth household approves.
posted by notoriety public at 11:10 AM on October 22, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by notoriety public at 11:10 AM on October 22, 2022 [3 favorites]
I see your Goth Beach and raise you a Cocktail Bar
posted by flamewise at 11:47 AM on October 22, 2022 [10 favorites]
posted by flamewise at 11:47 AM on October 22, 2022 [10 favorites]
So much sunscreen.
posted by The corpse in the library at 12:05 PM on October 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by The corpse in the library at 12:05 PM on October 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
Gotcha well covered with the sunscreen
posted by djseafood at 12:06 PM on October 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by djseafood at 12:06 PM on October 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
I LOVE THIS! Thanks so much for posting.
posted by Bella Donna at 12:17 PM on October 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Bella Donna at 12:17 PM on October 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
That Broken Peach video that flamewise posted up-thread is Ah-mazing!
posted by Faintdreams at 12:48 PM on October 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Faintdreams at 12:48 PM on October 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
I audibly guffawed at the shark smoking cloves
posted by KingEdRa at 12:51 PM on October 22, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by KingEdRa at 12:51 PM on October 22, 2022 [3 favorites]
Looks like a lot more fun than Sea Isle City
posted by waving at 1:21 PM on October 22, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by waving at 1:21 PM on October 22, 2022 [2 favorites]
I'm thinking of Ann and Nancy Wilson plus Jason Bonham pounding out Stairway to Heaven and sending chills up the spines of Robert and Jimmy.
posted by credulous at 3:18 PM on October 22, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by credulous at 3:18 PM on October 22, 2022 [2 favorites]
Oops that was supposed to go in a Ask Mefi thread :/ But now I kinda wanna mashup the two.
posted by credulous at 3:36 PM on October 22, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by credulous at 3:36 PM on October 22, 2022 [2 favorites]
Well, I mean, I guess it was just a matter of time before somebody stumbled into their parents' old B52's cassettes.
posted by thecincinnatikid at 4:46 PM on October 22, 2022 [9 favorites]
posted by thecincinnatikid at 4:46 PM on October 22, 2022 [9 favorites]
I would like to go to the Goth Beach. I love beaches and this one looks body-positive and asshole-free, which is rare. Also there are cloves! Alas for cloves, which I loved
posted by Countess Elena at 5:46 PM on October 22, 2022 [7 favorites]
posted by Countess Elena at 5:46 PM on October 22, 2022 [7 favorites]
This is so unrealistic and gross!
Everyone knows that if goths are going to go to the beach they do it after dark and before sunrise so you don't need all that sunscreen, and the beach is empty, there's no normal people around, and you don't get in trouble for smoking and drinking. Plus the sand sparkles at night with luminescent bacteria with or without psychedelics.
I mean, at least that's the way we did it in Southern California.
posted by loquacious at 8:32 PM on October 22, 2022 [6 favorites]
Everyone knows that if goths are going to go to the beach they do it after dark and before sunrise so you don't need all that sunscreen, and the beach is empty, there's no normal people around, and you don't get in trouble for smoking and drinking. Plus the sand sparkles at night with luminescent bacteria with or without psychedelics.
I mean, at least that's the way we did it in Southern California.
posted by loquacious at 8:32 PM on October 22, 2022 [6 favorites]
Just wanted to note my appreciation of that picture (postcard) perfect end card.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 8:40 PM on October 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 8:40 PM on October 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
... before somebody stumbled into their parents' old B52's cassettes.
Goth Lobster
Sadly the sound isn't that great
posted by cirhosis at 11:52 PM on October 22, 2022 [3 favorites]
Goth Lobster
Sadly the sound isn't that great
posted by cirhosis at 11:52 PM on October 22, 2022 [3 favorites]
Thank you for sharing, this was a lot of fun! ^_^
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 12:58 AM on October 23, 2022
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 12:58 AM on October 23, 2022
Everyone knows that if goths are going to go to the beach they do it after dark...
loquacious, honey, I adore you. You've been a metafilter crush for years, decades. Trust me when I say lace, leather, cloves, Boone's, and tromping along the waterline leaving boot prints and processing life are lovely on a crisp cool day.
How common this can be may well be a factor of how mobbed a given beach gets.
posted by majick at 7:00 AM on October 23, 2022 [3 favorites]
loquacious, honey, I adore you. You've been a metafilter crush for years, decades. Trust me when I say lace, leather, cloves, Boone's, and tromping along the waterline leaving boot prints and processing life are lovely on a crisp cool day.
How common this can be may well be a factor of how mobbed a given beach gets.
posted by majick at 7:00 AM on October 23, 2022 [3 favorites]
I really need a cephalopod kite
posted by winesong at 2:47 PM on October 23, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by winesong at 2:47 PM on October 23, 2022 [2 favorites]
Goth Beach sounds like a great place to take a Vampire Girl on a moonlight walk.
posted by Catblack at 5:58 PM on October 23, 2022
posted by Catblack at 5:58 PM on October 23, 2022
That was cool. I kept thinking 'I've never seen a Goth with no shoes on before'.
posted by dg at 8:53 PM on October 23, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by dg at 8:53 PM on October 23, 2022 [1 favorite]
That Broken Peach video that flamewise posted up-thread is Ah-mazing!Seeing as how it's that time of year again: previously.
posted by Nerd of the North at 1:35 AM on October 24, 2022 [1 favorite]
alt.vampire is two doors down on the left, take your spooky self there. this is alt.gothic, we don't do vampires.
posted by zengargoyle at 3:03 AM on October 24, 2022
posted by zengargoyle at 3:03 AM on October 24, 2022
'I've never seen a Goth with no shoes on before.'
Bigger dating pool needed?
posted by majick at 9:30 AM on October 24, 2022
Bigger dating pool needed?
posted by majick at 9:30 AM on October 24, 2022
'I've never seen a Goth with no shoes on before.'
Spoiler alert for those who haven't seen Netflix's adaption of "Sandman" yet:
This reminds me of scene from the episode where the main character's sister, Death, turns up for a chat, and as they're walking around the city suggests to him that he should take off his shoes for a bit. Knowing full well that nothing in the world could induce him to do that. I hadn't put that together with his general Goth aesthetic, but I guess maybe there's a connection?
posted by Ipsifendus at 9:47 AM on October 24, 2022
Spoiler alert for those who haven't seen Netflix's adaption of "Sandman" yet:
This reminds me of scene from the episode where the main character's sister, Death, turns up for a chat, and as they're walking around the city suggests to him that he should take off his shoes for a bit. Knowing full well that nothing in the world could induce him to do that. I hadn't put that together with his general Goth aesthetic, but I guess maybe there's a connection?
posted by Ipsifendus at 9:47 AM on October 24, 2022
How common this can be may well be a factor of how mobbed a given beach gets.
Yeah, I think I was reacting to my memories of SoCal beaches which are rarely cool or crisp and are always insanely hot and too sunny. Though I'm a darkwave kid at heart, I also grew up surfing and immersed in parts of that culture because my dad surfed so much at one point he was a board shaper.
But I should definitely know better because I know other kinds of beaches exist, and stomping around on cool, crisp beaches in the Pacific Northwest is something I do regularly. I still think I prefer them at night, though.
The whole concept of PNW beaches is still so novel to me even though I've been here for so long. Novel to me as in how they are mostly all slim, craggy little slivers of a beach covered in rocks, giant driftwood logs, kelp and moss at the same time, often with forests that go right out to the high tide line. They must be among the most goth kind of beach because it's almost impossible to get sunburned even without sunscreen.
posted by loquacious at 11:04 AM on October 24, 2022 [2 favorites]
Yeah, I think I was reacting to my memories of SoCal beaches which are rarely cool or crisp and are always insanely hot and too sunny. Though I'm a darkwave kid at heart, I also grew up surfing and immersed in parts of that culture because my dad surfed so much at one point he was a board shaper.
But I should definitely know better because I know other kinds of beaches exist, and stomping around on cool, crisp beaches in the Pacific Northwest is something I do regularly. I still think I prefer them at night, though.
The whole concept of PNW beaches is still so novel to me even though I've been here for so long. Novel to me as in how they are mostly all slim, craggy little slivers of a beach covered in rocks, giant driftwood logs, kelp and moss at the same time, often with forests that go right out to the high tide line. They must be among the most goth kind of beach because it's almost impossible to get sunburned even without sunscreen.
posted by loquacious at 11:04 AM on October 24, 2022 [2 favorites]
Novel to me as in how they are mostly all slim, craggy little slivers of a beach covered in rocks
You ever find your way down towards the Alsea Bay area, or really anywhere south of Lincoln City, you can get a fantastic mix of both from which to choose. Stand at Perpetua or anywhere along Seal Rock for awesome windy gloomy cliff drama action, or trudge along that whole stretch across Patterson if you want to get broad and sandy and lonely.
Yes, yes, I know. Tell me you were a kid on the central coast without telling me you were a kid on the central coast. Met some of my favorite goths out there.
posted by majick at 11:23 AM on October 24, 2022
You ever find your way down towards the Alsea Bay area, or really anywhere south of Lincoln City, you can get a fantastic mix of both from which to choose. Stand at Perpetua or anywhere along Seal Rock for awesome windy gloomy cliff drama action, or trudge along that whole stretch across Patterson if you want to get broad and sandy and lonely.
Yes, yes, I know. Tell me you were a kid on the central coast without telling me you were a kid on the central coast. Met some of my favorite goths out there.
posted by majick at 11:23 AM on October 24, 2022
Excellent gogo moves in that video!
posted by travertina at 8:11 AM on October 25, 2022
posted by travertina at 8:11 AM on October 25, 2022
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