Teen Gothic

I am thinking about starting a goth floral shop? All dark and blood red flowers. Of course, we can do other colors, but the main focus is that. I may have different odds and ends of goth culture to sell in the store. But this would have floral arrangements in dark goth style vases. Pick your poison bouquets(where you just pick the flowers and buy them like in Kroger) Seeds and sprouts of the darker flowers to purchase. Goth style vases and then maybe some jewelry, books and music as side items. I would also like to maybe have a room in the back where I can showcase some local goth artists works for sale.

I am working on a business plan now…but I am just wondering if you all thought there might even be enough interest in something like this.

I'm currently not goth, but I'm interested in the goth subculture and fashion, and I don't know where to start without being labeled poseur or something along those lines. What do I need to do to be a real goth?

Anyone have any interesting links, memories or names relating to online discussion groups from around 1979 to 1993 that were centered around discussion of goth and post punk bands and the scene as it was happening? This would be through BBS and Usenet primarily before the internet took over in 1994-1996.

I just think its fascinating to read and document such things, even if a few low percentage of people knew about online discussion groups and were using modems to discuss goth music.

As you know, online activity was thing way before the latter 90s and it was centered more around computer nerds, hacking, specific industries, universities with much less casual users and with a different and much less developed infrastructure than the modern internet.

The first public goth sites on the internet from my memory date to 1994-1995, they were just a few, seem to have operated as personal homepage fan websites, often seemed very basic, limited or poorly written.

I believe there few bands posting music samples around then I can't confirm the names, since there weren't that many bands and each had a few tracks and music sampling was less common until 1997. They were likely to be on the Internet Underground Music Achieve (IUMA) or Den's Cyberden around that time, but I can't be certain.

A more in-depth look at the usual “What’s your favorite X?”

I’d like to know what exactly makes you like the culture’s music. Is it the subtle -yet protagonistic- bass of many songs? The danceable snare beats? The gloomy atmosphere? Let me know!

Bonus 1: What elements make your favorite albums stand out from the rest?

Bonus 2: Nothing is perfect. What elements or trends in goth music do you dislike?