Teen Gothic

This is very specific, but – did anyone else get into Antonin Artaud because of Bauhaus? That's always been one of my top favorite Bauhaus songs, and in high school I got curious about who this Artaud guy was anyway, so I found a copy of The Theater and its Double and fell in love and read everything of his I could get my hands on. His sense of an excruciatingly intense world was exactly in line with where I was at (and one of those things I had a light bulb "always has been" moment about after getting diagnosed with autism in middle age – well of course everything feels like barbed wire!). Anyway, thank you Bauhaus for pointing me toward a writer I never would have heard of otherwise back then (pre internet normie suburban wasteland).