EgonSpengler
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Do you ever find yourself thinking, "How the [bleep] did I not know (about) this?" However geeky we are, however up-to-date we try to keep ourselves, however deep in the weeds we consider ourselves to be, there's always something we miss. Something our friends didn't tell us about. Something that slid past us in all of the hubbub. Maybe you're a sucker for cop shows, and have never seen an episode of "CSI." Maybe you're a history buff and know nothing about The Cuban Missile Crisis. Maybe you're a film buff and saw your first Kurosawa movie just last weekend.
We all have blindspots. What are yours?
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Just recently - like, in the last month - I've been listening to Clan of Xymox.
You have to understand, back in the mid-late 1980s, I was a pretty serious fan of goth music. Bauhaus, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Joy Division, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Fields of the Nephilim, Christian Death, The Swans, This Mortal Coil, Ministry, 45 Grave, Killing Joke. In the ensuing decades, I've stopped wearing all black, smoking clove cigarettes, and dating girls who cut themselves, but I still try to keep up with the music. And yet, somehow, some way, I swear I'm hearing Clan of Xymox for the first time.
Link to video.
We all have blindspots. What are yours?
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Just recently - like, in the last month - I've been listening to Clan of Xymox.
You have to understand, back in the mid-late 1980s, I was a pretty serious fan of goth music. Bauhaus, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Joy Division, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Fields of the Nephilim, Christian Death, The Swans, This Mortal Coil, Ministry, 45 Grave, Killing Joke. In the ensuing decades, I've stopped wearing all black, smoking clove cigarettes, and dating girls who cut themselves, but I still try to keep up with the music. And yet, somehow, some way, I swear I'm hearing Clan of Xymox for the first time.
Link to video.