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Age: 100
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State: New York
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May 12, 2009 - Tuesday 

Current mood:  focused
Category: Parties and Nightlife


Two Words: THE VAULT...
You know you likey!!!


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May 6, 2009 - Wednesday 

Current mood:  impatient

This Sunday, May 10th, Guignole Productions and New Goth City will present the 2nd Scarlette Parlour elegant lounge and dark Cabaret event!!! If you missed the first one, be sure to make it at this one!   More information and advanced ticket sales can be found, naturally, at NewGothCity.com!!!

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April 30, 2009 - Thursday 

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities


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April 17, 2009 - Friday 


http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids....

Created by Earienne DeGrey, Victor Noirloke and Sir William Welles

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February 3, 2009 - Tuesday 

Current mood:  enthralled
Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping


As you can clearly see by the huge banner above, the brand new VampireFreaks Store, located down in the Lower East Side, has started to sell New Goth City Tee Shirts and R.I.P. Pins! This is perfect for all of you that feel uncomfortable with online purchasing.

And remember: 100% of the profits from New Goth City merchandise sales goes toward OPERATION: Dark Bar to create a much needed Goth Lounge/Bar in N.Y.C. and helping to support our scene!!!

See you in the Dark!
Sir William Welles
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December 4, 2008 - Thursday 

Current mood:  awake
Category: Life



To start celebrating December being Bah Humbug! Month, may I introduce to you my Goth Xmas Tree. It's only got one ornament. It says it all. Enjoy!



See you in the Dark!
Sir William Welles

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November 28, 2008 - Friday 

Current mood:  worried
Category: Life

THIS JUST IN...

Due to some recent and pressing health issues concerning Sir William Welles, the New Goth City website's daily updated event roster might be subject to slight error or lag when coming to showcasing the "Tonight's Event" feature. If this happens please refer to the "Upcoming Events" roster for correct dates and times.

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November 7, 2008 - Friday 

Current mood:  cultured
Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping
O.K...here's the deal: a lot of you didn't get to join us the last time we went to the Fashion Institute of Technology's (F.I.T.) museum's exhibit of Goth fashions. This exhibit is rather impressive and extensive...you should not miss it. So, I've assembled a second, make-shift, field trip/gathering/meet-up to invade this museum. If you want to be part of the fun just show up at 3pm this Saturday afternoon (11/8) at 27th Street an 7th Ave. If you're late, just go in the museum an find us until closing time at 5pm. To really get into the spirit (and to impress the Day-Crawlers there) dress up in your Gothiest of fashions!

Hope you will join us...
See you in the Dark,
Sir William Welles
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October 28, 2008 - Tuesday 

Category: Parties and Nightlife


THE HOLLOWS

If you thought filling a venue for a Goth event on a Wednesday or Thursday night was tough, Tuesday night is a downright BITCH! Luckily, Kings Cross is a small and very cozy old English styled pub (think of a place Jack The Ripper might hang out at while stalking his next victim). This place is fucking fantastic! I would never have guessed this place existed in N.Y.C.! First, you have to descend a crooked flight of metal stairs into a basement, open an ornate door, and saunter down a short, but spooky, hallway. Soon you will find a very comfortably darkened room that only holds 50 to 60 people, thus making it quite an intimate setting, and more importantly, not too hard to populate on a bitchy Tuesday night. And! As a bonus, The Hollows will bravely open it's doors at an early 8pm to accommodate those with an early morning the following day (my sympathies to those of you who do). After work or school you can grab some grub, get your groove on at The Hollows, and then get your ass in bed by 11pm if you so wish...(eww).

Let's talk music now, shall we? The Hollows was created by none other than DJ Auton (you know who he is), primarily of Click and Drag fame and a slew of other popular Goth events around the N.Y.C. area. The music genres flows easily from Goth, Industrial, and New Wave (I have to mention here how funny it is that we still call New Wave music New Wave! It's kinda classic by now, no? That's where DJ Auton got creative and calls it NuWave...pretty cool. But I can't help but wondering what it will be next...Neo Wave?) All of your favorite tracks are pretty well represented along with a sprinkle of surprising songs that keeps the crowd guessing as to what will pop up next.

Let's talk drinkage. Meet Zef. He's the cool guy behind the medium sized bar serving rather reasonable priced drinks. Friends with Dj Auton, Zef and he started this weekly event as somewhat of a joint effort to utilize the space for the Goth scene...and my suggestion is to use it! Typically, it's a well stocked bar with four beers on draught with bottled beer, booze, and wine also available. Bottom line: you won't go thirsty or broke trying to quench it!

The Hollows at Kings Cross is a tiny space so, unfortunately, it does warrant a tiny review...however, it must be said here that if you ever wanted to meet up with some friends in the Bowery area for an early(ish) night in an extremely cozy and dark atmosphere on a Tuesday night, you must give The Hollows a spirited try. I would even go so far to call Kings Cross an official Dark Bar. But alas, the weekend Day-Crawler college crowd does keep me from doing so. *sigh*
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October 28, 2008 - Tuesday 

Category: Parties and Nightlife


Southern California resident (why, man? Why???) Archpope Däch was recently on a gothy visit to our fair city. He, like so many other visitors like him, used New Goth City to help navigate the dark waters which is our scene. But alas, he strayed and found himself at the doorstep of the day-crawler infested "theme bar" known as Jekyll & Hyde's at the West Village. It could be worse...he could have gone to the "theme-club" at 6th Avenue and 57/58th Streets. In any case, the kindly Archpope wrote me a review of his experience as a thank you for my assistance in his travels within New York, and I'd like to share it with you! Happy reading...


Jekyll & Hyde Bar, West Village
Two personalities, neither one interesting

Whilst perusing different sites to see in the New York area, I came
across a posting for a restaurant for the Jekyll And Hyde Bar, located
in the West Village area of the city. Now, it seemed odd to me that a
place that looked so exciting from the description therein was not
included from the notoriously thorough and up-to-date tome that is
known as New Goth City. Well, after one visit it became clear to me
why it wasn't included, and I now write this review to caution you,
dear readers, about what to expect and why it's not as it seems (and
not in a good way).

As I walked into the place, I felt an immediate culture clash, between
the quasi-gloomy plasticine artifacts and the sports on several TV's
around the bar as I waited for my table. It was decorated to look like
a hunting lodge from a hundred years ago, I suppose, though I didn't
think people hunted mummies or hung them on the wall back then. While
I waited, I had a beer, overpriced even by Manhattan standards, and I
was told I had to finish it and close out my tab before heading to my
table.

Another of their gimmicks was that they had people in Victorian
costume walking around, interacting with the guests. They didn't have
much to say to me, since I probably looked spookier than they did.
Also, the, for lack of a better word, toys on the wall would
occasionally light up, talk to the people eating dinner, and sometimes
sing a song. It was like being in a Chuck E. Cheese if they threw
cheap Halloween costumes on the mascots. The quality of the
animatronics wasn't much better since their lame speeches were often
drowned out by the clacking of plastic parts.

Jekyll's one and only saving grace that evening was, surprisingly
enough, the food. Now I didn't order from the hamburger or pizza menus
that are mainstays of such gimmick restaurants, and probably taste as
good as the plastic rhinoceros head that was talking above me while I
ate. Instead, I opted for the pumpkin tortellini, and found it to be
quite delicious. I don't know if it was $19 delicious, but for an
evening meal filled with surprises, this was finally a welcome one.

In summary, if you just happen to be in the West Village, are really
hungry, not in a hurry, and can tolerate a noisy, annoying
environment, it might not be a bad place to stop in for a bite. I
would not recommend going there under any other circumstances. Well,
maybe one. You're flush with disposable cash, and are morbidly curious
to see just how far off-target someone can be about what the words
"eccentric" and "dark" mean. Save for the food, it was an epic
disaster, and definitely NOT worth going out of your way to visit.

SINcerely,
Archpope Däch

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October 15, 2008 - Wednesday 

Current mood:  grateful
Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping


On Saturday, October 11th,  I had the immense pleasure of organizing New Goth City's first ever "Meet-up" and "Field Trip" to the Fashion Institute of Technology's Gothic: Dark Glamour Exhibit. I'd first like to thank the impressive hand-full of New Goth City Citizens that made it out on such a bright and sunny day. The rest of you probably didn't get your "permission slips" signed by your parents in time, right? Likely story. Lucky for all of you absentees I'll be organizing a second field trip to the exhibit in a few weeks...yeah, it's that good! It was an even more of a special treat to have us darklings roam the gloomy lit exhibit halls among Day-Crawlers and students on assignment research. Our group, in a strange sort of way, became part of the exhibit...walking mannequins amongst the stiff ones, if you will. "Oh! Look! Real Goths!" I overheard whispered on at least three separate occasions as we strolled curiously amidst the dark fashions and those who were dark-fashion-challenged. For a brief moment of time it felt as though we were being celebrated for having such a daring sense of style. It was distinctively much more fun as a group than going alone.

As for the exhibit itself, it was quite a striking endeavor. It actually made me proud and feel privileged to be part of our sub-culture! Someone at F.I.T. saw it fit (get it? Fit..) and thought it a good idea to showcase the Gothic sense of Fashion for a full six months...that, my friends, if you think about it, is very, very important! The mere fact that the nation's top fashion college recognizes our fashion as a certified style, and sends its students to study it, denotes that we have advanced, on some level, from a sub-culture to an actual culture. Not that I feel we need to be validated by the mainstream, far from it, but honestly, I never really liked the coined term of "sub-culture" when referencing to Goths. It sounds too negative and too close to "sub-human," which is a total contradiction in terms if you really think about it. No, I enjoy Goths being seen as a borderless global community with its own art, music, fashion, and history...that is what "Culture" embodies after all!!! 

*steps down from soap-box*

I'm not going to go into any great lengths in describing the outfits, the decor, or the layout...you have to discover it for yourself if you haven't gone yet...and for those who have been to the exhibit, I'm not going to bore you with my detail heavy description of it. I will, however, share with you two gripes I had with the exhibit on a whole...I wouldn't be a good Goth if I didn't.

First, you must understand that this is an exhibit created essentially by "non-Goth" fashion educators and students to show the "non-Goth" world (read: Day-Crawlers) the influence we strange little gothlings have made on the fashion world. Understand, this is not an exhibit of historical fashions influencing the diverse Goth styles of today and the future...keep that in mind. As you saunter from dress to dress, reading the appropriate information tablets, you will start to notice a few things. Primarily, you will notice that most of these ensembles are created not by Goth fashion designers, but rather by prominent names of the mainstream, haute-couture fashion world. Names such as Givenchy, Calvin Klein, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, are rather abundant throughout. And while we were all like: "Ooh! I want to buy that one," I started to realize that most, if not all, of these outfits must cost a FORTUNE! No self-respecting Goth could ever afford any of this! What we were all witnessing here was how top designers observed what we Goths painstakingly pieced together, and even created from scratch, to manifest our individual styles, and tried to make it their "haute-couture" own. How Rude! Most of this exhibit was, in actuality, not Goth fashion, but rather how mainstream fashionistas see Goths! *Gasp!* To tell you the truth...there were at least four dresses that arguably did not belong in this exhibit...you'll know the ones I'm talking about when you see them. This, though, didn't make me angry or anything...but something else did. On two of the information tablets (Again, I'll let you find them for yourselves) the quoted designer, one being Ann Demeulemeester, states that he/she didn't feel influenced by Gothic style and rejected the Goth label. Huh?!? W.T.F?!? Why put that down, in writing, at a Goth influenced fashion exhibit??? But then I took a good eyeful look around, bathed within the comforting darkness and tranquility of the room, and simply let that issue roll right out of my mind. No big deal, I thought to myself, haute-couture designers are all pompous divas, and all of this is very beautiful to me. Ahhh.....

Wait! There is something else bothering me here...the massive lack of Men's Gothic outfits! Out of over 75 dressed mannequins, there are only maybe 3 or 4 of male fashions. HOW RUDE! The guys were grossly misrepresented. As for myself, I take great and long strides when it comes to my personal fashion and style, and quite honestly, I was looking forward to maybe getting some new ideas from the exhibit to call my own...no such luck. That was the biggest disappointment, for me anyhow. But if you think about it, in fashion as a whole, no matter which style and/or genre, women always had much more choice in clothing than men. It's just a sad reality. I just think they cold have made a bit more of a concentrated effort to showcase some diverse male Goth fashions, is all.

I don't want to end this review on a negative note...don't get me wrong...I really enjoyed myself at this exhibit. So much so that I'm organizing the next "field trip" to F.I.T. on Saturday, November 8th! Having said that, here is my positive note: Several of my friends asked me what was my favorite item in the entire exhibit. The coolest thing in the exhibit was, hands-down, the accessory shadow-box in the first room, and within that trinket-filled shadow-box was my favorite item: the strangest Top-hat I have ever seen. You have to see it to believe it!!! It is, in actuality, a large wire-framed, quite steampunky, top-hat, and stitched onto this frame with more wire are 4 panels of taught, dry pigskin. So gross--so cool!!! But wait! There is more! Split over the top/front corner of this creepy hat is an image of a bat that was tattooed onto the pig's flesh before it was dried out and molded!!! You have GOT to see this thing!!! It's amazing! I was hoping that the entire accessory shadow-box was the exhibit's gift-shop...something else this free exhibit dramatically lacked...how do they make money on this thing? In any case, I'm going back on November 8th to take a picture of that hat! Who's with me?

All in all, despite any reservations or issues I have with this exhibit, I applaud the Fashion Institute of Technology and all those involved with putting it together. It very respectfully portrayed and represented the dark romantic essence of our "culture," and for that I thank them. If this exhibit helps demystify Goths just a little bit (especially to those three bewildered old ladies that were wandering about when we were there) and give Day-Crawlers a glimpse into our world, and at the same time give them a bit more understanding of us, I thank them yet again. Maybe if I thank them enough they'll be so kind as to give me that cool pigskin, bat-tattooed, steampunky, Top-hat. (wink-wink, hint-hint) 
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October 11, 2008 - Saturday 

Current mood:  cooky/wacky
Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping

O.K...here's the deal: a lot of you have not had the time to get to the Fashion Institute of Technology's (F.I.T.) museum's exhibit of Goth fashions yet. This exhibit is rather impressive and extensive...you should not miss it. So, I've assembled a make-shift, field trip/gathering/meet-up to invade this museum. If you want to be part of the fun just show up at 3pm today (Sat. 10/11) at 27th Street an 7th Ave. If you're late, just go in the museum an find us until closing time at 5pm.

Hope you will join us...
See you in the Dark,
Sir William Welles

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October 1, 2008 - Wednesday 

Current mood:  determined
Category: Parties and Nightlife



Greetings my Darklings!

OPERATION: Dark Bar is still underway and my Business plan has reached it's final draft before I start shopping it around to potential investors. However, I am missing some key market research and demographic data...that's where you come in. I hate sounding all "Corporate" about this...but these are the rules of successful business...a bar/lounge for Goths doesn't just magically creates itself. So, if you would be so kind as to take a very, very short demographic survey (only 24 measley questions) and submitted it to me, I would be very grateful! Please answer truthfully for your answers will have direct impact on some of the decisions made for OPERATION: Dark Bar. Also, no personal contact info is asked of you...it's pretty anonymous except for a first name for filing purposes only.

The online survey can be found at:
http://www.newgothcity.com/survey.html

I'd like to thank you in advance for helping me and OPERATION: Dark Bar out by filling out this survey...your input and answers are very, very important with what we are doing here at New Goth City.

See you in the Dark!
Sir William Welles

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September 24, 2008 - Wednesday 

Current mood:  nervous
Category: Art and Photography

Greetings my fellow Darklings!

I have some wonderful news. After the overwhelming positive feedback I received from my Straynge Family portrait shown at Contempt's 10th Anniversary bash, I've decided to include six of the more popular portraits, and special Halloween Cards, up for sale on New Goth City's NEW & IMPROVED shopping page! The portraits are only $40.00 (+ FREE Shipping), and the card box sets are $25.00 (+ FREE Shipping).

Again, 100% of the profits of any sales here goes to a special account to fund OPERATION: Dark Bar. Did you think I abandoned that project? Well, I didn't. The business plan is almost done with its final draft ...but more on that later.

So check out the selction on NewGothCity.com's shopping page. The Straynge Family Portraits make for some great Halloween or Xmas gift for that certain weirdo in your life.

Hope you likes!

See you in the Dark!
Sir William Welles

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September 20, 2008 - Saturday 

Current mood:  cynical
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
THIS JUST IN!!!

HBO has just announced that they've agreed to pick-up TRUEBLOOD for a second season. This comes on the heels of a 24% jump in viewership of the second episode last Sunday night, from 1.4 million viewers to 1.8 million viewers. The second season is slated for production for early 2009, and is scheduled to premiere next Summer. We hope this series gets a whole lot better...but we're not sinking our teeth into it just yet!
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