HATERS GONNA HATE: Groupies
Go ahead and roll your eyes; if you’re not in a band, then you probably don’t like groupies. They’re up there on the stage in their tiny skirts while you’re down with the groundlings in the mosh pit. They get backstage, supposedly purely on the merits of their appearances, and get to sip away at free booze until the headlining act decides that they want to break off a piece of that. You might grumble about it under your breath when some huge guy knocks into you and dumps your $8 cup of Budweiser down the front of your shirt. ♠ Continue reading…
The Very Best of YouTube Headbanging
It’s been a hell of a week for me, between my soul-crushing day job and busily planning for my birthday (I’m turning 25 on the 18th!!!), so I wanted to do a quick, JWZ-style video rundown of one of my most favorite ways of burning off frustration: headbanging. ♠ Continue reading…
NYFW: Bleakest Picks (Part II)
Earlier this week, I pointed out some of my favorite choices from NYFW 2010 – this year was a real hit in my book, with lots of tough, utilitarian styles and plenty of properly femmed-up rock and roll to be had. Here are some more collections that I fell in love with this year! ♠ Continue reading…
NYFW: Bleakest Picks (Part I)
I love Fashion Week, but I’ve never been. (Well, I was once in NYC during it, but my accomplice and I mostly loitered outside and dealt with the fallout in the street – in no way does screaming “KAAARL!!” with a mouthful of Papaya King at the tents count as attending. It does, however, get you checked out by the local beat cops, so don’t!) That doesn’t stop me from glazing over every time Fashion Week coverage showed on TV…and there’s some real joy to be found in digging through photos of the collections while in your pajamas! ♠ Continue reading…
The Beast Speaks: I Want Your Skulls
Violence and the macabre ahead: consider yourself warned!
As some of you might know, resident madman (and my very fabulous beau) S. McManbeast has been dishing out horror and transgressive fiction for a while now – and he’s been kind enough to draft up a short story just for PosBleak! So, for anyone feeling a touch burnt out from the explosion of mush and romanticism over the past holiday, here’s an exclusive sample of death & destruction, just for you! ♠ Continue reading…
What I Wore To…Rich Horror’s Party Machine
For the non-locals reading, O’Brien’s is basically a hole in the wall, with a bar on one side and a stage on the other. It’s super small and has cheap drinks, which means that you can sit at the bar and still see the band really well – for a weekday show, my 9-to-5 draggin’ ass appreciates this. ♠ Continue reading…
The High Court of Love: Having a Heavy Metal Valentine’s Day
Our familiar sickly-sweet holiday wasn’t always this pussified. The ancient Romans called it Lupercalia, “the Wolf Festival,” you know, because of that she-wolf that nursed Romulus and Remus…what, you weren’t paying attention in Ancient History? Anyway, people ran around naked in the streets, a bunch of priests sacrificed goats, wore the raw goat pelts, and women lined up for the priests to beat them with the bloody bits of hide to ensure their fertility. ♠ Continue reading…
The Queen of Sex & Death: Bondage Gear as Casual Wear
I can’t open a fashion rag without seeing something “bondage inspired” – it’s a really cool concept up until you run into the first rejected Lip Service model out in public.
You CAN wear bondage gear as casual clothing. You CAN wear it to the movies or the mall or dinner with Grammy. What you should first be doing is asking yourself if you SHOULD. Part of loving yourself involves not going out looking like a Cenobite. It’s going to take a lot of – ahem – restraint to pull off this look without giving your relatives a collective heart attack or being tailed by mall security. ♠ Continue reading…
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