Rockabilly? - Beyond Tiki

E EnchantedTikiGoth Member Calgary, Canada Joined: Dec 31, 2003 Posts: 355	E EnchantedTikiGoth Posted posted on Tue, Jan 6, 2004 11:27 AM On 2004-01-06 06:50, tikifish wrote: What the heck is a 'Rivet'? I am feeling old right now! (To see me in my goth days, check TC's 'most embarassing photos' thread...) http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=4771&forum=1&start=15 (second page) Aww... You looked cute in that picture :P Actually, your eye make-up was pretty good... On what Rivets ACTUALLY are... "Rivet" or "Rivethead" is a label given to fans of Industrial and EBM music, and who tend towards very masculine, industrial-inspired, often military fashion. Commonly one will find shaved heads or dreadlocks, PVC or cargo trousers (often of the bondage variety), goggles and big stompy boots with lots of buckles. Rivets I've met tend to be secretly okay people, but they like to hide it behind a layer of fashionable hostility. Generally they seem to carry an interest in things Cyberpunk and technological, and pattern themselves accordingly. Usually one will find Goths and Rivets congregating in the same clubs, with their music being played alternately, even though (in my opinion) they strike me as being opposite poles. Concerning the music and style of clothing thing... People are entitled to listen to whatever music they want and dress however they want. Nothing's stopping them, and it isn't infrequently that I find myself making mix tapes or disks for my non-Goth friends. My only issue is that I find it disrespectful when someone "plays" at being Goth, as any other person would if someone else wore their values and lifestyle as a thinly veiled joke. I'm not into the "Gother Than Thou" pretentiousness, but neither am I interested in being mocked or trivialized. In defense of myself, I don't dress the way I dress because I "have to" because of the music I like. I dress how I dress and listen to the music I listen to because the lifestyle as a whole resonates with me in a complex combination of experience, interests, value systems and psychological make-up (not at all like, say, people who are into Tiki lounge culture or something). I'm the first to admit that my musical tastes - Goth, Ethnic Fusion, Dreampop/Shoegazer and New Age - aren't especially diverse, and that my primary style ranges all the way from Victorian Gothic to Victorian Steampunk, but I can't help it... That's just who I am, y'know? Cory

On 2004-01-06 06:50, tikifish wrote:
What the heck is a 'Rivet'? I am feeling old right now!

(To see me in my goth days, check TC's 'most embarassing photos' thread...)

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=4771&forum=1&start=15

(second page)

Aww... You looked cute in that picture :P Actually, your eye make-up was pretty good...

On what Rivets ACTUALLY are... "Rivet" or "Rivethead" is a label given to fans of Industrial and EBM music, and who tend towards very masculine, industrial-inspired, often military fashion. Commonly one will find shaved heads or dreadlocks, PVC or cargo trousers (often of the bondage variety), goggles and big stompy boots with lots of buckles. Rivets I've met tend to be secretly okay people, but they like to hide it behind a layer of fashionable hostility. Generally they seem to carry an interest in things Cyberpunk and technological, and pattern themselves accordingly. Usually one will find Goths and Rivets congregating in the same clubs, with their music being played alternately, even though (in my opinion) they strike me as being opposite poles.

Concerning the music and style of clothing thing... People are entitled to listen to whatever music they want and dress however they want. Nothing's stopping them, and it isn't infrequently that I find myself making mix tapes or disks for my non-Goth friends.

My only issue is that I find it disrespectful when someone "plays" at being Goth, as any other person would if someone else wore their values and lifestyle as a thinly veiled joke. I'm not into the "Gother Than Thou" pretentiousness, but neither am I interested in being mocked or trivialized.

In defense of myself, I don't dress the way I dress because I "have to" because of the music I like. I dress how I dress and listen to the music I listen to because the lifestyle as a whole resonates with me in a complex combination of experience, interests, value systems and psychological make-up (not at all like, say, people who are into Tiki lounge culture or something). I'm the first to admit that my musical tastes - Goth, Ethnic Fusion, Dreampop/Shoegazer and New Age - aren't especially diverse, and that my primary style ranges all the way from Victorian Gothic to Victorian Steampunk, but I can't help it... That's just who I am, y'know?

Cory

Post #67904 by EnchantedTikiGoth on Tue, Jan 6, 2004 11:27 AM