Not my only evidence…

Favorite Music Genre Daily Prompt

I assure you, I do also still have Disc One from this compilation, but the first disc is a funky swampy-green and black, and I thought this one might make for a better photo LOL.

Also, not my only physical media that’s goth in nature. Far from it. But I learned about some fun artists from that set. I’ve since encountered many more on streaming platforms.

As you may know if you’re familiar with my blog entries about my playlists, I often make multi-genre themed playlists. So I definitely listen to more than just goth.

But if I had to pick a genre I return to more often than any other, it would be goth, hands down.

I know I’ve said this before, but it tickles me that kiddo thinks part of why she loves Sleep Token so much, is their goth aesthetic, and how it reminds me of her Queen of the Damned-saturated childhood. Deftones, especially. That song. Maybe also that scene? She didn’t mention the movie so much as the music. I love that of all the things about me she could have carried with her into adulthood, she chose something goth-adjacent.

There’s also “Malibu” by The Expendables, which she asked me the artist name for, so she could stream it, because it was on one of my CD mixes and got a LOT of play in the car, back and forth to school, and such. That one’s more reggae. There are so many songs called “Malibu” on Spotify that she couldn’t find it (but it’s there).

She’s just now getting more into reading, though she liked Manga some, growing up. Many, many library trips, and lots of bedtime stories, and so many children’s books, dating back to when I collected them for myself, for the whimsy of it all.

She’s into art, like me. Maybe that rubbed off?

Kids in the neighborhood sometimes came over and drew or painted, at our place. I always had a LOT of art supplies on hand, for myself. And we had a lot of fun playing with sidewalk chalk together. The neighbor kids got in on that, too.

God, it goes by fast, even if it was at times most definitely hard as hell. But she’ll be here for HALLOWEEN of all things, and she has already said we’ll have to go to all the Halloween stores together and look around. She added that her boyfriend goes with her, but he doesn’t “get it” like I do, and doesn’t let her stay for as long as she would like.

I know my dad is especially excited to have both of us there, for trick or treating, to help pass out candy. And I had promised to help make sure she has a rad costume to wear.

She hasn’t dressed up every year of her life, like I have, but I’m happy to see she still loves the holiday. Some years after she had moved away, they didn’t have the resources for costumes. And I know at least one of her more grown-up Halloween’s here, she had to work. I had suggested at least going all out with Halloween accessories, like maybe one of those headbands with things that bob around, on top, stuck to antennae, but she is less that way than I am.

I told her I thought I might wear my red, white, and blue sequin cowboy hat to work, on the 4th of July. She agreed that I totally should. I betcha if there are any left at 5 Below, at least one customer may venture that way to get their own. They’re dang cute.

I believe we close early that day, so fear not. I won’t be working super late. If there’s an afternoon family cookout, I may miss that, but hopefully, they will save a plate. And I suppose I could pick myself up some sparklers. Those are fun.

I’m rifling through my playlists for funsies. The werewolf one is indie-heavy. I guess indie artists love them some lycanthropes. But the vampire one, gothier. Which checks out.

I have a fair amount of largely goth-flavored playlists, like the one I made with the intent to vibe Peter Steele, I think on the anniversary of his death, and Dark Artistry, and Meeting Some Other Kind of Madness (lots of Bauhaus), etc.

I think I’ve probably posted most of them here somewhere already, though. May have to make another one! What gothy surprises is Spotify holding out on? There has to be SOMETHING good, that I have yet to discover. We’ll see.

After all, I nearly thought I’d exhausted the contemporary poetry at my local library branch, until the day I found a few more volumes as yet unread.

Here’s something from Pexels that I edited in Canva. Enjoy your evening!