Running With the Shadows of the Night

Vampires... so hot right now.


Since I was a wee girl I have had a love affair with Vampires. I was 13 years old in 1987. That was when this began...


(one of the things that would be carried out of my house in case of fire, this photo was pre-Haim signature which it now has, thankfully!)

My dad took me to see "The Lost Boys", and like I mentioned this was the year I turned 13. It was all over. The poster pictured above is the second of it's kind I have owned. The first my brother Nick bought me for Xmas that year. This one I bought off eBay. I danced around when I won it. Then danced a little more when it was signed "your one of us now" SQUEEEEE!!

who cares the grammar is wrong. I still had to keep my shit together when that happened. No one likes a adult acting like a teenager. But that is what I felt like.

There were lots of vampire movies during the 80's and 90's



OHHAI BILL PAXTON!! YOUR DIRECTOR JUST WON AN OSCAR!

"Near Dark" was one of the best ones. But also see "To Die For" both parts one and two. Which are perfect examples of bad movie brilliance.





Then the 90's brought us Buffy or as I like to call it THE BEST SHOW ON TELEVISION EVER AND FOREVER.

I don't know why I tried to deny it. This show also brought me to some of the best people I have met in my life, both from the show and because of the show. I hate to say one thing changed my life but Buffy did. It brought me into the world of fandom. Which is a scary horrible place, but some of us cool kids hang out in the back of the bus and make fun of the rest of y'all

Now did anyone see this coming from when I was a young child? Probably not. No one should be shocked though.

My mom hates when I say I lived in the basement when I was a kid, but I did. I had a room but it was made in the corner of the basement. I LOVED THAT ROOM. (and it would have been the best room ever when I was a teenager, but we moved before that). I was never a good sleeper and always kinda liked scary movies and such. I guess I was destined to be a weird kid in all black from a young age.

Like I stated at the beginning of this vampires are totally hot right now. It's ok with me because with every Twilight Sparkle-pire there is "Let the Right One In" With every "Vampire Diaries" (yes, I watch it) there is"True Blood" (seriously is it June yet).

One final thought before I go to bed...



THAT will never NOT be hot.

my life in Hair Metal

this is what I looked like when I was 17

I hung out at the beach and went to all ages shows at the sketchy club that hosted them. We were there A LOT. So much people there knew us, we were regulars before we could vote. This should have been a sign but that is a different entry all together.

A while ago I read this article after being linked to it through something involving Butch Walker (who I try to mention in very blog I write). ANYWAY! This article compares everything I listen to now to everything I listened to 20-25 years ago.

MAN I AM OLD.


It made me think about it and listen to some one those old bands and songs again. Except I would listen to them thinking about who I listen to now. Leaving out Mr. Walker since he was IN a hair band and I can just directly compare those two. Since OH YES I have those cassettes (thanks Kat!)

Yes, I pulled out cassettes. For those of you who may not know what those are they were what we had before CDs they looked like this...
They were amazing and I love them like people love records and have come to own A LOT of them since I am one of few people that still have a cassette player in their home. (this collection includes many a mixtape which the lovery Miss Banshee wrote an amazing blog about and you should be reading her anyway).

Yet again I DIGRESS!!!

So I listened to L.A. Guns then The Sea Hags then some Trixter and so on.



Before Bret Michaels was a reality TV star. Before Kurt Cobain was a rock star. When boys looked (actually) like women and IT WAS GLORIOUS

This music wasn't about feelings. This music was about living fast and falling faster.



(this is still one of the best songs ever)

The more I thought about it the more I think it is true... the article mentions Warrant/Taking Back Sunday but really?

Skid Row/My Chemical Romance
LA Guns/The Used
Cinderella/Fall Out Boy
Faster Pussycat/Aiden
Poison/Cobra Starship


it can go on... it's fun and easy to do! I am not shocked, I love them all SO MUCH. Then and now. Most of todays bands were just being BORN when these bands were big, they list Green Day and Blink 182 as influences. It's weird.



The 90's (my late teens/early 20's) were a bleak time. I barely bought music and I rarely saw bands I liked play. I listened to some of the "grunge" stage of rock music. There was a lot of Marilyn Manson during this time.


Generally music stopped being fun. Knock the emo kid scene all you want they made things FUN again.







Slapped on a little eyeliner got a little pretty and wrote nice upbeat songs.
(these boys were all born about when I graduated high school, making me old enough to be their mother)

and yes that is Flava Flav.




Say what you will, it doesn't make me upset or depressed. Usually it makes me dance my butt off and scream my lungs out. To me music was always there.

The internet has made music weird. There was always a scene but it seems so much more defined now. Fans seem more entitled now. Like the bands are the performing monkey in the hat and they are the crazy Russian cranking the box. This bothers me more than you know.


My life has a total soundtrack. Most days it includes every band mentioned or shown here.

And I am perfectly ok with that.