From: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org (goths-digest) To: goths-digest@smoe.org Subject: goths-digest V2 #32 Reply-To: goths@smoe.org Sender: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk goths-digest Sunday, March 29 1998 Volume 02 : Number 032 Today's Subjects: ----------------- something for discussion.... [andrea butler ] Now We Quit the Forest [Merde Tu ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 13:19:53 -0400 From: andrea butler Subject: something for discussion.... I posted this on the Rasputina guestbook on their web site (www.rasputina.com) and I thought I would send this to all of you also, in case some of you dont really check that web site. You can check out a couple of my posts, and also see how I was shot down...hehehe. What can I say....its pretty amusing. Anyway, I posted this there and I wanted to pass it along here too... I think that Rasputina embody an air of manic-depression and mental illness. In using Hamlet's Ophelia (which is my favorite play by Shakespeare), Rasputina seems to express this idea. "Lay back, get waterlogged, give us a kiss..." These lyrics seem to me to show the paradoxical view one can see in mental illness (myself included). It is sad, it evokes pity, but it can be beautiful. These lovely ladies of Rasputina ARE this paradox. They are stunninly pretty; provocative in their victorian attire, and yet give off an air of some intangible sadness and depressed musings. Ophelia was an indirect victim in Hamlet and though she went crazy and ultimately perished, she is often fondly portrayed by a pretty young woman who, with her long hair unloosed, earnestly offers her tokens to the other characters (heres rosemary, that for remembrance, pray you love, remember...) while revealing her distracted truths thru the symbolism of the objects. It is thru their music, their air, THEIR symbolism, that I believe Rasputina voices their truths, that there is beauty in tragedy. Any thoughts????? (This is pretty much word-for-word what I posted there) Andria ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 14:31:52 EST From: Merde Tu Subject: Now We Quit the Forest Does anyone know an exact release date? Is already out? Just hadn't had time to see for myself. Proserpina~ ------------------------------ End of goths-digest V2 #32 **************************