Innerspaceboy, I admit you are the clear winner here--those are nerdom levels I aspire to and I'm extremely envious of all the trinkets and furniture you must have.
Extremely.
But here are my few measly Eccentric Nerd™ credentials:
-Closet has a fair amount of 1930s-40s attire, as well as Victorian-era lace gloves.
- I've frightened not one, but three different people at the park because they thought I was a ghost due to my outfits (I suppose standing motionless in the woods didn't help)
-Regularly listens to old-timey radio recordings from the 1940s and 30s, as well as unsettling old Baptist sermon recordings
-Was once sternly but politely asked to leave an IHOP for talking about demonology too loudly
-Has collected antique skeleton keys, pocket watches, grotesque-looking stuffed rabbits (edit: er not actual rabbits though--the toy kind), old maps and rusty old machetes (they're neat, ok?)
-May or may not have dressed as Sexy Rasputin for halloween once (no, there are no photos unfortunately) and there was absinthe involved.
-Wears a ceramic Green Man-shaped vial of strange roots, snake vertebrae pieces and oils (because I'm a wizard you see)
-May or may not be currently in the early stages of planning a Victorian-era (or western? not sure) gothic horror D&D-type campaign
-...Cannot build anything, but I've successfully stolen some interesting things now and then from abandoned buildings. Doorknobs, crumbled statue bits, old radios, etc. Because I'm poor.
-Loves tedious minutiae
-Wrote Giles-centric Buffy the Vampire fanfiction in high school. (I also made a Giles tribute youtube music video using a Dead Can Dance song, which both earns me nerd points
and goth points.)
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-Childhood was spent making stop-motion movies, alone, with the family camcorder (using household objects and jester dolls, mostly). The movies resembled some extremely low-budget, very poorly thought-out Terry Gilliam film.
-Once injured self trying to climb a steep stone wall just to get a glimpse of an antique organ that was in somebody's open garage
-Gets overly emotional to Al Bowlly songs when drunk
-Is known among friends to recite the Bladerunner monologue in an extremely loud, deadpan voice whenever an overly-pushy suitor at the bar won't stop pestering.
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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy
Literary nerd checking in. As I am a gentleman who detests bloodshed (and as it is by bedtime), I will extend a hand of comradery and end this epic battle in the hope that together, Chiomara and I might serve as Victorian lord and lady to rule over all of nerdom.
Chiomara has described herself as an “avid music hoarder”... I can certainly align myself with that. And while I was never quite to her level of “unbearably pretentious goth”, I did spend many sweltering summers leather clad looking like a mime from hell, spinning WaxTrax!/TVT records well into the night. I hope that will suffice.
Her penchant for 80s synthpop would mesh well with my unabashed fandom of pre-Underworld Freur, (can you HANDLE Welsh synth pop?), and she can file her “snooty experimental ambient stuff” in my Great Hall of Ambient Music.
I’ll await the lady’s reply. (Don’t panic, everyone. I’ve brought my towel.)
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Very good! Uniting is the right thing to do-- you know, for the little people.
As we all know, looking like a melted mime from hell is just a rite of passage. I was usually a velvet-clad mime, though.
I am READY for Welsh synthpop! I'm currently very into French 80s synthpop. Have you ever listened to that sort of music slowed down 400% in Audacity? It's celestial.
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