Welcome.
Ah-ha! Looking to kill time eh...
Well, you've come to the right place. I'm Fael. I'll be your tour guide of the Gothic bc forum for the evening.
Each theme is divided into neat little sections. These sections look like rectangles. Temporarily I will refer to these rectangles as boxes.
Below us we have the Whatever box. Great for genuine enquiries and mindless jibber-jabber, but not quite suitable for yadda-yadda or anything too political, as they have their own boxes respectively. Try to keep the topic thread as vague and mysterious as possible such as "tap tap tap... Trixy?... tap tap" , or "I am not dead!". Other exceptionally vague ones include "Out in the dark" or the infamous "Sarah ???????" This will increase the clicks by every curious soul on here, thus rendering the dead time slightly more peripheral and breeding new internal dialogues as to the momentum of activity on Gothic.bc.ca. We are a collective subconscious here, and as such, any altruistic actions against boredom are appreciated. Maybe not by any direct means, but in the more romantic notions of a karmic semiosis.
Next we have the box of Polls. Use them at your leisure, keep the swinging down to a minimum and wear proper eye protection when using them for statistics on music related tastes, as many still seem to attach bands to their identities. Crippling said identities may or may not result in short term verbal tomato throwing, but rest assured, the water under the bridge is usually good to drink again within a day or two, lest we bathe with trolls.
...and thus concludes the polls.
Below we have the Clubbing box. A quaint little ditty, with all the nitty gritty. Information arranged in an aesthetically elegant fashion without harming any baby seals. A gorgeous selection of Vancouver City's erogenous hot spots, with doors wide open, four, sometimes five times a week and twice on Thursdays.
The Events box much like the Clubbing box lists points of time in humanity that will change parts of your world and the worlds of others, and will never be documented, due to it's implied frivolity. You may tell your childern of occurances that have shaped your social environment over the last x amount of years, and your children may even pass down a mythologised version, but Big Brother will remind you one way or another or the FRI-VOL-I-TY of your life. Learn the word. Learn to hate it. Keep a straight face, and lets party.
Ah, the Music box. Wind it up and let it scream. If you can sing...er, If you can talk, you are a musician. Hell, nowadays, if you paint on a metal canvas with a broom you're a musician. Talk about Brooms and the sounds you can potentially make with them here. Mention sampling it at least once for true legitimacy.
As we approach the visual arts box please do not try to adjust your monitors. The reception is great in hear, but sometimes the interpretations get a little confucious. Ahem. From artists fromerly known as prints, to real authentic blood art. We have it all at a price our competitors' can't beat! ('cause we have the clubs, hehe).
Literature Boxes. Good Rite. Reed. Cause you take about books and then they know. If I read it then you can. Understand. I hate thos peepol who say they reed but dont because they just want to take in the box and be cool and then when you ask them they are like I don't now well yor dumb 2 but they think just to be smart you have to read old books about Sycology well I think thats stoopid 2 because just because they say it all right so why should I read 2?
I don't know if I can go on. This is eating my life away. All this meaningless typing. Why! Why! Does this Drama Box really need to be here. Answer me! Am I all alone in this world of digital spiders, and vampire bytes. Am I the dirty laundry in this hamper of time waiting for godot to change his shorts to blanket me with his tender stench. Is not a discussion forum expected to not only elevate the mind, but also the soul! Why must such ponderances be shed in such passing mediums! Is nothing sacred anymore! Have we finally degenerated to parody, self reference, and cynical toilet humour! You are instructed not to take yourselves too seriously. Any attempt at generating meaning will be systematically destroyed and you will all laugh as your souls are being erased!!! Oh the humanity!!!
...ok I'm done.
Anyway miss(or mr) August, I hope you enjoyed the first part of my tour through the Gothic.bc.ca forums. unfortunately, your tour guide has just realised how easy it is to burn off an hour online on a saturday night, instead of his intial plans to breifly check his email and get drunk and wander around burnaby talking to himself in the thrid person. The Second half of the tour will have to commence sometime next week.
I'll be heading to the trunk of my car to grab a bottle of white, and then it's off to see the wizard.
I hope this at least killed some time...
*wiggle*