The Ghost in the Machine.
It's really silly how at a certain age, you start to look at your mortality. It's completely b/c everyone else is looking at it and out of some weird collective consciousness you can't help but stare at it too. I'll get over it once I turn 40 and realize the Sandmen haven't taken me to the Sleepshop
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In Boston you never have to grow up. Most of the crowd at Ceremony and the other club nights are in their mid-thirties, and there's still a good chunk of the 40+ crowd who goes out mid week. DJ Chris Ewen still spins, even with Manray gone and he's in his fifties now and so isn't Terri the bartender. Besides the clubs, there's always some free thing going on. We also tend to go out during the week and stay in on the weekend to avoid the tourists/bridge and tunnel crowd. True, some people did get married and some have kids, but it's not the majority of the 40 somethings.
A few years ago you wrote something on the CorpGoth list about the scene vs. the subculture. Most of the old net.goth Boston crowd still identifies with the subculture while occassionally dipping their toes into the scene. I saved what you wrote in order to look back upon it when the kids start talking about how the scene doesn't cut it for them anymore and they're too grown up for endless night clubbing. This happens about every 5 years or so when people get burnt out on going out. I have to chuckle at them because going out never gets old for me, even at age 41. Damn kids can't keep up with me! I really liked what Jilli said on her Gothic Charm School video about goth being something that you grow into and I think that a lot of people here are examples of that.
I guess my rambling is to say that you should just move to Boston. Lot easier to travel to the UK and Europe from here!
I'm not going out tonight simply because I am saving extra money for C15! I went out Monday, Wednesday, and I'll probably go out tomorrow night and just deal with RedSox Nation if there's a game.
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