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With a sigh, I push these long black bangs out of my heavily lined eyes for a moment to wish you a merry gothsmas, and a dark wave new year. May the inescapable blackness of soul-destroying necropocalyptic doom bathe your heart in nihilism and agony, for the brief time that remains before we accept the sweet embrace of the cosmic gallows and exit this mortal coil. I shed an involuntary tear of holiday boredom in your general direction. Also: try the figgy pudding.

YouTube embed: "Christmas Mourning," by Type O Negative (thanks Melvillian!) (phone snap: Xeni.)

  • theLadyfingers

    Halloween is the new Christmas, the goths have won.

  • Felton / Moderator

    Have a Holly Melancholy Gothsmas! |^)

  • Anonymous

    I just peed.

    (From that. Not, like, a general urination. Laughter inspired my urine.)

    (It also be noted that this urine is metaphorical. Or, a hyperbole to illustrate how amusing I found this post.)

    Ta.

  • melvillain

    I’m listening to the best Gothsmas song of all time Type O Negative’s “Red Water (Christmas Mourning)” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PewKtLL9nJA

    • Xeni Jardin

      awesome! Added!

  • Anonymous

    Feeling dark? Just whip your hair back and forth.

  • DeWynken

    hmmppf. I posted this youtube to my FB yesterday.

  • JonStewartMill

    What is that, an angry pig? I’m stumped.

    • Gemma

      Yeah, what the hell is that photo of?

      • Xeni Jardin

        A crystal skull. DUH.

  • jjsaul

    What Gothmas could be complete without 4ad tunes?

    Cocteau Twins – Winter Wonderland:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vm9_mXmtKo

    Cocteau Twins – Frosty the Snowman:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e874vKfYfuU

    Here’s a holiday classic… William S. Burroghs “Junky’s Christmas”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U8YvnpB9IM

  • Napalm Dog

    I absolutely love you, Xeni. Please keep throwing that sense of humor about, please…

  • Anonymous

    Thank you. Type O and The Pogues should be the only Christmas music allowed.

  • Gemma

    Sure, but skull of what?

    • JonStewartMill

      Even knowing what it’s meant to be, I still have a lot of trouble seeing a skull. DUH indeed.

  • Anonymous

    And then there’s this…
    http://www.electricminstrel.com/mediafiles/brett_mccoy-a_variation-black_noel.mp3

    (Just another Goth Xmas single.)

  • Napalm Dog

    Anon, methinks you are forgetting Tom Waits…

  • Marius

    Xeni, you remain the high priestess of awesome. :)