Ho hum

[pandaemonaeum]

Haven't updated in a few days - I've been soooo busy!

I finally tackled the expanding mess in the living room. It is currently *just* under control, but about to get bad as I have had a wholesale order for corsets for Dances with Unicorns. As I only have 3 other items on the books at the moment it couldn't have come at a better time!

I've made some stuff for ebay - a cyber-y fleece top, a decorated top hat, a purple PVC mermaid skirt and matching cut-out top, but have not had time to photograph them yet. The pinstripe stuff has been shelved until next week when I can get my metal d-rings etc.

My brother is sick today so I am a bit worried. I think I am just pushing aside the fact that I'm a bit poorly to worry about him :/ because I don't have time to be sick. I lay about sick for two days and now I am desperately scrambling to catch up :/

Still, I have a pile of leather look PVC (at last!), black satin, metallic blue PVC re-stocked, and some nice green and black stretchy brocade for soft corset tops. My interpretation of the Lip Service 'Dark Legacy' dress (in bigger sizes) is looking good, so I just need to get some suitable fabric. They've used shadow striped cotton gauze, I might just use plain cotton or satin. I have a bale of pale blue tafetta needs using up so I will probably make the sample in that with dark blue lace.

And Meltdown have kicked off on the Internet about TWF :o. Jeez, are their knickers in a bunch. Apparently we 'ripped them off'. Errrr, no. Kev had seen about 2 issues and Lars didn't see one until AFTER he did the layout. We have significant differences, starting with the cover, i.e. we used a landmark, they use a person. Our cover is more like 'Bite Me' than anything else, a fact which caused me to panic utterly as I know Bite Me's editor. Contents page, text with embedded pictures, fairly standard. Meltdown has an editorial on this page. We have a separate 1 page humourous rant editorial. The news pages are little 'soundbites' placed sort of irregularly (I'm sure there is a proper term for this but I'm the fashion editor dammit) which several publications use. We have a letters page, like everyone else, a 'fake' problems page, etc. Meltdown's interviews are usually 1 - 2 pages, we average 3 - 4 pages. Meltdown use one big picture of the band, we use several small ones dotted about. There are 4 pages of fashion, done in a standard magazine format, then 3 pages of hair and beauty, in a format Meltdown hasn't used to the best of my knowledge and I have issues back to #3. We don't have anything resembling their product reviews or 'Pandora's Diary' (which was in fact my favourite bit of Meltdown and they dropped it). Yeah, we're more expensive (£3.95) BUT we have a smaller print run by a large amount (100 copies FFS) and we gave away a large amount of the advertising in an effort to fill the ad space.

I can't see why they being so fucking nasty, considering they are kaput anyway, but never mind.

Oh, and as the thread on Slashgoth got shut down so fast my head spun, I didn't get to answer the 'laser printed rubbish' comment by the fragrant G Christiaan (sic). We're industrial Xeroxed assmunch :p. Get your facts straight before lodging your tongue up Meltdown's arse.

As to Slashgoth, we re-submitted the story about being available in Travelling Man, and it has still not appeared. Niiiice. Seems we are to blame for Natasha's tantrum. :?

Now I have had my little bitch, I think I will go and have some lunch. A saucer of milk perhaps :)

Marie

Comments

[bexylu.livejournal.com]

I just can't believe how quick that thread got pulled down - Marc told me about it, I went to look and where was it?????

Well, for the record, I think that it sucks that there's so much in fighting, and I KNOW that you must be really hacked off because this kind of Sh*t get to me every time. Needless to say you have my full and utter support!!

[shadowdance.livejournal.com]

Couldn't have said it better myself!
Am really hacked off with Meltdown at the moment, as have a subscription with them, but now, obviously, they've went tits up and have failed to contact me with info. I had to get the information from people on my L.J who read The official L.J of the editor FFS! Not good.
I'd really really like to help out in some way with TWF in any way i can really - modelling (can you tell i'm a posey bugger yet? ;p),promoting, whatever really.

[czol.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well she is on my friends list & I only found out from the current (& last) issue of Meltdown. My fiance was flicking through & said "Says here this is the last issue." "Eh? WTF!?". I don't like the idea of an online TV programme - there's stuff you can't put in there that you can have in a magazine.

[shadowdance.livejournal.com]

Have to agree. There's something quite nice about being able to read a copy of the magazine in the bath, or on the bus, or something, and i can't help feel that meltdown only lasted as long as it did in paper format because it was one of the only magazines widely available of its type (that i know of, anyhoo) and because people were bored of stuff like NME,Metal Hammer and the like, and also women's magazines being a bloody joke.

[bexylu.livejournal.com]

I've added you to my friends - hope that's okay!

[shadowdance.livejournal.com]

That's fine, yes.
*waves hello* :-)

[czol.livejournal.com]

I know! And you can't keep a TV show on a shelf & take it down for reference, like I can now. And what about the posters? For years my room was covered in Marilyn Manson posters, because that was one of the few bands I liked that I could get posters of! And how are you gonna do the fashion/shopping pages in a TV show? Well, you can, but it'd look very QVC-ish: "And here we have a Manic Panic lipstick!"

[bexylu.livejournal.com]

There's a post on the new LJ group gothicnorth all about TWF, if that cheers you up any!

[misskitten.livejournal.com]

Hey sweetie :) Havent heard from you in a while.. Hope you are Ok and had a good time at WGW :D

Have you heard anything from Royal Mail about my mannequin head as yet? Still nowt has arrived :( Sorry to be a pain and ask on your LJ, but I didnt know how else to contact you.

x-x-x-x-x

Mannequin head

[pandaemonaeum.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reminder! I've heard nowt :( I will get Bryan to go up into the loft and have a scout to see if I have another. If not, we'll send you back your money as it's still sitting in my Paypal account :)

Sorry to keep you waiting, it slipped my mind in the chaos!!

Marie

Re: Mannequin head

[misskitten.livejournal.com]

Not a problem :) I know how busy you have been so I don't mind. Also I know how crappy Royal Mail are >:(

If you have another that would be brilliant otherwise a refund would be great :D

Thanks hun! Do you mind if I keep you on my friends list?

Re: Mannequin head

[pandaemonaeum.livejournal.com]

I don't mind at all, I'll add you back :)

[chaos-vs-order.livejournal.com]

Hullo! I only found out about Meltdown's demise at goth weekend from a Kaleidoscope seller! I agree, having a magazine to hand is so much nicer to browse through. I probably won't be able to see the 'TV' show, so I'm up the creek so to speak. My boyfriend and I had a subscription each and we had no notification either!

So then, where do I sign for my subscription to TWF? ;)

[pandaemonaeum.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell I seem to have hit a raw nerve!

Thanks for the support guys, it's nice to know not everyone thinks we are a Meltdown rip-off. I'm shocked to hear that subscribers are being left in the dark and not getting their money back - maybe Natasha should spend less time following Kev around the Net, flaming him and more time putting her own house in order :p

If anyone is interested in laying their paws on a copy and doesn't have a branch of 'Travelling Man'(the comic shop) in their town, you can get them off the website

http://www.cynicalmatrix.com/twf

Kev even takes Paypal, what a star :)

There's a bit more info about what we're about etc there. Basically we're doing a goth lifestyle mag, the writing/ editing team are all goths so it's a bit more 'goth' slanted. There will be a large amount on the music, I get about 7 - 10 pages for fashion, and we're adding some actual journalism from issue 2, with a special on self-harming (if anyone wants to contribute contact myself or Kev). My policy on the fashion goes : after issue 2's male fashion special, we will ALWAYS have male and 'plus size' fashion alongside the standard fare. Oh, and small businesses get priority, so I've been picking up cards from first timers at Whitby etc so that it's not just Omen and Dark Angel on the fashion pages. As you can tell, we're pretty serious about this and the intention was NEVER to be like Meltdown.

But feel free to pick up a copy and see for yourself ;)

Bexylu, thanks for that community, I will be signing up!

Marie

[toxi-0.livejournal.com]

Well i've already commented on all this in my LiveJournal..and its sad that Natasha is being so petty..but hey, to be honest, Meltdown was too 'London' based anyway..Here's to TWF!

[kev36663.livejournal.com]

Cheers for all the support everybody (I'm Kev from TWF!)