Reading harold_maude's journal

I'm fumbling through stuff again. This latest sorting process has to do with making jewerly of all things.
About 2 weeks ago I got an idea, to make goth type jewerly and see if I could sell it.
I started searching and there are some aspects to the goth arena that I have an afinity for but other parts of that don't interest me at all.

This isn't my first introduction to the world of goth, that happened a few years back. My research into the history of goth and what exactly goth is took me back to the beatnicks of the 1950' and the coffee house bohemian life style addopted by a generation of artist individuals that were outside the norms of society.
Goth showed up somewhere out of that and durring the first generation of goth it was it's own voice, own choices and the collective of goth chose the black of the beatnicks as their statement in clothes choices to show the world who they were, just like the hippies of the 1960's did.

In my search I began to see that what exists today is a huge culture underground. What was once a burgoning social statement has become little more than a diverse large society with everything from the darkest of our nature symbolized in fashion, to the ideals that existed in the first place.

And there are as many different styles to goth as there are main stream.
I've come to think that anyone can wear something black and say they are goth.

It's all theatreical in manner and dress now. I don't see any type of social change venu with what it's become.

I don't know if what I am observing is right or not, but it's how it strikes me.

I thought about making jewerly with lots of metal and safty pins but then I thought when ever I have tried to do something trendy like goth is, it fails and sucks sencerely. When I just let go and play and do, then it works out fine.

So I don't know if I'm doing goth jewerly now or just off in lala land jewerly, but I'm going to have a good time doing it.
That's the conclusion I have come to.