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You have to be willing to throw it all away for a Bauhaus reference.

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White on white translucent black capes. . .

The bats have left the bell-tower, the victims have been bled bled bled...

Red velvet lines the black box

BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD

UNEAD UNDEAD UNDEAD

This strip is amazing because the alt-text is a reference to a comment, made on Assetbar, previously in this story arc.

psst

that is not the way that causality works

I am sorry
This causality, it is new to me
I fucking suck

Great strip. Such motion.

[IMGS OFF]
Gothic Dance! Gothic Dance!
Every-body, Gothic Dance!

I am awestruck and mesmerized. If you animated this, you deserve chubbies^23. If not, then chubby for bringing to our attention.

I am afraid I cannot claim this as my handiwork and I fear its creator may be lost to the ages. But dear god if it isn't awesome.

The.. the belly! It sways so hypnotically!

Be lucky it's only the belly you're riveted to.
I'm stuck just below it. It's been playing now for 20 minutes.

One must stare in amazement at the gyrating skull thong.

Amazement

The very best Achewood.

There's a link right on the main page of Achewood, under "Dork Resources."

He is a famous horror actor from the first half of the 20th century best known for playing Dracula on stage and in the most famous black and white versionof the film.

Haha, "Up yours, Pascal."

Up yours, Fortran.

Up yours, Tcl/Tk.

Up yours, LOGO. The turtle just sits there and he is totally glarin' at me.

Up yours, BASIC!

Dude was just trying to understand the strip at a deeper level. Far be it from us to shame him about that.

well yes, but his language about it could've been a bit more subdued. Also, Lugosi defined the modern Dracula. (erasing Shrek's more awesome Nosferatu in the process, sadly) Anyway, Wikipedia is just a click away. I'm not even from america, and I get most of the achewood humor.

zefiel - sorry for the grammar nazi tone, but you gotta be careful with that name: it's Max Schrek, with the "c". Thinking that anything having to do with "Shrek" is awesome is just sacreligious.

(Schreck)

Awww fuck. See, this is why we work as a community (and why I normally don't correct spelling).

Trivia Time! Shreck is German for fight or terror and is indeed his given name.

God-- for fright not Fight.

Man now I gotta imagine his parents all grooming him to grow up and become an incarnation of Dracula, all putting tons of make-up on him before he goes sliding off to kindergarten, all telling him that daytime is nighttime so he doesn't get too confused when all that silent film makers can shoot in is daylight.

Nope, it's still spelled "Schreck".

Huh. Yeah. I was a little confused. I thought there was some deeper meaning in a Scottish green ogre that I missed.

I'm still waiting for the Shrek vampire movie. Man that would be awesome.

Ahhh, Count Orlok was a different type of vampire than Dracula. Orlok was a nosferatu race and Dracula is probably a Ventrue. Different people broham!

The reason why Count Orlok was different than Dracula was because Bram Stoker's widow, I believe, was going to sue Murnau if he tried to make his vampire movie based too closely on the book. Anything else is just silly.

It was probably a different set of people each time -- the people who lamed your comment would probably neither chubby nor lame jamers', and the people who chubbied his would probably neither chubby nor lame yours.

Cause you're being kind of a dick, while Jamers was being a proper chap.

Anyway, it's your responses that deserve the lames, not the first enquiry.

i suppose you're right.
my bad guys.

...and you'd have to reload anyway, to see the replies...

And also wait however long, probably at least a day, until someone did reply. Soooo...

The real issue is, they only told you half the story. The joke here is that Ray's crotch is playing "Bela Lugosi's Dead," a song by early goth band Bauhaus. Now you know.

Who's Bauhaus?

(Just Kidding!) :>

Seriously, I'm old enough to remember them the first time around!

To not know is fine. To ask a bunch of hateful nerds (like me) instead of just googling it is a dangerous game, fraught with peril. And yes, it is lame. I realize that saint may be from, like, Tajikistan, or some place where there's no sunlight, grass or women, let alone a video store. But home boy's got the internets, so asking was just lazy and wrong and he deserves the worst we can give. On the other hand, it should be noted that I didn't lame him. Tajikistanis got enough problems without my low opinions added, you know? He's probably got a truck full of opium and preteen brides-to-be to get across the Afghani border before supper time, so, you know, he's got other things on his mind.

you made me laugh, in spite of myself.
HOWEVER, first, I want you to read the post just one above yours. Next, I want you to read the post two before that. Thank you.

And, for the record, they are ALL over the age of 13. Sicko.

The joke here is that the Bauhaus song plays. Look up Bauhaus for more deeper meanings for this strip.

I really enjoyed this strip, it sums up Achewood humor for me so well. I'm really surprised it hasn't been rated higher.

Goooottthhhiiiiccc Daaaaaannnncce

i think you can get those at spencer gifts now

You had better not be lying. God DAMN you you had better not.

I would've thought that Hot Topic would have picked up on it first.

That would finally convince me to buy something at Spencer Gifts or Hot Topic. And oh, buy it I would.

somethings wrong here: my crotch-skull only plays "Panama"

SO not goth!

oh man... crotch-skull...

I smell a marketing opportunity

dude don't be smelling crotch skulls that is hell of raunchy

I really hope at some point, the store sells those skull things. I want to prance around telling people with my crotch that Legosi, is indeed dead.

This strip led me to buy Bela Lugosi's Dead off of iTunes.

I confess, I like it in an extremely unironic way. Does that make me uncool?

not at all, man

I like it too. I have liked it since the first time I heard, as a young man of 18. This was in 2002.

Ray is hell of enjoying the Gothic Dance.

He should be changing more lightbulbs.

while the crotch skull is the loveliest of assets in this particular strip, i am quite partial to the three-dimensional skull glasses ray has.

Do you think the skull fits on to ray's exiting thong? Or is that an entirely diffferent thong?

I like to think of it as sort of a "thong peripheral".

Abe Vigoda is also dead

Nuh-uh. I have an "Abe Vigoda Status Indicator" facebook app, and his smiling face is right there like always.

80s goth rock, yes.
Bad, no.

yeah I hell of like to listen to that Bauhaus song

http://www.antigravitypress.com/gothic.htm

Animated with sound.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

BRILLIANT

Do you reckon it plays the full thing? Also, how come Ray hasn't marketed these musical thongs yet?

Y'know, for anyone with much sack, Halloween isn't far off... The Goth Bootsy Collins look could be an outrageous party hit :)

That is spectacular. If I were to do something like that I would also wear cat ears, to be myself as Ray as such.

I just noticed that the king chochacho has been replaced by an ankh.

Super sack close up!

You can guarantee that skull is made from that cream-coloured plastic, that glows green in the dark...

I want a skull codpiece that plays Bauhaus!

Weekend Blogs (Saturday - Monday)

-Ray-
Sex in the City DVDs
Ray's Sex In The City Night With The Ladies

-Roast Beef-
I saw a weird thing

-Pat-
What a bust

-Teodor-
Dinner tonight...

-Philippe-
My new job!

-Mr. Bear-
The 12-hour Shift.
That Lauren Graham.

-Lyle-
Man whatta fuck

-Molly-
I am so mad at Gramma K
Roast Beef is barbecuing!

-Onstad-
What I ate on Saturday
Sat/Sun updates
I had a nice lunch on Monday.
monday dinner etc

Today's Blogs

-Ray-
The Dude.
What a nice afternoon.
That douche.

-Roast Beef-
man do I feel stupid

-Pat-
Hellish Creatures
DMV.

-Teodor-
INXS

-Philippe-
Good morning!
Teodor brought me a hamburger!

-Mr. Bear-
Le Danse Macabre

-Lyle-
damn late for work

-Molly-
Meta-hair Day
Everybody do the Morrissey Dance!

-Onstad-
Tuesday.

Quote:

"...when your frontman goes, the rest of the band is essentially hosed."

It seems like Teodor would mention something about Joy Division, here. As I see it, New Order are the only exception to the above stated rule, in that they became even better after the loss of Ian Curtis. It seems like Teodor would agree with that.

This is true basically because Bernard Sumner didn't dance.

Genesis may also be an example. You either love them before Gabriel left, or after, but few like both. Any rate, Collins gave them more commercial success, which doesn't mean pifle.

I used to live next door to Mike Rutherford! He was a nice man, who recycled.

I still can't believe you haven't been lamed for this. I'm not saying you should be, mind, you have a right to your opinion, but the idea that New Order is better than Joy Division is not popular. (It is also not an idea I agree with.)

I like Joy Division a little. But I like dancing a lot. Dancing to Joy Division, while possible, feels really wrong.

This is not to imply that I judge all music on it's danceability. But if I'm choosing between just these two bands my choice will be the same every time.

So YOU'RE the one who invented that!

why is this not rated a 5

No, nobody vote on this strip ever again, because as of right now, as I'm looking at this, it reads

Votes: 666

No kidding.

god dammit WHO VOTED

I'm dead! I'm dead! I'm dead!

Guess which song came on right as this arc started.

*LE SIGH* it always makes me happy when people make Bauhaus references, because I am having a hard time meeting people who even know who they are, even though I live in basically the coolest city on the planet

I had my first experience with absinthe not three days ago. Just swigged from a tiny bottle, not poured onto a cube of sugar on a spoon or however is traditional. For being 160 proof, it had a surprising lack of kick, and the only hallucinogenic effects that I experienced were a slight jumpiness from loud noises for the next hour or so.

Not really a defining experience in my life, I must say. Hopefully acid will be more enlightening.

Absinthe is all about the ritual and the bloom and the gothic dancing. Thujone does exactly squat, and most of the Czech mouthwash being purveyed as absinthe doesn't have it anyway. If you're gonna swig it from a bottle, you might as well just have a nice glass of wine accompanying some sort of sage-based dish (sage containing much more thujone than wormwood).