Roll Call

[gwen]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Brian J. Parker
<brian.j.parker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:44 AM,  <jdecay at att.net> wrote:
>> With this list having the longest history of all the Pittsburgh Goth networking options, I'm curious who still is on here (or if it's just down to Manny, a handful of others, and me).
>
> The second most goth cred I ever had is when I booked the Cruxshadows
> to play in a store's attic on their first tour.  About a dozen people
> came.  I'm no Manny Theiner.

Does that mean my goth cred is being one of those dozen people?

Hi, I'm old. I used to be really prolific on this list, but not so
much now.  I still own the domain pghgoth.com, though it's been dead
for a while due to various factors involving time, hosting, and other
assorted problems related to getting old.  Right now I'm wearing brown
and green.  Mint green, even.  With spots of baby blue and salmon!  So
not goth!

However, I still do try to show up to shows occasionally (last goth
one I got to was Project Pitchfork in Philly; I do plan on going to
The Damned in a few weeks.)  Though, many of the shows I attend these
days are more diverse (best concert recently was The Decemberists,
actually!)  I do still wear a lot of black, though as stated above,
not as religiously.  I also still listen to goth/industrial podcasts:
Real Synthetic Audio and ReGen Magazine.  I even occasionally
privately DJ stuff (just helped with a wedding a couple weekends ago.)

But mostly I'm really really overly busy with my day job (Technical
Support Engineer for Ventyx, Inc downtown) and the two choirs I'm in
(ELPC Chancel Choir and Renaissance City Choir), and sometimes some
other projects on the side.  I also like doing stuff with Hack
Pittsburgh too.  Oh, and I'm trying to plan a wedding for myself for
next year.  So, if you don't see me around, you know why.

I am quite frequently found, especially during the day, on the IRC
channel.  Yes, we still have that IRC channel!  irc.pghgoth.com
#pghgoth of course!

-- 
Gwendolyn R. Schmidt