#badkidproject

Candles, pentagram charms, Cleopatra eyeliner. Joanne Sharp looks like the kind of gal who would spot you a clove cigarette and then read your palm. In other words- perfect. "I was a 19 year-old in Hollywood with a really good fake ID going to Helter Skelter every Wednesday. Sometimes Sinamatic in Saturday and Kontrol Factory on Sunday, too. It's a wonder I ever made it to work. Good thing I started at 10:00am! I dressed pretty much Goth all the time, but only did the full eyeliner at night. My friends and I would do photo shoots in my (super-Goth!) apartment before we went out. I was into Sisters of Mercy, Ministry, Bauhaus, Virgin Prunes...all still on my iPod! Now I'm undercover as a super-respectable employee of CSU Summer Arts. In my mind I'm still dangerous to know, but in reality my husband and I have friends over for dinner & cheese & board games. It's a good life. 😊" Find out more about Helter Skelter, LA's longest running Goth nightclub, here: https://www.facebook.com/clubHelterSkelter/info?ref=page_internal And if you really love yourself, you'll read this hilariously dated 1991 article from the LA Times about Club Sin-A-Matic. Oh, how this bad kid would've loved it. "What to wear to Sin-a-matic? Cardigan sweaters and Laura Ashley prints . . . not!" http://articles.latimes.com/1991-10-20/news/vw-140_1_club-fetish

"Boy cut, boys shirt, zero makeup, backpack.... My god, no wonder everyone thought I was a lesbian." #androgynousgirls Samantha Fields is a painter and professor living in Los Angeles. She's provided the following retro-dossier. Music: Massive Attack, Johnny Cash, Hooverphonic, The Fugees. Magazines: The Utne Reader (NATCH), Story Quarterly, The Atlantic, and Harpers. Films: I was really into Cronenbergs (body horror) and Horror in general. There's a chapter in my thesis about Freddy Kreugers relationship to The Liminal. (yikes!) Clothing staples: vintage button downs from the thrift store, plaid pants, work boots, plastic purse. Look at some of Sam's beautiful work here: http://www.samanthafields.net

"The year was 1993 and I was too much of an optimist to really be Goth. That didn’t stop me from listening to Bela Lugosi’s Dead on repeat and pretending to be dark and angsty. This photo was taken by my best friend, Risa Hollingsworth on the grounds of the MCnay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas. All the bad kids would gather there late on Friday nights and make bad decisions together. Then we’d all go to Jim’s Coffee Shop to joke down Marlboro Reds and recite bad poetry over black coffee." *Reply from the Bad Kid Project- Late night gatherings on the grounds of art museums followed by bad poetry reading and Marlboro Reds are, let's be honest, pretty Goth. And this photo! Oh, how you LOVE that flower. Were you super into the Narcissus story at this point in your life? You looked like the kind of girl who read Dorian Gray and listened to a lot of Dead Can Dance. #inotherwordsiloveyou