http://www.palace.net/~llama/psych/injury.html ('Self-injury: You are NOT the only one . . .') Goths, Suicidal Tendencies & Superstar DJs An eight year study of the sub-culture lifestyles of over a thousand young Brits published this week, has revealed that 47% of the Goths have attempted suicide and 53% practised self harm, making the youth fashion by far the most self-destructive sub-cultures. "Although only fairly small numbers of young people identify themselves as belonging to the Goth subculture, rates of self-harm and attempted suicide are very high among this group," said Glasgow University chief researcher Robert Young. "Young people with a tendency to self-harm are attracted to the Goth subculture," he added (bbc/ British Medical Journal). The much maligned movement first emerged in the early 80s and appealed to more than a few of dance culture's most interesting characters including Danny Howells, Sven Vath and Dave Clarke, who covered Bauhaus' seminal gothic anthem She's In Parties on his recent artist album Devil's Advocate. "I loved the way Bauhaus was Gothy-cool, not over Goth," Dave told Skrufff a couple of years ago, "I was very into that," he added. Ivan Smagghe also confessed to a passing interest in the genre when chatting to Skrufff about his 2004 compilation Death Disco, which prompted now deceased dance magazine Jockey Slut to brand his band Black Strobe 'electrogoths'. "My partner (Arnaud Robotini) in Black Strobe was a Goth, I was more into New Wave," the French star producer recalled, "Goth was quite funny, a bit silly at times and I reacted to all that by being different." Just last week Seb Fontaine admitted a sneaking admiration for the scene, telling UK mag One Week To Live 'sometimes when I see Goths hanging round Camden, I've got so much respect for them.' "And this is something I probably wouldn't have admitted to ten years ago, but just the fact that they are something . . . they are someone, I quite like that," he confessed. The suicide study also added that punk has a similar link with self-harm, though not as strong as for Goth. http://www.planarity.net (line/ dot game) http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/?page=balls (Ball bouncer game) http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-127.htm (Shoot alien spaceships game) http://www.vamp.org/Gothic/Text/makeup.html (Gothic make-up tips: 'After spending money on a decent base, take the trouble to apply it evenly. It's appalling how many Goths overlook something so basic and vital to their entire aesthetic. Equally bad and unfortunately as common is the tendency to overpowder and to end one's pallor at the jawbone. Such mistakes are just inexcusably stupid. Don't make them . . .' (Warning- Bit bossy!!!)) http://gothic.perfect-match.co.uk (Gothic dating, UK) http://www.begoths.com (Gothic dolls) Discredited DEA Ecstasy Doc Targeted By Animal Rights Activists Animal rights organisation PETA have singled out notorious ecstasy scientist George Ricaurte in their latest list of medical institutions killing animals cruelly, specifically over his terminally flawed experiments with ecstasy. "Money and animal lives were wasted in 2003 when Johns Hopkins experimenter George Ricaurte injected squirrel monkeys and baboons with what he thought was Ecstasy but turned out to be "speed," leading to horrible deaths for the primates," said PETA in a press release issued this week. "Despite this deadly mistake, Ricaurte continues to receive millions of dollars in public money for his drug abuse studies on primates." During his tests, two of the animals died quickly and all the surviving animals suffered 65% drops in dopamine levels, the Washington Post reported at the time, prompting Ricaurte to conclude that ecstasy users risked brain damage and Parkinson's Disease from just one night of using MDMA. His claims were widely circulated and euphorically endorsed by America's DEA, and directly influenced a debate in Congress on ecstasy, said the Post. "Johns Hopkins officials have turned an institution of higher learning into an animal Abu Ghraib," said PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. "These people are wasting lives and money and are badly in need of a refresher course in ethics and the humane treatment of animals." http://www.peta.org/feat/hopkins ('Please ask your members of Congress to call on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to do the following: Immediately and permanently end all federal funding for Ricaurte and those of his colleagues who were involved in this experiment . . .')