Miss Helen’s Weird West Cabaret Update
Composition on the piece has started to take off. I’m on what would be on the 4th song, except i combined songs 2 and 3 and just called them the second song. I am finally pleased enough with the opening […]
A Pair of Sinfully Delicious Sacrilegious Songs
You have been warned. These are just not right. But they’re funny. And it’s just playful critique, really. Fun and silly. But there’s a tad of language going on, so you might not want to blast this at work. Or in […]
All The Sad Stories By Jessica Law
You like faerie folk murder ballads? Then why not check out this wonderful little EP by a burgeoning artist who i’m convinced has a dazzling artistic light that will shine gloriously throughout her long, radiant career. I’m also really into mandolin […]
Another Random, Unreleased Track
Cause why not? Back when we did the London Ovalhouse workshop of Dolls, i had to be in London for it for 2 weeks and needed a place to stay. Normally i would stay with Mark but he had just […]
Rewired, A Book by Matthew Broyles
Long time cohort Matthew Broyles, as known as an ingenious idea man, has written a sci fi book where on the edge of perception, mankind’s future balances between cold predictability and chaotic reinvention. Total Psychology: the exact science of opinion and […]
Z2, Dark Matters by The Devin Townsend Project
Ziltoid frikkin rules. I’m not usually a big metal guy, although occasionally some metal concept albums come along and just really, really do it for me. This is one of those albums. The epically grand, utterly batshit, balls out insanity […]
The Dragon Lady Trope
As the 20th century opened, a certain arm of western culture was up in arms about the threat that hordes of strange East Asians, unfathomable in their foreign otherness, posed to the western way of life, i.e. the Yellow Peril. […]
The 5 Most Influential Yellow Peril Characters
It is not our purpose here to list characters who are simply East Asian stereotypes. We are specifically listing several pop culture characters directly created by Yellow Peril era bias The socially awkward uber geek trope, the Tiger Mother, these are […]
What Is The Yellow Peril?
We are going to do a little exploration into the racist propaganda that is the Yellow Peril and examples thereof. In the upcoming Gothic Western Steampunk Cabaret there is an aspect of the racism of yellow peril era thinking that is subtly […]
Psalms for the Spiritually Dead, Sons Of Perdition
“I make songs that shouldn’t be heard”. -Zebulon Whatley In the Southern Gothic music genre, the band Sons Of Perdition are a high water mark of slow musical intensity. Evoking a desolate rural area where the choking weight of religion is standing […]