music and tales
Here is something awesome. From Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls) and Jason Webley, Evelyn Evelyn is a conjoined twin duo (actually Palmer and Webley) who sing really cool, slightly bizarre, and utterly awesome songs. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pixkuUL9LgU] That song kicks ass. So here […]
Ask me what book i’m reading. Go ahead. Ask. Hard Times: The Adult Musical in 1970s New York City by Elizabeth Wollman, as if the title of this post wasn’t a dead give away. It is awesome and you should […]
Superman has always been dieselpunk. He may not seem like it now, but in the beginning he was probably one of the mot dieselpunk things you could think up. He was, after all, created in 1938 and became an instant […]
I was asked awhile ago to some time feature some work of mine that really goes back. Something early. Now, if we go back too early we arrive at utterly unlistenable. This is a project from some years ago, back […]
This is what is known in colloquial terms as awesome. Granny O’Grimm tells her version of Sleeping Beauty.
North of Los Angeles, in the mountains of Sierra Pelona, is an area called Acton. Acton was founded by gold miners during the gold rush of the 1800s and has a wild, rustic southwest feel. On his 1.6 acre property […]
We have explored at length Victorian era spiritualities such as Spiritualism, Theosophy, The Golden Dawn amongst others, but we have yet to touch upon interesting versions from the Dieslepunk era of the 1920s through the 1940s. We begin to correct […]
Here’s a wonderful little piece of animation dealing with a day in a pub in north London the woman running it. It’s really well done and well worth taking a few minutes of your day to enjoy. It’s made by 59 Productions. For more […]
As of last night, the entire Dieselpunk Opera has been (theoretcially) composed/recorded from first note to last. Yay! I still have days of corrections, small additions and clean up work to do. There’s stuff back in Act 2 that has […]
A little bit ago we did a post on the wonderful YouTube Feminist Frequency and the hell it’s founder Anita Sarkeesian went through when she announced she wanted to do a series on female tropes in video games. You can […]