Protip: don't check up on what your favorite bands are doing for like 6 years. then you get new music!
in unrelated news SO MUCH NEW-TO-ME CHARMING DISASTER?!?!?! Darkened Room is a Girlboss anthem and Radium Girls made me cry a little and Blacksnake stays ON during sex
(also I performed in a Halloween haunted house at the mansion where they filmed the Blacksnake music video, back in 2015. as a child ghost. I haven't been back since, but I instantly recognized it)
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Charming Disaster - Paris Green
A song inspired by poisons, pigments, and painting.
Paris Green was a crystalline form of arsenic invented in the 19th century, widely used in rural areas as an insecticide and rodenticide (and the cause of many deaths by poison during that period due to its easy accessibility). The chemical compound also produced a brilliant green color that was used as a pigment in fabric dyes, paints, and wallpapers (all, it turned out, highly toxic). Paris Green's name evokes another pigment color related to poison: Prussian Blue, a compound produced when iron salts are added to a tissue sample containing cyanide in post-mortem examinations—which is also used as a paint pigment.
Recommending reading:
Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy: a book of photographs and text fragments, largely newspaper clippings, that together create a chilling account of life in rural Wisconsin the late 19th century: murder, suicide, arson, violence, religious mania, darkness, obsession, contagion. https://bookshop.org/p/books/wisconsin-death-trip-michael-lesy/10756193?ean=9780826321930
The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum: the thrilling history of forensic medicine in Prohibition-era New York City. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-poisoner-s-handbook-murder-and-the-birth-of-forensic-medicine-in-jazz-age-new-york-deborah-blum/16656190?ean=9780143118824
Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper and Arsenic in the Victorian Home by Lucinda Hawksley: a catalog of arsenic-dyed textiles and wallpapers, with accompanying accounts of madness and toxicity. https://www.lucindahawksley.com/books/bitten-by-witch-fever/
More recommended reading: https://bookshop.org/shop/charmingdisaster
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niche indie bands with narrative songs and concept albums and connections to gay horror podcasts my beloveds <3
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Roqiit’ punngi ikiitš’anitaapia aag.
Imanašutig araš.
Huruuiit ii’gatik ikiitš’anitaapia aag.
Ninututig araš.
There is a light without any heat.
It shines just for me.
There is a night without any moon.
It comes just for you
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Why did no one ever tell me how amazing the music of Charming Disaster is. Listening is not enough. I need to Eat It.
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I got one new person into Charming Disaster with my fall down the rabbit hole today
The plan proceeds apace- I mean..yay, fun!
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Lyric credits to Charming Disaster
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a while ago (November 7) it was Marie Sklodowska-Curie's birthday. I was celebrating by listening to Charming Disaster's Our Lady of Radium (like five times in a row), thinking about science, and drawing smth about alchemy
lyrics are from Eat Drink Sleep by Charming Disaster (which is awesomely heartbreaking)
a character from my own story who could... relate. living in a fantasy setting gives her some privileges, like after a couple of years, dozens of difficult magical decisions and about a hundred horrifying sacrifices she'll happen to meet her beloved colleague again. so she is more lucky. but I'm really really bad at drawing real people and I guess if you are inspired it can be counted too.
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We can talk about lyric-writing all day but I don’t think anything will ever beat “Don’t talk to me of ‘death do us part’ / between us we share one beating heart”
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