#music #Dark_Academia #Victorian #1800s
https://youtu.be/p9w2X-zIhW8

Quality is Quality:

Quality is quality! As you know I fix and maintain vintage clocks, its become a small business and hobby. Recently I baught a Waterybury 20s Office clock with a damaged face but was running and a non running clock of the same type with an intact face. Bored I pulled it apart, the seller had attempted to fix it before and used machine oil to lube the wheels (Gears and Cogs). Anyway, it was jammed soild.

The oil did not help nor did the spring being wound so tight it had become kinked. I had buy a replacement; big mistake! I housed the main sping, and fitted the workings back together and begain my tests. I wound the clock up, and ping!

The main spring snapped, and flew at me, slashing my arm open. I had to go to hospital and get a couple of stitches. In my time working with vintage clocks, short of doing something stupid a main spring shouldn't break, I've worked with forging from the 1800s, to mid to late 1900s. Then I read the package, made in india!

I love that something like this was painted in the 1800s. I know theres lots of dark art that isn't modern it's just always fun to find. So much for odd people being a new invention.

Last-minute concert plans. Messer Chups - they sound wild.

A surfer rock / rockabilly band from Russia, with a dark aesthetic. Opening for them is a similarly themed, instrumental horror surf rock band from Spain: Los Tiki Phantoms.

"Live, [Messer Chups] are simply beautiful: guitars drenched in reverb, snippets of horror movies and burlesque acts on the screen, bass and drums pumping a steady backbeat to their nocturnal emission…MC and their fans had their heads shrunk by late-night b-movies. Take any good old Dracula, throw in some Orgy of the Dead and Dance of the Damned, blend it with the surf beats of The Ventures and the like and you are not even close, but you are on your way. This is the sort of music you would expect to hear coming from a car abandoned in a graveyard at midnight during a real-life Twilight Zone."

Made even cooler by the venue being a former church built in the early 1800s, later converted into a concert venue in 1970.