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The Clockwork Ball

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About Me


Attention Pilots of Airships and their Crews, Mad Scientists, Explorers of the Unknown, Admirers of Verbosity, Respecters of the Strange, Those Lost in the Throes of Opium or Absinthe, Teetotalers, Scallywags, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dandies, Fops, and Urchins...
THE CLOCKWORK BALL is a "Steampunk" event held on the bi-monthly in the Carrboro/Chapel Hill, NC area with those darling Davenport sisters, Emmett & Klaude . Along with a variety of musical guests, DJs, performers and vendors. They play the 'Music o' Gears' an anachronistic style of music that will make you long for the days gone by.
Our next event will be held on
Saturday July 26th, 2008.
Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport of THE CLOCKWORK CABARET
Music begins at 10pm
18+
$5
Appropriate Attire is Encouraged
THE STATION @ SOUTHERN RAIL
201-B East Main Street
Carrboro, NC 27510
http://www.sr-nc.com

My Interests

absinthe, art, balzac, baudelaire, beat poetry, body art, literature, burlesque, candles, cemeteries, chocolate, classical music, coffee, cooking, corsets, dancing, dj mephi, dj mouse, edward gorey, fantasy, fashion, film, forgotten sister productions, magic, movies, music, mythology, novels, painting, photography, piercings, steampunk, poetry, pvc, rimbaud, science fiction, tattoos, writing.

I'd like to meet:

Neo-Victorians, Aethernauts, Ghost Town Outlaws, Steampunks, Para-Chronic Adventurers, Zeppelin Pilots, Automatons, Goths, Alienists, Punks, Scientific Romantics, Silent Movie Fans, Gypsies, Anachrotechnicians, Bio-Clockwork Mutants, Mad Scientists, Dandy Highwaymen

Music:

Clockwork Cabaret, 1920's jazz, accordions, aether, alluring strange, alt country, americana, anachronism, antique jazz, apocalyptic folk, avant garde music, blackgrass, brass bands, brass instruments, british musichall, cabaret, calliopes, carnival music, carnivals, cellos, celtic, celtic punk, chamber pop, circus music, clockwork pop, club foot orchestra, creepabilly, dark folk, dark cabaret, dirge country, dixieland funeral marches, steel guitar, dragtime, ether-pirate drinking songs, ethereal, folk, gaslight ambient, ghost town country, goth, grotesque burlesgue, gypsy music, gypsy punk, harpischords, klezmer, mandolins, murder ballads, musical saws, musichall, mutant americana, neko case, neo-classical, new old world, new orleans funeral music, old new world, old romantic, organic goth, penny dreadful pop, post-modern vaudeville, post-rock, raw blues, rebel waltz, sea chanties, silent movie soundtracks, sinister circus, slowcore, space chanties, steampunk, street opera, stringed instruments, traditional music, vaudeville,victoriana, victrolas, vintage gospel, violin

Movies:

Around the World in Eighty Days, Sherlock Holmes, Call of Cthulhu, Nosferatu, City of Lost Children, Metropolis, A Trip to the Moon, The Great Race, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cabaret, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Brazil, Electric Edwardians, The Time Machine, Mary Poppins, Frankenstein, Murder on the Orient Express, The Prestige, Fairy Tale: A True Story, Terra Incognita, Mystery Train, Songcatcher, Brazil, Down By Law, Dead Man, The Proposition, The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, Ravenous, Stardust and silent films

Television:

The Amazing Screw-On Head, Carnivale, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr, Twilight Zone

Books:

20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Honeymoon in Space, Barnstormer of OZ, The Difference Engine, A Transatlatic Tunnel Hurrah!, Perdido Street Station, Herbert West Reanimator, Space 1889, Castle Falkenstein, Nomad of the Timestreams, Sherlock Holmes, War of the Worlds, Shape of Things to Come, The Bone Key, Frankenstein, Amelia Peabody Mysteries, Discworld, The Series of Unfortunate Events,

Heroes:

Tom Waits, Kurt Weil, Jules Verne, Charles Ives, HG Wells, HP Lovecraft, Gilbert and Sullivan, Nick Cave, Tiger Lillies, Rasputina, Vernian Process, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

My Blog

What is Steampunk?

Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used...
Posted by The Clockwork Ball on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:06:00 PST

The Music of the Gears - Towards a Steampunk Music

Why Steampunk Music?There seems to be no consensus on what steampunk music is or would be like if it did indeed exist. Steampunk has a much more developed fashion, aesthetic and literary sense than a ...
Posted by The Clockwork Ball on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:31:00 PST