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Yesterday's Thing That Made Me Happy (7)

Yesterday, it snowed. And snowed. And snowed. And then it snowed some more.

I drank hot caramel cider with my mother, watched ridiculous romcoms, and wrapped Christmas gifts.

SNOW DAY.

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This is mostly aimed at my MCR-knowledgeable friends, but if you are interested in a) music, b) horror movies, or c) unashamed geekery, you'll probably want to take a look.


seanan_mcguire is close to release on her third album, called Red Roses and Dead Things. It's a themed album, and the theme? Is death, destruction, and maaaaadness. Mwahahahaha.

If I were stranded on a desert island, and I had to choose the work of two artists to listen to and love for the rest of my life, I would pick Seanan without a moment's hesitation. (If it came down between Seanan and the Hushies, I'd probably just kill myself then and there.) She's released two albums already, a live recording called Pretty Little Dead Girl and a studio album called Stars Fall Home, and I listen to them all. the. time. I know every word by heart. The individual numbers are hilarious, or haunting, or lovely, or powerful, or just plain kickass. Sometimes they're ALL FIVE.

Red Roses and Dead Things has the song that first made me love Seanan's lyrics on it (Some Girls), as well as fifteen other marvelous songs. Some of them are sad, some of them are HILARIOUSLY FUNNY, some of them are drop-dead creepy.

If I had the chance to give Gerard or any of his fellow geeky bandmates an album, it would be this one, just because Seanan is exactly their kind of geek.

I'm not, really. Horror isn't my thing at all. But unashamed, able-to-laugh-about-it, passionate geekery is, so I know I'm going to adore this album.

And the music is going to be beautiful, that much I can guarantee.

If you'd like to know more, check out her album page, or this review by her sound engineer.

You want to preorder this, I promise you do. I have four copies of the other albums, and I'm still paranoid that they will sell out and I will lose all my backups and have to cry in the street.