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* ''Low Art Gloominati'' is a reference to ''Illuminati'', a Bavarian Enlightenment-era secret society. | * ''Low Art Gloominati'' is a reference to ''Illuminati'', a Bavarian Enlightenment-era secret society. | ||
* ''Scabaret Sacrilegeds'' is a crasis of ''cabaret legends'' with ''scab'' and ''sacrilegious''. | * ''Scabaret Sacrilegeds'' is a crasis of ''cabaret legends'' with ''scab'' and ''sacrilegious''. | ||
| − | * ''Van Goh'' is a | + | * ''Van Goh'' is a mispelling of ''Vincent Willem van Gogh'', a Dutch painter well know for having cut off part of his left ear. |
| − | + | * ''Open your third nostril'' refers to a dispregiative term for the communists created by Giovannino Guareschi, an Italian writer. The third nostril would be needed to expell cerebral matter to make room for party directives. | |
| − | * ''Open your third nostril'' refers to a dispregiative term for the communists created by Giovannino Guareschi, an Italian writer. The third nostril would be needed to | + | |
* ''Blackface'' is a style of theatrical makeup, used to take on the appearance of certain archetypes of American racism. | * ''Blackface'' is a style of theatrical makeup, used to take on the appearance of certain archetypes of American racism. | ||
* "The song “The Golden Age of Grotesque” for example was written in pretty much 12 hours and performed and recorded. This was the one with the burning piano in mind. I just wanted to lay out my sack of notebooks - there were about 20 of them - and I had been writing down phrases that come from wherever I can find them. I spread them out and I started singing. It has such and odd phrasing and cadence, like after the chorus, I hit this high note on the word “Gloominati.” I was creating words that didn’t exist, but it seemed like the way I could paint this picture. Sometimes you have to mix colours." <ref>MM - [[Interview:2003/07 Outburn|Outburn Interview]]</ref> | * "The song “The Golden Age of Grotesque” for example was written in pretty much 12 hours and performed and recorded. This was the one with the burning piano in mind. I just wanted to lay out my sack of notebooks - there were about 20 of them - and I had been writing down phrases that come from wherever I can find them. I spread them out and I started singing. It has such and odd phrasing and cadence, like after the chorus, I hit this high note on the word “Gloominati.” I was creating words that didn’t exist, but it seemed like the way I could paint this picture. Sometimes you have to mix colours." <ref>MM - [[Interview:2003/07 Outburn|Outburn Interview]]</ref> | ||
