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Yearbook Weirdness –
February 20, 2021 |
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You may have (correctly) surmised that castles in the air condense from evaporated moat water ( as we proved here). But they may also form out of the incensation of ritual offering bowls. From the University of Montana's 1908 yearbook.
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Haunted Clockwork Music –
February 19, 2021 |
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It's the cover version that left the band Vaylon utterly speechless: "Numb" by Neons Gone Mad:
A brief explanation of how we approached recording a cover of “Numb” by the Danish band Vaylon: we hear the line “As I walk along the shore” to be the key, because the songwriter is in a timeless moment as he reflects upon his past, his regrets, his addictions, his disgraces. His mind, as he walks, is outside of time — he’s in a sort of “eternity” of the soul. And that makes the shore, perhaps, like the River Styx, for the songwriter is at a threshold or liminal zone, trying to separate himself from the chains of the past. He is tied down by his habits, not really able to progress or to find a new freedom. He is so full of doubts bottled inside him that he can’t fully detach from his old life. And so we hear these lyrics as describing a state of existence described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, in which a soul finds himself in the in-between existence of “the Bardo.” Because the songwriter keeps trudging forward against the wind, we made the chorus #2 and chorus #3 more and more far-away, more and more ghostly, as if a fading signal on Tesla's spirit radio. The songwriter ever walks along the shore and finally leaves the listener behind. The listener inevitably loses the songwriter, but the songwriter surely finds eventually himself. We created the rhythm out of clockwork sounds, to symbolize the relentlessness of time. Even in limbo, the seconds click away for the songwriter with each step he takes down the shore.
In the music video we created for the cover version, two paranormal investigators are trying to tune into a frequency to make contact with that distant shoreline. By the end of the song, when the singer has finally drifted into the mysterious ethers, the investigators realize that Vaylon was never there (meant to be something of a joke, in that this wasn’t Vaylon’s original recording but rather a cover version; plus, some folks will recognize it as a quotation from the David Lynch film Fire Walk With Me, when David Bowie makes a cameo appearance but doesn’t show up on the security cameras because “he was never here.”)
We should note that we changed only two words, “being social” to “hollow seashells” … the seashells being a hint at the shore mentioned in the chorus, as well as literally being Tibetan horns (further tying into the Tibetan Book of the Dead). Don't miss the original track: vaylon.bandcamp.com/track/numb
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
January 5, 2021 |
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This very special video short is dedicated to those plastic grocery bags one sometimes sees floating in a ditch by the side of the road. Though it seems the ultimate in piteousness for lost spirits to find form in flimsy garbage that should otherwise have been recycled, who could begrudge them or for that matter our hermit crab brethren a bit of shelter for the night. Yes, this one goes out to the ghosts making do with a plastic bag tossed into a ditch. At least they're trying ... and you know what, guys? You look billowingly fabulous!
KlingonCaptain writes: "You bring a smile to my face, and that's saying something because I was raised conservative during the satanic panic of the 80s and 90s. The irony of that being that we were taught that all of this was real and needed to be avoided in order to prevent curses and demon possession. If only my mother had known that computers were the real danger."
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
December 28, 2020 |
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The real history of origami fortune tellers -- it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
Thanks to Bel the Blasphemer, who wrote: "I used to feel shattered over my reflectile dysfunction. Now, I am the proud captive of a hall of mirrors. Thank you, Fritz's Spritzes!"
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
December 21, 2020 |
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Thanks to Hugo R. who wrote, "The Penetralia videos are endlessly charming and give me hope for this world."
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
December 17, 2020 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
December 14, 2020 |
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George Parker writes: "Does being mesmerized by this video mean you hypnotized me? Or was my choice to surrender to your hypnotic dish of images and sounds a form of self-hypnotism? I choose the latter and am on my way to being certified!"
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
December 10, 2020 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
December 7, 2020 |
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Thanks to Jim G. who wrote, "All of the skits in Penetralia are especially unique with word definitions and terrific art sketches and original songs. No one anywhere else is doing anything even remotely close to it."
And George Parker said: "Oh, those laughtracks...is it peer pressure, or a magic spell, or a mirror neuron response, I can't help but start laughing. It could also be your ever charming personality of course."
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
December 1, 2020 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
November 27, 2020 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
November 20, 2020 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
November 18, 2020 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
November 16, 2020 |
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory –
November 11, 2020 |
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How to attain glory by tracing the devolution of a squiggle through the centuries. Yes, we landed the cover of Oxford University Press' On Essays.
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