CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
Neons Gone Mad is honored to debut a song by Hollywood star Milla Jovovich, in collaboration with Swedish synthesist Glaciære. Our haunted grandfather clock and spirit radio make it a sextet. (Hear Neons Gone Mad on Bandcamp.)
We're honored to have received a triple-"cool" approval from Yeeflex on our remix!
Let us know -- did any stopped clocks begin ticking while you listened to this music? Did "time fly"? The song is just under 5 minutes long, but did you experience any sense of "timelessness" along the way? Whether or not you can verify a temporal anomaly, we had fun creating this video to share some time with you.
The original version of "Sunrise" (by Meizong & Yeeflex, via Argofox) is here: youtu.be/-GurRvqxg3I
Thank you, Jonathan Beckenstein, for writing, "A most welcome unique take on EDM. Feels and sounds great. And that hallway... Cocteau would be proud."
And thank you, George Parker, for writing, "I fell in love with the music!! I'm putting it on loop. The sound, the rhythm, superb. And the video as well as usual."
What happens when a spirit radio's strange clockwork music mingles with eldritch mutterings in the VIP room of Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia?
We're honored that VJ Bat (a.k.a. the electro-goth industrual pioneer Xorcist) debuted on his live Twitch show our clockwork remix of Michael Ash Sharbaugh's "Fog Rise Echo." To create his 8-bit light show overlay, VJ Bat has in the studio an Apple 2e computer with special hardware that listens to the room during the set and displays the waveform of the music on the side of the screen. In the dead center of the screen is a live feed from his Atari C-240 Color Light Organ decoding the audio signal. Surrounding that is his Radio Shack Color Computer II with a Music Kaleidoscope hardware cart also decoding the audio feed. Both the Atari and Radio Shack video feeds are combined by a Gefen video mixer. All 3 of these feeds are then sent to a separate computer that has a 4xHDMI PCIe input card and OBS where the APPLE 2e feed is layered. The whole mess is then sent to his VJ laptop, which streams as an NDI source while Bat performs.
Thanks to Michael Ash Sharbaugh, who said: "I am blessed, Gents! Thanks! It is soooooo great! You gentlemen have outdone yourselves: the video is spooky, comical at times, and well orchestrated and planned out. I am humbled, and appreciate it!" Here's the video of Neons Gone Mad's clockwork remix of "Fog Rise Echo":
5 stars. Another excellent offering from one of the giants of Magick & Mysticism writing in English today, Professor Oddfellow, brings us a humorous and yet wise and tempered practical guide to Sorcery both ancient and modern and fresh! As always, the Good Professor reaches back in time to make the Wisdom of the Ages accessible to modern readers in a way unique and yet as American as a Mark Twain short story. That isn't to say that an individual from anywhere else in the world wouldn't understand or like this fine book, but to say there is a breezy, almost casual style with which our Sage Professor takes complex ideas and practices and makes them easy for the layman or Neophyte to grasp. Professor Oddfellow has outlined here a neat system of Magick and Mystical thought that could stand alone, or be added to the accomplished Wizard's repertoire for a Greater understanding of The Hidden Mysteries of Life and also the complexities of the English Language, which the Good Professor uses with a graceful ease that soothes and awes the reader. So, whether you are a Neophyte, yet to enter the Ancient Halls of Knowledge, a seasoned Magi ready to add to your vast understanding of the intricacies of the Universe, or just a man amongst men (or woman among women, or just a person among people, as thou wilt) the book will thrill you with interesting excercises, wow you with new perspectives, and keep you coming back for more! So, three cheers for The Good Professor and his Book of Wizardry, Wonders, and Wise Words! —Holy Mountaineer
Delightful to see our The Young Wizard's Hexopedia in the mirror world, under the light of a fireball, courtesy of the Holy Mountaineer, who says: "In which the protagonist burns away certain impurities, including the hair on his right hand, in celebration of the Great Work of one Professor Oddfellow, famous Sorcerer, Electronic Musician, Expounder of Ancient Mysticism, and Wise Sage to the Lawless, Wild Interweb."
Fortune telling with invisible dice, and why everybody's goat looks better than mine: it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
We're honored that film critic Grumpy Andrew said: "So much to enjoy here. Hands down one of my favourite Penetralias. Two genuine laughs out loud (which I don't tend to do in real life, only on text, lol) - a song which spoke to me - and a fortune telling. A meal for the mind in five minutes!"
And Pilfering Apples wrote: "Thank you for introducing me to surely the most effective means of fortune-telling yet devised! As always , your approach to the mysteries of life is unequalled. Thank you also for the introduction to the finest of goat society! While I noted many familiar faces, there were even more delightful new acquaintances. Always a joy!"
In this One Odd Minute, not only do we show how we use an etheric transducer to recharge our fedora, but we also reveal our secret to looking amazing at 5,000+ years old.
