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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
March 12, 2021 |
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It's an awful thing to know not where you are: Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
Thanks to Bel the Blasphemer, who wrote: "Your content continues to be uncannily relatable. Thank you for the comforting non-place to reside."
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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 –
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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This May Surprise You –
November 6, 2020 |
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George Parker wrote: "Finally a DJ who understands true fusion through time, space and musical notes. Thank you!"
IndyScott wrote: "Making the macabre a happy thing."
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This May Surprise You –
October 31, 2020 |
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We drove 90 minutes to a ruined cemetery, inspired by this passage from the fantastic play The Tenth Man by Paddy Chayefsky. When we passed a hearse and drove behind a truck branded with the word “BEYOND,” we knew we were on the right road.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
October 17, 2020 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
September 21, 2020 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
September 11, 2020 |
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory –
June 17, 2020 |
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This May Surprise You –
May 5, 2020 |
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We restored a grandfather clock that possesses a ghostly feature. Thanks to Grumpy Andrew, of Grumpy Andrew's House of Horror, who said, " Wonderful! Oh that was a balm for my soul." Meanwhile, to whatever pathetic soul thumbed-down our video, we'd ask to see what grand illusion you built from scratch this week, but —oh, that's right! — you didn't. But you made us feel even more fabulous, so — lest we disappoint you — the thumbs-down didn't discourage at all but rather set us apart from you! Thanks for social-distancing! We feel safer now.
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This May Surprise You –
April 28, 2020 |
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"The way you can tell a fine pendulum is by the reflections of the lights. Do you see the lights? And do you see the colors? All the colors of the spectrum. Can you see the center? The exact center—do you see it? Keep trying. Look at the colors. See how they move. Watch them—they’re brilliant colors. They flash by. Try to find the center. Can you hear anything? The chiming of the hours?"
Yes, the mesmeric words are based on Dr. Julia Hoffman's hypnotic technique in Dark Shadows. We're looking the other way so as not to hypnotize ourselves.
The pendulum, with its reflective sphere in the middle, is from a haunted grandfather clock we are restoring.
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