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.
What does the musical The Sound of Music have to do with The Tibetan Book of the Dead? The latter says that when the eight objects of consciousness are naturally liberated, the sound of music will manifest. In the musical, Baron Von Trapp and his seven children constitute the eight objects of protagonist Maria's consciousness, and the hills were indeed alive with the sound of music as Maria found liberation from both her convent and the German occupation of Austria.
As we previously hinted, a sound designer from Denmark's video game developer IO Interactive requested a Neons Gone Mad cover of a song from PlayStation's Dissidia Final Fantasy, for an album of Square Enix video game franchise music. For fun, we anagrammed every phrase of the original lyrics so as to decode a second song hidden within.
Our cover version is by permission of Square Enix; Harry Fox license #1000000009493.
We're honored that the Australian band Neuropa commissioned us to "translate" their song "Father" through our Tesla spirit radio connected to a haunted grandfather clock.
We checked this, and it's true: instruction on the 5-string banjo will improve your tennis racket playing as well as harmonica and vocals. From South Georgia College's 1963 yearbook.