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Images Moving Through Time –
March 28, 2023 |
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
February 2, 2023 |
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Haunted Clockwork Music –
November 24, 2022 |
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As we sneak-peeked a few months ago, here's our haunted clockwork cover of Pain in the Yeahs' "Disappear Easy," rapped by the aetheric voices coming through our Tesla spirit radio.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan –
September 27, 2022 |
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unearths some literary gems.
[Note: Just to show it's making an effort, this book begins with a series of missing parakeets.]
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With each drag he sucks more life out of the office. By the end of his cigar he will have inhaled my desk, my chair, and my gold-leafed name on the door.
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The double exclamation points speak for themselves: they look like bulging eyes under astonished eyebrows.
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We base our opinions of present people on previous judgments of past people. So we’re always arriving at final judgments one person too late.
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Size without presence: the closer he gets to you, the smaller and lighter he becomes, so that seated a few feet away he appears virtually transparent.
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No one walks into a party without having a far better party going on inside his head. Every party is going to be that party until we get there. So the key to the boredom and tension at parties is that no one wants to be at the party he’s at, he wants to be at the party he’s missing.
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Moving forward as if he’s moving backward, he hands me the paper.
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He fits into his mood changes as if they are custom-made.
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Seventeen East 61st Street is a townhouse stolen out of Henry James.
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I rise like a phoenix out of my rabbit hole.
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We exchange stares in the darkness; it is like glaring in braille.
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Annabelle chatters on, increasingly hard to listen to, like being tuned in to two radio stations at the same time.
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For a month I managed to get up early enough to catch the book napping, got ninety pages done that way, but then the book caught on. Now, as early as I rise, the book is up before me, fighting me from the moment my eyes open. I haven’t been able to outfox it, so I am ignoring it. Thus I have resumed the diary, hoping it will make the book feel bad.
But now I am as self-conscious on the diary as I am on the book. I have to control myself from being literary, have to fake a relaxed tone. This entry is a second draft!
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“Why don’t you give yourself a deadline?”
“The journalist in me has asked that question; the novelist in me refuses to dignify it with an answer.”
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“We drank a toast in your honor with hot chocolate tonight”....
Hot chocolate? Is that an innocuous remark or a put-down?
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Tina points to a circling parakeet.
[This parakeet is fanciful, not real, and is an echo of the parakeets from hundreds of pages earlier in the book. Just to show us that the parrot theme hasn't been completely forgotten, I suppose. Toucans, pshaw!]
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Haunted Clockwork Music –
September 1, 2022 |
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Haunted Clockwork Music –
June 27, 2022 |
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Asked to create a haunted clockwork / Tesla spirit radio cover of the video game Dissidia Final Fantasy's song "God in Fire," we found that the lyrics that spoke to us were in the song's bridge section. We were left wondering, "How can we stay on that bridge longer?" and "Where could that bridge lead?" The Muse whispered that one bridge could lead to another, in a network like something out of M. C. Escher. So we went through scores of Final Fantasy songs, looking for bridges and middle-eights with lyrics that resonated, so as to construct a mega-mix (with the twist that it's a mega-mix of non-famous refrains, since bridge melodies differ from the stanzas and choruses). We collected a dozen favorite bridges, linked together like the disparate themes in the soundtrack of Disney's Spectromagic parade. Most of the songs were in Japanese, and the standard English translations weren't syllabified to the music, so we had to retranslate them. (Where we retain Japanese phrases, the meanings are made clear by the rest of the translated stanza.) The voices emerging through the Tesla spirit radio had some things to say about sonic bridges for our transitions between Final Fantasy snippets. We typically present our megamix videos set in a mysterious realm we call the VIP Room, so we took that approach with this track. "We went over one bridge after another, while below us the water sang on its way and above us the purple shadows of the hills stretched forever into distant blue skies" (Regina Jais, 1930).
Now this, this is beautiful. This is exactly what a true song is to me, one the makes you feel, remember, and takes you on a new journey, all at once. This went above and beyond anything I had thought of, and I absolutely love it. The creativity you are able to put in your tracks is always great, but this has swiftly become one of my favourites. I'll be listening to this one many times in the future.
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Haunted Clockwork Music –
June 6, 2022 |
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UPDATED: Thanks to Max Stark of Synthgrinder for saying, " Loved your video. Your work is highly polished, and quite tastefully bizarre and inventive."We're honored that Bristol's Bearcraft wanted to hear his song "We Don't Deserve to Die" via our Tesla spirit radio and haunted grandfather clock. Thanks to Vegas headliner Jeff McBride for saying, "T his work is among your very best. So haunting and beautiful!"
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
May 31, 2022 |
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
May 13, 2022 |
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Haunted Clockwork Music –
May 2, 2022 |
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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.
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Haunted Clockwork Music –
April 13, 2022 |
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The Tesla spirit radio picks up a mysterious signal from “Regions Beyond.”
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