The woman in “Hotel Cecil” may also be trying to bust out of a tomb, but in a chorus catchier than Omicron Libby informs us “there’s no goddamn way she could ever lift that door herself.” You’ll have plenty of time to ponder that mystery as this ear worm slowly eats your brain. I know what “Buried Alive” is about (it’s self-explanatory), but how a song with such a dark subject can be, alternately, so dreamy, jaunty, and soaring is beyond me. Winter draws from a very deep bag: rock, jazz, classical, lounge, Broadway, Hollywood, saloon music, pop. Markovian Parallax Denigrate-The Internets Oldest Mystery Hey There, Make of this, what you will This is a deviation from the technical articles, I usually. Even though guitar maestro Doug Porter (Covered in Bees, Confusatron) is in this band (along with bassist David Joy, late of Sunrunner, and drummer Adam Cogswell, also of the ’tron), Winter’s playing defines these songs, and vies solely with Libby, who sounds like David Bowie’s lower register on a bender, for sonic dominance. We can blame Erik Winter (formerly of The Horror), the mad genius at the keyboard. Hell, Portland indie-pop queen Renée Coolbrith sings on this thing! There’s cello and violin on these recordings, courtesy of Devon Coletta and Sarah Mueller, respectively. Yet it’s chock full of hooks filthy with ’em, actually. It’s a dark, brooding, in places downright disturbing collection of four strangely beautiful songs, the first of three installments in Cremains’ new project, Tragic At Best (the next two are expected later this year). Of course, no pop station would dare to play Buried Alive. The meaning is obscure, but the hook is tremendous, as catchy as anything blasting on Portland’s “hit” radio station these days. Insurgence is grown in future R.O.M.,” Sean Libby croons on the chorus of that track. “Blasphemy!” you say? “How can a supergroup comprised of five of the heaviest metalheads in town make a pop record?” I have no idea, and yet here I am walking around with a song called “Markovian Parallax Denigrate” stuck in my head. The same article notes that YouTuber Barely Sociable made a video about this topic in 2020, opining that the messages were most likely simple spam with no hidden message.It’s been almost seven years since Johnny Cremains dropped their sophomore album, Hollywoodland, so maybe I just forgot the fact that struck me as a shocking revelation upon hearing their new EP, Buried Alive: this is pop music. (The culprit was actually the Libyan government, which admitted responsibility in 2003. Club proposes the event only became a mystery due to later media coverage, having not been widely reported prior to the 2012 Daily Dot article. During the ‘90s, at the height of the Markovian Parallax Denigrate’s fame, she claimed that she knew someone who knew who committed the 1988 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. Hundreds of messages were posted, and were initially dismissed as spam. The posts are often mentioned in conjunction with other bizarre and/or unsolved internet mysteries, such as Sad Satan, Cicada 3301, the Publius Enigma and Unfavorable Semicircle. The meaning is obscure, but the hook is tremendous, as catchy as anything blasting on Portland’s. Markovian Parallax Denigrate is a series of unexplained word puzzles posted to Usenet in 1996. Insurgence is grown in future R.O.M., Sean Libby croons on the chorus of that track. Ī later article on the subject published by The A.V. I have no idea, and yet here I am walking around with a song called Markovian Parallax Denigrate stuck in my head. Proposed explanations for the texts include an early experimental chat bot or text generator, an internet troll or prankster posting forum spam, or a programmer experimenting with Markov chains. The Daily Dot article covering the event states that an e-mail account belonging to a University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point student coincidentally named Susan Lindauer was spoofed to cover the identity of the poster. In 2016, Susan Lindauer was mistakenly identified as a possible source of these posts when contacted, she denied being the author. It has also been described as "one of the first great mysteries of the internet". In 2012, Kevin Morris of The Daily Dot referred to the messages as "the Internet’s oldest and weirdest mystery". The posts are often mentioned in conjunction with other bizarre and/or unsolved internet mysteries, such as Sad Satan, Cicada 3301, the Publius Enigma, and Unfavorable Semicircle.
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