The Overnightscape Underground

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32:49 – Welcome back to the world of ‘After Hours’. In our latest journey through the dark hours, we ask whether a pair of brown flannel trousers can be possessed by evil, as ‘The Man in the Pub’ recalls his cousin’s traumatic experiences with some haunted trousers. Elsewhere, ordinary people ruminate over their amourous celebrity encounters, WNKR News goes ‘Behind the Headlines’ to find out what is really going on in Kash Patel’s bathroom and we go on duty with the ‘Dog Dirt Detectives’, keeping the streets of LA safe and clean. Plus, we hear how one man spent seven years in a gorilla suit in a Sunbury Zoo.

‘After Hours’ was created using Google AI Studio and Chat GPT Reader.  Music and sound effects by Freesound Community and ShadowsandEchoes- all via Pixababy.  

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Doc Sleaze more info at TheOvernightscape.com. Released May 2026 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.

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3:02:52 – Frank in New Jersey and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Listening party later today at Rough Trade Below in Rockefeller Center for the new Boards of Canada album Inferno, “You Look Mabus”, religion, showbiz, 1979, Backrooms (2026), visions, Gravity’s Rainbow, constructed world, higher dimensional geometry, the template of experiential cognition, the difficult lunch, X-12 video version, Arcane Parkways, Onsug book organization, heading up to the event, The Strawberry Alarm Clock, Rockefeller Center, toy store, the event, after the event, walking down 49th Street, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:21:52)… ALL ABOUT YOU – WHAT HOLDS YOU UP? (1974) (excerpt) [YouTube], Fear Is Nothing New by Jim Guittard [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Tobacco and the Bicentennial [Archive.org], You’re With A Creep by Protomartyr [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Middlesix – The Lost Missile (1958) [Archive.org], Laut und Bunt by Zehntausend Deutschmarks [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Zithro to the Max by Shnabubula [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Introspection Trilogy – Part 1 by Eidolon [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Northern Winds by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Down By the Winegar Woiks by Billy Murray & Aileen Stanley (1925) [Archive.org, public domain].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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3:01:59 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Candy review (Dr Pepper Cotton Candy, A&W Root Beer Cotton Candy), Boards of Canada & Inferno, Hare Krishna synchronicity, organizing Onsug, The Amazing Digital Circus, Dungeon Crawler Carl, stop motion animation, Mad God (2021), archive news, dish-wallahs article, the experiential factor, Where’s My Fortune Cookie? by Phil Proctor & Brad Schreiber, trash bag and fortune cookie incident, human aspects, having to go back to high school dream, “Owl, jester and robot in diner at night planning interdimensional trip.”, The Route to Dimension X-12, Shuffle Mode, Videoheaven (2025), and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:21:29)… I am not an atomic playboy [YouTube], 4-butte-1: A lesson in archaeology (1967) (excerpt 2) [Archive.org, public domain], The Games of Starcade – Calipso [YouTube], TV Guide ‘Bicentennial’ Commercial (1975) [YouTube], Here I Am by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], Future Cop/Three’s Company promo [Archive.org], Corner Band by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0], Shooting the Rapids Deluxe – Zaccaria Pinball [collection], Fast Turtle by Anamanaguchi [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], The Hen and the Cow by Billy Murray (1920) [Archive.org, public domain], Magnavox – “Price Breakthrough” (Commercial, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Ice Town by Fuzzy Daupner (live backwards at Tierney’s Tavern in Montclair, NJ) (6/28/01) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], “PNG III” (2002) [www023-16 “Ghost Maps” LP] by Vector Burn [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], New Wave Theatre (intro) [collection], ElectronicAfricaLoop by Dodgy C [Freesound, CC0 1.0], Innocence recruiting [via Webm8 productions].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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1:20:47 – Continuing the experiment of random Onsug listening! Taken from the complete Onsug archive of over 16,000 hours, here are 22 random 3.5 minute clips! This one has a really laid back vibe. Synchronicities: too much money, foul language, the pandemic.

Ref: 133-10, 961-34, 979-22, 122-37, 1002-20, 1001-08, 997-11, 964-38, 108-66, 1012-01, 404-45, 955-09, 910-49, 913-09, 991-35, 136-02, 252-03, 541-06, 401-030. 451-37, 401-104, 404-15.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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2:31:09 – Frank on the road in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Off to Rockaway to see Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026), Highway Rituals, Lock ‘n’ Chase, moods, coffee, Onsug Archive, motor went crazy, obscure/lost fonts (Dingaling, Rocket Gothic), National Geographic hologram issue (December 1988), lost my way again, my review of the movie, Boards of Canada, the trailers, walking around the mall, pinball, Sushi Burrito, food court, Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 8: A Parade of Horribles, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:50:46)… Highway 94 by Blue Dot Sessions [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 4.0], CityPulse – Electronic Superhighway [Teresa Roncon] (1993) [YouTube], Follies of 1911 by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Blue Optic TV commercial (from CityTV commercial block 1984) [YouTube], The Mexican Hovercraft by Fuzzy Daupner [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Fyffe Alabama UFO Report (Headline News, 1989) [collection], En Route (ou Enfin! Le Défilé Capsule de Temps va au Centre de Contrôle) by Monroeville Music Center [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 3.0], Place Sounds – Port Authority Bus Terminal (NYC-7/17/07) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Easy Street by Billy Murray (1905) [Archive.org, public domain], top 100 scary logos part 7 [YouTube], Route 53 to Africa by Samsara/Yidakivoices Dream Sound Theater [Jamendo, CC BY-ND 3.0], Newsweasels 10-Second Promo (1994) [collection].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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2:38:33 – Dave in Kentucky proudly presents Part One of Dashiell Hammett’s Poisonville. The fourteen mini-chapters in this installment are summarized by fourteen complete songs written by Dave and implemented by Suno.ai (v4.5). Several musical genres are represented, including country, bluegrass, folk-rock, Latin pop, reggae, doo-wop and jazz. There’s also a new Killer Serials Theme, done in the cheesy style of certain classic TV theme songs.

Show art: Public-domain covers of the November 1927 (right) and February 1928 (left) issues of Black Mask, which contained two episodes of the Poisonville serial. The characters depicted are perhaps Elihu Willsson and Bill Quint.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International license. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

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4:14:39 – Frank in New Jersey and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Mini heatwave, fire chief, Tape Land Video, Video Loaf, VHS Forever on Criterion, Videoheaven (2025), video rental stores, massive morning detour through Secaucus Junction, Penn Station, subway, VHS logo font (Lee), Roxy Music, grand Central, Marilyn Monroe, In the Credits of MTV’s House of Style in 1989, synchronicities, Cherry Coke gold bar, Shock Treatment (1981), HMV, Blockbuster, Japan, major personal mystery – “some silly, some not”, AI, The Comeback, TV shows, Talking Heads, Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, Forza Horizon 6, Meyers Manx, Intersloopy, Cindy Crawford, organizing Onsug chronologically, Polar Lion Compendium, premiere of A Bunch of Rags by Polar Lion, major personal mystery – “some silly, some not – solved!, Who Spooked Rodney? (1978), RND synth, HOP WTR Double Hopped, nicotine, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, the monkey news, Mopho, Swatch Royal Pop madness, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:33:51)… Orson Welles on American Imperialism (The Dick Cavett Show, 7/27/70) [YouTube], Lies Incorporated by A_dontigny [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Twin Peaks Georgia Coffee Commercial FULL MINISERIES HD [YouTube], Too much vine, whiskey and coke by Johannes Hopfner [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], EPCOT Energy Exchange Audio Clip [YouTube], If Mr. Boston Lawson Has His Way by Billy Murray (1905) [Archive.org, public domain], Innocence corrsepondance [via Webm8 productions], Transit Shivers by Fuzzy Daupner (live at Tierney’s, 2/20/01) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Middlesix – New Whychock Revival (5/3/26) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Walking With The Sun by Minnie Tempel [Soundcloud, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], 1978 NBC Promo Quark CPO Sharkey [YouTube], Tears Of Sky by Spell 336 [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], MESA VERDE 1975 [YouTube].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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1:18:57 – Continuing the experiment of random Onsug listening! Taken from the complete Onsug archive of over 16,000 hours, here are 22 random 3.5 minute clips! Synchronicities: cosmic theories, synthesizers, travel.

Ref: 823-033, 711-58, 122-52, 903-10, 801-139, 301-53, 985-01, 985-33, 1006-03, 752-50, 921-65, 941-04, 916-10, 980-03, 994-09, 969-07, 686-023, 111-076, 451-26, 118-20, 140-22, 253-04.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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2:02:45 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

My synthesizer versions of old ragtime songs are finally collected in one place!

Polar Lion (an anagram of “piano roll”) began when I discovered the website pianola.co.nz, which had a huge collection of old piano rolls, from over 100 years ago, converted to MIDI files. I was able to load the MIDI files into the music program Reason to create a unique sound for the music, and the Polar Lion project was born.

I released the first 14 songs directly on Onsug.com, and after that I presented the songs on The Overnightscape. I would work on the project on and off over the years, producing 38 songs. I figured it was time to collect them all in one place, and here they all are, in Polar Lion Compendium.

The final track in the collection, A Bunch of Rags, is brand new, and presented here for the first time. I was very happy with how that one came out.

Polar Lion has such a unique sound, I really hope more people can listen to and enjoy the songs. And of course, a big thank you to the Pianola site for converting the songs to digital form – not to mention all the composers and performers who originally created the music way back when!

Download the songs individually: Polar_Lion_Compendium.zip

Track listing (the date shown is the first time the song appeared on onsug.com):

[01] 00:00:00 – Palm Leaf Rag (4/27/10) 2:51
[02] 00:02:51 – Dear Old Southland (4/29/10) 3:04
[03] 00:05:55 – Three O’Clock In The Morning (5/2/10) 3:19
[04] 00:09:14 – Ukelele Lady (5/5/10) 2:59
[05] 00:12:13 – African Hunter (5/5/10) 2:28
[06] 00:14:41 – Battle of the Nations (5/8/10) 5:42
[07] 00:20:23 – Bolo Rag (5/8/10) 3:18
[08] 00:23:41 – Saw Mill River Road (5/11/10) 4:32
[09] 00:28:13 – La Seduccion (5/12/10) 3:09
[10] 00:31:22 – Sky Rockets Rag (5/15/10) 2:41
[11] 00:34:03 – Alcoholic Blues (5/18/10) 3:04
[12] 00:37:07 – Big Mose Blues (5/22/10) 2:42
[13] 00:39:49 – Cum-Bac Rag (5/27/10) 2:39
[14] 00:42:28 – In My Mercer Racing Car (5/29/10) 3:48
[15] 00:46:16 – Polar Bear Man (12/31/12) 2:08
[16] 00:48:24 – Woodland Sketches (1/4/13) 1:46
[17] 00:50:10 – 29th and Dearborn (1/10/13) 3:05
[18] 00:53:15 – Invitation Rag (2/15/13) 1:52
[19] 00:55:07 – Floatin’ Down To Cotton Town (2/27/13) 2:29
[20] 00:57:36 – 12th Street Rag (3/5/13) 4:24
[21] 01:02:00 – Come Back To Arizona (3/26/13) 1:58
[22] 01:03:58 – Musical Steeplechase (4/3/13) 5:40
[23] 01:09:38 – Follies of 1911 (6/5/13) 5:46
[24] 01:15:24 – Black Snake Blues (6/21/13) 2:10
[25] 01:17:34 – Unidentified Rag Medley (8/3/18) 4:07
[26] 01:21:41 – Yellow Dog Rag (8/16/18) 1:42
[27] 01:23:23 – Poison Ivy Rag (11/2/18) 2:12
[28] 01:25:35 – Red Pepper – A Spicy Rag (6/4/19) 2:24
[29] 01:27:59 – The Electric Girl – One Step (6/23/20) 2:26
[30] 01:30:25 – Texas Foxtrot (7/30/20) 2:58
[31] 01:33:23 – Maple Leaf Rag (9/1/20) 8:38
[32] 01:42:01 – Bug House Fables (9/15/20) 3:12
[33] 01:45:13 – Huckleberry Finn (10/1/20) 2:04
[34] 01:47:17 – Too Much Mustard (3/5/21) 2:30
[35] 01:49:47 – Moonlight On The Ganges (4/9/21) 3:02
[36] 01:52:49 – Bohemia Rag (2/28/23) 3:16
[37] 01:56:05 – The Shell Shock Shake (5/12/26) 2:43
[38] 01:58:48 – A Bunch of Rags (Rhapsody Rag, Maple Leaf Rag, Dandelion) (5/16/22) 3:57

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Polar Lion (Frank Edward Nora) – more info at onsug.com

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2:56:03 – Frank in New Jersey,2:56:03 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The new garbage crew, can robots eliminate garbage, Forza Horizon 6, new book work, hey mac, Lynch/Oz (2022), Wizard of Oz synchronicities, Linda’s Coffee Pot, walnuts and pistachios, always windy for recycling, Other Side synchronicity, demolition progress, Rex Reed dead at 87, The Gong Show, celebrity movie reviewers, Blue Velvet (1986), closed tabs, Stereolab, fixing a toilet, Secret Passage, Tomy Pocket Games, Tomy Pocket Mate World Travel, The New Pop Explosion, Nakano Broadway, Entertainment Destinations book, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:15:37)… Shrink Magic (Commercial, 1975) [FuzzyMemories.TV], You Can Not Knock Me Down by Jim Guittard [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], J.S. Mill (A Small Remix) by NoidBoy [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Hard to Believe by WK [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], The Firesign Theatre Radio Hour Hour – Episode 09 – Everyone In New York Is A Communist (excerpt) (3/22/70) [collection], Dailysonic65: Do you know where that toothbrush has been? (07/13/05) (opening) [collection], Krystall Eye by Dominique B [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], minutewaltz (1964, Dan Smith’s PDP-1 Music Collection) [textfiles.com], Fire and Ice Movie Trailer [YouTube], I’m On the Water Wagon Now by Billy Murray (1904) [Archive.org, public domain], KNBC-4 1970- The NBC Comedy Theater, Very Rare Promo [Obsolete Video/YouTube], 6AM by Cobra Neon Defender [Archive.org, CC BY 4.0], Gleaming the Cube (1989) Trailer [YouTube], 1983 – Bain de Soleil [YouTube].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com