The Overnightscape Underground

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43:29 – Recorded December 16, 2011.

My son Jacob’s latest obsession has been “Little Shop of Horrors” – the Off Broadway soundtrack, the movie, different performance clips on YouTube, you name it! So my wife Melanie and I surprised him with an early Hanukkah gift – we took him to the Repertory Company High School for the Theatre Arts, where they did a performance of the show! When the cast heard that we came in from Passiac to see it just because he loves the show, they had the director bring us backstage so they could meet him! Listen along to our adventure – one he’ll treasure for the rest of his life! (Includes a couple vintage TV commercials from the original Broadway show!)

Theme music: “The Chasing Game” by Friday’s Child.

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48:31 – Recorded November 7, 2011.

Hanging out in New York City, en route to Day 4 of shooting the independent TV pilot “Erroneous Convictions” with Bruce Birns and Jerry Sheindlin, more about Snowctoberpocalypse, walkig through the park trying to avoid falling branches, the result of “The Miracle Man” vote for indieWIRE.com’s Project of the Day, then voted as Project of the Month, great thanks to the Virtual Street Team & everyone who voted & asked others to vote, recapping this week’s Overnightscape Central topic of Sleep & Insomnia, meeting up with Brandon General, JB Reed, Jeff Beemer and Justin McCabe of The Human Orchestra and talking about the evolution of the band, their album, Slainte – The Rock Of Ireland and more!

Theme music: “The Chasing Game” by Friday’s Child.

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18:07 – Recorded October 29, 2011.

It’s October… and it’s SNOWING! I make my way home via the NJ Transit train system and spend my wait time between trains at Secaucus Junction updating you on some recent exciting things in my life, such as “The Miracle Man” being selected as indieWIRE.com’s Project of the Day, then voted as Project of the Week, then this Monday is the vote for Project of the Month – CONTACT ME TO JOIN MY VIRTUAL STREET TEAM – I’m producing & co-directing the independent TV pilot “Erroneous Convictions” with Bruce Birns and Jerry Sheindlin, the October snow postponed the Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow Halloween Parade, my niece’s quinceañero, the family’s fine.

Theme music: “The Chasing Game” by Friday’s Child.

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40:31 – Recorded September 25, 2011.

It’s been two years since I started my “rampling,” and I’m ready to start Year Three!

I’ve been exceptionally busy lately, working a lot at my acting gig at Kaplan, video shoots, parades, substitute teaching and officiating weddings. Here I drive down the New Jersey Turnpike on my way to a wedding, where I have noticed a major-scale construction project, which includes about 7 overpasses that don’t seem to lead to anything – mostly into woods and housing developments, with no road at either end. I worked in my son’s school, my wife went back to work. Crazy things have been happening lately – my son lost his hearing aid, my iPod went on the fritz, the car battery died… almost like Mercury Retrograde, or is it because my energy is off from being so exhausted? Long time Friends of ONSUG Brandon General and JB Reed have a brand new music project – The Human Orchestra – listen to 5 of their tracks from their upcoming EP due out soon! Includes the track, “On With The Show,” courtesy of Brandon General.

Theme music: “The Chasing Game” by Friday’s Child.

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33:25 – Recorded August 28, 2011.

Hanging outside my condo during the “eye” of Tropical Storm Irene, slowdown on The Overnightscape Underground, progress with The Miracle Man investment documents, new fundraising campaign at http://tinyurl.com/mmfund2, recapping the past month, the family’s doing well, getting ready for September, planning my new Law of Attraction/Law of Abundance podcast, turning 40, my birthday celebrations, Zach’s Towne Pub in Secaucus, my father came up from Florida, I officiated my mother’s wedding, return to Amy’s Omelette House, made it through the storm okay, Manny the Mailman’s basement flooded. Feature Segment: Melanie’s story of the day David was born.

Theme music: “The Chasing Game” by Friday’s Child.

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23:38 – Recorded August 2, 2011.
Join me, Jacob, my sister Karen and her kids Megan and Evan as we recap the day we had at Sesame Place in Langhorne, PA. But first a few of my fellow podcasting friends welcome my new son David into the world – Neal from Into Your Head (by request of Manny the Mailman), Kay and Abi from Exposed, and Overnightscape Central master of ceremonies PQ Ribber.

Theme music: “The Chasing Game” by Friday’s Child.

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27:13 – Join me on a warm & pleasant evening in Times Square, NYC as I recap Harry Potter: The Exhibition at Discovery Times Square! Topics include Harry Potter, and all things related to the books, movies & exhibit. The exhibit is open until early September, so if you’re a fan of the books and movies, this is a must see!

Theme music: “The Chasing Game” by Friday’s Child.

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31:42 – Recorded June 18 & 26, 2011.

It’s been a while – been keeping really busy between taking care of my wife, who is currently on bed rest, the boy, who just finished Kindergarten, a busy work schedule, “The Miracle Man” progress and other projects. I didn’t even have time to do post production until a few days after recording this…

In this episode, I take you along on two interesting gigs – first a long bus ride up to Lake George, NY – a great resort town where I march in a huge Fireman’s convention parade with the Tappan Zee Bridgemen, then a long drive south to Wildwood, NJ where I officiated a wedding. Topics include multiple units of the band, Six Flags Great Escape, marginal placenta previa, changing the baby’s “due” date, Jacob Celebrity Fashion Show and the Boys & Girl’s Club, camping in Wildwood in 1989, had a video gig in Queens, drove through 4 out of the 5 boroughs of New York City, scouting the beach, Ontario license plates in Wildwood, enormous Ferris wheel, The Skyscraper, don’t go to Seaside, finding a fenced pathway up a sand dune, Jacob’s iPod Touch takes better pictures than my phone, waiting to hear back from a famous actor for “The Miracle Man,” putting investment documents together, a brief review of the latest CD from “Weird Al” Yankovic, “Alpocalypse,” I may start a new regularly published podcast on the Law of Attraction.

Theme music: “The Chasing Game” by Friday’s Child.

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1:05:12 – After several months of promoting this event, listen along as my friends Kati, Lynda, Tammy and I – and about 2,000 others – walk for 18 miles from Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn, up the Brooklyn Promenade, over the Brooklyn Bridge, past Ground Zero, around the tip of Manhattan, through Battery Park City, up the Hudson River, over to Sixth Avenue, down Broadway, then back over the Brooklyn Bridge to Cadman Plaza as we raise both money and awareness for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention! Discussion topics include Mariel Hemingway in the Opening Ceremony, Kati’s brother Michael and my step-brother Allan, my grandfather’s death and what it still means to me today, the recent passing of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, is suicide ever justified, suicide and older men, Blue Marble Ice Cream, the film The Jonestown Defense, talking with a man whose 22 year old son took his life in February, I left stuff in the car, The Freedom Tower and the 9/11 Memorial, passing by the mile markers and questioning the accuracy of their placement, the Staten Island Ferry, I used to work at 17 State Street with Frank Nora’s sister-in-Law Carrie Ann Carol, the film Keeping the Faith, midnight snack at Pier 96, promoting the film In Montauk by Kim Cummings and the band HOT BREAKFAST featuring Jill Knapp and Matt Casarino, talking to street people, caffeine makes you dehydrated, reading the list of names of those who have sponsored my walk, luminarias, closing ceremony.

MAKE A DONATION FOR THE OUT OF THE DARKNESS OVERNIGHT WALK AT: http://theovernight.org Click the “Donate Now” button and do a search for Tammy O’Brien – she can use the help. Thanks!

Theme music: “The Chasing Game” by Friday’s Child.

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32:12 – Weird day! Global earthquakes shaking corpses out from the grave…

Just kidding, of course. Today we take a look at how Harold Camping “creatively” came up with this date as Judgment Day, grocery shopping, my son’s new iPod & my “new” G5 and the saga of my blood sugar.

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Theme music: “The Chasing Game” by Friday’s Child.

MAKE A DONATION FOR THE OUT OF THE DARKNESS OVERNIGHT WALK AT: http://tinyurl.com/ootdobj