A narrative supports the anchor sounds of roller coaster hill and helicopter blades,
found audio plays between in this collage.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/).

Attribution: Attribution: by Chad Bowers – more info at titfos.tumblr.com or onsug.com

Presented  February 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground: an Internet talk radio channel, focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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

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.

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

1:00:32 – Jacob & I meet up with fellow internet radio host Rob Usdin and his daughter for the premiere book signing of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s first children’s book, “When I Grow Up” at the Barnes & Nobel bookstore in the Marketfair mall in Princeton, NJ. Topics include kindergarten homework, closing school early when the weather cleared up, Jersey Jamcast, too loud to record in the food court, stores in the mall, DI vs. DSI, snooty malls, Big Fish decorum, Calendar Club, Toy Story 3 and other Disney dominoes, Monopoly varieties, A Christmas Story Monopoly, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s education and career path, philosophy of doing what makes you happy, Al’s talent with parody lyrics & harmonizations, style parodies, Al takes a picture, Al’s parents’ untimely death from carbon monoxide poisoning, children and technology, mobile movie viewing, TiVO, Al signs Jacob’s book.

Links
When I Grow Up: http://harpercollinschildrens.com/books/When-Grow-Up/?isbn13=9780061926914
When I Grow Up By “Weird Al” Yankovic Book Trailer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=fUt8L09fs8A
Marketfair Mall: http://marketfairmall.com

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

Recorded on Saturday, July 29, and Sunday, July 30, 2006. On this Audio Field Trip, my wife Denice and I travel from northern New Jersey to a wedding in western Massachusetts. Phil and Sarah, listeners to The Overnightscape, are getting married at a Quaker retreat called “Woolman Hill”. On this recording, you’ll hear about the long drive up, the creepy motel, arrival at the wedding, the wedding ceremony, walking through a cornfield the next day, visits to the Yankee Candle Flagship Store and the Hampshire Mall, and much more.

I recorded this Audio Field Trip on my Edirol R-1 digital recorder. Unfortunately, the Compact Flash card had gone faulty but I didn’t know about it. The total recording consists of 75 segments, totalling almost 2.5 hours. Unfortunately, 11 of the files were corrupt – so about 36 minutes of recordings were lost, all interspersed throughout. The lost segments include some commentary about the wedding, the night drive back to the motel, and an interview with Phil and Sarah.

This release consists of the raw unedited audio (minus the corrupt segments). It is a long, rambling piece of audio, and the “narrative” suffers a bit from the loss of some of the segments. But there is a lot of interesting and very varied stuff in this audio. Hopefully I’ll do an edited version at some point that will be an easier listen.
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I went to check out the opening of the new Apple Store Fifth Avenue and I wound up recording over 2-and-a-half hours of audio! Instead of waiting weeks or months to edit it and play it on the show, I figured I’d release the raw audio right away for your listening pleasure… nothing edited (except a few phone numbers I had to bleep). Ben from CodedSignal.com pretty much became my co-host at one point. I met a bunch of other podcasters there – it was a lot of fun! (P.S. Gaurav got in at 9:50 PM.)
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This journey starts off with me and Peter Litkey driving to pick up his friend Brian. We then go to see Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Afterwards, we drive around very wealthy areas of New Jersey, visit Pete’s old school, and Pete’s car reaches 200,000 miles. Along the way we talk about many interesting things!

Recorded on May 28, 2005, I kept meaning to edit it and play it on the show, but I never got to it. So as time went on, it became known as “The Lost Audio Field Trip”. Now, it is released in all of its 2+ hour glory!
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“The Audio Field Trip” is a feature on The Overnightscape where I go out into the world and record various adventures and activities. Most of these are edited and played in their entirety on the show – but two of them are special cases. The first one is “The Audio Field Trip #1″, which I was only able to play a very little bit of on The Overnightscape #20 (7/24/03). This is the complete recording.

On this trip, I go on “The Iselin Run”, driving down to my storage unit in Iselin, NJ. This full audio was played for a while in 2003 on the Bluffcosm “live stream”, and was then released as one of the “Second Anniversary Bonus Releases” back on March 27, 2005. This release has much better audio quality.
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License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com