The Overnightscape Underground

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2:58:30 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Plastic Man, Gravity’s Rainbow, The Fall, flashes in the sky, Elon Musk becomes world’s first trillionaire, milliard, World Cup, NBA Finals, Doctor Who on hiatus, ABM update, next morning, mate, Roberta (1935), censorship, Top Hat (1935), seltzer bottles, the house detective, Nightstation – Nothingness Express, cosmic theories, conical hats, lightning elsewhere, deer crash, Disclosure Day (2026), a positive revelation, Where Have All The Average People Gone by Roger Miller, watering the lawn, telling people about Second Life, video game collectors meetings at Video Game Connections, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:18:01)… GTE Commercial from 1987 [YouTube], Lost Records 1 – Loriot by Soukie&Windish [SoundCloud, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], ‘Binaca Blast!’ Mouthwash Commercial (1974) [YouTube], Combination March by Scott Joplin (performed by Gerlüz) [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Speech (1925) by Billy Murray with International Novelty Orchestra (1925) [Archive.org, public domain], Tic Tac by ElectroLatrine [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Abiyoyo and the Piper by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], The Video Dead (1987) (Trailer) [YouTube], Jean Shepherd – Ice Cream War (7/5/63) (excerpt) [collection], ZOMBIES DAWN OF THE DEAD London radio advert 1980 [YouTube], Coronation of the Ages by Eidolon [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0].

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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2:28:15 – Dave in Kentucky provides a prologue, then is joined by Eddie Murray (at 22:39), Chad Bowers (at 52:34) and Frank Edward Nora (at 1:39:56) for some monologues about monologues, some simulated dialogues and the premiere of a new musical epilogue.

Next month’s topics: The Enduring, the Evolving and the Extinct. Record about one, two or all three of these and send audio files or links to DaveKY at mail.com by 6pm Central Time on July 10, 2026.

Show art: Night Windows (1928) by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) depicts our sneaky time traveler from the automat after she has returned to her room and is getting ready for bed, where she will listen to more of the Overnightscape Central before going to sleep.

Theme songs: “The O.C. Theme Remix” (2024, 2026) and “Goodbye Till Next Month” (2026) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v4.5).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International license. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky & Guests.

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3:47:36 – Frank in New Jersey and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Listening to music on a cassette Walkman, The Beatles, Baroque Hoedown, Opaque Hoedown, this circus Earth, Knicks game, bus is late, listening to Boards of Canada – Inferno on cassette, World Cup, reality blam, The Firesign Theatre, O.C. and Stiggs (1985), later, The Mouse That Roared, reality blam continued, weird ride home, Lyndhurst Diner demolished, June 9th, buy Carl Reiner’s stuff, show art, Crazy Taxi: World Tour, grass growing, pachysandra, street view blurring, Gravity’s Rainbow, supernatural communications, silence, next day, time travel, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, The Astaire Story, The Gay Divorcee (1934), The Flintstones, shadow of a helicopter, top hats, Absolut Tabasco, spotted lanterflies, storylines, walking around the block, solar panels, OXO, cars, bird money, aether, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:07:10)… WSNS Channel 44 – Roller Super Stars (Break #6) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Daydreamer by Obsibilo [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Random Encounter by Kulor [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Rain by Robert Louis Stevenson [LibriVox, public domain], Skydreamer by Mortok [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], G39-16-Bugle Call by craigsmith [Freesound, CC0 1.0], The Tail of Beta Lyrae – In-Game BGM (1983) [collection], Weird October Dreamer [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Comedy Channel Joe McDoakes Promo [YouTube], Dreamer by TFSL [Archive.org, CC BY-NC 3.0], If I Had a Girl Like You 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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1:18:31 – 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 is a wild one! Synchronicities: Mandela Effect, alternate realities, paintings.

Ref: 904-08, 102-41, 613-18, 958-27, 971-43, 958-06, 944-23, 997-12, 104-093, 970-19, 116-54, 118-04, 241-02, 1016-23, 1003-11, 1001-08, 137-31, 601-11, 402-18, 406-39, 232-34, 308-09.

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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2:52:22 – Frank in New Jersey and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: My car is in the shop, Gravity’s Rainbow, Flying Down to Rio (1933), Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, car repairs, plans changing, robot barista, vegan junk food lunch, Roxy Music, glamour, mac and cheese, the difficult park, lawn care, NBA Finals, mystery event, The Oldest View, Howard Johnson’s, Compact Disc World labelscar, The Question Box, TNT by Tim N. Tut, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:11:39)… Food Doesn’t Fly – Lunchroom Manners [archive.org, public domain], Foolish Questions by Billy Murray (1909) [Archive.org, public domain], Oakbrook Center – “What I Want For Christmas” (Commercial, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Your Hair Is On Fire by Leslie Hunt [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Early GTE Computer System Commercial (1978) [YouTube], Chase the Vagabonds by Heifervescent [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Mannequin (1987) Trailer [YouTube], Modal Blues by Rushus [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Tareyton Rather Fight than Switch pet shop commercial [Archive.org], Happy Jester by Loretta Jacobs [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], Mandelbrot [collection], FB-01_#2 by Christian Bjoerklund [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Casa de Frito – Frito Kid And Klondike (Frito’s) (With Music) [collection], The Man with the Electric Flag by The Patinettes [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Hello Ginger [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

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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2:26:41 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Lawn situation, another situation, Boards of Canada – Inferno, Backrooms (2026), Mr. Pibb, sultan synchronicity, the nature of our world, consciousness and the quality of experiencing, overlay of meaning, psithurism, The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act (2026), Severance, Italiamo Cedrata, Koyaanisqatsi (1982), void moon, rest room dream, Aboon Be, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:45:58)… Kreation – 21J4] by Chris (from the Little Frankie Nora album Original Tin (1987)) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], My Kangaroo by Billy Murray (1904) [Archive.org, public domain], KFC commercial (from WLS Channel 7 – Who’s On Call? (Opening, Break & Excerpt, 1979)) [FuzzyMemories], The Ground Round (Commercial, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Chee Zee Jungle by Kevin MacLeod [incompetech.com, CC BY 3.0], Chopin – Grande valse brillante in E flat major, Op. 18 (perfomed by Olga Gurevich) [Musopen, public domain], Global Communication by Frame [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Train Time at Pumpkin Center by Cal Stewart with Ada Jones, Billy Murray & the American Quartet (1919) [Archive.org, public domain], Horse Cop Coffee Leaf by Choston Bands & Junkard Sane [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WBBM Channel 2 – The 10 O’Clock News – “Nosferatu” (Ending & Break, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Video Woman by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], MST3K on The Comedy Channel (4/14/90) (Break 7) [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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1:20:23 – 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 is extra random.

Ref: 958-34, 1015-18, 915-01, 920-11, 957-08, 223-1, 916-13, 104-078, 126-26, 404-02, 233-251, 120-27, 503-52, 541-28, 962-34, 921-31, 1004-24, 971-07, 451-43, 711-07, 997-13, 441-05.

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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3:02:52 – 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