The Overnightscape Underground

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2:17:36 – I recently added a new “surf” feature to The Onsug Random Radio Button, which plays a new random clip from the archive every 2 minutes and 9 seconds. I figured I’d record a sessions with this feature, and it came out great!

Notes: The Overnightscape 1328: Wobble (10/9/16) started at 14:23, Into Your Head – Show 618: Clergy Dog (9/11/12) started at 14:03, Gunkcast 50: Gunkcast Does The Hustle (Part 2) (October 2017) started at 1:28:31, Gunkcast Thanksgiving Special (Flashback): Punk Talk 2010! (11/24/17) started at 00:00, The Overnightscape 1616: Dormouse Ho (7/16/19) started at 1:48:08, Macho Condor Palms (2/18/25) started at 1:36:21, Across the Pond – Episode 40 (6/16/12) started at 07:53, Radio Free Shambles: Tongue Twister (9/17/17) started at 21:17, The Overnightscape 2321 – Escape 1,000 Mazes (4/28/26) started at 2:12:48, The Paunch Stevenson Show – Episode 003 (11/14/05) started at 04:45, The St. Paul Skyline (with Sarjé) – Memory is a kind of time travel, too (4/12/10) 27.23 started at 32:19, Radio Free Shambles: Red Carpet Corridor (5/14/16) started at 2:09:43, New Midnight Cassette 12 – DirtyDnB (2012) started at 06:19, Mr. Headvisit’s Pinball Infinitude (3/2/14) started at 4:47:01, Overnightscape Central – Radio Thoughts – (2/6/12) started at 1:44:12, The Overnightscape 1479: 2018 the Year in Weasels (3/25/18) started at 3:48:50, The Overnightscape #569 (12/4/06) started at 1:01:47, The Overnightscape 1486: On the Corner of the Cosmic (4/17/18) started at 1:54:48, The Night Pool #17 (1/29/16) started at 1:09:26, The Overnightscape 1673 – Pollution Solution (1/31/20) started at 2:49:23, BUG OUT – Sprawling – (2/18/12) started at 23:00, Gasohol (12/3/11) (Frank) started at 23:13, MMCTV EP0208 – Legend of the Lion King (3/4/09) started at 29:36, The Overnightscape 1410: Museum of the Haunted Elevator Dream (7/25/17) started at 1:58:17, Overnightscape Central – Beatles Movies (7/15/19) started at 1:04:24, The Overnightscape 2199 – Headvisiting the Slip (2/25/25) started at 2:09:29, Bus Stop Double Step Back (FN 1/21/10) 24.15 started at 09:02, The Rampler #142 (12/12/08) 7.30 started at 08:55, Post-Arlen Monologix 29: Downcome – Part 01 – The Uglyscape (3/17/23) started at 18:08, The Friday Maze #6: McDonald’s Memories (10/22/17) started at 1:02:43, The Overnightscape 853: Rental (1/29/12) started at 03:52, The Overnightscape 915: Planets and Wizards (9/25/12) started at 08:38, SHEPS – Why I’m Leaving Radio – Mar 23 1977 – (2/09/11) started at 17:32, The Meanderer (October 2024) started at 12:27:40, Overnightscape Central – Sitcoms (10/18/23) started at 1:46:41, The Overnightscape 1911 – Midrungesque (5/13/22) started at 1:11:46, The Overnightscape 1454: Island of Lost Doormats (12/26/17) started at 34:27, The Overnightscape 1221: Help Mr. Ragtime (10/2/15) started at 3:22:41, The Overnightscape 2126 – Time Express (6/14/24) started at 18:37, ABM Show – Episode 11 (2/26/22) started at 43:10, Overnightscape Central – Beatles For Sale (2/17/23) started at 21:39, Overnightscape Central – Strange People (6/8/15) started at 05:06, The Meanderer (8/17/22) started at 4:25:21, The Overnightscape 2310 – Miami, FL (3/20/26) started at 3:40:06, Sneaky TT Epic (August 2015) started at 5:27:41, The Frank Nora Time Machine – Hosted by Jimbo – 020 (6/6/15) started at 35:18, Radio Free Shambles: Apartment Days, Part 1 started at 48:16, Blufftoon Time #2 (Part 5 of 7) (7/15/01) started at 45:46, Overnightscape Central – Top Ten (11/19/19) started at 1:22:06, Highway 209 Mississippi started at 2:54:20, The Overnightscape 1884 – Humorless & Wasted, but Still Beautiful (2/8/22) started at 1:48:44, The Arcade Game Auction (3/16/02) started at 1:21:31, ug: The Malls (9/21/09) 20.16 started at 1:03:59, Overnightscape Central – Political (7/10/18) started at 32:08, The Overnightscape 1532: Road Octo (9/25/18) started at 21:38, Doc Sleaze: That Elusive Christmas Spirit (12/23/25) started at 28:32, The Overnightscape 1686 – Just Between Clues II (3/17/20) started at 1:22:14, Doc Sleaze: The Grave Digger’s Ball (10/31/24) started at 45:41, The Overnightscape 1184: Torque Arcade (5/27/15) started at 28:36, The Overnightscape 871: Texas II (4/9/12) started at 1:31:01, The Midnight Citizen 24 — “Alabama” started at 11:36, The Rampler #89 (10/10/08) started at 11:32, The Overnightscape 1953 – OnsugBox Rocks! (10/6/22) started at 1:55:38, The Overnightscape 821: Blue Milk Room (9/27/11) started at 51:00, The Overnightscape 981: Journal Square Daydream (6/21/13) started at 1:00:35.

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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5:02:47 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: 7-11, concrete ramp, ancient dreams, Onsug Random Radio button updates (surf mode, etc.), wicker, stucco, sharing random clips, Babar, daylight saving time, finished The Merchant Princes series of books by Charles Stross, Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon, Afterlore, Tape Land 211 – Severe Repair: The Broken Text – Audiobook Part 10 – Cuplines 19 and 20 (11/1/26), gas leak, mosquitos, Drew Estate Ultimate Infused Mega-Sampler, Tabak Especial Café con Leche, John Leeson (voice of K-9) dead at 83, Hamburgers special (April 2, 1974), human creativity, Switch, next day, pumpkin men, Tricksy Starlanes, Babylon Sisters, Midweek Circle, American Truck Simulator Road Trip Mode, The Archway in Nebraska, Song Within A Song, Coco Key Water Resort Omaha, Ancient Dreams, surf, 209, Prince of Peace Pu-Erh Tea, health food store, Expo ’74 shirt, completely random memories (flavored rice in the 1970s), ACID Opulence 3, Election Day, freedom of speech, space telescope to crash to Earth, The Leisure Alternatives Catalog (1979), cults, presidents, the future, the unknown breakthrough, NY77: The Coolest Year In Hell, dusk vs. twilight, navigating timelines, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 4:22:30)… Them never love the flowers (Jambassa rmx) by Dub One! (Germany) [lclweb.org, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], Diner City Revival by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Insomnia dance factory [via Webm8 productions], There’s No Place Like Home (When There’s No Place Else to Go) by Billy Murray (1913) [Archive.org, public domain], Circle Square intro 1980s [YouTube], “Street-Time N.Y.C.” (1988) – Track 9 by Randy Antley [collection], Mail Boxes Etc. – Jeremy’s MicroBatch Ice Creams [collection], Eye Magazine ad [Archive.org], Puppet…Rockford, Illinois 1983 [YouTube], Archipelago’s The Open Show – Week 16 [collection], Griff’s Pylons by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Don’t Start Believin’ by Bullette [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], T.V. Tonite with Ron Hendren – Evergreen: Milking the Stars (Oct. 4–8, 1982) [collection], February 17-18, 1986 HBO promos [YouTube], Exotic (Royalty Free Music) by PeriTune [Soundcloud, CC BY 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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2:17:22 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic recording from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to release more of my archives.

Continuing the audiobook version of my “failed science fiction novel” Severe Repair. This time: CUPLINE 19: THE MILDRED CORK and CUPLINE 20: CLOWN CENTAUR ARCHITECT, read by computer voice “Azure Harper MAI-Voice-2.1”.

You know, it’s been quite a trip revisiting Severe Repair by having a computer voice read it. As I wrote most of it around 30 years ago, much of it has faded from memory, so it’s almost like hearing it for the first time. As much as I loved the last two entries in this series, this one was back to me cringing and questioning my younger self. Why all these tangents? Why not continue the main storyline? While these two Cuplines have some redeeming qualities, overall it just leaves me shaking my head… why the heck couldn’t I have just focused on the main storyline, and finished one book’s worth of story? As it is, these two Cuplines were very hard to listen to at times. I’ve grown and changed as a person, and I can’t imagine writing some of this stuff now. But… once again, it’s not called a “failed science fiction novel” for nothing…

Find the text version of the full book here: severerepair.com

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3:33:01 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Completely random memories (talking to people about Second Life), metaverses, American Apparel, Neverland, Origins Trading Card Game, viral videos, The Overnightscape #644 (10/26/07), bus incident, movie email, Patrick Stewart dead at 86, AI, The Ballad of East and West, next day, future police dreams, Shock Treatment (1981), Future Policeman Urashiman, interdimensional travel, information management, 777, the nitrogen tanks that used to be on street corners in NYC, The Rise and Fall of Plasma TVs, logo, the Onsug Random Radio Button embedded on the Old Highway Notes website, Phish, “technology”, Inner Tube, SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of, Pope vote, World Series, Savvy, Ali G: Who Iz I? (2026), pi, 1971 Farmer’s Almanac, National Enquirer (1981/09/29), and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:52:24)… La Manchaha And The Gunfighter by Blood Reef [SurfGuitar101.com, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Return to Never by BFJazz [Jamendo, CC BY-ND 3.0], Superstation WTBS – Movie 17 – “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things” (Opening & Break, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND stereo radio advert London 1978 [YouTube], Everybody Rag With Me by American Quartet with Billy Murray (1915) [Archive.org, public domain], Adventures In Babysitting Trailer [YouTube], T.V. Tonite with Ron Hendren – Evergreen: TV and the Presidency (Oct. 4–8, 1982) [collection], Syd Barrett Interview Part 2 [YouTube], “Street-Time N.Y.C.” (1988) – Track 3 by Randy Antley [collection], Dailysonic83: Foil lined walls keep you safe (08/26/05) (opening) [collection], Cosmos: War of the Planets (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], Cartoon – SuperFriends Intro (with Wendy & Marvin) [collection], Cream Soda Weekly by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], I’m an alien by Spintronic [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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4:41:08 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The red car, palm trees, Onsug Random Radio Button work, spam call, frustrating technological situation, 777 by 777 (1992) (System 7), The Inventor, winter, Farmer’s Almanac, gambling, next day, code name: Project Rambling Spearhead, Into Your Head, Tape Land 209 (Video 17) – Video Feedback FX (11/14/89), Tape Land 210 – Severe Repair: The Broken Text – Audiobook Part 9 – Cupline 18 (10/24/26), UPS, string, Origins Trading Card Game, Charles Stross’ Empire Games trilogy, delusions, creativity, Trey from Phish to appear on Howard Stern, brainwashing, politics, I Go Pogo, mobiles, DANCING DEADHEADS 1988, The Hobbit, battery issue, gas leak, completely random memories (Roman marble bust at The Met), reincarnation, information, new hose, Walter Koenig dead at 90, Susan Saint James dead at 80, Desktop Publishing Bureau, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 4:00:20)… Spaghetti Jungle by The Cholla [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], T.V. Tonite with Ron Hendren – 10/8/82 –”Two of a Kind” (AIRS 10/9) – CBS [collection], The Games of Starcade – Astron Belt [YouTube], The Beatles Interviewed By Kenny Everett – Chat #3 (BBC Radio, The Kenny Everett Show) (6/6/68) [collection], Truckstop Bathroom by KieranJosephTaylor [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Anti-Popstar by The Feelds [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Philips CDi Todd Rundgren MTV Music News Aug 11, 1993 [YouTube], Paddy Duffy’s Cart by American Quartet with Billy Murray (1912) [Archive.org, public domain], “Street-Time N.Y.C.” (1988) – Track 2 by Randy Antley [collection], Evolution by Teo Vincent IV [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], Apollo 8 – First Closeup Account Of Moon’s Surface [collection], IUMA on CNN (3/9/1994) [YouTube], Optigan TV Commercial [YouTube], Chez Bob’s Back at School by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-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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1:53:40 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic recording from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to release more of my archives.

Continuing the audiobook version of my “failed science fiction novel” Severe Repair. This time: CUPLINE 18: A ROAD MAP OF ARCTICA, read by computer voice “Azure Harper MAI-Voice-2.1”.

Damn, just like last Cupline, a really, really enjoyed listening to this one. Must have been around 30 years ago that I wrote it, and I must not have revisited it for a long time, because some stuff came as a surprise to me. This is a very different sort of section… it continues with Daptin Gone in his Warhome having to drive a million miles down Twicvion Lane… and he decides to create a “real life” for himself, winding up here on this world, circa 1996, living in Jersey City and working in NYC. He works for this guy Comma, who is a parody of myself. I really loved this section, and once again, I’m angry at my younger self that I just gave up on the book… it’s so good at times, that if I had continued, it seems I could have made something of it. When I talk to people about it, they say I could still return to it… but of course, easier said than done… but as I mentioned last time, I do think I will have to continue it, in some way…

Find the text version of the full book here: severerepair.com

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2:02:16 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives This episode is part of a sub-project within Tape Land called “Tape Land Video”.

Tape Land 209 (Video 17) – Video Feedback FX (11/14/89) [released 10/24/26]

On Tuesday, November 14, 1989, in my parents’ basement in Martinsville, NJ, I connected my VHS camcorder to the TV set, and pointed the camera at the screen. This produced an amazing variety of video feedback effects. The tape is around two hours, but unfortunately the microphone cut out about halfway in, so my running commentary was lost. Earlier in the tape I mentioned how these graphics would go well with my “Little Frankie Nora” music, so I decided to play my 1987 album “Ending the Era with Calm Music”, also recorded in the same basement, under the video effects.

– Frank Edward Nora, October 24, 2026

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

Internet Archive link: https://archive.org/details/Tape_Land_209-Video_17-Video_Feedback_FX-11-14-89

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4:57:06 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Sidewalk weirdness, The Dropout, AI, Muse, stop-motion owls, World Series, Nash the Slash Rises Again! (2025), 26th Street, Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, The Rampler #277 (4/22/09), hoaxing, the year 209, mystery book delivery, compilation CDs, Orchid Spangiafora – Flee Past’s Ape Elf (1979), Little Frankie Nora, “The Rats in the Walls” by H. P. Lovecraft, motorcycles, Normal Phone, Louisiana chef, Wall Drug bookmarks, next day, another 209, Obliviana Super Occult Amusement, cults and philosophies, New Whychock Revival Window, TV Guide (March 8–14, 1997) with Howard Stern on the cover, Fiona Apple, Eric’s First French Fries, Afterlore, The Meandering Mouse, Thicke Of the Night, SCTV, Foxy Boxing, Maudlin o’ the Night, Half Wits, parody, rally, Sesame Street, audio of me in the ’60s, amazing realization, Buddy and Jim, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 4:16:42)… Telecommunication Breakdown CD ROM [YouTube], Romance Keys by Click Click Click [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 3.0], Purina Dog Chow ‘Menagerie’ Commercial (1976) [YouTube], T.V. Tonite with Ron Hendren – 10/7/82 –”Cheers” – NBC [collection], “Street-Time N.Y.C.” (1988) – Track 8 by Randy Antley [collection], Weiman Wood Furniture Soap with Shelley Long (Commercial, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Telemann – 18 Canons Mélodieux (part 17, perfomed by Michel Rondeau) [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC 4.0], WSNS Channel 44 – Monster Rally Movie (Opening, 1976-1980) (Raw Footage) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Magic Smup & Nightstation Revival Deluxe [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Floatin’ Down To Cotton Town by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], FroggerArcMainTrackFix [tcrf.net], Thinkabout (Ending Credits, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], UNIVERSE (1976) (excerpt) [Fedflix, public domain], Fido is a Hot Dog Now by Billy Murray (1914) [Archive.org, public domain], Let Me See Your Arms Stretch Out by The Search [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], CFTO NEWS – WEB MANIA ON THE IMDB (1997) [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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3:36:28 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: You Can See Everything (2026) review (with spoilers), Elizabeth Holmes, Nathan Fielder, parodies, Wall Drug bookmarks, AI, reality, trailers, Narnia, Led Zeppelin, Tape Land 208 – New Whychock Revival – Version 2, history of the show, listener email (The Overnightscape’s Apprentice), The Overnightscape #582 (3/2/07), Montana 1980 (Part Four) (Summer 1980), Norbit (2007), Yields, Cybercab, Hong Kong Phooey, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:56:00)… 1985 GTE Commercial [YouTube], The Nutcracker Suite: Overture by Léo Lago [Jamendo,CC BY-SA 3.0], MindWarp (Galaxy of Terror, 1981) Trailer [YouTube], Supervan (1977) (Trailer) [YouTube], JORDACHE COMMERCIAL [YouTube], The Allnighter (1987) [YouTube], T.V. Tonite with Ron Hendren – 10/5/82 –”Bare Essence, Part II” – CBS [collection], Magnetspur by Julius Lagerfeld [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], About The Spot (1995) [YouTube], Sunset Julius by Tree Bag Ask’s Leisure Cassette System [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], “Street-Time N.Y.C.” (1988) – Track 5 by Randy Antley [collection], top 100 scary logos part 4 [YouTube], The Whole Town’s Wise by Ada Jones & Billy Murray (1914) [Archive.org, public domain], ELKMONT VALLEY SOLAR ENERGY: Elkmont Rural Village [FedFlix, public domain], Gold or Rock? by The Cholla [SurfGuitar101.com, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Entrance of the Gladiators (Julius Fucik) by Bensenville Municipal Band [Archive.org, CC BY 3.0 US], Return to Control by Rushjet1 [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], NEVER BUILT Disney Theme Park Called Disney’s America (1993) (excerpt) [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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1:53:24 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

This is a new audio version of my book New Whychock Revival. I recently wanted to put together a short version of the book the same length as A Wine of Wizardry by George Sterling. I eventually decided on an excerpt, which ran about 13 minutes. I chose a new computer voice to read it – “Azure Grant MAI-Voice-2.1”. I liked how this voice approached the material, so I decided to have it read the whole thing. In this new version, I added two new poems from Weird Little Highway, 8 and 9, and revised 9 a little. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this Epic Psychedelic Gen Z Poem!

Download a PDF of the book at thinkfang.com

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