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49:24 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.
It was my first time back to the World Trade Center area since 9/11. I started off in lower Manhattan, and walked up along the Hudson River, to the World Financial Center, still being repaired. Later in the tape, I explore classic video game arcades in Times Square – visiting Laser Park and Broadway City Arcade – and talking about many other now long-lost landmarks of the area. Also on the tape are ambient sounds of commuting, notes on my Obliviana project (which would come to an end a year later), and much more… Recorded Feb 1-4, 2002.
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Join Mike in the studio late at night on his very special 205th episode, as he remembers when American Idol Ruben Studdard once put Birmingham, AL — and its area code, 205 — on the map.
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Show Notes: I have no idea what pain is; kids of the 80s/90s are spoiled and must search desperately for things to get mad about; “Schitt$ Creek” show; Chris Elliot; Zippo lighters; Music Break 1*; Elvira: Mistress of the Dark; playing “Jeopardy” with Alexa; area code 205; Ruben Studdard; cynical society; Video Street Video Store**; do teenagers work anymore?; Birmingham has the last skyscraper mooring mast for dirigibles in the world; Governor Robert Bentley is NOT resigning amid scandal after all; Music Break 2*; nobody on HBO watches HBO; “Big Little Lies”; my Top 5 favorite movies.
*Music Breaks: “Take it Personal” by Name Your Fear; “The Walls Ate My Sister’s Dog” by BlunderBox; “Roy” by JBlanked.
**Video Street Video Store: Wendy’s Training Video — “Grill Skillz”, (1989).
Backing music for tonight’s episode is the Midnight Cassette System (CCO 1.0 Universal, attribution, non-commercial, share-alike).
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released March 2017 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.
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1:34:32 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.
Recorded on Tuesday, October 24, and Wednesday, October 25, 1989, on this tape I’m “wallowing in the late 80s” and describing my deeply weird, intricately detailed dreams. It’s right after my magazine, Anything But Monday, collapsed, and I’m living at home with my parents, unemployed. It starts off with me playing Tetris on my Mac Plus in the basement, talking about my life, and then getting into the dreams.
I really enjoyed hearing this cassette – it is being presented here for the first time ever – as I hadn’t even heard it since I recorded it over 27 years ago.
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com
