Tape Land 184 – ONS “Fails” 2012 (March–August 2012) [released 5/31/25]
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3:35:32 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.
Here’s a collection of “failed” segments recorded for my show The Overnightscape in 2012, which I decided at the time to set aside and not release.
In some cases, as I recall, I was just not feeling it, and figured it would be better to start over. In other cases, I must have felt I was going too far on a particular topic.
In any case, it was quite fun listening to the segments, now 13 years later. Enjoy this audio which is being released here for the first time!
– Frank Edward Nora, 5/31/25
Notes:
0:00:00 – 3/28/12 – The Promenade Shops at Clifton, Times Square, vague areas of New Jersey, lifestyle centers, the 2008 economic decline, The Overnightscape Underground Archive, cigar, Three Card Monte, ume riceballs, social engineering, “worthful”, day world vs. night world entertainment, bear sculptures, what to do, weird antenna, must have rained before, rooftop park.
0:27:45 – 5/1/12 – Monthly bus pass, weird customer, weird day, Occupy Wall Street, economic theories, protesters in Bryant Park, intentions, ruling the world.
0:43:37 – 6/19/12 – Homeless guy with Pillsbury Doughboy bathrobe in front of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, Juneteenth, Overnightscape Central, King of Prussia Mall, The Marx Brothers, occult symbolism, Disney’s New Amsterdam Theatre, coffee prices, Times Square, arts festival, art scam, The Emperor’s New Clothes, cement mixers, America’s Got Talent, schemes and scams.
1:18:38 – 7/5/12 – Winston comedy video, tobacco archive, demolition, planned obsolescence.
1:31:23 – 7/17/12 – Vans in the ’70s, coin pusher games, Supervan (1977), dreams, sunglasses, Macaron Cafe, Barris Kustoms, The Gong Show Movie (1980), MAS*H.
1:55:33 – 7/20/12 – I was on TV last night (Access Hollywood and Project Runway) as a face in the crowd, watching TV, game show laws.
2:03:24 – 7/26/12 – Checked the radar, got my umbrella.
2:04:23 – 7/27/12 – 209th day of the year, London Olympics begin, New York City tried to get these Olympics, Innsbruck, Austria, violence and cash, costumes, puppets, broken touchscreen, personal space, the mysteries of “Mac”, history of 209, Grand Central Station, debt, PEP (past editing paranoia), King Aroo.
2:41:36 – 8/16/12 – Screaming Yellow Zonkers are back, The Skatebirds, Lidsville, The Beat Generation
CD box set, Ladytron, accents are like piercings for letters, Project Greenlight, The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003), occult symbolism, Olympics closing ceremony, Pink Floyd, conspiracy theories, violent comic books, violent video games, more consopiracy theories.
3:23:37 – 8/17/12 – Conspiracy theories, plastic surgery, Bowling Green, subway sounds, World Trade Center sphere sculpture, 9/11, Olympics closing ceremony.
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
