The Overnightscape Underground

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2:31:09 – Frank on the road in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Off to Rockaway to see Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026), Highway Rituals, Lock ‘n’ Chase, moods, coffee, Onsug Archive, motor went crazy, obscure/lost fonts (Dingaling, Rocket Gothic), National Geographic hologram issue (December 1988), lost my way again, my review of the movie, Boards of Canada, the trailers, walking around the mall, pinball, Sushi Burrito, food court, Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 8: A Parade of Horribles, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:50:46)… Highway 94 by Blue Dot Sessions [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 4.0], CityPulse – Electronic Superhighway [Teresa Roncon] (1993) [YouTube], Follies of 1911 by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Blue Optic TV commercial (from CityTV commercial block 1984) [YouTube], The Mexican Hovercraft by Fuzzy Daupner [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Fyffe Alabama UFO Report (Headline News, 1989) [collection], En Route (ou Enfin! Le Défilé Capsule de Temps va au Centre de Contrôle) by Monroeville Music Center [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 3.0], Place Sounds – Port Authority Bus Terminal (NYC-7/17/07) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Easy Street by Billy Murray (1905) [Archive.org, public domain], top 100 scary logos part 7 [YouTube], Route 53 to Africa by Samsara/Yidakivoices Dream Sound Theater [Jamendo, CC BY-ND 3.0], Newsweasels 10-Second Promo (1994) [collection].

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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2:38:33 – Dave in Kentucky proudly presents Part One of Dashiell Hammett’s Poisonville. The fourteen mini-chapters in this installment are summarized by fourteen complete songs written by Dave and implemented by Suno.ai (v4.5). Several musical genres are represented, including country, bluegrass, folk-rock, Latin pop, reggae, doo-wop and jazz. There’s also a new Killer Serials Theme, done in the cheesy style of certain classic TV theme songs.

Show art: Public-domain covers of the November 1927 (right) and February 1928 (left) issues of Black Mask, which contained two episodes of the Poisonville serial. The characters depicted are perhaps Elihu Willsson and Bill Quint.

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4:14:39 – Frank in New Jersey and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Mini heatwave, fire chief, Tape Land Video, Video Loaf, VHS Forever on Criterion, Videoheaven (2025), video rental stores, massive morning detour through Secaucus Junction, Penn Station, subway, VHS logo font (Lee), Roxy Music, grand Central, Marilyn Monroe, In the Credits of MTV’s House of Style in 1989, synchronicities, Cherry Coke gold bar, Shock Treatment (1981), HMV, Blockbuster, Japan, major personal mystery – “some silly, some not”, AI, The Comeback, TV shows, Talking Heads, Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, Forza Horizon 6, Meyers Manx, Intersloopy, Cindy Crawford, organizing Onsug chronologically, Polar Lion Compendium, premiere of A Bunch of Rags by Polar Lion, major personal mystery – “some silly, some not – solved!, Who Spooked Rodney? (1978), RND synth, HOP WTR Double Hopped, nicotine, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, the monkey news, Mopho, Swatch Royal Pop madness, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:33:51)… Orson Welles on American Imperialism (The Dick Cavett Show, 7/27/70) [YouTube], Lies Incorporated by A_dontigny [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Twin Peaks Georgia Coffee Commercial FULL MINISERIES HD [YouTube], Too much vine, whiskey and coke by Johannes Hopfner [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], EPCOT Energy Exchange Audio Clip [YouTube], If Mr. Boston Lawson Has His Way by Billy Murray (1905) [Archive.org, public domain], Innocence corrsepondance [via Webm8 productions], Transit Shivers by Fuzzy Daupner (live at Tierney’s, 2/20/01) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Middlesix – New Whychock Revival (5/3/26) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Walking With The Sun by Minnie Tempel [Soundcloud, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], 1978 NBC Promo Quark CPO Sharkey [YouTube], Tears Of Sky by Spell 336 [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], MESA VERDE 1975 [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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1:18:57 – 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! Synchronicities: cosmic theories, synthesizers, travel.

Ref: 823-033, 711-58, 122-52, 903-10, 801-139, 301-53, 985-01, 985-33, 1006-03, 752-50, 921-65, 941-04, 916-10, 980-03, 994-09, 969-07, 686-023, 111-076, 451-26, 118-20, 140-22, 253-04.

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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2:02:45 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

My synthesizer versions of old ragtime songs are finally collected in one place!

Polar Lion (an anagram of “piano roll”) began when I discovered the website pianola.co.nz, which had a huge collection of old piano rolls, from over 100 years ago, converted to MIDI files. I was able to load the MIDI files into the music program Reason to create a unique sound for the music, and the Polar Lion project was born.

I released the first 14 songs directly on Onsug.com, and after that I presented the songs on The Overnightscape. I would work on the project on and off over the years, producing 38 songs. I figured it was time to collect them all in one place, and here they all are, in Polar Lion Compendium.

The final track in the collection, A Bunch of Rags, is brand new, and presented here for the first time. I was very happy with how that one came out.

Polar Lion has such a unique sound, I really hope more people can listen to and enjoy the songs. And of course, a big thank you to the Pianola site for converting the songs to digital form – not to mention all the composers and performers who originally created the music way back when!

Download the songs individually: Polar_Lion_Compendium.zip

Track listing (the date shown is the first time the song appeared on onsug.com):

[01] 00:00:00 – Palm Leaf Rag (4/27/10) 2:51
[02] 00:02:51 – Dear Old Southland (4/29/10) 3:04
[03] 00:05:55 – Three O’Clock In The Morning (5/2/10) 3:19
[04] 00:09:14 – Ukelele Lady (5/5/10) 2:59
[05] 00:12:13 – African Hunter (5/5/10) 2:28
[06] 00:14:41 – Battle of the Nations (5/8/10) 5:42
[07] 00:20:23 – Bolo Rag (5/8/10) 3:18
[08] 00:23:41 – Saw Mill River Road (5/11/10) 4:32
[09] 00:28:13 – La Seduccion (5/12/10) 3:09
[10] 00:31:22 – Sky Rockets Rag (5/15/10) 2:41
[11] 00:34:03 – Alcoholic Blues (5/18/10) 3:04
[12] 00:37:07 – Big Mose Blues (5/22/10) 2:42
[13] 00:39:49 – Cum-Bac Rag (5/27/10) 2:39
[14] 00:42:28 – In My Mercer Racing Car (5/29/10) 3:48
[15] 00:46:16 – Polar Bear Man (12/31/12) 2:08
[16] 00:48:24 – Woodland Sketches (1/4/13) 1:46
[17] 00:50:10 – 29th and Dearborn (1/10/13) 3:05
[18] 00:53:15 – Invitation Rag (2/15/13) 1:52
[19] 00:55:07 – Floatin’ Down To Cotton Town (2/27/13) 2:29
[20] 00:57:36 – 12th Street Rag (3/5/13) 4:24
[21] 01:02:00 – Come Back To Arizona (3/26/13) 1:58
[22] 01:03:58 – Musical Steeplechase (4/3/13) 5:40
[23] 01:09:38 – Follies of 1911 (6/5/13) 5:46
[24] 01:15:24 – Black Snake Blues (6/21/13) 2:10
[25] 01:17:34 – Unidentified Rag Medley (8/3/18) 4:07
[26] 01:21:41 – Yellow Dog Rag (8/16/18) 1:42
[27] 01:23:23 – Poison Ivy Rag (11/2/18) 2:12
[28] 01:25:35 – Red Pepper – A Spicy Rag (6/4/19) 2:24
[29] 01:27:59 – The Electric Girl – One Step (6/23/20) 2:26
[30] 01:30:25 – Texas Foxtrot (7/30/20) 2:58
[31] 01:33:23 – Maple Leaf Rag (9/1/20) 8:38
[32] 01:42:01 – Bug House Fables (9/15/20) 3:12
[33] 01:45:13 – Huckleberry Finn (10/1/20) 2:04
[34] 01:47:17 – Too Much Mustard (3/5/21) 2:30
[35] 01:49:47 – Moonlight On The Ganges (4/9/21) 3:02
[36] 01:52:49 – Bohemia Rag (2/28/23) 3:16
[37] 01:56:05 – The Shell Shock Shake (5/12/26) 2:43
[38] 01:58:48 – A Bunch of Rags (Rhapsody Rag, Maple Leaf Rag, Dandelion) (5/16/22) 3:57

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2:56:03 – Frank in New Jersey,2:56:03 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The new garbage crew, can robots eliminate garbage, Forza Horizon 6, new book work, hey mac, Lynch/Oz (2022), Wizard of Oz synchronicities, Linda’s Coffee Pot, walnuts and pistachios, always windy for recycling, Other Side synchronicity, demolition progress, Rex Reed dead at 87, The Gong Show, celebrity movie reviewers, Blue Velvet (1986), closed tabs, Stereolab, fixing a toilet, Secret Passage, Tomy Pocket Games, Tomy Pocket Mate World Travel, The New Pop Explosion, Nakano Broadway, Entertainment Destinations book, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:15:37)… Shrink Magic (Commercial, 1975) [FuzzyMemories.TV], You Can Not Knock Me Down by Jim Guittard [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], J.S. Mill (A Small Remix) by NoidBoy [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Hard to Believe by WK [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], The Firesign Theatre Radio Hour Hour – Episode 09 – Everyone In New York Is A Communist (excerpt) (3/22/70) [collection], Dailysonic65: Do you know where that toothbrush has been? (07/13/05) (opening) [collection], Krystall Eye by Dominique B [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], minutewaltz (1964, Dan Smith’s PDP-1 Music Collection) [textfiles.com], Fire and Ice Movie Trailer [YouTube], I’m On the Water Wagon Now by Billy Murray (1904) [Archive.org, public domain], KNBC-4 1970- The NBC Comedy Theater, Very Rare Promo [Obsolete Video/YouTube], 6AM by Cobra Neon Defender [Archive.org, CC BY 4.0], Gleaming the Cube (1989) Trailer [YouTube], 1983 – Bain de Soleil [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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2:38:01 – Frank in New Jersey and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Two personal mysteries solved last night, one major (book from which song titles from my 1987 tape were taken: There Is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce (1942)), and one minor (forgotten font Ter Gast), what a card!, Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 8: A Parade of Horribles, House of Spells, 42nd Street, The Exit Ramp, time travel, shadow puppets, Rockefeller Center, 1970, other selves, record store, Starcastle, Dear Starship Tricksters, Andy Kaufman, W.C. Fields, Boards of Canada – Inferno listening party, chamber music, Triumph – Just A Game (1979), Fraunces font, 40th Street, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:57:25)… Hare Krishna in Blues Bossanovar by Teo Vincent IV [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], 1971 – GAF Viewmaster with Jodie Foster and Henry Fonda [YouTube], Someday I’ll Find Out by Guitari [collection], Chez Bob’s Get Back at School 83 by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], The Shell Shock Shake by Polar Lion (using midi from pianola.co.nz) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Food Doesn’t Fly – Lunchroom Manners [A/V Geeks, public domain], I’m the Night by Culttastic [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Middlesix – Mutiny In Outer Space (1965) [Archive.org], Pick ‘Em Up Silas Lay ‘Em Down Zeke by Cal Stewart with Billy Murray and the American Quartet (1919) [Archive.org, public domain], Prairie Fire – May 19, 1994 (edit) [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Pacific Rim by Los Surfvivers [SurfGuitar101.com, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], 1967 Commercial breaks from ”To Tell the Truth” (Break 2) [Archive.org, public domain], Abandoned Shipping Lanes by Cousin Silas [BFW Recordings, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WTHR Channel 13 – “NBC-Style Station ID” & Promo (1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV].

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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4:19:20 – Welcome, hosts and listeners of The Onsug radio universe, to come and join a freeform chat in video, which will be released in audio. The Exit Ramp continues for another amazing group show.

Host Frank from The Overnightscape is joined by Dave in Kentucky from his various shows, Frank’s brother John, Nate in Wisconsin, Jan Erik from Norway, Bob LeMent from Morning Commute, Doc Sleaze from his various shows, Ann from Suffern, NY, and Jefferson from Philadelphia.

Zoom AI generated topic summary: Episode Introduction and Title Origin, Haunted Houses (Attractions and Fiction), UFO/Government Disclosure, Weekly World News and Tabloid Culture, Human Origins: Anunnaki and Reptilian Theories, Cult Recruitment, Brainwashing, and Sociopathy, The Evil Farm (1987 Film Project), Nature, Foraging, and New Jersey Wildlife, Fuel Prices and the Iran War’s Economic Impact, AI, Technology, and the Future of Entertainment, Streaming TV, Production Schedules, and Classic Television, Music: Fandoms, New Discoveries, and Rock’s Cultural Status, Astral Bodies, Ghosts, and Paranormal Experiences, Birds, Animals, and Nature Intelligence, UK Politics, UK Generational Tobacco Ban, Fuel Alternatives: Vegetable Oil, Biodiesel, and Energy Suppression, Classic Comedy: W.C. Fields, Marx Brothers, and Old-Time Entertainment, Video Stores and Cultural Memory, Time Travel, Disclosure, and Frank’s World’s Fair Fantasy, Doctor Who, Hauntology, and British TV Aesthetics, James Bond Franchise and Classic Spy Films, Doc’s Town, Crop Circles, Frank’s Poetry Audiobook, Gentrification and Urban Development, Postal Services, Diners, and Post-COVID Changes, Inflation and Food Prices, American Dream Mall and the Ferris Wheel, Connie Converse and Voluntary Disappearances.

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 & Guests – more info at onsug.com

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3:10:31 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Randy from California (at 43:22), Eddie Murray (at 54:10), Chad Bowers (at 1:19:10) and Frank Edward Nora (at 2:15:47) for a discussion of G.I.’s, P.I.’s and A.I.’s.

Next month’s topics: Prologues, Monologues & Epilogues. 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 June 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.

Opening theme: “It’s Central Time Again” (2024) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v3.5). Closing theme: “Noise Rebellion” (2024) by Eddie Murray and Suno.ai (v3).

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1:02:07 – In this episode:

We are joined for a very special interview with Fran Weinstein, author of the new book, Tortured Souls: High Heels, Low Expectations, and the Hollywood Gossip Mill! Fran details her 35 year run as producer and reporter for huge hit TV series Entertainment Tonight, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, and more!

Order the book today at Amazon and Barnes and Noble

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com