The Overnightscape 1055: The Brawl at Cosmic Mike’s Place (3/7/14)
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2:06:55 – Frank in NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: An air-testing device, cold weather, playing with my Korg Monotron Delay synthesizer on the bus creating electronic drone music, the second NYC VR Meetup, video poster in the subway, a strange moment in culture and technology with virtual reality, The Pixies, first public demo of Nightstation VR, nasty smell, Advil, phantom music, on the subject of death, Andre the Giant died at age 46 (17,060 days) in 1993, Obey, the observers, my chair broke, New Jersey Transit, ticket machines, barker, dollar coins, trademarking of safety, deranged person, gangsters, synthesizer and coffee beans, synthesizing before lunch, Here Comes the Hotstepper, weird Indian food, Star Citizen, Elite, thoughts on Nightstation, scope and perception, the tail end of the golden age of videogames, Electronic Games Magazine (July 1983), Miner 2049er, Bandai Solar Games – Hikyo Amazon, Galactic Gladiators (1983), Brawl at Cosmic Mike’s Place, cosmic stuff, The Cosmic Cottage, Bluffcosm.com, my gloves smell like coffee, bastard clerks, sleep pods, cool workplaces, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage with Carl Sagan, the new Cosmos, Space Station 76 (2014), the future from the 70s, Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010), taking the subway down to Union Square, 2023, Cinderella memory, counterculture, chess hustlers, tea store memory, The Muppets, Men Without Hats, a Rush song on American Idol, playing with synthesizers at a music store, patching in from the multiverse, and more… plus the Other Side (at 1:26:45)… Pinegrass Medley by The Acousticals [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Showtime 1981 program promos [YouTube], Deep Cover by The Surfside IV [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Parker Brothers – Wildfire (Commercial, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Oskari the Heimfanker by Madbrain [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], PooPooTrain to Crazy Town by The Herb Gardeners (January 1, 2000) [Archive.org, CC BY-NC 3.0], Illinois Tool Works 1 – Jean Shepherd [collection], Virus by QB (Pink Walrus Productions) [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Gold Wings (Gottlieb, 1986) [PinMAME], WTTW Channel 11 – The Callaway-Ruddle Report (Opening, 1976) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Han Solo by Rude Star [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Daddy Cool – Interview (1971) [YouTube], Rad Movie Trailer [YouTube].
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
Frank Nora – thanks for always having a fresh podcast to choose from, just when I need one most. Your podcasts are like a warm bed that I can lie in. (And tell the truth in). It’s a joke, get it? waka waka waka.
Comment by Jimbo — March 9, 2014 @ 6:21 pm