Frank Nora Show 1636 – Creative Puzzles of the World (1/20/11)
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47:00 – Another morning in the world, every day billions of people are doing things – what is being accomplished?, nice bus drivers, SlotRadio, sorting through the 20th Century, song “I’ve Got The Music In Me” by Kiki Dee, foolish dreams, American Idol – season 10 premiere, Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez, New Jersey, subway entrance, hillbilly music, building people up to knock them down, running people, trying to become famous, fake dimes, Pan Am sculpture, the bleak commute, California beach resort brochure, controversial architecture, Dark City, Of Mice and Men, boardroom dreams, endless optimism, Merriam-Webster and Garfield Dictionary, Calvin & Hobbes, celebrities who stop doing what they’re good at and start painting, Syd Barrett, Captain Beefheart, the insane world, dishonorable professions, Union Square, a bank branch at the former location of the Virgin Megastore, the art of Frances Bean Cobain, Forbidden Planet, The Strand, dense media, old toys, game books in the basement, Creative Puzzles of the World, rare posters auctions, type catalogs, record covers, another snowstorm coming, and some cool sounds of a subway platform.
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Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com
Released January 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
Hi Frank, Greg and I discussed how the whole American Idol audition process is a scam in episode 124 of The Paunch Stevenson Show. One of our friends had gone on an audition and walked us through it. It’s nothing like the way they show it on TV.
Comment by Rob — January 25, 2011 @ 9:40 pm