The Overnightscape Underground

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53:52 – Neal proposes a twelve step approach to ET and discusses nine to five life for the shipwrecked, anti-social astronauts, saving on invisible ink, how raisons d’etre work, the truth about gout, a new understanding of you Americans, learning from Orson Welles, modesty on public transport, spitting in the theatre of the mind, why x-ray glasses never took off, a logically unsound Meatloaf track (not that one) debuting rafts, rebranding spaceships in the Elongated Musket era, a real doctor’s take on edible paper, mouthwatering tree bark, judging your fictional creations, Identifying with Shithead, a bar asshole by proxy, wasting a cat’s time, cat pants the right way, Let it Be versus Que Sera, and more.

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47:23 – Neal discusses black boxes in popular culture, a role for camels in health spas, TV casket reunions, ambidextrous banking, a foot-related tip for smokers, a cat’s analysis of the songs of Genesis, wishful thinking about superjet lounges, recording off TV in 2024, songs about administrative work, a cat’s take on Peter Gabriel’s career phases, telling other people what their point is, an alarming decline in brand-name toilet paper, why losing pens is a sign of intelligence, cold sore watch, haircut syncing for television, when ice takes you out of the movie and more.

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51:44 – Pardon the slightly off audio in places, due to misadventure.

Neal exposes the abhorrent life of the cranberry sauce obsessive, remembers a disturbing mass produced heart surgery portrait and discusses whiskey in sit-coms, two very different ways to appreciate crabs, why dogs’ mouths are impractical, Stephen King’s so called stand, a bus tour of nondescript houses, the cost of hand washing, skipping rope philosophy via Black Mirror, fudge’s one saving grace, how children stole cycling, decanting defined, life on one third of a hill, shortcut shame in a mature neighbourhood, ordinary house tourism, living on an island versus living on an island. being a crab and a hermit, revinventing seafood display tanks, shortcuts to other seas, life and death grammar explained by a cat, fly by wire Internet explained to a cat, when birds had runways, the ludicrious Road Runner, adapting Paul McCartney’s songwriting method, The Ant and the Aardvark cartoon, failing to remember the name Jackie Mason, Rodney Dangerfield’s menu, featherless aircraft, a dog in a cat food restaurant, a face set several rows back, impractical two-faced dog studies and more.

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4:23:46 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Red rock canyons, hyenas, and Winnie the Pooh, Le Botaniste, trains dream, giant bag, thunderstorm, giant hat, delayed book, Doctor Who finale, Whychock Revival, pruning of poems, Lost At Sea by Glenn Phillips (1975), the debate, freedom of speech, brainwashing, pop culture, toxic construction dust, Puppet Roads, Wall Zonkage, dialectics, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields (2010), Looney Tunes – Overture (1968), Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon, Thief (1981), Mad Mike article in The New York Times, fantasy baseball, Dicecards: The World’s Geekiest Dice Bag in a Deck of Cards, MultiVersus, freemium madness, tree update, alianthus webworm moth, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:42:42)… WSNS Channel 44 – “Psychedelic Station ID” (1975) [FuzzyMemories.TV], MindCocktail by The_E.K.-303 [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Cube Banter 9 [collection], End of Day 1 Music by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Fantasyland Announcements [collection], The Smoking Sound by Juanitos [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Clara Bow Mysteries & Scandals (excerpt) [YouTube], Wonder Why by McDonat [Archive.org, CC BY-NC 4.0], Real Genius (1985) [YouTube], Welcome to the World of Sound by Djfredse [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Sinistar Arcade 1982 [YouTube], Hombre Amarillo by butumbaba [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 2.5], Henry Kissinger on Nuclear Deterrence (1958) [YouTube], Ripple Boogie by Simon Stålenhag [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Video Dead (1987) (Trailer) [YouTube], The Numinous by Doug Rice [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Comedy Central 1991 Commercial Break w_Halloween Promo [YouTube], Concrete Nipples by AMANDA [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Pac & Pal (Namco, 1983) [MAME].

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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1:56:02 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Martini Ranch, Bill Paxton, Fish Heads, Tattletales, Bert Convy, weirdness elitist, concert amnesia, game show parodies, The Gong Show, The Munsters movie, It’s Locked at the Moment, the interdimensional society, tree got knocked down, recording in real time, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:15:25)… Simple Genetics by Elixir [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Ramp Fiction – Nine Pebble Detector On! [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Sea Sermon by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], mondo mod 2 (excerpt) [YouTube], SLE3P (The Roots RMX) by Metastaz [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 4.0], Archipelago’s The Open Show – Week 14 [collection], In Matacumbo by Cosmic Analog Ensemble [Upitup Records, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Rachel Sweet starring in The Sweet Life [YouTube], Crush Roll by Keishi Yonao [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Ramp Fiction – Nine Pebble Detector On! Annotated [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], In My Mercer Racing Car by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Porcho Patcho 3 (1/11/20) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

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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4:35:08 – Frank in New Jersey and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Huge mall exit confusion, hopscotch, The Strokes, Palisades Center, earliest summer solstice in 228 years, demonstration, Donald Sutherland dead at 88, timeline theory, next day, Only Dr. Clark, bathroom dreams, “India” dream, nova, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live…”, private senses, psychic phenomena, good guy vs. bad guy, rogue factions, collateral damage, VitaCup Genius Coffee, second breakfast, the endless racket of lawn care, Metallica, Personal Census, sedum, bulletproof coffee, Fourtha Losta earworm, Nervous Norvus, Dr. Demento, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), Hacks, Laurie Anderson, Beyond Sushi, Din Tai Fung, Ki-Adi Mundi, 9/11, toothpaste, mosquito incense containers, comfy chair, St. Stephen, Palisades Mall, cinema rides, mini claw machines, customize the Onsug Radio Lounge, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:54:20)… Restored film: Bicentennial Fireworks Press Reel [YouTube], HOT ROD GIRL trailer [Archive.org, public domain], Wizards Of The Lost Kingdom Trailer 1985 [YouTube], Music Power records [via Webm8 productions], Sweet Love by Imra [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 4.0], Pleasant Moments by Scott Joplin (performed by Gerlüz) [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], A Computational Empire Part 1 by Büromaschinen [Upitup Records, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Nixon Resignation Speech (excerpt) [collection], Alexandor Caldor by Invaders From Sears [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], CFQC Radio (6) Wal & Den & Others [YouTube] [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Blackbirds Dream (December Mix) – ft. NISKI D?WI?K by @miral [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], It Falls Apart by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], Computer and Console Boot Sounds Compilation [Archive.org], Garth Brooks talks about the relationship he and Chris Gaines have with their fathers [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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1:11:40 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

Frank in NJ and NYC. Saturday, September 22, 2001 (11 days after 9/11), don’t know when the next attack is gonna come, the situation in Obliviana, lighting a cigar, Rowe-Manse Emporium, pipe tobacco, stressed out, broadband, new commute route, was it all a dream, Fuzzy Daupner is over, new Obliviana logo, summer is over, an audio basis, intercepted broadcasts, incident, Sun. 9/30/01, squirrel, ambient outdoor sounds, ambient street sounds, flimflam game, people talking, train, Sun. 10/14/01, UFO dream, solo albums, Wed. 10/17/01, Delawanna Train Station, lava cave dream, car alarm, Thu. 10/18/01, Delawanna Train Station again, Washington Square Park, damaged reality, Thompson Street, PATH, The New New Obliviana, audio format, Fri. 10/19/01, erased stuff by accident, test recordings.

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3:22:59 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Treehouse dreams, spaceship in the basement, The Great Race (1965), Tape Land, Please Open Doors Slowly, wax museum, Whychock Revival, The Amusement Industry (Japan, Jan. 1993), Synthetic Pleasures (1995), another solar scam, Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973), The Criterion Channel, cool cars, Snoopy shirts, “Play for Today” Who’s Who (TV Episode 1979), My Dinner with Andre (1981), Party Girl (1995), Dewey Decimal System, Teorema (1968), Onsug Radio Lounge, more chat, cats knocking things off tables, Edict Zero finale, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:41:59)… Drop of Honey by musicfornothing [Soundcloud, CC BY-ND 3.0], NBC on Douglas Trumbull’s Showscan – 1984 [YouTube], Afro Blue by Triplexity [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], WFLD Channel 32 – Movie 32 – “Topper Takes A Trip” (Break #2, 1971) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Join the Bahamas by Gino Pertot [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], SEGA “Galileo Factory” [YouTube], Oral Unit by Arbo Sako [FreeMusicArchive, public domain], ‘The Jokers’ movie ad [Archive.org], 29th and Dearborn by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], About BWebCentral.com by Brad Detchevery [Archive.org, CC BY 2.5], The Electric Girl – One Step by Polar Lion (using midi from pianola.co.nz) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Erica Ehm in Much Music Environment [YouTube], Too Much Mustard by Polar Lion (using midi from pianola.co.nz) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], LIVE ManiaTV with Kristen [YouTube], Fourtha Losta (lyrics by Frank Edward Nora, music by Suno AI 3.5, non-commercial use) (6/14/24) [collection], Archipelago’s The Open Show – Week 2 [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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4:24:29 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Jury duty, American Dream, wandering around the mall, new food court area, Onsug Radio Lounge, The Acolyte, book delayed?, gray catbird, The Nevers, Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown demo, repeated experiences, elitist fantasies, they’re cutting down trees, Time Express, TV Guide 4/21/79, Whodunnit?, Ed McMahon, Presenting Susan Anton, key fob issues, Rolling Stone cancels “lifetime” subscriptions, Amelia Coburn synchronicity, Bridget St. John, home video comics, The 1982 Video Review Awards, Paranoimia, The Intro and the Outro, Horace Batchelor, another stab at AI Fourtha Losta, Snowflaw Car, salgam, invasive species, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:43:14)… The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons (performed by Denis Carpenter) [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY 3.0], Dragon’s Lair (excerpt) [YouTube], Acaba by FUNCTION X2DS [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Spring Break (1983) trailer [YouTube], Telemann – 18 Canons Mélodieux (part 7, perfomed by Michel Rondeau) [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC 4.0], Kaiser Broadcasting – “Doing Things in a Big Way” (Promotional Sales Film) (Part 2, 1968) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Telarañas de Confusión by Jim Mendoza [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Uncle Duane 3 by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], The Rococo Tape by The Paparazzi [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Video Game 1983 Preview [YouTube], Pent Breeze by Fuzzy Daupner [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WMAQ Channel 5 – Weekend (Opening, 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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2:07:45 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Pat Sajak’s final Wheel of Fortune, The Pat Sajak Show, jury duty, visions of root beer, IBC Root Beer, Carry On Holograph Alley, Cycling Frog, Hybrid, 7-11 owl shirt, Onsug Radio Stash, Obliviana, Doctor Who, The Acolyte, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:27:13)… WMAQ Channel 5 – Remington Steele – “High Flying Steele” (Commercial Break, 1984) [FuzzyMemories.TV], PRES. NIXON DEFENDS HIS OFFICE ON WATERGATE CHARGES (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], Wunderkid by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0], Sarequ (fake Boards of Canada song, origin unknown) [collection], WTHR Channel 13 – “NBC-Style Station ID” & Promo (1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], 1983 – Bain de Soleil [YouTube], Marvel Comics – “Summer Escape” (Commercial, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV] , Bell System ad (early 1980s) [YouTube], The Games of Starcade – Bag Man [YouTube], 94-Piece Jumbo Beanie Baby Set – 1998 (Don West) [YouTube], Moquette by Sun Sister [EardrumsPop, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Gladiator by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [collection], High Ballin (1978) trailer [YouTube], Photon Isthmus by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Sea Window by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Video Newsletter (Convenience Stores) (Ideas Ideas) [Archive.org], The Malibu Bikini Shop (1986) (Trailer) [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