The Overnightscape Underground

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1:53:12 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

I made this tape to record my thoughts on the status of my creative projects, and to come up with plans for the future. This was just a few months after I started The Overnightscape in 2003. My ideas were all over the place and quite unrealistic, but somehow, all these years later (February 2019 now), it’s all kind of worked out…

[4:26 PM, Thursday, July 10, 2003], going on a trip to storage, The Master Cleanser, suspended Obliviana, got laid off from my job, plans for the future, Fonosta Device, massively multiplayer online role-playing games, MUDs, Garden State Parkway toll plaza, Dashic Deeds, bring Obliviana back?, cult, creative projects, Zope, new batteries, Bob Grant, Iselin, Bluffcosm, Severe Repair, arrived at storage, release the waste, accumulating junk, Toys “R” Us, The Overnightscape, Blufftoons, Thinkfang, New Fonjo, Internet radio station, new travel weathervanes, [Monday, July 14, 2003, 1:26 PM], thoughts, passions, Obliviana, trying to do something innovative and different, science fiction writing, a new way of playing with the world around you, 2-XL, the audio entertainment factor, 209, Forge of Wander, game system with entertainment, the urge for control, look at the world in a different way, creating entertainment, phone calls, self-publishing, total control, core passions, life goals, a new kind of radio, looking for a new direction, going over it again, Obliviana Super Occult Amusement, eight subdivisions, the keystone idea, a simple addictive little game which could scale up into the complete system, Interweb, [Tuesday, July 22, 2003, afternoon], walking outside in the rain, sitting in my Jeep in the parking lot during a thunderstorm, smoking a cigar, thunder, Office Space, Bluffcosm.com streaming live, Super Objects, Jean Shepherd, radio stations selling their own products, the idea is sound, watching the birds, blue animals, let’s go inside, listen to the stream.

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Onsug Radio 934 – Incoming Shows January_2019

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1:55:07 – Frank in NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Super cold day, top hat mini golf, bus ticket buying, the loitering deranged, file folder, The Room, Super Bowl LIII, NJ quarter, wacko repellent, disturbed bus driver, Nirvana, lowered expectations, Classix Nouveaux, Comfortable Weird Audio Travels, Michael Jackson, Utah, and much more…plus the Other Side (at 1:14:51)… Weird October Hitchhiker [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Four Miniatures for Violin and Cello Duo (excerpt 1) by Tim Reed [SoundCloud, CC BY-NC 3.0], Swaying – Ndntst feat. Mxe Przmo [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Pigeons Rule by linde [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], A Look Into The 23rd Century (1976) [archive.org], 1973 McDonald’s Commercial [archive.org].

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2:11:08 – Frank in NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Kaboom cereal, Babar, bourbon air freshener, cuisine of Afghanistan, bus pass, Yellowknife trivia, tea and walnuts, Tangerine Dream – Force Majeure (1979), napkins, Leadfoot, AI, sculpted goons, Rent Live, Gentle Giant, The Carleton Branch alternate timeline, monetary policy, business demon dream, disaster in another 2009, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:30:20)… pearl groove -Очень Длинный Кот [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WCIU Channel 26 – The Ginny Tiu Show (Part 1, 1969) (excerpt – pen ads 1) [Fuzzymemories.tv], The Gibbering Thing by Space God Ritual [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], 1977 Christmas TV Adverts (excerpt) [archive.org], taiga by stinkbug [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], The Great Race (1965) trailer [YouTube], Kings Island 1980 – Part 2 [archive.org], Pretend by Malyssa Bellarosa [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-SA 4.0], Walking Alone by Orange Magnolia (3/20/10 – Live at Gottrocks – Greenville, SC) [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], House Report by NICOCO [Dogmazic, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0].

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

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1:01:12 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

I had a tradition for a few years of recording weird music on New Year’s Eve. This tape starts off earlier in the year, in June, and I’m “seeing visions” to try and understand the nature of 209 (11×19=209). On 12/31, I’m playing music on my Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard. One segment, “Walking Along”, wound up on the Little Frankie Nora album “Shatter Cider Suite” (previously released in Onsug). In fact, I had given the date for that album as 1987, but with this new information, it must be 1991 or later (though much fo the music was from circa 1987).

Other than that, this is the first time any of this stuff is being heard.

9:39 PM 6/19/90, in bed, visions about the nature of 11 and 19, [14:17] 6/21/90, 7:50 AM, more visions, [31:32] 12/31/90, playing with a synthesizer and talking about my dream, [33:16] walking around outside, drumming on something, [35:03] synthesizer, [43:24] “Walking Along” from Shatter Cider Suite, [44:01] synthesizer, [46:57] singing, [57:36] outside lying on the ground, 10 minutes to midnight, [1:01:09] happy new year.

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2:27:53 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: A flea market in Virginia in 2003, the traffic light at my bus stop fell over last night, yellow plastic, Tangerine Dream – Logos (Live At The Dominion London ’82), Signal From A Cold Morning, notes of a TV genius, Frost Fest, domes, puppet popularity in the 2020s, android dream, Tangerine Dream – Sorcerer (1977), Swervedriver, Lush, Stereolab, Indian food, clash of differing energies, Arturia MicroFreak synthesizer, creative mojo, North Macedonia, foreign pangrams, Overnightscape Central – Comedians 2019, Radio Reruns, W.C. Fields, Bee Leroy, Foster Brooks, Get Smart hall of doors, MST3K, Jack-Bot, The Little Rascals, shitty robots, Match Game, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:46:30)… Repo Man TV Version – Deal [collection], Going Off by Little Frankie Nora [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WDW Monorail Spiel 12 by Jack Wagner [collection], WLS Channel 7 – Fridays (Promo #2, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Novo DanUp – Sabor a Popcorn [YouTube], Charles Nelson Reilly – Bic Banana Ad [YouTube], Jewel Food Stores – “Midnight Jewels” (Commercial, 1972) [FuzzyMemories.TV], In a Year or So (The Glass Web) by Thee Stag Knights [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Repo Man (TV Version) – Lorna Doones [collection], WTHR Channel 13 – “NBC-Style Station ID” & Promo (1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], NBC previews and WNBC News promo 1979 [YouTube], WDW Monorail Spiel 10 by Jack Wagner [collection], WFLD Channel 32 – Weather Alert (1978?) [FuzzyMemories.TV], AngloZulu by Kevin MacLeod [incompetech.com, CC BY 3.0], The Games of Starcade – Dragons Lair [YouTube], Reforth Danport (fake Boards of Canada song, origin unknown) [collection], NBC Pine Canyon is Burning promo 1977 [YouTube], WFLD Channel 32 – Wonder Woman & Space Invaders (Promo, 1982) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Night Lights: How Retroreflectivity Makes Our Roads Safer (excerpts) [FedFlix, public domain], Reagan Outlaws Soviet Union – “Bombing In Five Minutes” [collection], Destroy All Monsters American International Pictures – opening and end credits [YouTube], Burger Chef – “King Kong Glasses” (Commercial, 1977) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Reactor (Gottlieb, 1982) [MAME], Jack Frost 1980 NBC Christmas Special Promo [YouTube], Milton Bradley Dark Tower Game Tv commercial with Orsen Wells [YouTube], Classic 1970’s Television: 1970 Promo for ABC-TV’s Friday Line-Up [YouTube], US Army Song (The Caissons Go Rolling Along) by The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps [FreeMusicArchive, public domain], ELKMONT VALLEY SOLAR ENERGY: Elkmont Rural Village [FedFlix, public domain], John Peel – Night Ride (5/28/69) excerpt-roach2 [collection], RE/Search magazine plug from IRS The Cutting Edge 1986 reseach V. Vale [YouTube], Shaun Ryder Happy Mondays Interview on The Word (1992) (excerpt) [YouTube], Naughty Stewardesses Trailer [YouTube], Nite-Owl [FuzzyMemories.TV], Golden Bear Restaurants – “Gold Rush Special” (Commercial, 1982) [FuzzyMemories.TV], ACG Commercial (from Comedy Central – Break 5) [collection], WGN Channel 9 – In Search Of (Promo, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], history of Cineplex Odeon Theatres–Coming Attractions (1985-1997) (excerpt) [YouTube], General Cinema Corporation – Feature Presentation – 1977 [YouTube], NBC Network – “Red Hot Dragons & Real People” (Promos, 1980) [fuzzymemories.tv], Caution: Adolescents at Risk (1991) (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], WGN Channel 9 – Saturday Matinee – “Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy” (Opening, 1982) (excerpt) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Turkey in the Straw by United States Air Force Band [Archive.org, public domain].

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

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2:35:22 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Jackie the Joke Man was melting things on my porch, zone valve mishaps, escalator laws, The Weather Channel, Real People, frozen fountain, dreamlike mall, Tangerine Dream – Ambient Monkeys (1997), Tape Land, a recording I made in 1981, EPCOT, licorice ghost stickers, comic shop “Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed”, teleportation, The Other Mentalist, Duffy the Soapsud, magic secrets, Slugodyna, timelines, watching live TV, militaristic logo, Magic: The Gathering Arena – Rakdos cards, computer games, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:55:08)… Welcome To the Underland by Lo Faber [Archive.org, CC BY-NC 3.0], The Hot Kestrel (Remastered) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Rollergames (Williams) (1990) [PinMAME], Thru the mirror by Gerd (elysis) Raudenbusch [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 1.0], John & Paul interviewed by Mitchell Krause (WNDT, New York “Newsfront”, 5/14/68) (excerpt) [collection], Substance by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

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

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45:30 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

God’s Ass was an audio project I briefly worked in in the mid 1990s – probably sometime from 1994 to 1996. The idea was to collect my old childhood recordings (from the 70s and 80s) and repackage them as a kind of weird audio experience – actually quite similar to this current Tape Land project.

I previously released the first two parts in Tape Land 71 – God’s Ass I & II (Mid 1990s). This third part is full of more bizarre, surprising, and disturbing audio. Get ready for a window into some weird times of the mid 1980s!

Some of the audio (0:00:48 to 0:13:40) was previously released in Tape Land 25 – W (XHE Extra High Energy 90) (circa 1980)

Notes:

[0:00:00] Interview with Chris

[0:00:48] Weird sounds

[0:03:10] Frank’s time travel story

[0:11:35] Skipper commercial, CHiPs, B. J. and the Bear, Godzilla, Ask NBC News (fast speed)

[0:12:17] Classical music

[0:12:54] TV

[0:13:01] Ronald McDonald has been fired

[0:13:40] TV, Doctor Who

[0:14:22] TI-99/4A data

[0:17:27] The Avengers theme song, us talking in background

[0:18:50] Watching my Super 8mm movies, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, messing around on the tape, R2-D2 sounds, Andromeda Seven – Episode Zero – Practice, Galaxy Productions Presents: War of the Blobs, nasty Brady Bunch

[0:28:06] Frank Nora, 4:06:30 PM, Friday, December 18, 1981. Sitting at my desk. Cleaning up my room. Disney World. EPCOT Center. Tree. Destroyed snow fort. Going to see the movie “Neighbors”. Turn the cassette over.

[0:32:10] Superpoo, impressions (Barbara Walters, Jimmy Carter meets John Carter of Mars, Andy Rooney, Little Orphan Annie, Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood)

[0:38:15] Jack Benny Show

[0:39:04] Recording

[0:40:05] Washington, D.C.

[0:40:41] Making a Doctor Who fan film in 1985

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1:55:57 – Frank in NYC and NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The Other Mentalist, restaurants with performances, new chairs in the dining concourse, Kennedy the Cop, tricks and hoaxes, One Vanderbilt, A Microscopic Grandfather Clock Get-Together, Captain Kangaroo, bagels, Spheres VR, Phish, taking the train to New Bridge Landing, vegan snack review (Beanfields Bean Chips – Pico De Gallo), Mind Gallery, and much more…plus the Other Side (at 1:15:44)… Mysteries and Scandals – Vivian Vance (excerpt) [YouTube], Sanctuaire (Grant Your Wish – Single Version) by Iñaki [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Americana by Dave Kopperman (from the album “Island off the Coast of America” (2015)) [collection], Madison Little Cigars [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Diploma by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [collection], Union by Clark Ashton Smith [LibriVox, public domain], Alchemical Wedding (12/12/68, BBC Radio 1 “Night Ride with John Peel) [collection], The Siren’s Song, From “Duandon” by George Sterling [LibriVox, public domain], Chilli Con Carne (Demo) by beachbreak [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], RFD Greenwich Village [Prelinger, public domain].

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2:21:22 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Rating the fakeness level of fake bands, Phantasmal Tickets, General Cinema, The Monkees, The Archies, Spinal Tap, observing a squirrel, Tape Land, OsoaWeek, Beublin A. Richardson, Melter Pluto, Weird Highway, Dead Man’s Hand, bread art, Gloria Vanderbilt, Middlesix, Carol Channing dead at 97, theory of interdimensional elevators, Monk Plus earbuds, government shutdown, dream politician Beri Pirates, Maxine (Hallmark character), Judge Dredd, other Maxines, True Detective, The 4400, The Orville, frozen fountain, General Magic, The Google Assistant Ride, Prince of Peace Pu-Erh Tea, other worlds, Sting, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:42:34)… Sentient Beings by The Additive [Sostanze Records, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], Rare 1975 TV Ads (excerpt) [archive.org], Believe by Qsign [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WGN Channel 9 – Sunday Matinee – “Sherlock Holmes Faces Death” (Partial Pre-Show Break, Opening, and Break #1, 1982) [FuzzyMemories.TV], missed by bacter [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Dallas Market Center (1970) Logan’s Run Filming Location [archive.org], City Sounds by Garmisch [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Five retro technology commercials from the 90’s [YouTube], Untitled (cooling off improvisation) by White Trash Minstrels [Archive.org, CC0 1.0 Universal].

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