The Overnightscape Underground

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1:31:22 – 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.

In July 2001 I was struggling to implement a new phase of my overly ambitious creative project “Obliviana” – and I recorded my thoughts about it in my Jeep while waiting for the bus over the course of several days, and also while walking around NYC.

One location I recorded in twice on the tape is the plaza between the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. Little did I know that less than two months later, 9/11 would happen.

There’s a double sense of impending disaster on the tape – the approach of 9/11, and the inevitable failure of Obliviana.

Once I finally gave up on Obliviana in 2003, it led to the start of The Overnightscape, which has been a much better creative project for me.

Notes: (7/9/01) ambient sounds of the subway, (7/10/01) smoking a cigar in my Jeep, job stuff, Obliviana, Dashic Deeds, (7/11/01) Big Brother 2, financial difficulties, Frank in the future, (7/12/01) missed the bus, Fonosta Device, a flaw in Obliviana Phase 2, (7/13/01) more thoughts on Obliviana, cigar, (7/16/01) walking in World Trade Center plaza, Obliviana Day, singing beggar, taxi protest, (7/17/01) more thoughts on Obliviana, Bluffcosm CD idea, (7/19/01)  World Trade Center plaza, more Obliviana plans, introducing 209 to the world, keystone idea.

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1:01:36 – Join Mike at the busy Riverchase Galleria a week before Christmas. Topics include: Back in the O.N.S.U.G.; recent tragic shooting at the Galleria; Alabama malls have been getting bad national press lately; teaching; movies (“Bohemian Rhapsody”; “The Mule”); postmodernism; Keep Your Eyes Open.

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2:24:29 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Christmas cheer in the bus terminal, champagne, Overwatch, Harry Potter, new sunglasses, Brown World Return II, jazz musician, Drive By by The Necks (2003), “Unusual, Neglected and/or Lost Literature”, Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, Ancient Lights by Davis Grubb (1982), Red Leech, Zope, space madness, authors inserting themselves into the story, creative mojo, stand-up comedy, Inside Jokes on Amazon Prime, the rampling genre, video mist, Stuff Yer Face, Roman numerals, beeps estimate, shitty robots, wandering around Times Square, soup, Winter Solstice, TeaGschwendner, aged pu-erh tea, the cartoon owl with purple feathers around his eyes, new liquor store open, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:43:34)… Again by The Very Unknown Friends Of Jane Doe [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], God Hates Penguins by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand, CC BY 2.0], Chauffeur’s Training School (Commercial, 1983) [FuzzyMemories.TV], TV Guide ‘Bicentennial’ Commercial (1975) [YouTube], Helium Moon by Olde Men on Acid [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], End of Day 3 Synth by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Nice and Smooth by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], WBBM Channel 2 – Noonbreak – “Weather with Harry Volkman” (Segment & Break, 1978) [FuzzyMemories.TV], African tribal drums, beat 3 by peridactyloptrix [Freesound, CC0 1.0], Puppets Dangling by Jacco Gardner [SoundCloud, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Screen Test (1985) [YouTube], Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees by Roger McGuinn [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 2, No. 2) [Prelinger, public domain].

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2:08:56 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Crumpler bags, outhouses, chainsaws, customer service, couch delivery, fasting, turmeric, freight portal, toilet trouble, repetition, new glasses, Focus II, tobacco, vaping, cleaners out of business, Travelers season 3 on Netflix, quantum computers, Mortal Engines (2018), and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:28:39)… Imperial Edward by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [collection], In Saturn by Clark Ashton Smith [LibriVox, public domain], David Frost Interview with Paul McCartney (1964, May 18) [YouTube], Bluffcosm Banter #1 (4/29/00) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], KAAY Eric Thomas May 1981 aircheck 1 [Archive.org, CC0 1.0], Alligator Moon Suite by Robert Hunter (live at Rio Theater on 1978-03-04) [Archive.org].

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20:03 – 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.

Notes: Frank singing an early concept for the Fuzzy Daupner song Sign of the Malls, weird day, missed the bus, chasing the bus, Newport Centre Mall, PATH, Hoboken ferry, new golden dollars, missed the ferry, yukon malt vinegar potato chips, World Financial Center, visiting the New York Mercantile Exchange, Channel 13 store in World Trade Center, sushi, feeling weird, Blockbuster, Village Comics, Pokemon Neo Cards, Washington Square Park, Strand Books, old magazines, Virgin Megastore, thunderstorm, jacket, Mr. Driller, driving home, writing the song in my head, Chu Chu Rocket, 209s, fear of success.

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2:56:06 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: A puppet and a toothbrush, Amarok karaoke, Spitting Image, Margaret Thatcher, what happens in a song after it ends, toxic decks, Saga, Nickelodeon Universe, cantilevering, Street Road, armored car spills cash into the highway, fasting, turmeric, repeating patterns, magic, psychic research, beer incident, hemp legalized, bulk pickup, Peanuts, Travelers season 3, Canadian time travel, The Necks, fidget gadget review (The Thinket – New Retro Shadow), Donovan, Doug Henning, cults, Hugh Downs, Mike Wallace, Frontier of Cups, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:15:34)… Á Minuit, le 31 Décembre by Monroeville Music Center [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 3.0], bad times by idealist [Broque.de, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], Alligator Moon Suite by Robert Hunter (live at My Father’s Place on 1978-05-28) [Archive.org], Mike Fink Keel Boats [collection], Remembered Light by Clark Ashton Smith [LibriVox, public domain], Mandelbrot [collection], The Boy Scouts of America by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [collection], The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation From Sanity #6 [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

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1:51:25 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Light bulbs, The Little Drummer Girl, Ambient 1: A Brief History of Ambient (1993), bulk pickup, Hearthstone, intermittent fasting, blueberry coffee, last fluorescent bulb, Thinket delivery, new glasses, listener email (Rich from North Carolina, Jazz Kenny), Lower Machinery, San Francisco, ice sculptures, weird dreams, Axl Rose, Doug Henning, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:10:54)… Northern Express by Longman [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Dominick’s Finer Foods with Elaine Mulqueen (Commercial #1, 1973) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Pure Energy [via Webm8 productions], Weird Highway by Fuzzy Daupner [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Some In The Woods by Fuzzy Daupner [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Shoot The Moon by LiQuid Metamorphosis [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Ooh2 by Russelle [Freesound, CC0 1.0], Beublin 04 – Cheyenne (Season One – 1990) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], A Wine of Wizardry by George Sterling [LibriVox, 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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1:30:24 – 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.

This tape from February 2002 is labeled “Gullhall 4” on side A and “Gullhall 5” on side B. It’s me recording audio notes on my creative projects and what directions I wanted to go in. This was a little over a year before I started The Overnightscape, and I was struggling with a number of ideas, which eventually led to The Overnightscape and The Overnightscape Underground…

Notes: [Gullhall 4] Tuesday 2/5/02, 9:14 AM, sitting in my Jeep at the bus stop, post office trip, subway flute music, 3:19 PM, Lispenard Street, Stormjaunting, Pearl Paint, people fighting, Wednesday 2/6/02, 2:57 PM, 54th Street, Davidoff, Thursday 2/7/02, 9:45 AM, espresso incident, Timothy’s World Coffee, 3:00 PM, books, tapioca tea, Shasta at K-Mart, Friday 2/8/02, 10:00 AM, hurt my knee, late for work, subway, 1:00 PM, Temple in the Village, Stormjaunting observations, 6:30 PM, feasibility testing, Gene Simmons at Virgin Megastore, Saturday 2/9/02, 6:29 PM, Obliviana Radio, 209, Severe Repair, pine air freshener in my Jeep, computerized audio entertainment, Intel Pocket Concert MP3 player, Dragnet, Morpheus, Digital Llama Radio, RetroGaming Radio, The Silmarillion, Jean Shepherd archive, bitrates, Cheapo3, Petco, 7:12 PM, 209 vs. Bluffcosm, Gullhall, Fuzzy Daupner, audio ideas, odometer, [Gullhall 5] audio show downloads, computerized audio entertainment, Monday 2/11/02, NYC, espresso patterns, payphones, Tuesday 2/12/02, ferryboat, dreams, 3:04 PM, Stormjaunting, lunch, Dean & Deluca, licorice information,  Wednesday 2/13/02, 9:54 AM, coffee stuff, Delawanna incident, Thursday 2/14/02, sense of time, bookstore, pita, espresso, Severe Repair, Broadway City Arcade, finished The Silmarillion, creative directions, ticket plaza, Severe Repair, Monopoly pinball, Racing Jam, 10:05 PM, waiting for the bus, novel publishing, on the bus, book thoughts, 209 thoughts, New Obliviana Radio, The Interesting Man, rejection letters, don’t want to be a science fiction author or a cult leader, want to be the master of the computerized airwaves, long road to get to this point, new age, Friday 2/15/02, arrived at work, lunch, after work, Manhattan Mall, Jim Hanley’s Universe, the power of 209, 7:30 in Hoboken, NORA, TITCA, waiting at the train station, seasons, meta shows, plans for the future.

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2:04:57 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Sleeping is believing, anti-energy drinks, Steely Dan, dental floss, cartoon wolf, Mountain Madness, Wasn’t Even Any Hollywood, cave paintings, Mountaindale Music and Arts Festival, waffle dream, Cy Conda, intermittent fasting, new belt, Fanta Berry, Weinz Kurvalin, WTC Neufont, Hearthstone, splinter in sock, giant shopping bag, eye doctor, haircut, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:23:31)… The Killer Bag (2/11/01) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Hallöchen No 9 by Neo Phlegma [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Chap Stick Lip Treat Flavor Gloss with Suzy Chapstick (Commercial, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Gentlemen Without Weapons Interview [YouTube], Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 2, No. 3) [Prelinger, public domain], G39-04-New Year’s Eve by craigsmith [Freesound, CC0 1.0], Corporate Variations by Marwood Williams [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Sky Stroll by zinger & bacter [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Zombie Town by The Fisherman [SoundCloud, CC BY 3.0], The Canopy by Stanleybirch [collection], The Gladiator by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [collection].

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2:37:29 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The psychedelic gates, TV show idea, wallet incident, Repo Man, brown tiles, liquor store in progress, top hats, Wigan, Universal Crossword, dark puzzles, other 1980s, Slida, pretzels, Red Hot Oatmeal, Thinket, Rastakhan’s Rumble, Magic Arena, Ken Berry dead at 85, Pete Standing Alone dead at 90, Boards of Canada, the weirdness report, updates, Carter vs. Bush to become the longest-lived U.S. President, Not of this Road, Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018), new card game Artifact, Van Der Graaf Generator, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:56:24)… Starblade (Namco, 1991) [MAME], The Pathfinder of Panama by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [collection], Peter Ivers “Slap the Ginkels” Spiel – New Wave Theatre 1982 [YouTube], The Desert Garden by Clark Ashton Smith [LibriVox, public domain], Pronto-Lloyd by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Puppets [Archive.org], J.S Bach – Concerto in A major for orchestra – I. Allegra [Musopen, public domain], Montana 1980 (Part Four) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Profile in Anger Trailer 1984 [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