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37:00 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

Fuzzy Daupner (Carrie Engdahl–vocals & guitar, Rob DiCaterino–drums, Phil Mould–bass) live at Loop Lounge in Passaic, New Jersey, on Saturday, September 8, 2001.

This show is notable for having two of the rarest Fuzzy Daupner songs – Dirt Bike Fun and Ridiculous Fortune, which weren’t heard many times before the band broke up. Also, the show was just 3 days before 9/11.

Setlist: Sliding Gardens, Pent Breeze, The Us Hounds, Dirt Bike Fun, Ridiculous Fortune, Possible Calhoun, The Filmography of Ann B. Davis.

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3:03:20 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Shipwreck in Times Square, coming and going, mini vodka bottles, legislative procedures, transit delays, 208th day of the year, lunar eclipse, other worlds, The Expanse, cult on porch dream, Times Square art installation Mel Chin: Wake, pompous writing, Drink, Overwatch hamster, Nanette, the sad juggler, magic, Tomita, Paseo Espacial II, Freudiana, electric skateboards, Greta Van Fleet, Ichiro’s Malt & Grain Whisky, Thomas Dolby Live in Roland Cloud, Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Pirch, kwapa, Listening Guide – Channel 801, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:22:42)… SHOWTIME promos (Thursday, May 24th 1984) [YouTube], WGN Channel 9 – Tornado Warning – “Goin’ Ape” (1982) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Senseless Song by Natasha Beller [blocSonic, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], Am Be In by Orange Magnolia (3/20/10 – Live at Gottrocks – Greenville, SC) [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Another World by vurt/Opia/vurtopia [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], The Games of Starcade – Change Lanes [YouTube], Just Pants (Commercial, 1978) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Alien From L.A. (1988) [YouTube], WDW RCA Space Mountain Gordon Cooper Safety Spiel [collection], Gregorian Spring by Karibean [EardrumsPop, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], THE WALKER SPY RING – LESSONS LEARNED (1989) (excerpt) [Fedflix, public domain], RCA – “I Got a Free TV” (Commercial, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], ColecoVision – “The Arcade Experience” (Commercial, 1982) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Tapes Of Wrath (Part 2, 1983) (excerpt) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Sky Hunter by Jack Hertz [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Rack ‘Em Up! by Danny Snyder [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Arriving JFK [collection].

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2:36:35 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The same mall in the dream, the mystery of the nature of dreams, the incredible mystery of The Mandelbrot Set, The X-Files, American Dream, rave tapes, pen disappeared, Power Strip From Long Ago, megalomania, Shada, The Gong Show, One Piece, Glow, 12 Monkeys, The Prodigy – Fire, smoking, edible gold foil, void of course moon, phone scams, weirdness, Foodtown, supermarket, Paramus Park, new coffee idea, listeners in the far future, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:54:31)… Road Hazard by Blue Wave Theory [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-SA 4.0], I am not an atomic playboy [YouTube], Patraque by Nicoco [Dogmazic, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Kate Bush – Interview March 1978 [YouTube], 1981 CBC ad break part 1 [YouTube], Nightstation Revival 1 [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], HBO intro (1982) [YouTube], Rush [via Webm8 productions], The CBS Late Movie – “Nightmare In Badham County” (Opening, 1983) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WLS Channel 7 – Eyewitness News – “The Rise Of 60” (1984) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WFLD Channel 32 – Lunchtime Fun (Promo, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WBBM Channel 2 – Newsbreak with John Drummond (1978) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WLS Channel 7 – Late Night Movie – “Flareup” (Partial Commercial Break, 1977) [FuzzyMemories.TV], The Bradford Exchange – “Norman Rockwell Plates” (Commercial Offer, 1984) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Eclosion by Salmo [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 4.0], Sneaky TT Broadcasting System 1 (9/12/10) (opening) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Up & Down by The Wavers [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5].

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48:38 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

This one starts with an improvised story, then I talk about my creative project Obliviana, then some birds and trains. The first part of this tape was played on The Frank Nora Show 1680 – The Rampler Weekly #1 (4/23/11).

Notes: [8/5/01], Bandage F, Bandage Elf, Tanapa, Forjooms, a comic book altered reality, symbolic language, The Amazing Mysteries of Ian Hanclair, Osaka, NJ Turnpike, The Windy Barrier by Ian Hanclair, Vocawks the Space Memories, birds, Obliviana Phase 2, What About Bluffcosm?, good fortune, train station, train, [8/10/01], bus stop, college friends, subway.

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2:56:38 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Graphic Products Corporation, Formatt, ancient beetle got to shelter, dry transfer lettering, Letraset, burnishing, Altern 8, The Fixx, Burgerbox, Stonehenge font, Portishead, Star Wandered, mojo, avocado smash, cheese coin, Greta Van Fleet, Led Zeppelin, Roni Size, Mecha-Jaraxxus, Rolling Stone, bathing in 20th Century pleasure, the old neighborhood, Irn-Bru, charity, steam pipe explosion, LMMS, return of Polar Lion, Tree Bag Ask – The Background, hobo synchronicity, Jar-Jar Binks, Shada, tarot shirt, Fenics, beer (Victory Sour Monkey, Brooklyn Bel Air Sour, Voodoo Ranger, Kentucky Vanilla Barrel Cream Ale), instant root beer and cream soda, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:16:02)… Glady & the Loga Rhythms by Chenard Walcker [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Alan Dixon – Democrat For Senate (Political Ad, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], ABC Fall promos 1976 [YouTube], Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson (performed by Markus Staab) [Musopen, CC BY 3.0], Techniques of Crime Scene Processing: Part II (1990) (excerpt) [Fedflix, public domain], Dear Old Southland by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Laser Blast by Activision (Commercial, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Sunglasses After Dark by Al Hotchkiss [Archive.org], Dubplate Version 3 by Culture Horn [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Lum’s With Milton Berle (Commercial, 1976) [FuzzyMemories.TV], 1-900-FUN-MATE (Commercial, 1991) [collection], Reforth Danport (fake Boards of Canada song, origin unknown) [collection], Collage 1-14-84 by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Intoxicator by Aloha Sluts [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Hands Across the Sea by United States Army Band [Musopen, 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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2:14:19 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Tomy Pocket Games, mass-market paperbacks, rectangular forms of media, VR/AR/MR, depth of techniques and ideas in a technological medium before it is made obsolete, premium pocket maze game idea, The Dark Crystal (1982), analog audio devices, wet table, HBO promo, briefness of the analog electronic age, occult symbolism in the movies, time distortion, Barnegat Bay, beach umbrella issues, eyeglasses and sand, rainstorm on the parkway, lab weirdness, Dr Pepper incident, paradise, Laurie Anderson, Phish, charity, Onsug Radio listening guide, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:33:43)… WBBM Channel 2 – The 10 O’Clock News – “Nosferatu” (Ending & Break, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Citytv Beauty and the Beast Bob Guccione 1970s [YouTube], Untitled 2 (Tongan Music) by Funa O Fangatapu [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Darling Days (2017) by MISTA DORINZI [Jamendo, CC BY 4.0], PAH TRACK 8 by Largo02 [Dogmazic, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], Solar System by Depressive Art [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], On a train, through the window, going from Slavutich to Chernobyl [freesound, felix.blume, CC0 1.0], Your Friend The Soil – Keep It Or Lose It (excerpt) [A/V Geeks], Lyndhurst Trailer Park (1984) [YouTube], Teenage Freakout by Mules [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Night Lights (Original Mix) by Meizong [SoundCloud, CC BY 3.0], Track 07 by Flexor [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Lady Morpheus Plan by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Steel Dawn (1987) trailer [YouTube], Spacewolf by Matt Oakley [FreeMusicArchive, 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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1:32:24 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

I got my own tape recorder for my tenth birthday in 1977. I recorded a set of tapes, labeled them T-1, T-2, etc. This is T-5.

At the very end of the tape, I give the date, Monday, November 20, 1978. But back then, I would dub over parts of the tape later for various reasons. For example, the “Sneak Previews” I taped off TV is from 1982.

I released a short edited version of this tape in Bluffcosm many years ago, as “T5”.

Notes: Playing a record on my grandparent’s Edison Phonograph (“On Yonder Rock Reclining, Fra Diavolo, Auber, Soprano and Tenor Orchestra Accompaniment”) – with a brief conversation overdubbed in the middle, brief clip of a Star Wars record, Frank introduces “The Danse Macabre”, more of the Star Wars record, Frank skits (Miss Checkerboard’s Story, Guest Star: Beethhoven), Micronauts TV commercial, public library PSA, Hanna–Barbera’s World of Super Adventure, The Impossibles – with Frank’s scavanger hunt clue in the middle, The Frank Nora Show, Mellie and Doodoohoe, Frankenstein Jr., The Impossibles, Battle of the Planets, TI-99/4A data, Sneak Previews with Siskel & Ebert (The Secret of NIMH/The Devil’s Playground/Gregory’s Girl/Tron), Space Academy (“The Rocks of Janus”), Gilligan’s Island (“The Kidnapper”), Frank’s Gilligan’s Island annoucement, Frank introduces “The World of Music Boxes”, Frank talks about the other tapes.

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3:20:43 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Dirty Pair – Affair of Nolandia (1985), Japanimation club, psychic kids, The Ladd Company T-shirt from Japan, Q-Tip, transit hell, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965), pop culture, true crime, podcasting, addictive videos, cockatoos and capybaras, Ambient 1: A Brief History of Ambient (1993), Killing Joke – Requiem (1980), weird old variety, conspiracy theory history, altered trends, avocado roll, holographic universe, grandfather clock synchronicity, Generation X, Radburn, shoes and socks, Ocean Queen Rockstar, mysterious marinara, Penn Station, credit card receipts, Secaucus Junction, sesame sticks, Repo Man, Marys on the channel, The Mini Car Show, Further Out Of The Den, Infiltrate 202 by Altern 8 (1991), watch your bass bins, I’m tellin’ ya, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:40:14)… Turkish Samba by Tevellus [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Entrance of the Gladiators (Julius Fucik) by Bensenville Municipal Band [Archive.org, CC BY 3.0 US], Bridging the Gaps by Derek Nigell [Archive.org, CC BY-SA 4.0], California Gothic by Hella Vader [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WFLD Channel 32 – Super Cartoon Sunrise (Opening, 1984) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Some Ancient HBO Graphics and Previews – from 1977!!! [YouTube], Richard Nixon ”Checkers” Speech (9/23/52) (excerpt) [Archive.org], 1987 Walt Disney World Information Channel (part 1 of 2) [YouTube], OUTPOST ODYSSEY PINBALL (1995) [archive.org], Vibe Out by Ellis Breen [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], WTTW Channel 11 – Image Union – “Viewer Discretion Advised” (1982) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WJPC The New 95 AM – “Win a Superstar Supercar” (Commercial, 1982) [FuzzyMemories.TV], AngloZulu by Kevin MacLeod [incompetech.com, CC BY 3.0], WFLD Channel 32 – Newstalk with Wanda Wells – “Psychology and the Vote” (Part 1, 1984) (excerpt) [FuzzyMemories.TV], To You by Black Math [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Godzilla vs. The Good, The Bad & The Ninja Turtles in Outer Space (They Be Fightin’) by Partners In Wonder [collection].

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2:55:00 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Six-hour vacation, wanderlust, F train closed, pickled plum riceballs, Roosevelt Island Tram, World Cup, Altern 8, Ghost, Suntory Kuro, NYC Ferry, yoga, Corian, depressing concourse music, The Boomsday Project, poem, ferryboat names, Pier 11, Pier 17, South Street Seaport, Fulton Street, amassing, tea, World Trade Center, burrito difficulties, Hoboken, fox in swamp, Tape Land, a closer look at the Onsug Radio archive, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:14:37)… It Happens All The Time by Paul Lisak & After The Ice [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0], Repo Man TV Version – Buzz Aldrin [collection], Rockland County by Copper Man [collection], Jocks (1986) (Trailer) [YouTube], Illinois Tool Works 3 – Jean Shepherd [collection], Fly To China by Phonophobia 70 [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Private School (1983) [YouTube], Retro/Futuristic Idents [YouTube], Ginchy by The Surfside IV [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Death Sport Trailer 1978 [YouTube], The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation From Sanity #5 (excerpt) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Host (Lampé Remix) by Alic [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], THE SEX KILLER trailer [Archive.org, public domain], Investigation by The Pharaos [Archive.org, public domain].

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1:42:36 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting 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 completely forgotten about this tape! It’s the first tape I made with my new tape recorder, at the start of my first Internet radio project, Bluffcosm. It mostly consists of ambient audio of NYC – including walking through the original World Trade Center and playing video games at some now long-lost Times Square arcades!

Notes: Wednesday, March 15, 2000, 6:55 PM, Park Row, NYC, just got a new tape recorder, officially kicking off the “Age of Bluffcosm”, ambient sounds of the city, microphone test, World Trade Center, subway, 50th Street, Times Square, cigar, Laser Park Arcade, Crazy Taxi, Broadway City Arcade, Port Authority Bus Terminal, buying a snack, giving directions, Thursday, March 16, 2000, 10:00 AM, on the bus, more ambient sounds of the city, subway, Varick Street, got coffee from Jack, auto reverse, elevator, arrived at work.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com