The Overnightscape Underground

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2:48:42– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Typewriters, inkjet printers, the paperless office, Tower of Babel, interdimensional travel, glyphic systems, Telugu letter, dreams, The Pygmy Trilogy, The Blank Wing, Hyperabode concept, Ready Player One, noodles, Minigrow, VR, metaverses, Nightstation, grand statements, Right Guard, cereals based on cookies, Nutter Butter Cereal, Cookie Crisp, farmshelf, paper towels, underground herb farms in Manhattan, therapy pigs, vegan chocolate, street roses, belt, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:07:22)… FM – Live at Nightmusic Concert – TVOntario – 1976 (Remastered) (excerpt) [YouTube], Zombie Town by The Fisherman [SoundCloud, CC BY 3.0], Anti smoking & drinking Camp. Liberia (excerpt) [Archive.org], Back to the Front by Mario Gatendo [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], General Cinema Corporation – Feature Presentation – 1977 [YouTube], The Ties That Bind by Jennifer Avalon [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], FLYING TO THE FAIR [collection], Sanctuaire (Grant Your Wish – Single Version) by Iñaki [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], CB Radio is anyone out there? by Brad Detchevery [Archive.org, CC BY 2.5], Minako by Teleidofusion [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], SHOWTIME promos (July 1984) [YouTube], Crazy Race by The Dead Rocks [Jamendo, CC BY-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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2:31:04– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Lava Lamps, LED lights, chemtrails, toxic waste, the bus terminal, elements of control, Sting, docility, Vise Grips, tolerable world, The Fall album The Unutterable (2000), Minigrow, between exhibits at the gallery annex, SpaceX Falcon Heavy, Star Trek: Discovery, Counterpart, The Alienist, Charlie Jade (2005), A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018), National Lampoon, Little Frankie Nora, Severe Repair, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, The Baja Marimba Band, where are we going, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:49:19)… SUNSET (Original mix) by Mad Trips & miSHO [SoundCloud, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], TV Guide ‘Bicentennial’ Commercial (1975) [YouTube], Windansea by MPoppitt [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Rad Movie Trailer [YouTube], Quand je serai grand – INSTRUMENTAL VERSION by Löhstana David [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], 1979 Mattel Barbie Commercial [YouTube], Where are You? by St Adam [Jamendo, CC Sampling Plus 1.0], Home Sweet Home [collection], Fire Ant Season by Webelos [Budabeats, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], Churchill – Riddle, Mystery, Enigma [collection], A tangerine juice ! Please ! by Tubular Tos [Soundclick, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Investigative Skills Lab (Narcotics Bust/Buy) (1997) (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], Il Male Oscuro by Nino Turenum [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Hooray for Reading – ‘Then Again, Maybe I Won’t’ (#4, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Always But Never by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0].

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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47:43 – 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.

In 1987, at age 19, I set up a rudimentary recording studio in my parents’ basement. I created six “albums” of music as “Little Frankie Nora”: Die!, The Good War, Demolition Curve, Original Tin, How Do You Feel About the Job?, and Ending the Era with Calm Music (released in Tape Land 23). I compiled the best of these to create two official cassette releases: Welcome to the Weasel Village Mall and Bicentennial Cane, which had very limited distribution. These two have been released on the Onsug Archive. However, the individual “albums” have never been released.

This is the 5th album, “How Do You Feel About the Job?” As I mention in the track “Box Spring”, this album was begun on May 22, 1987, after a hiatus of 3-4 months from recording. The main instruments I used were a Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard and a small black-and-white TV. I think I also had a bass guitar pedal I borrowed from my friend Chris.

Another interesting note, in the track “Frank’s Dream”, is a fragment of recording from November 24, 1979, when I was 12. I dreamed I was on a silver boat in 2043.

One of my favorite Little Frankie Nora songs is on this album – “Going Off” – which I’ve played a number of times of the Other Side of The Overnightscape.

Track list: Welcome Back, Reemiks, Recur, False Chest, Thaldarndog, Cream Opus, Hoehme, Box Spring, I, Ron, Detroit, Spencer, Recommended, Sands of Mercy, Master of Fools, The First Ones, The Last Ones, Their Hands, Try Fencing, White People, Frank’s Dream, Doktor Bojangles, Previrginia, Virginia, Way of Life, Game #2, Fuck You, Mommy Furriest, Skill, Easy, Palsy Walsy, Going Off, Vampires, Young, Old, Bird, Turtle, Gate, Pillar, Sand, Rock, Come Again.

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

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2:47:29– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: A mall city for children to live in, traffic jams, 209, The X-Files, Mandela Effect, KidZania, different computer dream, Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow dead at 70, the race to become the longest-lived U.S. President, completely random memory (going to Louisiana with Debbie), Mark E. Smith of the band The Fall dead at 60, aircraft carrier and waterfall dream, timelines, Nightstation, 1974 Yes song The Gates of Delirium, going to where it was, consciousness, Radio Undefined, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:05:58)… Uncle Mammy’s Blacktop & Skillet Shakers by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Poursuite by Fonetik [Jamendo, CC NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0], Pathfinder: Brand Portfolio Mapping in the new BAT (2001) [Archive.org], End Credits (Gee/Ear Candy) by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], Complicated Thing by Monster Cyborg [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Fifteen Minutes in India (1960) (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], Morris Is Different by Multisex [collection], The New Age (1994) Trailer [YouTube], Corvair 500 by The Aquatudes [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Fabulous Funnies Intro [YouTube], Entrée Des Dames by ValDesLacs [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Umbrella [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Unicorn by Johannes Hopfner [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], THE MOVIE CHANNEL promo (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

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2:51:09– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Maxell 90 cassette with the tight gold shrinkwrap, Peddler’s Village, DNA, shop window, modern art rants, lolcat nostalgia, Ugandan Knuckles, VR, San Jose, underbrush, in the 60s, Anything But Monday, WWII, college hijinks, fixing a broken tape, The Gong Show, fighting cartoon gangsters, the fake and the real, new Onsug logo, The Berlin Wall, Ben & Jerry’s, Super Bowl, Pepsi, Adventures In Success, Altered Carbon, Cutting Crew, Wayne Hill Mall, saying stupid things, The Alienist, Severe Repair, Ledgewood Mall, broken text researcher, Massdrop Brass AAA Pocket Flashlight, Zork, Hearthstone, CD longboxes, Star Trek, Star Wars, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:10:15)… Rocketsledder of the North by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], Ducky by Nunun [Archive,org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Panos Productions (Demonstration Reel, 1978) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Ukelele Lady by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Peoplemover – Complete Attraction Audio (July 1976) Live [collection], Samoa Joe (ID 667) by Lobo Loco [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Superstation WTBS – Movie 17 – “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things” (Opening & Break, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Again by The Very Unknown Friends Of Jane Doe [Jamendo, 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

Onsug Radio 922 – Incoming Shows January 2018

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1:04:46 – 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.

Here’s another episode on my college radio show “Anything But Monday”, with co-host Mad Mike.

This one is very special – as long as I can remember, there was something wrong with this particular tape, and it couldn’t be played. Today, February 3, 2018, I broke open the cassette and transferred the tape to a new cassette housing – and I was able to hear it, perhaps for the first time since it was recorded over 30 years ago.

Notes: Starting the show, the rip in time, the cart machine’s busted, The Mailman’s Nightmare, the station want to go to 100 watts, Kaboom PSA, virgins, Drew Security PSA, Halloween costume contest, Anything But Monday Magazine #3, Public Transit PSA, The Mets, Tolley Pit bathroom, dying fly, Israel Kat & Matzoh Mouse vs. Shalom Gnome, supermarkets, the new secret mystery, Progressive Music, Blind Welder PSA, We Are The World backwards, anti-apartheid demonstrators, gross-out question, random phone calls, (some tape speed problems at this point), TV game shows, The Gong Show, Match Game, Wheel of Fortune, House Bat Management PSA, cable radio, freedom of speech, France, bag ladies, beggars, quadmates, putting the clock back on the wall, Gilligan’s Island, Stephen Wright, Jonathan Round “In Quest of the Unicorn”, end of the show.

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1:32:14– Frank in NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Pomfret cakes, After Man, hush puppies, Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips, Fotomat, maple flakes, dinosaurs in New Jersey, Grand Central, blank, am I dreaming, salt licorice, cold in the burrito place, Yakky Doodle, Laff-A-Lympics, what to do in life, lockpicking, sirens, pill art and much more… plus the Other Side (at 51:59)… Want You Back by Nite Jewel [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], New Technologies, New Solutions (1988) [FedFlix, public domain], John Interviewed by Kenny Everett (1/27/68) [collection], KENNEDY AFTER TWO YEARS [FedFlix, public domain], Gnomo by Sativa [Ektoplazm, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Reckless Thoughts by Black Math [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], This Place by Wead [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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2:07:21– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Grow my sideburns, time traveler from the 80s, early morning flurries, long hair, Livingston Mall, Spencer Gifts, Mitch Hedberg, influences, New Jersey is the best, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Cutting Crew, HQ Trivia, Bert, Puppet Road, olive tapenade, kale chips, beverage review (Zesty Blood Orange Diet Coke), black coffee, brass flashlight, Kate Bush, dream reviews (dorm room “red-binned”, Jeep explodes, worshipping Gene Rayburn as a god), Laughing Child On Light Rail (Long Ride), Laugh-In, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:26:37)… WFLD Channel 32 – Keyfax Nite-Owl Service – “Episode Two!” (Opening, 1981) (excerpt) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Saintropie by Isocore [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 3.0], The Krofft Supershow (1976) – Ep. 11 – Part 1 of 5 (excerpt) [YouTube], Thougtless Desire by Organoid [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WTTW Channel 11 – Auction ’77 – “Creative Mirror Designs Original Ad with Pam” (1977) [FuzzyMemories.TV], This Beautiful Machine by The Heavens [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WFLD Channel 32 – Super Cartoon Sunrise (Opening, 1984) [FuzzyMemories.TV]The Hunch by Starlight Girls [Bandcamp, CC BY-NC 3.0], Malibu Grand Prix Commercial [YouTube], Lunatic by CyberSDF [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], Fisher-Price Fire Station (Commercial, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], The Secrets Of Christmas by Out Of Orion [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Mindscape – An Audio Adventure From Data Age! (excerpt) [collection], Cucumber Lotion by The Bombers [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], The Sure Thing (Trailer, 1985) [YouTube], Arabian Nights by John Doe [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Coleco – Alien Attack (Commercial, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV].

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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1:13:17 – 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.

[1/26/01] Subway xylophone music, riding the subway, Frank talking about Bluffcosm, hello people of the future, Harry Potter, [1/29/01] laughing child on the bus, Frank talks about his job, [1/30/01] subway music, riding the subway, at Tierney’s in Montclair waiting for Carrie & Rob to go on, trying to find some food, conspiracy theories, Carrie & Rob go on, Dear Anyone, The Us Hounds, Pregnant Skateboard, talking after the set, Why Don’t We Do It In The Road Jam.

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