The Overnightscape Underground

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3:09:14 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The airport roads, bus detours, Hudson Yards, twisty roads, The Mills at Jersey Gardens, Toys “R” Us, cleaning up litter, symbolism of Westworld, toy ravioli, review of Gulliver’s Gate, fake cobwebs, projector smell, band contest, corruption, litterbugs, podcasting statistics, H-Mart, Ayn Rand, economic systems, sea cucumbers, Avatar, gods and monsters, corrupted files, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:28:59)… Beachballs (1988) (Trailer) [YouTube], Stop by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Victory Garden PSA 1943 [collection], Donovan – The Pied Piper Movie Promo [Archive.org], Unconfirmed Closes v1 Tracks (Found The Way, Focus on the Spiral, Helios Sound, Close3) [YouTube, fake (?) Boards of Canada songs, origin unknown], The Starlost – original TV opening [YouTube], Push, Nevada – Episode 1 (excerpt) [YouTube], Kim Fowley ‘Underground Animal’ LP Promo [Archive.org] , Locust Avenue West by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Hard Bodies 2 – Movie Trailer (1986) [YouTube], Introduction To The National Radiation Control Network (1977) (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], NBC Cliffhangers 1979 TV promo [YouTube], TV Magic Cards with Marshall Brodien (Commercial, 197?) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Tavern Communication by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Rock Flowers Doll Commercial [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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1:24:34 – 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 tape is from late 2001 thru early 2002. It was a time where I was struggling to find the right creative direction – focusing on two projects – 209 and Severe Repair. I talk about these projects while walking around NYC and driving around NJ. Luckily for me, I was able to move past these stalled projects the following year and start The Overnightscape, which turned out to be a much better creative project for me.

“Gullhall” was a name for some idea I had – it’s written on the tape, but I don’t talk about it in the audio.

Notes: [11/29/01] subway?, [11/30/01] corner of Prince and Wooster, cheap new tape recorder, Obliviana, 40th Street, 209, [12/2/01] Route 3, cigars and storage, Thinkfang theories, sunset, junkyard, Severe Repair, Menlo Park Mall, the back way to storage, Woodbridge Center Mall, book about publishing, time travel scene from Severe Repair, [12/3/01] subway, more about the scene, later on, [12/5/01] Penn Station, more Severe Repair notes (the computer game Beautiful Disaster Area), street sounds, beggar, [1/25/02] doing 209 lately, dream, work meetings, [1/27/02] Best Buy parking lot, 209, Stormjaunting, do one thing – do it well, cults, Staples, creative projects, [1/30/02] 209 experience, lunch experience, Silmarillion.

Here’s the Severe Repair chapter I wrote based off the notes I was talking about.

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2:22:20 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Dolls that come to life, Hearthstone, Las Vegas, AI, The Avengers, Amy Carter, protesters, luxury portable generators, Elfquest synchronicity, By Chloe, The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, the cold opens, cookies, what is butter crunch, Linden’s Butter Crunch Cookies, Japanese snack review (Limited Edition Glico Pocky Squeeze – Alphonso Mango), Autechre – NTS Sessions 1-4, Sleep – The Sciences, Daryl Poplaffy, pronunciations, accent marks, what should we do, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:41:40)… My Straw Hat by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], Mysteries and Scandals – Vivian Vance (excerpt) [YouTube], Witchtanz by Disen Gage [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], Hands Across the Sea by United States Army Band [Musopen, public domain], WBBM Channel 2 – The 1982 Chicago Emmy Awards (Excerpt, 1982) [FuzzyMemories.TV], averonna by joel [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Games of Starcade – Sinistar [YouTube], Stop This From The Start by White Life [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Sarcastic Stephen (Version) by The Tidbits [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0], Sweat by Nctrnm [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 4.0], News at 6 by aledjones_musics [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0], TVOntario 1984 [YouTube], WTHR Channel 13 – Today (Opening Moments, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WLUP – ‘The Loop’ FM 98 – “Do You Like Music?” (Commercial, 1978) [FuzzyMemories.TV], ‘Rotary Connection’ LP ad [Archive.org].

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2:42:10 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Hockey dream, Keep on Rampling, Capcom vs. SNK 2, master and servant, delighting in the trivial, Saturday morning cartoons, tour idea, bus off course, Verne Troyer dead at 49, Harry Anderson dead at 65, Barbara Bush dead at 92, Nabi Tajima dead at 117, A Barnstormer in Oz, banking, conspiracy theory nostalgia, the nature of consciousness, Westworld, other worlds, Poplaffy, Tape Land, Flickr, Mike’s Amazing World – The Newsstand, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore quarter, Nirvana Unplugged, “start-stop” technology, Weezer, cigarettes, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:00:47)… Going Off by Little Frankie Nora [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Tito Speaks To American Reporter [collection], Don’t Take Me Down by The Gentlemens [Bandcamp, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Unity by Izmar [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], AFOW Closing Gab 7-16-83 by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Children’s Bargain Town U.S.A. – “Huffy Bicycle Sale” (Commercial, 1971?) [FuzzyMemories.TV], College Radio by The Prefab Messiahs [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], WorldToday (Original version) by Herbata [LibreCommeLair, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], Cowboy Krueger Returns by Guitari [collection], Angel by Green Dream [Archive.org], Pink Lotus by Igniael [Archive.org, CC BY-NC 3.0], Letras Rojas by Perro Ciego [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], UAE Censors Bacteria on Japanese Manhole Covers [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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2:22:39 – 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 their big show at Tierney’s Tavern in Montclair, New Jersey, on Thursday, April 19, 2001.

Despite the low quality of the recording, this is one of the best Fuzzy Daupner shows ever, with a killer setlist, and the band in top form. It’s being heard here for this first time since it was performed over 17 years ago.

Set 1: The Mexican Hovercraft, Sliding Gardens, Only Saw Trucks, Transit Shivers, Hit Me With Your Best Shot (cover), Some in the Woods, Take A Nap, Pregnant Skateboard, 99 Red Balloons (cover), Deluge of Primacy, Video Niflheim, Weird Highway, Kids in America/Territorial Pissings (cover), Coping Saw Sunset Roads, The Us Hounds.

Set 2: Possible Calhoun, Living in a Material World (cover), Christian Rock, Ten Minutes Cat, Crazy Plonto, Hungry Like the Wolf (cover), The Brown And Blue, The Armixhony Of Conrad, Sign of the Malls, Pent Breeze, Monster Now, Dancing With Myself (cover), Dear Anyone, Cup Of Joe, The Filmography Of Ann B. Davis.

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

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40:01 – 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.

More of my college radio show, Anything But Monday, with co-host Mad Mike. This tape isn’t labeled, but it’s the first show after Spring Break, dating it to late March or early April 1986.

Notes: Tolley Pit bathroom, Half-Drunk Drive PSA, microphone sound of the day, Sniglets, word of the day, People Magazine, first show after the break, celebrity salaries, Rock ‘n’ Roll Promo, behind the scenes, more PSAs, Sounds of the Commons – Episode 1, Weekly World News, Grim Reaper, Monty Python.

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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2:49:11 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: They crashed into the bookstore, 4/20, still freezing, anger, consciousness, lost MP3 player, long lines, weirdness tax, garage rock, podcasting, cycles, Sky (band), map folding, The Fixx, dining concourse, The Royal Book of Oz, Sour Curtain, subway, my 80s apartment, Mummenschanz, dwelling upon the past, Washington Square Park, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:05:58)… ABC Afterschool Specials (Commercial Break, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Moody Monday by Red Nebula [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Schapenwolkjes by Elegic Landslide [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Ballad of Stephen and Eunice by Captain Zig [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Untitled (Tongan Music) by Funa O Fangatapu [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Mellitus Street 135 by Marina Carbone [blocSonic, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], WLS Channel 7 – AM Chicago – “Outrageous Talk Show Hosts” (Part 1, 1985) (excerpt) [FuzzyMemories.TV], The One With No Name by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], Creative Mirrors – “Golf Perfection” (Commercial, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WLS Channel 7 – The Day After (Commercial Break #5 – Post-Movie, 1983) [FuzzyMemories.TV], The Laundry Cycle by Jesse Spillane [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 4.0], Pastime with Good Company (vocal samples from dwsChorale) by Romahichi [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Smooth 1a Parte by Angel Gaitán [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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2:53:00 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Bus line fun, Hawkwind in the 80s, Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Corner of the Cosmic, spiritual yearning, UFO dream, The Very Best of Jean-Luc Ponty, album length, construction nouses, Grand Central, common courtesy, sandbox, Tartinery, labne, random childhood memory, Chiron in Aries, By Chloe vegan restaurant, Endless Taunt Druid vs. Lady in White Priest, Rockefeller Center, aiming, SNL, Lost in Space, under the Coke sign, cults, Trust, Legion, Timeless, time travel, theories and stupidity, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:10:33)… Nash The Slash flu interview [YouTube], Level 3 : Run on the expressway by Komiku [FreeMusicArchive, CC0 1.0], Mark Kermode and Katie Puckrik Glastonbury 1994 [YouTube], Behind the Wheel by Doug Rice [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Tomorrowland Viewliner Station (Oldsmobile) [collection], Danger Time! by Partners In Wonder [collection], Night Flight bumpers [YouTube], Children of Light by The Bibles Of Twang [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], 3Com “Audrey” [YouTube], flex by Pobedia [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Dateline Walt Disney World – The Disney Decade, 1990 [YouTube], Street Time NYC – Track 1 by Randy Antley [collection].

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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47:32 – 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 (Tape Land 51), How Do You Feel About the Job? (Tape Land 44), and Ending the Era with Calm Music (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 3rd album, “Demolition Curve”, recorded in early 1987 (the date 1/8/87 is listed to the tape). The main instruments I used were a Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard and a small black-and-white TV.

Track list: The Tape Begins (:07), Life in Sequence (:07), Blastard (:36), Gateway (:36), Board Meeting (:30), Diamond Eyes (1:10), Bad Skin (:53), Doktor Jones (:38), The Brady Scums (:55), Sign On (:02), On the Roof (:28), Acid Snow (:50), Majesty (:39), Steady (1:55), Mangoman (:21), Kill the Small One (part III) (:30), Bad Street Theme (part III) (:15), Query (:22), Six (:59), Constipation for a Retard (:35), Retard Fringe (:52), Kicked in the Balls (:42), Maybe Not (:36), Merry Down the Lane (:23), This is Love (:27), Missile Attack (3:51), Demolition Curve (1:27),Birds (:40), Numb (:23), Peggy’s Playroom (3:15), Vomit (1:29), Bathroom (:06), Bee (:16), Sphinxette (:40), Eggbert (:43), Folks (:47), My Duck and Rain (1:04), Don Pterona (:47), Swan Bite (:23), Triceratops Bite (:23), Triceratops Man (:08), Swan Man (:23), Hunting (:11), Dick See (:16), Shutter (:24), Radio Pancreas (:35), Slip Clip (:26), Sojourn X (:40), My Seven (:12), Spy Zack (:47), Weather or Not (:52), Intro Glycerin (:08), Oktoberfist (:45), Weasel Grand (:55), Vesper (:34), Piss Me Off (:12), Elvis Retard (1:39), Retard La La (:53), Yeah Baybee (:10), Big Bad (:23), Spangle (:15), Spacemen (:32).

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47:28 – 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? (Tape Land 44), and Ending the Era with Calm Music (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 4th album, “Original Tin”, recorded in early 1987. The main instruments I used were a Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard and a small black-and-white TV. I also had a bass guitar pedal I borrowed from my friend Chris – who recorded the bass solo “Kreation – 21J4]” for the album. “21J4]”was an attempt to write”CHRIS” upside-down. The first track is the earliest recording I have of myself, from 1969.

Track list: Little Frankie (8:00), What Color (:31), Violetgoggle (:14), Ice Cream Cone of the Gods (:44), Fun With Chainsaw (2:53), Brat Pit (:58), Urgent (:32), Thirteen Masks (1:25), Down the River (:42), Bad Rabbit (:50), Retard Convention (:55), Pee Pee (:32), Baby Retards in Vienna (:36), Master Zone (:48), Demo Demon (:09), Five Minute Break (:20), Micro (:47), Business (:38), Kreation – 21J4](7:55), Wise War II (1:43), Smithsaurian (1:11), Black Lake with Rainbow (:52), In the Attic (2:09), The It (:55), Quiet Down (1:10), Original Tin (:31), Big City Then (:45), The One (:16), Drawer (1:03), Interlude (:04), And Our Strength (:58), Built Right (:23), Finally (1:01), The Wrong Paint (:21), Chickens (:24), More Books (:39), Rafter (:28).

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