The Overnightscape Underground

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2:36:00– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Fomalhaut, stargazing, constellations, Milky Way, Bortle scale, life in the distant past, Concourse of the Southern Fish, Bitchin’ Camaro, Feeding Squirrels Fire, Startup on Crackle, The Rampler Mini Radio, General Paint Old Mr. Toad, Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, county library, street fair, Closed Mondays, Will Vinton, Dark Shadows, Super Mario Run, The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad (1920), The Adventures of Freckle Toad, and Other Stories (1911), and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:55:16)… Crystals by Serge Ozeryan [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Now I Believe by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], WLS Channel 7 – Eyewitness Newsbrief With Joel Daly (Bumper Promo, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Transcenter – The Bird (and Robot) Show [collection], Santa’s Village with Larry Lujack – “Just a Kid At Heart” (Commercial, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WSNS Channel 44 – NHL Hockey – Blackhawks Vs. Flyers (Opening, 1978) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Away the Mysterious Sea by Art Of Escapism [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-SA 4.0], Cybermania ’94: Ultimate Gamers Awards (end) [YouTube], 1995 by Paper Tiger [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], I’m the Night by Culttastic [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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3:09:57– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Story of a pale red vehicle, squirrel’s digging, Deathaxe Punisher, Genesis, Jeep Honcho, The Us Hounds, comic shop incident, glass garbage, Blade Runner 2049, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, La La Land (2016), The Good Place, TV watching, Catalonia, California wildfires, Outlander, Dark Shadows, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The People’s Couch, The Gifted, Pavement, Times Square in the rain, Line Friends, Smashing Pumpkins, Talking Heads, Downton Abbey, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:29:12)… Your Eyes Have It by Bullette [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], Perfect Gambler by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Commercial – Dungeons & Dragons [collection], Burger Chef – “New Sign” (Commercial, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Video Game History: 1982 30 Minutes segment Part 1 [YouTube], Bill Osco’s Alice in Wonderland (trailer) [YouTube], Caribbean Dinner by George Dragon [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Moving to the Sea by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], ABC Saturday morning 1971 [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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47:56 – 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.

Way back on September 5, 2000, on my Bluffcosm.com Internet radio site,  I released a 2-minute audio clip called “News From Civiliation”. It was from a tape labeled “FRANK DRUNK”, and I described it as “Frank is a freshman in college and has drank way too much vodka. In a drunken stupor, he reads from a Walt Disney World guidebook…”

Now, as part of the Tape Land project, I discovered that the tape is actually over 47 minutes long, with lots of interesting stuff going on. So let’s step back 32 years to that night of drunkenness… in The Complete News From Civilization!

Notes: In Brown Hall room 209, at Drew University, in Madison, NJ, Frank (or “Fen” as he is known then) is drunk, and his roommate John and fellow students Tom and Carson are recording him. He reads from a Walt Disney World guide and various comic books. They read from Dragon Magazine and talk about playing Traveller. Frank starts feeling sick. Later, Mad Mike walks in, and talks about the “vortex monster”. Then Frank goes outside and they follow him, including another student (“Russ”?). Frank eventually wanders into the woods, and they follow. They find him and try and convince him to come back to the dorm.

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 918 – Incoming Shows September 2017

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2:31:02– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The cantina news, leaf blowing, funny names, the new Chipotle queso, movies in the morning, batarang, Justice League, Gen X, early 90s, Halt and Catch Fire, joy of angst, Casa Bonita, Zot!, Wok Chi, taco hostility, Hearthstone, Cosmic Would, Chicago dream, Deep Forest, Jolt Cola, Google Pixel Buds, Starbucks online store closed, future tech, Andy Rooney, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:50:24)… P.M. Magazine – on the VCR Market, 1984 [YouTube], NBC News Special Reports – October 25, 1983 (Grenada invasion) (excerpt) [YouTube], So Loud! (Re-Edited) by Romahichi [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], karina 05 abril 2007 [YouTube], The(e) Blank Men by Thee Knaves [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], A Wish For You by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], WGN Channel 9 – Family Classics – “Chad Hanna” (Opening, 1982) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Laser Blast by Activision (Commercial, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Zero-One Bias by csum [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Ratustel by Point [Ektoplazm, CC BY-NC-ND 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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3:05:20– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: New kind of chocolate, fruit, grafting, tape, The Mailman’s Nightmare, Tom Petty dead at 66, rock star kids, supermarkets, elevators for cash dream, current events, Monty Hall dead at 96, Cuphead, birthday celebration, hing, The Comedy Cellar, prog rock, The Idea of Octember, Roger Zelazny, The Orville, Star Trek: Discovery, The Gifted, Rick and Morty, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:24:54)… Cycle 9 by Flux Capacitor [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Magic Timeline (fake Boards of Canada song, origin unknown) [collection], Lost Night by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], 1979-82 Commercials: Charmin to Johnson’s Hot Shots [YouTube], World of Motion – ‘Attraction Narration (Gary Owens)’ [collection], Redolence of Love by Sudharshan Varadarajan [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], WGN Channel 9 – Bozo’s Circus – “Bozo’s Tv POWWW!” (1979) [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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24:49 – 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.

A tape just labeled “W”, from my childhood. This was the kind of tape that would be used over and over again, with various layers bleeding through. It starts with data saves from my home computer, which would have to be from 1981 at the earliest, but other parts of the tape seem to be older, possibly from the late 1970s.

Notes: (0:00) TI-99/4A data saved to audio cassette, (3:34) weird musical tones, (4:05) fan sound, (4:38) tongue clicking horse sound effects and whistling, (5:33) more TI-99/4A, (6:27) Frank’s time travel story, (15:10) TV (speed corrected), (16:02) classical music (edited), (18:47) TV, (18:55) Ronald McDonald has been fired, (19:28) songs (edited), (21:19) The Hobbit (edited).

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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2:34:59– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Begleri review (copper beads from Butterfield Machine), EDC (everyday carry), Hugh Hefner dead at 91, second breakfast, bread, Grateful Dead, the 20th Century, Mac Plus RAM upgrade, The Beatles in Germany, the bear astronaut The Mask Robont, komboloi, Weasels 90, past lives, urinal games, evilness, Boards of Canada, rampling on the grass, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:53:13)… WMAQ Channel 5 – Rock World (Part 1, 1980) [FuzzyMemories], Sky Rockets Rag by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Instrospection Trilogy – Pt. 2 by Doug Rice [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], March 14, 1979 Showtime promos [YouTube], Sleep by Stanleybirch [collection], WBBM Channel 2 – Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (Opening & Break, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Ginchy by The Surfside IV [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WGN Channel 9 – Bugs Bunny & Friends (Commercial Break #3, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV], A Better Way Program 149 (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], In My Heart by Wead [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], München by Garmisch Partenkirchen [blocSonic, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Be Gentle With Us Shiva by Doug Rice [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], WSNS Channel 44 – TV44 Sports Spotlight with Jim Durham – “The San Diego Chicken, Pre-Demolition” (Part 1, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], CBS Planet of the Apes TV Show Promo [YouTube], WOUB Signoff tape 1977 [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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2:06:59– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: For 38 years in the 20th Century there were these heads, the yellow rain hat of fishermen, spiders, jungjats, pretzel photography, gift shops, Bossons character wall masks, The Deuce, orzo update, apple festival, Dead Heat, San Francisco Rush, Expo – Magic of the White City, new logo, Star Trek: Discovery, 60 Minutes, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:24:41)… I Try by Bullette [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], Weird October Hitchhiker [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], So Loud! (Re-Edited) by Romahichi [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], NBC on Douglas Trumbull’s Showscan – 1984 [YouTube], Kim Fowley ‘Underground Animal’ LP Promo [Archive.org], southern night by voxakkord [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], Theda Bara Speaking 1936 [YouTube], Gluematic Pen from Loctite (Commercial, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Drunken Sailor by Roger McGuinn [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Chiptune 01 – Last Chip Standing by Chewrafa [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], Marlboro Unlimited: The Train. The Trip. The Gear. (1995) [Archive.org], Ice Breakers (commercial 2) [collection], WGN Channel 9 – Sunday Matinee – “The World of Hans Christian Andersen” (Opening, 1977) [FuzzyMemories.TV], GTE PHONE COMMERCIAL Perry Como Special 1975 (excerpt) [YouTube], Griff’s Pylons by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Invitation Rag by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Cave of Time by Monroeville Music Center [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 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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50:39 – It’s another noisy lunch time in New York City!

In this episode:

• Live from the Lenwich II,
• Tiger R-Zone hand held console,
• SNES Classic Mini,
• Greg goes to Canada, eh, to meet Kathleen Turner and Drew Struzan,
• Tim Horton’s,
• Talking UFO’s with Richard Dreyfuss,
• celebrity deaths (Jerry Lewis, Frank Vincent),
• 1990 Stephen King IT Mini-series, starring Tim Curry,
• reviewing 10 minutes of the Paul Feig Ghostbusters movie,
• Transformers Combiner Wars web series on Machinima go90,
• iPhone X,
• and no, Sean Connery is still not dead.

• and meeting Jonathan Ke Quan and Ethan Embry!

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Greg and Rob – more info at paunchstevenson.com

Released September 2017 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.