The Overnightscape Underground

1:16:37 – Recovering deleted files, listening to random recovered Overnightscape segments, reviving old Macs and iPods, unexpected weird window into the past, crummy winter weather, ironic aspect of the slogan idea “Radio Undefined”, Chicken Over Veggies, Web 2.0, surprise announcement of BlogWorld East, Podcast Expo, marketing hype, selfish dreams, a mini resource-based economy, NYC podcasting scene, Times New Roman, Artifact Coins, little forgotten caffeine boosts, new NYC outdoor smoking ban, Doctor Who “Brigadier” actor died, kora, hammered dulcimer, tuning, analog synthesizers, American Idiot musical, Justin Guarini, learning the songs and dances of a Broadway show, performance and repetition, recording, setlists, the cruel entertainment industry, hippie architectue, the golden girl statue may remain, Dee Daa disappointment, vegetarian food, Indian food, depressing music in the afternoon, Grand Central Dining Concourse, ATM vestibule window, amazing constructs, the ceiling is the street, review of Artifact Coins by Ellusionist, magicians, decks of cards, coin magic, antique coins, magic message boards, pre-worn blue jeans and guitars, coin reeds, coin talk, cool little objects, Amadeus, Last Action Hero, went to  bingo hall and played bingo for the first time, non-profit organizations, Ladies Auxiliary, Dabbin’ Fever – The Winner’s Ink, the E-Max bingo computer, the complexities of bingo, the “Bingo Dog” song, the bingo system, hardway bingo, what is going on behind closed doors, the rules of bingo, distorted photocopy, and Bodoni.

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Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

1:21:47 – Little Christmas villages, Department 56, filming models of cities, Presidents’ Day, Important Ideas, rules and guidelines for the channel, bus station alarm, line police, Chicken Over Veggies, Howard Stern, Opie & Anthony, offensive material, the world is in shades of gray – not back and white, this society is insane, bad words, zero tolerance policies, cold weather, usage of commercial music, advertising, promotion, shoelace problems, hippie building changes, icicles, bingo, lo-fi archives, kitten animation, someone who looks like me in the Fischerspooner music video “Emerge” from 2002, my familiarity with what I look like in pictures and video, Warren Fischer looks like me, whistling, freaking out, cloning theory, a clone is like a twin, Attack of the Clones, Jango Fett, ability to recognize faces, The Prince and The Pauper, clone paranoia, laser printer, pasta lunch, Overnightscape Central, Midnight Citizen, weird snow dust, Michael Keaton, troublesome pockets, caught up with Fringe, I love Fringe, alternate realities, Dr. Walter Bishop, Peter Bishop, Olivia Dunham, Twin Peaks references, Dr. Jacoby, Josie Packard, profanity example, NetFlix, Dark Shadows, Barnabas Collins, Inherent Vice, Red Dwarf, video services, Mystery Science Theater 3000, advanced ancient societies, cloning experiment theory, White Horse cigars, White Owl cigars, George Burns, anti-check fraud pens, Radio Undefined, Bluffcosm.com slogans, going to see the Green Day musical “American Idiot”, The Monkees, new Guess store, new fiber cream “Dishevel”, and warm up at the bookstore.

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Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

2:09:40 – Solar panels, deranged from cold medicine, Starbucks logo, “cicar” cup, over 7 hours of shows released on Onsug yesterday, ordered some Artifact Coins, coin magic, fire alarms, weird dust, idea of the shortest episode ever, my voice is shot, The Police song “Peanuts”, warm outside, scalable logo idea, print out and cut out a little radio, radio packs like cigarette packs, Electric Wizard song “The Satanic Rites of Drugula”, vintage equipment, upcoming potato chips review, bagel day, destruction of groovy architecture, upcoming 25th anniversary of my comic character Zope, subway music, beggar, a movie as “video wallpaper”, movie “The Four Seasons” (1981) by Alan Alda, drug store, toys, pens, check fraud, beer, long checkout line, carrot oil, gave up waiting to check out, Grand Central vagueness, deep voice, depressing music in the morning, heading home, what a beautiful day today, health food lunch at Tudor City Greens, yogurt, kombucha, energy flow, bag of shirts, Momus, the little girl from the cover of The Smashing Pumpkins album “Siamese Dream” is now in the band, Chadcast – Denton, Rocky Horror, Shock Treatment, radio packs idea from a dream, physical representation of digital content, Black Sabbath song “War Pigs”, Electric Wizard albums “Black Masses” and “Dopethrone”, 1978 Dodge Warlock, evil trucks, 56 tracks in Onsug so far this month, Borders bookstore closing at 57th and Park, Sabbath, cigar review (Illusione cg:4), cigarettes, fine tobacco products, fancy stores for the rich, designer A. M. Cassandre, Mary Tyler Moore font Peignot, Louis Vuitton handbag animals, the influence of earlier decades, Welcome Back Kotter, style over substance, Star Wars, successful tobacco gambit, plaza across from the southeast corner of Central Park, FAO Schwarz new logo, Apple Store, Rockefeller Center, The Strokes, Shia LaBeouf, Project Greenlight, Push Nevada, wind storm warning, tissue victory, NBCUniversal new logo, pointless news headlines, trying to define The Overnightscape Underground, Bluffcosm.com, Radio Undefined, another store closed, slogans, got some new shoes – Merrell Jungle Mocs, Michael Jackson Wii game, the ethics of Pokemon, Times Square at night with all the new video screens, trying on the new shoes in Times Square, symbolism, rebirth, thoughts on getting glasses, checking out the new Oakley Store in Times Square (opening day), jet fighter seats, weird diesel fume reminds me of a carnival, pizza smell reminds me of Space Port arcade at the Quakerbridge Mall in the 80s, memories of Princeton, Nassau Hobby, Dungeons and Dragons, PJ’s Pancake House, time travel, future shoes for Albert Einstein, Port Authority flag, beverage review (Vita Coco – Coconut Water with Passion Fruit), cheap telephones, Bell Telephone monopoly, back home in The Overnightscape Studio 2.5, Benny Hill, iPod battery shot, router issues, Steve Jobs health issues, new green puppet prophecy, snack review (Grippo’s Bar-B-Q Flavored Potato Chips) which I got from Bret from Indiana, torula yeast, squeaky chair, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, browser issues, CD Bret gave me of his band Calling Corners – “Evolution Season”, listening to some Calling Corners songs on MySpace, mid 90’s rock, old Overnightscape MySpace page, I ate the entire bag of potato chips, lava lamp, Duran Duran songs “Lava Lamp” and “911 is a Joke”, and gotta oil it.

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Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

1:12:42 – The 25th anniversary of my Anything But Monday college radio show, the history of ABM, psychic wars, podcasting can have a heavy toll on your life, how would me from 25 years ago react to my current situation, crushing disappointment, megalomaniacal dreams, food manufacturing, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, resource-based economy, the brainwashed masses, living with contradictions, difficulties in sitting outside at the noodle place, hipsters, style over substance, CD scam, the world is utterly insane, doom fear, weirdly warm outside, later on with Bopozog / Bret from Indiana and Gwen from New York in the lower east side, the Andy Kaufman situation, bad hair day, Bret’s first plane ride and subway ride, airline security, displays of police power, bad areas turning into good areas, record stores, Strand Bookstore, Blue Stockings, Forbidden Planet, positive memories of crappy store environments, Tower Records, Other Music, Anime Crash, subway, Bret’s band – Calling Corners (callingcorners.com), Wicca, Electric Wizard, Gwen Sacre Bleu, microfame, had a great time meeting Bret and Gwen, my isolation, Artifact Coins from Ellusionist.com, decks of playing cards, coin tricks, socializing, and Schnipper’s.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

The 25th anniversary of my Anything But Monday college radio show, the history of ABM, psychic wars, podcasting can have a heavy toll on your life, how would me from 25 years ago react to my current situation, crushing disappointment, megalomaniacal dreams, food manufacturing, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, resource-based economy, the brainwashed masses, living with contradictions, difficulties in sitting outside at the noodle place, hipsters, style over substance, CD scam, the world is utterly insane, doom fear, weirdly warm outside, later on with Bopozog / Bret from Indiana and Gwen from New York in the lower east side, the Andy Kaufman situation, bad hair day, Bret's first plane ride and subway ride, airline security, displays of police power, bad areas turning into good areas, record stores, Strand Bookstore, Blue Stockings, Forbidden Planet, positive memories of crappy store environments, Tower Records, Other Music, Anime Crash, subway, Bret's band - Calling Corners (callingcorners.com), Wicca, Electric Wizard, Gwen Sacre Bleu, microfame, had a great time meeting Bret and Gwen, my isolation, Artifact Coins from Ellusionist.com, decks of playing cards, coin tricks, socializing, and Schnipper's.

1:30:17 – Rough morning commute, clock cleaning, temple of false hope, Cinnabon, the latest Overnightscape Central, limping with numb toes, zonked out last night, Apples To Apples, the shocking realization that even The Marx Brothers are fading into oblivion, they used to show a lot of older stuff on independent TV stations, browsing in libraries, the Dewey Decimal System, Groucho Marx’s TV show “You Bet Your Life”, fell asleep in my chair, cold medicine, the world changed around 1995 – with the rise of the Internet and the decline of some aspects of pop culture, more choice makes for less commonality, the new adults coming out of the childhood system, synchronicity of Bora Bora, whatever happened to podcasting, marketing, home shopping, Aol Late Night, it helps to already be a movie or TV star, Kevin Smith, NetFlix on Boxee Box, Felix The Cat, The Story of India, the next day, upcoming 8th anniversary of The Overnightscape, NyQuil, The Overnightscape Underground listed yesterday as a sub-collection on the Radio Programs page on Archive.org, robot legs on 41st Street, Dee Daa, confusing websites, Lion King social media, QR code, 9/11 Memorial, World Trade Center, the most boring day of the 20th century (April 11, 1954), Fringe, Boxee Box, Riverworld, naked science fiction, weird Monday morning, new sidewalk shed design (scaffolding), Park Avenue walk/don’t walk signal, underground train yard, Creative Commons, weird hazy darkness in the sky, the movie “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward”, resource-based economy, how did we get tot this point?, greed, “the powers that be” as the remnants of an ancient civilization – trying to rebuild it, worker race, merging the two societies together, technological growth, quality of life, The Venus Project, all the corporations represented in Times Square, lovely evening, cat and bird cartoon, the deranged world can be aesthetically pleasing, the situation is not sustainable, everything buzzing along, the space-time continuum, another video screen in Times Square, the insane world, and all the weirdness keeps grinding along.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

53:33 – Wind warning, cold medicine, nodding off, Fringe, Boxee Box, the quest to enter the octagonal room from the street, digging a new train station under Grand Central Terminal, skateboarders, Dee Daa day, Audi fashion show, cigar, confusion of french fries, confusing websites, red Guess mannequins, In N Out Burger, Madison Avenue, troubled dreams of alternate realities, can’t find the entrance to the octagonal room, plush Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, flower sellers, return to the original Onsug logo, old logo persisting, Valentines, new Starbucks logo coming, The Biltmore Room, the mystery solved, Droid Pro, Urban Outfitters, hipsterism for the masses, generator, open mic, seminary, new movie “The Rock-Afire Explosion” about Aaron Fechter (who sent an email to the show years ago), audio-animatronics, SD card buying, the original 1977 version of Star Wars, 8mm and Super 8mm, Aunt Beru’s voice redone, Star Wars Mono Mix, The Overnightscape Underground Low Bandwidth Resources, little kids dressed up as Abraham Lincoln, and the wind warning was correct.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.