The Overnightscape Underground

58:43 – The day the universe was supposed to blow up, bus character Stoic 2, alternate reality detour, TV review – premiere of Conan on TBS, office store, the Pennsylvania adventure, Bryant Park stores, the news, people who still have CDs, free Starbucks gingerbread latte, dollar bills from the 80s, the signatures on the money, Federal Reserve, conspiracy theories, Westworld, occult symbolism, Pee-Wee update, MMOs, iTunes, history of the show graphic, promoting the show, creativity drives you insane, came in 666th in the Need For Speed World Halloween Community Event, Ghostwood, Twin Peaks, Super Famicom, Cameltry, giant chessboard and stagecoach, stories, whiners online, Sneaky TT, ONSUG, and the TD Bank Penny Arcade coin counting system no longer free for non-customers.

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Released November 2010 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

1:50:14 – The 1600th episode!, freezing outside, daylight saving time, bad hair day, iTunes, The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway, mu update, Randee of the Redwoods, Corridor of Losers, MoMA, garbage as art, Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter on Lopez Tonight, The Rampler, the late night TV talk show genre losing relevance, the technocultural environment, show business clinging to old forms, the frontier, Howard Stern, honesty, “the music industry strikes back” MP12 dream, bank opening, free pens and band-aids, Imogen Heap webcast, Uriah Heep, movie about the Earth, the police, subway, going in the wrong direction, Thomas Dolby, the Corridor of Losers poem, preaching, with a creative urge just do it, dance of the world, be real and do some stuff, incomprehensible message, run like a jerk, the new Disney Store in Times Square, imploding the universe, branching realities, Buy Mellow, loss of the Virgin Megastore, sleeting, video screens, Tron Legacy Identity Disc: Sam, new Muppet movie coming next year – “The Muppets”, parodies where the source material is not familiar, film noir, sleetwalk, hippie architecture, listener email (Steve in the UK), show angst, name that language, doing the show, ATM, FrankNora.com, the night is back, little elevator, ramp, nighttime, new Michael Jackson song “Breaking News” – people think it’s not him signing,  mining the 20th Century for material, New Jersey, art mediocrity, a trillion degrees, review of “The Pee-Wee Herman Show” on Broadway, the history of Pee-Wee Herman, Saturday Night Live, Charles Rocket, Gary Panter, the L.A. punk scene, New Wave Theatre, the scandals, Phil Hartman, Dog Chair, Pulp Fiction, Times Square, a visit to the Disney Store, Tron, Marvel, Cars, The Aristocats, a visit to Aeropostale, Junior’s, disoriented person, Conan, and jokes.

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Released November 2010 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

1:12:50 – Payphones, green market, rough commute, flooding, kitchen repair, bank in subway, red and gray image, shock trooper, Chinese flute music, a dream with numbers, cold and hot, 2012, 2023, weirdness in the air, Grand Central Terminal, the concept of “mu”, Elton John, sad songs, dialectical orientations, Chinese finger trap, brie that tastes like plastic, trailer for the movie “Sucker Punch” (2011), LHC strangelet doom, quantum goo, rainy mess, splitting headache, a web surfing tip, the computer Internet, deconstructing a Staples, Google newspaper archives, curated images, Ffffound, Tumblr, Dethjunkie, cult of the echelon of control, umbrellas, loud bus horn, dark theories, kindness, compassion, RSS feed, subdomains, remnants of the podcasting world, Bryant Park, hot chocolate, wet chairs, stores, watching VHS tapes recorded in the 90s, Twin Peaks premiere 4/8/90, Lost, Ryan White, AIDS, Michael Jackson, Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, News Weasels on E! Entertainment Television, lost TV history, MTV’s 120 Minutes 8/7/94, L7, The Breeders, Natural Born Killers, hippie guy, sound effects, Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill, Smells Like Teen Spirit, to dwell on the past, and The Pee-Wee Herman Show at The Stephen Sondheim Theater.

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Released November 2010 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

1:11:17 – Morning frustrations, Squirrel Nut Zippers, election results, obscurity, religious hypocrisy, legalize it, status quo, podcasting, defunct websites, fake stuff, noise pollution, MAME, laserdisk games, vague memory of a video game at Laser Park, Darkeid / Anti-Monitor shadow, arcade flyers, Carnival King, EPCOT in 1983, getting older, real and fake, drumstick twirling while driving, Pee-Wee Herman, masculinity and a new shoeshine place, fanciness, feed rejected, stale candy,Project Runway, Jessica Simpson, botox and plastic surgery, how can the huge potential audience of this show be reached?, the golden age of video games, nycpinball.info, the remaining pinball arcades, Dunellen, Leona Helmsley, Cactus Canyon, Times Square, upcoming Pennsylvania journey, malls, The Shops at Riverside (formerly Riverside Square Mall), weird guy, wacko repellant, Bergen Town Center (formerly Bergen Mall), peeping into Disney Store, the lower mall, Dungeons & Dragons, Juan Valdez, and the people in a state of blissful ignorance.

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Released November 2010 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

1:14:18 – Election Day, frustrating commute, worthless politics, subway, pretending, Obama interview with Ryan Seacrest, the few controlling the many, is it just?, ancient civilizations, dark side of human nature, too bright outside, urban farming in Camden, local food, this world is insane, jollity in the vestibule, ATM, angry guy, local business ownership, Grand Central, singer, voting fraud news, Ted Turner, Great Migrations in Vanderbilt Hall, jellyfish, World Series, NYC baseball history, Robert Moses, airline bus, stadiums, Bistro Cafe, 42nd Street, Kudirat Abiola update, Disney Store, Petit Sumatra cigars, Twizzlers, flu shot hassle, Bryant Park, setting up stores, Nirvana store idea, doll steak, test meat, yellow water, cherry-flavored antacids, Nirvana songs, hoarding, construction sounds, theories of the world, is this a computer simulation?, Elfa, nasty nachos and pretzels, The Sharper Image, Brookstone, checking out the catalog for the 2010 Stocking Stuffers at The Container Store, gizmos and gadgets, Sky Mall, 1929 Johnson-Smith Catalog, water filtration, retro ice bag, germ phobia, Slime, flimsy product falls apart, and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

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Released November 2010 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

55:25 – Winter-like conditions. Halloween weekend, everything’s fake these days, copying 634 GB of files, MAME, The Rocky Horror Glee Show, bus ticket hassle, nasty things, trouble with some noodles, Applebee’s logo, Kuromi, evil characters, Seattle’s Best logo, subway, rude people, NYC stereotypes, haircut, Glory Daze, college in 1986, Conan, TBS, Ted Turner, Fox back on Cablevision, TV review (The Walking Dead – premiere on AMC), the mainstream zombie obsession, dwelling on violence, Return of the Living Dead, British and Australian actors in American TV shows, obsession with television, hot and cold, The Frank Nora Show, correction, farewell to Pontiac, Plymouth Prowler, Trader Joe’s weirdness, Amy’s Pesto Tortellini, things that seem real that are fake and scripted, this show is real (and messy), weird little feather, Pompton Turnpike, American Beauty, sound effects, frozen penne “Just Pasta”, private labeling, wholesaling speculation, endangered fish, evil corporations, fake is the new real, and Kudirat Abiola Corner.

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Released November 2010 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

47:11 – Pop-Tarts menu, breakfast place, bus tickets, Romanian hermits video, hyper French kids, heatwave’s over, construction, sanitary inspection grades, slow Internet service, Fizz Revelation as parkour video, office store, another Harry Potter movie, the retro 70s train dream, dividers, Bryant Park entering winter mode, Sonic the Hedgehog, correction, TV networks blocking and blacking out their programming, artificial scarcity of digital content relates to the artificial scarcity economy, the independent underground wallowing in obscurity, BlogWorld, marketing consultants, tendrils of control, suckling off the system, MetroCard machines on the street, working, creating entertainment outside the system, nowhere zone, Mongolian Seating Area, Nutella & Go, charged words, corporate control, edge of the void, Raelism, UFOs, a new age, Cheech & Chong, mining the 20th Century for material, The Pixies, Phish, Trompe Le Monde, and century is 10 percent done.

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Released October 2010 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

34:35 – Get out of this rut, smashing dishes klutz, mini heatwave, chemtrails, foggy swamps, my view on the Charlie Chaplain time traveller thing, NASDAQ photo session in Times Square, generic time travel outfit, Judge Kimba Wood, Bill Clinton, Johnny Knoxville’s Wawa tattoo, Viggo Mortensen, Charlie Sheen flipped out, weirdness, acting families, staged events, distractions, fizz revelation, NASA’s idea of sending people one-way to Mars, Total Recall, the 20th Century, Cablevision’s dispute with Fox, World Series, trouble with cinnamon mints, Frank Nora Show 1600 coming up, and get oatmeal.

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

Released October 2010 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.