The Overnightscape Underground

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2:02:23 – Fire engine in field of vision, get umbrella, strange energy lately, Nintendo Wii, video game history, pop culture in the universe, Tiny Tots on Rt. 22, Bono and Sonic the Hedgehog, Equal litter, popcorn insanity, incompetent workers, stores with personality, Cinnabon, miniature cinnamon rolls, enthusiasm, nerds, free chewy bars, bags are great, dropped the recorder and it smashed to the pavement of 42nd St., subway, relevance in media, the old days of just a few TV channels, searching for a point of relevance, night radio, live streaming station, more video game history, Nintendo Wii, more incompetence, recording of a speech – “Aldous Huxley – The Ultimate Revolution” from 1962, conspiracy theories, Internet talk radio, mind control, raining again, Mercury Retrograde, Google ads, The Shaver Mystery, theories and paranoia of the nature of this level of reality, time loops, the year 5000, buying the Wii at Target, unpacking and setting up the Wii, vague basketball stage and giant statues in Times Square, memory limitations, the “end” of the Iraq War at the end of this month, the end of the original Overnightscape, growing complexity, WiiWare games (Cave Story, World of Goo, Tetris Party, Bit.Trip Runner), Miner 2049er, Stunt Race FX, and driving cars with manual transmission.

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

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1:45:01 – New things opening in NYC, Pop Tarts World, witchcraft in the 80s and possessed Pop Tarts, Franklin Gothic, trademarking, guitar, free Skittles, legalese, new subway entrance at 11 Times Square, the “entrance of all losers”, wax Whoopi Goldberg, Nintendo Wii, Late Night Music Show, concept shows, the virtual world of the future, lightning incident, going into the future, 8/9/10, measurement systems, political mailing lists, politics/voting is a complete scam, cynicism and social circles, mockery, the red pill, boxing, virtual worlds, OpenSim, OSGrid, server software, cyberspace, AR goggles, Mary Poppins, first impressions of “Need For Speed Online”, MMOHut, the fantasy genre, Windows laptop, a visit to the just-opened Pop Tarts World on 42nd Street, Times Square area, reading a letter from Sarah Palin, thought control methods, mediocre personalities, coarse discourse, elements of a cyclical system of control, sandbox driving games, Devastating Nightscape, Need For Speed Online, news reports of a lightning incident in Boston last week, John’s Party (8/4/01), physics of lightning, Vancouver and Paris, 2nd anniversary of the start of The Rampler, Weezer Hurley album, Lost, yogurt questions, bus dog incident, David Icke, conspiracy theories, kombucha, feeding the cute little birds, Mercury Retrograde, ideas, protest, people taking themselves too seriously, reincarnation, the play and the pure joy of dancing with life.

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

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3:24:20 – An experimental show where Frank plays some really great Creative Commons-licensed music found on Jamendo.com. Plus the ONSUG week in review, the future of cyberspace, ONSUG virtual city, the emerging open media culture, and more.

Track listing with license info for each song after the page break.

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

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43:52 – Hospital visit and my illness. Alex Jones….does he really care or is he just out for himself.  Apple bashing time as more products are on the way…all of them already out there. Deluded mourners at the funeral of Raoul Moat (the gunman who killed himself), we have to sort out the benefit system in my country or we are going down the pan. Kanye West twitter fan sick as a parrot, is twitter on the way out?, Human League and the eighties revival in music. TunerFreeMC a good program for media center if you have no TV tuner card

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

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1:15:26 – The inventor of Cheez Doodles dies, Cracker Jack, the incredible cosmic value of our pop culture, The Yellow Kid, ragtime, synthesis of energies, Korg Monotron, the analog hum of television in years past, nostalgia, romance, pleasure, wrestling videos, high-brow culture as an “emporer’s new clothes”, pictures of old malls, evil economic system as foundation for pop culture?, are “the powers that be” holding back pop cultural content injections?, Jesus concept, thy, horrible violence, lunchtime, coconut water, obsessions, current state of podcasting, the big media, end of Google Wave, the incredibly massive amount of information being created these days, exabytes, the number of books in the world, rise of digital culture, downside of the democratization of entertainment, weird energy these days, two crows, ONSUG Meetup, music show idea, Jamendo, welcome Republic of Avalon Radio, new wall, net neutrality, steam pipe, supershoes, Vitamin Water health claims challenged, Verdana, prime numbers, skateboard, pleasant objects, Beavis and Butthead to return, great new idea – cat treats for people, PoppaZoppa, all the unused topics, 57th Street, elite shopping, indecision, the winds of changes, and the gods.

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

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30:48 – Frank playing around with his new Korg Monotron. Hear just some of the cool analogue sounds you can make with this amazing little device!

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

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1:00:22 – Humid evening in Times Square, music store confusion, making movies, trying to find a seat, got a Korg Monotron, chaos, giving a place another chance, reduced capacity of workers, bagel confusion, synthesizer review in Times Square (Korg Monotron – Analogue  Ribbon Synthesizer), recording the opening music, LFO, Morse code, monster noise, take a picture, self-destruct sequence noise, future space police noise, simplicity, flying saucer noise, cat noise, Schmerltz shopping failure, sock and ball, time travel, communist video, mind control, people hating America, coconut water, time cop, Twin Peaks, we are the robots, Tin Machine synchronicity, Thomas Dolby, and the REAL Flat Earth Society.

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

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2:22:57 – The New Games Book, Schmerltz (a ball in a sock), the prime number 1543, aurora borealis, ONSUG Meetup, The Dead Weather show in Brooklyn last night, live music venue hassles, analog vs. digital entertainment, reading a magazine on the subway, the mind and the nervous system interfacing in technology, kids on the bus, deep and satisfying experiences vs. shallow and empty experiences, O.N.E. Coconut Water, more analog things, the attention span, The Overnightscape Underground, the Moodbruck thought experiment, media theory, talk radio, social media, comic strip, bolos, killer bag, Audioworlders, imaginary audio places, vague ideas, protesters, chanting, horrible typography, poor communications, The Ramones “Teenage Lobotomy”, Purple Chick SMiLE, AlternateBrian Wilson Presents SMiLE, SMiLE as related to the “Neo-Atlantean” hippie project of merging societies, “lobotomies” via viral injection or tainted food, conspiracy shows, here to watch the “show”, the green movement, gonna meet another listener, The Dead Weather show, bag searching, weed, occultism, communism, the mosque at Ground Zero controversy, dialectical thought control, 9/11, religious restrictions, heavy topics, dream review (going back to college in a giant building), mental issues and symbolism, psychic “noise” at night, Ikea 2011 catalog, meeting Jeremy from Colorado in Times Square, economics, exploring Times Square and the Times Square subway station, The Corridor of Losers, 42nd Street Ballroom, and “the new socialist man”.

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

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1:36:00 – Fungus insurance, coinage, insect noise, Nirvana “Lounge Act”, sound waves, 2009 Capital Dome penny, cranes, the greatest lost album of all time – “SMiLE” by The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, insanity, Syd Barrett, Greg Brady, teenage symphony to God, Spanky and Our Gang, Purple Chick SMiLE, painting, ONSUG Meetup, town hall meeting with tea party person and Demcrat representative, Frank Moore, The Constitution, healthcare laws, post-scarcity economy / resource-based economy, giving people directions tp The Today Show, laziness, Tudor City Greens, the end of an era of kombucha, The Dead Weather, coconut water update, Vita Coco, “natural” flavors, bells, Mercury Retrograde, Mitch Miller dies at age 99, archive, Amy’s lentil soup with Gardenburgers and pretzels, True Blood, Bleach, the search for cyberspace, Second Life, Fred Willard, There, online games that shut down and people can’t play anymore, the fantasy genre, Tron, Drift City, Project Torque, Poppa Zoppa, KartRider, what would a real cyberspace be like, Playstation Home Midway, and the interactive billboard.

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

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1:25:01 – Theory about a certain energy in 1980, experiences changing you, information overload, idea about Gods and God, “Way To Go!” TV segment from 1980 about granola and The New Games, glimmers of that energy in ONSUG, 1979 documentary “Fantastic” about The Fanstastic Food Factory, the future was beaten down in the 80s, Ronald Reagan, 1981 video game “Astro Blaster”, Helen Reddy and Ed McMahon on the first episode of “Midnight Special”, some random music, and Mulder and Scully.

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