The Overnightscape Underground

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1:01:57 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

This episode is part of a sub-project within Tape Land called “Video Phase 2022”. I recently began transferring a ton of old video tapes to digital, and have been posting selections to YouTube. Here, I’ll be releasing the audio tracks of these videos, as well as linking you to the YouTube videos, and The Internet Archive.

Video Rooftop NYC (5/15/89)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TEr695vOjA

On the roof of 170 Thompson St. on May 15, 1989, facing south, looking down Thompson St., from W. Houston St. to Prince St. and beyond. This was meant to be a piece of video art, which you could play on a TV set and feel like you were on an NYC rooftop. After the first few minutes where I am setting it up, the view does not change. There are subtle sights and sounds to notice throughout.

Released 3/13/22

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 onsug.com

Internet archive link: https://archive.org/details/Tape_Land_Video_158-Video_Rooftop_NYC-5-15-89

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47:40 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

In 2011, PQ and I tried to set up a streaming station that was legally licensed to play commercial music. Tentatively called “Onsug Music Clubhouse”, the project never got off the ground due to the cost and complexity of setting it up. I only recorded this one test broadcast for the project.

“Codamagger” was an super-masculine fake brand I invented, mentioned on The Rampler #363 (8/24/09), along with art for the logo:

“Codamagger Lullabies” was originally a song in one of my music projects, Choston Bands & Junkard Sane – Oval Bay (EP). The idea was that a “Codamagger” was a pistol, and being pistol-whipped and knocked out by it was a “Codamagger Lullaby”, in the slang of some fictional alternate world.

I played the DJ clips from this on The Overnightscape 797: Orange Egg Lotion (7/10/11), but for this release I kept a few seconds from the beginnings and endings of the songs, to give a better idea of what the original sounded like.

Notes (songs edited out): We Love Dancing by Arling & Cameronn Your Name Is Snake Anthony by Medeski, Martin & Wood, Can You Dig It (Alternate Version) by The Monkees, Church Of The Poison Mind by Culture Club, Blues Beach by Steely Dan, Resurrection by The Demons Of Negativity, DJ 1, Galvanize (feat Q-Tip) by The Chemical Brothers, Makin’ Memories from Journey Into Imagination, Bottled Up by Devo, Stalag 123 by Big Audio Dynamite, Lucifer Sam by Pink Floyd, I Want To Be A Hulkamaniac by Hulk Hogan & The Wrestling Boot Band, DJ 2, Front Row by Alanis Morissette, ’84 Pontiac Dream by Boards Of Canada, Chant Of The Wanderer by The Sons Of The Pioneers, Satanic Rites of Drugula by Electric Wizard, The Bell (Edit) by Mike Oldfield, What Are Those Things (With Big Black Wings) by Roger Miller, DJ 3, Smoke Rings by Laurie Anderson, Star Shpongled Banner by Shpongle, Black Dog (Live) by Led Zeppelin, The Modern Age by The Strokes, Song From The Wood by Jethro Tull, Come and Play in the Milky Night by Stereolab, DJ 4, John Cleese: Is He Funny? by Human League, Caught A Lite Sneeze by Tori Amos, The Analog Kid by Rush, Look Out, There’s A Monster Coming by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Los Angeles by Frank Black, The Juggler’s Song by Incredible String Band, DJ 5.

Released 3/12/22

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 onsug.com

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3:38:34 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The unexpected cutting down of a tree, cardboardpocalypse, 19th Anniversary of The Overnightscape, Michael Nesmith & The Second National Band, recycling miracle, The Compleat Weird University (Fall 1986), The Rampler Mini Radio, Indiana Jones pinball, Phish Flatbed Jam, SOG PowerLock TiNi, Disney mall bathroom dream, battery charger, stinkbug in the garbage, Courtney Cox on forgetting, cigar delivery, green stain mystery, Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues, tin synchronicity, Tin Man’s oil can up for auction, Richard Nixon autographs, Apollo 2001, Gurkha Centurian Double Perfecto, reflections on 19 years, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:58:05)… The Hobbit Filmstrip [Archive.org], Strictly Underground album [via Webm8 productions], Hollow Summer by Extent of the Jam [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Wall Street (1982, Century Electronics) [MAME], Name That Tune (misc 3) [MAME], Jesus Build A Highway by The Preacher [Archive.org, public domain], Going Blind by The Sway [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Orange Room by The Prefab Messiahs [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], top 100 scary logos part 4 [YouTube], The San Pedro Beach Bums & Soap 1977 ABC Promo [YouTube], CITYPULSE – CN RAIL REBRANDING TO VIA (1978) [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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3:36:17 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

This episode is part of a sub-project within Tape Land called “Video Phase 2022”. I recently began transferring a ton of old video tapes to digital, and have been posting selections to YouTube. Here, I’ll be releasing the audio tracks of these videos, as well as linking you to the YouTube videos, and The Internet Archive.

The Compleat Weird University (Fall 1986)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj1tT34nab4

In 1986, “Mad” Mike and Frank Nora “Master of the Airwaves”, not satisfied with just doing their comedy radio show “Anything But Monday”, decide to produce a video series based on a fictional version of their college called “Weird University”. With their new personas “Franco Wolfini” and “Iggy Szalzo”, they investigate and report on interesting students, the dining hall, campus security, a nearby supermarket, and much more… plus, strange happenings on a Weird Halloween.

This “Compleat” version includes all the raw footage from the three half-hour episodes of Weird University, plus lost, deleted and bonus scenes.

There are some sections of silence, including 10 seconds at the start. I decided to keep these in the audio version, so that the timestamps below would remain accurate.

[0:00:00] Titles
[0:00:10] Weird Lifestyles with Iggy Szalzo – Bart Phillips: The Biggest Stud on Campus
[0:03:44] Sights of the Uncommons
[0:17:24] Weird Lifestyles with Iggy Szalzo – Branson Stringfellow: Condemned Man on Campus
[0:25:32] International Lampoon’s French House
[0:27:30] Weird Lifestyles with Iggy Szalzo – Shannon O’Shannahan & Gil Mannings: The Smartest Guys on Campus
[0:35:53] Dorm of the Dead
[0:38:07] Weird Vice
[0:47:56] Shopping with Franco
[1:08:16] Rough Boys
[1:25:20] The Texas Eggbeater Massacre
[1:34:02] Deleted Scene: Don’t Read and Drive
[1:36:39] A Weird Halloween: The Hitchhiker
[2:08:18] A Weird Halloween: The Dreamer
[2:45:59] A Weird Halloween: The Beast
[2:56:32] A Weird Halloween: The Spirit
[3:01:50] Deleted Scene: Matt Headroom
[3:03:13] Bonus Scene: The Gauntlet Players
[3:03:41] Bonus Scene: The Arkanoid Player
[3:05:41] Bonus Scene: The D&D Players
[3:10:49] Lost Scene: Franco & The Soviet Defectors
[3:24:17] B-Roll
[3:33:09] Weird University Theme Song by Smersh

Released 3/10/22

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 onsug.com

Internet archive link: https://archive.org/details/Tape_Land_Video_156-The_Compleat_Weird_University-Fall_1986

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39:11 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

The show art for “The Overnightscape 1893 – The Rampler Mini Radio (3/10/22)” was an old concept image from 2011 for a printed playlist of shows, that never came to fruition. This audio piece was on the playlist, but never released – so I figured I should finally release it.

Notes: Frank tries to connect with PQ on a Ustream live stream test, with much technical difficulty.

Released 3/10/22

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 onsug.com

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3:28:52 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Mind control water, gas prices rising, smoke detector incident, new door, Tales of the Dervishes by Idries Shah, ancient stories, the oral tradition, weird vision, The Food of Paradise, electrical sound, rental nightmare, Edict Zero – FIS, The Compleat Weird University, video black, mystery image, 1986, New York Deli Potato Chips, Artie Shaw, purple synchronicity, Jeremy’s MicroBatch Ice Creams – Purple Passion Pills, mass market paperbacks, mystery name (“Alfred Juan Gross Fiolly MD8”?), forgetting, MTV dream, Phrivl: Interdimensional Commute, turtle doves, olives, Mission: Impossible, suspicious survey, inspired by Laurie Anderson, consciousness, UFOs, revelations, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:48:16)… 12th Street Rag by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], American Express Pavilion (Epilogue) [collection], Friends (Live) by Jenni Potts [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], coccyx by jaffar [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Street Musicians by J. Koho [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Kathy Jones [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Middlesix – The Phantom Planet (1961) [Archive.org], Bell System ad (early 1980s) [YouTube], 1983 Wausau Center Mall commercial [YouTube], Latin Nightbug by Lee Rosevere [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 3.0], Thinkabout (Ending Credits, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Name That Tune (misc 2) [MAME], Sweet Caress by Kookooo Kitchen [EardrumsPop, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Jean Shepherd – Year One Poster (1970 “Cuckoo Eye”) [collection], Mego’s Slik Silver [YouTube], Stop-N-Go commercial (from Video Newsletter (Convenience Stores)) [Archive.org], Happy Shadow by Crazy Aces [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Sand by musicfornothing [Soundcloud, CC BY-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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1:20:52 – Eddie is back with another episode of The Wool Gathering.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Eddie Murray – more info at onsug.com

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5:00:02 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Fey Hunting, Vectrex, Maze King, the feeling of playing early video games with abstract graphics, gambling dream, lotteries, NJ gas pump law, Games Magazine #11 (May/June 1979), The New Games, “tar” in cigarettes, Cyberchess, Fischer Spassky Chessmate, slide cards, Edict Zero – FIS, The Greenhouse index cards, The Compleat Weird University, Guardians of Justice, more mazes, mezcal review (Bozal Mezcal Artesanal Espadin Barril Ensamble), the next morning, the news, ancient plastic dragon boxes, breakfast sandwiches, video work, the fictional selves, a coin with coins inside it, shifting timelines, what pleases the experiencer, gamboling, Eckha/Halma, Popeye Magazine, Bandai card games from 1981, Dr. Slump, The Nolans, Ajinomoto noodles, REO Speedwagon, Entex 3-D Escape! 1000 Mazes, Escape From Devil’s Castle, Matchbox W.A.C.K.O., CBD, what we can know (the experiencer and the generator of the experiences), Maze Escape Classic, word theories, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 4:19:14)… Perfect Gambler by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Classic 1970’s Television: 1970 Promo for ABC-TV’s Friday Line-Up [YouTube], Stop by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Lyndhurst Trailer Park (1984) [YouTube], Trouba by Steve Gunn [FreeMusicArchive, BY-NC-SA 3.0], Scrabble Brand SENSOR, Electronic Word Game (Commercial, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Telemann – 18 Canons Mélodieux (part 14, perfomed by Michel Rondeau) [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC 4.0], Run Joe Run – Season One [YouTube], Kingston City Limits by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0], Mego’s Slik Silver [YouTube], Anomaly by Vasim [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Stop-N-Go commercial (from Video Newsletter (Convenience Stores)) [Archive.org]. 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 Update – February 2022 Added

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4:20:24 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Andy Rooney’s toupee, wild weekend, ABM Show – Episode 11, Route 1 South memories (Menlo to Quaker Bridge), gas station saga, Dr Pepper & Cream Soda, Wheels of Pure Opal, Sprinly Paprika Spinach Salad with Baked Tofu & hemp Hearts, world events, alternate timelines, vegan lunch incident, 209, ABM writing, B. J. and the Bear, Sheriff Lobo, Ivory Wheels/Rosewood Track, opal coins, cat food, Mike’s dungeon gaming room, Rodecaster Pro, weird ice storm, a spike in situational energy, bellows, Stone Karaoke Box, Space Force Air-Soft, Hyperspace Gaming, Springbok popcorn playing cards, merman emoji, Peacemaker, Best Western and Best Eastern Motels logos, Camacho Coyolar Robusto, two white wires vision, Free Guy (2021), Phrivl: Cheapo Time Tours, Hunter’s Suites, Terence McKenna – Timewave Zero, Shpongle, February in review, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:39:48)… Miami Call by Herr Doktor [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Turkey in the Straw by United States Air Force Band [Archive.org, public domain], All I Have Is Time by Jonah Dempcy [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], THE MOVIE CHANNEL promo (1984) [YouTube], 1977 CHEVROLET PROMOTIONAL FILM “1977 CHEVY K5 BLAZER” [Archive.org], Outtakes from the Leo Burnett/Philip Morris Recruitment Video [Archive.org], Mandelbrot [collection], Frederick Street dance studios [via Webm8 productions], Weird October Spirit [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Bluffcosm Banter #1 (4/29/00) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Polar Lion – Bolo Rag (May 2010) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Recording of IBM 7094 singing “A Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy)”, 1961 [textfiles.com], micronauts 1: circa ’77 [YouTube], Rush [via Webm8 productions], Poison Ivy Rag by Polar Lion (using midi from pianola.co.nz) [Onsug, 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