The Overnightscape Underground

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4:58:17 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

Here’s an unreleased, never-before-heard Onsug series – Vault Talk. I recorded 11 episodes from February-June 2010, but I decided not to release it at the time. It was meant to be included in a future “Vault” release, similar to a previous series, “In The Box”.

2010 was a strange time, as I was rebuilding things after the madness of 2009. As the series progressed, it became more focused on a kind of indulgent self-analysis, as I was trying to figure out new directions for the project. Still, it contains a ton of great material – the vibe of midtown Manhattan back in 2010, during the very early days of The Overnightscape Underground as a group channel.

It’s a mixed bag, but a truly amazing find – I had actually completely forgotten about it.

Notes: Vault Talk 1, 6:40 PM, Monday, February 22, 2010, introduction, In The Box, stats, 45th Street in NYC, Rum Sleg, recent episodes of my show, train store, clown & secretary, Chipotle, he lost his glasses, show formats, Planet Hollywood, MTV, Toys “R” Us, Times Square, my state of mind in the past, other shows on the channel, The Severe Repair Universe, old tapes, Exit Ramp, old recordings, Vault II, Vault Talk 2, 6:29 PM, Wednesday, February 24, 2010, Vault III, blizzard tomorrow, WFMU, The Great American Bathroom Book, goals, lack of ambition, microfame, hockey, bells, conspiracy theories, horses, Atlantis, what should I do, American Idol, Sonic 2, time loops, guy rambling in the bathroom, Vault Talk 3, 5:37 PM, Monday, March 1, 2010, going beyond, radio show idea (Diner City Nights), WFMU, Obliviana Super Occult Amusement, delusions and creations, Audioworlders, Hull TV, Howard Stern, If I Can Dream, Port Authority Bus Terminal, line argument, Vault Talk 4, 5:48 PM, Tuesday, March 2, 2010, too limited in the scope of my thinking, seaweed review, FN, recontextualization, Diamond Row, Times Square Visitor Center, self-analysis, $3 shirts, Times Square, getting punchy, Dave & Buster’s, sign guy, dive bar dreams, a middle class existence with computers, Vault Talk 5, 5:35 PM, Thursday, March 4, 2010, franknora.com, promotion, confusion, show names, my history in recording, Vault Talk 6, 5:46 PM, Monday, March 8, 2010, Lion Acid Post, trying to figure things out, Rockfeller Plaza, Digital Cafe, previous incarnations, weird theories, beautiful night in Times Square, Sit Quietly in Times Square for 45 Minutes, take it down a notch, two rocks, manipulation of the timestream, Vault Talk 7, 5:43 PM, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, stressed out, Jungle Mocs, Vault Talk 8, Monday, March 15, 2010, 6:09 PM, Vault Talk 9, Friday, March 26, 2010, Driven, Tune In And Drop Out With Shields, In The Vault 1, 6:40 PM, Monday, May 17, 2010, history of my radio projects, The Severe Repair Universe, Sneaky TT, buying some cigarillos, Weasel Village Mall, Creative Commons, 1423, sharing of content in new ways, In The Vault 2, 2:06 PM, Thuesday, June 3, 2010, weird feeling, The Frank Nora Show #1500, first contact with PQ Ribber, cosmic issues, time to move forward.

Released 1/9/21

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3:40:01 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Cinema dream, Capitol incident, MAME, Frisky Tom, site issues, animal dream, Tanya Roberts actually dead at 65, Dune (1984) memory, ambergris, video doorbell, Eraserhead (1977), trash bag review (Glad with Febreeze), See Fake Bands Like Earth Apple Anderson, Melter Pluto, Tree Bag Ask, Fountain Square in Cincinnati in June 1973, Warner Wolf, Ciffipur Pathways, Looney Labs – Lonney Pyramids – Nomids, Livingston Mall (Nov. 1981), Fanny Farmer vs Frances Farmer, MAC machines, Mitch Hedberg, long shadows of the late afternoon, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:59:20)… Lost_Place6 (Royalty Free Music) by PeriTune [Soundcloud,CC BY 3.0], The Starlost – original TV opening [YouTube], New 2005 (fake Boards of Canada song, origin unknown) [collection], The Reality of Monday (6/4/01) (excerpt) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0] [YouTube], Square One by Copper Man [collection], Space Mountain – RYCA-1: Dream of a New World (RCA) [collection], Blooming madness by Mr.Smiff [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 4.0], MST3K on The Comedy Channel (4/14/90) (Break 9) [YouTube], A1 – Forest Dub (original edit) by Union Jacques [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], The Making Of Luxor Las Vegas Documentary 1993 (1/4) [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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3:17:23 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Ear cleaning, Back to 2021, VR, fog trucks, Hindenburg dream, year shopping, when a future runs out, Doctor Who, Future Sound of London, new show art and book cover, public domain images, NJ weed, Severe Repair audiobook, imagined NJ trip, Weasel Village Mall, Dawn Wells dead at 82, Gilligan’s Island, Tanya Roberts (not) dead at 65, Gerry Marsden dead at 78, other famous Tanyas, views of NYC, flights of fancy, glass incident, Adobe Flash dead, Disney Skyliner, bronze cut pasta, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:32:15)… 2011-carnival-merry-go-round by alienistcog [Freesound, CC0 1.0], World and its troubles by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0], Thunder, Lightning and (T)rain by harrietniamh [Freesound, CC BY 3.0], Review by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [public domain], Reforth Danport (fake Boards of Canada song, origin unknown) [collection], Mermaids in Japan (Spinmeister Mix) by Blue Wave Theory [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 4.0], The Killer Bag (2/11/01) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Gold or Rock? by The Cholla [SurfGuitar101.com, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Go To Shoe Town [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0] , G39-16-Bugle Call by craigsmith [Freesound, CC0 1.0], The Fall of Tokyo by Icon Girl Pistols [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Duke Of The Garden by Gino Bragagnolo [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], dancin’ in the pale by absolute zero [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], Chaos by Arath [Archive.org, CC BY-SA 4.0], Armour of the Shroud (Brooklyn 6/25/09) by Bobb Trimble’s Flying Spiders [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 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

Onsug Radio Update – December 2020 Added

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1:35:13 – In this episode:

• 80’s voice actors doing high pitched voices,
• our incredibly bland, generic Presidental election response,
• followed by the Vince McMahon election response,
• remembering our buddy Frankie V. of the Digital Press Podcast, and avid fan and collector of Transformers and video games (news),
• also remembering Atari historian and homebrewer Curt Vendel (news),
• new discovery of NES Double Dribble voice samples being corrected (YouTube),
• did Michael Jackson’s â€œThe Way You Make Me Feel” rip off Tommy James’ â€œDragging The Line”,
• Mortal Kombat on the Atari Lynx (link),
• the miserable Baseball Stars 2 NES sequel,
• celebrity deaths (Joe Ruby, Bonnie Pointer, Ken Osmond, Sam Lloyd, Thomas L. Miller, Bill Withers, Eddie Van Halen, Ruth Bader Ginsburg),
• Rob-review of Nathan for You, the Comedy Central 2013-17 TV series, starring Nathan Fielder.

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

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10:22:05 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic recording from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to release more of my archives.

I’m finally doing a full audiobook reading of my “failed science fiction novel”, Severe Repair. In this first part of four, I read the first three “Cuplines”:

CUPLINE 1: GOODBYE POPCORN
CUPLINE 2: OFFICE COMPLEX
CUPLINE 3: PECULIAR LATHER

Back in the 1990s, with Severe Repair, my ambition was nothing less than to create an epic science fiction universe to rival the likes of Star Wars, Marvel Comics, and The Lord of the Rings. And if I had focused all my energy on the project, who knows what might have happened. But it was one of many creative projects I was trying to juggle. As it was, I spread myself too thin, and none of my 90s projects reached their full potential.

As the 90s turned to the 2000s, my capacity and desire to work on Severe Repair waned, and what I was left with was a huge, disorganized mass of writing, released at various times in various forms, some of which was quite good. So eventually, in 2008, I gathered it all together and released it as a complete work online called “Severe Repair: The Broken Text”. It weighed in at around 1,000 pages.

I tried several times to read parts of it as an audiobook. I did a short-lived audio series in 2010 called “The Severe Repair Universe”, where I read from the book, and annotated and discussed it as I went along – but it didn’t last.

I have always meant to record a full audiobook of Severe Repair, and now, having a week off at the end of 2020, I decided to go for it. Doing some quick calculations, I realized the full book would take something like 36 hours to record, so I decided to split it into 4 parts. This is the first part.

Recorded over the course of four days, and coming in at 10 hours and 22 minutes long, it’s me reading the book, without commentary. It’s quite rough around the edges, but it gets the job done. I plan on doing the other three parts in 2021.

Find the text version of the full book here: severerepair.com

–Frank

Released 12/31/20.

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3:01:59 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Today is all about cardboard, science fiction, and this year-end episode, day 293 of the crisis, Severe Repair audiobook, LOONA, Shindig!, England, Midnight Cassette, Single Gun Theory, Pierre Cardin dead at 98, 80s mall in Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), Tape World, Operation Wolf, Drain Bard Overload, The Droste Effect, new cassette player, Brugal Rum, card games, Deliveries, As the World Turns, predictions for 2021, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:17:20)… Weird Highway by Fuzzy Daupner [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Tormented by Confusion Is Next [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], Senja Menggila by White Shoes and the Couples Company [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Second Day Blues by The Heavens [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], sarouch nous on poze by SAROUCH [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Ruben Ranzo by Roger McGuinn [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Our Flirtation by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [public domain], Nano Moon Coral by Melissa Welch [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Maxell Robots (1985) [Retrontario, YouTube], Luegendetektor Sein by Rupert Falsch [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Hunting the dugong by TheWell [Jamendo, CC NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0], Howard Stern Channel 9 Show Ep. 8 (excerpt) [collection], Go To Shoe Town [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Gluematic Pen from Loctite (Commercial, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Crying Indian (1970) Keep America Beautiful [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

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2:52:43 â€“ Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Forgotten trip, Spam, day 291 of the crisis, holiday weekend, Goose Chasers, science, gazebo acoustics, Cyberpunk 2077, Barnes & Noble, got some magazines, Shindig!, damaging winds, New Weathervanes, Happy Days, religion, Severe Repair audiobook, Herculani update, making a martini, the 2020 cocktail “cinnamon sewage”, correctamundo etymology, Cursive Caxopy, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:08:15)… 4-butte-1: A lesson in archaeology (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], 4-butte-1: A lesson in archaeology (1967) (excerpt 2) [Archive.org, public domain], 1985 – Commercial – Orville Redenbacher Gourmet Popping Corn & Microwave Popcorn – Beatrice [YouTube], 1984 Beatrice Commercial [YouTube], 1981 Atari Promotional Video “Inside Atari: The Next Decade” [YouTube], 1952 – Roller Derby – the Chiefs vs the Jolters [Archive.org, public domain], WTTW Channel 11 – The Callaway-Ruddle Report (Opening, 1976) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WGN Channel 9 – Tornado Warning – “Goin’ Ape” (1982) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WGN Channel 9 – Bugs Bunny & Friends (Commercial Break #3, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Training: The Obscured Advantage [FedFlix, public domain], Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker Suite – Act I, No.8. Waltz of the Flowers [Musopen, public domain], Ragtime Serenade by Richard St. Clair [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Porcho Patcho 1 (1/11/20) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Guide Right by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [public domain], Go To Shoe Town [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

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2:09:04 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The military, day 286 of the crisis, spiritual cleansing, the weird park, people of 1819, what I remember from college, Santa smokes, I Wove A Toucan, fire engines like spaceships in the morning, drawer incident, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:24:46)… Where’s My Shoes? by Captain Zig [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], The Wave Beyond by Dash McIvor [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Untamed World outro 1970s [Retrontario, YouTube], Space Race ride film produced in Showscan format [YouTube], Middlesix – The Year 2889 (1967) [Archive.org], Magnavox – “Price Breakthrough” (Commercial, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Magic Cap Cellphone Demo August 1995 (partial) [YouTube], Lady Frankenstein (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], KWHY Channel 22 – SelecTV – “Promo & Sign-Off” (1982?) [FuzzyMemories.tv], KTLA Channel 5 [Los Angeles, CA] – The Snipets – “Acorn Whistle” (1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], The Games of Starcade – Major Havoc [YouTube], Fly Me (1973) Trailer [YouTube], Chronology 122 (excerpt) by Smersh [collection], Across the Danube by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [public domain].

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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2:41:03 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Dishwashing, disposable culture, day 258 of the crisis, giant rooster, Guinness Extra Stout, Red Hook ESB, Tape Land, Dump Fiction, forgetting, The Beatles, time travel, Star Wars, The Sharper Image, Palatino, AI, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:55:51)… 120 Minutes with Vic [collection], Rock And Roll Is Back Again by Rodd Rogers [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Resumption by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [public domain], PAH TRACK 6 by Largo02 [Dogmazic, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], Mato Grosso (heart version) by Neverland [Archive.org, public domain], Intrus Mental The big Re-Masterage by SFT [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], The God of Speed by The Silence Industry [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], FANTASIA 1979 re release in stereo London radio advert [YouTube], Eclectic Prawn by Dumbo Gets Mad [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Bonnie Annie Laurie by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [public domain], The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation From Sanity #1 [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Beraloids by Ross Adey [One on Twoism], Backpacks from Outdoor Products (Commercial, 1991) [collection], Another Ten Years by Wead [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