The Overnightscape Underground

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1:37:07 – Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: strange response I got when knocking on a Starbucks bathroom door; movie review — “In a World” (2013); getting fat and breaking the sedentary lifestyle; I “sweat to the oldies” in the studio and attempt to lift free weights”; my mic stand loses balances as it was previously being weighed down by the free weights; the coffee habits of a working stiff; gym rackets; more “Friday the 13th” marathon excerpts with friends Jason and Adam; zeitgeist — what is it?; breaking down certain cultural trends; review of new PBS doc on Walt Disney; Disney World in the 90s and the gay paranoia of right-wing evangelicals I knew back then; local beer is overtaking corporate beer and shutting down its factories; strange comment I got on the last show; “Too Close for Comfort” and a possible upcoming interview with its star Deborah Van Valkenburgh, and much more!

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1:29:36 – Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: getting out of town and re-charging batteries; the quaint town of Springville, AL, where there is nothing to do; the unsuccessful search for the quintessential small town diner; small town romanticism vs. reality; IBC Bottle confusion; Nielson sent me a dollar to fill out a survey about my TV habits; celebrity deaths — Wes Craven and Dean Jones; smoking a pipe outside; movie review — “A Walk in the Woods”, and; much more…

Note: Apologies for the bad sound quality in the field segment of this episode. Not sure what happened there.

Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial-Share Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released September 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

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1:59:56 – Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: new mouth habits, dentist catastrophe and preventing oral hazards; my history with money, from wanting to build a money pool in my closet like Scrooge McDuck on “DuckTales” and my first and only time shoplifting from a Food Lion to taking any job just to finance my weekends; book review — “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls” by Peter Biskind; the “New Hollywood” movement of the 70s; wild coincidences and the cosmic unconsciousness; making fun of the past as I watch “The Kids’ Guide to the Internet” (1997) on YouTube; Bryant Gumble’s smug reaction to “e-mail” on The Today Show in 1994; Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods” movie coming to theaters in a couple weeks; man’s awkward relationship with the Wild, and; much more!

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2:02:25 – Join Mike in the studio late at night, and on the porch in Savannah, GA. Topics include: white line fever, highway hypnosis and the “Black Dog” legend; busy vacation; passports and honeymoons; small town Georgia; Beanie Babies; having a porch cigar and lighting a left-over sparkler from July 4th; seeing Adam Sandler on River Street; what makes a celebrity tired; the ongoing dilemma of recording and how it can dilute experience; concentrated wealth in seaside communities; haves and have-not’s; passing time in the car; 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon, and; much more!

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1:23:31 – Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: candle review of “Campfire” by the Great Bear Wax Co.; making s’mores over the candle; new Dr. Seuss book “What Pet Should I Get”; Roddy Piper; playing some video of the 13-hour “Friday the 13th” marathon from March I did with friends Jason and Adam; TV review: “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp”; movie review: “Mission:Impossible — Rogue Nation”, and; much more

Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released August 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

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1:30:06 – Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: an audio journey through the proposed Midnight Realm Amusement and Experiential Theme Park in Muscle Shoals, AL; Walt Disney and his grand designs, camera presence; Michael Eisner; sad celebrity deaths — Max Fleisher artists and amusement park conceptual designer Vincent “Val” Valentine and wrestler, actor “Rowdy” Roddy Piper; TV review — “The Jinx” (2015); Movie review — “Lost Soul: the Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s ‘Island of Dr. Moreau” (2014); Birmingham YA author John Green; the “Magical Pixie Girl” trope, and; much more!

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1:23:43 – Join Mike in the studio late at night, exploring all things about the great American movie theater. Topics include: Jason and the keeled-over, barfing drunk guy at opening night of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake (2003); first time going to the movies alone when I was in the fifth grade; first job memories of working at the Colonnade movie theater in 1998; thinking about the experience surrounding the movies — bookstores, ambling, what happens after the movie’s over; the smells, the snack bar, and everything sensory; just found out about the shootings in a movie theater in Louisiana RIGHT before I started the show, and; much more!

Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released July 2015, on The Overnightscape Underground and The Midnight Citizen.

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1:58:02 – Join Mike in the studio late at night, and on an excursion to the Alabama countryside. Topics include: Sylacauga, AL and its various claims to fame such as the Hodges Meteorite and being the birthplace of Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle, USMC); checking out an old census report of living Civil War veterans in 1909; field recording from riding around the golf course compound late at night where I went for a work retreat this week; Video Asides; Doesthedogdie.com; “I Dream of Jeannie” turns 50; Barbara Eden on the Today Show; “Harper Valley PTA”; field recording from the hotel room; can’t sleep; the golf compound staff left some right wing Christian literature for me to read; TV reviews — “True Detective” and “Life’s Too Short” with Warwick Davis; Snobs vs. Slobs, and; much more!

Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal).

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1:42:18 – Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: memories of the VisionLand amusement park in Bessemer, AL and the dead shopping center Watermark Place next door; Amanda Peterson, teenage star of the 1980s, dead at 43 and remembering her claim to fame in “Can’t Buy Me Love” (1987); Harper Lee and “Go Set a Watchman”; movie review of “The Nightmare” (2015); shadow people; “Cloak Man” dream review from when I was six; how to get a free oil change at Pep Boys, and; much more!