The Overnightscape Underground

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1:45:44 — Join Mike, walking around the streets of Birmingham, AL on a Saturday night! Topics include: Fall coming on, and football season; must be hard to be a hardcore football fan, and a player, too; Halloween coming on; haunted houses; watching people get scared in the past at Sloss “Fright” Furnace; decade nostalgia; I almost got hit by someone texting; the human need for love sometimes supercedes the human need for survival; I’ve had a hard week, but how I know things can ALWAYS be worse; I had to take a show down; dangers of the digital world; movie “The Naked City” and annoying detective show formulas, and; much more!

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1:16:32 — Join Mike for a walk through Birmingham, AL on a Saturday night. Topics include: park benches, old and new; work troubles have been resolved amicably; smoking a cigar with a storm coming on; Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye” and hard-boiled detective archetype; moral compasses; “Citizen Creepfest” short story; “Downtown Drive-In” plans to be revived at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Birmingham; “The Munsters” TV show and how it changed my life through an episode called “Far-Out Munsters”; everything we see that is man-made was once demonstrated; Thomas Edison once electrocuted an elephant; mad at people from the past, and; much more!

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1:39:35 — Mike takes a walk and ends up at the Sidewalk Film Festival downtown. Topics include: attending the first Sidewalk in 1998 and seeing “Seinfeld” Director Tom Cherones there; ScriptThing for Windows; downtown Birmingham is full of cars, but where are all the people?; walking around Sidwalk on my way to hear actors do a table read of short screenplays; screenwriting; Lee Strasburg; all the annoying hoops you have to jump through to make movies, and; much more! Note: this episode has a secret track. MAKE SURE YOU LISTEN ALL THE WAY THROUGH FOR THE SECRET TRACK!!!!

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1:50: 18 — Mike is back from his Midwest trip! Topics include: Coca-cola “Mike” bottles urban legend; shark week; comedy central in the 90s; the secret to warding off sharks; field audio from Indiana including notes about the town of Nashville and the B Movie Festival; meeting MonsterVision host Joe Bob Briggs; thinking of moving some place else sometime soon; audio from Joe Bob’s introduction of midnight movie at festival, “Silent Night, Deadly Night”, and more!

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1:38:56 — Join Mike for another aimless ramble. Topics include: people I don’t know recognize me, having a “familiar” face; going to the “B” Movie Festival next week; having a “Type A” personality; did not get a teaching job for the next school year; horror host update — Rhonda Shear from “USA Up All Nite”; the “Finding Bigfoot” TV show, and much more!

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1:24:45 — Mike buys shoes from the same place he used to sell videos, and talks about his brief stint as an exploitation filmmaker. Also: the “real” Walter White(s); “The Hogan Family” sitcom; Bruce Campbell, and more!

Music for this episode by Wade from the album “Midnight Soundz” (CC license, BY, NC, SA), the Bayou Trio (CC license, BY, NC, SA) and The Black Parrot (CC license, BY, NC).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released July 2014, on The Overnightscape Underground Underground and The Midnight Citizen (themidnightcitizen.com).

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2:21:18 — Join Mike in the studio on Saturday night, and for some field segments spent camping at Oak Mountain State Park. More description coming.

Music for this episode by Wade from the album “Midnight Soundz” (CC license, BY, NC, SA) and The Bayou Trio (CC license, BY, NC, SA). Both available on Jamendo.com.

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1:21:02 — Diary of Mike’s field trip to rural Georgia. Includes a walk around a Carnival Expo in Jasper, Georgia.

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1:36:49 — Join Mike in the studio on a hot Saturday night, and on the streets of downtown Birmingham, AL with an audio field trip to the Museum of Art. Topics include: hassles of manned and un-manned transactions — supermarkets and otherwise; Starbucks’s “Not Bob” theory; Actor Eli Wallach has died; encountering a religious rally at Linn Park downtown; visiting my dad’s old office building; architects’ conceptual models used as artwork in building lobbies; working for the census bureau and hunting down homeless people to enumerate; lost, trying to find the art museum; tough time recording; confrontation likened to sexual tension; Michael Keaton and “Birdman”; walking around the B’ham Museum of Art; ever-changing meanings of “modern”; misplaced Spanish painting in the Rococo room; Smuckers “Uncrustables” sandwiches; synchronicities of this episode, and; much more!

Music for this episode by Wade from the album “Midnight Soundz” (CC license, BY, NC, SA), The Bayou Trio (CC license, BY, NC, SA), and Mister Electric Demon (CC license, BY, NC, SA), available on Jamendo.com.

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1:38:00 — Join Mike for his regular Saturday night thing. Topics include: old ad copy used as decorative art in restaurant bathrooms; Harrison Ford injured on the set of “Star Wars”; “Blade Runner” Final Cut; new “Godzilla” was bad, depressing; Birmingham News has closed its nice offices downtown; Pepper Place Farmers’ Market was a carnival without the rides; Oak Mountain Middle School Carnival/ Expo ’95; on the porch late at night; house-sitting for parents; snake season in the South; local Birmingham station METV shows great classic shows; “Deadwood”; Facebook youth flight, and much more!