The Overnightscape Underground

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1:47:11 — Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night. Topics include: a model shop closed for re-modeling; nice Saturday following the “covered bridge” trail in Blount County, AL; guilt of slacking; sincere impulses to get outside; cleaned up TV versions of R-rated movies; Nashville, Indiana and how I was going to move there but later changed my plans; Joe Bob Briggs and the B-Movie Festival; Woody Allen dream; going to the Birmingham TED conference; assuming different roles throughout life; pizza guy vs. car dealership Youtube video, and; much more!

Music for this episode is music from the Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora.

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1:51:11 — Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night. Topics include: neighbor’s redneck porch paradise; reclaiming the living room from Christmas; Balsam trees and needles falling out of them; warm interior spaces; could I build an indoor porch?; 2015 and Hoverboard demand; had to stop show to pour more coffee; podcasting vs. radio; irrelevance of radio to most people; is there anything on the show you would like me to talk about more?; ‘Denis’ from “Inherent Vice” liked my friend’s photo on Instagram; “Inherent Vice” review; nightmares caused from TV; “Quantum Leap” nightmare; finished “Twin Peaks” and had a nightmare stemming from it, and; much more!

Music for this episode is music from the Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora.

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1:22:34 — Join Mike in the studio on a dark and stormy Saturday night. Topics include: this week in January 1995; “The Midnight Citizen” turns 5 this week!; new desk for the studio; survival reality shows; “Fat Guys in the Woods”; using condoms to start a fire; “Risk” board game; “Monopoly” tragedy; board game and “geek” culture; “Twin Peaks”; and more!

Music for this episode is music from the Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora.

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

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1:13:09 — Join Mike for a walk on a rainy Saturday night in late December.

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1:31:07 — Join Mike outside, in the car, and walking around Wal-Mart in Birmingham, AL.

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

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1:29:33 — Join Mike in the studio for an all new nighttime smorgasbord of verbiage. Topics include: the 10,000-hour rule of genius; rush hour and stare tag; “Inherent Vice”; the seclusion of Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson and Author Thomas Pynchon; movie “Runaway Train” (1985); Christmas coming on; “Christmas Baby Please Come Home” by Darlene Love; crowdfunding, and much more!

Music for this episode is “Nite Beat” by The Rat Group, available on Jamendo.com.

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1:08:01 — Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night. Topics include: supermarket hassles and quandaries; Birmingham’s donut famine; movie — “Almost Famous” (2000); Lakeview shooting in the gentrified area of down the street from my house; my neighborhood was underwater in the 1800s; notorious murders that happened in my neighborhood in the 1880s and the riots that followed; book review, “The Console Wars” and war between Sega and Nintendo of the early 90’s; Grand Theft Auto Online; Black Friday, and much more!

Music for this episode is “Nite Beat” by The Rat Group, available on Jamendo.com.

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1:06:00 — Mike is in the studio tonight, with a show all about mall cops. He explores the good, the bad and everything in between about the brave men and women in this nation’s shopping malls and strip plazas, who represent the thin white line between retail order and chaos. This episode is dedicated to the late Moss Garcia, (?)-2014.

Music for this episode is “Nite Beat” by The Rat Group, available on Jamendo.com.

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

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1:17:24 — Mike returns to the studio on this cold night, but then bundles up for a walk outside when it gets too claustrophobic. Topics this week include: communicating with the dead; spirit boxing; Homestead Hollow agro-fair in Springville, AL; forlorn teenagers; candy review of Fox Point Farm caramels; Harry Dean Stanton should have survived “Alien”; movie review of “Nebraska” (2014), and; more!

Music for this episode is “It’s Been a While” by Wade (CC,   BY, NC, SA).

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

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1:32:49 — Join Mike outside on a chilly Saturday night in Birmingham, AL, talking over the sounds of cheering Alabama football fans as the team goes neck-and-neck with LSU. Included in this spoiler-free show is an extensive review of the new, cool movie “Nightcrawler”, and a tease for the new feature to the Midnight Citizen web site, “Camp Friday”. Also, what exactly is the deal with the mysterious Dwell Real Estate Company that’s taken over management of several apartment buildings in his neighborhood?

Music for this episode is “It’s Been a While” by Wade (CC,   BY, NC, SA).

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