The Overnightscape Underground

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1:20:20 — Join Mike on the streets of Birmingham, AL. Topics include: weird, misplaced sound coming from stone pillar; faux objects; walking between dog sits on a beautiful Fall night; the “naked photographer”; late night coffee from O’Henry’s; service jobs; if I were President; the Oscars should be held every four years like the Olympics; Alabama vs. Ole Miss; glad I’m not a football fan; “Inherent Vice” trailer released this week; started my new job; passed a Bocci court tonight; what is Bocci?; finally played Grand Theft Auto Online, and; much more!

Music for this episode by Mister Electric Demon from the album “Around my Cream”.

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1:38:31 — Join Mike on a late-nite journey through Birmingham, AL. Places include: the 1st Avenue Bridge looking over the Sloss “Fright” Furnace Haunted House; Caldwell Park, where I keep insisting its safe despite being pursued by some wanderer, and; Wal-Mart, where I look at Halloween decor and the latest issue of “Wood” magazine — among other stuff.

This episode includes music by Wade from his album “Midnight Soundz” (CC — BY, NC, SA).

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

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1:31:15 — Join Mike on a Saturday night in Birmingham, AL. Topics include: free coffee from McDonald’s; closet disaster; Crimson Tide (1995); free stuff and senior discounts; working alone vs. working with people; service industry jobs; faking happiness; sitting outside and having a Coffee Oatmeal Stout from the Good People Brewery; someone I know was on that show “Castle” I was ridiculing last week; formula detective shows; “Sleepy Hollow” on Fox; movie review — “Guardians of the Galaxy”; writing screenplays vs. novels; afraid I’m wasting my time writing; work update, and; much more!

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

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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!!!!

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

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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.