The Overnightscape Underground

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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!

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1:53:19 — Join Mike inside and out, for more ramblings about anything, including: mall arcades; working at the Riverchase Galleria in various capacities; first Mall job at Suncoast video (’98-’99); co-workers; difficult people; book review: “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room” by Greg Sestero (2013); “Disaster Artist” comparisons to David Lynch movies; washed my show notebook by accident; house sitting for my parents; “Deadwood”; this week is the 2nd anniversary of the Downtown Drive-In; possible revival of the DD-I; the Blue Moon Drive-In in Guin, AL, and much more!

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1:35:37 — Join Mike on the streets of Birmingham, AL. Goings on include: Birmingham “Slicefest” happening down the street; street art; the nature of synchronicity and mirror universes; visiting Avondale Park on a muggy Saturday afternoon; graphic novel “Teenagers from Mars” (2005); noticing various Birmingham neighborhoods that have been gentrified; “The Guy”, my pot-dealing neighbor, has skipped town; HBO show, “Hello Ladies — very funny, but cancelled, and; more!

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

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

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1:48:25 — Join Mike in the studio, and on the streets of Birmingham, AL. Topics include fortune(less) cookies; Anna the dog’s vet records just came in the mail; “donut time” in the field with thoughts about meeting people and making friends as an adult; people you’re suddenly exposed to with dog ownership; Ennio Morricone; annoying commercials, Taco Bell, Macaulay Culkin’s joke band “The Pizza Underground” is awful; in the field on a Friday night with a cigar (Arturo Fuente Gran Reserva); beer, and watering plants with it; “Wet Hot American Summer” (1999) may come back as a TV show; “The Sopranos”; Dog TV; “Black Eye Children” and the entertainment value of conspiracy theories, and; much more!

Music for this episode by Mister Electric Demon and the Bayou Trio, with additional music from the short film “Drive-In-Movie” (artist unknown, standard YouTube license).

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44:15 — Join Mike in the field, walking his new dog, Anna, and attempting (poorly) to recover from being sick.

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1:26:22 — Join Mike in the studio, and walking around Birmingham, AL. Topics include: Doo-Dah Day; how Birmingham is progressive and doesn’t reflect the staunch-conservative values of the rest of Alabama; Dale Peterson, back again! (the gun-toting nut job political candidate I talked about a while back); Midnight Citizen TV has been updated; wish I had a porch; Harrison Ford to star in “Blade Runner 2”; we should stop focusing on improving old things and make new art; “Ready Player One”; 20/20 and John Stossel; wrestling; donut indulgences; my laundry was stolen by someone (but later returned); negative people and what we can learn from them, and; much more!

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54:25 — Mike in the studio on Saturday night. Topics include: Mothers’ Day cards and forgetfulness; panic in a grocery store check-out line; nice Saturday off, playing stealthy video games; “Heavy Metal” (1981); the definition of “Going for a Swim” as it pertains to watching movies; Rhonda Up-All-Night on the  USA network; Jenny Lewis; the bipolar history of the Confederate Flag — racist symbol or a proud symbol of inheritance?; birthday cards and office politics, and; more!

Music for this episode by Mister Electric Demon, Creative Commons and Share-Alike, available on Jamendo.com.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivs 3.0 United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released May 2014, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com) and The Midnight Citizen (themidnightcitizen.com).

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1:03:10 — Mike in the studio on Saturday night, talking about his girlfriend’s mother being murdered (on the television show, “Ghost Adventures”); the ongoing struggle to have a lottery in Alabama; a BIG announcement about the future of “The Midnight Citizen”; Howard Hessman and “Head of the Class”; “Dear Stacy” Hollywood column and pre-Internet trivia gathering; indulgences; the television schizophrenia of my childhood in the early 90s; Eve Plumb, and more!

Music for this episode by Mister Electric Demon from the album “Around my Cream”. All music is Creative Commons Share-Alike, available on Jamendo.com.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivs 3.0 United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released May 2014, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com) and The Midnight Citizen (themidnightcitizen.com).