The Overnightscape Underground

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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).

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55:20 — Join Mike on an aimless adventure through Saturday night, looking to spend money on junk.

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

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59:36 — Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: starring in “adult” sci-fi horror without knowing it; making a new Creepfest with old friends; picking apart the flaws of “Ghostbuster” (1984), and much more!

Music for this episode by Mister Electric Demon from the album “Around my Cream“; the Bayou Trio; Perrson. Closing theme is by Dave Smith from the “Avalon Beach” soundtrack.

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