The Overnightscape Underground

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1:56:25 – If I Don’t Know (Arthur Jaz with lyrics and vocals by Jackie), my mood, not feeling productive, what do I want to be different in my life?, like it or lump it, Diet Coke Commercial (1991), trying to avoid getting into a slump, 100 shows, The Friday Maze, The Machine That Won the War (Lee Rosevere, Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0), looks like rain, Taxi, Andy Kaufman as Latka, stopped reading Schulz and Peanuts, Harpo Speaks, Jack McDevitt, re-reading a book years later, batteries, Charles M. Schulz’s shyness, Time Travelers Never Die, the final season of Quantum Leap, the weirdness of Sliders, Voyagers!, Skyblue Monday (Blasterhead, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives), sweating, House, Annie likes spoilers, Myth Arc vs. Monster of the Week, phone call, exhausted, behind on my Onsug listening, buying a drink at Casey’s, should have gone to Patterson Bay, Marilu Henner, eidetic memory, Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind, Taxi actors in Man on the Moon, Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman, Joe Piscopo, original SNL cast members, feeling better, the united front of parenthood, replenishing energy to the Universe, ear wax. Theme song: Simple Pleasures (Henry Homesweet, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales).

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Released June 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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2:55:31 –
Anybody’s Guess #46: Thanksvintage (11-22-11) (1:59:13)
Ostrich for Thanksgiving Dinner (The Jack Benny Program, 11-19-1939), Turkey Trial Dream (The Jack Benny Program, 11-30-1947), Visiting Uncle Dennis (Fibber McGee and Molly, 11-19-1940), Doc’s Pheasants for Dinner (Fibber McGee and Molly, 11-23-1948).

Anybody’s Guess #47: Hipster Elf (12-1-11) (56:17)
It’s cold, Chicago TARDIS, Max Marble and Doctor Who Audio Reviews, breadsticks and pizza, Define a Transparent Dream (Live at WFMU) (The Olivia Tremor Control, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States), the contact lens debacle, black-rimmed glasses, Room by Emma Donoghue, Thanksgiving 2011, mystery guest on The Overnightscape, Black Friday, Flaming Red Hair (The Dirty Frogs, Attribution 3.0 United States), getting dark earlier in the evening, relax a little, hipster glasses, hipsters, Casey Wilson as Penny on Happy Endings, liking things ironically, retro, gas is $3.09, listen as I read The Elf on the Shelf to children. Theme song: Trailed In The Dust (GhostHandPunch, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0).

Special note: As of this release, the entire backlog of Anybody’s Guess is now on Onsug.com. Shabanga!

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34:37 – Let’s go to Kroger for some Diet Orange Crush! Theme song: Simple Pleasures (Henry Homesweet, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales).

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1:18:57 – Intro, the final day of high school cassette (side one) (field recording from 5-29-92), Graduation Day (Math and Physics Club, Attribution-NonCommercial), the final day of high school cassette (side two) (field recording from 5-29-92), closing, Old School (Bobotek, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0). Theme song: Simple Pleasures (Henry Homesweet, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales).

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Released June 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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3:02:15 –
Anybody’s Guess #45: The Fall Festival Experience (11-21-11) (3:02:15)
The Atlanta, Illinois fall festival (recorded September 10, 2011): did you take allergy stuff, you get your body back, Mom got Dad to take the Ferris wheel, Grandpa Frank’s here, she rode the train five times, Tim, gotta watch for a green jeep, Jimmy Hoffa, she’s allowed to have as many imaginary boyfriends as she wants, please save me Dada, I did not marry a robot, yay Erik, girl scouts, every parade has Shriners, Fozzie Bear drove a Studebaker, look how much candy I got, really Tim? really?, I’m fine with spinny ones but not rollercoasters, say hi to Lisa, tons of cousins, genealogy, the Christian Church has a whack-a-demon booth set up, walking tacos are good, turned around and my people were gone, she had a little admirer at the park, what did the hurricane say to the island?, Paul Bunyan statue, Rock of Love, they’re all lining up to achieve total enlightenment, skinny Hailey, in what universe is it not raining, depends on how many beers they’ve had, all-purpose building, he wants to get the whole experience, karaoke, hope you like Patsy Cline, five singers left, you other brothers can’t deny, Bill’s gonna take my money too ain’t he, I clocked you at 74, The Princess Bride, vampires, colonoscopy, there’s a polar bear on your drink, slice of life there, it looks like that elephant’s coming right at ya. Theme song: Trailed In The Dust (GhostHandPunch, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0).

Special note: only one more “bundle” to go and the entire backlog of Anybody’s Guess will be on Onsug.com. Sorry I’ve bombarded the site these past few days, but I’ve just been really eager to get them all on here…

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Released May 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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1:03:45 – Jackie thinks Annie’s hair is too short, I Wonder Where My Baby is Tonight (Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, 1925), going to see The Kid (1921) at Normal Theater, Jackie Coogan’s license plate, Coogan and Charlie Chaplin meeting again late in life, The Idle Class, It’s a Wonderful Life, I never win the door prize, we went swimming, Harold Lloyd, Chaplin resisted talkies, Buster Keaton’s problems in the 1930s, Sunshine Charlie (Jay Whidden Orchestra, 1931), guitarist on the curb, film flub in The Kid, Chaplin directed Brando in A Countess from Hong Kong, Edna Purviance and Henry Bergman, Coogan as a mimic, again I did not win the door prize, “John,” fight scene in The Kid, Chaplin running over rooftops, other Chaplin films, Jelly Roll Morton, Lon Chaney, Roscoe Arbuckle’s scandal, Arbuckle gave Keaton his big break, Arbuckle with Mabel Normand in films, possible rivalry between Arbuckle and Chaplin at Keystone. Theme song: Simple Pleasures (Henry Homesweet, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales).

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1:50:17 –
Anybody’s Guess #42: You Should Have Seen What We Got Pete Gibbons! (11-17-11) (34:36)
Need gas and a checkbook register, warmer outside than I expected, Who Moved My Blackberry?, Lucy Kellaway and “Martin Lukes”, Pandora, big floppy coat, humorous depictions of corporate life, Office Space, dream of telling your boss to stick it, Gary Cole, The Office (U.K.) as compared to The Office (U.S.), the Michael Scott Paper Company, Tim and Dawn, not missing Steve Carell that much, Toby is Charlie Brown, Dwight’s name misspelled in the Threat Level Midnight script, secretary, Personal Days and Then We Came to the End, Dilbert, only get a half hour for lunch, wondering where I will be in two years.

Anybody’s Guess #43: Rhombus (11-18-11) (47:46)
Black Friday, 11/22/63 by Stephen King, 20th century pop culture history, Harry Turtledove, almost ran a stop sign, The Shining (book, film, and miniseries), Dr. Sleep, The Dark Tower series on audiobook, present-day kindergarten math, five-year-olds using computers, my first Internet chat room experience back in 1994, Forrest Gump and Jeffrey Dahmer, before the Internet, movies currently playing in the theater, Adam Sandler movies, Jack and Jill looks very one-note, SNL cast members in Grown-Ups, the death of Chris Farley, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana in About a Boy by Nick Hornby.

Anybody’s Guess #44: Community, Contacts, and Coben (11-20-11) (27:54)
On my way to the eye doctor, NBC put Community on hiatus, Whitney is getting horrible reviews, Abed and the alternate timelines, considering getting contact lenses, preparing episodes ahead of time before Thanksgiving, AudioTrack 07 (Peace & Anarchy, Attribution-Share Alike 3.0), the epic saga of putting in contact lenses for the first time, so weird, Caught, Jerry Sandusky, looking for a parking space, building a snowman on Thanksgiving when I was a kid, flurries a few days ago, Toys for Elliot, Shaky Eyes (Arthur Collins, Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0). Theme song: Trailed In The Dust (GhostHandPunch, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0).

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Released May 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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2:20:14 –
Anybody’s Guess #41: Wake Up, Shambles! (11-15-11) (2:20:14)
My “get out of bed early” experiment, the possum in the garage, did not hit snooze, Annie rearranged our bedroom, grrrrrr!, it’s raining and I’m a dumbass, Saturday Night Live, Nasim Pedrad, Whitney Cummings, I say Two and a Half Men when I really mean How I Met Your Mother and don’t realize it because as I said I’m a dumbass, getting sleepy during meetings at work, planned to release this episode on November 12 (which didn’t happen), can’t stop listening to Trailed In The Dust by GhostHandPunch, this time I catch myself incorrectly saying Two and a Half Men, Barney Stinson’s sensitive side, My Sister My Love, mid-‘90s field recordings on cassette tapes, fall festival recording will be released eventually, depressing news stories, Frosty, Heidi and Frank, long lunch with my friend Tony, getting drunk after Tony’s wedding, more relaxed these days, Happy Meal, the trip for you will be instantaneous, loud children in McDonald’s Play Place, can’t remember any dreams this week, Thomas Park aka Mystified, self-help cassette to help you get to sleep, Simon and Garfunkel, meeting scheduled for 10:30 to 12:00, loyalty to the Monical’s, white crud falling off the roof, brainstorming on Anybody’s Guess #40, not in proper mindset for meditation class, Lum and Abner, public domain, downloaded a bunch of material, can’t remember what I talked about early in this episode, creative highs, Barnes and Noble, medium raspberry steamer, opposing viewpoint, a very pleasant discussion with a B&N employee about the Nook, uploading Anybody’s Guess #40, a pretty pretty pretty bad Larry David impression. Theme song: Trailed In The Dust (GhostHandPunch, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0).

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23:49 – Walking to work, schedule change, Chaotic Light burned me out a little from doing long episodes, only a few Anybody’s Guess episodes left to put on Onsug, need more exercise, character voices for Blind Duncan’s Blues, laptop problems, Mick Jagger, Kristen Wiig’s last SNL as a cast member, crossing the Parkway. Theme song: Simple Pleasures (Henry Homesweet, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales).

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39:28 – Pathetic Perry (field recording from March 1991), a fifteen-minute school day, paying bills, coughing, felt sick, Coach on Cheers, Centipede (Arthur Jaz), Overnightscape Central: Science, I didn’t give myself enough credit, different types of science, the ability to reason and to think, early depictions of the Cheers characters in season 1, Jackie’s keyboard, more Cheers talk, Harry Anderson, the St. Elsewhere universe existing only in Tommy Westphall’s mind, the implications of multiple TV crossovers with St. Elsewhere, the adventurous cat, Jackie’s writing award, I did some random experimental recording last Saturday, rabbits. Theme song: Simple Pleasures (Henry Homesweet, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales).

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Released May 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.