12:32 – New Year’s Eve at last. A time to reflect and look back, so we look back to the days of the Raj and ruminate on the legacy of Imperialism, before offering some thoughts on the year past. Includes:
Northwest Frontier – Remaking the Past ¦ ‘Northwest Frontier’ (1959) Trailer ¦ Doc Sleaze’s New Year Message
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Doc Sleaze – more info at TheOvernightscape.com Released Dec 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.
10:22:05 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic recording from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to release more of my archives.
I’m finally doing a full audiobook reading of my “failed science fiction novel”, Severe Repair. In this first part of four, I read the first three “Cuplines”:
Back in the 1990s, with Severe Repair, my ambition was nothing less than to create an epic science fiction universe to rival the likes of Star Wars, Marvel Comics, and The Lord of the Rings. And if I had focused all my energy on the project, who knows what might have happened. But it was one of many creative projects I was trying to juggle. As it was, I spread myself too thin, and none of my 90s projects reached their full potential.
As the 90s turned to the 2000s, my capacity and desire to work on Severe Repair waned, and what I was left with was a huge, disorganized mass of writing, released at various times in various forms, some of which was quite good. So eventually, in 2008, I gathered it all together and released it as a complete work online called “Severe Repair: The Broken Text”. It weighed in at around 1,000 pages.
I tried several times to read parts of it as an audiobook. I did a short-lived audio series in 2010 called “The Severe Repair Universe”, where I read from the book, and annotated and discussed it as I went along – but it didn’t last.
I have always meant to record a full audiobook of Severe Repair, and now, having a week off at the end of 2020, I decided to go for it. Doing some quick calculations, I realized the full book would take something like 36 hours to record, so I decided to split it into 4 parts. This is the first part.
Recorded over the course of four days, and coming in at 10 hours and 22 minutes long, it’s me reading the book, without commentary. It’s quite rough around the edges, but it gets the job done. I plan on doing the other three parts in 2021.
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46:04 – The 623rd entry in the sequence finds PQ Ribber announcing the release of the New Azure Attorney album, driveling about stuff, presenting music, stories and more!!
Released December 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel based on a freeform monologue style, presenting diverse and fascinating hosts who craft thought-provoking, unique transmissions for now, and all future times!
3:01:59 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Today is all about cardboard, science fiction, and this year-end episode, day 293 of the crisis, Severe Repair audiobook, LOONA, Shindig!, England, Midnight Cassette, Single Gun Theory, Pierre Cardin dead at 98, 80s mall in Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), Tape World, Operation Wolf, Drain Bard Overload, The Droste Effect, new cassette player, Brugal Rum, card games, Deliveries, As the World Turns, predictions for 2021, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:17:20)… Weird Highway by Fuzzy Daupner [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Tormented by Confusion Is Next [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], Senja Menggila by White Shoes and the Couples Company [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Second Day Blues by The Heavens [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], sarouch nous on poze by SAROUCH [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Ruben Ranzo by Roger McGuinn [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Our Flirtation by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [public domain], Nano Moon Coral by Melissa Welch [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Maxell Robots (1985) [Retrontario, YouTube], Luegendetektor Sein by Rupert Falsch [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Hunting the dugong by TheWell [Jamendo, CC NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0], Howard Stern Channel 9 Show Ep. 8 (excerpt) [collection], Go To Shoe Town [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Gluematic Pen from Loctite (Commercial, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Crying Indian (1970) Keep America Beautiful [archive.org].
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17:13 – We reach the half way point of this ill-advised venture and go supersonic with a look at that disaster of a disaster movie Airport 79…The Concorde, plus a quick mention of its Italian knock off, SOS Concorde, (featuring the French trailer, warning, there are no sub-titles on this broadcast). Includes:
‘Airport 79…The Concorde’ Trailer (1979) ¦ Forgotten Film – ‘Airport 79…The Concorde’ ¦ Random Movie Trailer – ‘SOS Concorde’ (1979) Trailer (in French) ¦ SOS Concorde
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Doc Sleaze – more info at TheOvernightscape.com Released Dec 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.
Overall attribution by PQ Ribber , all other hosts appear courtesy of themselves. Released December 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts presenting an array of talk-driven programs that are inspired by the Magic of the Human Voice!
11:24 – With the fifth day of Christmas come some childhood TV memories from the seventies. Jack Hargreaves answers the question of ‘How’ to get a ship into a bottle, while Fred Dineage tries to show us ‘How’ to throw a pot, before we go ‘Out of Town’ to hear about the ‘Tittle Tattler’. Includes:
Southern TV intro and ‘How’ theme tune/intro ¦ Memories of ‘How’ ¦ ‘How’ Excerpt Featuring Jack Hargreaves and Fred Dineage ¦ Going ‘Out of Town’ ¦ ‘Out of Town’ Excerpt with Jack Hargreaves
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Doc Sleaze – more info at TheOvernightscape.com Released Dec 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.
2:52:43 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Forgotten trip, Spam, day 291 of the crisis, holiday weekend, Goose Chasers, science, gazebo acoustics, Cyberpunk 2077, Barnes & Noble, got some magazines, Shindig!, damaging winds, New Weathervanes, Happy Days, religion, Severe Repair audiobook, Herculani update, making a martini, the 2020 cocktail “cinnamon sewage”, correctamundo etymology, Cursive Caxopy, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:08:15)… 4-butte-1: A lesson in archaeology (excerpt 3) [Archive.org, public domain], 4-butte-1: A lesson in archaeology (1967) (excerpt 2) [Archive.org, public domain], 1985 – Commercial – Orville Redenbacher Gourmet Popping Corn & Microwave Popcorn – Beatrice [YouTube], 1984 Beatrice Commercial [YouTube], 1981 Atari Promotional Video “Inside Atari: The Next Decade” [YouTube], 1952 – Roller Derby – the Chiefs vs the Jolters [Archive.org, public domain], WTTW Channel 11 – The Callaway-Ruddle Report (Opening, 1976) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WGN Channel 9 – Tornado Warning – “Goin’ Ape” (1982) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WGN Channel 9 – Bugs Bunny & Friends (Commercial Break #3, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Training: The Obscured Advantage [FedFlix, public domain], Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker Suite – Act I, No.8. Waltz of the Flowers [Musopen, public domain], Ragtime Serenade by Richard St. Clair [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Porcho Patcho 1 (1/11/20) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Guide Right by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [public domain], Go To Shoe Town [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com
12:30 – We hit Day Four of Christmas. With the festive fatigue setting in, this time we muse about the apocalypse and wonder whether good diction will be the last bastion of civilised values in the post-apocalyptic world. Includes:
Post-Christmas Doom and Gloom? ¦ ‘Fist of the North Star’ (1995) Trailer ¦ Post-Apocalyptic Ham ¦ ‘Bronx Warriors’ (1981) Trailer
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Doc Sleaze – more info at TheOvernightscape.com Released Dec 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.
