The Overnightscape Underground

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

36:50 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

I made this tape driving home in the middle of the night after one of the NAVA video game collectors meetings at Video Game Connections in Howell, NJ. I recorded “Classictronica: Arcade Memories (3/2/02)” at that meeting (available in Onsug). On the drive, I’m talking my ideas for “Obliviana Wander Radio”, an early concept of what would eventually become Onsug. A lot of my ideas here are based on technological limitations in 2002 that no longer exist.

Notes: 3/3/02, 2:37 AM, driving in the rain up Route 9 North, Obliviana Wander Radio, history of recorded audio entertainment, Bluffcosm, Internet radio, RealPlayer, audio streaming difficulties, detour, lost, iFilm, toll, downloading vs. streaming, file management, CD-R, the “Wander Radio” concept, the interactive factor, intelligent playlists, audio computer games, 65-hour CDs, 100% cool.

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 onsug.com

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

2:22:23 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Cybernoctium, vaping, tobacco, immortals, cars driving by the bus stop on a rainy morning, Zoroastrianism, expensive and vague, Tangerine Dream – Destination Berlin (1989), musical rabbit holes, Grateful Dead, Lionsgate Entertainment City, Kind Heaven, indoor entertainment worlds, Nightstation, AE_LIVE series (Autechre Live), Boards of Canada, tulpas, Flea Devil Solitaire, noodles, PySol Soother solitaire, Boardwalk solitaire games (Hopscotch, Lucky Seven, Scotsi, Chesire), battery incident, Black Tigers playing cards, carpe diem, Seize the Day, Living Worlds, enlivens, Tori Amos B-Sides, Politaire.com, The Overnightscape Underground, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:42:15)… Yellow Frog Legs by Five Starcle Men [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Night Lights: How Retroreflectivity Makes Our Roads Safer (excerpts) [FedFlix, public domain], uchuu rider by ahlnold [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Reading Is Fundamental (1973) [archive.org], Showbiz intro (1970s) [YouTube], Squabbling Gods by Globular [Ektoplazm, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Cherry Skies by The New Mystikal Troubadours [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Tournament Of Roses Parade (1974) (excerpt) [archive.org], Street Fighter II – Intro [MAME].

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

1:25:31 – The conclusion of our two-part retrospective on Father Charles E. Coughlin, the radio priest who influenced many across America, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, through his weekly broadcasts from the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan. Last time we examined some of his political views and his defense against charges of anti-Semitism. This time the emphasis shifts to his economic views on banking, money creation, and the Federal Reserve, based on two of his broadcasts from April of 1940, just before he was banned from the public airwaves.

This show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky – more info at onsug.com.

Released February 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

2:59:13 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Waning crescent moon, Lunar New Year, Steam, gift giving, The Orville, street event, high concept, Star Wars conspiracy theory, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, seaweed weirdness, Sam Donaldson, umeboshi onigiri, Japanese beverage review (Ito En Oi Oicha Cold Brew Macha Green Tea), Overwatch League, Super Bowl LIII, Hyundai Vegan Dinner Party, teleporting to France dream, Grow Something Different, the terrarium craze, Video Action magazine, Petland Discounts closing, Gateway 2000, Horn & Hardart, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:15:31)… Street Musicians by J. Koho [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Alice In Wonderland (1973) Animated (excerpt) [archive.org], Dreamer by TFSL [Archive.org, CC BY-NC 3.0], Tomruk – trailer [Archive.org], STRIKE IT UP ! 82’s style version by ALANDRA “lightflower” JONES [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], You And Your School (1973) 16mm [archive.org], Nightstation Revival 1 [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Q.C.T.L. by Ryu Takami [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-SA 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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

1:28:02 - Frank Edward Nora and Chad Bowers, ping-pong their way, sonically through these deep concepts with their ONSUG Magic!! PQ Ribber hosts!!

Next: Book Series

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

Attribution by PQ Ribber. All guests appear courtesy of themselves.

Released February 2019 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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

1:00:43 - My audio collages in order of production. These attempt to capture the strange magic of 8-bit technology creeping into our analog world during the 1970’s and 80’s.  Malls video games, commercials, and mass-market entertainment. Excitement and fear, the threat of nuclear annihilation, hope that technology would change us, hope that products would change us, faith in progress.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

1:29:22 - Chad Bowers is here with Orson Wellesy audio goodness!! ‘Not Enough Time’- a 1947 Quiet Please Classic!! The Serial!! Azure Attorney contributes Toobstrut!! PQ Ribber covers everything from Harvey Pekar to the new King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard single, as well as continuing his amazing look at Variety Magazines from 100 Years Ago!!

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

Attribution by PQ Ribber.

Released February 2019 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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

1:53:12 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

I made this tape to record my thoughts on the status of my creative projects, and to come up with plans for the future. This was just a few months after I started The Overnightscape in 2003. My ideas were all over the place and quite unrealistic, but somehow, all these years later (February 2019 now), it’s all kind of worked out…

[4:26 PM, Thursday, July 10, 2003], going on a trip to storage, The Master Cleanser, suspended Obliviana, got laid off from my job, plans for the future, Fonosta Device, massively multiplayer online role-playing games, MUDs, Garden State Parkway toll plaza, Dashic Deeds, bring Obliviana back?, cult, creative projects, Zope, new batteries, Bob Grant, Iselin, Bluffcosm, Severe Repair, arrived at storage, release the waste, accumulating junk, Toys “R” Us, The Overnightscape, Blufftoons, Thinkfang, New Fonjo, Internet radio station, new travel weathervanes, [Monday, July 14, 2003, 1:26 PM], thoughts, passions, Obliviana, trying to do something innovative and different, science fiction writing, a new way of playing with the world around you, 2-XL, the audio entertainment factor, 209, Forge of Wander, game system with entertainment, the urge for control, look at the world in a different way, creating entertainment, phone calls, self-publishing, total control, core passions, life goals, a new kind of radio, looking for a new direction, going over it again, Obliviana Super Occult Amusement, eight subdivisions, the keystone idea, a simple addictive little game which could scale up into the complete system, Interweb, [Tuesday, July 22, 2003, afternoon], walking outside in the rain, sitting in my Jeep in the parking lot during a thunderstorm, smoking a cigar, thunder, Office Space, Bluffcosm.com streaming live, Super Objects, Jean Shepherd, radio stations selling their own products, the idea is sound, watching the birds, blue animals, let’s go inside, listen to the stream.

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 onsug.com