The Overnightscape Underground

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3:32:20 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Watching walkway ice slowly melt, Challenger disaster 39 years ago, list of Space Shuttles, Rush, Reagan on the Challenger, lack of progress in space exploration, Shake Up The Picture, Duran Duran, The Path to the Moon, The Book of Images by William T. Horton, press briefing, Tape Land updates, Alpaka Max Pouch V2 Limited Edition Year of the Snake Edition, NFL playoffs, new Starbucks commercial, Starbucking (2007), Dungeon Crawler Carl, Stig’s Inferno, Legends of Indie Comics: Words Only, Phish in Mexico this week, S17 Anthology 2013-2023, Black Requiem playing cards, Device Fonts: Typodiscography, BASF Chrome Maxima II Edition No 4 cassette, Underberg Bitters, Extract (2009), The Paunch Stevenson Show – Episode 141 (10/7/09), catnip banana, the surface narrative, the deeper narrative, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:51:13)… Super Fantastic Fun Bunch Beach Party by robotMONSTER [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], This Place by Wead [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Sounds of Communicore [collection], Jealousy by Lilly Wolf [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], String Quartet No. 15 In D Minor, K 421 – III. Minuetto (composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Musopen String Quartet) [Musopen, public domain], “The Winning Strategy” Early 80’s Arcade Game News Segment (featuring Eric Ginner) [YouTube], Circles by She-Wolf. [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], In Memoriam (President Garfield’s Funeral) by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [public domain], Seneca Glass (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], MiniQS by Kamix [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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1:44:57 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

The “Anything But Tartarus Show” (normally the “Anything But Monday” show), starring Poseidon (Mike) and Hades (Frank). Bits and pieces of this episode have been included on various compilations, but this is the first time it is being fully released. The following week, we did the Hades and Poseidon shtick again (see below).

Notes: God complaints, mermaids, Grape Nuts, phone call, Homer, Trojan Horse, Charon, HATS, Subway Styx, The Poseidon Adventure, The Titanic, Baby Jessica fell down a well, Brady Bunch Trivia, The Other End, Norse God Frey, the gods today, prize for Barry, Huey Lewis And The News – Sports, Homeless “Giraffe” PSA, Ra the Sun God, explosive comedy routine at The Other End, shock, Word of the Day – “Zodiac”, phone call from Liz, Bono is god, Hades attire, Bork and Ginsburg, Al Haig, George Bush, Duran Duran, Natalie Wood, Jaws, giving away a 45, Youth for Understanding PSA, Sounds of Hades, Brady Bunch Trivia, 1:20 AM, Artie wins a 45 (Jean Knight – My Toot Toot), Feed The Gods, Halloween treats, kidney operation, Puppies PSA, Demeter, Heracles, Athena, Aphrodite, sea foam, Alcoholic PSA, The Three Furies, John Cougar Mellencamp, Batman Promo, Frank’s Fun Day, pastina, arcade, soy sauce, Fritz the Cat (1972), Espinoza/Barnes, telekinesis, cocaine, 3:10 AM, The Blues Brothers, signing off.

Previously:
Tape Land 47 – Anything But Tartarus with Hades and Poseidon (11/8/87) 1:26:09 [released 3/4/18]

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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2:16:57 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Icicles, Parisian Holiday Brunch candle, Pixies, Un Chien Andalou (1929), vents synchronicity, more brunch candles, Yves in Brooklyn, People Magazine, Voyager CD-ROMs, chaos cakes, Scan the Night, EF Hutton, John Philip Sousa, Monty Python, Mr. Show, Saturday Night (2024), Inherent Vice (2014), and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:35:57)… We Are Going To Eclecfunk Your Ass by Eclectek [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Out from the dark by Tubular Tos [Soundclick, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], CityTV Toronto Loves The New Music 1983 [YouTube], Make Her Good by Greg Atkinson [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 4.0], lets place ice queen by tim.kahn [Freesound, CC BY 3.0], The Jim Henson Hour – InnerTube Pilot (Restored Version) (excerpt) [YouTube], Dolores Project archaeology (1979) (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain] & Mini Golf (Sente, 1985) [MAME], Cube Banter 13 [collection], Bow-Wow Blues by Bennie Krueger’s Orchestra (recorded at Bill & Laura’s 1/11/25) [Brunswick, 1922. public domain], Beublin 05 – Input (Season One – 1990) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Ballad of Stephen and Eunice by Captain Zig [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Archipelago’s The Open Show – Week 6 [collection].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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2:42:47 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The Killers (1964), Ronald Reagan, Fridays, the inauguration yesterday, Dan Quayle, Admiral Stockdale, The Stars and Stripes Forever, The Village People, The Obtuse Angle archive, at the Game Developers Meetup with Martin, NFL playoffs, Talisker Storm, Infinity Nikki, the long lost fleece, The Next Age, game night (Splendor, Machi Koro), Marvel Snap shut down, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:01:50)… wind dulcimer by Elke Das [Archive.org], Tosche Station [YouTube], Square One by Copper Man [collection], A conversation with Rickie Lee Jones [YouTube], Digya by Kevin MacLeod [incompetech.com, CC BY 3.0], At The Movies – Blade Runner, etc. (1982) [collection], Mercury: Om Bum Budhaya Namaha by Doug Rice [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Orson Welles on American Imperialism (The Dick Cavett Show, 7/27/70) [YouTube], Local Forecast by Kevin MacLeod [incompetech.com, CC BY 3.0], Connect Four commercial [YouTube], Eyes Around the Shivering Tree by Cilocub [retronym.co.uk, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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2:55:35 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: David Lynch dead at 78, Bleecker Street Cinemas, Bleecker Street Cinemas, “inquiring minds want to know”, Blue Velvet (1986), Twin Peaks, On the Air, Mulholland Drive (2001), Biden’s farewell address, Kon-Tiki dream, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, clocks, thirst for knowledge, Masquerade Afterimage, The Criterion Channel, cults, heroes, The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (TV Movie 2018), Imation DataPlay disc, Techmoan, slotMusic & slotRadio, new palindrome – “Zero is never odd or even – ‘si’ or ‘EZ’?”, Jimmy Buffett – Live in Las Vegas (10/28/03), timeline instability, bus observation, Severance pop-up, Eddie Bauer rebrand, Peace Pods, this weekend and next week, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:13:36)… OCTM-A by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Lady Frankenstein (excerpt23) [Archive.org, public domain], Savarnah by Paolo Pavan Pasqualino Ubaldini [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Alice In Wonderland (1973) Animated (excerpt) [archive.org], Delta Park Project | Episode 4 by Jason Ruby & Paul Scherzinger (excerpt – High-Speed Paul segment) [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], The Ice-Cream-Truck Factory by Shawn Bayern [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Sharyne & Cheryl New Zealand Trip (Part 6) [Archive.org, CC0 1.0], I Think You’re Absolutely Wonderful (McCarthy-Carroll) by The Meedie Player Organ [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], The Ragtime Pipe of Pan by Billy Murray [Archive.org, 1916, public domain], Metropolis Street Racer | 100.4 THE UNDERGROUND (excerpt) [YouTube], Metroid Birth by Xaviant Haze [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Secret ‘Man Cave’ Discovered Below Grand Central Platform, 3 MTA Employees Busted (9/25/20) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Galaxina (1980) [YouTube], Blueberry Jam! by PROTODOME [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Secrets Of Christmas by Out Of Orion [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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2:26:55 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Route 23, Kinnelon Mall, 209 history, comic book distributors, flashlights, Weird New Jersey, Kiss Loves You (2004), Nightmare (VHS board game, 1991), The Exit Ramp #59 – Blacklight Conjurations (1/12/25), transcripts and summaries, the unlimited plan, game developer meetup, Bliss Out For Days (private issue new age compilation), Tape Land, Dinner with Drac, Zacherle, Purple Clocko, The Prophet’s Song, The King of Fighters XI (2005), and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:46:31)… Happy Shadow by Crazy Aces [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Hanging Eleven (Kara Square Mix) by Blue Wave Theory [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 4.0], Hands Across The Sea (Sousa) by The Pride of the 48 Band [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Hammer of Jan (v2) by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0], Hallöchen No 9 by Neo Phlegma [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Haleine Fraiche by Birds of Fire [Dogmazic, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], A Hairy One [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Hairline Creations (Commercial, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Hairahdus by Praktika [Ektoplazm, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], Horsing Around by Antti Luode [anttismusic.blogspot.com, CC BY 3.0].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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5:02:56 – Welcome, hosts and listeners of The Onsug radio universe, to come and join a freeform chat in video, which will be released in audio. The Exit Ramp continues for another amazing group show.

Host Frank from The Overnightscape is joined by Jefferson from Philadelphia, Dave in Kentucky from his various shows, Michael Feir from Canada, Jan Erik from Norway, Ann from Suffern, NY, Nate in Wisconsin, Bob LeMent from Morning Commute, Doc Sleaze from his various shows, Simon from Nevada, Martin in New Jersey, and Joe Gipson from Comicversal.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora & Guests – more info at onsug.com

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40:14 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

This is quite a find – a recording of an episode of Anything But Monday that hasn’t been previously released! Plus, some other stuff that was on the same tape.

[1] Sounds of the Commons, episodes 1–3, original version, as played on the radio, circa Spring 1986. [2] Additional audio from the recording session. [3] Production audio from the Little Frankie Nora song Galaxy Reel from Shatter Cider (circa 1987). [4] Previously unreleased section of an Anything But Monday show, on WMNJ at Drew University in Madison, NJ, Monday, March 31, 1986 – notes: cultural enrichment, Mike’s injury, Pablo Picasso, instant weather, WMNJ News Brief, Word of the Later in the Morning (Cozy, Counterproductive, Counterrevolutionaries), Truly Tasteless Jokes, First Phone Call, We Put You on the Air, Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman, This Is What We Think of “Progressive Music”, Superdog, Pablo Picasso, Autism PSA, profane vowels, Frank Sinatra, Emergency Broadcast System, another PSA, Frank broadcasting alone, Carson hasn’t shown up for his show, The Alan Parsons Project. (Audio from an Italian langauge instructional tape, that was originally on the tape, can be heard in-between some of the segments.)

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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3:09:44 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by Eddie Murray (at 44:01), Chad Bowers (at 1:10:21) and Frank Edward Nora (at 2:21:16) for a discussion of various and sundry bodily functions.

Next month’s topics: Borders, Barriers & Boundaries. Record about one, two or all three of these and send audio files or links to DaveKY at mail.com by the deadline: 6pm Central Time on February 10, 2025.

Show art: Automat (1927) by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) depicts a sneaky time traveler listening to the Overnightscape Central in an automat while cleverly concealing her air buds with her hat brim.

Opening theme: “It’s Central Time Again” (2024) by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v3.5). Bumper music: “Hypothetical Station Wagons” (2023) from The Blotto Observer by Tree Bag Ask (Frank Edward Nora and a MadPlayer). Closing theme: “Noise Rebellion” (2024) by Eddie Murray and Suno.ai (v3).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International license. Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky & Guests.

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1:29:31 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Jersey City memories, Kalki 2898 AD (2024), commuting memories, weather anomalies and recycling, mystery road, R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 (1998), Towel Volcano, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 48:54)… Enter The Wolf Clan by Cyber Wolf Clan [Archive.org, CC BY-SA 3.0], Kim Fowley ‘Underground Animal’ LP Promo [Archive.org], Spacewolf by Matt Oakley [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Monster Vitamins Commercial starring Vincent Price [YouTube], No Werewolf by Allah-Las [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Middlesix – The Werewolf of Washington (1973) [Archive.org], Only the Strange Remain by The Other Ones (Live at Darien Lake Music Center on 2000-09-03) [archive.org], KTTV-TV11 (1971) Wolfman Movie Breaks…. [Obsolete Video/YouTube], I’m A Wolfman For You by Al Hotchkiss [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], U.S. Air Force – “Airwolfesque” (Commercial, 1985) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Sunburnt Werewolf by Tequila Moonrise [FreeMusicArchive, CC0 1.0], WMBD Channel 31 – Nightmare Theater – “Werewolf of London” (Opening, 1961) [FuzzyMemories.TV].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com