The Overnightscape Underground

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

47:56 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

Way back on September 5, 2000, on my Bluffcosm.com Internet radio site,  I released a 2-minute audio clip called “News From Civiliation”. It was from a tape labeled “FRANK DRUNK”, and I described it as “Frank is a freshman in college and has drank way too much vodka. In a drunken stupor, he reads from a Walt Disney World guidebook…”

Now, as part of the Tape Land project, I discovered that the tape is actually over 47 minutes long, with lots of interesting stuff going on. So let’s step back 32 years to that night of drunkenness… in The Complete News From Civilization!

Notes: In Brown Hall room 209, at Drew University, in Madison, NJ, Frank (or “Fen” as he is known then) is drunk, and his roommate John and fellow students Tom and Carson are recording him. He reads from a Walt Disney World guide and various comic books. They read from Dragon Magazine and talk about playing Traveller. Frank starts feeling sick. Later, Mad Mike walks in, and talks about the “vortex monster”. Then Frank goes outside and they follow him, including another student (“Russ”?). Frank eventually wanders into the woods, and they follow. They find him and try and convince him to come back to the dorm.

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

2:31:02– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The cantina news, leaf blowing, funny names, the new Chipotle queso, movies in the morning, batarang, Justice League, Gen X, early 90s, Halt and Catch Fire, joy of angst, Casa Bonita, Zot!, Wok Chi, taco hostility, Hearthstone, Cosmic Would, Chicago dream, Deep Forest, Jolt Cola, Google Pixel Buds, Starbucks online store closed, future tech, Andy Rooney, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:50:24)… P.M. Magazine – on the VCR Market, 1984 [YouTube], NBC News Special Reports – October 25, 1983 (Grenada invasion) (excerpt) [YouTube], So Loud! (Re-Edited) by Romahichi [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], karina 05 abril 2007 [YouTube], The(e) Blank Men by Thee Knaves [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], A Wish For You by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], WGN Channel 9 – Family Classics – “Chad Hanna” (Opening, 1982) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Laser Blast by Activision (Commercial, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Zero-One Bias by csum [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Ratustel by Point [Ektoplazm, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0].

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

3:05:20– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: New kind of chocolate, fruit, grafting, tape, The Mailman’s Nightmare, Tom Petty dead at 66, rock star kids, supermarkets, elevators for cash dream, current events, Monty Hall dead at 96, Cuphead, birthday celebration, hing, The Comedy Cellar, prog rock, The Idea of Octember, Roger Zelazny, The Orville, Star Trek: Discovery, The Gifted, Rick and Morty, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:24:54)… Cycle 9 by Flux Capacitor [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Magic Timeline (fake Boards of Canada song, origin unknown) [collection], Lost Night by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], 1979-82 Commercials: Charmin to Johnson’s Hot Shots [YouTube], World of Motion – ‘Attraction Narration (Gary Owens)’ [collection], Redolence of Love by Sudharshan Varadarajan [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], WGN Channel 9 – Bozo’s Circus – “Bozo’s Tv POWWW!” (1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV].

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

(3:17:20) We’re talking about your grandparents. Well, maybe not YOUR grandparents but… hey, just listen and stop trying to start an argument!

Your host Jimbo talks about his grandparents, their pecans and bananas .. Dave Duckert has humorous tales aplenty .. Chad Bowers takes us back to his Poppy’s farm (and more) .. Frank Edward Nora testifies about his grandparents in his very entertaining segment .. Cali Dingo shows off his sly comedic skills and then talks about Disney .. Doc Sleaze humorously remembers his family .. and Jimbo sneaks in the Week in Review

(No Jimbo audio comments for Doc Sleaze because his entry was so late)

This is a very entertaining show!

You’re all invited to be a part of next week’s show; you can tell us all what’s on your mind about the following topic: Your Cousins

Please have your contributions sent to Jimbo by 🕖 7 pm EDT, October 9, 2017. If you know Jimbo’s e-mail address, send your contribution there. Otherwise, send your contributions to onsugcentral@gmail.com.

Thanks to Frank Edward Nora for allowing me to use and abuse his show art!

Attribution by Jimbo. Guests appear courtesy of themselves.

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

Released October 2017 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a free-form monologue style, with diverse and very clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

24:49 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

A tape just labeled “W”, from my childhood. This was the kind of tape that would be used over and over again, with various layers bleeding through. It starts with data saves from my home computer, which would have to be from 1981 at the earliest, but other parts of the tape seem to be older, possibly from the late 1970s.

Notes: (0:00) TI-99/4A data saved to audio cassette, (3:34) weird musical tones, (4:05) fan sound, (4:38) tongue clicking horse sound effects and whistling, (5:33) more TI-99/4A, (6:27) Frank’s time travel story, (15:10) TV (speed corrected), (16:02) classical music (edited), (18:47) TV, (18:55) Ronald McDonald has been fired, (19:28) songs (edited), (21:19) The Hobbit (edited).

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

2:34:59– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Begleri review (copper beads from Butterfield Machine), EDC (everyday carry), Hugh Hefner dead at 91, second breakfast, bread, Grateful Dead, the 20th Century, Mac Plus RAM upgrade, The Beatles in Germany, the bear astronaut The Mask Robont, komboloi, Weasels 90, past lives, urinal games, evilness, Boards of Canada, rampling on the grass, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:53:13)… WMAQ Channel 5 – Rock World (Part 1, 1980) [FuzzyMemories], Sky Rockets Rag by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Instrospection Trilogy – Pt. 2 by Doug Rice [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], March 14, 1979 Showtime promos [YouTube], Sleep by Stanleybirch [collection], WBBM Channel 2 – Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (Opening & Break, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Ginchy by The Surfside IV [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WGN Channel 9 – Bugs Bunny & Friends (Commercial Break #3, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV], A Better Way Program 149 (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], In My Heart by Wead [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], München by Garmisch Partenkirchen [blocSonic, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Be Gentle With Us Shiva by Doug Rice [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], WSNS Channel 44 – TV44 Sports Spotlight with Jim Durham – “The San Diego Chicken, Pre-Demolition” (Part 1, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], CBS Planet of the Apes TV Show Promo [YouTube], WOUB Signoff tape 1977 [YouTube].

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

2:06:59– Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: For 38 years in the 20th Century there were these heads, the yellow rain hat of fishermen, spiders, jungjats, pretzel photography, gift shops, Bossons character wall masks, The Deuce, orzo update, apple festival, Dead Heat, San Francisco Rush, Expo – Magic of the White City, new logo, Star Trek: Discovery, 60 Minutes, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:24:41)… I Try by Bullette [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], Weird October Hitchhiker [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], So Loud! (Re-Edited) by Romahichi [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], NBC on Douglas Trumbull’s Showscan – 1984 [YouTube], Kim Fowley ‘Underground Animal’ LP Promo [Archive.org], southern night by voxakkord [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], Theda Bara Speaking 1936 [YouTube], Gluematic Pen from Loctite (Commercial, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Drunken Sailor by Roger McGuinn [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Chiptune 01 – Last Chip Standing by Chewrafa [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], Marlboro Unlimited: The Train. The Trip. The Gear. (1995) [Archive.org], Ice Breakers (commercial 2) [collection], WGN Channel 9 – Sunday Matinee – “The World of Hans Christian Andersen” (Opening, 1977) [FuzzyMemories.TV], GTE PHONE COMMERCIAL Perry Como Special 1975 (excerpt) [YouTube], Griff’s Pylons by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Invitation Rag by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Cave of Time by Monroeville Music Center [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 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

(1:00:26) Dave from Wisconsin (Hollywood and coffee) and Frank Edward Nora (pretzel photos) talk about “Ridiculous”. Jimbo comments and has the Week in Review.

You’re all invited to be a part of next week’s show; you can tell us all what’s on your mind about the following topic: Your Grandparents

Please have your contributions sent to Jimbo by 🕖 7 pm EDT, October 2, 2017. If you know Jimbo’s e-mail address, send your contribution there. Otherwise, send your contributions to onsugcentral@gmail.com.

Thanks to Frank Edward Nora for allowing me to use and abuse his show art!

Attribution by Jimbo. Guests appear courtesy of themselves.

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

Released September 2017 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a free-form monologue style, with diverse and very clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

1:30:26 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I will be presenting the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

It’s a Sunday afternoon in April 1990, and Frank and Peter, both in their early 20s at the time, go on a “zonal adventure” drive and record an audio letter to their friend Bryan, who is currently living in Michigan. The tape is very crude and toxic at times, and was actually never sent to Bryan, nor heard by anyone else, till today. Only a few snippets were used as part of the “Train Crap & Blood” theme song the following year.

Notes: A&P in Pluckemin, NJ, Buxton’s, negative sundae, zoning, heading northwest, the story of our previous zonal trip in Pennsylvania, I Love You to Death (1990), car crash in parking lot, Pete lost his wallet, what is Bryan doing right now, Netcong, they met Heinrich at his restaurant, how Frank and Pete met, heavy rain, factory work, scenic overlook, Fruit Juicers, Pete’s opera singing, let’s do Run-D.M.C., weirdos at another scenic overlook, Pete pays the toll, Route 209, MAC machine, Bushkill, Fernwood, sending messages back in time on billboards, Hare Krishna, The Hills, dirty copper joke, Binghamton, Yoo-hoo and V8 concoction, dinner in Allentown, turning off the zone, V8 and coffee, The Freaker, on the way home.

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

2:54:47– Frank in NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Ordered a begleri from Butterfield Machine, fidget toys, EDC (everyday carry), first day of Fall, Coca-Cola, stones, lathes, lather, tops, Vise Grips, exit meat, Grand Central, tricky trays, hands, Jandek, Ear Tripper, The Onsug, Tori Amos, The Deuce, normalization, The Village Voice, turmeric tea, the noodles had rotted,  Gen X angst, nuclear brinksmanship, Linda Perhacs, acid folk, Bettie Page, Star Trek: Discovery, The Orville, The Village Voice final edition, comic book news, Not Brand Ecch, Forbush Man, Ambush Bug, Doomsday Clock, The Onsug, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:13:49)… Wind: An Energy Alternative (1980) [FedFlix, public domain], Again by The Very Unknown Friends Of Jane Doe [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WSNS Channel 44 – “Psychedelic Station ID” (1975) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Freeway by Kurt Vile [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], The Final Rewind by Tryad [Archive.org, CC BY-SA 2.5], Cowboy Krueger by Guitari [collection], The Easy Winners (Scott Joplin, 1901) by Steel Drum Ragtime [Onsug, public domain], Space cube by Tubular Tos [Soundclick, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Banzai Run (Williams, 1988) [PinMAME], Come Back To Arizona by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Reactor (Gottlieb, 1982) [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