The Overnightscape Underground

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2:57:32 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Hudson Yards, Game Trade Magazine, X-Men ’97, Canva buys Affinity, Phish at The Sphere, Ocozard Nocturne, The Overnightscape 1317: Ocozard (9/1/16), Rush – A Show of Hands (1989), the cigars arrive, Trader Jack’s Kickin’ Cigars – Midnight, next day, eclipse glasses, Kennedy/Shanahan 2024, freedom of speech, got the tickets, Dunnet, Ferret, Knockout City, Shpongle, Robby the Robot, Stereolab, Fuzzy Memories shut down?, wind, Benji Takes a Dive at Marineland (1981), Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas (1977), puppet ideas, Van Series by Bumbard, Mazenweed and the Puppets of the Van, Golf on Mars, The Crew shutting down, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:16:36)… Run Joe Run – Season One [YouTube], Accessible as Gravity by Orthotonics [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Caribbean Dinner by George Dragon [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Moonalice Live at Main Street Festival on 2009-08-09 – Big Steve Intro [Archive.org], Homedale Drive by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Morris Is Different by Multisex [collection], La Mousse de Juin by Charly2n [Dogmazic, CC BY-NC 2.0], Alien From L.A. (1988) [YouTube], 1983 – Bain de Soleil [YouTube], Commercial – Max Headroom Interviews Pepsi [collection], Roam by Satori [Upitup Records, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Midnight Monologue (Demolee Guitar Mix) by Acid42 [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Video Arcades Come To Boston 1982 [YouTube], Run! (Das Kraftfuttermischwerk Remix) by Entertainment For The Braindead [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Investigative Skills Lab (Narcotics Bust/Buy) (1997) (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain].

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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3:57:08 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Union Square area investigations, Dirk Gently, Baltimore bridge collapse, Netflix show “3 Body Problem”, The OA, firefighter training class, Android versions of board games, Airbag Frank, Android game Bravo! (Noch Mal So Gut), Superlistening, 7th Heaven – White & Cookies Oat Milk Cacao Confection, Outlaws of Thunder Junction, the weird west genre, reflected sunlight on the mantle, Irv, knife shop, delusional dreams, driving to Alaska, Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express – Second Wind (1972), Texas Pinball Festival 2024, lottery mixup, grocery mixup, PQ in the UK, tobacco, keyfob batteries, Shadowfax, Las Vegas decision, Crumpler Bags, pipe, Crazy Taxi 3, Jungle Man & Robot Girl by 13 Cats, Mangos by Engine 88, Crazy Cabbie on Howard Stern, more on the bridge collapse, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:16:03)… Fly To China by Phonophobia 70 [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], We’ll Be There Too by Teo Vincent IV [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0], The ABC Saturday Preview Special (Part 3, 1983) (excerpt) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Malibu Beach Trailer 1978 [YouTube], Serafina Magdalena (6/20/04) by Robert Hunter [Gravity’s Rainbow compilation, Archive.org], Please Shift the Goddamn Car (circa 1984) [Bluffcosm.com, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], General Cinema Corporation – Feature Presentation – 1977 [YouTube], 1984 Beatrice Commercial [YouTube], Blake Edwards 10 stereo radio advert London 1980 [YouTube], 1-900-FUN-MATE (Commercial, 1991) [collection], Am Be In by Orange Magnolia (3/20/10 – Live at Gottrocks – Greenville, SC) [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], PSA – Woodsy the Owl – Littering Louse [collection], TV Guide Commercial – 1977 [YouTube], WARLORDS OF ATLANTIS stereo radio advert London 1978 [YouTube], Charles Nelson Reilly – Bic Banana Ad [YouTube], Again The Sun Will Rise by AutoCad [Archive.org, CC BY 3.0], Welcome to the Big Rock by Manegi [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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2:11:48 – Frank in NJ and NYC, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Wallet caffeine strips, Silicon Alley, the “real world”, Atlantic City, new bus terminal, Sheets Energy Strips – Cinnamon Rush, brown architecture, vegan breakfast, thought experiment, super expensive porridge, green spill, Kernel vegan robot restaurant, subway, the robot was broken, Ener-B, Wheel of DEATH, 6 chats, apotheosis, The Compleat Strategist, B. Altman, Babbling Brook Gone Sideways, cocktails and ideals, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:30:35)… Run Run Superman by Rinzo & The Hey Hey Panthers [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], goodnight by Kansas Beach Patrol [Archive.org, CC BY-SA 3.0], ‘Space Academy’ TV Intro (1977) [YouTube], Worldkey Information Systems [YouTube], The Conet Project – “tcp d2 25 phonetic alphabet nato irdial” [Archive.org], I Want Something Funny (4/29/00) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Repo Man (TV Version) – Lorna Doones [collection], Mysteries, Magic & Miracles: Visions, Cults, Alchemy & More (1996) (excerpt) [YouTube], My Attic by Guitari [collection], The Little Rascals – Mush and Milk [Archive.org, public domain], The Night Before (1988) [YouTube], NUDE ON THE MOON Trailer [Archive.org, public domain], Genesis – Apollo Eight – 24 Dec 1968 [Archive.org, public domain], The Shock of the New: Culture as Nature (1980) (excerpt) [Archive.org], Romance Keys by Click Click Click [FreeMusicArchive, 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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2:24:42 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Cities of the future, Whizbang’s Workshop, EPCOT, Toy Boat, CenterCore, World of Motion, Futureport ’82, The 22nd Century, Tape Land 172 – Little Frankie Nora – The First Recording Session (12/31/86), Tape Land 173 – Anything But Monday – The Fish Tank of Death (1989), Crazy Taxi T-shirt, sipping Chartreuse, Fortnite, Phish at the Sphere, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:43:39)… Tribes by Frame [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Trash Wednesday lead singer Kid Tarri on ManiaTV [YouTube], Baby Punk by Piedra [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Showtime Tonite with Renny & Caren 1981 [YouTube], Wild Palms Trailer 1993 [YouTube], WBBM Channel 2 – Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (Opening & Break, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Suite pour flûte et cordes by Bacalao [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Starcrash (1979) trailer [YouTube], Il Pleut des Informations (ou Mass Media en Masse à Partir de Notre Cumulonimus Fiable) by Monroeville Music Center [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 3.0], Hardbodies (1984) [YouTube], So Much Unspoken by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], WTCG 1978 “Little Rascals & Friends” & Classic Commercials (excerpt) [YouTube], Smile 1975 theatrical trailer [YouTube], Fantasy Of Mine by Elegic Landslide [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Omphalus by A_dontigny [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Time Shifter by Doug Rice [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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38:38 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives This episode is part of a sub-project within Tape Land called “Tape Land Video”.

Tape Land Video 173 – Anything But Monday – The Fish Tank of Death (1989)

00:00 – Segment 1 (date unknown, but it’s somewhere between 2/4/89 and 4/16/89) – Mike and Frank at the Anything But Monday Magazine office in Caldwell, New Jersey. They discuss the prizes for their crossword puzzle contest, including The Fish Tank of Death. Since there is a tie, they perform a complex tie breaking coin flipping process invented by Frank.

28:14 – Segment 2 (4/16/89) – Mike and Frank at the Anything But Monday Magazine office in Caldwell, New Jersey. Frank is trying to set up the camera so they can both be on screen at once, but he can’t figure it out. There does exist a video of them both facing the camera and talking to their future selves, but that’s another video… hopefully coming soon to Tape Land Video…

35:55 – Segment 3 (5/7/89) Frank visit Mike at his security job, sitting in his car by the side of the road in Pequannock, New Jersey.

Released 3/17/24

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Internet archive link: https://archive.org/details/Tape_Land_Video_173-Anything_But_Monday-The_Fish_Tank_of_Death-1989

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45:25 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

New Year’s Eve… December 31, 1986… I’ve just set up my recording studio, consisting of a Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard, an old black & white TV set, a tape deck, a tape recorder, and a microphone mixer. Some of the recordings on this tape would wind up as songs on the official Little Frankie Nora tape releases – all of which have already been released in the Onsug Radio archive.

Released 3/16/24

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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28:02 – This is an experimental recording for the Onsug Radio broadcast. It features a computer voice hosting random archive clips.

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 Onsug Radio Hosts – more info at onsug.com

List of clips:

Overnightscape Central – No Longer – (7/4/11) – 33/34
ABM Unplugged: Comic Con (10/10/13) – 23/29
Overnightscape Central – Comic Strips – (8/22/11) – 20/33
Iggy and the Smart Guys – 3/3
ug: Month in Review – January 2023 (2/10/23) – 36/53
Hey Everybody, it’s Jimbo! – Special: 5th Chat with PQ – 089 (2/15/16) – 04/12
The Paunch Stevenson Show – Episode 135 (6/29/09) – 02/26
Overnightscape Central – Wide Open (2/2/21) – 11/55

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3:20:14 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Beautiful afternoon, cruise ship entertainer Erica McTell and her team, Baffling Job, monolith in Wales, Static Radio trivia show, Plaza Rummy, 2099, 2100, Blamnoom, Flea Devil Solitaire, in the dark, the comfort of belief, what is Earth, next morning, dreams of a different Nineteenth Century, PQ’s journey, Fortnite, the metaverse, Second Life, Aer City Pack X-Pac, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, Remembrance in Premonition – The Biting Reality – EP (2024), “Steve Jobs and the Apple Computer Revolution” auction, Golf on Mars, paper towels, bird, rummy idea, St. Patrick’s Day, Onsug Radio stuff, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:39:52)… Mark Kermode and Katie Puckrik Glastonbury 1994 [YouTube], EDB interviewed by Zoogz Rift, 1984 [Earth Dies Burning], 1975 Mattel Michael and Melinda Young Sweethearts dolls TV commercial Ads [YouTube], Largess Rope by Brady Arnold [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (read by SV) [LibriVox, public domain], Benson & Hedges 100s Letters [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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2:08:28 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The white brush stroke, A Little Slice of Oblivion Tequila, similarities, Amber, pinball shirt, paper towels, Here Diagonally, Connect Four, Universal Epic Universe, The Overnightscape 1547: Pesk (11/15/18), The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3,000 year old story “The Marriage of Martu”, the last K-Mart in New Jersey closed last year, The Overnightscape 1937 – Weasels of Nuclear Ambition (8/14/22), Cirque Ingenieux by Kitaro (1997), The Silk Road (TV series, 1980-81), and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:27:44)… E07 Travel by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], Chez Bob’s Back at School 82 by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Oakbrook Center – “What I Want For Christmas” (Commercial, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV], He’s Stupid [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Pizza Hut Families Rule by Five Starcle Men [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], The Games of Starcade – Calipso [YouTube], Nuprin, Jimmy Connors vs. Michael Chang, 1991 [YouTube], Newsweasels Promo (1994) [collection], Repo Man TV Version – Buzz Aldrin [collection], Mandelbrot [collection], The Adventures of Mabel – Chapter 1 – The Green Lizard [LibriVox, public domain], Howard Stern WNBC Opening [collection], Chill House (History Of House) by Coruscate [ccMixter, CC BY 3.0], Vision of the Wild (1990) (excerpt) [FedFlix, public domain], HBO May 1981 preview & bumpers [YouTube].

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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3:17:30 – Dave in Kentucky is joined by E-Squared from Discord and The Exit Ramp (at 1:20), Eddie Murray of The Wool Gathering (at 50:42) and Frank Edward Nora of The Overnightscape (at 2:32:39) for a discussion of the minor vices in which we sometimes indulge, as well as the usual digressions about aliens.

Next month’s topics: Utopias, Dystopias and Other Possible Worlds. Record about any or all of these and send audio files or links to DaveKY at mail.com by 6pm Central Time on April 10, 2024.

Show art: “The Noordermarkt by Night” (1840) by Petrus van Schendel (1806-1870) depicting “night people” typical of the Overnightscape Underground.

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Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky. Other contributors “appear” courtesy of themselves.