The Overnightscape Underground

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5:17:48 – Frank in NJ and The Overnightscape Studio, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Quick rail adventure to Ridgewood, NJ Transit rail lines, exploring Ridgewood, old opticians, war memorial, Tree Bag Ask, bookstore, Lego, “Backroads, New Jersey” by Mark Di Ionno, Kings, train station, blizzard coming, Warehouse Freckle, Joe Franklin dead at 88, Serial podcast, wandering around The Mills at Jersey Gardens mall, The Grateful Dead, Uriah Heep, Stately Type, K-Cup coffee review (Cafe Bustelo, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Smooth, Peet’s Coffee – French Roast), the story of my cats Mr. Jesse and Mr. Sasha, Some In The Woods by Fuzzy Daupner, Hello Peru by Stanleybirch, The Crew, Sign of the Malls by Fuzzy Daupner, Mr. Sasha dream, listener email (Shaun from England), lolcats, beer review (Southern Tier PMX Extraordinary Ale, Green Flash Hop Head Red), One Piece, Dana Carvey, and more… plus the Other Side (at 4:48:09)… “Surf Rocker” – Royalty Free Stock Music by ZSquid [SoundCloud, CC BY-SA 3.0], Dive to the Edge of Creation (excerpt 2) [YouTube.com], The Race Forever by Monroeville Music Center [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 3.0], Pappys Happy by Bob Powell [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Home Sweet Home [collection], Interviews In Downtown Omaha – August 1970 – 06 [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Bobby Fuller Four – KHJ Big Kahuna Theme [Archive.org], JFK – “We Face A Challenge In Berlin” [collection], Stage 2 by NESMETAL [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Variatio 1 a 1 Clav. [The Open Goldberg Variations, played by by Kimiko Ishizaka, public domain], General Jacob L. Devers – V-E Day Message 5/8/45 [collection], Beraloids by Ross Adey [One on Twoism], Uncle Duane 3 by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Sago Blues by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], You’re With A Creep by Protomartyr [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Reactor (Gottlieb, 1982) [MAME].

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1:58:14 – Frank in The Overnightscape Studio talking about the final days of his cat, Mr. Sasha (3/11/01 – 1/22/15). Plus the Other Side (at 1:28:32)… Howard Stern Channel 9 Show Ep. 6 (excerpt) [collection], WFLD Channel 32 – Sunday Showcase (Break #6, 1986) [FuzzyMemories.TV], O Hohem Invisível by Irreversíveis [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Radio Madness / Alienation by Doug Rice [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Invisible Walls by Revolution Void [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Blue Village by Rinzo & The Hey Hey Panthers [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], Monroeville Mall 1970s TV spot [YouTube].

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3:59:26 – Take a deep dive into The Overnightscape Underground (Onsug) Archive…

Onsug is a massive collection of audio – currently over 6,200 tracks, totaling over 251 days (over 8 months) of audio. But what’s in the archive? What does it sound like?

I chopped each audio track into 5-minute clips, resulting in over 75,000 of these segments. By playing them in random order, we can deeply explore what’s inside the archive, to get an idea of what it contains.

This is the third, and hopefully final, name for this project. I started off a few weeks ago calling it “Onsug Explorer”, and then about a week later I changed the name to “Ramplers”. Both these names implied a kind of guide or reference tool for the world of the “ramplers” (hosts) of The Overnightscape Underground. I tried various tests where I hosted and commented on the clips – but it didn’t feel right and was a huge amount of work. And while eventually I would like to embark on such a project, I don’t have the resources to do it right now. But I do love listening to these random clips – so I deciced to use a name that’s been bouncing around Onsug since at least 2010 – “The Night Pool”.

The Night Pool is just like drifting though all these random thoughts and ideas, soundscapes and songs, conversations and rants… no hosting, no context… just a pleasant swim though the humble weirdness of Onsug…

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Here’s the list of all the segments played:

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59:13 – Frank Edward Nora and Doc Sleaze join PQ Ribber in this look at Winter!!

Next: Alternate Reality

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Overall attribution by PQ Ribber , all other hosts appear courtesy of themselves.

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1:22:32 – Frank in The Overnightscape Studio, plus the Other Side… My interview on KaufCast Episode #4 (1/18/15), drinking Black Dirt Bourbon, taking Mr. Sasha to the vet, black Jeep, life and death, pizza, bodies and minds, ice storm, Big Ten swim meet at Rutgers in Piscataway, college hijinks, Mamoun’s Falafel in New Brunswick, futon showroom, Art Nouveau fonts, movie review (Gone Girl (2014)), lotion/paper incident, automatic seatbelts, Easton Avenue, braces, Gamma World, Rutgers Plaza Cinema VI, Circle K, The Iselin Run, Ramplers, warehouse freckle, something weird in the cosmos these days, and more… plus the Other Side (at 52:56)… MiniQS by Kamix [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Sleepless by Allister Thompson [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], John Lennon Reads Jock And Yono [collection], WGN Channel 9 – WGN Friday Night Movie – “Holiday Inn” (Ending + News Promo, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV], heyday by Pobedia [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], 80’s Faberge Organics Shampoo Commercial Wwith Heather Locklear [YouTube], Desperately Happy by The Prefab Messiahs (FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Suicide Hero by Defekt 86 [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Steven Spielberg’s ‘1941’ – radio advert for 1980 UK movie release [YouTube], Parker Brothers – Star Wars: Jedi Arena (Commercial, 1983) [YouTube], Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker Suite – Act I, No.7. Dance of the Flutes [Musopen, public domain], Horizon by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], Dreamscape (1984) radio advert for UK cinema release [YouTube].

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1:31:35 – Frank in NYC, plus the Other Side… Five people still alive from the 1800s, the future, miltary time travel experiments in the 1960s, subway, wacko repellent, Corridor of Losers, timeline repair theory, Charlie Hebdo, ice bucket challenge, Eddie Izzard, temporary walls, Charly by The Prodigy, squash, Snoopy, newsstand, electronic magazine inserts, Ramplers, Overnightscape history, naked video, Freaks and Geeks, Black Mirror, Posman Books, World Trade Center, L’Enfant Plaza, the French language, macaroni and cheese, seating area incident, new weird troopers, John Lennon, and more… plus the Other Side (at 1:02:04)… Tron, The Secret of NIMH, The Devils Playground (1982) [siskelandebert.org].

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1:42:40 – Memories in monologues and more!!  Joe Gipson!!  Frank Edward Nora!!  Chad Bowers!!  Mike Boody!!  PQ Ribber reviews the week in ONSUG and is your host!!  Another splendid episode!!

Next: Winter

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1:48:31 – Frank in The Overnightscape Studio, plus the Other Side… Topics include: Ice Bowl 2, NFL, Ice Station Dream, Ramplers, ultra-obscure Tarot deck “Reflexions”, Charlie Hebdo killing in Paris, ABM Magazine, actor Taylor Negron dead at 57, getting keys made, cassette from 1999, Roger Miller, Lizard Music, Cornershop, The Monks, beer review (DuClaw Brewing – Dirty Little Freak, Neon Gypsy), TV shows (Portlandia, American Idol, Black Mirror), Joust 2, Joust, and more… plus the Other Side (at 1:18:48)… Sheriff’s Song by Starsheriff Orchestra [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Before After by Technight [Dogmazic, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], Roger Ebert reviews Shock Treatment (1981) [siskelandebert.org], Laserium – 1977 [YouTube], Coffee House Rendezvous (Part II) (ca. 1969) [Prelinger, public domain].

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

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3:59:56 – Take a deep dive into The Overnightscape Underground (Onsug) Archive…

Onsug is a massive collection of audio – currently over 6,200 tracks, totaling over 251 days (over 8 months) of audio. But what’s in the archive? What does it sound like?

I chopped each audio track into 5-minutes segments, with the last segment of each being what’s left, and so less than 5 minutes. Once completed, I had over 75,000 of these segments. By playing them in random order, we can deeply explore what’s inside the archive, to get an idea of what it contains.

Earlier this week I released the first mix of these clips, called Onsug Explorer. Since then, I’ve listened to 10+ hours of these random segments, and I’ve really been enjoying it – I just want to hear more and more. Something new and unexpected every 5 minutes… very compelling…

I decided to rename this project “Ramplers”… and start compiling the clips into 4-hour blocks. This one in particular really blew me away – that’s why I chose it to be Ramplers #1.

Let me know what you think…

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Onsug Hosts – more info at TheOvernightscape.com

Here’s the list of all the segments played:

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1:56:44 – Frank in NYC, plus the Other Side… Topics include: Mysteries of sleep, random garbage, hypnopompic phrases, Philip K. Dick, moving past the holiday season, Posman Books at Grand Central closed, stores as free entertainment, impersonal hostility of corporations, Frank Nora Show 1672 – Telegraphica (3/28/11), the broken world, subway, cops, poi, glowing blue pole, divisive discourse, love one another, ant farm analogy, Madam Secretary, killings in Paris, freezing outside, kettlebells, Onsug Explorer / Ramplers, seeing red, Boxed.com, beer and liquor stores, Grand Central, VALIS, anchette farewell, gelato, Winter Vegetable with Dumplings soup, ghost plastic, Platform Panic, Peep Show, new website about Mike Jittlov (creator of The Wizard of Speed and Time) - jittlovist.tumblr.com, random cravings, macaroni and cheese, weird troopers, beverage review (Ronnybrook Chocolate Creamline Milk), ambient sounds, beautiful snow dust, book page marbling, ultra obscure Tarot cards, Fen’s Deck, memes, motivational posters, the turn of the Millennium, 2015, and more… plus the Other Side (at 1:27:09)… Better Raise Your Hands Up by MyVirtualBand Members [MyVirtualBand (defunct), CC BY 2.0], Hidden Eraser Master by Nuns of the Tundra [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], TV Slide AFOW-MSC by Another Flask of Weird [Archive.org, CC BY-ND 3.0], Bear Dance by TranceFlute [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], 1979-82 Commercials: Charmin to Johnson’s Hot Shots [YouTube], Moody Monday by Red Nebula [Jamendo, CC BY-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