The Overnightscape Underground

4:01:52 – A beautiful Wednesday morning in Bryant Park, a unique breakfast and toys and pens, journey last night to Battery Park, South Street Seaport, and City Hall Park, Bowling Green subway station, tobacco quest, Staten Island Ferry, police dogs, heliport, cigar weirdness, Cartoon World, deck chair, jawbreaker dull cherry powder anticlimax, cigar pleasure, vague mall memories, Dactyl Nightmare, Severe Repair, Fulton Street, Freedom Tower (1WTC), gaslamps, E Train, The Help Machine, bridge moving, new world order, Cinnabon, pen review (Pilot B2P – Bottle2Pen – made from recycled bottles), Keep America Beautigful, Kubrick Boba Fetts, beverage review (Sheetz Bros. Coffees Iced Coffee Mocha), always something missing, toy review (Bearbrick Series 21: Twin Peaks – Laura Palmer, Karel Capek Teatime Shop – Buzzy the Bee), Sheetz synchronicities, short changed, Every Burger, Acqua Panna, too crowded, interactive play Sleep No More, haunted hotel, new season of Doctor Who, new jellybean method, 420, 1680, the new Andy Kaufman Press Conference, bad cigar, fun on the bus, Silly Putty, cigar incident, the state of The Overnightscape Underground, Cake, Into Your Head, morning bun, monolith UFO, The Rampler Weekly, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, BedroomScenesMovie, Shock Treatment, Oscar Drill, the love of obscurity, entertainment corporations, Agent Dale Cooper, new 7-11 coffee setup, blueberry coffee, dirty billiards dream, new streaming radio idea, The Neverending Broadcast, decided to get the Motorola Atrix Android phone, Cingular logo, questioning the show name, Internet radio, Times Square, cool night tone, imaging, mimicry, safe for work, analog tone of news radio, content blocks, promos, TuneIn.com, Weasel Village Mall, profit motive, got the Atrix, first impressions, gave up on Apple, Coin Pirates, data plans, phone paralysis, echoes of past times, what happened in 2006?, the royal wedding, discomfort, celebration, conspiracy theories, The Midnight Citizen, the tornadoes down south, devil woman, smartphones, wild energy in the air, the book and the stream, blender, the terrain of time, difficult situation, fatigue, fingerprint reader, Columbia, Magenta, Pave Jest story idea, Ruby Tuesday, hypnosis, Hot Wheels, business executives, phone pictures and video, curtsies, TLC Royal Wedding broadcast in Times Square, pearl necklace, Mr. Nutcracker, wedding show host, the inner bride, health food lunch, very confused about everything, the U. N., Space Shuttle launch, the last flight of the Endeavor, That’s Incredible stuff on BoingBoing, fast talking guy, 80s colors, crystal teleportation, Quebec, and the other side… (2:34:04), Dolores Project archaeology (1979) (archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.37147), Sente Mini Golf (1985) Bally Sente, Video Newsletter (archive.org/details/tobacco_bfo23e00), “H8 U (lukhash.com)” by LukHash (SH music) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) found on Jamendo.com, Cybernightcast with Lion Acid Post, “Strange music” by misha64u (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/il/) found on Jamendo.com, “Laut und Bunt” by Zehntausend Deutschmarks (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) found on Jamendo.com, Hoople, “Hunter Killer” by Smersh (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/) (freemusicarchive.org/music/Smersh/Smersh_Library_Sampler/), ABM (2616), Theme From Puppet Road (Tree Bag Ask Remix), Virginia Slims mall film (1988) (archive.org/details/tobacco_dfo23e00), Street Fighter II – The World Warrior (1991) Capcom, Malls Of My Life (6/11/10), “Bogoho” by Tree Bag Ask (C-Blanche Mix), Bad Girls (1988) Gottlieb, Video Newsletter (archive.org/details/tobacco_bfo23e00), “Buckle – Woman Spirit” by Speedsound Rec. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) found on Jamendo.com, Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter – Ginger and Pickles – read by Vlooi (librivox.org/great-big-treasury-of-beatrix-potter/) (public domain), Hill Top Zone, Combat Cops Trailer (archive.org/details/CombatCopsTrailer), and Pennington Road.

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Released May 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

2:35:43 – Welcome to The Rampler Weekly, walking around a mall and drinking espresso, Queens Center, calling Mike and Jay, the old video game collectors meetings, toy stores, let go of the original entertainment plan, reminds me of Woodbridge Center, sushi and french fries, sushi fail, Bleach, Five Guys, Akoo, Duran Duran, music video food court, malt vinegar and ketchup, the 1970s, Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips, Maersk Lego, Seattle’s Best Coffee, Maximo Pino gelato, Fila Skele-Toes, Stanley Flask, show phases, sound of an ice cream truck idling, took the subway to Union Square, Forbidden Planet, The Strand bookstore, selling books, magic and costume store, books about malls, 75 Years of DC Comics, long lost used bookstores, the Iron Fairies, Bowery, The Cooper Union, branding, cube sculpture, a girl beggar, Shepheads?, weird new building – 41 Cooper Square, Blue Man Group, The Bowery Boys, VideoGamesNewYork, cat, Invaders of the Mummy’s Tomb, Wipeout 3 Mega Mall, Audiodicals, Toy Tokyo, Kubrick Droids Boba Fett, what do you do with cool stuff once you get it?, Pommes Frites, cool stores, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, rich people, hype, the book, FedFlix, reminiscing, bars that unknown bands play at, locations in The Dark Tower by Stephen King, Other Music, MLB Fan Cave (in the old Tower Records location), virtual spray paint, phases, street photo, looking for a bookstore, found it – Mercer Books, Cheers, Shelley Long, FuzzyMemories.TV, Fringe, Doctor Who, Tomoe Sushi, my old apartment from the 80s, Portal 2 walkthrough, chess stores, Bit.Trip Beat on iPhone, death of Elizabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith on Doctor Who), new pens, death of the Nutella heir, Temple in the Village restaurant is gone, falafel, Weird Al and Lady Gaga, Anakin Skywalker, Dreamcast Magazine, and the other side… A LOOK AT CHILD MENTAL HEALTH IN FILMS (archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.43349), Snacks’n Jaxson (Bally Sente) (1984), Snap Jack (Universal) (1982), The Dead Rocks – Center of the Universe (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0) found on Jamendo.com, Dolores Project archaeology, Archeaological excavation, McPhee Reservoir area (1978) (archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.37131), ABM (2616), SuperNova – Electric Garden (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5) found on Jamendo.com, Grand Jury Testimony (May 27, 1998) (archive.org/details/org.c-span.117055-1), Romahichi – So Loud! (Re-Edited) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0) found on Jamendo.com, Bandage F (8/5/01), Ian Hanclair, Gold Ball (Bally) (1983), Time Machine (Zaccaria) (1983), ELKMONT VALLEY SOLAR ENERGY: Elkmont Rural Village (archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.37534), CutYourselfAPieceOfCake (1923) by Billy Waterworth (made into MIDI by pianola.co.nz), song “Making Your Way” by Tree Bag Ask (2011), BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL (1967) (archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.64135), and more from 8/5/01.

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Released April 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

2:31:10 – 395 West 49th Street, “The Dark Tower” series of books by Stephen King, visiting the real location of fictional events, my interview with cartoons on Americast 19, song “Touched By The Hand of Cicciolina” by Pop Will Eat Itself, Hello Nurse, reality can be easier than fiction, visiting downtown locations mentioned on early 1960s Jean Shepherd shows, gulf of time, Food Emporium incident, Worldwide Plaza, red velvet donuts at 7-11, Foon Dice, new tax day, deadly storms over the weekend, cartoon crossovers in Fringe, Leonard Nimoy, are we a form of cartoon?, Source Code (2011), home theater, Bubble, Thor, watching Cheers on NetFlix, the warm analog audio on Cheers, the pleasures of listening to processed audio, computer simulations of vintage equipment, Buffalo Trace bourbon, working on the book, aspect ratio, human warmth, Taxi, Shelley Long, the influence of previous decades, premiere of The Game of Thrones on HBO, fantasy maps, socializing, the lure of videos and videogames, Bit.Trip games (Beat, Runner, Flux), revamping Bryant Park, Portal 2, Steam, Need For Speed Underground, night city, weird noise, life out of balance, urination dream, time travel dream of buying a candy bar in the 70s, Silly Putty obsession, dollar store putty, caught up on Naruto and Bleach, Atlas Shrugged, Battlefield Earth, song “Lady Picture Show” by Stone Temple Pilots, klutziness, smashed a mug and Advil, Tardis Hoover, putty formula, Cheers robot lawsuit, Hop poster candy reflections, my Uncle Ralph died today, Pennsylvania recordings from a decade ago, Betty Nora, new 2012 Volkswagen Beetle, Beetle Adventure Racing, 99 Cent Dreams, dollar store expansion, Overnightscape Central, Special Olympics synchronicity, whatever happened to cyberspace?, Second Life, OpenSim, OSGrid, Americal Idol, Jennifer Lopez, song “Heavy Metal” by Sammy Hagar, sitting in Times Square, Penn & Teller Bullshit, MLM, Wonderland, Disney video billboard, Asgard, Mortal Kombat, man caves, pica-pic.com (handheld game simulations), Motorola Atrix, Palm Foleo, Foon Dice playtesting, jeopardy family of dice game (Pig, Farkle, etc.), ABC cancels two long-running soap operas, the decline and current status of U.S. daytime soap operas, Dark Shadows, Podcast Alley, the pagan lifestyle, Petland Discounts, gerbils, space shuttle controversy, Korg Monotribe, Korg Wave Drum Mini, FedEx trivia, old Federal Express TV commercials, rest room quotes, completely random memories (survival kit, change machine trick), Moonlighting, buried memories, Star Wars, how many calories does wind have?,  rock and roll music, Lady Gaga theory, the arrival of the “aliens”, genetic modification, clean up this mess, subway beggar, guitar player, Swedish Fish Italian Ice, wireframe model of a Land Rover Evoque with cyberspace projections, thought it was called “Voque”, the persistent theme of combining fictional worlds with the real world, a nickel from 1940, beeping, coffee cart, this world seems like it could be a computer simulation, multitasking can affect your memory, spending days in a daze, the real world seems unreal, library, the teen scene on the mezzanine, humans as cartoonish, things are degenerating, noodle place weirdness, lit R fault, psychic noise, drugs, hope that the changes are for the better, art stars, it’s called “Evoque”, old TV show “Automan”, new season of Doctor Who starting this weekend, BBC America, and Whovent 86.

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2:01:11 – Sitting in Times Square in the morning, American Eagle, man caves, inflatable vermin, MLB Fan Cave, Tower Records, The Cheesecake Factory at Willowbrook Mall, matrix fear, freshly night, alternate reality scare, Fun N Games, The Purple Room, Arcade Memories, time travel, sitting next to a rusty humanoid statue, Wonka Giant Chewy Sweet Tarts, egg albumen, nasty treat, Roald Dahl, yerba mate beverages, Tudor City Greens, garbage bag fence, Late July Sea Salt By The Seashore Snack Chips, annoying charities, cutting in from the future, hard to open bag, trying the chips, chia seeds, thunderstorm, in the breezeway, 50th anniversary of manned spaceflight, what a disappointment, Intrepid Museum in NYC getting the Space Shuttle Enterprise, Smithsonian, cause marketing, the smooth jazz The Weather Channel plays over its local forecasts since the 1980s, the long-awaited launch of Photo-Lettering.com by House Industries, the profit motive, candy gone bad, raiding the 20th Century for content, the movie “Alien”, lost fonts, Corridor of Losers, Jamba canned energy drinks, bland statements, opera, Multiple Master fonts, MyFonts.com, the new movie “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1”, cults, bus line confusion, time travel in the show itself, anger at the bus terminal, bus accident, weekly idea, The Frank Ralph Nora Show, Space Shuttle update, repetetive news broadcasts, fish update, sports in Afghanistan, The Sound of Silence, Brazil subway, the red velvet craze, raiding the 20th Century is okay, Beanie Babies, inflated collectible values, Rowe-Manse Emporium, Grand Central, meth dream, rancid mushroom soup, shuttle hut, the worst action figure ever – Talky Tina, evil dolls, Profiles In History – film props and animation auctions, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 2001 spacesuit piece, Dick Van Dyke, onomatopoeia , Whitney Museum, Lady Gaga, George Segal, giant elevator, art works, sparkly plastic, cool stairwell with benches, sit by fountain, Dwellings, short films “Shadow”, The Road Warrior, River Phoenix, Herbal Corn, Nutella & Go!, remote walk, Mohegan Sun, Indian casinos, Atlantic City, dollar store products, Superhero Comic Book Spectacular, New Universe, Trio Blendables Outdoor Fusion, coin pushers, Fruit Ninja FX arcade game, DuMont Network, restrooms that switch places, Manson font at MoMA, Family Guy, Statler and Waldorf, critical puppets on the wall, wrestling videos, WrestleMania III, and Bobby “The Brain” Heenan.

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1:32:48 – Turning the wrong way onto a one-way street, photo shoot in Times Square, the Oregon America The Beautiful Quarter – Mount Hood, the concept of the “Radio Trip”, hallucinogenics, The Fantasy Trip, sequence, random access, hypertext, Aerie Obliviana, Choose Your Own Adventure, Andy Kaufman, Taxi Mighty Wallet, black and yellow, Saturday now, in the car, errands, inspection sticker message, cookies, bagel store, messenger bag, laundry place, parking lot, Wells Fargo color scheme, itinerary, music at the gas station, tooth joke, traffic at the bridge, hooded lights, gas prices, double-decker trains, driving error, indecision, Botany Village, Micro Center in Paterson, bad area, Abbot & Costello, endless coffee, confusing roads, Fair Lawn, an important location in ABM history, comic shop, witchcraft store, coconut coffee, Anything But Monday Magazine, crash and burn, Route 4, blue laws, a visit to the revamped Bergen Mall, parking deck, Elastica, dune buggy, remembering the old mall, drink coffee and walk around a mall, the new lower mall closed off, giant Game Stop entrance, Whole Foods, comfy chairs, the old bridge across the highway, Ulta New Media, soothing saxophone music, The Outlet at Bergen Town Center, square construct, 70s-style lights, giant fish tanks with weird fish, the first mall lamprey?, soothing music, code of conduct, Easter Bunny, Hot Shots Golf 3 on PS2, Target, drain cleaners, dismal soy milk section, Archer Farms, kitty litter, kettle bells, and Storm Water.

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Released April 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

1:03:19 – Vintage scale pedal cars, trivia challenge cards, mystery of the Mexican electrical workers, Flashback 1980, bland new store, crystal Freedom Tower, Match Game, Overnightscape Central, the book, all-you-can-eat pizza, beverage vessel wastefulness at food places, classic TV shows circa 1980 ( “That’s Incredible”, “Real People”, “Those Amazing Animals”, “Fridays”), yogi in box, TV shows locked in vaults, FedFlix, Sneaky TT, new batteries, the dumping of the DuMont TV archives, deafness synchronicity, broadcasting from the middle of nowhere, radio vs. book, hot and cold, vague store memory, cool stuff buried in the past, Chapter 1: Abandoned Warehouses, Storage Wars, lost podcasts, garage rock, emergency triangles, link farms, what happens after the end, Amarok, The Langoliers, independent podcasting, stupid trademarks, the next morning, miscellaneous tools, movie review – Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), going to college in 1986, NetFlix, surfing the web, working on the book, the album “Steeple” by Wolf People, Nine Inch Nails, the vague Reznor air conditioner at a food place memory, art student employees, Tori Amos, rock music, clay, substances for children,  Play-Doh, Silly Putty, Slime, recyclers, procrastinating, cigar tin as Moon Dough case, Double Putty at the dollar store, The Dark Tower, cheap plastic eggs, Sony battery holder as Double Putty case, secret putty pocket, coat 2, and Game Boy Color.

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Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released April 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.