The Overnightscape Underground

1:29:42 – Some sort of microchip on the ground, zero fuse, brick codes, Chapter 63, tumultuous month, Onsug ideas, Audiodicals, idea for a book called “The Overnightscape Underground Radio Trip”, Severe Repair, broadcasting from the middle of nowhere, blurring the lines, ephemeral vs. permanent, mystery dinner “Murder Under The Marquee” by The Country Gate Players, my fellow commuters, fast birds, interview with cartoons, The Gunslinger, kinetic sculpture, my cousin Vinny, Foul Rift, Asbury, new store, the theme of wastelands, Whitney museum, the emptiness of life, genetic manipulation, street numbers, Africa, theatrical immersion, interactive theater, subway alarms, Tamara, the Audioworlders concept, Panasonic 3D TVs, Avatar, 3DS, flaws of 3D display systems, a virtual audio world, wrestling, church bells, the ephemeral nature of theater, Jean Shepherd, creative outlets, the love of acting, the relative permanence of Internet radio, books, perceptions of media, Eric Woolfson of The Alan Parsons Project, cat treats, rusty and shiny statues all over Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, mingling, fictional layer, watching wrestling videos on NetFlix, WrestleMania, rewriting history, seeing Star Wars in 1977, kayfabe, Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football, examining the statues, and the other people.

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

39:52 – Box of beer, a new idea, pasta, coffee, cigars, The Dark Tower series of books by Stephen King, weird memories of a Korean restaurant and a bookstore, audio length of Onsug so far, a long journey through a desert in pursuit of something, a slight dizziness, men at work, Burger King, good coffee trend, BK Joe, Seattle Coffee Roasters new logo, peddlers, weird giant bicycle, Peddler’s Village, audiobooks, Jackie Chan is alive, Baltic Coasts on HDNet, saunas in Finland, MTVU, classical music, instrument sounds, neon stage, Electric Wizard album “Dopethrone”, play with a pen, Bermuda display in Grand Central, pale pink scooters, college friend who was killed in a bank robbery, Puch moped, Giovanni Smurf incident, Naughty Boy, the idea MOT, coat selection, get money, broken purple chair, Mercury Retrograde, bubble tea, getting a dust mask, it helped somewhat, lunch at Grand Central, little electric vehicles, Indian Food, Cadbury Flake, beverage review (Argo Tea – Mojitea), shampoo bottles, wastefulness of bottled beverages, charities, beeping noise, and yellow electric vehicle number 87.

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39:22 – Got a haircut, hair issues, bilateral symmetry of the human being, cutting my own hair, The Marx Brothers, K-On!, appearance, Cinnabon breakfast in Bryant Park, got some free stuff at Toys “R” Us, different languages, interview with a bird, Overnightscape Central, The Stone Museum, Bungalow Streaming Radio, toy reviews (“Gomu Eraserland”, “Moon Dough”), yellow hamster, blue pie, mini construction vehicles, the fellow subway riders, having to walk a far distance, Corridor of Losers, breathing in dust, can’t catch a break, Mercury Retrograde, death of Jackie Chan?, music for headaches, hair is okay, Weird New Jersey, Moon Dough, Smurf dung, teen Facebook depression, the dullness of life, the Lego green Bossk fail, and stickers.

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57:55 – 209 x 8, website snapshot from 8 years ago, draining weekend, dialup, DSL, cable and TV company names, regionalism, wrestling, engines, FiOS installation, the magic router, customer service nightmares, Vixen and Bruce Willis, another new idea, innovation, new logo, slogans from Bluffcosm.com in 2003, the cutting room floor, my FiOS installation story as a fictional movie – “The Cable Guy 2”, VHS bootlegs, demolition, the fictional universe, HDNet, Cheers in HD, Shelley Long, Pleasant Valley Sunday, American Idol, cringe TV, Cartridge World, Swamp People food truck, obsessed with Jujyfruits, CDs, and corn starch modification.

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57:32 – Wet overnight snow once again, thundersleet, post-apocalyptic dream, toys, The Strand, novellty items, laser arrowhead, sealing, issues of Progressive Architecture from the 70s, blenders, another new idea, thinking about weirdness, destiny, the 4th dimension, automatic zippers, Flatland, The Planiverse, fate pins, ice falling off buildings, using Google Maps to illustrate the idea, positions and situations, the one song, subway, playing with different timelines – such as one in which I went to a different college, psychic perceptions, Mercury Retrograde, interior design, aesthetics, tones, textures, design sensibilities, beauty, subtleties, the old Menlo Park Mall, stained glass McDonalds, Ric Olie action figure, Harry Houdini stuff, death of Elizabeth Taylor, weirdness at college, the 209 effect, psychic wars, White Wizzard album “Over The Top” (2010), heavy metal genres, swagger and cockiness, American Idol, Motown, poor judging, too cold outside, swaggeress, jokeress, priestess, unknown vegetable puppets, expensive lunch, I need glasses, train buses, walking around airports, 3DS, Duran Duran, David Lynch, The Young Ones, Motorhead, Madness, Soundgarden, WWE: The Rise and Fall of WCW, Ric Flair, the idea, and get ready for the next episode.

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52:20 – Another snowy day in Spring, hammered by tree snow, disjointed show, roller coaster ride, chaos of ideas, moving from a semi-ephemeral system to a more permanent system, another bus ride – another idea, Audiodicals, books, kinetic sculpture, Duran Duran Unstaged – directed by David Lynch, Vevo, cults, mind control, Aldous Huxley, “Bo Knows”, brand “attitudes”, the 90s becoming the distant past,  forgotten sports stars of the 90s, Gabrielle Reese, the computing culture of the early 90s, I was a little kid in the 60s, Woodstock, escalators, 209 x 8 = 1672, slight cough, I hate “Spoonman” by Soundgarden, kora, 20th century music, the death of Knut the German polar bear, supermoon, unstable times, moon and sun size, whatever gets you through the night, Who is Harry Nilsson? (2010), the unreleased album “Smile” by The Beach Boys, Alternate Brian Wilson Presents Smile, the album “Song Cycle” by Van Dyke Parks, most expensive albums, transit characters, Compulsive Newspaper Smelling Guy, OCD, wild boar meat, Justin Guarini, American Idol, new dreamlike Battery Park Carousel, bus noises, and are things louder in the rain?

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1:41:57 – In the Hall of Biodiversity at the American Museum of Natural History, symmetries, crises, Berbers, subway confusion, long lines, pay what you want, bag and jacket plan, 1423 stones, elevator delays, little kids running around, the misery of museum food, ideas for the channel, the mention of giraffes, flea market, W.C. Fields, live music, see the whale, sitting by the fountain at Lincoln Center, previous radio crisis, the Hall of Minerals, 70s style, Forever Gold, calcite collecting, debagging, Time-Out Tunnel, Beacon Theater, The Monkees, pedestrian crossing countdown, iPad 2, New York Philharmonic logo, hit with an idea, Rampler Mini Radio, feminine male fashions of the distant past, a day of extremes, weird clock, first full day of Spring, snowing, Verizon customer service FAIL, luck, unstable energy in the air, alarm sounds, transformation, new ideas, a birthday dinner, Lispenard St., Pearl Paint, Nintendo Virtual Boy, miasma of pop culture insanity, stores with a long history, Letraset, Chartpak, Pepolino. The Woolworth Building, my brother’s birthday, I need glasses, Museum of Natural History, natural light in the evolution lab, dark rides and museums, more symmetries, phases of change in the cosmos, Time Warner Center, video game arcade with a dress code, Deli closed by order of the Comissioner of Healh and Mental Hygeine, obscure beverages, PopCorners, Fritos Corn Chips, Disneyland, taxi ads, the Vernal Equinox, Popcorn Indiana ChipIns, popcorn variations, basketball player, Poland Spring, food factories, PopCorners truck, copyrighting food, Triscuits, the weekend, museum hassle, ideas for the channel, Audiodicals, daylight saving time, Arthur, Sucker Punch, new Bierhaus on 3rd Ave., Coco, confusing beverage place, heat seal lids, personable clerks, the klutz gene, Moonshot, Beer Wars, bad beer, Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers, Voli diet vodka, Monster Energy Absolutely Zero, Plan Tea, commercialism and charities, a memory of subway beverages from the movie The French Connection, NYC history, time travel, Nintendo 3DS, a vague memory of Pilotwings 64, the slow fading of memories, and difficult recordings.

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