The Overnightscape Underground

1:24:44 – Sudafed blues, Corvette, iPad 2, Queen Horns, Darth Maul, the finite nature of things, beeping, Little Trees, “Seneca Glass” movie on Archive.org, driftwood tumblers, coughing apology, fire engine, Japanese dolls, Soom Cuprit – Black Frost (doll with “Queen Horns”), Robot Chicken Dark Crystal parody, people are honking bastards, cursing, Howard Stern, Kirk Douglas, Harlie Sheen, Alex Jones, Usenet, DVR failure, American Idol, electronic corruption, SiriusXM app, Onsug analysis, Sanrio “Small Gift” set of figurines, updates, slow Internet, insanity, sculptures in Times Square (paper sheep, metal mouse, blue woman, bubbles, etc.), the art world scam, style over substance, fakeness, chaos in the air, Lava stain, carpet removal, Lava Lamp bulb burnout, visual stimulation, rice balls for breakfast, new Boards of Canada album may be coming soon, street calculation error, Nintendo 3DS, overstimulated, lots more Fringe this season, weird clouds this morning, Big Sky Country, zoo analogy, panda chow, Queen song “The Prophet’s Song”, WFMU Marathon, The Overnightscape Underground, the rice balls, obscure Sanrio characters, vagueness of percent, fashion scam, The Mighty Boosh, Old Gregg, online TV confusion, lottery, Chipotle lunch, tortilla failures, the control structures of pop culture, the programming of people, cause and effect, modern art, I love pop culture, difficulties of independent entertainment, the tentacles of management, selling out, Wachovia rebranding to Wells Fargo, the movie Fargo, Orson Welles, the programmed people of the world, and hope.

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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.

1:46:46 – Ticket line mysteries, mass demolition, the weekend, comic book store memories, Lady Gaga’s new video “Born This Way”, occult symbolism, early Nirvana resistance, a cornucopia of occult imagery, the future of The Overnightscape Underground, the idea of 4 channels, taxi trouble, SCTV, The Muppet Show, rag wizard hat, Motorhead concert, The Young Ones, Lemmy, alcoholism, your corporate overlords, blast of wind, pocket radio station, levels of presentation, books “You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried” and “Sucker Punch – The Art of the Film”, watched The Academy Awards last night, James Franco, Anne Hathaway, awkward acceptance speeches, Kirk Douglas, The King’s Speech, nearly forgot to get my bus pass, my reactions to the latest Overnightscape Central (The Future of Onsug), teamwork, mailing lists, the post test, conspiracy topics, the goal, the channel as a mini resource-based economy, levels of content, celebrity, a healthy future in entertainment, guidelines, Creative Commons, creator endorsement, hours of content per day, Grammar Girl, lists of episodes, flyers, need for a contextual “hook”, top 10 lists, ritualistic modes, transmissions, podcasting, Charile Sheen on Alex Jones, the news media as a scripted product of the powers that be, analysis of the occult symbolism in the new Lady Gaga video “Born This Way”, the devil, the video itself has horns, unicorns in triangles, Nazis, “as above, so below”, A Clockwork Orange, monarch slave symbols, Janus, butterflies, mirrored images, lack of sensuality, queen horns, reptilians, cloning imagery, well-dressed zombies, G.O.A.T., good and evil, theory that “Lady Gaga” is a set of clones, a crazy woman walks by, pseudoephedrine, drugged once again, Welsh tour group, show naming, I Ching, the palindrome “e-radio do I dare”, forgotten mix CDs, horrible camera software, Picasa, Facebook, wifi cameras, The Rampler, Porno Jim, live shows, Lordi Films, Five Faces of Fear, typecasting, people who the last time you saw them they were a little kid and now they’re an adult, The Dark Crystal (1982), analog texture, more symbolism, “Teenage Riot” on Vice TV, snack review (Kettle Brand Tias! – Salsa Picante), unoriginal slogans, biodiesel, looking for rat statues, giant Norton sphere in Grand Central, NJ Transit “MyBus” service, rogue telephone pole signs, underpaid and disillusioned, Steve Miller Band song “Space Cowboy”, Beatles song “Lady Madonna”, Paul McCartney’s pseudonym “Paul Ramon”, The Ramones, you learn something new every day about rock and roll, Sucker Punch (2011), Boxee Box apps, The Guy Bauer Half Hour, Tom Green, pepper arrogance, and American Idol.

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The Guy Bauer Half Hour

46:03 – Frank and Peter explore the town of Somerville, NJ. Memories of Somerville, alleyway, Quality Comics, cat, Division Street, the classic shopping center is torn down, The Evil Farm, surprise meeting with Alex at Incogneeto, we talked for a long time, the book “Vintage Fashion Accessories” by Stacy LoAlbo, walking down Main Street, bike rides, luxury apartments, Las Vegas housing market, McMansions, Neet Stuff, Hobnob, gentleman with top hat, fondue, the classic Somerville Circle, Cinema I-II-III, early settlements, dog bakery, the old style of storefronts, Kigali, magic and costume store, record store, wine store, storefront station idea, antiques, grand jury duty, crimes, dinner at Splash of Thai, stir fried wild boar, mee krob, chocolate souffle, Thai iced coffee, super hot green curry, Dunkin Donuts, coconut coffee, Reverse Boston Creme donut, observing some antiques, WWII sonar machine, cymbals, sexuality and beverages, Heathers, as soon as we hit the border the show has to end, parking lot combat, stationery, Summerville, Heat Miser, train station, “take the train to the plane”, After Man, the early days of sushi, criminals, jury duty, closed gas station, and the border.

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

2:27:50 – Commuting delays, lasagna breakfast, famous palindromes, accident in the Lincoln Tunnel, futuristic soldiers, protests in The Middle East, scripted events, Libya, Gaddafi, Reagan, Pan Am, Bob Grant, doom hype, dwelling on the crash, using time travel to find crashless timeline, the higher self, the I Ching hexagram of a fox carefully crossing a frozen river, liking doom, conspiracy theories becoming mainstream, simulation, creativity, culture, creation and distribution of works, AR, media history, dawn of the Internet, Creative Commons, Creator Endorsement, hippie communes, heading over to Broadway, Five Guys fries for dinner, the upcoming 25th anniversary of Zope, musicals, compostable bowls, recyclable food, Belgian fries (pommes frites) places that used to be in NYC, Le Frite Kot, had too many french fries, hydration, Green Day, Beyond Onsug, forum mortality, the accident in th Lincoln Tunnel this morning, Thai food, remembered the name of the little caffeine boosts – “Stok”, email, the beautiful rainy Times Square at night, newspaper machins, weird high (Alka-Seltzer Plus, french fries, cigars), St. James Theater, the balcony level, seating, Broadway musical review (“American Idiot”), the squealing crowd, lack of grooviness, weird and perverted, bad poetry, humorless and bland, prepackaged rebelliousness, posing, U2, Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, sexual music, lighting, the late bus, the vile chant, drug addicts, Repo Man, ordinary people, the next day with pouring rain, umbella, the 25th anniversary of Zope, the history of my comic strip character Zope, space madness, your characters are like alive in your mind, co-ed bathrooms, won the 1986 worst minicomic of the year award, Nixie 59, created the new Zope website and drew the anniversary comic last night, ComicCMS, out in the rain, Hard Rain screensaver in After Dark, the old Macintosh computing culture, Flying Toaster, theories, Todd Rundgren, OvalTune, Green Day song “Basket Case”, new Smurfs Mega Bloks, the plans for tonight and tomorrow, put my very first website from 1995 online at franknora.com/obliviana1, falafel burger, 3rd Avenue tour with J. Wiz and M. Wiz, crutches in the garbage, dinner at Menchanko, sumo wrestler food, potato starch, Philadelphia, Camden, checking out the hippie architecture, statues of rats, reading the plaque, smoke breaks by the loading dock, arrows, listening to the archives, cyclical obsessions, stagecoach, chessboard, senator offices, office building criminals, red metal art swing, cursed building, Corridor of Losers, PiranhaKid, Ess-a-Bagel, bagels in Tokyo, Charlie Sheen, Conran Shop, food court, building security, Lipstick Building, touch an Oscar, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Citigroup Center, Piada, socializing, disappearingspoons.com, melting gallium spoons in hot water, Zombie Stormtrooper Bobblehead, subway opera singer, Overnightscape Central, the future of Onsug, Somerville, NJ, and whispers.

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1:16:37 – Recovering deleted files, listening to random recovered Overnightscape segments, reviving old Macs and iPods, unexpected weird window into the past, crummy winter weather, ironic aspect of the slogan idea “Radio Undefined”, Chicken Over Veggies, Web 2.0, surprise announcement of BlogWorld East, Podcast Expo, marketing hype, selfish dreams, a mini resource-based economy, NYC podcasting scene, Times New Roman, Artifact Coins, little forgotten caffeine boosts, new NYC outdoor smoking ban, Doctor Who “Brigadier” actor died, kora, hammered dulcimer, tuning, analog synthesizers, American Idiot musical, Justin Guarini, learning the songs and dances of a Broadway show, performance and repetition, recording, setlists, the cruel entertainment industry, hippie architectue, the golden girl statue may remain, Dee Daa disappointment, vegetarian food, Indian food, depressing music in the afternoon, Grand Central Dining Concourse, ATM vestibule window, amazing constructs, the ceiling is the street, review of Artifact Coins by Ellusionist, magicians, decks of cards, coin magic, antique coins, magic message boards, pre-worn blue jeans and guitars, coin reeds, coin talk, cool little objects, Amadeus, Last Action Hero, went to  bingo hall and played bingo for the first time, non-profit organizations, Ladies Auxiliary, Dabbin’ Fever – The Winner’s Ink, the E-Max bingo computer, the complexities of bingo, the “Bingo Dog” song, the bingo system, hardway bingo, what is going on behind closed doors, the rules of bingo, distorted photocopy, and Bodoni.

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1:21:47 – Little Christmas villages, Department 56, filming models of cities, Presidents’ Day, Important Ideas, rules and guidelines for the channel, bus station alarm, line police, Chicken Over Veggies, Howard Stern, Opie & Anthony, offensive material, the world is in shades of gray – not back and white, this society is insane, bad words, zero tolerance policies, cold weather, usage of commercial music, advertising, promotion, shoelace problems, hippie building changes, icicles, bingo, lo-fi archives, kitten animation, someone who looks like me in the Fischerspooner music video “Emerge” from 2002, my familiarity with what I look like in pictures and video, Warren Fischer looks like me, whistling, freaking out, cloning theory, a clone is like a twin, Attack of the Clones, Jango Fett, ability to recognize faces, The Prince and The Pauper, clone paranoia, laser printer, pasta lunch, Overnightscape Central, Midnight Citizen, weird snow dust, Michael Keaton, troublesome pockets, caught up with Fringe, I love Fringe, alternate realities, Dr. Walter Bishop, Peter Bishop, Olivia Dunham, Twin Peaks references, Dr. Jacoby, Josie Packard, profanity example, NetFlix, Dark Shadows, Barnabas Collins, Inherent Vice, Red Dwarf, video services, Mystery Science Theater 3000, advanced ancient societies, cloning experiment theory, White Horse cigars, White Owl cigars, George Burns, anti-check fraud pens, Radio Undefined, Bluffcosm.com slogans, going to see the Green Day musical “American Idiot”, The Monkees, new Guess store, new fiber cream “Dishevel”, and warm up at the bookstore.

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2:09:40 – Solar panels, deranged from cold medicine, Starbucks logo, “cicar” cup, over 7 hours of shows released on Onsug yesterday, ordered some Artifact Coins, coin magic, fire alarms, weird dust, idea of the shortest episode ever, my voice is shot, The Police song “Peanuts”, warm outside, scalable logo idea, print out and cut out a little radio, radio packs like cigarette packs, Electric Wizard song “The Satanic Rites of Drugula”, vintage equipment, upcoming potato chips review, bagel day, destruction of groovy architecture, upcoming 25th anniversary of my comic character Zope, subway music, beggar, a movie as “video wallpaper”, movie “The Four Seasons” (1981) by Alan Alda, drug store, toys, pens, check fraud, beer, long checkout line, carrot oil, gave up waiting to check out, Grand Central vagueness, deep voice, depressing music in the morning, heading home, what a beautiful day today, health food lunch at Tudor City Greens, yogurt, kombucha, energy flow, bag of shirts, Momus, the little girl from the cover of The Smashing Pumpkins album “Siamese Dream” is now in the band, Chadcast – Denton, Rocky Horror, Shock Treatment, radio packs idea from a dream, physical representation of digital content, Black Sabbath song “War Pigs”, Electric Wizard albums “Black Masses” and “Dopethrone”, 1978 Dodge Warlock, evil trucks, 56 tracks in Onsug so far this month, Borders bookstore closing at 57th and Park, Sabbath, cigar review (Illusione cg:4), cigarettes, fine tobacco products, fancy stores for the rich, designer A. M. Cassandre, Mary Tyler Moore font Peignot, Louis Vuitton handbag animals, the influence of earlier decades, Welcome Back Kotter, style over substance, Star Wars, successful tobacco gambit, plaza across from the southeast corner of Central Park, FAO Schwarz new logo, Apple Store, Rockefeller Center, The Strokes, Shia LaBeouf, Project Greenlight, Push Nevada, wind storm warning, tissue victory, NBCUniversal new logo, pointless news headlines, trying to define The Overnightscape Underground, Bluffcosm.com, Radio Undefined, another store closed, slogans, got some new shoes – Merrell Jungle Mocs, Michael Jackson Wii game, the ethics of Pokemon, Times Square at night with all the new video screens, trying on the new shoes in Times Square, symbolism, rebirth, thoughts on getting glasses, checking out the new Oakley Store in Times Square (opening day), jet fighter seats, weird diesel fume reminds me of a carnival, pizza smell reminds me of Space Port arcade at the Quakerbridge Mall in the 80s, memories of Princeton, Nassau Hobby, Dungeons and Dragons, PJ’s Pancake House, time travel, future shoes for Albert Einstein, Port Authority flag, beverage review (Vita Coco – Coconut Water with Passion Fruit), cheap telephones, Bell Telephone monopoly, back home in The Overnightscape Studio 2.5, Benny Hill, iPod battery shot, router issues, Steve Jobs health issues, new green puppet prophecy, snack review (Grippo’s Bar-B-Q Flavored Potato Chips) which I got from Bret from Indiana, torula yeast, squeaky chair, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, browser issues, CD Bret gave me of his band Calling Corners – “Evolution Season”, listening to some Calling Corners songs on MySpace, mid 90’s rock, old Overnightscape MySpace page, I ate the entire bag of potato chips, lava lamp, Duran Duran songs “Lava Lamp” and “911 is a Joke”, and gotta oil it.

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1:12:42 – The 25th anniversary of my Anything But Monday college radio show, the history of ABM, psychic wars, podcasting can have a heavy toll on your life, how would me from 25 years ago react to my current situation, crushing disappointment, megalomaniacal dreams, food manufacturing, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, resource-based economy, the brainwashed masses, living with contradictions, difficulties in sitting outside at the noodle place, hipsters, style over substance, CD scam, the world is utterly insane, doom fear, weirdly warm outside, later on with Bopozog / Bret from Indiana and Gwen from New York in the lower east side, the Andy Kaufman situation, bad hair day, Bret’s first plane ride and subway ride, airline security, displays of police power, bad areas turning into good areas, record stores, Strand Bookstore, Blue Stockings, Forbidden Planet, positive memories of crappy store environments, Tower Records, Other Music, Anime Crash, subway, Bret’s band – Calling Corners (callingcorners.com), Wicca, Electric Wizard, Gwen Sacre Bleu, microfame, had a great time meeting Bret and Gwen, my isolation, Artifact Coins from Ellusionist.com, decks of playing cards, coin tricks, socializing, and Schnipper’s.

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

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

The 25th anniversary of my Anything But Monday college radio show, the history of ABM, psychic wars, podcasting can have a heavy toll on your life, how would me from 25 years ago react to my current situation, crushing disappointment, megalomaniacal dreams, food manufacturing, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, resource-based economy, the brainwashed masses, living with contradictions, difficulties in sitting outside at the noodle place, hipsters, style over substance, CD scam, the world is utterly insane, doom fear, weirdly warm outside, later on with Bopozog / Bret from Indiana and Gwen from New York in the lower east side, the Andy Kaufman situation, bad hair day, Bret's first plane ride and subway ride, airline security, displays of police power, bad areas turning into good areas, record stores, Strand Bookstore, Blue Stockings, Forbidden Planet, positive memories of crappy store environments, Tower Records, Other Music, Anime Crash, subway, Bret's band - Calling Corners (callingcorners.com), Wicca, Electric Wizard, Gwen Sacre Bleu, microfame, had a great time meeting Bret and Gwen, my isolation, Artifact Coins from Ellusionist.com, decks of playing cards, coin tricks, socializing, and Schnipper's.