The Overnightscape Underground

1:30:17 – Rough morning commute, clock cleaning, temple of false hope, Cinnabon, the latest Overnightscape Central, limping with numb toes, zonked out last night, Apples To Apples, the shocking realization that even The Marx Brothers are fading into oblivion, they used to show a lot of older stuff on independent TV stations, browsing in libraries, the Dewey Decimal System, Groucho Marx’s TV show “You Bet Your Life”, fell asleep in my chair, cold medicine, the world changed around 1995 – with the rise of the Internet and the decline of some aspects of pop culture, more choice makes for less commonality, the new adults coming out of the childhood system, synchronicity of Bora Bora, whatever happened to podcasting, marketing, home shopping, Aol Late Night, it helps to already be a movie or TV star, Kevin Smith, NetFlix on Boxee Box, Felix The Cat, The Story of India, the next day, upcoming 8th anniversary of The Overnightscape, NyQuil, The Overnightscape Underground listed yesterday as a sub-collection on the Radio Programs page on Archive.org, robot legs on 41st Street, Dee Daa, confusing websites, Lion King social media, QR code, 9/11 Memorial, World Trade Center, the most boring day of the 20th century (April 11, 1954), Fringe, Boxee Box, Riverworld, naked science fiction, weird Monday morning, new sidewalk shed design (scaffolding), Park Avenue walk/don’t walk signal, underground train yard, Creative Commons, weird hazy darkness in the sky, the movie “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward”, resource-based economy, how did we get tot this point?, greed, “the powers that be” as the remnants of an ancient civilization – trying to rebuild it, worker race, merging the two societies together, technological growth, quality of life, The Venus Project, all the corporations represented in Times Square, lovely evening, cat and bird cartoon, the deranged world can be aesthetically pleasing, the situation is not sustainable, everything buzzing along, the space-time continuum, another video screen in Times Square, the insane world, and all the weirdness keeps grinding along.

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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.

53:33 – Wind warning, cold medicine, nodding off, Fringe, Boxee Box, the quest to enter the octagonal room from the street, digging a new train station under Grand Central Terminal, skateboarders, Dee Daa day, Audi fashion show, cigar, confusion of french fries, confusing websites, red Guess mannequins, In N Out Burger, Madison Avenue, troubled dreams of alternate realities, can’t find the entrance to the octagonal room, plush Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, flower sellers, return to the original Onsug logo, old logo persisting, Valentines, new Starbucks logo coming, The Biltmore Room, the mystery solved, Droid Pro, Urban Outfitters, hipsterism for the masses, generator, open mic, seminary, new movie “The Rock-Afire Explosion” about Aaron Fechter (who sent an email to the show years ago), audio-animatronics, SD card buying, the original 1977 version of Star Wars, 8mm and Super 8mm, Aunt Beru’s voice redone, Star Wars Mono Mix, The Overnightscape Underground Low Bandwidth Resources, little kids dressed up as Abraham Lincoln, and the wind warning was correct.

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1:13:34 – The unnatural haze of a chemical spray, ideas, the origin of The Overnightscape, shoveling snow off a roof, new idea for an Internet radio station, The Exit Ramp, Letraset Masquerade, Creative Commons music, Jamendo, FedFlix, bad timing, more station ideas, limited time and energy for creative pursuits, The Shamen “Ebeneezer Goode”, black dog, profitability, context could performances, we still have a serious lack of context on the channel, insane sky of chemdogs and chemtrails and chemhaze, fools are so damn ingenious, Destructoid, more thoughts on the Boxee Box, analysis of the occult symbolism in the new Lady Gaga song “Born This Way”, theories about the Illuminati on the Internet, mind control victims, various names for the devil, rubber superstars, numerology, DNA, new cardboard bowls, Fresh Ginger Ale by Bruce Cost, Wacky Packages, Onsug Manual, the siren issue, Monty Python song “I Like Traffic Lights”, talking about seeing the Moon in the daytime, looking at the sky, wall hangings, bought some cigars, thoughts on tobacco, I need glasses, Oakley frames, Tekzilla, similarity between the 1984 songs “Welcome To The Pleasuredome” by Frankie Goes To Hollywood and “Where’s The Walrus?” by The Alan Parsons Project, and the animals are winding me up.

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52:25 – Sweater shoes, the Boxee Box, similarities and differences between computers and TVs, Sesame Street, Batman, remote controls, subway graphics, Fringe, watching computer files on TV, electric vehicle garbage run, Roku, Google TV, Hulu Plus, online ads, Japanese cartoons, HDMI, NetFlix, initial impressions of the Boxee Box, the web browser, the remote, Onsug on the RSS reader, Imax Lite, Vudu, 1080, uStream, bandwidth, lo-fi Onsug archive, revision3, tech geek shows, the leftover nacho breakfast, Vevo, Jellyfish music video, new shows coming to The Overnightscape Underground (Goodrob13 Musc Show, The Midnight Citizen), The Exit Ramp concept show, Jamendo, commercial music as a toxic substance, original copyright laws, Guitar Hero cancelled, Lego Shadowtrooper/Jester mashup, and more Star Wars angst.

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43:46 – 2/09, thank you for your cooperation, Grand Central, complex lunch, stingy with the tortellinis, freezing outside, talking about the weather, soy sauce issues, personal space invasion, film crew, sound guy, folkways of the bus, people hanging out at the train station, sit next to incident, decided not to pursue the Onsug Music Clubhouse concept, Botanical Garden, fictional train stations, Creative Commons, olive salesmen as “olivers”, restrictions on commercial music, bride movie, metadata dealbreaker, hobby, the secret name – The Exit Ramp, Internet music radio hosting and licensing providers, the quest for the Boxee Box, watching computer files on TV, heading down to J&R, subway confusion, World Trade Center, gas lamp flames off at City Hall Park, trying to fing Boxee Box at J&R, Windows 98 protester, J&R Computer World, got the Boxee Box, miniature humidifier, cafe closed, NetFlix, ear warmers got run over by SUV, Soap.com, City Hall. the dot com craze, world’s fastest beer dispenser, the beige movement – do not waste magnetism, happy 2/09 Day, Wolfram Alpha, and family affair star Johnny Whittaker now drug counselor.

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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.

1:17:39 – The awesome Cheez-It duffel bag, new cartoon chefs, FuzzyMemories.tv, loud truck, chainmail hat, Orange Julius update, new Volkswagen Beetle for 2012, Beetle Adventure Racing on N64, reading some news, subway to NJ, article about Special Delivery with Manny the Mailman in the newspaper Around About Peterstown, Onsug pronunciation, try something – if it doesn’t work try something else, Chrysler Building, classic design, New Jersey, Old Spice Pro-Strenth Fresh with Talc anti-perspirant deodorant, inactive ingredients, Mango Margarita soap, the TV game show The Joker’s Wild, marshland, roof collapse at the indoor ski slope at the still-unopened Meadowlands Xanadu, The Overnightscape Underground Transmission Archive completely uploaded to Archive.org, fear of economic collapse, Defending The Caveman update, the very obscure Cinema Ride in Times Square in the 90s, sound effects of NYC, very interested in the book “CULT-URE” by Rian Hughes, Marshall McCluhan, went to the bookstore – and bought the book, checking out the book while it’s still wrapped in plastic, going to the indoor garden to open the book and look at it for the first time, initial thoughts on the book, and a terribly freezing blast of wind on 42nd Street.

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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.

1:36:40 – Nighttime in Times Square, time loop, this is the past, Sneaky TT feeling, The Ride, investigating supernatural occurrences, Colin Quinn, video screen, Gnomeo and Juliet, music channel, teddy bear person, The Overnightscape Underground Transmission Archive, “Chistmas gift store” incident, multiple zipper issue, purple binder cllip, Royal Jelly “Ceiling”, Sponge “Plowed”, White People Rapping Poorly, Platinum Rap, Perth Wildcats, hedge-avalanche, smelling coffee garbage, another wave of “lantern” action figures, went to MoMA, Andy Warhol movies, worthless “art”, guards acting weird, eye art, floating tape, art museum as mental institution, Japanese Old Boombox Design catalog, weird album covers, bus, Monday morning, Ruby Foo’s, clarifications, pad thai, spicy edamame incident, indoor traffic jam, farm music, last weekend freakout, conspiracy websites, undersink water filter research, chlorine, Sears, filter confusion, in-store pickup, nihilism, Willowbrook Mall, Fun N Games, shopping malls in the 70s and 80s, perspectives, impending doom, gold guy, retro mall atmsophere, Great American Cookies, Orange Julius, mall nostalgia, it’s all just space-time, variation and exploration, the battery ran out, express the raw joy of it, new age cliches, heavy things, Cinnabon in the food court, saw “Colin Quinn: Long Story Short” on Broadway, cramped theater seats, producers, saying the same stuff over and over again in a performance, Vaudeville, technological advances, context of theater, this show as a Broadway show, Defending the Caveman, sirens, Aeropostale bear again, Super Bowl, excessive patriotism, improving the image of football players by associating them with charities and the troops, the hype of the Super Bowl commercials, mashup culture, Idiocracy, horrible beverages, corn sugar, NFL Films, film vs. video, National Anthem, and The Declaration of Independence.

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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.