The Overnightscape Underground

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2:17:01 – Centipede, missed the bus, something nasty on the shoe, yesterday the Iraq War ended, 9/11, no devil lived on, palindromes, control, the question of the world, fake celebrities, everyone’s hypnotized, the devil’s lantern, The Overnightscape, Halley’s Comet, activity on the spiritual plane, Mercury goes retrograde today, astrology, palindromic numbers, Rush, transformative energy, song “Selfish” by Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Die Hard, kinetic sculpture, numbers, vague comets, M.C. Escher, subway, Coney Island ONSUG meetup, schmerltzes, Cyclone pinball, Nancy Reagan, California ONSUG meetup, comet themes, synergy, mohawks, street fair, perk up, bakery renovation, drill sound, Extreme Toffee Coffee, food, listening to audio backwards, Ice Town, the other side of the start of the retrograde, a blank feeling, soup, the meetup, driving to Coney Island, promotion and marketing, pasta, introspective, smoking a Nub Habano cigar, walk down 57th Street, fire engines, cool building, fancy stores, watches, the rich, sleep, ceramics, podcasting memories, TV shows (True Blood, America’s Got Talent, Flipping Out), sitting at the edge of the park by Columbus Circle, new broadcasting ideas – live streaming station, live shows, Skype, etc., annoyances on a bench, Internet radio memories, categories, and the new directions.

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Released August 2010 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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27:55 – Raining, heading into the tunnels, The Frank Nora Show, screensavers, Electric Sheep, silicon Graphics computers, Electropaint, the idea of teleporting The Titanic into Grand Central Station, barnacles, Listen With Art Glut, Nanny McPhee, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, take a flying bed into the cartoon universe, early comic strips, whistle jerk, the unoriginal blues, woman selling turtles in the subway, Starbucks crime flyers update, the book “Pilgrim in the Microworld”, Atari VCS Breakout, the complex relationship between people and video games, and the long line for the bus starts moving.

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1:18:06 – Vigilante sign, things not to do at Starbucks, staple gun, telephone poles, wires, bus ad, drum beats in pop music, combined Tim Hortons / Coldstone Creamery, other pastry/ice cream mergers (Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins, Cinnabon/Carvel), breakfast confusion, Times Square, Freddy dollars, auction of Lost props, observations from the supermarket, Cupcake Pebbles cereal, Kelloggs Pop Mixit cereal, Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche, lard, l-cysteine, bread, Saltines, Wheatsworth, Ritz, weird mini soda cans, Sea Mineral Softsoap, dips, acai, accent marks, cinnamon sugar soynut butter, After Eight, Coca-Cola C2 t-shirt, slow companies, the anti-carb craze, laying down on the sidewalk, Software Canada logo, fireplace smell, weird little changes in reality, delving into the supernatural, disgusted by KFC, synchronicity report (Canadian animation school), the green movement, wastefulness, stainless steel bottles, water filters, toilet paper news, global warming, weather control experiments, the Age of Aquarius, hippies, Sesame Street, wasteful food packaging, and the prime number 1549.

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59:28 – Stop and chat, recognition, Grand Central, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Need For Speed World, people constantly swerving into your path, weird depressive energy in the air, feng shui of a massive pile of VHS tapes, getting rid of books, lost television broadcasts, HBO show promos from 2000, kombucha, pigeonholes, Mac G3, the black tower of analog doom, the classic “VCR flashing 12:00”, stuff from the past, chlorine, slogan, pouring rain on the radar, ONSUG Meetup, “weird saling”, Primus, foreboding energies, Deal Or No Deal arcade game, more thought on “Need For Speed World”, lack of rain and night, Book-Off, giant statues, military protesters, fake news, getting wet, the future of cyberspace, coconut water, Wii Sports Resort, Wuhu Island, Boom Blox Bash Party, The 418 Show, and Play Around With Synth.

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2:02:23 – Fire engine in field of vision, get umbrella, strange energy lately, Nintendo Wii, video game history, pop culture in the universe, Tiny Tots on Rt. 22, Bono and Sonic the Hedgehog, Equal litter, popcorn insanity, incompetent workers, stores with personality, Cinnabon, miniature cinnamon rolls, enthusiasm, nerds, free chewy bars, bags are great, dropped the recorder and it smashed to the pavement of 42nd St., subway, relevance in media, the old days of just a few TV channels, searching for a point of relevance, night radio, live streaming station, more video game history, Nintendo Wii, more incompetence, recording of a speech – “Aldous Huxley – The Ultimate Revolution” from 1962, conspiracy theories, Internet talk radio, mind control, raining again, Mercury Retrograde, Google ads, The Shaver Mystery, theories and paranoia of the nature of this level of reality, time loops, the year 5000, buying the Wii at Target, unpacking and setting up the Wii, vague basketball stage and giant statues in Times Square, memory limitations, the “end” of the Iraq War at the end of this month, the end of the original Overnightscape, growing complexity, WiiWare games (Cave Story, World of Goo, Tetris Party, Bit.Trip Runner), Miner 2049er, Stunt Race FX, and driving cars with manual transmission.

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1:45:01 – New things opening in NYC, Pop Tarts World, witchcraft in the 80s and possessed Pop Tarts, Franklin Gothic, trademarking, guitar, free Skittles, legalese, new subway entrance at 11 Times Square, the “entrance of all losers”, wax Whoopi Goldberg, Nintendo Wii, Late Night Music Show, concept shows, the virtual world of the future, lightning incident, going into the future, 8/9/10, measurement systems, political mailing lists, politics/voting is a complete scam, cynicism and social circles, mockery, the red pill, boxing, virtual worlds, OpenSim, OSGrid, server software, cyberspace, AR goggles, Mary Poppins, first impressions of “Need For Speed Online”, MMOHut, the fantasy genre, Windows laptop, a visit to the just-opened Pop Tarts World on 42nd Street, Times Square area, reading a letter from Sarah Palin, thought control methods, mediocre personalities, coarse discourse, elements of a cyclical system of control, sandbox driving games, Devastating Nightscape, Need For Speed Online, news reports of a lightning incident in Boston last week, John’s Party (8/4/01), physics of lightning, Vancouver and Paris, 2nd anniversary of the start of The Rampler, Weezer Hurley album, Lost, yogurt questions, bus dog incident, David Icke, conspiracy theories, kombucha, feeding the cute little birds, Mercury Retrograde, ideas, protest, people taking themselves too seriously, reincarnation, the play and the pure joy of dancing with life.

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3:24:20 – An experimental show where Frank plays some really great Creative Commons-licensed music found on Jamendo.com. Plus the ONSUG week in review, the future of cyberspace, ONSUG virtual city, the emerging open media culture, and more.

Track listing with license info for each song after the page break.

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Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com- see show notes for license and attribution info for all the individual songs.

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1:15:26 – The inventor of Cheez Doodles dies, Cracker Jack, the incredible cosmic value of our pop culture, The Yellow Kid, ragtime, synthesis of energies, Korg Monotron, the analog hum of television in years past, nostalgia, romance, pleasure, wrestling videos, high-brow culture as an “emporer’s new clothes”, pictures of old malls, evil economic system as foundation for pop culture?, are “the powers that be” holding back pop cultural content injections?, Jesus concept, thy, horrible violence, lunchtime, coconut water, obsessions, current state of podcasting, the big media, end of Google Wave, the incredibly massive amount of information being created these days, exabytes, the number of books in the world, rise of digital culture, downside of the democratization of entertainment, weird energy these days, two crows, ONSUG Meetup, music show idea, Jamendo, welcome Republic of Avalon Radio, new wall, net neutrality, steam pipe, supershoes, Vitamin Water health claims challenged, Verdana, prime numbers, skateboard, pleasant objects, Beavis and Butthead to return, great new idea – cat treats for people, PoppaZoppa, all the unused topics, 57th Street, elite shopping, indecision, the winds of changes, and the gods.

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1:00:22 – Humid evening in Times Square, music store confusion, making movies, trying to find a seat, got a Korg Monotron, chaos, giving a place another chance, reduced capacity of workers, bagel confusion, synthesizer review in Times Square (Korg Monotron – Analogue  Ribbon Synthesizer), recording the opening music, LFO, Morse code, monster noise, take a picture, self-destruct sequence noise, future space police noise, simplicity, flying saucer noise, cat noise, Schmerltz shopping failure, sock and ball, time travel, communist video, mind control, people hating America, coconut water, time cop, Twin Peaks, we are the robots, Tin Machine synchronicity, Thomas Dolby, and the REAL Flat Earth Society.

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2:22:57 – The New Games Book, Schmerltz (a ball in a sock), the prime number 1543, aurora borealis, ONSUG Meetup, The Dead Weather show in Brooklyn last night, live music venue hassles, analog vs. digital entertainment, reading a magazine on the subway, the mind and the nervous system interfacing in technology, kids on the bus, deep and satisfying experiences vs. shallow and empty experiences, O.N.E. Coconut Water, more analog things, the attention span, The Overnightscape Underground, the Moodbruck thought experiment, media theory, talk radio, social media, comic strip, bolos, killer bag, Audioworlders, imaginary audio places, vague ideas, protesters, chanting, horrible typography, poor communications, The Ramones “Teenage Lobotomy”, Purple Chick SMiLE, AlternateBrian Wilson Presents SMiLE, SMiLE as related to the “Neo-Atlantean” hippie project of merging societies, “lobotomies” via viral injection or tainted food, conspiracy shows, here to watch the “show”, the green movement, gonna meet another listener, The Dead Weather show, bag searching, weed, occultism, communism, the mosque at Ground Zero controversy, dialectical thought control, 9/11, religious restrictions, heavy topics, dream review (going back to college in a giant building), mental issues and symbolism, psychic “noise” at night, Ikea 2011 catalog, meeting Jeremy from Colorado in Times Square, economics, exploring Times Square and the Times Square subway station, The Corridor of Losers, 42nd Street Ballroom, and “the new socialist man”.

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Released August 2010 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.