The Overnightscape Underground

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1:34:30 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

Barely out of the 1980s, I was 22 years old, recently graduated from college, living at home with my parents in Bridgewater, NJ, and making vastly complex, vague, and delusional plans for some kind of entertainment system project called “Noyage”. I made a series of tapes called “On Noyage” describing these ideas, in a deraged fever dream fashion. Amazingly, over the years, this bizarre, delusional project eventually morphed into something real and worthwhile – Onsug Radio.

– Frank Edward Nora, January 5, 2025

Notes: 10:45 AM, Friday, February 23, 1990, Bridgewater, NJ, in the car, hello to myself in the future, heading to a mall in Phillipsburg, NJ, slow drivers, Noyage, Nomadi, Noyage Earth, The Hollow Fantasia, The Zope of Halfevil, should it be a game?, Interweb, Rt. 22 West, 32 miles to Phillipsburg, quadrants and maps, places I used to work, looking for coffee, Lafayette College, business plans, Bagelsmith, coffee, (Tastykake) Chocolate Junior, parking spaces, new shopping centers, Tetris, the inside network is going to be the wave of the future, computerized networks, arrival at Phillipsburg Mall, freelance, “Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father”, 2:02 PM, Lego Pirates, Skyfox for Mac, encyclopedia salesman, Road Fighter, driving back, more business ideas, Some Berry Basalt of Brine, “mental clip art”, Red Alley Earth, artwork, wax sculpture, video effects, Throatripper, Super Objects, band naming service, NomadiNews Catalog, Nomadi Ubiquity, desktop publishing, coffee at 7-11, skidded, printing business idea, library, Beatles tapes, The Macintosh Bible, books within books within books, sever ties, plans.

Previously:
On Noyage (2/14/90) 1:34:56 [212]
Tape Land 105 – On Noyage 7 (3/23/90) 1:34:35 [940]
Tape Land 159 – On Noyage – Tape 2 – Plus Dreams (Feb. 1990) 1:33:40 [972]

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2:11:42 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Trash can drama, hand soap, Singles (1992), Edward Hopper synchronicity, The Cocoanuts (1929), Blue Grass Blues by Original Memphis Five (1924, public domain), Inrocker Wheelie 2, Theme Restaurants by Michael Kaplan (1997), Night Gallery (1969–1973), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006-2007), Break My Stride dream, Frute Brute Playing Cards, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:30:42)… Pastime with Good Company (vocal samples from dwsChorale) by Romahichi [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], June by 30x [Archive.org, MNMN RECORDS NETLABEL, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], New Beat Transmission by Frame [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Showtime 1981 program promos [YouTube], Goof by Binärpilot [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Bad Girls (Gottlieb, 1988) [PinMAME], America First by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [collection], The Hugga Bunch (1985) (excerpt) [YouTube], I’m Thinkin by Smersh [collection].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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1:24:41 – ONSUG hosts – Mike Boody (The Midnight Citizen) and Chad Bowers (Chadcast /TITFOS) meet up for lunch in Birmingham AL, the day before the day before 2025. A nice talk catching up over lunch is had for the first hour or so, and then, a tribute to Franks’ The Other Side, with another, Other Side.

Chad website: www.titfos.com

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2:37:21 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Enter 2025, 4 nights of Phish at Madison Square Garden in NYC, Penn Station, Doganay Hot Fermented Black Carrot Juice Salgam, Richard Dreyfus, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006-2007), video tip, Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995), Bloom County, That Sound Game, going to the shows, Jimmy Carter dead at 100, USA Today, Fuinunwo, Father Time, sink, tire pressure, tow truck driver funeral, Tweezer Reprise, and much more…plus the Other Side (at 1:55:36)… Natasja Scotch by The Search [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 2.5], countdown by tim.kahn [Freesound, CC BY 3.0], WFLD Channel 32 – Newstalk with Wanda Wells – “Psychology and the Vote” (Part 1, 1984) (excerpt) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WMAQ Channel 5 – NewsCenter5 – “ElectroNewsMusik” (Ending, 1976) [FuzzyMemories.TV], history of Cineplex Odeon Theatres–Coming Attractions (1985-1997) (excerpt) [YouTube], Nite-Owl [FuzzyMemories.TV], Woodstock 89 – Mountain Madness (8/16/89) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], 70’s Ads: The San Pedro Beach Bums ABC TV Spot [YouTube], TV Guide ‘Bicentennial’ Commercial (1975) [YouTube], Fuzzy Daupner’s First Live Show, at LoveSexy in Hoboken, NJ, 10/13/00 (excerpt: Possible Calhoun, Weird Highway, The Armixhony of Conrad, Sliding Gardens) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Xmas Vibrations by Karibean [EardrumsPop, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Polar Bear Man by Polar Lion [Onsug], Lite Brite Toy Commercial 1970 [YouTube], Telluric Undercurrent by Revolution Void [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], WGN Channel 9 – Saturday Matinee – “Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy” (Opening, 1982) (excerpt) [FuzzyMemories.TV], The Games of Starcade – Buck Rogers [YouTube], 1974 – PeopleMover Tour – Go Go Goodyear [collection], G39-05-New Year’s Eve by craigsmith [Freesound, CC0 1.0], Jean Shepherd – Year One Poster (1970 “Cuckoo Eye”) [collection].

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com