The Overnightscape Underground

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56:14 – Eddie is back with another episode of The Wool Gathering.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Eddie Murray – more info at onsug.com

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2:53:04 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Planetariums, the unexpected rain, the fourth dimension, Laserium, neighborhood of geniuses, many questions on a gloomy Thursday, Planetarium Projector Museum, Edict Zero – FIS, ’72 Review at Higher Ground on Flymachine, Soundbreak.com, Sunflower Bean, Pink Talking Phish, crossword synchronicity, Trans Am, We Found Where The Dune Buggies Were Parked, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:12:48)… Van Nuys Blvd. (1979) trailer [YouTube], Earth Tribe by Charly2n [Dogmazic, CC BY-NC 2.0], Rosko (Bill Mercer): A “Trip” Into Progressive Rock – 102.7 WNEW-FM New York (12/16/70) (excerpt) [Airchexx], Thougtless Desire by Organoid [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Chillin’ FM rave info [via Webm8 productions], Xmas Vibrations by Karibean [EardrumsPop, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], WBBM Channel 2 – Double Dare – “Hong Kong King Con” (Preview, Opening, Breaks & Ending, 1985) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Make Me a Sergeant (an’ Gimme the Booze) by Smersh [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], X’s & O’s (Bally, 1984) [PinMAME], The Nonpareil by Scott Joplin (performed by Gerlüz) [IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], MOOG Schaefer Beer Commercial [YouTube], Suburban Withdrawl by Lee Rosevere [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 3.0], Magic Sand by Wham-O (Commercial, 1981) [FuzzyMemories.TV]. License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com

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3:46:02 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Actions of a robin and a snipe, year twenty begins, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job, door idea, surreal comedy archetypes, The Breakfast Club (1985), The Throatripper, Mannheim Steamroller, hot chocolate mug, Nine Pebble Detector On! (plus annotations), Nine Pebble Detector On! (plus annotations), Mannheim Steamroller Exclusive Collection, Throatripper song, John Cleese, 1995, The Balbitype Twentysix, 90s brands, Butternut Mac & Cheez, main street dreams, CAO America cigar, oaky nuances, oaktag, the discussion, Grand Chronology, Nightweek, town borders, last two Kmarts in NJ, Cosmologica, Starcastle, cat colony, obscure documentaries, Indiana Jones pinball, Mary Jones soda, Kamakiriad by Donald Fagen, The Alleyman’s Tarot, reminiscing about revisiting, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:05:20)… Dansing Galaxy (intro) by Alex Emanov [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974) TV Trailers – Color / 1:35 mins [YouTube], Sunset Boulevard by Sunset Boulevard [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], MTV Alternative Music Report 1992 [YouTube], Long Live Sivinanda (Inside Looking Out) by The Green Circles [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Tomorrows World 17th Feb 1993 [YouTube], Roller_skate by Jahzzar [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-SA 3.0], The Comedy Channel Commercial Break 1991 (1_2) [YouTube], WorldToday (Original version) by Herbata [LibreCommeLair, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], Aura [via Webm8 productions]. License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com

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1:01:57 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

This episode is part of a sub-project within Tape Land called “Video Phase 2022”. I recently began transferring a ton of old video tapes to digital, and have been posting selections to YouTube. Here, I’ll be releasing the audio tracks of these videos, as well as linking you to the YouTube videos, and The Internet Archive.

Video Rooftop NYC (5/15/89)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TEr695vOjA

On the roof of 170 Thompson St. on May 15, 1989, facing south, looking down Thompson St., from W. Houston St. to Prince St. and beyond. This was meant to be a piece of video art, which you could play on a TV set and feel like you were on an NYC rooftop. After the first few minutes where I am setting it up, the view does not change. There are subtle sights and sounds to notice throughout.

Released 3/13/22

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora- more info at onsug.com

Internet archive link: https://archive.org/details/Tape_Land_Video_158-Video_Rooftop_NYC-5-15-89

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47:40 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

In 2011, PQ and I tried to set up a streaming station that was legally licensed to play commercial music. Tentatively called “Onsug Music Clubhouse”, the project never got off the ground due to the cost and complexity of setting it up. I only recorded this one test broadcast for the project.

“Codamagger” was an super-masculine fake brand I invented, mentioned on The Rampler #363 (8/24/09), along with art for the logo:

“Codamagger Lullabies” was originally a song in one of my music projects, Choston Bands & Junkard Sane – Oval Bay (EP). The idea was that a “Codamagger” was a pistol, and being pistol-whipped and knocked out by it was a “Codamagger Lullaby”, in the slang of some fictional alternate world.

I played the DJ clips from this on The Overnightscape 797: Orange Egg Lotion (7/10/11), but for this release I kept a few seconds from the beginnings and endings of the songs, to give a better idea of what the original sounded like.

Notes (songs edited out): We Love Dancing by Arling & Cameronn Your Name Is Snake Anthony by Medeski, Martin & Wood, Can You Dig It (Alternate Version) by The Monkees, Church Of The Poison Mind by Culture Club, Blues Beach by Steely Dan, Resurrection by The Demons Of Negativity, DJ 1, Galvanize (feat Q-Tip) by The Chemical Brothers, Makin’ Memories from Journey Into Imagination, Bottled Up by Devo, Stalag 123 by Big Audio Dynamite, Lucifer Sam by Pink Floyd, I Want To Be A Hulkamaniac by Hulk Hogan & The Wrestling Boot Band, DJ 2, Front Row by Alanis Morissette, ’84 Pontiac Dream by Boards Of Canada, Chant Of The Wanderer by The Sons Of The Pioneers, Satanic Rites of Drugula by Electric Wizard, The Bell (Edit) by Mike Oldfield, What Are Those Things (With Big Black Wings) by Roger Miller, DJ 3, Smoke Rings by Laurie Anderson, Star Shpongled Banner by Shpongle, Black Dog (Live) by Led Zeppelin, The Modern Age by The Strokes, Song From The Wood by Jethro Tull, Come and Play in the Milky Night by Stereolab, DJ 4, John Cleese: Is He Funny? by Human League, Caught A Lite Sneeze by Tori Amos, The Analog Kid by Rush, Look Out, There’s A Monster Coming by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Los Angeles by Frank Black, The Juggler’s Song by Incredible String Band, DJ 5.

Released 3/12/22

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora- more info at onsug.com

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3:36:17 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

This episode is part of a sub-project within Tape Land called “Video Phase 2022”. I recently began transferring a ton of old video tapes to digital, and have been posting selections to YouTube. Here, I’ll be releasing the audio tracks of these videos, as well as linking you to the YouTube videos, and The Internet Archive.

The Compleat Weird University (Fall 1986)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj1tT34nab4

In 1986, “Mad” Mike and Frank Nora “Master of the Airwaves”, not satisfied with just doing their comedy radio show “Anything But Monday”, decide to produce a video series based on a fictional version of their college called “Weird University”. With their new personas “Franco Wolfini” and “Iggy Szalzo”, they investigate and report on interesting students, the dining hall, campus security, a nearby supermarket, and much more… plus, strange happenings on a Weird Halloween.

This “Compleat” version includes all the raw footage from the three half-hour episodes of Weird University, plus lost, deleted and bonus scenes.

There are some sections of silence, including 10 seconds at the start. I decided to keep these in the audio version, so that the timestamps below would remain accurate.

[0:00:00] Titles
[0:00:10] Weird Lifestyles with Iggy Szalzo – Bart Phillips: The Biggest Stud on Campus
[0:03:44] Sights of the Uncommons
[0:17:24] Weird Lifestyles with Iggy Szalzo – Branson Stringfellow: Condemned Man on Campus
[0:25:32] International Lampoon’s French House
[0:27:30] Weird Lifestyles with Iggy Szalzo – Shannon O’Shannahan & Gil Mannings: The Smartest Guys on Campus
[0:35:53] Dorm of the Dead
[0:38:07] Weird Vice
[0:47:56] Shopping with Franco
[1:08:16] Rough Boys
[1:25:20] The Texas Eggbeater Massacre
[1:34:02] Deleted Scene: Don’t Read and Drive
[1:36:39] A Weird Halloween: The Hitchhiker
[2:08:18] A Weird Halloween: The Dreamer
[2:45:59] A Weird Halloween: The Beast
[2:56:32] A Weird Halloween: The Spirit
[3:01:50] Deleted Scene: Matt Headroom
[3:03:13] Bonus Scene: The Gauntlet Players
[3:03:41] Bonus Scene: The Arkanoid Player
[3:05:41] Bonus Scene: The D&D Players
[3:10:49] Lost Scene: Franco & The Soviet Defectors
[3:24:17] B-Roll
[3:33:09] Weird University Theme Song by Smersh

Released 3/10/22

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora- more info at onsug.com

Internet archive link: https://archive.org/details/Tape_Land_Video_156-The_Compleat_Weird_University-Fall_1986

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39:11 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

The show art for “The Overnightscape 1893 – The Rampler Mini Radio (3/10/22)” was an old concept image from 2011 for a printed playlist of shows, that never came to fruition. This audio piece was on the playlist, but never released – so I figured I should finally release it.

Notes: Frank tries to connect with PQ on a Ustream live stream test, with much technical difficulty.

Released 3/10/22

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora- more info at onsug.com

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2:16:27 – Frank Edward Nora!! Eddie from the Wool Gathering!! Technical Mayhem – but then, Chad Bowers!! PQ Ribber is your hapless but happy host!!

Next: 1989

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Released March 2022 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel based on a freeform monologue style, presenting diverse and fascinating hosts who craft thought-provoking, unique transmissions for now, and all future times!

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3:28:52 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Mind control water, gas prices rising, smoke detector incident, new door, Tales of the Dervishes by Idries Shah, ancient stories, the oral tradition, weird vision, The Food of Paradise, electrical sound, rental nightmare, Edict Zero – FIS, The Compleat Weird University, video black, mystery image, 1986, New York Deli Potato Chips, Artie Shaw, purple synchronicity, Jeremy’s MicroBatch Ice Creams – Purple Passion Pills, mass market paperbacks, mystery name (“Alfred Juan Gross Fiolly MD8”?), forgetting, MTV dream, Phrivl: Interdimensional Commute, turtle doves, olives, Mission: Impossible, suspicious survey, inspired by Laurie Anderson, consciousness, UFOs, revelations, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:48:16)… 12th Street Rag by Polar Lion [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], American Express Pavilion (Epilogue) [collection], Friends (Live) by Jenni Potts [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], coccyx by jaffar [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Street Musicians by J. Koho [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Kathy Jones [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Middlesix – The Phantom Planet (1961) [Archive.org], Bell System ad (early 1980s) [YouTube], 1983 Wausau Center Mall commercial [YouTube], Latin Nightbug by Lee Rosevere [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC 3.0], Thinkabout (Ending Credits, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Name That Tune (misc 2) [MAME], Sweet Caress by Kookooo Kitchen [EardrumsPop, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Jean Shepherd – Year One Poster (1970 “Cuckoo Eye”) [collection], Mego’s Slik Silver [YouTube], Stop-N-Go commercial (from Video Newsletter (Convenience Stores)) [Archive.org], Happy Shadow by Crazy Aces [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Sand by musicfornothing [Soundcloud, CC BY-ND 3.0]. License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com

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1:09:26 – Low battery, the Disney World trip, finances, anxiety, sidewalk chalk, misdirected documents, Disney World recordings, hybrid work schedule, I have a bad cold, high blood pressure, thinking about 2003, nostalgia monologue, improving my physical and mental health. Closing theme: Parcel Post by Jimbo. RFS 270. Recorded 3/2/22 and 3/4/22.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Shambles Constant, Falling Cow Productions – more info at onsug.com
Released March 2022 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever individuals who say stuff and record it and let other people hear it.