The Overnightscape Underground

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45:24 – As the nights draw in and Winter approaches, we gather around a crackling fire to recount (and sometimes debunk) tales of ghost ships, while the master of the ghost story, Algernon Blackwood himself, joins us to tell his chilling tale ‘Lock Your Door’.  Why do ghost stories continue to fascinate us?  Does everyone have a ghostly experience to share?  Where are the modern ghost stories of the haunted world wide web?

(Apologies for the quality of the Algernon Blackwood segments – they are audio from a 1949 short film, now in the public domain).

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Released November 2018 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.

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3:57:44 – Frank in The Overnightscape Studio, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Journey to the Staten Island Mall, junk in life, mattress, Can’t Take It With You, Shpongle, EDC tops, Rhode Island, weird times on Staten Island, Bonzo Dog Band, Horace Batchelor, Corridor of Losers, new Cortlandt Street station, Staten Island Ferry, arrival at the mall, Hearthstone, tater tots, Dave and Buster’s, XR, Tomy Waterfuls Ring Toss arcade game, Master A Million 2.0, incense review (Satya Superhit Nagchampa), I Ching, orgone pyramids, Spalding Gray, Toyah, Tubular Bells, magician Ricky Jay dead at 72, Mother’s New Mineral Dream, reading the story “The Alien Conspiracy” from A Life of Word and Sound by Michael Feir, Special Olympics, palindromic episode numbers, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:17:38)… WMAQ Channel 5 – Off the Wall (Opening & Break, 1977) [FuzzyMemories.TV], To Omar Khayyam by Clark Ashton Smith [LibriVox, public domain], Life Is a Lark at Willow Grove Park [Prelinger, public domain], Jack Tar by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [collection], Sounds of the Commons (Alternate Audio) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], 1967 Commercial breaks from ”To Tell the Truth” (Break 1) [Archive.org, public domain].

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39:35 - Entertainium reigns!! PQ talks about the British Story Papers he has found himself reading and other topics of random interest!! Mr F Le Mur’s collage mastery is once again shared!! Music from Our Own Orchestrette!!

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Released November 2018 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.

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30:29 – Shadow & Avenger, Omphale’s Spinning Wheel, Le Rouet d’Omphale, Camille Saint-Saens, Lamont Cranston, Margo Lane, Jim Brandon, Fern Collier, Street & Smith, Doc Savage, Monk, Blackhawk, Mr. Fantastic, Buckeroo Banzai, Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent, Conde Nast, Detective Story, Whistler, Suspense, Man in Black, Inner Sanctum, Raymond, Maxwell Grant, Orson Welles, Frank Readick, Agnes Moorehead, Endora, Bewitched, Paul Lynde, Whisperer, Sheridan Doome, Hook McGuire, Blue Coal, Martin Gabel, Arlene Francis, What’s My Line, March of Time, Mercury Theatre, War of the Worlds, Edsel Ford, John Houseman, Negro Theatre Project, Macbeth, WPA, Treasure Island, Dracula, Campbell Playhouse, Ray Collins, Com. Weston, Lt. Tragg, Perry Mason, Kenny Delmar, Fred Allen, Sen. Claghorn, Foghorn Leghorn, Hunter, Joseph Cotten, David O. Selznick, Ben Mankiewicz, Christopher Lee, Robt. Osborne, Herman Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane, Bill Johnstone, Bret Morrison, Grace Matthews.

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6:14 – Dave from Wisconsin talks about his tribute to Jimbo, published in the “Tribune and Georgian” newspaper.

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2:36:07 – Frank in The Overnightscape Studio, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Line Friends bag, kipple drawer, putting away the cat stuff, The Overnightscape Studio, Tree Bag Ask – The Background, incense, lava lamp, listen all night anytime, George Jones, 8-track tape (Gryphon – Red Queen to Gryphon Three), living room concerts, Tape Land 71 – God’s Ass I & II (Mid 1990s), 2XL, Cut and Shoot, TX, Buc-ee’s, village idiot dream, Of Concoctions Calico, InSight Mars Lander, failed song epic, Wacky Packages Old School 7, conspiracy theories, Sir Grapefellow and Baron Von Redberry cereal, Dave from Wisconsin – remembering Jimbo, Onsug Radio Handbook, controversial card game Artifact coming out tomorrow, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:55:49)… La descente by Demoiselle Döner [FreeMusicArchive, public domain], El Jaguar by The Surge! [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Alligator Moon Suite by Robert Hunter (live at My Father’s Place on 1978-05-27) [Archive.org], Symbols by Clark Ashton Smith [LibriVox, public domain], Nightstation – Sarsaparilla (excerpt – Pinball Corner – Truck Stop) [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Powhatan’s Daughter by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [collection], WLVI Channel 56 – The Benny Hill Show (Ending & Partial Break, 1979) [FuzzyMemories.TV], 1967 Commercial breaks from ”To Tell the Truth” (Break 2) [Archive.org, public domain], A Dream of Fear by George Sterling [LibriVox, public domain], Thougtless Desire by Organoid [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].

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3:22:28 - Experimental scrambled format with Dave in Kentucky, Rubinerd, Doc Sleaze, Chad Bowers, Brazen Gestures, and Frank Edward Nora!! PQ Ribber is your host and chopper-upper!!

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58:03 - Experimental audio from Eddie Murray!! When Musicians Went on Strike!! Our Christmas on the Moon serial continues!! Music that PQ Ribber made with his friends!! Mr F Le Mur!! Another unique entry in this mind-entropifying series!!

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Released November 2018 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and nocturnal audio.

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1:33:46 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape from my collection. It’s a way to help motivate me to digitize more of my archives.

God’s Ass was an audio project I briefly worked in in the mid 1990s – probably sometime from 1994 to 1996. The idea was to collect my old childhood recordings (from the 70s and 80s) and repackage them as a kind of weird audio experience – actually quite similar to this current Tape Land project.

On a Maxell XLII 90-minute cassette, side 1 is labeled “GOD’S ASS I”, and side 2 is labeled “GOD’S ASS II”. There may be more God’s Ass tapes – though I’m not sure. As I continue forward with the Tape Land project I’ll find them if they exist.

On the name “God’s Ass” – it was the name of a song on the sixth and last “Little Frankie Nora” album, “Ending the Era with Calm Music” from 1987 (see Tape Land 23). It was also the name of a poem from my “Abaxial Usufruct” collection from a few years later (available in the Onsug Radio Vault ZIP in Channel 202).

The tape itself contains segments from a variety of tapes – many of which I have yet to encounter in the Tape Land project…

[0:00:00] A Saturday afternoon in the Mid 1980s. The original tape had “Alvin and the Chipmunks” music, with us recording over it, but also using it as part of our parody of MTV. We read from the newspaper – comic strips, soap opera recaps, etc. – which could date this audio more precisely with more research. Then you hear a younger me talking about the Chipmunks music, and attempting to do the chipmunk voice by talking slow and paying it on fast forward.

[0:19:33] Random stuff: TI-99/4A data, Herculoids?, Odd Couple, 2XL.

[0:21:37] Montana 1980 (Part One) (previously released in Onsug)

[0:27:52] March 3, 1984. John talks about the situation. Then he reads from a Star Trek game book.

[0:34:19] DRAGONMAP. I’ve been trying to find this audio for a long time. It’s a parody of Spinal Tap, circa early 1985. Interviewing the band Arrowhead about their new album “Dragonmap”. Playing clips from The Herculoids, The Little Rascals, and a Disney record. Imitating Merv Griffin. Listening to Montana 1980 Prelude (previously released on Onsug).

[0:59:03] Nova Ravenwood. Story about pirates, Loch Ness Monster, Puff the Magic Dragon, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, etc.

[1:09:43] Manhattan Project documentary, us talking in the background.

[1:15:00] TV – Learning Disabilities PSA, commercials (Life Savers, Neet, Bain De Soleil)

[1:16:36] Stereo Test #47

[1:17:22] Twilight Zone stories (Pickle Story, Green Light Story).

[1:23:24] June 24, 1983, Christmas Music, Interview with Chris, Hitchhiker’s Guide.

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2:15:32 – Frank in The Overnightscape Studio, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Police incidents, Magic Arena, KeyForge, Artifact, The Strand, The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth, St. Mark’s Place, Pommes Frites, fidget toys, Toy Tokyo, Japanase toy review (Re-Ment Nostalgic Diner), The Bottle of Things, The Bottle of Yellow Things, Pageant Books, Tower Records, Love Baby by Fortran Five, Blick Art Materials, Knotel, R-Train incident, Tikobinsi, mystery ale, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:35:05)… Benson & Hedges 100s Letters [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Polymerase by The Gasman [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], At The Movies – Blade Runner, etc. (1982) [collection], Puppets Dangling by Jacco Gardner [SoundCloud, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], The Sorrow of the Winds by Clark Ashton Smith [LibriVox, public domain], Who Cops Out? [Prelinger, public domain], I Can’t Tell You Why I’m Smiling by Bullette [Archive.org, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], Boy and girl raver line [via Webm8 productions], The Saturday Superstar Movie – Promo [YouTube], The Free Lance by John Philip Sousa (performed by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band) [collection], Turkey in the Straw by United States Air Force Band [Archive.org, public domain].

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