The Overnightscape Underground

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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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Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night…

…where he navigates through a haze of confusion and paranoia, egged on by high gas prices, noises of flatulence, and misunderstood song lyrics. Also, an ordinary trip to the drug store results in an accidental time trip back to middle school.

*Music Break: “Hipster Girls” by The Spin Wires; “That’s a Beat” by Ketsa. All music is played under a Creative Commons License (Attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives) and is available at the Freemusicarchive.org. 

Video Street Video Store: “Batman Returns Talk Show Backlash” (1992)

Check out the complete Video Street Video Store playlist here!

Nightcam: Leavenworth, Washington

Check out the website over at mikeboody.com/themidnightcitizen, with links to old episodes on Archive.org, and join the Facebook page! …”I gotta motor if I’m gonna make the funeral.”

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released March 2022 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

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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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3:38:34 – Frank in New Jersey, plus the Other Side. Topics include: The unexpected cutting down of a tree, cardboardpocalypse, 19th Anniversary of The Overnightscape, Michael Nesmith & The Second National Band, recycling miracle, The Compleat Weird University (Fall 1986), The Rampler Mini Radio, Indiana Jones pinball, Phish Flatbed Jam, SOG PowerLock TiNi, Disney mall bathroom dream, battery charger, stinkbug in the garbage, Courtney Cox on forgetting, cigar delivery, green stain mystery, Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues, tin synchronicity, Tin Man’s oil can up for auction, Richard Nixon autographs, Apollo 2001, Gurkha Centurian Double Perfecto, reflections on 19 years, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 2:58:05)… The Hobbit Filmstrip [Archive.org], Strictly Underground album [via Webm8 productions], Hollow Summer by Extent of the Jam [Ubiktune, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Wall Street (1982, Century Electronics) [MAME], Name That Tune (misc 3) [MAME], Jesus Build A Highway by The Preacher [Archive.org, public domain], Going Blind by The Sway [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Orange Room by The Prefab Messiahs [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], top 100 scary logos part 4 [YouTube], The San Pedro Beach Bums & Soap 1977 ABC Promo [YouTube], CITYPULSE – CN RAIL REBRANDING TO VIA (1978) [YouTube]. 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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3:36:17 – 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

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

Attribution by PQ Ribber

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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Fusebox 192: “Piece Keeper”

28:04 – Rethinking The Whole Damn Thing, Support In Yellow And Blue, Our Vast Inter-Species Audience, Vlad’s Bad Decision, Fusebox Liner ID, Bulgarian Film Community, The OnlyFan’s Payment Controversy, Things Get Ugly, Messy, And Dead, Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” Beatles’ Epic Documentary, A Heavy Potential Release, WTF Florida! 1.)Tree Fighter, 2.)Chicken Coop Caper, 3.)Pool Float Fantasy, Show Close.

And remember to visit the Fusebox Store for updates, thoughts, comments, fears, regrets, and genuine Fusebox Swag: TheFuseboxShow.com

Visit the Fusebox YouTube Channel too!  

Diplomatic thanks to our contributors to this editor of Fusebox; Nico Lane and Erin Lehn 

Fusebox is produced by Marc Rose, Milt Kanes, Jeff Pollard, and Regina Carol

Music and Post Production by Marc Rose, and Fuse.

Fusebox cover art by POLLARDdesign.

Attribution by Marc Rose. 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

Released March 9, 2022.

©2022 Fusebox. All rights reserved.

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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.